Tony Cactus
@cactusnetwork.bsky.social
Design educator / visual activist / zine producer / concerned human
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Happy 60th birthday to Björk
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Bjork - Big Time Sensuality - Rare Night Version
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November 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Happy 60th birthday to Björk
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In 1889, schoolkids in Britain held a nationwide wave of school walkouts, taking to the streets to demand shorter hours, less homework, less corporal punishment and free education. We have now mapped lots of these & built a timeline on our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In 1889, schoolkids in Britain held a nationwide wave of school walkouts, taking to the streets to demand shorter hours, less homework, less corporal punishment and free education. We have now mapped lots of these & built a timeline on our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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#OtD 17 Nov 1983 six Indigenous and mestizo people founded the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. So if you know five people who think like you, start a group! Learn more about the Zapatistas in these books: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
#OtD 17 Nov 1983 six Indigenous and mestizo people founded the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. So if you know five people who think like you, start a group! Learn more about the Zapatistas in these books: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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It's time for our 2026 CSA- Community Supported Art! Sign up and get 12 exclusive limited edition screenprints delivered to your mailbox through the year. justseeds.org/project/csa/
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It's time for our 2026 CSA- Community Supported Art! Sign up and get 12 exclusive limited edition screenprints delivered to your mailbox through the year. justseeds.org/project/csa/
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#OtD 14 Nov 1990 six weeks after the unification of Berlin, the social democrat city government evicted a large anarchist squat using 1000s of police on Mainzer Strasse, Friedrichshain, following hours of street-fighting stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8614...
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#OtD 14 Nov 1990 six weeks after the unification of Berlin, the social democrat city government evicted a large anarchist squat using 1000s of police on Mainzer Strasse, Friedrichshain, following hours of street-fighting stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8614...
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#FallFriday The Fall released Jerusalem plus Big New Prinz as a single on this day in 1988 youtu.be/fx7x8km8d-c
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
#FallFriday The Fall released Jerusalem plus Big New Prinz as a single on this day in 1988 youtu.be/fx7x8km8d-c
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🚨 NEW POST: the scheme that inspired our postwar 'streets in the sky' - the Justus van Effen Estate in Rotterdam, Michiel Brinkman's masterpiece of the early 1920s. (New photos by @matthew-cook.bsky.social added.)
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November 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🚨 NEW POST: the scheme that inspired our postwar 'streets in the sky' - the Justus van Effen Estate in Rotterdam, Michiel Brinkman's masterpiece of the early 1920s. (New photos by @matthew-cook.bsky.social added.)
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Fifteen years ago: following pressure from New Scotland Yard, the website of Fitwatch, one of the founders of Netpol, was suspended "for a minimum of twelve months" for "attempting to pervert the course of justice" www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/11/4...
Fitwatch website suspended for "attempting to pervert the course of justice" - UK Indymedia
Following contact from New Scotland Yard, the Fitwatch website and domain name (www.fitwatch.org.uk) have been suspended for a minimum of twelve months for "attempting to pervert the course of ju...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Fifteen years ago: following pressure from New Scotland Yard, the website of Fitwatch, one of the founders of Netpol, was suspended "for a minimum of twelve months" for "attempting to pervert the course of justice" www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/11/4...
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An analysis of BBC news coverage over the last 4 years shows a shameless bias against Vladimir Putin, with BBC reporters insisting on calling the Special Military Operation in Ukraine “an invasion”
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
An analysis of BBC news coverage over the last 4 years shows a shameless bias against Vladimir Putin, with BBC reporters insisting on calling the Special Military Operation in Ukraine “an invasion”
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#OtD 10 Nov 2010 50k students and supporters marched in London against the tripling of university fees and the abolition of EMA grants. Breaking away from the official demo, 1000s of people occupied and trashed the governing Tory HQ at Millbank stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8238...
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
#OtD 10 Nov 2010 50k students and supporters marched in London against the tripling of university fees and the abolition of EMA grants. Breaking away from the official demo, 1000s of people occupied and trashed the governing Tory HQ at Millbank stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8238...
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#OnThisDay in London herstory, 1909: Suffragettes Amelia Brown & Alice Paul hide in the gallery at the Guildhall, smash glass panes in the banqueting hall & invade the mayor’s banquet for the Cabinet & Prime Minister, shouting “Votes for women!”.
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
#OnThisDay in London herstory, 1909: Suffragettes Amelia Brown & Alice Paul hide in the gallery at the Guildhall, smash glass panes in the banqueting hall & invade the mayor’s banquet for the Cabinet & Prime Minister, shouting “Votes for women!”.
