Brian Emo
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Brian Emo
@brianemo.bsky.social
· Feb 4
I do think it would be a useful reflex for us to develop as a society where if someone has a clear interest in concentrating wealth then they are presumed to be an abuser of some form rather than sticking with the idolisation that people seem to have for rich people generally
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I will never forget all the cynical gainsaying and disinformation about the strike on Al-Ahli hospital ten days into Israel’s destruction of Gaza. ‘Fog of war’. Almost three years later, fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals remain even partially functional and there is no fog. Only dust and rubble.
New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2026 at 6:27 AM
I will never forget all the cynical gainsaying and disinformation about the strike on Al-Ahli hospital ten days into Israel’s destruction of Gaza. ‘Fog of war’. Almost three years later, fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals remain even partially functional and there is no fog. Only dust and rubble.
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Home office: listen to @bloodwork.show
The Home Office is planning to spend £17,700 on 400 Economist subscriptions for the next year, saying the publication "will substantially improve" the advice officials can give to ministers www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/09184...
September 30, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Home office: listen to @bloodwork.show
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The geniuses who destroyed global hegemonic soft power because they thought it was “suicidal empathy” are now attempting to eliminate the janitors of late capitalism, aka social workers, who they perceive as bleeding heart liberals
Beginning in 2027: “If your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, music, & cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest.”
newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, music, & cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest.”
newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
newrepublic.com
September 28, 2026 at 1:29 PM
The geniuses who destroyed global hegemonic soft power because they thought it was “suicidal empathy” are now attempting to eliminate the janitors of late capitalism, aka social workers, who they perceive as bleeding heart liberals
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The lesson to take from this is that the Allied action was not the consequence of consistent moral horror or determined ethical stance. And, precisely, that for much of the British ruling class the fear of losing colonies mattered much more than the fate of Jews at the time.
Not sure what lesson to take from this. In 1942 Britain was still reeling from the loss of Hong Kong & Singapore. Rommel was advancing on Egypt, & German armies pouring towards Stalingrad. Trying not to actually lose the war was the best we could do.
'An exhibition highlighting how news of the atrocity reached Britain much earlier than is commonly understood will tour the country after being viewed privately by MPs at Portcullis House on the parliamentary estate at Westminster in September.'
September 28, 2026 at 2:05 PM
The lesson to take from this is that the Allied action was not the consequence of consistent moral horror or determined ethical stance. And, precisely, that for much of the British ruling class the fear of losing colonies mattered much more than the fate of Jews at the time.
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Heya folks. We're on a final push to get to £10k. We're on just over £8.3k. That's less than 1/10th of what fascist Danny Tommo has recently received inndonations after slashing a dinghy with an RNLI worker on it at sea. Meanwhile our comrade faces more than 12x the jailtime for opposing fascism.
A very dear friend and antifascist comrade is facing serious charges resulting from defending migrants housed in hotels in Bristol from a far right march in 2025. He's a father, has £11k in legal fees up front, and may be facing prison time if he doesn't win. Please dobate below.
Support a Bristol antifascist on trial
Support a Bristol antifascist facing charges for resisting far right attacks
chuffed.org
September 28, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Heya folks. We're on a final push to get to £10k. We're on just over £8.3k. That's less than 1/10th of what fascist Danny Tommo has recently received inndonations after slashing a dinghy with an RNLI worker on it at sea. Meanwhile our comrade faces more than 12x the jailtime for opposing fascism.
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On the radio from 8-10pm tonight with tunes from Earth, The Fall, Broadcast, Muslimgauze and Pharoah Sanders. Listen here: radiom29.com/player/
radiom29.com
September 27, 2026 at 10:30 AM
On the radio from 8-10pm tonight with tunes from Earth, The Fall, Broadcast, Muslimgauze and Pharoah Sanders. Listen here: radiom29.com/player/
Is a subscription Left audiobook company that works alongside Left publishers unfeasible? I'd love one where you could get however many credits a month but have the choice from things specifically from Left publishers. There are so many niche books I just never get around to reading
September 27, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Is a subscription Left audiobook company that works alongside Left publishers unfeasible? I'd love one where you could get however many credits a month but have the choice from things specifically from Left publishers. There are so many niche books I just never get around to reading
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Just helping with editing here.
These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
September 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Just helping with editing here.
These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
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Yes, that’s right, the guy who resigned as Keir Starmer’s strategist because he was bullying and sexually harassing a Black female MP also thinks asylum seekers are living high on the hog and that people with disabilities are faking it! This is what a centre-left social democrat sounds like!
September 26, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Yes, that’s right, the guy who resigned as Keir Starmer’s strategist because he was bullying and sexually harassing a Black female MP also thinks asylum seekers are living high on the hog and that people with disabilities are faking it! This is what a centre-left social democrat sounds like!
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Powerpose? Leanin? Or bare your vulnerability? @lsemedia.bsky.social #feminist Shani Orgad discusses the imperatives to be #confident and #vulnerable - their costs, stakes, and unequal distribution.
#Tunein for more, including on #Foucault #Precarity and TV’s #TheBear
buff.ly/2XooG9z
#Tunein for more, including on #Foucault #Precarity and TV’s #TheBear
buff.ly/2XooG9z
September 26, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Powerpose? Leanin? Or bare your vulnerability? @lsemedia.bsky.social #feminist Shani Orgad discusses the imperatives to be #confident and #vulnerable - their costs, stakes, and unequal distribution.
#Tunein for more, including on #Foucault #Precarity and TV’s #TheBear
buff.ly/2XooG9z
#Tunein for more, including on #Foucault #Precarity and TV’s #TheBear
buff.ly/2XooG9z
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Class solidarity.
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 25, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Class solidarity.
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Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
The man who filmed himself stabbing one, with a person on board, is still seemingly at large.
September 23, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
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Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The leader of the Tories made a Neo-Nazi criminal an anti-racism and anti-extremism adviser, because she’s so disastrously online she couldn’t see an issue with him having harassed an MP so horrendously that he was sent to prison for it. All the lads hemmed and hawed a bit, until it went away.
September 23, 2026 at 2:58 PM
The leader of the Tories made a Neo-Nazi criminal an anti-racism and anti-extremism adviser, because she’s so disastrously online she couldn’t see an issue with him having harassed an MP so horrendously that he was sent to prison for it. All the lads hemmed and hawed a bit, until it went away.
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Could people please respond to this post with links to videos of the fascist attacks on the RNLI and refugees please. The more footage the better and I would appreciate a boost of this post as well. Thank you.
September 23, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Could people please respond to this post with links to videos of the fascist attacks on the RNLI and refugees please. The more footage the better and I would appreciate a boost of this post as well. Thank you.
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We—all of us—must act to protect RNLI volunteers and all people in peril at sea from these fascists; the state has refused to protect the helpless and heroes, so we must follow our moral duty and protect and defend them from this monstrous violence
Video of the fascist Danny Tommo slashing a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) boat rescuing migrants at sea
www.instagram.com/reel/DdmJaD4...
www.instagram.com/reel/DdmJaD4...
September 22, 2026 at 6:14 PM
We—all of us—must act to protect RNLI volunteers and all people in peril at sea from these fascists; the state has refused to protect the helpless and heroes, so we must follow our moral duty and protect and defend them from this monstrous violence
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I'm pretty sure there's more job losses in academia than in oil and nobody seems to give a shit
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed.
25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it!
Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it!
Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
September 22, 2026 at 11:29 AM
I'm pretty sure there's more job losses in academia than in oil and nobody seems to give a shit
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It's incredible to live in this country where the 6th largest military budget needs to be inflated to insane numbers, but one of the weakest state pensions in Europe is an unaffordable excess.
You’ll recall that the idea that these people are just a bunch of dull-as-fuck austerity Tories in right-on clothing was hateful tribalist insanity, the very poison that was destroying our democracy. And yet
Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2026 at 9:18 AM
It's incredible to live in this country where the 6th largest military budget needs to be inflated to insane numbers, but one of the weakest state pensions in Europe is an unaffordable excess.
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"Sin, young man, is when you treat people as things."
Terry goddamn Pratchett
Terry goddamn Pratchett
This is absolutely true. Centrist politicians have essentially fetishised "tough choices" into being an end in itself. If you don't have to throw someone under the bus to achieve some broader strategic goal (even if you're not certain what that goal is), it's not grown-up politics.
i really think democratic politicians are all just addicted to making compromises. they can't get enough! they would broker a compromise between jeffrey dahmer and his victim to let dahmer eat just a forearm
September 20, 2026 at 12:03 PM
"Sin, young man, is when you treat people as things."
Terry goddamn Pratchett
Terry goddamn Pratchett
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Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
September 20, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.
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Your regular reminder that Matthew Syed, who has his own BBC radio show, enthusiastically endorses the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory.
September 20, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Your regular reminder that Matthew Syed, who has his own BBC radio show, enthusiastically endorses the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory.
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New report out today co-authored by me and colleagues at @caatuk.bsky.social and @transitionsec.bsky.social
We call for Britain to pay reparations to the Yemeni people for its complicity in Saudi war crimes and IHL violations during the 2015-22 intervention.
caat.org.uk/publications...
We call for Britain to pay reparations to the Yemeni people for its complicity in Saudi war crimes and IHL violations during the 2015-22 intervention.
caat.org.uk/publications...
CAAT - Reparations for Yemen – a proposal for a windfall tax on British arms companies that enabled Saudi war crimes
This report, jointly published by CAAT and the Transition Security Project, argues that Britain should pay reparations to the people of Yemen for its role in crimes committed against them by Saudi Ara...
caat.org.uk
September 17, 2026 at 3:21 PM
New report out today co-authored by me and colleagues at @caatuk.bsky.social and @transitionsec.bsky.social
We call for Britain to pay reparations to the Yemeni people for its complicity in Saudi war crimes and IHL violations during the 2015-22 intervention.
caat.org.uk/publications...
We call for Britain to pay reparations to the Yemeni people for its complicity in Saudi war crimes and IHL violations during the 2015-22 intervention.
caat.org.uk/publications...
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Macklemore (who was fired from his job): The real victim here is the Palestinians
Sheeran (who did fucking nothing): The real victim here is me
Sheeran (who did fucking nothing): The real victim here is me
September 20, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Macklemore (who was fired from his job): The real victim here is the Palestinians
Sheeran (who did fucking nothing): The real victim here is me
Sheeran (who did fucking nothing): The real victim here is me