Ben Johnson
@benjgeo.bsky.social
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Ben Johnson
@benjgeo.bsky.social
· Jan 8
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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.
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
ft.trib.al
February 11, 2026 at 9:02 PM
UK farmers warn of rotting crops after exceptionally wet start to year ft.trib.al/bmZn1RJ
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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
🆕 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...
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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.
![Tamer Nahed 𓂆🇵🇸
@Tamer_Alnoaizy
BlueSky is one of the worst platforms I have ever dealt with. Within seconds of creating a second account, after my first one was shut down just two days after it was created, my account was closed again. This happened despite the fact that I hadn’t posted anything or followed anyone. I was only in the process of adding a profile photo, yet I received an email claiming that my account was “spam” and that it was “causing harm.” What kind of logic is this?
The painful truth is that the account was shut down the moment it became clear it was created from inside Gaza. It seems we are no longer allowed to write or speak about what is happening to us here. They are not afraid of content itself, but of our voices and the reality we carry with us.
Millions are spent to silence these voices and to erase the truth. I am exhausted by this platform and by how our photos and videos, which document real suffering, are treated as “violations of community standards,” as if pain itself has become a crime.
What is happening is not simple moderation or policy enforcement. It is an attempt to erase our existence and bury the truth. And honestly, this is shameful and unbearably painful.
[the original poster has included two screenshots showing the email from bluesky admin informing him that his account has been taken down for being 'spammy, inauthentic or disruptive to users'. it's the standard boilerplate you get when they take moderation action.]
2:45 PM · Feb 10, 2026
https://twitter.com/Tamer_Alnoaizy/status/2021234178461704409](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2l6seozmjsqc4kfukjejat77/bafkreiga45xjdal6lfcqt2zmambaymeoelxafbrlt7fi2nmoahpbqj3cja@jpeg)
February 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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.
I also like "cities aren't loud, cars are loud"
February 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
I also like "cities aren't loud, cars are loud"
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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
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.
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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...
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
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...
Hit "weekly" to sustain it: chuffed.org/project/hope...
would love to know what people are basing this on
February 6, 2026 at 4:26 PM
would love to know what people are basing this on
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You can donate to Lina’s family here: chuffed.org/project/omsh...
February 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
You can donate to Lina’s family here: chuffed.org/project/omsh...
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
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.
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?
Are there any Rs communists would vote for?
Do communists vote in the primaries?
February 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Communists, so numerous they can ruin elections, but not numerous enough to be treated as people who have to be won over.
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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
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."
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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
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
“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
Nous allons nationaliser le temps, matière première invisible. Cette nationalisation, c'est ce qu'on appelle la planification écologique.”
- Mélenchon
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
Rebelling against the Pedo Party is bad?
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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?
Why a Palestine exception?
February 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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?
Why a Palestine exception?
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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
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).
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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.
No help in 22 days for this family of 8. Vetted by Palestine Asdiqa. tinyurl.com/helpseraj
I’m Losing My Future: Please Don’t Let My Dream Die
I'm helping my friend Seraj raise funds to help his family in Gaza through this campaign.
tinyurl.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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.
Oh lol it was this one in the article
February 5, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Oh lol it was this one in the article
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
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.
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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
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
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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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🔗 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
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.
👇🧵
🔗 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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One of the Palestine Action prisoners did not get bailed. Sam Corner remains in custody.
February 4, 2026 at 6:33 PM
One of the Palestine Action prisoners did not get bailed. Sam Corner remains in custody.
"Chomsky being friends with Epstein makes sense because he was a Tankie" do you hear yourself?
February 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM
"Chomsky being friends with Epstein makes sense because he was a Tankie" do you hear yourself?
Oh fuck off George.
February 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Oh fuck off George.