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Ben Johnson
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Earthquakes | Geology | Climate
Ecosocialism and Degrowth
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If you've got spare cash here are a bunch of survival funds for people in Gaza linktr.ee/divyamp

Setting up a recurring donation is a good way to provide dependable support.
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UK farmers warn of rotting crops after exceptionally wet start to year ft.trib.al/bmZn1RJ
UK farmers warn of rotting crops after exceptionally wet start to year
Met Office says ‘strong and unusually southerly jet stream’ to blame for weeks of heavy rain
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February 11, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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🆕 Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @oregonstate.edu, @iiasa.ac.at & PIK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.
February 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
I also like "cities aren't loud, cars are loud"
February 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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We joke but if you look, every mention of Peter on social media since 2019 has people responding with these photos, so I think we can assume important people were just mentally filing this as mean-spirited trolling or conspiracy theory. When they could see exactly what it was, with their own eyes.
Happy birthday for whenever it is, Pete.
February 6, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Offline for health - just here because we have a match on, meaning your help will be doubled for these twenty-one families. Lately, you've helped with medical care, housing, nutrition, winter clothes, and other survival needs.

Hit "weekly" to sustain it: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
February 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM
would love to know what people are basing this on
February 6, 2026 at 4:26 PM
30 out of 350.
February 6, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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You can donate to Lina’s family here: chuffed.org/project/omsh...
February 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Genuinely find it so funny how smug these people are given their "just vote for the Democrats, no matter what they do" method has lead to this.
February 6, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Communists, so numerous they can ruin elections, but not numerous enough to be treated as people who have to be won over.
I don’t think anyone expects communists to vote for bourgeois. Do communists even vote for democrats at all? Would a communist vote for AOC or Va Hollen or Mamdani (all of whom have a D next to their name)?

Are there any Rs communists would vote for?

Do communists vote in the primaries?
February 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Every news outlet, pundit and analyst who tries to tell you that Epstein was a Russian intelligence operative instead of an Israeli one is just telling you they're a propagandist. View it as a big flashing sign that says "Never trust anything from this source ever again."
February 6, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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“Le modèle économique que nous défendons cherche à accorder les rythmes de la production et de la nature.

Nous allons nationaliser le temps, matière première invisible. Cette nationalisation, c'est ce qu'on appelle la planification écologique.”

- Mélenchon
January 14, 2026 at 1:07 PM
February 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Rebelling against the Pedo Party is bad?
Also Maskell: "Let’s rebel at every given opportunity against Starmer and the manifesto - thanks to which I got into Parliament - so hard that I was suspended for six months. And after Starmer gave me the whip back, I just carried on undermining my Labour government."
February 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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It is interesting that Kenneth Roth claims that the report is not substantiated by international legal principles when HRW released a virtually identical conclusion in a different report on the denial of a return to amounting to a crime against humanity in Chagos.

Why a Palestine exception?
February 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Listening to this Starmer speech. This Pride In Place thing sounds a lot like Big Society. Unless he has a critique of austerity and commits to reversing all cuts (eg to the youth service) he's going to fail. (And so will the next PM).
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Really can’t be online but I’d appreciate some shares for this. Our friend Seraj was suspended from the bird app, and that’s where his only reach is. Usually we have zero capacity to help this family, but now they have no one & ZERO visibility whatsoever. This is a critical + priority need.
February 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Oh lol it was this one in the article
February 5, 2026 at 10:27 AM
I saw a good chart somewhere I think by @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social showing that capacity additions are not strongly linked to increased utilisation in China (relative to the west?) so bad news but maybe a silver lining in there.
February 5, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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Imo many MPs think their authority & legitimacy is so weak that "tradition" is the only thing holding it up - inc the olde worlde harry potter building, hence they resisted the efficient solutions, like a decamp-repair. But this will leave them defending vast costs , undermining legitimacy further
February 5, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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Important new @annualreviews.bsky.social review on #AMOC collapse. 🌊⚠️

🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Here are 8 key takeaways from Dijkstra & van Westen (2026) on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and its risks.

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February 5, 2026 at 8:04 AM
One of the Palestine Action prisoners did not get bailed. Sam Corner remains in custody.
February 4, 2026 at 6:33 PM
"Chomsky being friends with Epstein makes sense because he was a Tankie" do you hear yourself?
February 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Oh fuck off George.
February 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM