Laurie Dunkin Wedd
@ldw1.bsky.social
Bought no coal or gas since 1977, no flights since 2006, no petrol since 2015.
PV, EV, domestic battery.
ME/CFS. #UBI
Kent UK.
Sometimes musical.
PV, EV, domestic battery.
ME/CFS. #UBI
Kent UK.
Sometimes musical.
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When all protest becomes ‘terror’, we have imprisoned ourselves as well as the demonstrators
@natashawalter.bsky.social on Palestine Action how language has been used to strip the Palestine Action hunger strikers of humanity.
www.thenerve.news/p/palestine-...
@natashawalter.bsky.social on Palestine Action how language has been used to strip the Palestine Action hunger strikers of humanity.
www.thenerve.news/p/palestine-...
January 10, 2026 at 9:37 AM
When all protest becomes ‘terror’, we have imprisoned ourselves as well as the demonstrators
@natashawalter.bsky.social on Palestine Action how language has been used to strip the Palestine Action hunger strikers of humanity.
www.thenerve.news/p/palestine-...
@natashawalter.bsky.social on Palestine Action how language has been used to strip the Palestine Action hunger strikers of humanity.
www.thenerve.news/p/palestine-...
Everything about this tells you how vacuous and vain the fashion “industry” is.
From boho chic to dressy: the alpha female celebrities reviving flares
From boho chic to dressy: the alpha female celebrities reviving flares
Claudia Winkleman is among high-profile women again popularising the trouser style once favoured by hippies
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Everything about this tells you how vacuous and vain the fashion “industry” is.
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Social media & AI platforms are feeding kids harmful content and dangerous advice that can seriously damage their mental health.
Check out CCDH’s Parents Guide to learn how to navigate digital spaces safely with your kids ⤵️
https://bit.ly/45nB1Oz
Check out CCDH’s Parents Guide to learn how to navigate digital spaces safely with your kids ⤵️
https://bit.ly/45nB1Oz
Parents Guide: How to navigate social media safely with your kids -- Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH
Parents Guide: A free guide by the Center for Countering Digital Hate with practical advice to help navigate your kids' Internet usage.
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January 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Social media & AI platforms are feeding kids harmful content and dangerous advice that can seriously damage their mental health.
Check out CCDH’s Parents Guide to learn how to navigate digital spaces safely with your kids ⤵️
https://bit.ly/45nB1Oz
Check out CCDH’s Parents Guide to learn how to navigate digital spaces safely with your kids ⤵️
https://bit.ly/45nB1Oz
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There's a big appetite for Green policies and MPs underestimate the level. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals
Exclusive: From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:20 PM
There's a big appetite for Green policies and MPs underestimate the level. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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In London a protester clambered up the outside of the Iranian Embassy and replaced the Islamic Republic flag with the pre-1979 Lion and Sun flag.
January 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
In London a protester clambered up the outside of the Iranian Embassy and replaced the Islamic Republic flag with the pre-1979 Lion and Sun flag.
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Early evening in Iran and protesters have responded to Pahlavi’s call. In Tehran they now control all the streets around Farahzadi Square. Security forces have moved back.
January 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Early evening in Iran and protesters have responded to Pahlavi’s call. In Tehran they now control all the streets around Farahzadi Square. Security forces have moved back.
There’s a tricky pub quiz question here:
If you build world-class public transport, people will use it.
Six of the UK’s most used railway stations are on the Elizabeth line, and all 10 are in London.
Six of the UK’s most used railway stations are on the Elizabeth line, and all 10 are in London.
January 10, 2026 at 4:28 PM
There’s a tricky pub quiz question here:
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Reform UK's MPs defend X because they're paid to, not because they value free speech - and it's really not true that they defend women & children.
open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...
open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...
They Say They "Protect Women and Children". X Paid Them Nearly £68,000
Four MPs. 691 hours. A platform facilitating abuse. And a silence that tells you everything.
open.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Reform UK's MPs defend X because they're paid to, not because they value free speech - and it's really not true that they defend women & children.
open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...
open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...
