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@MariaShanks

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Art Historian. “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently" - David Graeber 🚫NoDMs

Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined April 2011
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@MariaShanks
Maria Shanks
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An urgent point. The 'lesser evil' argument always ends up shifting the entire political spectrum to the right, disarming the only movements capable of offering a real, popular alternative to fascism. It's a recipe for managed decline into barbarism, not a strategy for victory.
@Graeber_social
David Graeber Institute
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So-called "Centrism" does not work.
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@ronnieruff
Cosmic Cowboy
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Sometimes I feel like that bolder looking out over a desolate landscape. The bolder is old and weather worn. I'm at peace with myself. #GoodMorningEveryone Capitalism is out to get us #ThursdayThoughts
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@MariaShanks
Maria Shanks
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An urgent point. The 'lesser evil' argument always ends up shifting the entire political spectrum to the right, disarming the only movements capable of offering a real, popular alternative to fascism. It's a recipe for managed decline into barbarism, not a strategy for victory.
@Graeber_social
David Graeber Institute
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So-called "Centrism" does not work.
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@MbarkCherguia
Liberta Cherguia 🇪🇺
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Bornean Crested Fireback 📸 subramanya.c (Instagram) ©️
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@declassifiedUK
Declassified UK
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👉NEW -- The UK’s £1 billion Thank You to Uncle Sam by Richard @NortonTaylor The UK is set to buy a fleet of US fighter jets that can drop nuclear bombs. The purchase is purely political, say watchdogs https://t.co/U4eR7NFmEI
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The UK is set to buy a fleet of US fighter jets that can drop nuclear bombs. The purchase is purely political, say watchdogs
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@a_past24460
a blast from the past
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Morning!
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@DJen13
@socialistnan123 @socialistnan123.bsky.social
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Morning all. Have a good day.✌️✊
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@StevieB09074258
StevieB
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@a_past24460 And a very good morning to you too, comrade. Rise and shine. 👍✊👊☕️
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@Revolution354
John George Stigar.
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While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax breaks for Big pharma:
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While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax...
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@HeldinEU
Held der Arbeit
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Good morning!
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@GrahamH36921247
Graham & June Hall
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Good morning everybody it’s a beautiful soft mild morning, no wind, light cloud. The gorgeous full moon peeps out from behind the clouds from time to time, opposite a fabulous coloured dawn sky. I heard the calls of a tawny owl and a barn owl and saw three ducks in flight. x
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@alan14191708
alan
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Solitude begins the moment you stop letting fear control your steps and start embracing the messy, unpredictable process of becoming who you''re meant to be.
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@A_refusenik
Revolution of Consciousness ☯️ Sorcerer 🧙‍♂️
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@MariaShanks Our survival as a species depends on moving beyond exclusionary ideologies like capitalism and nationalism to recognize our shared humanity. Cooperation will be required for our next evolutionary phase.
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@A_refusenik
Revolution of Consciousness ☯️ Sorcerer 🧙‍♂️
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@MariaShanks Nothing is more unrealistic than the belief that we can afford to cling onto capitalism any longer!
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@A_refusenik
Revolution of Consciousness ☯️ Sorcerer 🧙‍♂️
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Humanity is ready to evolve beyond capitalism and nationalism.
@SydSteyerhart
Syd Steyerhart
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I am a capitalist, but the writing is on the wall. Between robotics, AI, and young people trapped in the permanent underclass, the argument against socialism is going to collapse in the next decade. We're going to lose. The real enemy isn't socialism, it's internationalism.
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@420GHz
William Murphy
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Mamdani isn’t a real socialist. He’s the decoy. The system needs a harmless “leftist” win to justify a crackdown on the real ones. The empire doesn’t lose control—it stage-manages dissent to smoke out the revolutionaries.
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@HeldinEU
Held der Arbeit
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Good night 😘😘
@HWarlow
helen warlow
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Beautiful ethereal and fabulous. IllustNationNakata (art) This sort of thing is what I and many more followers want to see. If you don’t then go to my next piece. ‘Dancing Waltz of Lights Under the Starry Night ‘Stained Glass Galaxy’ ETSY
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@MbarkCherguia
Liberta Cherguia 🇪🇺
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A Black Baza on the outskirts of Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, Darjeeling. 📸 @souravmondalphotographs (Instagram) ©️ #WildLifeLovers #birds
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@Leslie64993617
Leslie SoCal ☮️📸🇵🇸
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Even on a gloomy day like today, the beautiful Montaña de Oro State Park is gorgeous. One of the largest state parks in California with dunes and bluffs, 8 miles of coastline, coastal and inland trails to peaks.
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@ronnieruff
Cosmic Cowboy
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"Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away." - Frida Kahlo
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@ronnieruff
Cosmic Cowboy
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. ~Albert Camus
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