Varyl Thorndycraft
@varylt.bsky.social
Geographer - Geomorphologist - Experimental music.
He/him. Born 330ppm Dad 416ppm.
He/him. Born 330ppm Dad 416ppm.
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Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires have signed a letter calling for increased taxes on the super-rich.
Extreme wealth means extreme power - over our politics, our media, and our lives.
When even the super-rich know it's time to tax them more, will Labour finally listen?
Extreme wealth means extreme power - over our politics, our media, and our lives.
When even the super-rich know it's time to tax them more, will Labour finally listen?
January 21, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires have signed a letter calling for increased taxes on the super-rich.
Extreme wealth means extreme power - over our politics, our media, and our lives.
When even the super-rich know it's time to tax them more, will Labour finally listen?
Extreme wealth means extreme power - over our politics, our media, and our lives.
When even the super-rich know it's time to tax them more, will Labour finally listen?
My father in law just described this as the most compelling party political broadcast he's seen. "Homes are for living in - not landlord's portfolios, energy is for warming those homes - not record dividends, rivers are for nature and swimming in - not being poisoned to protect profits" 👏👏👏
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 9:17 PM
My father in law just described this as the most compelling party political broadcast he's seen. "Homes are for living in - not landlord's portfolios, energy is for warming those homes - not record dividends, rivers are for nature and swimming in - not being poisoned to protect profits" 👏👏👏
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This headline celebrates the effects of genocide.
“Glittering”? Jesus Christ.
“Glittering”? Jesus Christ.
January 22, 2026 at 7:59 PM
This headline celebrates the effects of genocide.
“Glittering”? Jesus Christ.
“Glittering”? Jesus Christ.
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Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
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"I know we are all going gaga over Carney, but Gaza, not Greenland, broke what was left of the liberal international order." -- @GregGrandin
Exactly right GG. @katemac.bsky.social & I last yr
"Western legitimacy, moreover, lies buried in the rubble of Gaza."
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pol...
Exactly right GG. @katemac.bsky.social & I last yr
"Western legitimacy, moreover, lies buried in the rubble of Gaza."
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pol...
January 22, 2026 at 4:51 AM
"I know we are all going gaga over Carney, but Gaza, not Greenland, broke what was left of the liberal international order." -- @GregGrandin
Exactly right GG. @katemac.bsky.social & I last yr
"Western legitimacy, moreover, lies buried in the rubble of Gaza."
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pol...
Exactly right GG. @katemac.bsky.social & I last yr
"Western legitimacy, moreover, lies buried in the rubble of Gaza."
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pol...
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Farage is entirely responsible here but has thrown his ‘team’ under the bus for 'admin' errors
Real problem is he's showing profound disrespect for his position as an MP - a role well-paid from the public purse & which the majority of us dedicate ourselves to as a more-than-full-time job
Real problem is he's showing profound disrespect for his position as an MP - a role well-paid from the public purse & which the majority of us dedicate ourselves to as a more-than-full-time job
NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
January 21, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Farage is entirely responsible here but has thrown his ‘team’ under the bus for 'admin' errors
Real problem is he's showing profound disrespect for his position as an MP - a role well-paid from the public purse & which the majority of us dedicate ourselves to as a more-than-full-time job
Real problem is he's showing profound disrespect for his position as an MP - a role well-paid from the public purse & which the majority of us dedicate ourselves to as a more-than-full-time job
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Extraordinary polling from @yougov.co.uk today, showing the @greenparty.org.uk in first place across all working age people
🟢Grn - 20.5%
🔴Lab - 20.3%
⚫Ref - 20.1%
🔵Con - 15.5%
baffling why 60% of pensioners are supporting Con/Ref who will slash public spending that mainly goes to pensioners
🟢Grn - 20.5%
🔴Lab - 20.3%
⚫Ref - 20.1%
🔵Con - 15.5%
baffling why 60% of pensioners are supporting Con/Ref who will slash public spending that mainly goes to pensioners
January 20, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Extraordinary polling from @yougov.co.uk today, showing the @greenparty.org.uk in first place across all working age people
🟢Grn - 20.5%
🔴Lab - 20.3%
⚫Ref - 20.1%
🔵Con - 15.5%
baffling why 60% of pensioners are supporting Con/Ref who will slash public spending that mainly goes to pensioners
🟢Grn - 20.5%
🔴Lab - 20.3%
⚫Ref - 20.1%
🔵Con - 15.5%
baffling why 60% of pensioners are supporting Con/Ref who will slash public spending that mainly goes to pensioners
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🎉 Green GAIN from Reform! 🎉
💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!
💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!
January 21, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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My bike and I hope to contribute more to the economy this year than ever before.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@mason4c.bsky.social
@howardfrumkin.bsky.social
@jonathanpatz.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@mason4c.bsky.social
@howardfrumkin.bsky.social
@jonathanpatz.bsky.social
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
January 21, 2026 at 12:34 PM
My bike and I hope to contribute more to the economy this year than ever before.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@mason4c.bsky.social
@howardfrumkin.bsky.social
@jonathanpatz.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@mason4c.bsky.social
@howardfrumkin.bsky.social
@jonathanpatz.bsky.social
🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲
My bike and I hope to contribute more to the economy this year than ever before.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@mason4c.bsky.social
@howardfrumkin.bsky.social
@jonathanpatz.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@mason4c.bsky.social
@howardfrumkin.bsky.social
@jonathanpatz.bsky.social
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:35 PM
🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲
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A very timely new database out today from @influencemap.bsky.social - the 'carbon majors' database identifies the weirdly small number of fossil fuel gatekeepers, the corporate and state-owned entities that unlock ultra-dangerous fuel substances and profit wildly from their continued use:
Carbon Majors: 2024 Data Update
A new briefing analyzing the latest emissions data from the Carbon Majors database.
carbonmajors.org
January 21, 2026 at 12:06 PM
A very timely new database out today from @influencemap.bsky.social - the 'carbon majors' database identifies the weirdly small number of fossil fuel gatekeepers, the corporate and state-owned entities that unlock ultra-dangerous fuel substances and profit wildly from their continued use:
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Worth noting losses to federal science extend well beyond these programs, e.g., to Dept of Agriculture, Dept of the Interior, and elsewhere. We've lost 30% of our federal colleagues at the USGS National Climate Adaptation Science Center in the past year.
Rebuilding will take decades.
Rebuilding will take decades.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 21, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Worth noting losses to federal science extend well beyond these programs, e.g., to Dept of Agriculture, Dept of the Interior, and elsewhere. We've lost 30% of our federal colleagues at the USGS National Climate Adaptation Science Center in the past year.
Rebuilding will take decades.
Rebuilding will take decades.
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A pretty unambiguous top line judgement in the UK's "National security assessment on global ecosystems" report, released today:
"Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity" Confidence: high.
Time to speed up action, then?
www.gov.uk/government/p...
"Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity" Confidence: high.
Time to speed up action, then?
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security
This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.
www.gov.uk
January 20, 2026 at 9:36 PM
A pretty unambiguous top line judgement in the UK's "National security assessment on global ecosystems" report, released today:
"Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity" Confidence: high.
Time to speed up action, then?
www.gov.uk/government/p...
"Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity" Confidence: high.
Time to speed up action, then?
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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The biggest miscalculation of the Trumpists is about human nature. They assume we're all selfish and cowardly and can be cowed into silence or submission or surrender, which is to say they seem to base their version of human nature partly on themselves and partly on their scorn for the rest of us.
One Long Year Later: It's Not Over, and We Haven't Surrendered
I wrote an essay in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election, an essay to encourage people to not give up and not assume that the Trumpists had won. It follows, after this prelude about where we a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:12 PM
The biggest miscalculation of the Trumpists is about human nature. They assume we're all selfish and cowardly and can be cowed into silence or submission or surrender, which is to say they seem to base their version of human nature partly on themselves and partly on their scorn for the rest of us.
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This was announced 12 days ago and really ought to have received more attention.
The UK & other rich countries just gifted U.S. corporations’ a major exemption from int'l tax rules.
The UK was already haemorrhaging an estimated $9 billion a year to tax-cheating US megacorps.
🧵Here’s what the latest capitulation to Trump’s bullying means... 1/9
The UK was already haemorrhaging an estimated $9 billion a year to tax-cheating US megacorps.
🧵Here’s what the latest capitulation to Trump’s bullying means... 1/9
January 20, 2026 at 6:10 AM
This was announced 12 days ago and really ought to have received more attention.
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I'm just going to continue to re-post my Nov '24 commentary for @bulletinatomic.bsky.social "Welcome to the American Petrostate"
thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...
thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...
January 19, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I'm just going to continue to re-post my Nov '24 commentary for @bulletinatomic.bsky.social "Welcome to the American Petrostate"
thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...
thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...
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Super fun to talk about the US-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle with @kendrawrites.com for SciAm's Science Quickly pod: www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
How South America’s Oil Rush Collides with the Climate Crisis
A break down of why Venezuela’s oil boom is clashing with a hotter, more fragile planet
www.scientificamerican.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Super fun to talk about the US-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle with @kendrawrites.com for SciAm's Science Quickly pod: www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
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Loved every minute of the Yorkshire tour - thanks to everyone who showed up this weekend!
And love this picture that Anna, age 7, gave me as I was leaving 💚
And love this picture that Anna, age 7, gave me as I was leaving 💚
January 18, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Loved every minute of the Yorkshire tour - thanks to everyone who showed up this weekend!
And love this picture that Anna, age 7, gave me as I was leaving 💚
And love this picture that Anna, age 7, gave me as I was leaving 💚
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
Great thread here on climate communication and academics reproducing media narratives. More scientists need to engage with climate obstruction research. Helpfully there's a free download for a recent book on this (with a media chapter) academic.oup.com/book/61469
January 15, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Great thread here on climate communication and academics reproducing media narratives. More scientists need to engage with climate obstruction research. Helpfully there's a free download for a recent book on this (with a media chapter) academic.oup.com/book/61469
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"An actuarial review of key #climate change assumptions shows we may have seriously underestimated the rate of warming as well as the related economic impacts. Unless we rapidly change course, climate damages will start to impact growth & future prosperity"
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
Underestimates in global warming pose major climate and financial risks
New analysis suggests the planet may be more sensitive to greenhouse gases than many models assume, meaning temperatures could rise faster and bring much greater climate risks than policymakers and fi...
news.exeter.ac.uk
January 15, 2026 at 7:23 AM
"An actuarial review of key #climate change assumptions shows we may have seriously underestimated the rate of warming as well as the related economic impacts. Unless we rapidly change course, climate damages will start to impact growth & future prosperity"
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
Seems like a good time to have joined the Oxford Greens...
🚨Former Labour Councillor Ed Mundy has defected to the Oxford @greenparty.org.uk
January 14, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Seems like a good time to have joined the Oxford Greens...
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Daily Mail confused again.
Not uncomfortable supporting women in Iran or calling out the regime’s digital blackout.
What is uncomfortable is the hypocrisy of those supporting genocide in Gaza while pretending to be champions of human rights.
Silent when journalists are banned.
Not uncomfortable supporting women in Iran or calling out the regime’s digital blackout.
What is uncomfortable is the hypocrisy of those supporting genocide in Gaza while pretending to be champions of human rights.
Silent when journalists are banned.
January 13, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Daily Mail confused again.
Not uncomfortable supporting women in Iran or calling out the regime’s digital blackout.
What is uncomfortable is the hypocrisy of those supporting genocide in Gaza while pretending to be champions of human rights.
Silent when journalists are banned.
Not uncomfortable supporting women in Iran or calling out the regime’s digital blackout.
What is uncomfortable is the hypocrisy of those supporting genocide in Gaza while pretending to be champions of human rights.
Silent when journalists are banned.
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The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Imprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: ‘I’m dying’
Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says ‘her body is shutting down’
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...