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Memorial to the Jewish volunteers of the International Brigades. It plays with Star of David and the 3-point of the IB. Around 20% (about 7,000) of Brigaders were Jewish. Fossar de la Pedrera, the mass grave of the victims of the Franco regime in Barcelona, Montjüic cemetery
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Memorial to the Jewish volunteers of the International Brigades. It plays with Star of David and the 3-point of the IB. Around 20% (about 7,000) of Brigaders were Jewish. Fossar de la Pedrera, the mass grave of the victims of the Franco regime in Barcelona, Montjüic cemetery
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This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
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Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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“The essential services we need to survive used to be owned by us: the UK public. Our public services have been sold off to private corporations over whom we have no control.”
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social
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@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social
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Radical abundance: how to build an alternative to capitalism
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Keir Milburn and Frances Northrop
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November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The essential services we need to survive used to be owned by us: the UK public. Our public services have been sold off to private corporations over whom we have no control.”
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/10/radi...
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/10/radi...
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This video is brilliant: buff.ly/1zyTWmM
Seems a total slam dunk that owners of private jets should pay fuel duties. Doesn't it?
The answer is annoying.
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Seems a total slam dunk that owners of private jets should pay fuel duties. Doesn't it?
The answer is annoying.
Thread:
Private jets don't pay fuel tax. Now I don't either.
You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires? This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This video is brilliant: buff.ly/1zyTWmM
Seems a total slam dunk that owners of private jets should pay fuel duties. Doesn't it?
The answer is annoying.
Thread:
Seems a total slam dunk that owners of private jets should pay fuel duties. Doesn't it?
The answer is annoying.
Thread:
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Flood alert for high tide this afternoon at Bankside (outside Tate Modern) check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/...
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Flood alert for high tide this afternoon at Bankside (outside Tate Modern) check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/...
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Happy 40th birthday to Cruiser’s Creek by The Fall, released on this day in 1985 #FallFriday (Thread)
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Happy 40th birthday to Cruiser’s Creek by The Fall, released on this day in 1985 #FallFriday (Thread)
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The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...
Why Digital Sovereignty Matters
Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...
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#OtD 1 Nov 1910 anarchist and syndicalist workplace militants met in Barcelona to found the @CNTsindicato union. It became the leading force in Spanish working-class politics, organising general strikes and a revolution during the civil war. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
November 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
#OtD 1 Nov 1910 anarchist and syndicalist workplace militants met in Barcelona to found the @CNTsindicato union. It became the leading force in Spanish working-class politics, organising general strikes and a revolution during the civil war. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Great thread on the extraordinary Peter Watkins. Culloden, The War Game, Punishment Park and The Commune all affected me greatly
If I said the last of the great twentieth century British film directors died last night, and very few people even remembered him by the time of his death... would you know what I'm talking about?
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Crying for Freedom: Peter Watkins at 90
Radical British filmmaker Peter Watkins was briefly tipped by the BBC before The War Game made him a controversial pariah. But he persisted — and now, at 90, he is a hero of liberated, formally remark...
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November 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Great thread on the extraordinary Peter Watkins. Culloden, The War Game, Punishment Park and The Commune all affected me greatly
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#OtD 1 Nov 1936 the Jarrow marchers arrived in London. They had marched all the way from Jarrow in North-East England to protest hunger and unemployment as a result of the closure of the town's shipyard, which was the main employer in the area stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8136...
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
#OtD 1 Nov 1936 the Jarrow marchers arrived in London. They had marched all the way from Jarrow in North-East England to protest hunger and unemployment as a result of the closure of the town's shipyard, which was the main employer in the area stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8136...
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#OnThisDay in London’s International history, 1977: North Kensington squatters declare the Independent Republic of Frestonia
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Today in London’s International history, 1977: North Kensington squatters declare the Independent Republic of Frestonia
What with the all the Brexit row inspiring an increased interest in parts of the UK splitting off (eg Scotland – and probably London next!), we got thinking of previous attempts to secede &#…
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November 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
#OnThisDay in London’s International history, 1977: North Kensington squatters declare the Independent Republic of Frestonia
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Today!
The very first
Wanstead Independent Book Fair
10.30 – 4.30
Wanstead Library, Spratt Hall Rd, London E11 2RQ
Join Past Tense, book artists, small publishers, local independently published authors, zine makers, on demand poet(s) & more…
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The very first
Wanstead Independent Book Fair
10.30 – 4.30
Wanstead Library, Spratt Hall Rd, London E11 2RQ
Join Past Tense, book artists, small publishers, local independently published authors, zine makers, on demand poet(s) & more…
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November 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Today!
The very first
Wanstead Independent Book Fair
10.30 – 4.30
Wanstead Library, Spratt Hall Rd, London E11 2RQ
Join Past Tense, book artists, small publishers, local independently published authors, zine makers, on demand poet(s) & more…
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The very first
Wanstead Independent Book Fair
10.30 – 4.30
Wanstead Library, Spratt Hall Rd, London E11 2RQ
Join Past Tense, book artists, small publishers, local independently published authors, zine makers, on demand poet(s) & more…
tube: Wanstead
More:
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