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LOL 😆 @petedoherty

@caitoz Part of my healing arc was discontinuing regular use of Twitter. It just bought out a really nasty and bitter side of me, and I didn't like that.

@caitoz 100%... even if others are responsible for your trauma, its on you to break the cycle. Accountability at large is best balanced with self accountability. Atomisation through individualism has estranged us from sovereignty of mind, which is good for people & society.

So here's the thing: you actually do need to work on your trauma. Your inner wellbeing is in fact your responsibility. I totally get the increasing pushback against the liberal emphasis on trauma and inner peace because of the way it shifts the burden onto the individual and lets the system off the hook — but the truth is we need both. The need for collective revolution doesn't excuse you from your responsibilities for your own actions as an individual, any more than your work as an individual takes the blame off the system for the abuses it inflicts upon the collective. It is true that our society's focus on individual healing is used to deemphasize the need for systemic changes, but it is also true that many on the left use the abuses of capitalism and the fucked up nature of our society as an excuse to blame all their misery on the system instead of taking responsibility for their own inner condition and doing the hard, scary, confrontational work necessary to heal. It is true that a huge amount of our stress and psychological issues are at least partially due to the economic and social pressures inflicted upon us by an unjust system. But it is also true that there are plenty of miserable people who have all their material and financial needs met, because they haven't healed their trauma and done their inner work. Utopia could dawn on us tomorrow and most of us would still find ways to make ourselves unhappy until we bring the inner tendencies which give rise to our suffering into consciousness. We need both sides of the coin, and in fact each side of the coin complements the other. Just as a healthy system will lead to far less misery and dysfunction among individuals, doing your inner work as an individual will make you much more useful in bringing about the revolutionary changes necessary for the rise of a healthy system. You're not going to be any use to anyone in a revolution where you're too neurotic to function or get along with other people. We all have problems that can't be fixed under the current status quo, and we all have inner wounds we won't be able to fully heal right away. But that doesn't mean we are powerless. Our happiness and inner clarity isn't fully bound to the whims of the ruling class. We can't fix everything, but we've all got a responsibility to do what we can, in our community and in ourselves.

Palantir already holds more than £600m of contracts with public bodies in the UK. novaramedia.com/2026/04/28/sad…

I like to think I could be an MP, but I would last 2 minutes before screaming "YOURE ALL CUNTS" & rage quiting, gathering the few decent people in parliament and storming out, @jeremycorbyn leading the conga line This might be what you are missing @ZackPolanski @GreenpartyukRBX

Palantir, a CIA front company, now has its tentacles in the food supply, our healthcare data, our growing autonomous weapons industry, the military, the entire US intelligence community, border patrol, Space Force and so on. Seemingly, Palantir is soon to become the testrun for Yarvins "sov-corp", a privatized version of govt that replaces the existing govt and is ruled by a CEO dictator. That is, unless we do something about it. cnbc.com/2026/04/22/pal…

@_whitneywebb It's deeply concerning, in the UK Palantir have absorbed NHS data systems and databases... thecanary.co/opinion/2024/0…

finding out you don't know shit is a very important part of the learning process

I'm wondering if the supreme leader actually is dead, news media is manipulated all the time, especially in war, to create certain perceptions... might be easier to roll out regime change if everyone thinks the guy is dead 🤔

I dont have tourettes, I'm not black, so don't have a lot to say about #BAFTA controversy, but if you had to explain the vocal tic in a science test & written "he definitely meant it," it wouldn't be right. You can be upset by it, but falsifying facts of a disability is not cool.

@caitoz The biggest red flag is the US treating its prisoners of war the same way it says foreign leaders treat their people, which is its whole shoddy public rationale for invasion. The use of torture negates such rationale appealing to moral purity, proving it an expedient illusion.

