Varyl Thorndycraft
@varylt.bsky.social
Geographer - Geomorphologist - Experimental music.
He/him. Born 330ppm Dad 416ppm.
He/him. Born 330ppm Dad 416ppm.
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Tax wealth and cut bills. Reduce inequality and ensure a safer future.
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At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Tax wealth and cut bills. Reduce inequality and ensure a safer future.
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I awoke to the headline this morning that Ottawa and Alberta are reportedly “close” to a deal that includes a new heavy oil pipeline to the northwest coast of BC…
It feels timely to share that my book is out now with UBC Press, available open access
www.ubcpress.ca/mega-pipelin...
It feels timely to share that my book is out now with UBC Press, available open access
www.ubcpress.ca/mega-pipelin...
Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance
Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance - Tar Sands, Social Movements, and the Politics of Energy Infrastructure; Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance reveals how and why social movements have frustrated major pip...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I awoke to the headline this morning that Ottawa and Alberta are reportedly “close” to a deal that includes a new heavy oil pipeline to the northwest coast of BC…
It feels timely to share that my book is out now with UBC Press, available open access
www.ubcpress.ca/mega-pipelin...
It feels timely to share that my book is out now with UBC Press, available open access
www.ubcpress.ca/mega-pipelin...
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We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
Shell mounds, toxic fire and boat - Essex coast is always interesting psychogeographically
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Shell mounds, toxic fire and boat - Essex coast is always interesting psychogeographically
I did a 20 km estuary walk at the weekend along the Roach valley (Essex) with great soundscape/birds (curlew, avocet, lapwing, hundreds of ducks and waders). My daughter won't be able to at my age #climate #sealevelrise
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I did a 20 km estuary walk at the weekend along the Roach valley (Essex) with great soundscape/birds (curlew, avocet, lapwing, hundreds of ducks and waders). My daughter won't be able to at my age #climate #sealevelrise
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Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It's astounding how much CO₂ we put into the atmosphere each year by burning fossil fuels.
For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
1) Fossil fuel
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It's astounding how much CO₂ we put into the atmosphere each year by burning fossil fuels.
For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
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Environmental justice and equity has to be for everyone, or it is for no one.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women
Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN
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November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Environmental justice and equity has to be for everyone, or it is for no one.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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My partner works for HEET, a small NE London organisation supporting people in fuel poverty. They currently have a winter fundraiser. Money goes to making homes more energy efficient, less damp, or helping people with fossil fuel inflated bills.🙏
#climate #inequality
localgiving.org/fundraising/...
#climate #inequality
localgiving.org/fundraising/...
Take action on fuel poverty in north-east London this winter | Localgiving
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November 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My partner works for HEET, a small NE London organisation supporting people in fuel poverty. They currently have a winter fundraiser. Money goes to making homes more energy efficient, less damp, or helping people with fossil fuel inflated bills.🙏
#climate #inequality
localgiving.org/fundraising/...
#climate #inequality
localgiving.org/fundraising/...
Memo to the quoted govt person... Cargo E-bikes can replace cars for families. As our daughter nears being too big for our bike seat we are looking at E-bike options so that we can eg carry both her and shopping. Replacing cars is a cost saver in so many ways.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy bikes
Chancellor expected to introduce new limit on how much can be spent on a bicycle through cycle to work scheme
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November 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Memo to the quoted govt person... Cargo E-bikes can replace cars for families. As our daughter nears being too big for our bike seat we are looking at E-bike options so that we can eg carry both her and shopping. Replacing cars is a cost saver in so many ways.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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“If you’ve been following recent debates about health, you’ve been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts and health insurance costs – but much less about one of the greatest threats to global public health: climate change.” Via @theconversation.com #ClimateCrisis #HealthyCities
Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change
From extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses, climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Health scientists explain what individuals and governments can do about it.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
“If you’ve been following recent debates about health, you’ve been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts and health insurance costs – but much less about one of the greatest threats to global public health: climate change.” Via @theconversation.com #ClimateCrisis #HealthyCities
My partner works for HEET, a small NE London organisation supporting people in fuel poverty. They currently have a winter fundraiser. Money goes to making homes more energy efficient, less damp, or helping people with fossil fuel inflated bills.🙏
#climate #inequality
localgiving.org/fundraising/...
#climate #inequality
localgiving.org/fundraising/...
Take action on fuel poverty in north-east London this winter | Localgiving
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November 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My partner works for HEET, a small NE London organisation supporting people in fuel poverty. They currently have a winter fundraiser. Money goes to making homes more energy efficient, less damp, or helping people with fossil fuel inflated bills.🙏
#climate #inequality
localgiving.org/fundraising/...
#climate #inequality
localgiving.org/fundraising/...
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Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
Also, the article talks about Starmer's experience in leadership. But Labour promote austerity and household budget analogies. Here's an incredulous Paul Krugman on that....from a decade ago.
www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Also, the article talks about Starmer's experience in leadership. But Labour promote austerity and household budget analogies. Here's an incredulous Paul Krugman on that....from a decade ago.
www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
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"Zealously Pro Palestinian party"
Genocide is bad actually.
Genocide is bad actually.
What happens if the Greens overtake Labour in the polls? All bets are off | Gaby Hinsliff
What happens if the Greens overtake Labour in the polls? All bets are off | Gaby Hinsliff
They may lack Labour’s party machine, but Zack Polanski’s burgeoning popularity could have seismic consequences for British politics, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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November 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"Zealously Pro Palestinian party"
Genocide is bad actually.
Genocide is bad actually.
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Today the UN COP climate summit kicked off in Brazil, and @london.gov.uk has been in Rio to promote action on climate change by cities. Back here in London, my @badvertising.bsky.social team mates launched a campaign to ask the Mayor to stop promoting pollution on London’s public transport network
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Today the UN COP climate summit kicked off in Brazil, and @london.gov.uk has been in Rio to promote action on climate change by cities. Back here in London, my @badvertising.bsky.social team mates launched a campaign to ask the Mayor to stop promoting pollution on London’s public transport network
@jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social on confronting the dangerous merger of neoliberalism and the lifeboat ethicists of the tech far right.
Tough but essential read ending with strategies of resistance
Tough but essential read ending with strategies of resistance
Read the latest Fascism & Liberalism blog by @jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social
"Cataclysm Capitalism continues neoliberalism’s attack on democracy, and goes even further, dispensing with any illusion of serving the greater good."
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"Cataclysm Capitalism continues neoliberalism’s attack on democracy, and goes even further, dispensing with any illusion of serving the greater good."
➡️ tinyurl.com/4jj2zese
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
@jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social on confronting the dangerous merger of neoliberalism and the lifeboat ethicists of the tech far right.
Tough but essential read ending with strategies of resistance
Tough but essential read ending with strategies of resistance
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
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“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
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Finally - the extraordinary animated film "No One is an Island," based on our "Living Well Within Limits" project can be seen! labour of love and care by animator David Bunting & futurist-artist James McKay . You can see it (and vote for it!!!) here. 😍
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November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Finally - the extraordinary animated film "No One is an Island," based on our "Living Well Within Limits" project can be seen! labour of love and care by animator David Bunting & futurist-artist James McKay . You can see it (and vote for it!!!) here. 😍
myhero.com/2025-peoples...
myhero.com/2025-peoples...
"Hope isn’t something we wait for, it’s something we build – together... The same energy that carried [Mamdani] to victory can carry us too. But only if we organise, if we believe, and if we act." Inspiring from @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Zack Polanski: ‘Hope has just won in New York – it can win here too’ | The Observer
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November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"Hope isn’t something we wait for, it’s something we build – together... The same energy that carried [Mamdani] to victory can carry us too. But only if we organise, if we believe, and if we act." Inspiring from @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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It’s one thing to have different environmental/health priorities for your foundation, it’s quite another to have been bankrolling one of the primary sources of bullshit on the topic.
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It’s one thing to have different environmental/health priorities for your foundation, it’s quite another to have been bankrolling one of the primary sources of bullshit on the topic.
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To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️