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@raystonian

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Photographer, sweary socialist. Centrist government is pro-genocide (the "Moderates"). Their political economy is failing & there's no "Plan-B". Only socialism & global co-operation can save humanity & the planet. Trans right = human rights #BDS

created November 12, 2024

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Profile picture SUPPORTING PALESTINE (@apirus.bsky.social) reposted

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2/9/2025, 7:29:28 PM | 50 26 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raimo Kangasniemi (@rk70534.bsky.social) reposted

"Israeli forces killed 2 more Palestinian journalists in Gaza... ...Rasmi Jihad Salem was killed in an Israeli air strike on Abu al-Amin Street, near al-Jalaa Roundabout in Gaza City... Journalist Eman al-Zamli was shot&killed by Israeli drone... near Hamad City... www.instagram.com/p/DOGr2nbE0CW/

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2/9/2025, 7:36:02 PM | 32 26 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Stupid western leaders went over there and believed all their shit lies

2/9/2025, 10:03:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

I've heard those lies before

2/9/2025, 10:02:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

The consumption calendar has been rearranged

2/9/2025, 10:01:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

"Moderate"

2/9/2025, 9:58:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

they also bombed the kibbutz houses and tried to blame Hamas. "Lies like Israel" should be a popular saying

2/9/2025, 9:57:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sasooli (@sasooli.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

This week a minister suggested imprisoning people, who have not been convicted or indeed *accused* of a crime, in *warehouses*. I think that qualifies as far right, but whatever words we choose to use it's certainly true that any decent person will agree they're fucking awful and need to be fought.

2/9/2025, 9:45:16 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

I think Egypt warned them 5 times. They moved the festival closer 🤔

2/9/2025, 9:54:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Babs 🩵🐝⌛️🦋🔻 (@babs05.bsky.social) reposted

'an hour before the Hamas attack' x.com/caitoz/statu...

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2/9/2025, 9:18:16 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social)

Two from an old library, when I was going through a B/W phase in the 00s. Bangkok and Brighton pride.

A white bird (dove maybe?) watching over Bangkok from a great height on top of a Bangkok skyscraper building Black and white photo of two trans people wearing identical giant grey wigs and identical dresses, bags and ribbons around their necks. They are holding hands as they walk down the street at Brighton Pride, UK 2008
2/9/2025, 9:49:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The fear is real

2/9/2025, 9:29:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

the world's most moral genocide supporters

2/9/2025, 9:28:35 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

.. any other leader ..

2/9/2025, 9:27:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Spoken like a desperate Thatcherite. The fear is real

2/9/2025, 9:27:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

I 100% believe that liberals would rather have the far right than a fair, inclusive, equal-rights-based government for the people.

2/9/2025, 9:24:34 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

I can imagine that being a spectacular ride under a full moon as well

2/9/2025, 9:22:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I'm comfortable with being ruthless" - Starmer (Daily Telegraph)

2/9/2025, 9:18:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

What I learned from the last US election ... that right wing Labour cunts like Starmer would rush to kiss the ring & stroke the ego like a good 'moderate'. Most of my life has seen tory govt. From Thatcher to Blair to Johnson (centrists worked very hard for that one) & now Starmer. Wall2wall shit.

2/9/2025, 9:16:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

There's always a "mess the previous government left us with" isn't there

2/9/2025, 9:09:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

What are we saying then, "thatcherite"?

2/9/2025, 9:08:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

"Professor Insensible"

2/9/2025, 9:06:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

thing is, they call themselves moderates in the Orwellian sense, when they are anything but moderate.

2/9/2025, 9:05:38 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted

You don’t find “common ground” with fascists. You build power to defeat them. This is the main reason why I believe fascism at the Federal level in the US will last generations.

2/9/2025, 8:04:52 PM | 1212 270 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

you need more argument practice. If not genocide then what are your red lines for this Labour government?

2/9/2025, 9:01:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

(is that how this works?)

2/9/2025, 8:58:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't be a genocide party-supporting cunt

2/9/2025, 8:57:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

where is your counter argument then?

2/9/2025, 8:57:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

You're right. My reaction was not properly thought out. It is not my own lived experience and I do see trans rights as human rights. I can however fully see this being a wedge issue used against the left like antisemitism was against the left under Corbyn's leadership of Labour.

2/9/2025, 8:51:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

My mind is more focussed on the general need to disrupt and change the neoliberal orthodoxy. Any politician making these noises should be supported.

