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[Madonovan. @Madonovan_uk]

tomorrow across the airwaves on slack city radio 6pm (tea time)

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Nigel Farage isn’t a friend of the working class.

He’s a fraud.

@Nowak_Paul to #TUC24

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

We outnumbered the racists and fascists in Glasgow's George Square 5 to 1 today: up to 5,000 anti racists and anti fascists and 500 on the racist side. Join Stand Up To Racism and keep building the movement we need to keep the threat of the growing far right at bay: https://t.co/je2vWPIGJA

[BAGeL Ted @bagelradio]

480Minutes ep #890 feat. new 🎵 by @Ally__Evenson @TheAwakeningOfficial @HindsBand @MJLenderman @newstrangers_ @PeelDreamMagazine @SUUNS_MTL @Vundabores. The #livehosted #radio show runs from 9am-5pm U.S. East every Fri w/ reruns starting at 7pm Fri through 1am Sun. Tune in!

[BAGeL Ted @bagelradio]

⁦@Johnny_Marr⁩ uses ⁦@Nigel_Farage⁩ image to dismiss The Smiths reunion b/c like Farage, ⁦@officialmoz⁩ is a racist asshole & pernicious xenophobe. https://t.co/vXWJ2MTfMf

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Every time I open this app I feel like I’m walking onto a GB News set, a dimly lit room full of ugly, thick racists. Billionaires colluding with the far right, foreign powers brazenly destabilising, traitors selling out Britain using the guise of patriotism.

If they were honest about their crimes or shady associations I’d respect the transparency but they’re conning millions for profit and it’s sickening to watch. Private schoolboys daring to tell us what we are or believe, enrages me. Cap doffing is passé so they cosplay as the “every man” - conspiracy the weapon of choice.

The most depraved people imaginable are caricatures in what feels like the most fucked up dystopian fiction ever created. It feels like our reality is a series co written by Orwell and JG Ballad, produced by Chris Morris and directed by Charlie Brooker.

I foolishly had more faith in people but by capitalising on 14 yrs of ideological austerity, devastation and division generated by the Tories/ Brexit, Farage managed to con millions AGAIN. Despite being the obvious cause. It’s a multi tiered con job. Helped by right wing media constantly platforming them.

I have lovely followers who I genuinely enjoy talking to but wading through the hate, lies and conspiracy is a lot. The algorithm is so skewed it feels futile. White rich male billionaires deciding what’s free speech? Laughable.

Twitter’s always been the Wild West but now it’s like The Purge - if you’re real (not a Russian bot) and don’t want your country to regress to the 70s or become like the Republican US, you’re outnumbered.

On a personal note: I’ve not been well. Severe burnout? Exhaustion? Hoping it’s not long covid.

The past 4 years have been a rollercoaster, I never expected it to take off and I’ve not known how to handle it. That’s before you get to the abuse: Twitter is an app designed for others to anonymously ruin your life, now more so than ever.

I don’t know if it’s coordinated or even real. What I do know is I spent 2 yrs not trusting anyone around me as every facet of my online history from 15 yrs before I talked politics was found and shared. Men I’d known for years and bitter acquaintances, joined trolls to shame me. False subtext added to things I thought were private or had long forgotten about, including blogs to process abuse. Endless impersonators affecting my ability to earn a living.

I’ve been uploaded onto wank sites. People tweet my name for hate likes. Scum on Tattle screenshot everything I do removing context and adding false subtext. Endless awful assumptions about who I am, far removed from reality, for what? Pisstaking about politics?

I’ve been threatened, sexually degraded/harassed every day for 4 yrs as a woman with CPTSD that’s suffered violence. Been libelled constantly, intimidated, hounded. I’ve suffered BDD yet been called fat and ugly daily. This isn’t exhaustive. Most will never know what it’s like. I have over 18k abuse screenshots but powered on *despite* it.

This shouldn’t be the price I pay, it’s not normal. I’ve had to fight a horrific daily battle just to speak and retain what I’ve built.

I’m not suicidal or in crisis, to be clear, I’m just exhausted. Years of my own stuff which was concealed by the political hyperfocus has resurfaced simultaneously; grief, heartbreak, living in fear, sleeping with a knife under my pillow, neighbours on speed dial, doxxing, etc. Limping from one horror to the next.

My body & brain said “nah”. It’s not a case of stopping it’s more that I can’t process or focus and this app is the worst for it. My priority is feeling better. I need a holiday, but life’s getting in the way. I’m gonna try to do something for charity in Sept, to help other women. I’ll say more soon.

To be clear, E is making this app a very dangerous place for women and increasing an already high real life threat to us and other vulnerable groups, especially those who dare to be outspoken or fight back. So fuck him.

[BAGeL Ted @bagelradio]

#480Minutes ep 888 - 8 hrs of #LiveHosted #CommercialFree #IndieRockNoisePop #radio from 9am-5pm (U.S. East) every Friday, today feat. TONS of new playlist additions including 🎵 by @APTBS @Being__Dead @ChimeSchool @CursiveTheBand @FakeFruitBand @GIFTBandNYC @HenrikAppel

[BAGeL Ted @bagelradio]

Fuzzy #438 - Fuzzy On-ramp

Live-hosted new & classic psych & garage rock & all the fuzziness in between every Tuesday from 3pm - 5pm.

Fuzzy is rebroadcast beginning @ 11pm Tues, 5am Weds, & 11am Sunday (all times U.S. East). Tune in, turn on, fuzz out, on BAGeL Radio.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Half the country believes Farage was responsible for the riots. Closely followed by Tommy Robinson.

I think the exact figure was 52%…

His supporters are loud and brainwashed but not the majority.

Arrest the bastard for incitement. https://t.co/DzEbRc45jq

[BAGeL Ted @bagelradio]

#480Minutes ep 887 - Pure & Simple 8 hrs of #LiveHosted #CommercialFree #radio from 9am-5pm Eastern U.S. Time every Friday, today featuring new 🎵 by @TheBigEasyBand @BloodBandATX @Ceylon_Sailor @HorseJumperOfLove @OfficialJackWhite & @queencultband

https://t.co/ROU7eGonOH

[Yusuf / Cat Stevens @YusufCatStevens]

"Please give peace a chance. Cease-fire, so that we can learn to live together again" #Ceasefire #Peace #Palestine #Gaza

[dead-anyway @anyway_dead]

Looks like we got ourselves a reader! Massive thanks to @BlackEyesPubUK and to Ted @bagelradio @mickmerceruk and Martin @uniofglos for their reviews, & @SaraVielvoye @_suzannebarrett and @andyvw64 for the beautiful artworks inside. Out early September, details to follow! 💜

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: President Biden and Vice President Harris just announced new investments into ending cancer as we know it. Retweet so all Americans see this vital report on their historic work.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Abdullah intervened to stop a blood soaked knife attacker in Leicester Square, risking his own life and likely averting further harm.

This is what real courage looks like.

A far cry from the cowardice of racists trying to burn down hotels housing terrified asylum seekers.

[PCS - the civil service union @pcs_union]

"The TUC and union leaderships have to be at the forefront of mobilisations in the same way we are when we're tackling austerity, in the same way that we're demanding better pay and better terms and conditions for our members" Martin Cavanagh, PCS President
@AntiRacismDay
#PCS

[Djunfitforwork @Djunfitforwork]

https://t.co/PfIZ3P9kuv

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

No show from the far right in Wakefield 😂

Hundreds of anti-fascists have turned up to defend a hotel housing refugees #StandUpToRacism

[. @zamardzahid]

Alex @SUTRScotland Jewish activist- “We won’t allow our MUSLIM brothers & sisters, our REFUGEE communities, our ASYLUM SEEKER communities to feel that way in GLASGOW. WE WILL NOT ALLOW IT.” #RefugeesWelcome #NoToIslamophobia @AntiRacismDay @SUTRScotland

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

BREAKING: Trafalgar Square is anti-fascist! Two weeks ago Nazi Tommy Robinson held a rally here. Today, we reclaimed it for anti-fascists

#standUpToRacism

[Leicester Stand Up To Racism @LeicesterSUTR]

We couldn’t agree more!
#RefugeesWelcome ⁦@AntiRacismDay⁩ Love #Leicester hate racism!