Embr
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Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents
September 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents
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the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare
September 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare
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Our volunteers are currently tagging and describing the Edwin Miles Collection of photographs of Bridgend and the Vale of Glamorgan taken during the 1920s. He titled this brooding edifice as “The Rest Porthcawl [for men]”. Collection held @glamarchives.bsky.social #EYAEducation
![Image shows black and white photograph of a collection of large Victorian buildings. Written in white on the image is: “The Rest Porthcawl [for men] M693”. Part of the Edwin Miles Collection of photographs of Bridgend, and the Vale of Glamorgan taken for use as postcards, circa 1920-29.
Collection held at Glamorgan Archives.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7cswerpm6grj7sb2af5nbh5j/bafkreifqhus6tkijaph7hkyncrconzjxugsctil6oxtlf2p6j4jumpd234@jpeg)
September 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Our volunteers are currently tagging and describing the Edwin Miles Collection of photographs of Bridgend and the Vale of Glamorgan taken during the 1920s. He titled this brooding edifice as “The Rest Porthcawl [for men]”. Collection held @glamarchives.bsky.social #EYAEducation
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From Sunday, Sam Kiley from the Independent: "If any other country on earth was doing this it would have been called out by us in the media as what it is, which is ethnic cleansing and genocide, a long time ago, and frankly if people are not doing that now, they are being complicit"
August 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
From Sunday, Sam Kiley from the Independent: "If any other country on earth was doing this it would have been called out by us in the media as what it is, which is ethnic cleansing and genocide, a long time ago, and frankly if people are not doing that now, they are being complicit"
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Kehinde Andrews: "Its not that the far right have co-opted the flag, its the fact we don't seem to understand what this country is & the history of these symbols... the reason the far right picks up these flags.. is because these flags represent the racism they are putting out"
August 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Kehinde Andrews: "Its not that the far right have co-opted the flag, its the fact we don't seem to understand what this country is & the history of these symbols... the reason the far right picks up these flags.. is because these flags represent the racism they are putting out"
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Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report
Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report
False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised
Rampant climate misinformation is turning the crisis into a catastrophe, according to the authors of a new report.
It found climate action was being obstructed and delayed by false and misleading information stemming from fossil fuel companies, rightwing politicians and some nation states. The report, from the International Panel on the Information Environment (Ipie), systematically reviewed 300 studies. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report
Got some watercolours (expensive!) splashed out for a big set to take all the colours out and about. going to try and paint more with colours and take with me on trips. Did a test sheet and a little tree this evening.
June 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Got some watercolours (expensive!) splashed out for a big set to take all the colours out and about. going to try and paint more with colours and take with me on trips. Did a test sheet and a little tree this evening.
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In 1953, MI6 and the CIA plotted to overthrow Iran's democracy.
British officials wanted "a non communist coup d'état" in Iran to install a "dictator" who would promote UK oil interests, declassified files show
www.declassifieduk.org/iran-1953-mi...
British officials wanted "a non communist coup d'état" in Iran to install a "dictator" who would promote UK oil interests, declassified files show
www.declassifieduk.org/iran-1953-mi...
Iran 1953: MI6 plots with Islamists to overthrow democracy
Declassified British files highlight a little known aspect of the joint MI6/CIA coup against Iran’s democratically elected government in August 1953 – UK covert action in support of leading radical Sh...
www.declassifieduk.org
June 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
In 1953, MI6 and the CIA plotted to overthrow Iran's democracy.
British officials wanted "a non communist coup d'état" in Iran to install a "dictator" who would promote UK oil interests, declassified files show
www.declassifieduk.org/iran-1953-mi...
British officials wanted "a non communist coup d'état" in Iran to install a "dictator" who would promote UK oil interests, declassified files show
www.declassifieduk.org/iran-1953-mi...
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THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.
June 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.
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What perfect yet horrible ad placement!
June 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
What perfect yet horrible ad placement!
Going to do my first bikecamp this weekend am SO excited. Going to the North West coast which is somewhere completely new to me but with lots of places with train stations so if I have to bail there's options to get home
May 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Going to do my first bikecamp this weekend am SO excited. Going to the North West coast which is somewhere completely new to me but with lots of places with train stations so if I have to bail there's options to get home
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Labour is lying to you. Their intention is more privatisation of the NHS!