2/9/2025, 8:47:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

agreed

2/9/2025, 8:45:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

They are self described Thatcherites

2/9/2025, 5:25:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Zionism is extremist colonialist political ideology.

2/9/2025, 5:04:02 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iñaki Atxa (@inaatxa.bsky.social) reposted

Tot el suport a @globalsumudflotilla !! STOPE THE GENOCIDE !!!! Il.lustracions per @mtn.club #stoparmingisrael #freepalesti̇na #flotillagaza #freedom

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1/9/2025, 5:50:03 PM | 16 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social)

All eyes on the flotilla ..

2/9/2025, 5:00:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Labour are using the flags for exactly the same reasons and in the exact same ways. They've been waiting for this very moment to get the 'bunting' out.

2/9/2025, 4:57:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Torch Song (@lightorchestra.bsky.social) reposted

The September 6th Lift The Ban on #PalestineAction will go ahead as over 1,000 people have made a commitment to hold signs, in defiance of Labour’s authoritarian ban. This announcement comes after counter-terrorism police arrested five key Defend Our Juries spokespeople in dawn raids this morning

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2/9/2025, 4:02:38 PM | 4 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Democrats > Trump fascism

2/9/2025, 4:54:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Centrists when you bring this stuff up: "So you want the tories back in then?".

2/9/2025, 4:45:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

I am an ex member and I now look forward to the day that Labour is gone. And fuck all those Labour MPs who still cling to their position despite it all. History will not be kind.

2/9/2025, 4:44:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

and btw, Starmer still employs an Israeli spy. We don't know exactly what he is doing at the heart of UK government.

2/9/2025, 4:41:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

They know it alright.It is where they think their power lies.

2/9/2025, 4:40:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

It is being fuelled right from the top

2/9/2025, 4:38:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

They will use immigration and a wedge

2/9/2025, 4:36:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Labour is lost. Dead. Good riddance.

2/9/2025, 4:35:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

100% true. And recently genocide scholars have declared Gaza a genocide but not Lammy or Starmer. No. They are offering RAF planes for war crime targeting and refuels. Israeli generals invited for secret meetings to UK. There will be a reckoning and we will ensure it.

2/9/2025, 4:32:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

And Labour has entwined UK military with Israeli genocide. Concretely. There is no coming back from that and there will be a reckoning.

2/9/2025, 4:29:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Labour is doing the same. They want to wear the clothes of Reform whilst at the same time sending weird Starmerroids out to say "Look, I know Labour got some things wrong but do you prefer the tories?". This Labour party is in the same cess pit as Reform willingly.

2/9/2025, 4:27:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

America and Israel

2/9/2025, 4:22:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

maybe time for your nap mate

2/9/2025, 4:21:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social)

Centrists: "I get that Labour has got some things wrong" Genocide support Benefit cuts for the poor & disabled Protest made terrorism Kissing Trump's ring Emboldening the far right I mean, 'any other leader...'

2/9/2025, 4:21:34 PM | 9 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

OK and you keep on talking in weird clichés. Labour bangs the ideological drum for the far right and for genociders in Israel, their paymasters. Enjoy their demise.

2/9/2025, 4:18:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Labour leaders' own words and actions are terrible. I see them as no different than the tories or their more extreme wing: Reform. Labour is not detached from that political cess pit. These people would prefer a right wing dictatorship over a fair society all day.

2/9/2025, 4:17:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

The time is ripe for a new approach but the liberals will 100% be ineffective against fascist dictatorship. They would prefer it every time over a fair society and equality of opportunity (or a political economy that favours them and their lives).

2/9/2025, 4:13:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

They are what they sound like: right wing Labour extremists

2/9/2025, 3:55:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Not tories or Reform or Labour or any other right wing party

2/9/2025, 3:54:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

it's the sound of right wing desperation

2/9/2025, 3:54:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

or the vomit on the pavement outside of it.

2/9/2025, 3:52:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

The dying screams of Labour. Fuck them. Everyone hates Labour now, except for the weird Starmerroids

2/9/2025, 3:52:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

are you a forensic pragmatic adult in the room?

2/9/2025, 3:50:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

To be clear: Trump is a fascist cunt in the mould of Mussolini and he was enabled by the hapless Democrats (JOY!!). This is happening all across the world as the neoliberal governments have no answer to a failing political economy.

