LeeRivers.bsky.social
@leerivers.bsky.social
(He/him) Escaped here from Twitter because Elon Musk is a dingus
Socialist, nerd, professional whinger, lover of smol animals and YouTube addict 😶
Socialist, nerd, professional whinger, lover of smol animals and YouTube addict 😶
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On the UK-US pharmaceutical deal I'm afraid this does look like two nasty trends coming together to make a very bad agreement for the UK - namely Whitehall power to make deals with no scrutiny, and companies working with countries to coerce others. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What will be the cost of Keir Starmer’s new medicines deal with Donald Trump? British lives | Aditya Chakrabortty
More than £3bn that could have been used for UK patients will go to big pharma for its branded products, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
On the UK-US pharmaceutical deal I'm afraid this does look like two nasty trends coming together to make a very bad agreement for the UK - namely Whitehall power to make deals with no scrutiny, and companies working with countries to coerce others. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.
truthout.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
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EXCEPTIONAL NEWS!!!
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November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
EXCEPTIONAL NEWS!!!
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An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
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From @philipjcowley.bsky.social - thanks to a happy coincidence we have a much more rigorous than usual understanding of the impact of Keir Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech. As Cowley puts it "It is not obvious this was the intended outcome"
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
From @philipjcowley.bsky.social - thanks to a happy coincidence we have a much more rigorous than usual understanding of the impact of Keir Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech. As Cowley puts it "It is not obvious this was the intended outcome"
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Billionaires handing money back and forth, no one creating anything except carbon in the air. Anthropic buys Nvidia chips; Nvidia gives Anthropic billions to buy even more chips; Microsoft gives Anthropic billions, which Anthropic spends on Microsoft Azure, run by Nvidia, etc. An ouroboros of shit.
New @axios: Anthropic lands $15 billion investment from Microsoft, Nvidia
Anthropic lands $15 billion investment from Microsoft, Nvidia
The move is the latest in a series of deals that sees all the big players partnering with one another.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Billionaires handing money back and forth, no one creating anything except carbon in the air. Anthropic buys Nvidia chips; Nvidia gives Anthropic billions to buy even more chips; Microsoft gives Anthropic billions, which Anthropic spends on Microsoft Azure, run by Nvidia, etc. An ouroboros of shit.
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*sad trombone noise*
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
*sad trombone noise*
If true this is genuinley a joke and is taking the lefts reputation as factional infighters to a whole new level
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If true this is genuinley a joke and is taking the lefts reputation as factional infighters to a whole new level
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Zarah Sultana should sack this nonsense off, hand over the whole shebang, and join the Greens. She's better than this. This is just embarrassing now.
Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations
Clash the latest in months of political infighting between the camps of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Zarah Sultana should sack this nonsense off, hand over the whole shebang, and join the Greens. She's better than this. This is just embarrassing now.
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Rowling and Liddle are both repugnant, hate-driven arseholes, and this stuff is saying that believing they are is some kind of wild extremist insanity that must be expunged. How long do we think these miniature Canutes can send back the incoming tide, do we think?
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Rowling and Liddle are both repugnant, hate-driven arseholes, and this stuff is saying that believing they are is some kind of wild extremist insanity that must be expunged. How long do we think these miniature Canutes can send back the incoming tide, do we think?
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Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering
Darlington trans medic used female changing room for years
Rose Henderson felt within her rights to use the Darlington hospital facility, a tribunal is told.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering
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Wow.
The Greens are not just SECOND in this poll.
They're now 3 points ahead of Labour - who are fourth.
Time for Labour to stand down to stop splitting the anti-Reform vote!
The Greens are not just SECOND in this poll.
They're now 3 points ahead of Labour - who are fourth.
Time for Labour to stand down to stop splitting the anti-Reform vote!
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Wow.
The Greens are not just SECOND in this poll.
They're now 3 points ahead of Labour - who are fourth.
Time for Labour to stand down to stop splitting the anti-Reform vote!
The Greens are not just SECOND in this poll.
They're now 3 points ahead of Labour - who are fourth.
Time for Labour to stand down to stop splitting the anti-Reform vote!
My small take on the Labour deputy leadership election
Powell is very mediocre but she at least has some sympathy towards trans people
Plus her winning will have pissed off Starmer and his people which makes me happy :)
Powell is very mediocre but she at least has some sympathy towards trans people
Plus her winning will have pissed off Starmer and his people which makes me happy :)
October 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My small take on the Labour deputy leadership election
Powell is very mediocre but she at least has some sympathy towards trans people
Plus her winning will have pissed off Starmer and his people which makes me happy :)
Powell is very mediocre but she at least has some sympathy towards trans people
Plus her winning will have pissed off Starmer and his people which makes me happy :)
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Labour and tuition fees, then and now.
