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Lord Gid
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At work in the ruins. Permaculturer. Land worker. Forest denizen. BSc Ecology.
👉🏼Grow food, repair soil, smash capitalism.
Also party creator & disc jockier. Probably not a lord.
🌱 earthedup.com
🥒 pingleproduce.co.uk
Pinned
Not had much time to post. Meanwhile, in the propagation tunnel...

(This is at the Earthed Up! nursery and these are all perennial vegetables & other useful plants. If you want to see this craziness irl then we're open Fri & Sat, 10 til 2. Link in reply below.)

#permaculture
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I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
December 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We've got lots of info & skill sharing planned for 2026 at Earthed Up including a full weekend of hands on biochar education. No tickets up yet, but it's 21/22 March in Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire. If you sign up for our emails then you'll be the first to know 👉 earthedup.com
🌱 #permaculture
December 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Signed, on the slim chance we get people in power with the vision and backbone to face the hard truths about the coming climate chaos.
December 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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2025 Update. Spiralling Past 1.5C Paris Agreement Lower Limit
Data: Copernicus ERA 5 - @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
#ClimateChange #GlobalBoiling
December 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"Nobody wants your crappy machine made theft collage"
from this measured rant by artist /art director Jesper Myrfors is just perfect.
jesper myrfors, magic’s original art director, providing advice to artists considering using generative ai
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Our dystopia is so much more dystopian then anything on Netflix
James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.

Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the chemical industry.

This is why you always follow the money.

www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...
The EPA has approved two new pesticides with "forever chemicals" that will be used on food.

The agency has also announced plans for four additional approvals.

The approved pesticides will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
All of the above (below)
Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.

Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.

Or both.
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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#PublicServiceAnnouncement re: "climate summits":

There's only two possible outcomes to a #COP climate summit:

One: there IS agreement on a deal that doesn't mean anything.

Two: there is NO agreement on a deal that doesn't mean anything.

Both have one thing in common: they don't mean anything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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This is an important and heartfelt letter. Unfortunately there has been a real blindspot among some people on the British and European left. We should oppose imperialism and fascism, wherever they occur.
heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...
An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana
Galina Rymbu, an activist living in Ukraine, responds to Zarah Sultana's recent remarks on support for Ukraine.
heckle.scot
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never.

If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This.
Reducing emissions without phasing out fossil fuels is like being full after a big restaurant meal and telling the waiter to keep delivering new dishes to the table with a promise that your kids and your neighbor who is not even at the table will pay the bill.
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every time I scroll through the news 😶
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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This is an incredibly important graph and post which a large part of the climate science community is intentionally ignoring and trying to hide.

Our climate is in a much more dangerous state than main stream climate scientists are willing to acknowledge.

Important:
Warning! This colorful chart is censored by IPCC - mailchi.mp/caa/warning-...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.
These ads are poisoning trust in media
‘Native advertising' allows fossil fuel companies to disguise their ads in news outlets. A new book argues the practice undermines journalistic credibility.
www.exxonknews.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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However low your expectations are of VdL, she never fails to disappoint. A disaster for the EU, on every level.
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Not eating animals is a very robust rule of thumb when it comes to reducing your environmental footprint and the amount of suffering your diet may be producing.
FT investigation:

Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.

If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Shot Chaser
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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You know what I’m glad we have studies to prove obvious things because our society is literally whored out to data.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"This is my last column. I think the facts speak for themselves."
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.

They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.

Don't fall for it.
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Also a company that has engaged in a massive investment strike on renewable energy so they can get paid big $$ to keep their ultra-polluting coal plants running for another decade

But because they're making vaguely correct-sounding noises on "net zero" they're spared attacks :) :)
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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The grok stuff is pathetic but it’s also a perfect and undeniable illustration of chatbots as ideology. It’s no less true for chatgpt or other bots, but sometimes not as visible.
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM