Mandoline Blue 🕸️
@mandolineblue.bsky.social
Paint addicted poet, playful philosopher artist on bugs. (Butterflies for preference.) 🛺 I love oddness and snippets, my mind was born as a rat run, now branching out into highways & sacred places. Often to be found hanging out in or near reality.
Pinned
Just nine arrests at the Unite the Kingdom march so far. And Elon Musk broadcasting to the crowd live from the US calling for the downfall of the UK Govt. Last week saw 900 arrested at the Palestine Action ban protest.
Labour has to get a grip. They are giving this country away to the extremists.
Labour has to get a grip. They are giving this country away to the extremists.
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There's a simple reason why the world is not stopping climate change and ecosystems breakdown.
One of the poems from my 'No Off-Switch' collection.
One of the poems from my 'No Off-Switch' collection.
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
There's a simple reason why the world is not stopping climate change and ecosystems breakdown.
One of the poems from my 'No Off-Switch' collection.
One of the poems from my 'No Off-Switch' collection.
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‼️What COP30 is carefully not saying:
Despite massive growth in 'clean' energies, fossil fuels still power 87% of our world's energy, ⬇️ from 89% in 2015.
It's why CO2 emissions are still climbing. Why the 1.5c target is dead.
Bottom line: Fossil fuel producing states are not cutting production.
Despite massive growth in 'clean' energies, fossil fuels still power 87% of our world's energy, ⬇️ from 89% in 2015.
It's why CO2 emissions are still climbing. Why the 1.5c target is dead.
Bottom line: Fossil fuel producing states are not cutting production.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
‼️What COP30 is carefully not saying:
Despite massive growth in 'clean' energies, fossil fuels still power 87% of our world's energy, ⬇️ from 89% in 2015.
It's why CO2 emissions are still climbing. Why the 1.5c target is dead.
Bottom line: Fossil fuel producing states are not cutting production.
Despite massive growth in 'clean' energies, fossil fuels still power 87% of our world's energy, ⬇️ from 89% in 2015.
It's why CO2 emissions are still climbing. Why the 1.5c target is dead.
Bottom line: Fossil fuel producing states are not cutting production.
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So the BBC is crawling to Trump now. God help us, when is this craziness going to end?
I wish the rest of the world, including us, would just band together & tell him to Fuck Off. Blue states in the US also.
We are no wiser now than the Germans under Hitler.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
I wish the rest of the world, including us, would just band together & tell him to Fuck Off. Blue states in the US also.
We are no wiser now than the Germans under Hitler.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Why is the BBC expected to apologise over a Donald Trump speech edit?
Boris Johnson and White House criticise the corporation, but some journalists say criticism is part of campaign to destroy the BBC
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
So the BBC is crawling to Trump now. God help us, when is this craziness going to end?
I wish the rest of the world, including us, would just band together & tell him to Fuck Off. Blue states in the US also.
We are no wiser now than the Germans under Hitler.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
I wish the rest of the world, including us, would just band together & tell him to Fuck Off. Blue states in the US also.
We are no wiser now than the Germans under Hitler.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
There's a simple reason why the world is not stopping climate change and ecosystems breakdown.
One of the poems from my 'No Off-Switch' collection.
One of the poems from my 'No Off-Switch' collection.
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
There's a simple reason why the world is not stopping climate change and ecosystems breakdown.
One of the poems from my 'No Off-Switch' collection.
One of the poems from my 'No Off-Switch' collection.
‼️What COP30 is carefully not saying:
Despite massive growth in 'clean' energies, fossil fuels still power 87% of our world's energy, ⬇️ from 89% in 2015.
It's why CO2 emissions are still climbing. Why the 1.5c target is dead.
Bottom line: Fossil fuel producing states are not cutting production.
Despite massive growth in 'clean' energies, fossil fuels still power 87% of our world's energy, ⬇️ from 89% in 2015.
It's why CO2 emissions are still climbing. Why the 1.5c target is dead.
Bottom line: Fossil fuel producing states are not cutting production.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
‼️What COP30 is carefully not saying:
Despite massive growth in 'clean' energies, fossil fuels still power 87% of our world's energy, ⬇️ from 89% in 2015.