October 21, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Labour and tuition fees, then and now.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.
Join us and let's make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join us and let's make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.
Join us and let's make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join us and let's make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
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London Heathrow airport owned by private/state investors from Australia, China, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain.
Similar to steel, auto, ports, shipbuilding, care homes, hospitals, GP surgeries, veterinary services.
Dividends not taxed in the UK. Govts have fewer economic levers.
Similar to steel, auto, ports, shipbuilding, care homes, hospitals, GP surgeries, veterinary services.
Dividends not taxed in the UK. Govts have fewer economic levers.
If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership
Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.
leftfootforward.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
London Heathrow airport owned by private/state investors from Australia, China, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain.
Similar to steel, auto, ports, shipbuilding, care homes, hospitals, GP surgeries, veterinary services.
Dividends not taxed in the UK. Govts have fewer economic levers.
Similar to steel, auto, ports, shipbuilding, care homes, hospitals, GP surgeries, veterinary services.
Dividends not taxed in the UK. Govts have fewer economic levers.
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Argentina’s libertarian government is such a failure and has created such a mess trying to artificially prop up the peso that not even the promise of a $20 billion U.S. taxpayer funded bailout is stabilizing the country’s markets. A house of cards.
Argentine assets hit by fresh selling amid worries over US bailout
Peso, stocks and bonds all fall as investors fret over lack of details from Washington on rescue plan
www.ft.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Argentina’s libertarian government is such a failure and has created such a mess trying to artificially prop up the peso that not even the promise of a $20 billion U.S. taxpayer funded bailout is stabilizing the country’s markets. A house of cards.
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Kudos to Labour for looking at how the Tories have tanked their core support and destroyed themselves in around fifteen years, and then deciding to speedrun the same thing.
Day 243 of absolutely not regretting leaving the Labour Party. As a union rep I’ve helped people fight and win up to the steps of the tribunal. Making them pay is helping bullies silence their victims. How very New Labour.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
They can't help themselves making Tory plans. Dumber than dumb.
#Labour
They can't help themselves making Tory plans. Dumber than dumb.
#Labour
October 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Kudos to Labour for looking at how the Tories have tanked their core support and destroyed themselves in around fifteen years, and then deciding to speedrun the same thing.
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Day 243 of absolutely not regretting leaving the Labour Party. As a union rep I’ve helped people fight and win up to the steps of the tribunal. Making them pay is helping bullies silence their victims. How very New Labour.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
They can't help themselves making Tory plans. Dumber than dumb.
#Labour
They can't help themselves making Tory plans. Dumber than dumb.
#Labour
Labour considering charging workers for employment tribunal claims, sources say
Exclusive: Reintroducing tribunal fees would be ‘a gift for bad bosses’, says TUC chief Paul Nowak
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Day 243 of absolutely not regretting leaving the Labour Party. As a union rep I’ve helped people fight and win up to the steps of the tribunal. Making them pay is helping bullies silence their victims. How very New Labour.
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Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
October 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
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I have yet to hear any reason the "Your Party" MPs didn't join the Greens.
Until I do, I will assume it's because of the egos involved.
Until I do, I will assume it's because of the egos involved.
The split in Your Party has broken into the open.
Jeremy Corbyn urges supporters not to donate to the link promoted by Zarah Sultana. Sultana responds calling it a "sexist boys club."
Jeremy Corbyn urges supporters not to donate to the link promoted by Zarah Sultana. Sultana responds calling it a "sexist boys club."
September 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I have yet to hear any reason the "Your Party" MPs didn't join the Greens.
Until I do, I will assume it's because of the egos involved.
Until I do, I will assume it's because of the egos involved.
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Remember when the last Wolfenstein came out, and Bethesda had devs joking in promos: "There's a lot you can do with a hatchet and nazi?"
Now Indiana Jones can't fight fascists. That's a pretty decent measuring stick for what's happened to our society and discourse.
Now Indiana Jones can't fight fascists. That's a pretty decent measuring stick for what's happened to our society and discourse.
Bethesda deletes Indiana Jones and the Great Circle "fascist" clip after accusations that it mocks Charlie Kirk
Bethesda's now-deleted X post appears to have been part of a wider social media push for the new Indiana Jones and the Great Circle DLC.
www.pcgamesn.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Remember when the last Wolfenstein came out, and Bethesda had devs joking in promos: "There's a lot you can do with a hatchet and nazi?"
Now Indiana Jones can't fight fascists. That's a pretty decent measuring stick for what's happened to our society and discourse.
Now Indiana Jones can't fight fascists. That's a pretty decent measuring stick for what's happened to our society and discourse.