Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social

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[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

@NicholasTyrone Phew! I was on Twitter after all and the distinction between Bluesky and Twitter on my part seems more than entirely valid. A couple of points – Bluesky look and feel is both reassuringly familiar to long time Twitter users and therefore dangerously confusing if looking at both.

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

@NicholasTyrone Very interesting to see the pro Farage – presumably Reform supporting and Fascism inclined – replies in this thread. Sufficiently troglodyte to make me check whether I was still looking at my Twitter accounts and I was shocked to see that this was a thread in Bluesky. Yikes.

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

@chrischirp Existential moment for western democracies. Clearly so for the US lost for a decade or more to the Mania of Project 2025 and unfortunately for the UK – unless it can seize the moment and rejoin the EU as a matter of extreme urgency. Another one then notched up for Putin & Pals.

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

I’m no longer going to post on this platform to take debate forward. For that I’ve moved to Bluesky: @simonraescott.bsky.social. Here it’s just a rearguard action against the execrable Musk’s pro-Fascist support of Trump in the most important US General Election in a century.

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

@paulmasonnews @RachelReevesMP Half way through the first female Chancellor’s speech and it is barnstorming – both laying blame for such cruelties over the last 14 years on the Tories and also outlining material corrections for those so adversely affected. Now on to tax…

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

Ahead of both Labour’s Budget – 1st female CoE – and the existential challenge to democracies US2024 presents – black female democrat vs a convicted felon & would be dictator – govts can & must prime the pumps of economies and remove barriers to trade – Brexit & Trump’s Tariffs.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Jeff Bezos has forced The Washington Post - the newspaper he owns - to not endorse in a presidential race for the first time 36 years because he’s worried Donald Trump will take away his government contracts.

RETWEET if you think @JeffBezos is a disgrace to democracy!

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

Overall, the message is that the new government will be moving on from the very ‘thin’ and minimalist approach to international law and rule of law generally pursued in recent years, characterised by the question “what can we get away with?” https://t.co/gXUWI0M1SU

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

And why oh why is any space being giving to the loathsome Tory reptile, Michael Gove?

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

What’s going on with BBC R4. #WATO’s James Menendez reporting from the US southern border with a piece of pure Trump propaganda aired without context or challenge. I hope that the #TWT report will provide some balance or is Gibb still ruling with his pro Fascist swagger stick?

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

Here's a petition that you might want to sign to hold the line against corporate greed. Leaving a supplier is a problematic reset rather than a competition tool and suppliers rely on inelasticity to empower these grabs on our wallets. Regulation matters. https://t.co/pc8HXpv71a

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

Do not forget the horrors going on in Sudan while the world focuses on the genocidal invasions by the Russians in Ukraine and the Israelis in Gaza and Lebanon. https://t.co/IDhiI9FIc8

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

@McJuggerNuggets Jesse, thank you for this exemplary, detailed and above all measured rebuttal of the deliberate misinformation that COVID-19 is just like a cold or a bout of ’flu and that it is, in any sense, over. To its shame, C4 News in the UK yesterday stressed that it was over. Get well.

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

@theAliceRoberts @jimalkhalili For those intrigued by this interview, or frustrated that it is “fruitwalled” in Apple News, BBC R4’s 'In our Time’ has an episode on Wormholes (of the space-time continuum sort) that is a discussion in very much the same vein as this recounted interview: https://t.co/k3aDLdCJQ2

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

@docrussjackson @RTeapot Fascists serving fascists… Farage and Zuckerberg – no surprises.

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

@Anna_Soubry Are they still living in the purgatory where Trump is re-elected… ?

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

Here is the kind of petition where you can't believe that this kind of provision isn't already in place. That HRT support isn't universal in the UK via the NHS is mad – unless it's another case of a patriarchy's blindness to women – see the dire graphic! https://t.co/JI7FFR2oGr

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

The moment you know the nightmare of the last eight+ years is definitely not over. With a government but three months old, the idiocy, the point blank absurdity against a mountain of evidence and the weight of opinion in the country, Lady Twycross, “[We will] make Brexit work”!

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

@LondonEconomic Key take–cavalier?: “I wanted to win an argument. I believed in freedom and that this country had a great future. What I and everybody expected was that David Cameron and his government, having called a referendum for the people, would bring forward a white paper on the details.”

[Simon Rae-Scott @simonraescott.bsky.social @onthewingit]

@archer_rs Good grief – still early morning and the clock ticking…