Ben Brace
@benbrace.bsky.social
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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I know intellectually that puffins can fly but in my heart I still don’t believe it
April 14, 2024 at 3:20 PM
I know intellectually that puffins can fly but in my heart I still don’t believe it
It's almost as if all this "green stuff" was good for us...
"Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 [air pollution] fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people."
In Medellín, a city of 2.5 million people in Colombia, the Green Corridors urban restoration project has planted 880,000 trees and 2.5 million plants, reducing pollution and bringing temperatures down by 2 degrees C. #ShareGoodNewsToo reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corrid...
March 20, 2024 at 9:22 AM
It's almost as if all this "green stuff" was good for us...
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While they dissemble, we assemble.
The revolutionary project for taking back control of our unfair electoral system.
My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The revolutionary project for taking back control of our unfair electoral system.
My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A revolution in the way Britain does politics has begun in Devon. Tory MPs should be afraid | George Monbiot
There’s an urgent need for a fairer electoral system – and if politicians won’t make it happen, the people will, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2024 at 6:41 AM
While they dissemble, we assemble.
The revolutionary project for taking back control of our unfair electoral system.
My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The revolutionary project for taking back control of our unfair electoral system.
My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.” — @boriscrito.bsky.social
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
March 16, 2024 at 2:24 PM
“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.” — @boriscrito.bsky.social
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Please spread the word about this brilliant organisation (I’m a patron) providing very low cost (£15) mental health support and counselling for anyone in the arts. And right now we really need it. Like, share, support if you can.
Go well.
Go well.
Wellbeing In The Arts | Mental Health And Wellbeing Support
Providing mental health and wellbeing support to the Arts industry.
www.wellbeinginthearts.org.uk
February 20, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Please spread the word about this brilliant organisation (I’m a patron) providing very low cost (£15) mental health support and counselling for anyone in the arts. And right now we really need it. Like, share, support if you can.
Go well.
Go well.
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Hello!
It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
February 25, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Hello!
It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
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So many headlines could accompany this article. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
London council rips out playgrounds to build houses – then runs out of cash
Experts say boarded-up communal space illustrates crisis in social housing funding and need to protect play areas
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2024 at 5:17 PM
So many headlines could accompany this article. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Sunak seemed a fairly run-of-the-mill conservative when he came to power. It transpires that he is a moral vacuum. There is simply no floor to his behaviour. There is no depth he will not plunge iandunt.substack.com/p/brianna-gh...
February 7, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Sunak seemed a fairly run-of-the-mill conservative when he came to power. It transpires that he is a moral vacuum. There is simply no floor to his behaviour. There is no depth he will not plunge iandunt.substack.com/p/brianna-gh...