2/9/2025, 3:45:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social)

Genocide scholars call it genocide but Lammy and Starmer won't because they are Israel's triumph in the English parliament. "It might have taken far too long, but the declaration from the IAGS matters because it makes it much harder for organisations like the BBC to pretend this is not a genocide."

2/9/2025, 3:42:23 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah I'm just fed up of seeing liberals posting images of the people they have sainted

2/9/2025, 3:31:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

She probably bought that bunting this week. This is such a pathetic look.

2/9/2025, 3:29:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Only the (frankly weird) right wing Starmerroids are still supporting Labour at this stage. And I say it as a former member and activist.

2/9/2025, 3:10:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for reminding me of that other centrist bingo word.

2/9/2025, 3:08:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

"tax the rich" earns the response: "get real!". They can't think outside of their neoliberal box.

2/9/2025, 3:06:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah this is what they mean by "change" and we can all see how Labour has morphed. Morphed into a far right party with fuck-all else to offer and Starmer's "I'm comfortable with being ruthless" ringing around parliament. Labour is dead. And good fucking riddance.

2/9/2025, 3:05:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

that just sounds desperate

2/9/2025, 3:02:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

blocked lol

2/9/2025, 3:01:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

as long as Labour isn't involved in it. They are part of the right wing uni-party.

2/9/2025, 3:00:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

.. and "any other leader.." etc.

2/9/2025, 2:56:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In your mind, is politics a competition between purists and pragmatists? How forensic

2/9/2025, 2:55:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Is political purity the new 'antisemitism'? That won't end well

2/9/2025, 2:54:53 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"popularist promises' is why Labour famously use focus groups and puts out test headlines in the weekend papers

2/9/2025, 2:53:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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flagged

2/9/2025, 2:45:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Right wing Labour 'worked hard every day' for those previous tory governments

2/9/2025, 2:42:57 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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you do his work by sharing this shite

2/9/2025, 2:38:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social (@sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social) reposted

Very few lib journos cry on camera, then again they report with the safety of not being killed by an ally Noura Borokba breaks down on @aljazeera.com as she reports on her own family displaced by Starmer's Israeli handlers with nowhere safe to go after being framed as Hamas by her Western peers

2/9/2025, 10:43:52 AM | 8 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

... I swear they cannot see how far towards the knee-jerking right they have shifted.

2/9/2025, 2:37:15 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Situation: #UnitedKingdomOfIsrael

2/9/2025, 2:36:18 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Language of control

2/9/2025, 2:34:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

15 years, including Labour , who are now trying to steal Reform's clothes. Fucking centrist dweebs

2/9/2025, 2:32:47 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No idea why link says "bot verification". Link is safe.

2/9/2025, 2:30:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine group, campaigning and raising money for the Palestinians say they have had their bank account frozen by Virgin Money with over £10,000 in funds trapped – much of which was destined as aid to Gaza" #UnitedKingdomOfIsrael bylinetimes.com/2025/07/21/p...

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Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Harris is shite. These Dems are self-obsessed neoliberal chancers and genocide-supporters.

2/9/2025, 2:17:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

That's untrue.

2/9/2025, 2:16:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

'Moderate' these days means supporting genocide and appeasing the far right.

2/9/2025, 2:12:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

immigration will be the new 'antisemitism'

2/9/2025, 2:10:01 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

how has Corbyn turned out?

2/9/2025, 2:09:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

when I say 'people' I mean liberals. Happiest when the left is excluded and their own interests are being addressed, willing to avert their eyes from genocide and war crimes.

2/9/2025, 2:05:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

I find it odd to see people sainting him.

2/9/2025, 2:04:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's already fucking dead from the head down

2/9/2025, 2:03:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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20% Labour?

2/9/2025, 2:03:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Labour IS the tories now

2/9/2025, 2:02:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Starmer has to go. Fuck it, the whole Labour govt has got to go. End the right wing uni-party nonsense in parliament.

2/9/2025, 2:01:55 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Governing as a leftist-hating, far right-appeasing, genocide-supporting, vulnerable-attacking party "..is hard" is it?

2/9/2025, 1:58:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

Your party of course!

2/9/2025, 1:53:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

And of course for these neoliberal robots, someone will have to be making a profit on it..

2/9/2025, 1:52:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @raystonian (@stonia2.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not Sultana's party either

2/9/2025, 1:49:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view