It's why CO2 emissions are still climbing. Why the 1.5c target is dead.
Bottom line: Fossil fuel producing states are not cutting production.
Despite massive growth in 'clean' energies, fossil fuels still power 87% of our world's energy, ⬇️ from 89% in 2015.
It's why CO2 emissions are still climbing. Why the 1.5c target is dead.
Bottom line: Fossil fuel producing states are not cutting production.
So the BBC is crawling to Trump now. God help us, when is this craziness going to end?
I wish the rest of the world, including us, would just band together & tell him to Fuck Off. Blue states in the US also.
We are no wiser now than the Germans under Hitler.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
I wish the rest of the world, including us, would just band together & tell him to Fuck Off. Blue states in the US also.
We are no wiser now than the Germans under Hitler.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Why is the BBC expected to apologise over a Donald Trump speech edit?
Boris Johnson and White House criticise the corporation, but some journalists say criticism is part of campaign to destroy the BBC
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
So the BBC is crawling to Trump now. God help us, when is this craziness going to end?
I wish the rest of the world, including us, would just band together & tell him to Fuck Off. Blue states in the US also.
We are no wiser now than the Germans under Hitler.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
I wish the rest of the world, including us, would just band together & tell him to Fuck Off. Blue states in the US also.
We are no wiser now than the Germans under Hitler.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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I feel like I'm one of very few people (apart from climate scientists, biologists, etc) who really get the escalating scale & rapidity of our human assault on Earth ecosystems.
I'm guessing some of you must feel similarly alone with the burdens of heart breaking, mind blowing knowledge?
I'm guessing some of you must feel similarly alone with the burdens of heart breaking, mind blowing knowledge?
October 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I feel like I'm one of very few people (apart from climate scientists, biologists, etc) who really get the escalating scale & rapidity of our human assault on Earth ecosystems.
I'm guessing some of you must feel similarly alone with the burdens of heart breaking, mind blowing knowledge?
I'm guessing some of you must feel similarly alone with the burdens of heart breaking, mind blowing knowledge?
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Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Indiana Jones star calls US president one history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
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The living world is my natural habitat and yours & we need to be in it, for our physical & mental health. It's ironic that many studies confirm this, - we're losing more and more of our blue green home to the destructive activities of rapacious megacorporations.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The living world is my natural habitat and yours & we need to be in it, for our physical & mental health. It's ironic that many studies confirm this, - we're losing more and more of our blue green home to the destructive activities of rapacious megacorporations.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The living world is my natural habitat and yours & we need to be in it, for our physical & mental health. It's ironic that many studies confirm this, - we're losing more and more of our blue green home to the destructive activities of rapacious megacorporations.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The living world is my natural habitat and yours & we need to be in it, for our physical & mental health. It's ironic that many studies confirm this, - we're losing more and more of our blue green home to the destructive activities of rapacious megacorporations.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I feel like I'm one of very few people (apart from climate scientists, biologists, etc) who really get the escalating scale & rapidity of our human assault on Earth ecosystems.
I'm guessing some of you must feel similarly alone with the burdens of heart breaking, mind blowing knowledge?
I'm guessing some of you must feel similarly alone with the burdens of heart breaking, mind blowing knowledge?
October 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I feel like I'm one of very few people (apart from climate scientists, biologists, etc) who really get the escalating scale & rapidity of our human assault on Earth ecosystems.
I'm guessing some of you must feel similarly alone with the burdens of heart breaking, mind blowing knowledge?
I'm guessing some of you must feel similarly alone with the burdens of heart breaking, mind blowing knowledge?
Hey friends, this inspiring piece that celebrates community and coming together to make life better lifted my heart and restored some of my trust that we CAN beat Reform and have nice things, politically.
Three cheers for Lindsay Whittle & Plaid Cymru! ♥️🔥
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Three cheers for Lindsay Whittle & Plaid Cymru! ♥️🔥
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth
Welsh voters have rejected Labour and Starmerite managerialism. By offering hope and not division we showed the populist right can be beaten, says Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hey friends, this inspiring piece that celebrates community and coming together to make life better lifted my heart and restored some of my trust that we CAN beat Reform and have nice things, politically.
