Notices by Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)

“Don’t you miss experiencing live shows with an audience?”

Not when the audience is “this is fine”-ing wet coughs bursting through the air of poorly-ventilated theatre buildings.

AI won’t be killing us. People using AI will be killing us. (They already are but it’s only Brown people in the Middle East being murdered so polite white folks in the West couldn’t care less right now. They will soon.)

Oh no, I used a plastic straw! https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/7/two-thirds-of-global-warming-caused-by-worlds-richest-10-study-finds

Hey #HiveMind in the UK! Does anyone know of any implications for #UniversalCredit recipients helping to manage a #MutualAid group account on #OpenCollective? #AskFedi #FediHelp

@thatkatharine It's funny how after all this time a lot of us are becoming so well-versed in so many different Covid safety precautions, we put governments to shame! However, dental care remains a frustrating area of unavoidable vulnerability, as @treehouseofhorror and I were saying just the other day! (Hope you all come through it as well as possible!)

@thatkatharine Hoping so!

Great to spot @molly0xfff telling Democracy Now how Donald Trump has raised nearly a billion dollars from his various cryptocurrency schemes: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/6/molly_white_crypto_trump_memecoin_ethics

And as an update, I grabbed an account and added a bunch of recommended viewing (reviews and proper star ratings not yet complete) - link in bio.

@PabloMartini Absolutely. And I relate!

And I was feeling bad because I wasn't able to recycle so much last week... "World’s Top 111 Corporations Have Caused $28T in Climate Damages, Study Finds" https://truthout.org/articles/worlds-top-111-corporations-have-caused-28t-in-climate-damages-study-finds/

@fkamiah17 It really is, my friend.

During the last Labour government (which seems so long ago, yet many of its architects are back in power today), I went around the UK and other countries screening documentary footage I put together covering how the Blairite Big Brother police state on an island of increasingly controlled borders meant more money for private contractors at home just as the "War on Terror" did overseas. Destabilisation of other countries, poverty, oppression, and the climate crisis all cause displacement, and those stopping boats carrying people seeking a life less miserable are the same ones causing it. #NoBorders #NoNations #StopDeportations

"A year ago, as researchers from the universities of Liverpool, Nottingham, Sheffield and York, we set out to build a deeper understanding of private sector involvement on the Channel border. ...The information was not easily accessible. ...We did, however, manage to find £3.5bn worth of government contracts distributed to firms to manage people arriving in the UK by small boats between 2017 and 2024. On top of this, we also uncovered over £1bn available in open tenders as of December 2024. We have now released all of this data in a publicly available spreadsheet as well as a report detailing all we believe we’ve learned." https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/exclusive-government-hands-private-firms-3bn-in-bid-to-stop-the-boats/

I wrote this almost a year ago, before Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister -- and I take no satisfaction or comfort from the fact that the predictions it contained are being realised: https://www.mediaactivist.com/the-spectre-of-starmer-keeps-haunting-me/

"It’s on us to make clear that when politics is a pile of bullshit the solution is not to find another cowpat and call it caviar. The vacuum in party politics is filled by Reform mostly because 'who else' – and our answer to that is simple. There’s no-one else, especially not Reform. It’s just us, all of us, versus them. Voting has never been more useless, government never so unhelpful, capitalism never so greedy. It’s time for working people to take matters – the future – into our own hands." Excellent piece at @Freedom_Press: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/04/all-change-in-the-councils-except-it-isnt/

A conversation with a supporter of the Stop Cop City Imaginary Crimes Tour and a RICO defendant talking about the case and antirepression

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/30/stop-cop-city-imaginary-crimes-tour/

"I’ve received calls in the middle of the night making threats to me, my family members, my children," said Francesca Albanese. "I won’t let myself be paralyzed because of these mafia-style techniques. ...I come from a place that taught me that the mafia kills through silence. It kills when people don’t react to it. This is why I’m so motivated in what I’m doing. I will continue to speak until I have no more air in my lungs."

The UN's Palestine expert, Francesca Albanese, has called for top EU officials — including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen — to face charges of complicity in war crimes over their support for Israel during its 18-month assault on Gaza. https://theintercept.com/2025/05/03/eu-israel-palestine-war-crimes-accountability/

@fkamiah17 @maggiejk Ooh thank you!

In Pictures: May 1st Worldwide https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/03/in-pictures-may-1st-worldwide/