Eben Muse
@ebenmyrddin.bsky.social
Access and nature campaigner, physicist, researcher who writes. Keen climber/runner. Views are my own!
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Eben Muse
@ebenmyrddin.bsky.social
· Sep 13
The Guardian didn't end up using some of the most interesting photos for the article, but I'll share them here with credit to Rupert Allen.
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Are there any other countries whose "patriotic" publications pay foreigners to write about what a hellhole they think their country is?
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Are there any other countries whose "patriotic" publications pay foreigners to write about what a hellhole they think their country is?
I think a lot of people of my age and political inclination hold a lot of sympathy and nostalgia even for the Corbyn years but it's so clear now that the world has moved past him.
A Labour man to his core, he hates the Greens for being spoilers for Labour more than he wants an effective left party.
A Labour man to his core, he hates the Greens for being spoilers for Labour more than he wants an effective left party.
November 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I think a lot of people of my age and political inclination hold a lot of sympathy and nostalgia even for the Corbyn years but it's so clear now that the world has moved past him.
A Labour man to his core, he hates the Greens for being spoilers for Labour more than he wants an effective left party.
A Labour man to his core, he hates the Greens for being spoilers for Labour more than he wants an effective left party.
Behold, the Your Party voter (the 'zionist' is Polanski haha)
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Behold, the Your Party voter (the 'zionist' is Polanski haha)
Can anybody still holding a candle for Your Party explain to me why? When the @greenparty.org.uk exists in its current form.
Even if you think they're not left enough or too pro NATO or something (lol) I don't understand why they don't try and do entryism.
They're well left of pre Corbyn Labour.
Even if you think they're not left enough or too pro NATO or something (lol) I don't understand why they don't try and do entryism.
They're well left of pre Corbyn Labour.
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Can anybody still holding a candle for Your Party explain to me why? When the @greenparty.org.uk exists in its current form.
Even if you think they're not left enough or too pro NATO or something (lol) I don't understand why they don't try and do entryism.
They're well left of pre Corbyn Labour.
Even if you think they're not left enough or too pro NATO or something (lol) I don't understand why they don't try and do entryism.
They're well left of pre Corbyn Labour.
How about the "narcissism of small differences party"?
Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana’s Your Party reveals shortlist for official name
Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana’s Your Party reveals shortlist for official name
Leftwing party asks members to pick between Your Party, Our Party, Popular Alliance and For The Many
The leftwing party formed by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana has revealed a shortlist of names for its members to pick from: Your Party, Our Party, Popular Alliance and For The Many.
Ahead of its first conference in Liverpool this weekend, the party is asking its 50,000 members to choose what it should be called, with the result to be announced by Corbyn on Sunday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
How about the "narcissism of small differences party"?
The thing about sport is that it's the lows that really make the highs.
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The thing about sport is that it's the lows that really make the highs.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
✨️Live✨️
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🚨 An accurate take on the utterly appalling Badenoch...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🚨 An accurate take on the utterly appalling Badenoch...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I'd be really interested in knowing how this could work, and whether it would ever make back the money it would cost to implement (which would be in the hundreds of millions and be one of Wales's biggest ever infrastructure projects).
There are thousands of entrances to our National parks!
There are thousands of entrances to our National parks!
About time Wales started charging entry fees to our national parks,
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'd be really interested in knowing how this could work, and whether it would ever make back the money it would cost to implement (which would be in the hundreds of millions and be one of Wales's biggest ever infrastructure projects).
There are thousands of entrances to our National parks!
There are thousands of entrances to our National parks!
Our financial systems are designed top to bottom to make life easy for people who are sitting on a £2m asset, even if their income from work is very small.
It stinks!!
It stinks!!
If only there was a financial product that enabled you to borrow cash against the value of your property, to be repaid on its eventual resale.
Mumsnet is already on the case.
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Our financial systems are designed top to bottom to make life easy for people who are sitting on a £2m asset, even if their income from work is very small.
It stinks!!
It stinks!!
Time to downsize and live within your means, then?
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Time to downsize and live within your means, then?
It feels like a 20% levy on taxis/uber without public transport that delivers passegers home from town later than 9pm is just another tax on night life.
People either won't go out (boo) or they will drive themselves (double boo).
People either won't go out (boo) or they will drive themselves (double boo).
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It feels like a 20% levy on taxis/uber without public transport that delivers passegers home from town later than 9pm is just another tax on night life.
People either won't go out (boo) or they will drive themselves (double boo).
People either won't go out (boo) or they will drive themselves (double boo).
Saving (either by pure force of will, risking burnout and working silly hours, or by getting lucky and getting family) is the only way young people can find themselves making life less of a desperate fight as they get older.
It feels like they want us trapped in this depressing loop.
It feels like they want us trapped in this depressing loop.
So they're making it harder for young people to save, so that we spend more, to help the economy.
But my generation have no money to spend because it all goes to our landlords or on bad mortgages, or on the horrifically high cost of living successive governments have cultivated for us.
Good stuff
But my generation have no money to spend because it all goes to our landlords or on bad mortgages, or on the horrifically high cost of living successive governments have cultivated for us.
Good stuff
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Saving (either by pure force of will, risking burnout and working silly hours, or by getting lucky and getting family) is the only way young people can find themselves making life less of a desperate fight as they get older.
It feels like they want us trapped in this depressing loop.
It feels like they want us trapped in this depressing loop.
So they're making it harder for young people to save, so that we spend more, to help the economy.
But my generation have no money to spend because it all goes to our landlords or on bad mortgages, or on the horrifically high cost of living successive governments have cultivated for us.
Good stuff
But my generation have no money to spend because it all goes to our landlords or on bad mortgages, or on the horrifically high cost of living successive governments have cultivated for us.
Good stuff
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So they're making it harder for young people to save, so that we spend more, to help the economy.
But my generation have no money to spend because it all goes to our landlords or on bad mortgages, or on the horrifically high cost of living successive governments have cultivated for us.
Good stuff
But my generation have no money to spend because it all goes to our landlords or on bad mortgages, or on the horrifically high cost of living successive governments have cultivated for us.
Good stuff
Proud to be a denizen of the UK's Federalized AI growth zone 📈🤖 (formerly known as Wales 🏴).
Here we go.
Here we go.
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Proud to be a denizen of the UK's Federalized AI growth zone 📈🤖 (formerly known as Wales 🏴).
Here we go.
Here we go.
The loss of 3,000 such a severe impoverishment of our country, that I'm surprised more isn't being made of it from the nationalist wing of our politics.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds
Environmental body says modest investment and changes can help preserve long list of animals, fungi and lichen
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The loss of 3,000 such a severe impoverishment of our country, that I'm surprised more isn't being made of it from the nationalist wing of our politics.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
But can you smell the cow shit in your local river?
I could smell the bullshit on this government statement
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
But can you smell the cow shit in your local river?
I'm not sure I agree with the Deputy First Minister's assessment that our commitment to water quality in Wales is all that great when you consider that only three of these bathing sites are inland.
www.gov.wales/98-welsh-bat...
www.gov.wales/98-welsh-bat...
98% of Welsh bathing waters meet strict environmental standards | GOV.WALES
Ninety-eight percent of designated bathing waters in Wales met stringent compliance standards this year – with the vast majority achieving 'excellent' status.
www.gov.wales
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I'm not sure I agree with the Deputy First Minister's assessment that our commitment to water quality in Wales is all that great when you consider that only three of these bathing sites are inland.
www.gov.wales/98-welsh-bat...
www.gov.wales/98-welsh-bat...
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@ebenmyrddin.bsky.social repping wild camping at the Basecamp stage at Kendal Mountain Festival.
November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
@ebenmyrddin.bsky.social repping wild camping at the Basecamp stage at Kendal Mountain Festival.
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
This is like when they got Al Capone for his taxes
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is like when they got Al Capone for his taxes
