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bladeofthes.bsky.social
Finland knows that Socialism works.

They house all the homeless people, and have the least in the world.

They closed all paid Education in 1976 and now have the best education system in the world.

They are the happiest country in the world.

Be like Finland.
November 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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oldsquida.bsky.social
“Grocery stores throw out far more food than is shoplifted. Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then. Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.” ~ mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/...

Grapes of Wrath 1939:
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
November 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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enbycriphistorian.bsky.social
This is absolutely fucking reprehensible.

I don’t know if this applies outside the US, but if you’re connected to any nonprofit org, or any group that could be *considered* a nonprofit org, I’m going to suggest checking this out, because this is horrific.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Dina Flockhart. Some of you who work in nonprofits may have heard about this, but if you don't it likely hasn't crossed your radar. That's not surprising; it's very recent and relatively obscure. links in comments. GoFundMe just made a -huge- move into the nonprofit fundraising space; a power grab, really. They scraped data from state and federal public databases to create GFM pages for every nonprofit for which they could find information; literally hundreds of thousands. This was done without the permission or even knowledge of any of these organizations. GoFundMe -claims- that this is an altruistic effort intended to make it as easy and possible for nonprofits to accept donations and raise funds. They-claims- that they are trying to help the entire sector in a time when traditional funding streams are impacted by tightening budgets and changing priorities. They-claim- that this move was widely discussed and publicized at conferences and in professional publications. There are some major problems with this. First of all, GoFundMe is a for-profit company imposing itself into the nonprofit space. It doesn't really understand how nonprofit fundraising works nor does it care. What it cares about is collecting a percentage of donations, which is true of many payment processors. The difference here is that GFM is soliciting -on behalf of- most of the nonprofits in the country, without the knowledge of virtually any of them. That's the second problem. While many larger organizations are aware of the GFM fiasco, most smaller ones that aren't chronically online are not. 90+% of nonprofits are one-or-two person operations, and they are too busy focusing on mission and immediate, known-successful fundraising tactics to even have the opportunity to find out a out something like this, much less incorporate it into their fundraising strategy. The third issue is visibility. GoFundMe has staggering SEO capacity, which means that wh n you search for a particular nonprofit, … The fourth problem is that there's no clear path for donations from unclaimed pages to get to the organization to which donors -think- they are sending them. If people are making donations online that aren't reaching their intended recipients, that's extremely bad both for the recipient org, who has lost out on revenue, and for the nonprofit world as a whole as people lose faith in online payment systems and donation solicitations. One of the most powerful tools available to small non-profits to help raise revenue goes away all because GoFundMe got greedy. Multiple legal professionals have already weighed in, and the opinion is that what GoFundMe is doing is, strictly speaking, legal. There are some states that might bar this conduct, but whether it remains to be seen whether a challenge stands up in state court. Ethically, what they're doing is repugnant. It's no exaggeration to say that this is going to smother a bunch of small non-profits - their online visibility is going to suffer, and ones that are reliant on individual small donors are going to see their revenue streams dry up and they won't know why. This is ultimately damaging to the world of nonprofits as a whole - the organizations that work to fill the gaps in our society and provide desperately needed services are already struggling. We don't need another burden added to what we already deal with every single day. I will no longer use GoFundMe not will I donate to GoFundMe campaigns, because I will not contribute to their profit margins. It's not much, but at the moment it's all I can do.
October 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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eastendjoe.bsky.social
Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.
October 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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carolinerussell.bsky.social
I signed this a while ago - glad to see that 60,000 cis women like me have now signed to show our support for, and solidarity with, trans people.

If you’ve not yet signed, do it now.
natacha.bsky.social Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 24d
60,000 signatures for the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition for cis women opposed to their names being used to justify transphobia,

notinourname.org.uk
Women in support of the trans+ community We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. 60,000 have signed. Let's get to 100,000 Kathryn signed 1 minute ago Serinn signed 17 minutes ago Laura signed 19 minutes ago Holly signed 21 minutes ago
October 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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garys79.bsky.social
Don't let this story die. These are not little boys. This is not in any way acceptable. All these pathetic losers need to be condemned in the strongest language possible by ALL republicans and prevented from ANY political positions for life.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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cajunblue.bsky.social
🚨 This is happening everywhere you go depending on where you live and your social media presence. Just assume nothing you say, text, look up, or read on your phone is private. Don’t take your phone to a protest without a faraday bag. Use a dumb device to record video. 1/2
October 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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akonthego.bsky.social
You sure do have the right to speak freely, but the rest of us have the right to kick your racist asses. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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fpwellman.bsky.social
Millions of veterans got this email from the official VA account with a blatant political smear and lie about the government shutdown yesterday. This is a massive violation of the law and federal regulations using our government resources for political actions.
October 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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sambrook.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
I don’t hate cars. Like most North American males I was raised to think cars are cool, and as a design nerd, few objects are more eye-catching.

I hate surrendering our streets, our cities and our lives to them.

Car dependence isn’t freedom.

Great cartoon by @robcowan.bsky.social #CarDependency
Cartoon worm, man accuses women of being “anti-Car “…
October 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.
September 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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feralcommie.bsky.social
And the moral of #Marxistmonday is...
It's almost like people with tons of capital benefit from running the economy into a huge recession every decade or two so they can buy up assets on the cheap and consolidate even more wealth into a small number of hands
September 29, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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sarahwood.bsky.social
Can we flash forward to the Nuremberg Trials part of this reboot? Thanks.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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slowbikeiain.bsky.social
COUNCILS DON'T NEED YOU TO PROVE YOUR IDENTITY IN ORDER TO REPORT A POTHOLE. THEY DON'T EVEN NEED YOU TO *REVEAL* YOUR IDENTITY.
Public backs ‘super ID card’ which could be used to report potholes
Ministers have recently said they are considering introducing a form of digital ID for adults in Britain
www.independent.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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politicsgirl.bsky.social
Never stop talking about it…
July 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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thechiller.bsky.social
When digital ID is required to access services (eg the NHS, or legal representation, or obtaining a bank account, or renting a flat), and yours has been set to "nope" because the government of the day decides it doesn't like people of Your Sort, what will you be able to do about it?

Nothing.
edpoole1975.bsky.social Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · Sep 25
The digital ID card sounds like a trojan horse to link your use of public services to your finances, your health records to your shopping habits and finance and your location to the police, to me.
September 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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ppattycat2.bsky.social
Let's be clear....
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September 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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professorlamb.bsky.social
After 1st Trump admin ended, I compiled names and bios of 300 of Trump’s worst associates/accomplices/.
Includes 1000s of links to my sources.
When did Trump’s conservative enablers include their sources?
Here is the link to:
Only the Worst People,
drchrislamb.com/only-the-wor....
Enjoy. Share.
September 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
if you're wondering why @lewisgoodall.com is claiming that the public are in favour of digital id it's bcos he's in the pocket of the tony blair institute

this is their claim and it's based on a nonsense internal poll of 2k ppl

they give themselves away if you know where their info comes from
a man in a suit and tie is on a television show
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is on a television show
media.tenor.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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kamimagic.bsky.social
The difference between christianity and Christian Nationalism, if your belief dictates others' lives, it's not just a belief.

Crefit: IG: @annaconnelleyiscool
September 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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owenjones.bsky.social
This is how dictatorships behave
September 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM