Coho
@alansloan.bsky.social
Amateur philosopher, contrarian, affirms population and resource limits. Tikkun Olam. People should live where they like, how they like ... but within planetary boundaries. Natural economy has no free lunches, but needs no money.
There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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"Syria is enduring one of its worst droughts in decades, with severely low rainfall and rising temperatures. This has caused wheat harvests to drop by 40% and pushed fodder prices up, forcing herders to sell livestock at a loss"
#Syria 🇸🇾
#ClimateEmergency
#Syria 🇸🇾
#ClimateEmergency
Syria drought worsens: Farmers and shepherds struggle as crops fail and dams run dry
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Syria is enduring one of its worst droughts in decades, with severely low rainfall and rising temperatures. This has caused wheat harvests to drop by 40% and pushed fodder prices up, forcing herders to sell livestock at a loss"
#Syria 🇸🇾
#ClimateEmergency
#Syria 🇸🇾
#ClimateEmergency
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Hey Nigel Farage, Zia Yusuf & Linden Kemkaran, remember when you sent this letter?
How’s that going?
How’s that going?
November 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Hey Nigel Farage, Zia Yusuf & Linden Kemkaran, remember when you sent this letter?
How’s that going?
How’s that going?
Lol humour is not dead; funny ...
no, no, I'm in Your Party (Marxist-Leninist Corbynite), not those splitters and wreckers in the Your Party (Revolutionary Corbynite Tendency)
Blimey. Major new split in Your Party. Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain -who is secretary of the Your Party company - says he's quitting due to "persistent infighting, factional competition, and a struggle for power, position and influence rather than a shared commitment to the common good."
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Lol humour is not dead; funny ...
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There's no foraging or other purely extractive activities in my place whatsoever: all fungi, nuts, berries, dead wood, etc., are left for nature.
At least *some* places need to be off-limits to human exploitation.
At least *some* places need to be off-limits to human exploitation.
How is mushroom foraging overall where you are?
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There's no foraging or other purely extractive activities in my place whatsoever: all fungi, nuts, berries, dead wood, etc., are left for nature.
At least *some* places need to be off-limits to human exploitation.
At least *some* places need to be off-limits to human exploitation.
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Sperm Whales Have Their Own Language. Does That Mean They Have Legal Rights?
cleantechnica.com/2025/11/02/s...
cleantechnica.com/2025/11/02/s...
Sperm Whales Have Their Own Language. Does That Mean They Have Legal Rights? - CleanTechnica
CETI, a group that studies the communications of whales, is advocating for legal protection of these denizens of the deep.
cleantechnica.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Sperm Whales Have Their Own Language. Does That Mean They Have Legal Rights?
cleantechnica.com/2025/11/02/s...
cleantechnica.com/2025/11/02/s...
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.
October 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.
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"We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less."
For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less."
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A recent report by the child sexual exploitation taskforce suggested that a higher proportion of perpetrators of all forms of child sexual abuse are white. Let’s wait for Reform, Elon Musk, the Tories and Tommy Robinson to all decry these men and order an inquiry into their crimes.
June 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
A recent report by the child sexual exploitation taskforce suggested that a higher proportion of perpetrators of all forms of child sexual abuse are white. Let’s wait for Reform, Elon Musk, the Tories and Tommy Robinson to all decry these men and order an inquiry into their crimes.
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"Protect our women" includes patriarchal ownership ideas - this is why so many abusers come from the right.
June 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
"Protect our women" includes patriarchal ownership ideas - this is why so many abusers come from the right.
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There are few things more disgusting than watching the far right and their mainstream cheerleaders use grooming victims for their racist ends. These people have never cared about rape or misogyny in their lives - indeed, they excuse it - and listening to them fake it is genuinely grotesque.
June 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
There are few things more disgusting than watching the far right and their mainstream cheerleaders use grooming victims for their racist ends. These people have never cared about rape or misogyny in their lives - indeed, they excuse it - and listening to them fake it is genuinely grotesque.
We are now to PAY Shell to bury carbon dioxide after it has made billions from pumping it out of the ground in the first place?