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It's remarkable that Trump's claim that there are no constraints on his power other than his "own morality"--that he thinks he can govern as a dictator--proved to be a 1-day story, with no follow-up coverage in the New York Times, to whom he said this, or, as far as I can tell, any other newspaper.
January 10, 2026 at 1:21 PM
It's remarkable that Trump's claim that there are no constraints on his power other than his "own morality"--that he thinks he can govern as a dictator--proved to be a 1-day story, with no follow-up coverage in the New York Times, to whom he said this, or, as far as I can tell, any other newspaper.
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It's certainly time to kick the US air force bases out of the country. Living in fairly close proximity to two here in Suffolk makes me feel very vulnerable to retaliation.
January 10, 2026 at 12:54 PM
It's certainly time to kick the US air force bases out of the country. Living in fairly close proximity to two here in Suffolk makes me feel very vulnerable to retaliation.
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"Nice economy you got there. Pity if anything happened to it."
January 10, 2026 at 1:18 PM
"Nice economy you got there. Pity if anything happened to it."
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Straight up Nazi conspiracy theory stuff here, aimed at the police by the Conservative Party. This is all going unaddressed as far as I can tell, and I assume it’s because saying “obviously this is just Musk-style far right bullshit and shitehousing” would raise some quite awkward questions.
January 10, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Straight up Nazi conspiracy theory stuff here, aimed at the police by the Conservative Party. This is all going unaddressed as far as I can tell, and I assume it’s because saying “obviously this is just Musk-style far right bullshit and shitehousing” would raise some quite awkward questions.
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Left: Yvette Cooper criticising Iran for not allowing peaceful protest
Right: Labour's Baron Hain criticising Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer for conflating non violent protest with terrorism, effectively not allowing peaceful protest
Right: Labour's Baron Hain criticising Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer for conflating non violent protest with terrorism, effectively not allowing peaceful protest
January 10, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Left: Yvette Cooper criticising Iran for not allowing peaceful protest
Right: Labour's Baron Hain criticising Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer for conflating non violent protest with terrorism, effectively not allowing peaceful protest
Right: Labour's Baron Hain criticising Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer for conflating non violent protest with terrorism, effectively not allowing peaceful protest
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Yes, it's become completely normal for this terrible man to say and do terrible things, and the governments of the world just ignore it.
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 10, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Yes, it's become completely normal for this terrible man to say and do terrible things, and the governments of the world just ignore it.
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🚨 Small acts of resistance to a shitty corporate world:
- Mute the ads (don't pay for ad-free premium services)
- Keep your phone and all tech until it stops working
- Don't use Amazon
- Keep your subscriptions to an absolute minimum
- Read books more than going online.
Other ideas welcome... ♥️
- Mute the ads (don't pay for ad-free premium services)
- Keep your phone and all tech until it stops working
- Don't use Amazon
- Keep your subscriptions to an absolute minimum
- Read books more than going online.
Other ideas welcome... ♥️
January 10, 2026 at 10:34 AM
🚨 Small acts of resistance to a shitty corporate world:
- Mute the ads (don't pay for ad-free premium services)
- Keep your phone and all tech until it stops working
- Don't use Amazon
- Keep your subscriptions to an absolute minimum
- Read books more than going online.
Other ideas welcome... ♥️
- Mute the ads (don't pay for ad-free premium services)
- Keep your phone and all tech until it stops working
- Don't use Amazon
- Keep your subscriptions to an absolute minimum
- Read books more than going online.
Other ideas welcome... ♥️
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It's a Nazi tactic
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise. So busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us"
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise. So busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us"
This Is How It Happens
A study of men in Hitler’s Germany shows how people allow tyranny to spread
gen.medium.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:51 AM
It's a Nazi tactic
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise. So busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us"
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise. So busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us"
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Plaza Accord playbook from '85 - forced Japan to revalue yen by threatening tariffs, gutted their semiconductor advantage within a decade. Currency manipulation just moved to regulatory capture.
