Hound of the Basketcases
@basket-woof.bsky.social
Big beats are the best, get high all the time.
While the fires rage, the crops burn, and the towns flood, at least BP will improve on their "underperforming" 36% annual growth.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BP to slash renewables investment and ramp up gas and oil production.
The energy giant will announce its strategy later after rivals also rowed back on green energy plans.
www.bbc.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
While the fires rage, the crops burn, and the towns flood, at least BP will improve on their "underperforming" 36% annual growth.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I wonder if any of the thousands of Americans currently being fired without due cause are STILL convinced that trade unions are evil and communist?
February 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I wonder if any of the thousands of Americans currently being fired without due cause are STILL convinced that trade unions are evil and communist?
Discourse analysis: Why are the people held by Palestine victimised as "hostages" when those held by Israel are debased as "prisoners"?
February 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Discourse analysis: Why are the people held by Palestine victimised as "hostages" when those held by Israel are debased as "prisoners"?
Even they know.
February 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Even they know.
Glorious Britishness in the final line. We're getting our country back!
When we stand with Ukraine ...
We stand with democracy!
We stand with freedom!
We stand with justice!
We stand with accountability!
We stand with human rights!
We stand with Europe!
See you on Saturday🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦
(We'll take the 10.14 am train from Cambridge station)
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We stand with democracy!
We stand with freedom!
We stand with justice!
We stand with accountability!
We stand with human rights!
We stand with Europe!
See you on Saturday🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦
(We'll take the 10.14 am train from Cambridge station)
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February 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Glorious Britishness in the final line. We're getting our country back!
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Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead
Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/eco...
Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/eco...
Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead
Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
February 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead
Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/eco...
Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/eco...
In 1938, the Munich Agreement saw Nazi Germany appeased in their annexation of part of a neighbouring sovereign state, Czechoslovakia. The Czechs were not invited to the conference. Months later Germany invaded Poland and WW2 began.
The parallels are vivid and terrifying.
The parallels are vivid and terrifying.
'You should've never started it': Donald Trump FALSELY claims Ukraine started war with Russia
www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...
Trump falsely claims Ukraine started war with Russia | CNN Politics
After top US and Russian officials began peace talks without Ukrainians at the negotiating table, President Donald Trump criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and continued to repeat Russi...
www.cnn.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
In 1938, the Munich Agreement saw Nazi Germany appeased in their annexation of part of a neighbouring sovereign state, Czechoslovakia. The Czechs were not invited to the conference. Months later Germany invaded Poland and WW2 began.
The parallels are vivid and terrifying.
The parallels are vivid and terrifying.
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"I am the law."
Hitler, 1942
"There is no law but the law of the people & the people are me."
Gaddafi, 1975
"We have a constitution, but we must address the problems of the country first. The law is always behind when it comes to national survival."
Bashar Al-Assad, 2011
Trump, 2025:
Hitler, 1942
"There is no law but the law of the people & the people are me."
Gaddafi, 1975
"We have a constitution, but we must address the problems of the country first. The law is always behind when it comes to national survival."
Bashar Al-Assad, 2011
Trump, 2025:
February 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"I am the law."
Hitler, 1942
"There is no law but the law of the people & the people are me."
Gaddafi, 1975
"We have a constitution, but we must address the problems of the country first. The law is always behind when it comes to national survival."
Bashar Al-Assad, 2011
Trump, 2025:
Hitler, 1942
"There is no law but the law of the people & the people are me."
Gaddafi, 1975
"We have a constitution, but we must address the problems of the country first. The law is always behind when it comes to national survival."
Bashar Al-Assad, 2011
Trump, 2025:
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Someone turned it into a meme 🤣🤣🤣
February 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Someone turned it into a meme 🤣🤣🤣
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🔴 $150 billion and 11 deaths: the cost of the current Los Angeles wildfire
🔴 €10 billion and 232 deaths: the cost of October's flooding in Spain
🔴 $78 billion and 219 deaths: the cost of October's Hurricane Helene
The cost of climate inaction is incalculable.
🔴 €10 billion and 232 deaths: the cost of October's flooding in Spain
🔴 $78 billion and 219 deaths: the cost of October's Hurricane Helene
The cost of climate inaction is incalculable.
January 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🔴 $150 billion and 11 deaths: the cost of the current Los Angeles wildfire
🔴 €10 billion and 232 deaths: the cost of October's flooding in Spain
🔴 $78 billion and 219 deaths: the cost of October's Hurricane Helene
The cost of climate inaction is incalculable.
🔴 €10 billion and 232 deaths: the cost of October's flooding in Spain
🔴 $78 billion and 219 deaths: the cost of October's Hurricane Helene
The cost of climate inaction is incalculable.
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Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
Genuinely relieved that someone thought to call an exorcist. #inauguration
January 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Genuinely relieved that someone thought to call an exorcist. #inauguration
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“Tufton Street’s so-called think-tanks refuse to answer a simple question: ‘Who funds you?’ Now we can see why: charities – which are supposed to support the public good – have effectively been acting as fronts to funnel money into Tufton Street bank accounts.” goodlawproject.org/a-good-cause...
A good cause? How charities funnelled £28m into rightwing think-tanks | Good Law Project
Over the past two decades, rightwing think-tanks and pressure groups that spread climate denial, attack public services and stoke culture wars have bagged millions of pounds in donations from charitie...
goodlawproject.org
January 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“Tufton Street’s so-called think-tanks refuse to answer a simple question: ‘Who funds you?’ Now we can see why: charities – which are supposed to support the public good – have effectively been acting as fronts to funnel money into Tufton Street bank accounts.” goodlawproject.org/a-good-cause...
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Getting a sense of "ah fuck it" from the Kiribatan Town Naming Committee
January 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Getting a sense of "ah fuck it" from the Kiribatan Town Naming Committee
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Massive away win for the little fella.
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Massive away win for the little fella.
Translation: "It boils my piss when middle-class women get too old to be fit yet somehow you still get piled-on for harassing and molesting them" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
Gregg Wallace: Allegations against me come from 'middle-class women of certain age'
Gregg Wallace stepped back from hosting MasterChef on Thursday while historical allegations against him are investigated. This morning he addressed those accusations head on in videos posted on social...
news.sky.com
December 1, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Translation: "It boils my piss when middle-class women get too old to be fit yet somehow you still get piled-on for harassing and molesting them" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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Morning BlueSkyers
If any of you enjoy The Trawl @thetrawl.bsky.social please can you repost this request to @bsky.app for a bookmark tab
Would hugely help not having to look at the hellhole that is X
🙏🏻
If any of you enjoy The Trawl @thetrawl.bsky.social please can you repost this request to @bsky.app for a bookmark tab
Would hugely help not having to look at the hellhole that is X
🙏🏻
November 26, 2024 at 6:46 AM
Morning BlueSkyers
If any of you enjoy The Trawl @thetrawl.bsky.social please can you repost this request to @bsky.app for a bookmark tab
Would hugely help not having to look at the hellhole that is X
🙏🏻
If any of you enjoy The Trawl @thetrawl.bsky.social please can you repost this request to @bsky.app for a bookmark tab
Would hugely help not having to look at the hellhole that is X
🙏🏻
Once again the focus is on the media's beloved Oxford, the only uni in the UK apparently, but this is the case everywhere, and in most institutions staff don't have "meal rights at High Table" (🙄) to keep them warm at night
Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff
Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Once again the focus is on the media's beloved Oxford, the only uni in the UK apparently, but this is the case everywhere, and in most institutions staff don't have "meal rights at High Table" (🙄) to keep them warm at night
His (dogs)body, the Senate's choice.
November 21, 2024 at 6:00 PM
His (dogs)body, the Senate's choice.
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I like the last point - let’s stop giving him the attention and credit he craves, and put it all on the Republicans instead.
November 15, 2024 at 11:31 AM
I like the last point - let’s stop giving him the attention and credit he craves, and put it all on the Republicans instead.
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Dang, I got memed by Occupy Democrats?
November 14, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Dang, I got memed by Occupy Democrats?
Just arrived here! Trembling like a mole woman post- reverend bunker, but feeling unharassed by right wing bots for once woop
November 13, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Just arrived here! Trembling like a mole woman post- reverend bunker, but feeling unharassed by right wing bots for once woop