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Bianca Kemp
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Dispatches from Devon. Green Party, wyrd and rural ✌️🌿

Stop Reform UK
Depose Trump
Prosecute Musk
End Toxic Male Leadership

Women-Led World Governance!
Radicals for Renewables!
Universal Basic Income Now!
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You cannot fight fascism with neo-liberalism.
January 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM
To those craven souls guzzling the kool aid; dabbling in the dutty politics of sexual predators, racists, extortionists, murderers, liars and thieves…

The Reverend Mother will now hear your confession.
January 13, 2026 at 4:25 PM
‘In the UK, reverse engineering is restricted under article 6 of the European software directive.’

‘post-Brexit, we needn’t wait for the copyright directive to be repealed before we can strike article 6 off our own law books’

Let’s hear it for Cory Doctorow 👏

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory D...
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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Outrageous bare-faced lies - it’s extraordinary what the right wing press can get away with.
Thank you @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org for such a thorough debunking
Truly wild that the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express & Daily Telegraph all covered false claims that net-zero will "cost" £7.6bn – or even £9tn – which assumes we could have free gas, free petrol, free petrol cars & free gas power plants if we scrapped net-zero

More here: bsky.app/profile/drsi...
January 13, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Meta is Trump aligned. Why are centrist politicians so tethered to toxic tech?

Genuine question.
The Prime Minister has been posting consistently on Facebook and Instagram whilst shunning Elon Musk’s platform.
Keir Starmer personally 'boycotting' X over Grok AI deepfakes
Ofcom has launched an investigation
www.thelondoneconomic.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:06 AM
‘Trees and other vegetation capture airborne microplastic particles from the atmosphere and deposit them’

They found PET plastics from food containers and clothing permeate British woodlands.

Microplastic pollution is not just an urban problem, it’s everywhere.

phys.org/news/2026-01...
Microplastics found in rural woodland at higher levels than in city centers
Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural environments in greater quantities than in urban locations, researchers say. Scientists led by the University of Leeds detected up to 500 microscop...
phys.org
January 13, 2026 at 9:23 AM
The conservation biologist who invented frog saunas.

“Waddle is an award-winning conservation biologist on a mission to save frogs from the deadly chytrid fungus, which has wiped out 90 species and is threatening more than 500 more.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
He invented mini saunas for frogs – now this biologist has big plans to save hundreds of species
A deadly fungus has already wiped out 90 species and threatens 500 more but Anthony Waddle is hoping gene replacement could be their salvation
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Yvette Cooper’s hypocrisy is beyond comprehension.

Politicians who voted to proscribe Palestine Action, who’ve abandoned those young people and left them to die in cells, have lost all credible ground when it comes to upholding citizens’ rights and freedoms. They should leave politics in shame.
Left: Yvette Cooper criticising Iran for "repression of peaceful protestors"

Right: Labour's Baron Hain criticising Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer for conflating non violent protest with terrorism, effectively the "repression of peaceful protestors"
January 12, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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STORY: The GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross Bill Ackman gave $10k to was created by a man with a profile image of what the ADL called a white supremacist hate symbol, who called Good “a stupod bitch who got what she deserved.”

It's raised over $400k and is still live.

theintercept.com/2026/01/12/i...
ICE Agent GoFundMe Created by Activist Who Used Hitler Salute Symbol. Bill Ackman Gave $10,000.
Bill Ackman gave $10,000 to a GoFundMe for ICE killer Jonathon Ross that was started by a man whose account who posted Nazi imagery online.
theintercept.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Bill Ackman - just go the whole hog and be prepared to face the full wrath, or shut up.

You’re in it up to your neck and will go down in history as a disgrace, along with your ICE buddies - prevarication won’t save you.
January 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Ah. Shameless self-interest every time. He’ll fit right in.
January 12, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Did fear drive Nadhim Zahawi to defect to a staunchly, anti immigrant authoritarian party - and pledge loyalty to its racist leader?

As long as Nadhim feels secure, he’s fine with thousands of British immigrants living under fear and tyranny of a Reform Government.

What a spineless stooge, he is.
Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
January 12, 2026 at 2:12 PM
This is a plant I can talk to. I bought it for the bathroom, last week; and so far it’s been good company.

Accidentally knocked it off the windowsill today, and had to check it over for damage, apologised profusely - like when I sit on my dog’s tail. It was fine.

It’s the friendliest plant.
January 12, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Is this Nadhim Zahawi being coy in saying he wants to return to Iraq? It happens.

I know a Polish woman who voted Brexit, and supports Reform. Having shut the gates on her natives, she’s now thinking of return to Poland, because she hasn’t made any friends here.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Former Tory chancellor Nadhim Zahawi says UK is ‘sick’ as he defects to Reform UK – politics live
Nigel Farage reveals convert to party as former chancellor says UK ‘has reached a dark and dangerous chapter’
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:27 PM
I’m feeling the same. Revoke citizenship for Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson, for a start, as national security threats to the U.K.

Banish them to live out their days with which ever authoritarian regime will take them.

These men pose far more risk than Shamima Begum has ever done.
The arbiter of goodness.
January 12, 2026 at 10:55 AM
The war cry of the right after Renee Good’s murder, has been a resounding: “obey or get shot”

This is where the UK Government needs to start passing bills to protect our democracy from the brand of absolute tyranny coming from Trump’s U.S.
When did “disrespect” for law enforcement become a crime worthy of summary execution in the street? Clearly it must have started after Jan 6th, 2021. So…when?
Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?"

Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
January 12, 2026 at 10:31 AM
The truth: “The evidence shows that violent crime rates are proportionately lower in London than in any other UK city.”

The truth no longer controls the narrative.

If Trump wants to think London is violent, he’ll make sure that’s what Reform voters believe.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade
Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Sheriff Rochelle Bilal!

The Resistance is Resisting.
January 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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Something tells me you ain't gonna be messing with Rochelle.
Powerful. Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal threatening to arrest ICE if they fuck with her city. This is the energy we need right now. The police want to be the good guys for once? Protect us from ICE.

(Video split into 2 parts due to 3 minute length restrictions)
January 9, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Free speech fundamentalists obviously haven’t studied John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, a classic liberal text on which free speech was founded in this country.

Or they skipped the ‘Harm Principle’ chapter - its limitations - which Trump, Musk and Vance routinely and deliberately breach.
It was people like this, who encouraged people to vote Leave, because they didn't think unelected bureaucrats in the EU should interfere in British politics. Meanwhile....
January 11, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Second that. Great interview with Mehdi Hasan on News Agents, who’s thinking about Trump’s regime is refreshingly clear.

No use standing around head scratching about what type of beast it is; meanwhile it’s destroying lives and what has taken generations to build.
This is a really good interview. Recommend taking a listen ⬇️
January 11, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Musk, Farage and Trump present a political problem for us all, because they want, above all, power without accountability.

Royal Society not ejecting Musk highlights this problem in science.

Same cause; both male-dominated

Why does this class of male feel entitled to have their cake and eat it?
January 11, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Royal Society creates a morality problem for science by keeping Musk as a member. We can always innovate, but does that mean we should at all costs?

Renaissance alchemists recognised a boundary between good and evil, and saw no distinction between spiritual wisdom and genius. A regrettable loss
January 11, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Studies on ancient migration never fail to show England as a tapestry of diverse ethnicities, wiping the floor with far right insistences that immigration somehow erodes British identity.

phys.org/news/2026-01...
Roots of medieval migration into England uncovered in new study
Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places and at different rates, a study finds.
phys.org
January 11, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Musk’s dictum:

“Have your cake and eat it too”
The men who claimed to be ‘defending women and children’ when they were burning down asylum hotels are now threatening to take to the streets to protest the banning of an app that facilitates creation of abuse images of children and women.
January 10, 2026 at 11:36 PM