Marie
@verynormalhuman666.bsky.social
Totally normal human enjoying totally normal human things - reading, watching movies, gardening, quietly panicking, watching cute animal videos, contemplating the collapse of civilization
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There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bl...
skywriter.blue
December 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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«Les grands patrons et les journalistes qui les protègent, ils sont terrifiés à l'idée d'un second tour avec Mélenchon alors ils font tout ce qu'ils peuvent pour nous faire adopter Glucksmann.
Ils sont là :
— Regardez, regardez qu'est ce qu'on a trouvé…»
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9l...
Ils sont là :
— Regardez, regardez qu'est ce qu'on a trouvé…»
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9l...
Glucksmann le loser - La chronique de Pierre-Emmanuel Barré
YouTube video by Radio Nova
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November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
«Les grands patrons et les journalistes qui les protègent, ils sont terrifiés à l'idée d'un second tour avec Mélenchon alors ils font tout ce qu'ils peuvent pour nous faire adopter Glucksmann.
Ils sont là :
— Regardez, regardez qu'est ce qu'on a trouvé…»
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9l...
Ils sont là :
— Regardez, regardez qu'est ce qu'on a trouvé…»
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9l...
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I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
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The thread on one page. As always, please feel free to add to/subtract from the argument. Constructive criticism and other perspectives welcome, as ever. skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime ...
skywriter.blue
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The thread on one page. As always, please feel free to add to/subtract from the argument. Constructive criticism and other perspectives welcome, as ever. skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppress...
skywriter.blue
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville:
“Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble benea...
skywriter.blue
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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and it's a bummer and unfair that the police can just decide to refuse to follow the law, and that business associations etc will flood the zone with propaganda declaring any attempt at a better world a miserable failure
But you have to meet that shit head on and riposte. It can't be avoided.
But you have to meet that shit head on and riposte. It can't be avoided.
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
and it's a bummer and unfair that the police can just decide to refuse to follow the law, and that business associations etc will flood the zone with propaganda declaring any attempt at a better world a miserable failure
But you have to meet that shit head on and riposte. It can't be avoided.
But you have to meet that shit head on and riposte. It can't be avoided.
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Absolutely insane.
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Absolutely insane.
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
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For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
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The socialist left has won power in New York.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won a majority - the first candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969.
He did so despite an unrelenting racist smear campaign, vast sums spent by billionaires, and threats from Trump to strangle New York.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won a majority - the first candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969.
He did so despite an unrelenting racist smear campaign, vast sums spent by billionaires, and threats from Trump to strangle New York.
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The socialist left has won power in New York.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won a majority - the first candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969.
He did so despite an unrelenting racist smear campaign, vast sums spent by billionaires, and threats from Trump to strangle New York.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won a majority - the first candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969.
He did so despite an unrelenting racist smear campaign, vast sums spent by billionaires, and threats from Trump to strangle New York.
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This is a landslide. The last NYC mayoral candidate to clear 1 million votes was John Lindsay—over 50 years ago. It will be dismissed by pundits saying it can only happen in New York. That's garbage. Think pledging to freeze rent and offer childcare won't resonate in Nevada? Wisconsin? Texas?
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
This is a landslide. The last NYC mayoral candidate to clear 1 million votes was John Lindsay—over 50 years ago. It will be dismissed by pundits saying it can only happen in New York. That's garbage. Think pledging to freeze rent and offer childcare won't resonate in Nevada? Wisconsin? Texas?
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This is an incredible level of enthusiasm for a candidate that was not endorsed by national Democratic party leadership, with policies and a message tailored to working people. It's also a stark referendum on the centrist party wing that's beholden to third-way consultants and corporate donors.
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
This is an incredible level of enthusiasm for a candidate that was not endorsed by national Democratic party leadership, with policies and a message tailored to working people. It's also a stark referendum on the centrist party wing that's beholden to third-way consultants and corporate donors.
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There's no reason that similarly aspirational politics can't work in places with less progressive politics: Affordable groceries and transit. Childcare. I'm sold that if you articulate a politics that fights for the working class you'll find supporters well across our late capitalist hellscape
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
There's no reason that similarly aspirational politics can't work in places with less progressive politics: Affordable groceries and transit. Childcare. I'm sold that if you articulate a politics that fights for the working class you'll find supporters well across our late capitalist hellscape
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Anyway, thanks Mamdani, and the movement that elected him. This is the way
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Anyway, thanks Mamdani, and the movement that elected him. This is the way
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It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
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It wasn't just the Democrat establishment and its major donors who did everything they could to sink Mamdani. It was also large sections of the "liberal" press. What do we learn from this? That they would rather the Democrats fail than be led by people who want a fairer, kinder, greener society.
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
It wasn't just the Democrat establishment and its major donors who did everything they could to sink Mamdani. It was also large sections of the "liberal" press. What do we learn from this? That they would rather the Democrats fail than be led by people who want a fairer, kinder, greener society.
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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On espère que ce reportage fera du bruit, comme tous ceux que produit Off investigation, un des rares médias français encore libre, car non financé par un milliardaire proche du pouvoir. A partager www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mas...
S€X CONNECTION : de l'empire TF1 au système Canal+ | Documentaire | OFF
YouTube video by Off Investigation
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November 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
On espère que ce reportage fera du bruit, comme tous ceux que produit Off investigation, un des rares médias français encore libre, car non financé par un milliardaire proche du pouvoir. A partager www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mas...
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The sheer volume of people showing signs of mania, psychosis, and suicidal ideation each and every week on ChatGPT is staggering, alarming, awful, all of it. from @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The sheer volume of people showing signs of mania, psychosis, and suicidal ideation each and every week on ChatGPT is staggering, alarming, awful, all of it. from @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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boy are you a French jewel heist, because I did not expect you to last for only 7 minutes
October 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
boy are you a French jewel heist, because I did not expect you to last for only 7 minutes