Anyone silly enough to believe the US wants to bring democracy to Iran should have a look at what the US is currently doing to sabotage democracy in Iraq. President Trump has been aggressively threatening to cut off Iraq’s oil revenue if it allows the return to office of former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, whom the Trump administration views as too sympathetic to Iran. And the threats appear to be working, as Antiwar’s Jason Ditz reports: “Once and possibly future Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s candidacy is increasingly in doubt this weekend, with reports that President Trump’s demand he not be allowed to return to office increasing the possibility that the Coordination Framework bloc may withdraw him as their choice for premier. “Last year’s Iraq elections ended with the usual deeply split parliament, though the State of Law Party’s fourth place finish with 6% of the vote was generally seen as enough to give Maliki the coalition leadership, since current PM Mohammed al-Sudani does not intend to return. “Late last month, Trump demanded that Maliki step down from the nomination, but he refused at the time, saying that the US should stay out of Iraq’s internal affairs. Maliki was already Iraq’s PM from 2006 through 2014.” Ditz explains that Trump is able to sway Iraqi politics with credible threats due to the US control that was imposed on the nation’s economy following the Iraq invasion: “Underpinning this whole thing is that after the 2003 US invasion and occupation of Iraq, the country was restructured such that all of Iraq’s oil revenue was paid in US dollars through the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Since that revenue is almost the entirety of Iraq’s government budget, that means the US can virtually seize Iraq’s treasury at any time and bankrupt the country on a moment’s notice.” This is what US-imposed “democracy” looks like in practice: giving a nation the freedom to do what Washington tells them to do and elect the leaders that Washington allows them to elect. You may recall that the narrative to justify the US coalition’s overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 was the urgent need to bring freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people. The US literally titled the invasion “Operation Iraqi Freedom”. They then killed a million people, plunged the region into chaos and instability for years, and ensured that the Iraqi people would forever remain under the boot of the US empire. There is no excuse for a grown adult to believe the US empire wants to bring democracy to Iran. The US consistently props up dictatorships and monarchies in the middle east exactly because they do not want the will of the people to determine the actions and policies of the governments of those nations. Truly democratic states in the region would see people using their votes to elect leaders who are hostile to Israel and the United States, and who set fossil fuel policies which advance the interests of their own people rather than the interests of the western empire. This is why the middle east is rife with wealthy monarchies who are extremely friendly with the US and its allies. That didn’t happen by accident; the west has been intimately involved with aggressively manipulating middle eastern affairs for generations. This includes Iran; the CIA staged a coup in 1953 to replace its democratically elected government with a US-aligned monarchy, who was then overthrown in the Iranian Revolution in 1979. The plan isn’t to bring democracy to Iran, and there’s a convincing argument to be made that it’s not even to preserve Iran as a unified state. Influential Iran hawks have been pushing balkanization as the preferred strategy lately, with war propagandists now promoting the idea that an Iran fractured along ethnic lines might be in everyone’s best interest. This strategy would create unfathomable strife and horrifically deadly chaos, but it would allow for the toppling of the Iranian government without having to go to all the trouble of replacing it with a new government. They can just smash Iran to eliminate a disobedient regional power and let the pieces land where they may, with no fear of a future revolution replacing their puppet regime in a large and unified state. The US does not seek democracy, it seeks planetary domination. That’s all these moves are ever about, and the empire doesn’t care how many people it needs to hurt along the way in order to get there.

@MarxIsMyNigga Seeing people share the spirit of Ramadan with the community is dope, and anyone who says otherwise is either a bot farm cell or as good as

Ramadan always provides so much clarity.

@kennardmatt @SMaurizi Greens also have the lowest percentage of privately educated candidates... Reform excels far beyond the Tories here too, somehow managing to be even more elitist and insular...

Under the leadership of Zack Polanski, the Greens have surged to lead the polls for all British voters under age of 65 The establishment will try every trick in the book to put this back in a box Real democracy, with real choice, is their biggest fear

Full force of UK state, and its media assets, is coming down on Green Party Labour, Tories, Reform all support NATO, Zionist genocide + US military occupation of UK They are an imperial uniparty Greens now offer something different. This is not tolerated by British oligarchy

People are criticising the #BadBunny #badbunnysuperbowl show because it isn't in English, but he clearly says, "un selfie, say cheese," which is 75% in English, and it literally means he's asking you to smile in a photo with him, WHAT MORE DO YOU PEOPLE WANT 🤣 @badbunnyfiles

It's taken longer & a more convoluted route to reach the point in MH/addiction recovery I'm in now, but that's fine. There were years spent comatose just waiting to die. I'd long surpassed the point of no return, so just experiencing prolonged time periods feels like a privilege.

Pretty sure she could have won an election too...

All these white people mad about Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance… I hope next year they get Bad Bunny performing the whole set in Spanish.

@NewstalkFM @yanisvaroufakis Yep, so many things we depend upon day to day were womens' inventions, or a byproduct of womens' emancipation. If you're being driven by a woman using GPS, you have benefitted from feminism. Women should have the chance to compete in all fields of endeavour men compete in.

Yanis Varoufakis has argued that the ‘liberation’ of feminism is the key to a “better life” for men as well as women. newstalk.com/news/yanis-var…