John G
@lavalamps.bsky.social
Socialist, in the sense that people cooperating always works better.
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Fruits of privatisation.
Another crisis in strategic steel industry.
Liberty Steel’s South Yorkshire operations lost £340m in 4 years. Bailout likely.
Profiteering by energy and water companies has made steel making impossible.
Nationalise steel, energy, water.
Another crisis in strategic steel industry.
Liberty Steel’s South Yorkshire operations lost £340m in 4 years. Bailout likely.
Profiteering by energy and water companies has made steel making impossible.
Nationalise steel, energy, water.
Liberty Steel’s South Yorkshire operations lost £340m in four years
Exclusive: court documents lay bare crisis at Sanjeev Gupta’s steelworks as it struggles to find buyers in face of looming liquidation
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Fruits of privatisation.
Another crisis in strategic steel industry.
Liberty Steel’s South Yorkshire operations lost £340m in 4 years. Bailout likely.
Profiteering by energy and water companies has made steel making impossible.
Nationalise steel, energy, water.
Another crisis in strategic steel industry.
Liberty Steel’s South Yorkshire operations lost £340m in 4 years. Bailout likely.
Profiteering by energy and water companies has made steel making impossible.
Nationalise steel, energy, water.
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Just heard an example of an American who’s just been diagnosed with terminal cancer + has lost his health insurance so has very limited treatment options.
This is why we need to fight for the NHS. And to anyone saying “the UK isn’t like the US”, currently over 7 million cases are on waiting lists…
This is why we need to fight for the NHS. And to anyone saying “the UK isn’t like the US”, currently over 7 million cases are on waiting lists…
May 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Just heard an example of an American who’s just been diagnosed with terminal cancer + has lost his health insurance so has very limited treatment options.
This is why we need to fight for the NHS. And to anyone saying “the UK isn’t like the US”, currently over 7 million cases are on waiting lists…
This is why we need to fight for the NHS. And to anyone saying “the UK isn’t like the US”, currently over 7 million cases are on waiting lists…
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Something needs to be clarified: BOYCOTTS DO NOT HAVE END DATES.
The boycott against Target is working because it does not have an end date, these large corporations can take a 6 day hit.
There must be a demand and a consequence.
We cannot not allow people to co-opt terms.
The boycott against Target is working because it does not have an end date, these large corporations can take a 6 day hit.
There must be a demand and a consequence.
We cannot not allow people to co-opt terms.
May 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Something needs to be clarified: BOYCOTTS DO NOT HAVE END DATES.
The boycott against Target is working because it does not have an end date, these large corporations can take a 6 day hit.
There must be a demand and a consequence.
We cannot not allow people to co-opt terms.
The boycott against Target is working because it does not have an end date, these large corporations can take a 6 day hit.
There must be a demand and a consequence.
We cannot not allow people to co-opt terms.
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When we look at plants (like the ones in my photo) for a few seconds (though I recommend 10 or 15 s), we recover from stress we experience afterwards around 60% more quickly than if we had not looked at plants (ref in next post).
May garden posy, to help with any stress that may be about to happen:
May garden posy, to help with any stress that may be about to happen:
May 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
When we look at plants (like the ones in my photo) for a few seconds (though I recommend 10 or 15 s), we recover from stress we experience afterwards around 60% more quickly than if we had not looked at plants (ref in next post).
May garden posy, to help with any stress that may be about to happen:
May garden posy, to help with any stress that may be about to happen:
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Understand this: if Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SNAP benefits are cut, Americans will die as a result. It’s policy violence.
May 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Understand this: if Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SNAP benefits are cut, Americans will die as a result. It’s policy violence.
From Every Doctor (on blue sky).
That anyone can compare this to a party acting in the public interest? Ridiculous.
By all means enjoy your fantasy that the NHS needs privatisation.
But why do these parasites need bribes to achieve it?
Politics is about helping people, not lining your own pockets.
That anyone can compare this to a party acting in the public interest? Ridiculous.
By all means enjoy your fantasy that the NHS needs privatisation.
But why do these parasites need bribes to achieve it?
Politics is about helping people, not lining your own pockets.
May 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
From Every Doctor (on blue sky).
That anyone can compare this to a party acting in the public interest? Ridiculous.
By all means enjoy your fantasy that the NHS needs privatisation.
But why do these parasites need bribes to achieve it?
Politics is about helping people, not lining your own pockets.
That anyone can compare this to a party acting in the public interest? Ridiculous.
