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Vaughan Gething when you ask him a mildly scrutinising question

👻👻 Capitalism A Horror Story is out in EIGHT WEEKS 👻👻

If you haven't done so yet, please do preorder the book from Repeater Books -- I can't wait for a deeply spooky summer...

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Great to be back in COMPACT reflecting on political defeat, with reference to books by h nn h pr ct r, Vincent Bevins, Christopher Hill, and - surreptitiously - my own 'So You've Been Ideologically Discredited'.

compactmag.com/article/after-…

tbh you don't have to be a Labour right headbanger to say it's a bit off of Sian Berry to run in an election for a role she had no intention of actually doing.

Just because something is allowed in the rules doesn't mean you should do it.

Listening to Mark Fisher's No More Miserable Monday Morning's Playlist

open.spotify.com/playlist/5Y3Am…

My understanding of this (and it's the most EU-brained thing ever) is to have legal recreational weed in the EU, under Schengen, you basically have to pretend the whole recreational market is one big experiment from growing through to point of sale / actual use.

Bristol Green's will be the biggest party in Bristol just in time to shape the new committee system (a key green policy) why not read my The Bristol Cable piece on the road to the committee system, the ways it was undermined + the challenges it faces

thebristolcable.org/2024/03/bristo…

noice

So the postal vote I arranged well ahead of the deadline for the May 2nd election apparently arrived promptly on May 3rd.

Love living in a functioning democracy

revolutionary discipline

If you're doing any kind of organising in your workplace, you should come to this session from me, emily and Milton Deep Fat Friedman!
If it goes well, we're making it a monthly event for rank & file organisers around Bristol to learn from each other.

'It's literal violence to direct journalists to a press spokesperson for your protest movement' say 1000 people who earn most of their money working in PR and occasionally freelance as journalists.

Am I jet lagged as hell or am I experiencing the consciousness deflation of life in a pre-revolutionary country? Hard to say really.

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May 18-19th in the Trinity Centre. Come learn to understand & transform our world 💡

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Also not the point but this guy has like the sweetest YouTube channel where he talks about doing back yard permaculture with his kids