John
@johnwenger.bsky.social
Born 319.62 ppm. Life as emergent design, at the confluence of psychotherapy, spirituality & permaculture. Holding the beauty & joy with the suffering & grief. If you can’t disagree without being disagreeable, save yourself an aneurysm; I use mute
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Rights that apply to only some are no longer rights.
Can we ask therefore if Mahmood will confirm that she, personally, no longer wishes to have the right to "respect for [their] private and family life, [their] home and [their] correspondence"?
thecommongreen.scot/2025/08/29/w...
Can we ask therefore if Mahmood will confirm that she, personally, no longer wishes to have the right to "respect for [their] private and family life, [their] home and [their] correspondence"?
thecommongreen.scot/2025/08/29/w...
“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
November 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Rights that apply to only some are no longer rights.
Can we ask therefore if Mahmood will confirm that she, personally, no longer wishes to have the right to "respect for [their] private and family life, [their] home and [their] correspondence"?
thecommongreen.scot/2025/08/29/w...
Can we ask therefore if Mahmood will confirm that she, personally, no longer wishes to have the right to "respect for [their] private and family life, [their] home and [their] correspondence"?
thecommongreen.scot/2025/08/29/w...
I (we) may have one day left, or one month, or a year or even 10. Do I (we) really want to spend any more of it than is healthy feeling angry, scared or ashamed? *
No, not really **
*looking at social media
**not at all
(Just typing into the void)
No, not really **
*looking at social media
**not at all
(Just typing into the void)
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I (we) may have one day left, or one month, or a year or even 10. Do I (we) really want to spend any more of it than is healthy feeling angry, scared or ashamed? *
No, not really **
*looking at social media
**not at all
(Just typing into the void)
No, not really **
*looking at social media
**not at all
(Just typing into the void)
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We need to put an Indy majority parliament into power
SNP don't have the numbers to make SNP 1&2 work
Last time out the won two list seats with the same strategy
That's not a winning idea
Repeating the same mistake is a form of insanity
Reducing the number of unionist tactics to make Scots look bad
SNP don't have the numbers to make SNP 1&2 work
Last time out the won two list seats with the same strategy
That's not a winning idea
Repeating the same mistake is a form of insanity
Reducing the number of unionist tactics to make Scots look bad
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 AM
We need to put an Indy majority parliament into power
SNP don't have the numbers to make SNP 1&2 work
Last time out the won two list seats with the same strategy
That's not a winning idea
Repeating the same mistake is a form of insanity
Reducing the number of unionist tactics to make Scots look bad
SNP don't have the numbers to make SNP 1&2 work
Last time out the won two list seats with the same strategy
That's not a winning idea
Repeating the same mistake is a form of insanity
Reducing the number of unionist tactics to make Scots look bad
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"The science is evolving quite rapidly and time is running out to do anything about it because the tipping point may well be quite close," says PIK's @rahmstorf.bsky.social in this piece on Iceland declaring the potential collapse of #AMOC a national security risk. 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1op...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1op...
Iceland on alert amid Atlantic Ocean current's possible collapse | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"The science is evolving quite rapidly and time is running out to do anything about it because the tipping point may well be quite close," says PIK's @rahmstorf.bsky.social in this piece on Iceland declaring the potential collapse of #AMOC a national security risk. 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1op...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1op...
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The rule of law for whom?
Private equity managers taxed at lower rates.
NHS drugs prices be hiked by 25% to appease companies.
Bankers' bonus cap abolished.
Chancellor ready to override Supreme Court judgment, cut compensation to victims of car loan scandals.
Bank frauds not investigated.
Private equity managers taxed at lower rates.
NHS drugs prices be hiked by 25% to appease companies.
Bankers' bonus cap abolished.
Chancellor ready to override Supreme Court judgment, cut compensation to victims of car loan scandals.
Bank frauds not investigated.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The rule of law for whom?
Private equity managers taxed at lower rates.
NHS drugs prices be hiked by 25% to appease companies.
Bankers' bonus cap abolished.
Chancellor ready to override Supreme Court judgment, cut compensation to victims of car loan scandals.
Bank frauds not investigated.
Private equity managers taxed at lower rates.
NHS drugs prices be hiked by 25% to appease companies.
Bankers' bonus cap abolished.
Chancellor ready to override Supreme Court judgment, cut compensation to victims of car loan scandals.
Bank frauds not investigated.
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"To prepare for further growth, Iceland is expanding its KEF international airport to improve the customer experience."
#Iceland climate paradox: faces an existential threat from the collapse of AMOC while expanding an airport in a tourism boom.
www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
#Iceland climate paradox: faces an existential threat from the collapse of AMOC while expanding an airport in a tourism boom.
www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
Iceland sets new visitor record: Is a higher tourist tax pending?
Iceland has witnessed 1.8 million international tourists in the first nine months of 2025 despite reports that its appeal has ‘slumped’.
www.euronews.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
"To prepare for further growth, Iceland is expanding its KEF international airport to improve the customer experience."
#Iceland climate paradox: faces an existential threat from the collapse of AMOC while expanding an airport in a tourism boom.
www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
#Iceland climate paradox: faces an existential threat from the collapse of AMOC while expanding an airport in a tourism boom.
www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
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This could be #Scotland.
We produce more electricity than our nation needs.
Instead, it is channeled away south,
And then we have to pay 40 to 50% more for our power than Londoners.
We produce more electricity than our nation needs.
Instead, it is channeled away south,
And then we have to pay 40 to 50% more for our power than Londoners.
This will be an incredible experiment to watch. I suspect the overall result will be greater economic prosperity fueled by the reduced cost of electricity for every link in the economic chain. Each link's savings should multiply all the others and create cascading benefits.
#EconSky #ClimateSky
#EconSky #ClimateSky
Australia is getting free electricity - will other countries follow?
As one of the most advanced solar nations in the world, Australia is well placed to experiment with giving people free power - and if it succeeds, other countries may look to copy its approach
www.newscientist.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This could be #Scotland.
We produce more electricity than our nation needs.
Instead, it is channeled away south,
And then we have to pay 40 to 50% more for our power than Londoners.
We produce more electricity than our nation needs.
Instead, it is channeled away south,
And then we have to pay 40 to 50% more for our power than Londoners.
Do it do it do it do it do it
Piers Morgan should be the next BBC director general, Michael Gove has said 👀
Michael Gove calls for Piers Morgan to take over as director general of BBC
www.thenational.scot
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Do it do it do it do it do it
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#YouYesYet
The D'hont formula is designed to keep Yoonies in power in HR, as can be seen from NE Scotland region
10 constituencies currently 9 SNP 1 CON
7 List currently 0 SNP, 4 CON
This is because both SNP and CON voted 1&2
[SNP 2/10]=0 SNP List
[CON 2/1]=4 CON List
SNP 1, SGP 2 is a no brainer
The D'hont formula is designed to keep Yoonies in power in HR, as can be seen from NE Scotland region
10 constituencies currently 9 SNP 1 CON
7 List currently 0 SNP, 4 CON
This is because both SNP and CON voted 1&2
[SNP 2/10]=0 SNP List
[CON 2/1]=4 CON List
SNP 1, SGP 2 is a no brainer
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
#YouYesYet
The D'hont formula is designed to keep Yoonies in power in HR, as can be seen from NE Scotland region
10 constituencies currently 9 SNP 1 CON
7 List currently 0 SNP, 4 CON
This is because both SNP and CON voted 1&2
[SNP 2/10]=0 SNP List
[CON 2/1]=4 CON List
SNP 1, SGP 2 is a no brainer
The D'hont formula is designed to keep Yoonies in power in HR, as can be seen from NE Scotland region
10 constituencies currently 9 SNP 1 CON
7 List currently 0 SNP, 4 CON
This is because both SNP and CON voted 1&2
[SNP 2/10]=0 SNP List
[CON 2/1]=4 CON List
SNP 1, SGP 2 is a no brainer
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Our so-called democratic institutions aren’t structurally capable of constraining private power anymore.
Oxfam revealed that the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Oxfam revealed that the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Our so-called democratic institutions aren’t structurally capable of constraining private power anymore.
