David Baxter
@davebaxtersa.bsky.social
Privileged, middle aged, white woke man, fighting for social equality and a healthy 🌍. I also like having fun. I’m not really on threads any more.
My slow purge has begun.
X went in 2024
Threads last week
All news sources will leave my phone this month
I’ll still be here on Bluesky, on LI and Facebook for connecting.
I have no need of all this craziness in my life. I have work to do. Greatness to achieve.
X went in 2024
Threads last week
All news sources will leave my phone this month
I’ll still be here on Bluesky, on LI and Facebook for connecting.
I have no need of all this craziness in my life. I have work to do. Greatness to achieve.
January 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My slow purge has begun.
X went in 2024
Threads last week
All news sources will leave my phone this month
I’ll still be here on Bluesky, on LI and Facebook for connecting.
I have no need of all this craziness in my life. I have work to do. Greatness to achieve.
X went in 2024
Threads last week
All news sources will leave my phone this month
I’ll still be here on Bluesky, on LI and Facebook for connecting.
I have no need of all this craziness in my life. I have work to do. Greatness to achieve.
Politicians need to wake up to the 21st Century reality :
You cannot be friends with #Trump and the #EU.
You need to choose. Be friends with one and cordial with the other.
I’d be in Europe. But #Labour is confused.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
You cannot be friends with #Trump and the #EU.
You need to choose. Be friends with one and cordial with the other.
I’d be in Europe. But #Labour is confused.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Peter Mandelson to be announced as UK’s next US ambassador
Keir Starmer on the verge of appointing Labour grandee to key post at start of Trump presidency
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2024 at 7:25 AM
Politicians need to wake up to the 21st Century reality :
You cannot be friends with #Trump and the #EU.
You need to choose. Be friends with one and cordial with the other.
I’d be in Europe. But #Labour is confused.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
You cannot be friends with #Trump and the #EU.
You need to choose. Be friends with one and cordial with the other.
I’d be in Europe. But #Labour is confused.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Elon musk - idiot
Donald Trump - idiot
Nigel Farage - idiot
Keir Starmer - idiot
Vladimir Putin - lunatic
With all the idiots and lunatics running stuff…where did all the smart people go?
Donald Trump - idiot
Nigel Farage - idiot
Keir Starmer - idiot
Vladimir Putin - lunatic
With all the idiots and lunatics running stuff…where did all the smart people go?
December 16, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Elon musk - idiot
Donald Trump - idiot
Nigel Farage - idiot
Keir Starmer - idiot
Vladimir Putin - lunatic
With all the idiots and lunatics running stuff…where did all the smart people go?
Donald Trump - idiot
Nigel Farage - idiot
Keir Starmer - idiot
Vladimir Putin - lunatic
With all the idiots and lunatics running stuff…where did all the smart people go?
Let’s assume #elon_musk is worth $250bn.
And his wealth grows at 15% in 2025.
And imagine if you could tax the increase in his wealth (just the increase) at 50%
That would bank the government $19bn dollars.
And #musk would have $269bn left.
Enough for him to still buy Mars in 2026.
And his wealth grows at 15% in 2025.
And imagine if you could tax the increase in his wealth (just the increase) at 50%
That would bank the government $19bn dollars.
And #musk would have $269bn left.
Enough for him to still buy Mars in 2026.
December 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Let’s assume #elon_musk is worth $250bn.
And his wealth grows at 15% in 2025.
And imagine if you could tax the increase in his wealth (just the increase) at 50%
That would bank the government $19bn dollars.
And #musk would have $269bn left.
Enough for him to still buy Mars in 2026.
And his wealth grows at 15% in 2025.
And imagine if you could tax the increase in his wealth (just the increase) at 50%
That would bank the government $19bn dollars.
And #musk would have $269bn left.
Enough for him to still buy Mars in 2026.
This is obviously such a bullshit idea.
#Housing should take priority over #golf_courses. Golf courses should be compulsory purchased for housing developments.
Problem solved and nature saved.
#Housing should take priority over #golf_courses. Golf courses should be compulsory purchased for housing developments.
Problem solved and nature saved.
