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Claire Gilmore 🇮🇪 🇹🇭
@clairegilmore.bsky.social
English teacher by day, bookworm and foodie by night. Passionate about language, literature, and the lovely chaos that is Thailand.
COP 30 Climate Summit - action, not words and promises please.
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
October 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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More than a narcissist’s rant, Trump’s UN address marked a disturbing turn towards a new world order | Julianne Schultz
More than a narcissist’s rant, Trump’s UN address marked a disturbing turn towards a new world order | Julianne Schultz
Behind the US president’s speech lay the long-term logic of neoliberalism: winners and losers, racialism and a crude, exclusionary nationalism
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com:
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
#ScienceUnderSiege
I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation
OPINION: “What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so,” Michael E. Mann writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Trump delivered an embarassing performance at the UN general assembly | Mohamad Bazzi
Trump delivered an embarassing performance at the UN general assembly | Mohamad Bazzi
This was Trump unfiltered and unleashed – as he has been since the start of his second term, with no restraint and no need for even the mildest niceties
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Why glaciers are threatening to wipe out more mountain villages
Why glaciers are threatening to wipe out more mountain villages
Switzerland spends almost $500m a year on protective structures. Is it worth it - or, as some suggest, should people move away from the mountain villages at risk?
www.bbc.com
August 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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"Hearing these numbers can be shocking and worrying. There is no doubt that the risks associated with an Amoc collapse would be large for Ireland.”

- Dr Gerard McCarthy, Climatologist at Maynooth University

www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...
Ireland set for extreme cold if Atlantic current collapses, new study suggests
Study looks at a future without the Amoc, which gives northwest Europe a benign climate
www.irishtimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us.

These posters are made to be shared!

We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.

get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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“Yippee ki-yay…”

We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Been waiting so many years for the final part - not long to wait now - 6 months #TheBookofDust
Philip Pullman announces The Rose Field, the final part of Lyra’s story
The acclaimed writer of His Dark Materials says the third volume in The Book of Dust series will portray a ‘dangerous, breathtaking quest’
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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‘Bombs and bullets were like rain’: 50 years on from the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war
‘Bombs and bullets were like rain’: 50 years on from the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war
Xuan Phuong, a war correspondent who is now 96, recalls the day she entered the city after South Vietnam’s surrender
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Trump-style book censorship is spreading – just ask British librarians | Alison Hicks
Trump-style book censorship is spreading – just ask British librarians | Alison Hicks
UK school librarians are also coming under pressure to remove books from their shelves, says Alison Hicks, associate professor in library and information studies at UCL
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Happy Songkran 💦💦💦💦
April 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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USGS map of the epicentres of 14 recorded earthquakes in the last 25 hours along the Sagaing Faultline. The bigger the circle the greater the magnitude.
March 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Magnitude : 7.7
Region: *Myanmar*
Time: 2025-03-28 06:20:56 UTC
Epicenter : 95.85°E 21.89°N
Depth: 24 km
*First posted at: 06:28 UTC*

https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025gbpv/general

##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude
March 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Felt shaking, heard things dropping. Earthquake - had to leg it down the stairs.
Message from condo 😊
March 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Cuts to the global #HIV response will have a devastating impact on millions of people across the world, as the research published in TheLancetHIV shows.

We call on the #UK and all other donor countries to change course.

Read more on our website:

nat.org.uk/news/nati...
March 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Funding cuts mean essential and lifesaving healthcare services and vaccinations, among other critical health issues, have shut down, leaving thousands without treatment worldwide.

This isn’t just a policy change - it’s a death sentence.

www.msf.org.za/news-and-res...
March 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Please consider becoming a donor. If you are Rh-Negative then you can really help - we need supplies to increase, rather than having urgent appeals. Stocked blood is the answer! 🩸🩸🩸
Academics ask Westerners to donate rare blood
Rh-Negative blood reserves in Thailand are extremely low, academics told a panel discussion on Wednesday evening, during which they encouraged the international community in Thailand to donate blood.
www.bangkokpost.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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#USA: We are calling on the US government to immediately resume funding for the full range of PEPFAR operations as well as other critical health and humanitarian aid.

Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/uncer...
Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk
MSF is calling on the US government to immediately resume funding for the full range of PEPFAR operations as well as other critical health and humanitarian aid.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
February 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM