
2025-05-05 08:40:48
Terrific response from BBC's Ros Atkins @rosatkins.bsky.social €to Trump administration's unfounded criticisms of BBC coverage of Gaza. The piece of paper held up by press sec was a tweet from student activist -pathetic.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c9wgq9vv51do…
DC mayor kicks off Black Pride by creating "TS Madison Day" in honor of Black trans activist - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/dc-mayor-kicks-off-black-pride-by-creating-ts-madison-day-in-honor-of-black-trans-activist/
Still think #AI hallucinations are harmless?
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/04/30/large-libel-mode…
Petty Assifer Hegseth orders #HarveyMilk name to be removed from US Naval vessel
https://apnews.com/article/harvey-milk-navy-ship-rename…
Hey everyone!
What do you think about Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg heading to Gaza with the Freedom Flotilla to deliver humanitarian aid and challenge the blockade?
I’m honestly mixed on it, and I would love to hear your thoughts.
#GretaThunberg #GretaTintinEleonoraErnmanThunberg
Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of better phrasing, on “capitalism’s side”. First for a range of high-growth Silicon Valley software companies and their ilk; latterly directly in venture capital focused on climate change technology startups, aka “Climate Tech” or “Impact Investing.”
Rudolf Rocker (1873–1958) was a prominent German anarchist writer and activist, best known for his advocacy of anarcho-syndicalism.
Rocker argued that genuine liberation cannot be achieved through authoritarian systems or centralized state power.
Rocker was deeply critical of the Bolshevik regime in Russia, viewing it as a betrayal of the ideals of freedom and workers’ self-management.
He believed that the Bolsheviks simply replaced one form of oppression with another, demo…
Creatively Disrupting Capitalism by Richard Muscat
New article in the series "Prospects for Degrowth"
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/23/creatively-disrupting-capitalism/