Housing must take priority over nature, says Starmer in green belt reform plan
Housing must take priority over nature, says Starmer in green belt reform plan
Councils given mandatory targets to deliver 370,000 homes a year in England, including through review of green belt boundaries
Homes must have a higher priority than nature and the environment, the Prime Minister said, as ministers outlined reforms that…
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:06 PM
This is obviously such a bullshit idea.
#Housing should take priority over #golf_courses. Golf courses should be compulsory purchased for housing developments.
Problem solved and nature saved.
#Housing should take priority over #golf_courses. Golf courses should be compulsory purchased for housing developments.
Problem solved and nature saved.
Reposted by David Baxter
Housing must take priority over nature, says Starmer in green belt reform plan
Housing must take priority over nature, says Starmer in green belt reform plan
Councils given mandatory targets to deliver 370,000 homes a year in England, including through review of green belt boundaries
Homes must have a higher priority than nature and the environment, the Prime Minister said, as ministers outlined reforms that…
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Housing must take priority over nature, says Starmer in green belt reform plan
Quelle surprise?
The wealthy are deliberately dividing us. So that they can continue to scrape the cream off the top of the #milk. And then drink the milk. And then leave you with an empty bottle. Which you can then all fight over.
Such fun darling.
The wealthy are deliberately dividing us. So that they can continue to scrape the cream off the top of the #milk. And then drink the milk. And then leave you with an empty bottle. Which you can then all fight over.
Such fun darling.
Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
By @josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
By @josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
bylinetimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Quelle surprise?
The wealthy are deliberately dividing us. So that they can continue to scrape the cream off the top of the #milk. And then drink the milk. And then leave you with an empty bottle. Which you can then all fight over.
Such fun darling.
The wealthy are deliberately dividing us. So that they can continue to scrape the cream off the top of the #milk. And then drink the milk. And then leave you with an empty bottle. Which you can then all fight over.
Such fun darling.
@uklabour.bsky.social, you have to absolutely get a grip on the #farage situation.
He is very likely to rip the rug out from underneath your feet at the next election. Underestimate him at your peril.
If he gets anywhere near power. Then I am done with the #UK.
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He is very likely to rip the rug out from underneath your feet at the next election. Underestimate him at your peril.
If he gets anywhere near power. Then I am done with the #UK.
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Can Nigel Farage turn Reform into a serious contender for government?
Support for the rightwing populist party is growing fast but its path to power remains rocky
ftedit.ft.com
December 12, 2024 at 5:36 PM
@uklabour.bsky.social, you have to absolutely get a grip on the #farage situation.
He is very likely to rip the rug out from underneath your feet at the next election. Underestimate him at your peril.
If he gets anywhere near power. Then I am done with the #UK.
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He is very likely to rip the rug out from underneath your feet at the next election. Underestimate him at your peril.
If he gets anywhere near power. Then I am done with the #UK.
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@uklabour.bsky.social.
Time for action.
If you think you can negotiate with #Trump. You are wrong. We can forge a stronger relationship with the #EU and that is what the #people want.
So go do it.
Dump Trump. It will cause a whole load of diplomatic fun and games.
Time for action.
If you think you can negotiate with #Trump. You are wrong. We can forge a stronger relationship with the #EU and that is what the #people want.
So go do it.
Dump Trump. It will cause a whole load of diplomatic fun and games.
“54% of Britons who voted leave, including 59% of voters in “red wall seats”, said in exchange for single market access they would now accept full free movement for EU and UK citizens to travel, live and work across borders.”
Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:07 AM
@uklabour.bsky.social.
Time for action.
If you think you can negotiate with #Trump. You are wrong. We can forge a stronger relationship with the #EU and that is what the #people want.
So go do it.
Dump Trump. It will cause a whole load of diplomatic fun and games.
Time for action.
If you think you can negotiate with #Trump. You are wrong. We can forge a stronger relationship with the #EU and that is what the #people want.
So go do it.
Dump Trump. It will cause a whole load of diplomatic fun and games.
December 6, 2024 at 2:58 PM
So the haves have convinced the have nots that the haves don’t have and the have nots need to hate on the other have nots so that the haves can have even more than the have nots.
November 26, 2024 at 3:41 PM
So the haves have convinced the have nots that the haves don’t have and the have nots need to hate on the other have nots so that the haves can have even more than the have nots.
I’ve gotten a bit of a wacko idea that we could form a movement to defund Wall Street.
