Peter Garbutt
@petergarbutt.bsky.social
I'm 73, happily married. Vegan. I'm a dad and a grandad. Sheffield, UK.
Climate catastrophe. Civilisational collapse.
Degrowth will help. Sustainable communities will help. Sortition will help.
But capitalism won't, Political Parties won't, the media won't
Climate catastrophe. Civilisational collapse.
Degrowth will help. Sustainable communities will help. Sortition will help.
But capitalism won't, Political Parties won't, the media won't
Pinned
Much though my heart cries out to donate to Palestinians on this platform desperate for food, I'm a pensioner and have a limited income. I give to a charity, and I join protests and vigils to show my solidarity with you.
Your plight often brings me to tears, I feel helpless.
Your plight often brings me to tears, I feel helpless.
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Due to Keir Starmer’s team playing an absolute blinder today with this leadership nonsense. We’ve missed a Reform councillor calling children in care, ‘evil’.
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Due to Keir Starmer’s team playing an absolute blinder today with this leadership nonsense. We’ve missed a Reform councillor calling children in care, ‘evil’.
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Lib Dem Leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
"A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."
"A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Lib Dem Leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
"A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."
"A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."
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NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.
This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline.
After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.
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In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
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"Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024."
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenod...
essd.copernicus.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
"Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024."
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
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Slight improvement. Must do better!
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'the abandoned paper mill was actually a deeply contaminated and highly radioactive former frack waste treatment plan'
Hard to overstate the enduring filth released by fossil fuel extraction
Hard to overstate the enduring filth released by fossil fuel extraction
November 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
'the abandoned paper mill was actually a deeply contaminated and highly radioactive former frack waste treatment plan'
Hard to overstate the enduring filth released by fossil fuel extraction
Hard to overstate the enduring filth released by fossil fuel extraction
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"Produced water", brimming with salt + chemicals, rises with oil + gas, then gets shot back underground by injection wells. The contaminants it contains turn up in people's wells + on farmland.
It's happening more often @grist.org explores why:
grist.org/accountabili...
It's happening more often @grist.org explores why:
grist.org/accountabili...
Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from Oklahoma oil wells.
grist.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Produced water", brimming with salt + chemicals, rises with oil + gas, then gets shot back underground by injection wells. The contaminants it contains turn up in people's wells + on farmland.
It's happening more often @grist.org explores why:
grist.org/accountabili...
It's happening more often @grist.org explores why:
grist.org/accountabili...
End of my threes run!
Septle 1606 - 🔥 80 day streak - septle.com
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Septle - The Seven Letter Wordle
Guess the hidden word in 8 tries. New puzzles are available each day.
septle.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
End of my threes run!
Septle 1606 - 🔥 80 day streak - septle.com
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🚨NEW STORY 🚨
Last month, over 400 activists were imprisoned by Israel for trying to bring aid into Gaza. 1 of them was Zue, an army vet.
Here, me and Zue discuss her voyage to Gaza, imprisonment, NOLA's role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, & more.
antigravitymagazine.com/feature/zue-...
Last month, over 400 activists were imprisoned by Israel for trying to bring aid into Gaza. 1 of them was Zue, an army vet.
Here, me and Zue discuss her voyage to Gaza, imprisonment, NOLA's role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, & more.
antigravitymagazine.com/feature/zue-...
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
🚨NEW STORY 🚨
Last month, over 400 activists were imprisoned by Israel for trying to bring aid into Gaza. 1 of them was Zue, an army vet.
Here, me and Zue discuss her voyage to Gaza, imprisonment, NOLA's role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, & more.
antigravitymagazine.com/feature/zue-...
Last month, over 400 activists were imprisoned by Israel for trying to bring aid into Gaza. 1 of them was Zue, an army vet.
Here, me and Zue discuss her voyage to Gaza, imprisonment, NOLA's role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, & more.
antigravitymagazine.com/feature/zue-...
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End the denial and hypocrisy - Netanyahu's Israel is a #warcriminal and #genocide regime.
#StoptheGenocide
#StoptheGenocide
"Human rights groups report that Israeli authorities have systematically subjected Palestinian prisoners to widespread torture, resulting in the deaths of at least 80 detainees."
Now the genocidal rogue state will authorize the murder of Palestinian prisoners - many detained without charge.
Now the genocidal rogue state will authorize the murder of Palestinian prisoners - many detained without charge.
Israel's Ben Gvir hands out sweets after death penalty bill for Palestinians advances - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ben-gvir-distributes-sweets-after-preliminary-approval-prisoner-execution-law
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
End the denial and hypocrisy - Netanyahu's Israel is a #warcriminal and #genocide regime.
#StoptheGenocide
#StoptheGenocide
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250 MILLION people displaced in a world approaching 1.4C above pre-industrial temperatures.
We’re on track for…
2C in years.
3C in decades.
4C likely in our children’s lifetimes.
When scientists warn of BILLIONS of deaths they’re not kidding.
We’re on track for…
2C in years.
3C in decades.
4C likely in our children’s lifetimes.
When scientists warn of BILLIONS of deaths they’re not kidding.
Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds
Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
250 MILLION people displaced in a world approaching 1.4C above pre-industrial temperatures.
We’re on track for…
2C in years.
3C in decades.
4C likely in our children’s lifetimes.
When scientists warn of BILLIONS of deaths they’re not kidding.
We’re on track for…
2C in years.
3C in decades.
4C likely in our children’s lifetimes.
When scientists warn of BILLIONS of deaths they’re not kidding.
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"This entire saga has a smell hanging over it. The people of Teesside, Hartlepool and Darlington are no fools. That smell will not go away until there is a full, transparent and independent inquiry."
Teesworks scandal: a dark tale of public wealth lost and private gain
Teesworks - a story that reads like a screenplay for a dark political drama
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
"This entire saga has a smell hanging over it. The people of Teesside, Hartlepool and Darlington are no fools. That smell will not go away until there is a full, transparent and independent inquiry."
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Is he self aware that him and his party have helped caused this? Or is he just a total psycho and saying what he thinks we want to hear?
Either way, don’t vote Labour
Either way, don’t vote Labour
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
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UK politics live – latest updates
Decades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.
Speaking to GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Is he self aware that him and his party have helped caused this? Or is he just a total psycho and saying what he thinks we want to hear?
Either way, don’t vote Labour
Either way, don’t vote Labour
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Iranian authorities may begin evacuating residents of Tehran due to the worst drought in 60 years
Iranian authorities are considering the possibility of evacuating residents of Tehran amid a catastrophic drought, described as the most severe in the last six decades.
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Iranian authorities are considering the possibility of evacuating residents of Tehran amid a catastrophic drought, described as the most severe in the last six decades.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Iranian authorities may begin evacuating residents of Tehran due to the worst drought in 60 years
Iranian authorities are considering the possibility of evacuating residents of Tehran amid a catastrophic drought, described as the most severe in the last six decades.
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Iranian authorities are considering the possibility of evacuating residents of Tehran amid a catastrophic drought, described as the most severe in the last six decades.
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I can’t argue with that 👍✊
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I can’t argue with that 👍✊
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Its also a strong indicator of how little politicians value all our lives.
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Its also a strong indicator of how little politicians value all our lives.
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The Death House
open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The Death House
open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
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Here I go again!
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Here I go again!
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Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban
Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp