Deborah Tomkins
@tomkinsdeb.bsky.social
Author of prize-winning #ecofiction. #Nature. #Climate.
Aerth (@weatherglassbooks.bsky.social)
The Wilder Path (@aurorametro.bsky.social)
Represented by Sara Langham @david-higham-books.bsky.social
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Aerth (@weatherglassbooks.bsky.social)
The Wilder Path (@aurorametro.bsky.social)
Represented by Sara Langham @david-higham-books.bsky.social
deborahtomkinswriter.com
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"Nigel Farage attended Davos on a pass sponsored by the family office of Iranian billionaire Sasan Ghandehari, which told the World Economic Forum that the Reform UK leader had advised the company since 2018"
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ps Sasan Ghandehari donated £100K to Reform
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ps Sasan Ghandehari donated £100K to Reform
January 24, 2026 at 10:06 AM
"Nigel Farage attended Davos on a pass sponsored by the family office of Iranian billionaire Sasan Ghandehari, which told the World Economic Forum that the Reform UK leader had advised the company since 2018"
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ps Sasan Ghandehari donated £100K to Reform
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ps Sasan Ghandehari donated £100K to Reform
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I found a petition to ban smart glasses in public spaces that needs a bit of a boost, if anyone else feels strongly about this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Ban the use of smart glasses with recording capability in public spaces
We ask the Government to ban smart glasses with cameras in public spaces. We believe they allow secret filming, and undermine privacy, safety and the public’s right to know when they’re being recorded...
petition.parliament.uk
January 24, 2026 at 9:04 AM
I found a petition to ban smart glasses in public spaces that needs a bit of a boost, if anyone else feels strongly about this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Sadly suppressing such a devastating report doesn’t make the risks go away - it just makes them even harder to deal with. Facing up to the truth is the first step to coping with it - it’s beyond scandalous that ministers tried to prevent this. They need to act - and fast
January 23, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Sadly suppressing such a devastating report doesn’t make the risks go away - it just makes them even harder to deal with. Facing up to the truth is the first step to coping with it - it’s beyond scandalous that ministers tried to prevent this. They need to act - and fast
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Palantir software is now the basis of the Government's fraud reporting service. So it now handles sensitive financial data for millions of UK citizens. Plus NHS data. Plus military analytics. Plus policing.
And, of course, it's quite explicitly far right in its politics.
What could ever go wrong?
And, of course, it's quite explicitly far right in its politics.
What could ever go wrong?
NEWS: UK police launch ‘Report Fraud’ service - AML Intelligence
UK officials have formally launched 'Report Fraud', a new service aimed at changing how victims of fraud and cybercrime contact police.
www.amlintelligence.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Palantir software is now the basis of the Government's fraud reporting service. So it now handles sensitive financial data for millions of UK citizens. Plus NHS data. Plus military analytics. Plus policing.
And, of course, it's quite explicitly far right in its politics.
What could ever go wrong?
And, of course, it's quite explicitly far right in its politics.
What could ever go wrong?
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A real shame if this photo went viral again today.
January 18, 2026 at 8:18 AM
A real shame if this photo went viral again today.
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A reminder how ICE treats priests.
January 20, 2026 at 9:19 PM
A reminder how ICE treats priests.
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There are, I promise you, still serious and important people who think that Trump is playing 3D chess — putting on an act to convince his laggard NATO allies to pony up their fare share.
But stuff like this is pretty clear evidence that he's *the* immediate risk to our collective security
But stuff like this is pretty clear evidence that he's *the* immediate risk to our collective security
![Tweet from PBS correspondent Nick Schifrin:
NEW: @potus
letter to @jonasgahrstore
links @NobelPrize
to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tdpns2ajyjp4g5niu4ouczuo/bafkreid6amzbzbj4rx2qgwsh7wyzqii3qzbgtgysv7owwqxjsydjk6qfuu@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 6:17 AM
There are, I promise you, still serious and important people who think that Trump is playing 3D chess — putting on an act to convince his laggard NATO allies to pony up their fare share.
But stuff like this is pretty clear evidence that he's *the* immediate risk to our collective security
But stuff like this is pretty clear evidence that he's *the* immediate risk to our collective security
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I'd wager this is the angriest statement ever issued by the Nobel Peace Prize people...
January 18, 2026 at 12:28 PM
I'd wager this is the angriest statement ever issued by the Nobel Peace Prize people...
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Our co-director @rupertread.bsky.social is featured in this powerful upcoming event at Kairos, London - Thrutopia: Stories of Active Hope brings together philosophy, fiction & climate realism to imagine futures beyond the utopia/dystopia trap.
Tues 17 Feb - Tickets: www.kairos.london/event/thruto...
Tues 17 Feb - Tickets: www.kairos.london/event/thruto...
Thrutopia: Stories of Active Hope with Monique Roffey, Rupert Read & Laura Baggaley - Kairos
Tuesday February 17th, 6.30 for 7pm With the prospect of civilisation collapse looking ever more likely, Utopian visions of any sort now appear beyond our reach. And yet the opposite, the bleak future...
www.kairos.london
January 16, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Our co-director @rupertread.bsky.social is featured in this powerful upcoming event at Kairos, London - Thrutopia: Stories of Active Hope brings together philosophy, fiction & climate realism to imagine futures beyond the utopia/dystopia trap.
Tues 17 Feb - Tickets: www.kairos.london/event/thruto...
Tues 17 Feb - Tickets: www.kairos.london/event/thruto...
When Roly takes a walk on a beautiful New Year's Eve, she doesn't expect to become trapped in a cave with only a cormorant for company... The Wilder Path, from @aurora_metro Aurora Metro Books. (I took this photo on a winter's day near St Ives). #climate #nature #grief #Booksky
January 6, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Govt minister Mike Tapp refuses to say that the US should not attack Denmark and Greenland.
Moments later he declares that sticking to international law is what we stand for as a country.
Moments later he declares that sticking to international law is what we stand for as a country.
January 5, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Govt minister Mike Tapp refuses to say that the US should not attack Denmark and Greenland.
Moments later he declares that sticking to international law is what we stand for as a country.
Moments later he declares that sticking to international law is what we stand for as a country.
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BREAKING: Trump’s administration ordered NASA to shut down its largest library and throw the books in the trash. Not move them. Not save them. Destroy them. That’s not cost cutting. That’s straight up war on knowledge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
January 3, 2026 at 3:23 AM
BREAKING: Trump’s administration ordered NASA to shut down its largest library and throw the books in the trash. Not move them. Not save them. Destroy them. That’s not cost cutting. That’s straight up war on knowledge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
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The Trump administration is shutting NASA's Goddard library down today and things will be archived in a warehouse or "thrown away."
Much of this material is literally irreplaceable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
Much of this material is literally irreplaceable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:29 PM
The Trump administration is shutting NASA's Goddard library down today and things will be archived in a warehouse or "thrown away."
Much of this material is literally irreplaceable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
Much of this material is literally irreplaceable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
On a beautiful #NewYear'sEve afternoon, much like today, Roly takes a stroll on the North Cornish coast, but ends up trapped in a tiny cave with only an injured cormorant for company... The Wilder Path, a novel from @aurorametro.bsky.social
#climate #nature #grief
#climate #nature #grief
December 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
On a beautiful #NewYear'sEve afternoon, much like today, Roly takes a stroll on the North Cornish coast, but ends up trapped in a tiny cave with only an injured cormorant for company... The Wilder Path, a novel from @aurorametro.bsky.social
#climate #nature #grief
#climate #nature #grief
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Current plans to tackle global warming will only save 3 percent of Europe's Alpine glaciers from disappearing this century, with most melting away within the next two decades, a new study has found.
Europe’s Alps on track to lose 97 percent of glaciers by century’s end, study finds
Stricter climate policies would save hundreds of glaciers in Europe’s Alps and tens of thousands worldwide, study finds.
www.politico.eu
December 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Current plans to tackle global warming will only save 3 percent of Europe's Alpine glaciers from disappearing this century, with most melting away within the next two decades, a new study has found.
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Remember, for much of the world - including pretty much all of South and SE Asia that relies on glacier-fed rivers for irrigation -
no glaciers means no water
and no water means no crops
and no crops means no food
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
no glaciers means no water
and no water means no crops
and no crops means no food
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years
Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Remember, for much of the world - including pretty much all of South and SE Asia that relies on glacier-fed rivers for irrigation -
no glaciers means no water
and no water means no crops
and no crops means no food
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
no glaciers means no water
and no water means no crops
and no crops means no food
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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December 11, 1895 – Svante Arrhenius reads his “Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air” paper to Swedish Academy of Science…
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December 11, 1895 - Arrhenius reads his "Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air" paper to Swedish Academy of Science... - All Our Yesterdays
On this day, December 11 in 1895, Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius read his would-eventually-be-’famous’ paper On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground at th...
allouryesterdays.info
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
December 11, 1895 – Svante Arrhenius reads his “Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air” paper to Swedish Academy of Science…
allouryesterdays.info/2022/12/10/d...
allouryesterdays.info/2022/12/10/d...
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"This is national security issue. Without a living, healthy biosphere, there is no stable economy, no food..."
Prof Nathalie Seddon of @ox.ac.uk on why we're facing a national emergency.
Sign the open letter calling for a televised emergency briefing. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#NEB2025
Prof Nathalie Seddon of @ox.ac.uk on why we're facing a national emergency.
Sign the open letter calling for a televised emergency briefing. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#NEB2025
December 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"This is national security issue. Without a living, healthy biosphere, there is no stable economy, no food..."
Prof Nathalie Seddon of @ox.ac.uk on why we're facing a national emergency.
Sign the open letter calling for a televised emergency briefing. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#NEB2025
Prof Nathalie Seddon of @ox.ac.uk on why we're facing a national emergency.
Sign the open letter calling for a televised emergency briefing. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#NEB2025
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Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
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#MuralMonday | #MuralsOnMonday
Not all murals go on walls. These are at the Newport library and they represent many of the books banned by closed minded intolerant busybodies.
#Photography 📸 #books
#WestCoastKin #EastcoastKin
#PNW #Oregon #Newport
#murals #PublicArt #library
Not all murals go on walls. These are at the Newport library and they represent many of the books banned by closed minded intolerant busybodies.
#Photography 📸 #books
#WestCoastKin #EastcoastKin
#PNW #Oregon #Newport
#murals #PublicArt #library
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
#MuralMonday | #MuralsOnMonday
Not all murals go on walls. These are at the Newport library and they represent many of the books banned by closed minded intolerant busybodies.
#Photography 📸 #books
#WestCoastKin #EastcoastKin
#PNW #Oregon #Newport
#murals #PublicArt #library
Not all murals go on walls. These are at the Newport library and they represent many of the books banned by closed minded intolerant busybodies.
#Photography 📸 #books
#WestCoastKin #EastcoastKin
#PNW #Oregon #Newport
#murals #PublicArt #library
#Books make great #Christmas gifts! Try indie publishers @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social and @aurorametro.bsky.social ! (Not that I'm biased).
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
#Books make great #Christmas gifts! Try indie publishers @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social and @aurorametro.bsky.social ! (Not that I'm biased).
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This is absolutely right. This is just the beginning if emissions keep rising. Aviation is a major driver of those emissions. Choosing to be #FlightFree is one of the most powerful ways to reduce your personal impact.
Don't be mistaken in thinking that this is the worst it will get
As the climate continues to break down, extreme weather has barely got started
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
As the climate continues to break down, extreme weather has barely got started
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia – visual guide
Extreme weather has killed more than 1,000 people across southern and south-eastern Asia as cyclones turbocharged rain systems across the region
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This is absolutely right. This is just the beginning if emissions keep rising. Aviation is a major driver of those emissions. Choosing to be #FlightFree is one of the most powerful ways to reduce your personal impact.