I hold some savings in a #pension scheme. I hypothesise that we can apply pressure to asset managers to defund #Trump’s project through withdrawing our capital from the US stock market.
I hold some savings in a #pension scheme. I hypothesise that we can apply pressure to asset managers to defund #Trump’s project through withdrawing our capital from the US stock market.
November 19, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Also. It’s 19 November, I was kinda wondering when Autumn would come.
And then.
Boom. Fcuk autumn, we’ll get straight into winter then.
❄️❄️❄️
And then.
Boom. Fcuk autumn, we’ll get straight into winter then.
❄️❄️❄️
November 19, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Also. It’s 19 November, I was kinda wondering when Autumn would come.
And then.
Boom. Fcuk autumn, we’ll get straight into winter then.
❄️❄️❄️
And then.
Boom. Fcuk autumn, we’ll get straight into winter then.
❄️❄️❄️
What is the actual point of weather forecasters?
Absolutely and completely always wrong.
No snow❄️ forecast today. And it’s legit been snowing for about 3 hours today.
Absolutely and completely always wrong.
No snow❄️ forecast today. And it’s legit been snowing for about 3 hours today.
November 19, 2024 at 3:32 PM
What is the actual point of weather forecasters?
Absolutely and completely always wrong.
No snow❄️ forecast today. And it’s legit been snowing for about 3 hours today.
Absolutely and completely always wrong.
No snow❄️ forecast today. And it’s legit been snowing for about 3 hours today.
November 15, 2024 at 10:32 AM
I might start billing #GlastonburyFestival for the time I waste every year on trying to buy tickets to their stupid festival.
November 14, 2024 at 6:36 PM
I might start billing #GlastonburyFestival for the time I waste every year on trying to buy tickets to their stupid festival.
It isn’t mud - it is a valuable resource called #soil.
Soil is consistently washed off fields across Somerset because of poor #farming practices.
Soil washed off fields >>soil fills drainage ditches>>roads fooods>>no soil in field
Absolute state of this :
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Soil is consistently washed off fields across Somerset because of poor #farming practices.
Soil washed off fields >>soil fills drainage ditches>>roads fooods>>no soil in field
Absolute state of this :
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Somerset farmers warned over leaving mud on roads - BBC News
Somerset Council says it will prosecute the "minority" of farmers who sometimes leave mud on roads.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 7:00 AM
It isn’t mud - it is a valuable resource called #soil.
Soil is consistently washed off fields across Somerset because of poor #farming practices.
Soil washed off fields >>soil fills drainage ditches>>roads fooods>>no soil in field
Absolute state of this :
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Soil is consistently washed off fields across Somerset because of poor #farming practices.
Soil washed off fields >>soil fills drainage ditches>>roads fooods>>no soil in field
Absolute state of this :
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Can someone advise me how to start a new feed?
November 13, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Can someone advise me how to start a new feed?
Welcome George.
I may have to leave threads as well then.
Left Twitter a while ago.
I may have to leave threads as well then.
Left Twitter a while ago.
Phew! Well, now that I've decided to move here properly from Ex, I guess I'd better introduce myself. I've been an environmental journalist since 1985, and a campaigner for most of that time. Here's some blah about my strange and not-always-happy life: www.monbiot.com/about/%F0%9F...
https://www.monbiot.com/about/🧵
November 13, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Welcome George.
I may have to leave threads as well then.
Left Twitter a while ago.
I may have to leave threads as well then.
Left Twitter a while ago.
I’m just wondering if the King is alive?
What’s he doing?
With all this stuff going on and not a peep?
What’s he doing?
With all this stuff going on and not a peep?
October 19, 2023 at 11:32 PM
I’m just wondering if the King is alive?
What’s he doing?
With all this stuff going on and not a peep?
What’s he doing?
With all this stuff going on and not a peep?
Who would have thought that a load of white men drawing meaningless lines on maps would cause so much heartache and violence?
October 10, 2023 at 11:40 AM
Who would have thought that a load of white men drawing meaningless lines on maps would cause so much heartache and violence?
Well here I am. Glad to be here. Just when you thought the world was weird, it just got weirder.
October 9, 2023 at 6:58 PM
Well here I am. Glad to be here. Just when you thought the world was weird, it just got weirder.