January 10, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Plaza Accord playbook from '85 - forced Japan to revalue yen by threatening tariffs, gutted their semiconductor advantage within a decade. Currency manipulation just moved to regulatory capture.
“Why shouldn’t we move fast and break Jeff’s things?”
Cory Doctorow is a global treasure and must be protected at all costs.
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory D...
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:13 PM
“Why shouldn’t we move fast and break Jeff’s things?”
“If you want to talk with your friends on a Meta platform, you have to let Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg eavesdrop on your conversations. If you want to have a phone that works, you have to let Apple’s Tim Cook suck 30p out of every pound you spend and give him a veto over which software you can run.”
Cory Doctorow is a global treasure and must be protected at all costs.
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory D...
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:11 PM
“If you want to talk with your friends on a Meta platform, you have to let Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg eavesdrop on your conversations. If you want to have a phone that works, you have to let Apple’s Tim Cook suck 30p out of every pound you spend and give him a veto over which software you can run.”
“The US trade rep had beaten me to every one of those countries and made it eye-wateringly clear that if they regulated tech in a way that favoured their own people, industries and national interests, the US would bury them in tariffs.”
“Buy our stuff or we impoverish you.”Classic racket.
“Buy our stuff or we impoverish you.”Classic racket.
Cory Doctorow is a global treasure and must be protected at all costs.
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory D...
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:09 PM
“The US trade rep had beaten me to every one of those countries and made it eye-wateringly clear that if they regulated tech in a way that favoured their own people, industries and national interests, the US would bury them in tariffs.”
“Buy our stuff or we impoverish you.”Classic racket.
“Buy our stuff or we impoverish you.”Classic racket.
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@frasernelson.bsky.social, it’s not the immigrants who are the problem here. It’s fascism. This headline is like saying that Hitler’s extreme tactics show what happens when the Jewish presence gets out of control.
January 10, 2026 at 11:51 AM
@frasernelson.bsky.social, it’s not the immigrants who are the problem here. It’s fascism. This headline is like saying that Hitler’s extreme tactics show what happens when the Jewish presence gets out of control.
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We need urgent DEYANKIFICATION in the UK to end our dependence on the Fascistic Trump regime!
@ukstoptrump.bsky.social
@ukstoptrump.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 11:49 AM
We need urgent DEYANKIFICATION in the UK to end our dependence on the Fascistic Trump regime!
@ukstoptrump.bsky.social
@ukstoptrump.bsky.social
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"The maximum time a prisoner can spend on remand is 182 days (six months). Yet Muraisi and Ahmed were arrested in November 2024, and are not due to be tried until June at the earliest, which means they will be remanded for 20 months."
Shameful.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shameful.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
"The maximum time a prisoner can spend on remand is 182 days (six months). Yet Muraisi and Ahmed were arrested in November 2024, and are not due to be tried until June at the earliest, which means they will be remanded for 20 months."
Shameful.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shameful.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I can’t imagine anyone thinks that £1.8bn would be better spent on digital ID cards than something that would actually help people, like recruiting more GPs. There are tough choices and there are wrong choices. www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
Keir Starmer orders Government savings raid to fund his digital ID cards
Critics say the Prime Minister should be focused on "cutting GP waiting times and energy bills" instead of his "obsession" with digital ID.
www.express.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 11:57 AM
I can’t imagine anyone thinks that £1.8bn would be better spent on digital ID cards than something that would actually help people, like recruiting more GPs. There are tough choices and there are wrong choices. www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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10/ But while wealthy people accelerate the climate and nature crisis simply by being wealthy and working to further their privileged status, the impact of the ultra-wealthy - the oligarchy - is much worse
For they have been actively fighting to prevent us from taking serious climate action
For they have been actively fighting to prevent us from taking serious climate action
January 10, 2026 at 11:28 AM
10/ But while wealthy people accelerate the climate and nature crisis simply by being wealthy and working to further their privileged status, the impact of the ultra-wealthy - the oligarchy - is much worse
For they have been actively fighting to prevent us from taking serious climate action
For they have been actively fighting to prevent us from taking serious climate action