The only way to save the NHS in Scotland is to have Independence.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
The only way to save the NHS in Scotland is to have Independence.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Labour has had FOUR times the private healthcare donations of every other party
Evidently, the private healthcare sector thinks Labour is the right horse to back for advancing its interests, namely NHS privatisation
www.thecanary.co
April 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Labour is lying to you. Their intention is more privatisation of the NHS!
The only way to save the NHS in Scotland is to have Independence.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
The only way to save the NHS in Scotland is to have Independence.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead".
A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces.
Legal protection for heritage trees needed.
enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...
A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces.
Legal protection for heritage trees needed.
enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...
Toby Carvery admits felling ancient Whitewebbs oak tree
The owner of the pub chain falsely claimed the tree was dead as justification for the felling which has shocked local people and prompted outrage from conservationists across the country
enfielddispatch.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead".
A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces.
Legal protection for heritage trees needed.
enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...
A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces.
Legal protection for heritage trees needed.
enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...
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1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Absolutely incredible move from Nintendo
April 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Absolutely incredible move from Nintendo
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“The reason so few homes are built] is because they [the large housebuilders] love to hold land and wait for the prices to up” [sic]
NO SHIT
www.dumptheguardian.com/society/2025...
NO SHIT
www.dumptheguardian.com/society/2025...
UK housebuilders ‘very bad’ at building houses, says wildlife charity CEO
Land speculation to blame for lack of progress amid Labour drive to build 1.5m new homes, says Wildlife Trusts head
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
“The reason so few homes are built] is because they [the large housebuilders] love to hold land and wait for the prices to up” [sic]
NO SHIT
www.dumptheguardian.com/society/2025...
NO SHIT
www.dumptheguardian.com/society/2025...
Keir starmer is a tory he serves the british establishment class and he always has done. He infiltrated labour to secure tory domination while giving the public the illusion of change.
April 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Keir starmer is a tory he serves the british establishment class and he always has done. He infiltrated labour to secure tory domination while giving the public the illusion of change.
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"I understand it is difficult to tax rich people because politicians are rich people & they're funded by rich people & they put loopholes in the system... that doesn't mean we don't do it. If we don't do it, then ordinary people will be poor"
Gary Stevenson on #bbcqt
Gary Stevenson on #bbcqt
March 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
"I understand it is difficult to tax rich people because politicians are rich people & they're funded by rich people & they put loopholes in the system... that doesn't mean we don't do it. If we don't do it, then ordinary people will be poor"
Gary Stevenson on #bbcqt
Gary Stevenson on #bbcqt
I believe that everone that is into AI and tech has that thing where they are unable to picture things in their imagination. And that's why they're so impressed by Ai image gerneration.
I genuinely - genuinely - believe that people like this don't have souls
March 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I believe that everone that is into AI and tech has that thing where they are unable to picture things in their imagination. And that's why they're so impressed by Ai image gerneration.
Stock piling pine nuts for my wild garlic pesto production pipeline.
This week will be my third batch, Batch 2 was an absolute show stopper so want to freeze as much of that as possible and try and do even better this week.
This week will be my third batch, Batch 2 was an absolute show stopper so want to freeze as much of that as possible and try and do even better this week.
March 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Stock piling pine nuts for my wild garlic pesto production pipeline.
This week will be my third batch, Batch 2 was an absolute show stopper so want to freeze as much of that as possible and try and do even better this week.
This week will be my third batch, Batch 2 was an absolute show stopper so want to freeze as much of that as possible and try and do even better this week.
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Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.
Ozturk's attorney tells me they still have no idea where she is. ICE says only that she is in the agency's custody. www.salon.com/2025/03/26/d...
March 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.
When the sunshines Leeds is so lovely.
March 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
When the sunshines Leeds is so lovely.
I love having my window open, I'm a window open person, love to hear the wind, the birds the sounds on my street, even in winter I'm cracking that window open getting the air fresh IN. I'm SO glad it's warming up now and grateful for top floor room with a sky light 🙏🙏🙏🪟🍃
March 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I love having my window open, I'm a window open person, love to hear the wind, the birds the sounds on my street, even in winter I'm cracking that window open getting the air fresh IN. I'm SO glad it's warming up now and grateful for top floor room with a sky light 🙏🙏🙏🪟🍃
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On the upside, tiny violin stocks are booming.
March 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
On the upside, tiny violin stocks are booming.