Oxfam revealed that the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Oxfam revealed that the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“The most extreme cult leaders would rather destroy the whole world than not be able to believe that they are the centre of the universe.” Daniel Shaw
….sounds like most world leaders these days #COP30
….sounds like most world leaders these days #COP30
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
“The most extreme cult leaders would rather destroy the whole world than not be able to believe that they are the centre of the universe.” Daniel Shaw
….sounds like most world leaders these days #COP30
….sounds like most world leaders these days #COP30
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November 14, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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"The 'reduction in enthusiasm' [for climate action] among rich nations didn’t happen by accident.
It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth.
Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."
It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth.
Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
"The 'reduction in enthusiasm' [for climate action] among rich nations didn’t happen by accident.
It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth.
Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."
It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth.
Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."
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Somehow UK governments seem to have decided that political leadership is best demonstrated by a series of leaks to newspapers which are then denied, and daily ministerial media rounds of denial in support of grid announcements nobody notices.
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Somehow UK governments seem to have decided that political leadership is best demonstrated by a series of leaks to newspapers which are then denied, and daily ministerial media rounds of denial in support of grid announcements nobody notices.
Not wealth creators. Exploiters & extractors. The rich won’t leave anyway, that old lazy trope. Their wealth IS the UK. The real estate. They can’t “take it away”.
Man in audience says
if we tax the rich properly they would all leave 🤔
Reform mouthpiece speaking of the benefit to the country of ‘wealth creators’
he missed a word out though, they are only
‘Personal Wealth’ Creators
they haven’t as yet made any employee ‘wealthy’
Not possible on min wage.
if we tax the rich properly they would all leave 🤔
Reform mouthpiece speaking of the benefit to the country of ‘wealth creators’
he missed a word out though, they are only
‘Personal Wealth’ Creators
they haven’t as yet made any employee ‘wealthy’
Not possible on min wage.
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Not wealth creators. Exploiters & extractors. The rich won’t leave anyway, that old lazy trope. Their wealth IS the UK. The real estate. They can’t “take it away”.
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How Capitalism Works, Covid Edition, pt. 9743
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
How Capitalism Works, Covid Edition, pt. 9743
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And if read all the way to the end….
“Scotland abolished no-fault evictions in 2017”
And if read all the way to the end….
“Scotland abolished no-fault evictions in 2017”
Renters’ Rights Act: No-fault evictions banned from May 2026
The government confirms timeline for reforms to England’s rental market, including ending bidding wars.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And if read all the way to the end….
“Scotland abolished no-fault evictions in 2017”
And if read all the way to the end….
“Scotland abolished no-fault evictions in 2017”
STILL with the causal linking the 2008 global crash to Labour. I’m absolutely no fan of Lab but THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR GLOBAL NEOLIBERALISM
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 AM
STILL with the causal linking the 2008 global crash to Labour. I’m absolutely no fan of Lab but THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR GLOBAL NEOLIBERALISM
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When Big Oil companies claim to be partners in climate solutions, remember: they are lying.
As the climate crisis intensifies, Chevron is once again "increasing investments in oil and gas exploration," Reuters reports.
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
As the climate crisis intensifies, Chevron is once again "increasing investments in oil and gas exploration," Reuters reports.
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
When Big Oil companies claim to be partners in climate solutions, remember: they are lying.
As the climate crisis intensifies, Chevron is once again "increasing investments in oil and gas exploration," Reuters reports.
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
As the climate crisis intensifies, Chevron is once again "increasing investments in oil and gas exploration," Reuters reports.
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
Only slightly. It’s the overshoot that’s going to kill us anyway 🤷🏼♂️
AP News: Relentless rise in carbon pollution from fossil fuels slightly dampens climate-fighting hopes apnews.com/article/emis...
Relentless rise in carbon pollution from fossil fuels slightly dampens climate-fighting hopes
Scientists report that emissions from fossil fuels rose by 1.1% in 2025, marking the second consecutive year of a small increase.
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Only slightly. It’s the overshoot that’s going to kill us anyway 🤷🏼♂️
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COPs are a jobs program
for the death merchants
but im sure the window remains open
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
for the death merchants
but im sure the window remains open
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 AM
COPs are a jobs program
for the death merchants
but im sure the window remains open
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
for the death merchants
but im sure the window remains open
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A single paragraph that is likely to make you angry.
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A single paragraph that is likely to make you angry.
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1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
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10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.