I spoke to Ed Miliband about why politicians "owe" Scotland the Acorn project after years of false promises and why the imvesent could be a catalyst for the North Sea and Grangemouth to "make Scotland the centre of this energy transition".
www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
Ed Miliband: We 'owe Scotland' over £200m Acorn project funds and jobs potential
Ed Miliband has claimed there are “unlimited opportunities” for energy jobs in Labour’s vision for the North Sea.
www.scotsman.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We are now to PAY Shell to bury carbon dioxide after it has made billions from pumping it out of the ground in the first place?
He has a point ...
The problem with the Human Development Index in an era of ecological breakdown — Jason Hickel share.google/HupDLKQ5XyDw...
The problem with the Human Development Index in an era of ecological breakdown — Jason Hickel share.google/HupDLKQ5XyDw...
The problem with the Human Development Index in an era of ecological breakdown — Jason Hickel
If you haven’t come across the Global Footprint Network yet, check them out. Based in Oakland, CA, they produce fantastic data on the Ecological Footprint (EF) of nations around the world....
share.google
June 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
He has a point ...
The problem with the Human Development Index in an era of ecological breakdown — Jason Hickel share.google/HupDLKQ5XyDw...
The problem with the Human Development Index in an era of ecological breakdown — Jason Hickel share.google/HupDLKQ5XyDw...
He has a point....
The problem with the Human Development Index in an era of ecological breakdown — Jason Hickel www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/7/...
The problem with the Human Development Index in an era of ecological breakdown — Jason Hickel www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/7/...
The problem with the Human Development Index in an era of ecological breakdown — Jason Hickel
If you haven’t come across the Global Footprint Network yet, check them out. Based in Oakland, CA, they produce fantastic data on the Ecological Footprint (EF) of nations around the world....
www.jasonhickel.org
June 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
He has a point....
The problem with the Human Development Index in an era of ecological breakdown — Jason Hickel www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/7/...
The problem with the Human Development Index in an era of ecological breakdown — Jason Hickel www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/7/...
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A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.
June 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.
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Yesterday, I sat on a rock watching (through a monocular) a family of willow warblers in trees that, 5 or 6 years ago, didn't even exist. That planted themselves.
And I was filled with deep joy.
#Rewilding 🌏
And I was filled with deep joy.
#Rewilding 🌏
June 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Yesterday, I sat on a rock watching (through a monocular) a family of willow warblers in trees that, 5 or 6 years ago, didn't even exist. That planted themselves.
And I was filled with deep joy.
#Rewilding 🌏
And I was filled with deep joy.
#Rewilding 🌏
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When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left?
All the shifts are in just one direction.
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
All the shifts are in just one direction.
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
bylinetimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:04 AM
When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left?
All the shifts are in just one direction.
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
All the shifts are in just one direction.
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
Ha ha!
A definition of White British which, aside from everything else, includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles.
'the white British share of the population – defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent' 😂😂 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
June 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Ha ha!
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A young bird-seeded rowan pushes up through thick furze (gorse). There's a lot of this happening ever since grazing pressure was lifted.
The power of nature. 💪🏽
#Rewilding 🌏
The power of nature. 💪🏽
#Rewilding 🌏
June 2, 2025 at 5:35 AM
A young bird-seeded rowan pushes up through thick furze (gorse). There's a lot of this happening ever since grazing pressure was lifted.
The power of nature. 💪🏽
#Rewilding 🌏
The power of nature. 💪🏽
#Rewilding 🌏
This is great ...
Why autistic people are mistaken for being argumentative #autismawareness
May 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is great ...
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The majority of lovely folks I met in my long hospital stay, were not from the UK. They were the kindest caring hardworking nurses and Doctors. I am grateful to them for saving my life and my sons life. This was a long time ago but there were staff shortages even then. The NHS is surviving because 🧵
May 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The majority of lovely folks I met in my long hospital stay, were not from the UK. They were the kindest caring hardworking nurses and Doctors. I am grateful to them for saving my life and my sons life. This was a long time ago but there were staff shortages even then. The NHS is surviving because 🧵