By all means enjoy your fantasy that the NHS needs privatisation.
But why do these parasites need bribes to achieve it?
Politics is about helping people, not lining your own pockets.
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I want to be clear: America WILL have single payer healthcare.
How do I know? Because for-profit healthcare is unsustainable and single-payer is the best system.
We will get there. It will be a fight. It will be hard. But we will get there.
We will.
How do I know? Because for-profit healthcare is unsustainable and single-payer is the best system.
We will get there. It will be a fight. It will be hard. But we will get there.
We will.
May 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I want to be clear: America WILL have single payer healthcare.
How do I know? Because for-profit healthcare is unsustainable and single-payer is the best system.
We will get there. It will be a fight. It will be hard. But we will get there.
We will.
How do I know? Because for-profit healthcare is unsustainable and single-payer is the best system.
We will get there. It will be a fight. It will be hard. But we will get there.
We will.
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May 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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When humans look at something we find beautiful it causes dopamine release in our brains & looking at plants shifts our brain activity away from fight or flight & into rest & digest mode.
A field of phacelia, Norfolk:
A field of phacelia, Norfolk:
May 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
When humans look at something we find beautiful it causes dopamine release in our brains & looking at plants shifts our brain activity away from fight or flight & into rest & digest mode.
A field of phacelia, Norfolk:
A field of phacelia, Norfolk:
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✊☮️💙🌊🐕🦺
May 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
✊☮️💙🌊🐕🦺
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It seems like about a month ago? roughly, when we last had a brief ceasefire in Gaza, and for many decades, the huge majority of adults in the whole world were loudly and constantly begging for a ceasefire.
It's such an absolute no-brainer that I'm astonished when anyone suggests fighting on.
It's such an absolute no-brainer that I'm astonished when anyone suggests fighting on.
May 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It seems like about a month ago? roughly, when we last had a brief ceasefire in Gaza, and for many decades, the huge majority of adults in the whole world were loudly and constantly begging for a ceasefire.
It's such an absolute no-brainer that I'm astonished when anyone suggests fighting on.
It's such an absolute no-brainer that I'm astonished when anyone suggests fighting on.
All the keyboard warriors on here, still at it, fuelling the fire, slagging off either Hamas or Israel, digging their heels in, making it worse in terms of reaching a ceasefire and saving lives.
We've lost focus. The real victims are the innocent civilians. For their sake, Hamas should surrender.
We've lost focus. The real victims are the innocent civilians. For their sake, Hamas should surrender.
May 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
All the keyboard warriors on here, still at it, fuelling the fire, slagging off either Hamas or Israel, digging their heels in, making it worse in terms of reaching a ceasefire and saving lives.
We've lost focus. The real victims are the innocent civilians. For their sake, Hamas should surrender.
We've lost focus. The real victims are the innocent civilians. For their sake, Hamas should surrender.
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I get told “give Labour a chance!” “Where did you expect them to get us, in ten months?”
If someone is driving in the wrong direction, you point it out before they reach their destination. They have poor plans for the NHS, and are increasing privatisation. I’m not waiting 5 years to talk about it🚨
If someone is driving in the wrong direction, you point it out before they reach their destination. They have poor plans for the NHS, and are increasing privatisation. I’m not waiting 5 years to talk about it🚨
May 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I get told “give Labour a chance!” “Where did you expect them to get us, in ten months?”
If someone is driving in the wrong direction, you point it out before they reach their destination. They have poor plans for the NHS, and are increasing privatisation. I’m not waiting 5 years to talk about it🚨
If someone is driving in the wrong direction, you point it out before they reach their destination. They have poor plans for the NHS, and are increasing privatisation. I’m not waiting 5 years to talk about it🚨
The single most obvious fact of life in the world, right now, and every day for 19 months, is that children in Gaza should be evacuated to safety .
We did it in the UK in ww2, because it's an absolute no-brainer .
And yet we have cries of "no that's ethnic cleansing".
Rubbish.
It's rescuing kids.
We did it in the UK in ww2, because it's an absolute no-brainer .
And yet we have cries of "no that's ethnic cleansing".
Rubbish.
It's rescuing kids.
May 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The single most obvious fact of life in the world, right now, and every day for 19 months, is that children in Gaza should be evacuated to safety .
We did it in the UK in ww2, because it's an absolute no-brainer .
And yet we have cries of "no that's ethnic cleansing".
Rubbish.
It's rescuing kids.
We did it in the UK in ww2, because it's an absolute no-brainer .
And yet we have cries of "no that's ethnic cleansing".
Rubbish.
It's rescuing kids.
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The best way to honour the generation of 1945 would be to rebuild the NHS and the welfare state they voted overwhelmingly to bring about
May 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The best way to honour the generation of 1945 would be to rebuild the NHS and the welfare state they voted overwhelmingly to bring about
All the ideological puritans on social media, willing to fight, from their comfy chairs, til the last toddler has died in Gaza. Keyboard warriors, unwilling to see what a blind man can see, that taking hostages has not helped, and has endangered their children. Hamas should have surrendered long ago
May 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
All the ideological puritans on social media, willing to fight, from their comfy chairs, til the last toddler has died in Gaza. Keyboard warriors, unwilling to see what a blind man can see, that taking hostages has not helped, and has endangered their children. Hamas should have surrendered long ago
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People aren’t broke because they’re “splurging” on iPhones and lattes, people are broke because corporations have bought up housing, control our healthcare, and are gouging at the register.
May 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
People aren’t broke because they’re “splurging” on iPhones and lattes, people are broke because corporations have bought up housing, control our healthcare, and are gouging at the register.
Each of Hamas and the Israeli government would tell us that it's they who have the ancient ownership of what is now called Israel.
Based on how each has behaved for decades, isn't it about time now that we empower the UN to overrule and overthrow both?
And forcefully evacuate children to safety.
Based on how each has behaved for decades, isn't it about time now that we empower the UN to overrule and overthrow both?
And forcefully evacuate children to safety.
May 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Each of Hamas and the Israeli government would tell us that it's they who have the ancient ownership of what is now called Israel.
Based on how each has behaved for decades, isn't it about time now that we empower the UN to overrule and overthrow both?
And forcefully evacuate children to safety.
Based on how each has behaved for decades, isn't it about time now that we empower the UN to overrule and overthrow both?
And forcefully evacuate children to safety.
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Southern Water boss says people need to use less water
The only industry that charges people more for selling less.
Everyday story of England's water companies - Leaks unplugged, no new reservoirs, sewage dumped, mega dividends, customers fleeced.
Nationalise.
The only industry that charges people more for selling less.
Everyday story of England's water companies - Leaks unplugged, no new reservoirs, sewage dumped, mega dividends, customers fleeced.
Nationalise.
Southern Water boss says people need to use less in the future
Tim Mcmahon was speaking to BBC South Today on a special programme about water use.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Southern Water boss says people need to use less water
The only industry that charges people more for selling less.
Everyday story of England's water companies - Leaks unplugged, no new reservoirs, sewage dumped, mega dividends, customers fleeced.
Nationalise.
The only industry that charges people more for selling less.
Everyday story of England's water companies - Leaks unplugged, no new reservoirs, sewage dumped, mega dividends, customers fleeced.
Nationalise.
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When are people going to go to prison for Grenfell?
When are people going to go to prison for the Post Office scandal?
When are people going to go to prison for the PPE rip off?
This 'democracy' of ours in the uk has been dismantled before our very eyes.
@uklabour.bsky.social
#democracy #UK
When are people going to go to prison for the Post Office scandal?
When are people going to go to prison for the PPE rip off?
This 'democracy' of ours in the uk has been dismantled before our very eyes.
@uklabour.bsky.social
#democracy #UK
April 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
When are people going to go to prison for Grenfell?
When are people going to go to prison for the Post Office scandal?
When are people going to go to prison for the PPE rip off?
This 'democracy' of ours in the uk has been dismantled before our very eyes.
@uklabour.bsky.social
#democracy #UK
When are people going to go to prison for the Post Office scandal?
When are people going to go to prison for the PPE rip off?
This 'democracy' of ours in the uk has been dismantled before our very eyes.
@uklabour.bsky.social
#democracy #UK
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Former Chief Exec of UK part of US private health group becomes Permanent Secretary at Dept of Health and Social Care…
April 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Former Chief Exec of UK part of US private health group becomes Permanent Secretary at Dept of Health and Social Care…
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"This freeze will apply to the remaining skeleton services that Wes Streeting has not flogged to US healthcare insurance companies. Anything more than 6 codeine a year and you're fucked. Suckers."
April 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"This freeze will apply to the remaining skeleton services that Wes Streeting has not flogged to US healthcare insurance companies. Anything more than 6 codeine a year and you're fucked. Suckers."
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Diary of Anne Frank, 1943
April 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Diary of Anne Frank, 1943