daveypea
@daveypea.bsky.social
The Lack of Commitments, The Love Junkies, SKA Madness, Amazing Blues Brothers, Front end developer, sound tech at Crown Wharf theatre, runner, guitarist, songwriter
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YES YES YES thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 🙏
😩AT LAST someone rasiing the alarm about what Europe's plummeting brith rates really mean!!
"In reality, without immigration there will be no Europe, no civilisation and no one left to argue about it."⚠️
It's. that. simple.
😩AT LAST someone rasiing the alarm about what Europe's plummeting brith rates really mean!!
"In reality, without immigration there will be no Europe, no civilisation and no one left to argue about it."⚠️
It's. that. simple.
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
YES YES YES thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 🙏
😩AT LAST someone rasiing the alarm about what Europe's plummeting brith rates really mean!!
"In reality, without immigration there will be no Europe, no civilisation and no one left to argue about it."⚠️
It's. that. simple.
😩AT LAST someone rasiing the alarm about what Europe's plummeting brith rates really mean!!
"In reality, without immigration there will be no Europe, no civilisation and no one left to argue about it."⚠️
It's. that. simple.
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This is majestically furious and rightly so. In the face of far right savagery, a lot of people who think themselves reasonable can’t even manage the moral basics
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is majestically furious and rightly so. In the face of far right savagery, a lot of people who think themselves reasonable can’t even manage the moral basics
Jeff
This incredible quote by playwright and #humanist George Bernard Shaw (recited here by Jeff Goldblum) feels like the perfect way to start a new week:
Shaw’s words remind us that life isn’t something to be cautiously preserved or merely endured: it’s something to be lived with purpose✨
Shaw’s words remind us that life isn’t something to be cautiously preserved or merely endured: it’s something to be lived with purpose✨
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Jeff
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High time for PR!
So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll
ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.
www.thenational.scot
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
High time for PR!
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🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨 Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
How Britain privatised itself into failure
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨 Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
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A rare article in which there's a question in the headline to which the answer is, as @davidgerard.co.uk notes, "basically, literally, yes." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Is every memecoin just a scam? Experts on whether Andrew Tate and Trump are fleecing their followers
After I was turned into a memecoin, I looked into the hype behind the crypto that only a tiny percentage of people profit from
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A rare article in which there's a question in the headline to which the answer is, as @davidgerard.co.uk notes, "basically, literally, yes." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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This is from my friend, Nabil, in Gaza today. He says there is NO food left. He has never sounded so in despair. Israel is carrying out war crimes; violating international humanitarian law; inflicting collective punishment on a captive people; trying to starve them into submission. It’s obscene.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is from my friend, Nabil, in Gaza today. He says there is NO food left. He has never sounded so in despair. Israel is carrying out war crimes; violating international humanitarian law; inflicting collective punishment on a captive people; trying to starve them into submission. It’s obscene.
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Top news story on the Express website this morning.
Labour will never understand that offering a couple of toes to nibble will never be enough for those craving to gorge on human flesh, while those nauseated by cannibalism will be put off by every possible aspect of their surrender.
Labour will never understand that offering a couple of toes to nibble will never be enough for those craving to gorge on human flesh, while those nauseated by cannibalism will be put off by every possible aspect of their surrender.
May 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Top news story on the Express website this morning.
Labour will never understand that offering a couple of toes to nibble will never be enough for those craving to gorge on human flesh, while those nauseated by cannibalism will be put off by every possible aspect of their surrender.
Labour will never understand that offering a couple of toes to nibble will never be enough for those craving to gorge on human flesh, while those nauseated by cannibalism will be put off by every possible aspect of their surrender.
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Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
May 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
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Great read from @johnharris1969.bsky.social on how the climate crisis is right at the heart of the current political moment and the unnervingly steady march of populism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Want to know how the world really ends? Look to TV show Families Like Ours | John Harris
The Danish drama is piercing in its ordinariness. In the real world, the climate crisis worsens and authoritarians take charge as we calmly look away, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Great read from @johnharris1969.bsky.social on how the climate crisis is right at the heart of the current political moment and the unnervingly steady march of populism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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He’s got away with untold crimes, lies & offences. He’s achieved the highest office in the land. Twice. He’s lining his pockets on an industrial scale & persecuting his enemies for fun. But he’s still a miserable, bitter, humourless & furious man. Because deep inside, he knows *exactly* who he is.
April 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
He’s got away with untold crimes, lies & offences. He’s achieved the highest office in the land. Twice. He’s lining his pockets on an industrial scale & persecuting his enemies for fun. But he’s still a miserable, bitter, humourless & furious man. Because deep inside, he knows *exactly* who he is.
I find this ridiculously comforting
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
April 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I find this ridiculously comforting
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A very strange UK politics where it seems the two traditional parties are targeting the same ~20% of the population and nobody very much cares about the remaining 80%.
April 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A very strange UK politics where it seems the two traditional parties are targeting the same ~20% of the population and nobody very much cares about the remaining 80%.
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This is one Ted Talk that all Americans should hear right now.
Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
youtu.be
April 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This is one Ted Talk that all Americans should hear right now.
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I would do anything for growth (but I won't do that).
Labour continues to put the party interest before the national interest.
Labour continues to put the party interest before the national interest.
April 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I would do anything for growth (but I won't do that).
Labour continues to put the party interest before the national interest.
Labour continues to put the party interest before the national interest.
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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If the 2010s were marked by techno-solutionism, then the 2020s might be the decade of "natural solutionism". Both are flawed, disdain the regulatory state, and in both "expertise is treated as suspect, corrupt, or altogether illegitimate, with anecdotes and mantras replacing verifiable data"
The Flawed Ideology That Unites Grass-Fed Beef Fans and Anti-Vaxxers
From RFK Jr. to Hollywood A-listers and Democratic senators, people across the political spectrum are jumping onto the slippery slope of nature-based solutionism.
newrepublic.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
If the 2010s were marked by techno-solutionism, then the 2020s might be the decade of "natural solutionism". Both are flawed, disdain the regulatory state, and in both "expertise is treated as suspect, corrupt, or altogether illegitimate, with anecdotes and mantras replacing verifiable data"
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A message to accessibility practitioners trying to distance themselves from DEI:
- that is not going to protect accessibility from this regime
- DEI and accessibility have always been linked, systemically accessibility must be intersectional to be truly effective.
- that is not going to protect accessibility from this regime
- DEI and accessibility have always been linked, systemically accessibility must be intersectional to be truly effective.
March 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A message to accessibility practitioners trying to distance themselves from DEI:
- that is not going to protect accessibility from this regime
- DEI and accessibility have always been linked, systemically accessibility must be intersectional to be truly effective.
- that is not going to protect accessibility from this regime
- DEI and accessibility have always been linked, systemically accessibility must be intersectional to be truly effective.
Waiting to hear this from Starmer
Few things certain anymore. But expect over the next four years almost every one of the US’s ‘allies’ will end up saying something very similar.
The only question is how long it takes.
The only question is how long it takes.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Waiting to hear this from Starmer
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If you can afford it, do give a bit of money to @goodlawproject.bsky.social - they're doing great things
Good Law Project has now filed in the High Court its claim on behalf of over fifty claimants for GDPR breaches by Reform UK. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
We’re suing Farage’s Reform in the High Court | Good Law Project
goodlawproject.org
March 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
If you can afford it, do give a bit of money to @goodlawproject.bsky.social - they're doing great things
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This is hugely positive news & shows how Labour can get it right. The Government has beefed up its Workers’ Rights Bill to make it more pro-worker.
A series of significant changes on workplace rights and the right to strike have been slipped out by ministers 👏
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/25/k...
A series of significant changes on workplace rights and the right to strike have been slipped out by ministers 👏
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/25/k...
Keir Starmer’s Government Has Quietly Beefed Up Its Workers’ Rights Bill to Make It More Pro-Worker
A series of significant changes on workplace rights and the right to strike have been slipped out by ministers
bylinetimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is hugely positive news & shows how Labour can get it right. The Government has beefed up its Workers’ Rights Bill to make it more pro-worker.
A series of significant changes on workplace rights and the right to strike have been slipped out by ministers 👏
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/25/k...
A series of significant changes on workplace rights and the right to strike have been slipped out by ministers 👏
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/25/k...
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The view from across the pond… 😕
March 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The view from across the pond… 😕