Three cheers for Lindsay Whittle & Plaid Cymru! ♥️🔥
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Three cheers for Lindsay Whittle & Plaid Cymru! ♥️🔥
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
October 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
Hey people, I just finished a new painting that I'm feeling pleased with! ♥️ Here it is. One of a series, for an exhibition about humanity's relationship with our earth home which is titled Birdsong At Midnight.
I might call this painting No Planet B - something along those lines, anyway...
I might call this painting No Planet B - something along those lines, anyway...
October 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Hey people, I just finished a new painting that I'm feeling pleased with! ♥️ Here it is. One of a series, for an exhibition about humanity's relationship with our earth home which is titled Birdsong At Midnight.
I might call this painting No Planet B - something along those lines, anyway...
I might call this painting No Planet B - something along those lines, anyway...
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But do please note that "Affordable Housing" is, in itself, a set of different schemes. And from what I can see about 1/3 of Affordable Houses are sold as "Shared Ownership" - which by all accounts is a nightmare!
I think it's the Intermediate and Social Rent allocations that need to be expanded.
I think it's the Intermediate and Social Rent allocations that need to be expanded.
October 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
But do please note that "Affordable Housing" is, in itself, a set of different schemes. And from what I can see about 1/3 of Affordable Houses are sold as "Shared Ownership" - which by all accounts is a nightmare!
I think it's the Intermediate and Social Rent allocations that need to be expanded.
I think it's the Intermediate and Social Rent allocations that need to be expanded.
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Dear peeps, please read this. I'm crying. The housing situation in the UK for the less well off is horribly, cruelly fucked.
As someone from a council house background who's always rented, the fact I have a low cost private rental flat is down to sheer luck!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As someone from a council house background who's always rented, the fact I have a low cost private rental flat is down to sheer luck!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A waiting list of thousands, and just five new homes for social rent: this city shows the depth of Britain’s housing crisis | John Harris
Liverpool was once praised for its tolerance, but housing shortages are driving fearful, unsettling behaviours – and people are blaming outsiders, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Dear peeps, please read this. I'm crying. The housing situation in the UK for the less well off is horribly, cruelly fucked.
As someone from a council house background who's always rented, the fact I have a low cost private rental flat is down to sheer luck!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As someone from a council house background who's always rented, the fact I have a low cost private rental flat is down to sheer luck!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dear peeps, please read this. I'm crying. The housing situation in the UK for the less well off is horribly, cruelly fucked.
As someone from a council house background who's always rented, the fact I have a low cost private rental flat is down to sheer luck!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As someone from a council house background who's always rented, the fact I have a low cost private rental flat is down to sheer luck!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A waiting list of thousands, and just five new homes for social rent: this city shows the depth of Britain’s housing crisis | John Harris
Liverpool was once praised for its tolerance, but housing shortages are driving fearful, unsettling behaviours – and people are blaming outsiders, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Dear peeps, please read this. I'm crying. The housing situation in the UK for the less well off is horribly, cruelly fucked.
As someone from a council house background who's always rented, the fact I have a low cost private rental flat is down to sheer luck!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As someone from a council house background who's always rented, the fact I have a low cost private rental flat is down to sheer luck!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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You beauties! Brave, bold, loud truth tellers ♥️🌟🔥
Peacefully marching for freedom, and against fascist dictatorship.
Peacefully marching for freedom, and against fascist dictatorship.
October 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
You beauties! Brave, bold, loud truth tellers ♥️🌟🔥
Peacefully marching for freedom, and against fascist dictatorship.
Peacefully marching for freedom, and against fascist dictatorship.
You beauties! Brave, bold, loud truth tellers ♥️🌟🔥
Peacefully marching for freedom, and against fascist dictatorship.
Peacefully marching for freedom, and against fascist dictatorship.
October 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
You beauties! Brave, bold, loud truth tellers ♥️🌟🔥
Peacefully marching for freedom, and against fascist dictatorship.
Peacefully marching for freedom, and against fascist dictatorship.
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Better late than never, I guess. What took you so long, Labour?
October 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Better late than never, I guess. What took you so long, Labour?