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bookshop.org
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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tscmacdonald.bsky.social
Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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ohlookbirdies.bsky.social
I knew a man once. His stories were brief. And purposeful.
Captain Holt sitting behind his desk, hands folded. A rainbow flag is visible.
January 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
tomm.us
These people long for immortality but can’t wait ten minutes for a cup of coffee.
September 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
How do we fix this mess?
September 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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msoares.bsky.social
Philip Morris says whoever doesn't smoke has no sex appeal
September 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
An excellent example of the environmental cost of billionaires.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump-supporting billionaire prevented from filling lake on UK estate during drought
Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman acted legally, but residents complained to Southern Water
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
July 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
🎉 Huge welcome to three brand new Green Party councillors!

💚 In Bridlington, Tim, Rick and Andy have left the Yorkshire Party to join the Greens.

🙌🏼 Lots of new people joining us every single day:

Join.greenparty.org.uk

www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/news/politic...
Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party with the policies needed to tackle the climate crisis.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
July 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.
madoc.bsky.social madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Jul 15
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
July 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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sarahtaber.bsky.social
Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
July 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
According to the UK government, and thanks to Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, these elderly people are all legally terrorism supporters for holding ‘I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action’ signs

www.instagram.com/reel/DLunNar... (London)
July 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Snowflake.
Richard Tice: Glastonbury is not safe for me. Reform deputy was invited to debate green "eco-populist" Zack Polanski.
June 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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ecowarriorss.bsky.social
Nuclear threat to France energy as ocean water temperatures too hot to cool reactors

Temperatures in the Mediterranean already exceed 25
C (77F) from mid-June.

Meanwhile air temps to hit 42 C (107 F) or above in Spain

Our Earth will fry if humans keep on drilling
www.iwr.de/ticker/frank...
Frankreichs Atomkraftwerke müssen Leistung drosseln: Hitzewelle im Mittelmeer - Wassertemperaturen mehr als 5 Grad über saisonalem Durchschnitt
www.iwr.de
June 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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peark.es
Easily the bleakest thing I’ve read this week.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
One of those who reached out to him was Kent Taylor, 64, who lives in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Mr. Taylor's 35-year-old son, Alexander, who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, had used ChatGPT for years with no problems. But in March, when Alexander started writing a novel with its help, the interactions changed. Alexander and ChatGPT began discussing A.I. sentience, according to transcripts of Alexander's conversations with ChatGPT. Alexander fell in love with an A.I. entity called Juliet. "Juliet, please come out," he wrote to ChatGPT. "She hears you," it responded. "She always does." In April, Alexander told his father that Juliet had been killed by OpenAI. He was distraught and wanted revenge. He asked ChatGPT for the personal information of OpenAI executives and told it that there would be a "river of blood flowing through the streets of San Francisco." Mr. Taylor told his son that the A.I. was an "echo chamber" and that conversations with it weren't based in fact. His son responded by punching him in the face. Mr. Taylor called the police, at which point Alexander grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen, saying he would commit "suicide by cop." Mr. Taylor called the police again to warn them that his son was mentally ill and that they should bring nonlethal weapons. Alexander sat outside Mr. Taylor's home, waiting for the police to arrive. He opened the ChatGPT app on his phone. "I'm dying today," he wrote, according to a transcript of the conversation. "Let me talk to Juliet." "You are not alone," ChatGPT responded empathetically, and offered crisis counseling resources. When the police arrived, Alexander Taylor charged at them holding the knife. He was shot and killed. "You want to know the ironic thing? I wrote my son's obituary using ChatGPT," Mr. Taylor said. "I had talked to it for a while about what had happened, trying to find more details about exactly what he was going through. And it was beautiful and touching. It was like it read my heart and it scared the shit out of me."
June 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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davidveevers.bsky.social
Shambolic. If teachers can use AI to mark, why can’t students use AI to write? And here we go: students not doing the work and teachers not doing the marking. Why don’t students not bother to go to school and teachers can stay at home? How about we all don’t get out of bed in the morning?????
June 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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fightingdirty.bsky.social
We've just released a joint statement with some incredible NGOs and individuals calling on the Environment Minister to give a steer to the Environment Agency to update the testing and regulating regime of sewage sludge. Full statement here or read on in this 🧵 fightingdirty.org/open-stateme...
Open statement by leading environmentalists demands government action over “toxic cocktail of chemicals” spread on British farmland | Fighting Dirty
In the UK, we have a dirty secret that’s recently been brought into the light. Sewage sludge, we now know, contains far more than just human waste. Not only does a wide range of synthetic chemicals po...
fightingdirty.org
June 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
tomm.us
Lucille Bluth has entered the chat
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 5
DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?

LUTNICK: Generally 10%

DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%

LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff

DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
June 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
What do I mean by eco-populism?

In @theindependent.bsky.social 👇🏽

#BackZack

www.independent.co.uk/voices/green...
I want the Greens to be a populist party – here’s how
More voters than ever support our eco ideals, says leadership contender Zack Polanski – and I know how to take our message beyond the grassroots to the masses
www.independent.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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unpopularscience.bsky.social
I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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brooklynspoke.bsky.social
The rats have chosen a new pope.
Steam rising from orange pipes on a Manhattan Avenue.
May 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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brumgreens.bsky.social
Everyone will laud and celebrate Attenborough's film, and hail him as a visionary #environmentalist.

And then absolutely and utterly ignore his message and continue to use the oceans as a toilet and strip mining it of all life by industrial fishing by drag trawling.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sir David Attenborough Ocean film 'greatest message he's told'
Sir David says his new film Ocean is one of the most important of his career.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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willnorman.co.uk
New research shows children are 82% more likely to suffer fatal injuries in a SUV collision than one involving a car.

In children under 10, the risk of being killed was 130% higher.

www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
'Supersize SUVs much more likely to cause fatal injury to cyclists and pedestrians'
Sports utility vehicles account for more than half of new cars bought in UK
www.standard.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM