Eva Montemaggi
@evamontemaggi.bsky.social
Lapsed anthropologist/sociologist of Religion/Ethics & authenticity. Lover of trams & bikes. Writing a novel & making short films. Dysgwr Cymraeg.
Posting on #Europe #climate #cycling #urbanism #transport #Wales #economics #disability
Posting on #Europe #climate #cycling #urbanism #transport #Wales #economics #disability
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I really think the US could split up. That will be the end result of Project 2025 and the alliance of Christian extremists, techno authoritarians, and billionaires.
If your reaction is to avoid buying tuna/fish, you’re missing the point, which is to ensure good working conditions across industries. Also It’s just as bad for fruit & veg. Concerns about animal welfare & the environment need radical reform of food production, not some people going vegan.
FT investigation:
Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.
If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.
If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
If your reaction is to avoid buying tuna/fish, you’re missing the point, which is to ensure good working conditions across industries. Also It’s just as bad for fruit & veg. Concerns about animal welfare & the environment need radical reform of food production, not some people going vegan.
Warning to the UK. Stop copying the wrong model.
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Warning to the UK. Stop copying the wrong model.
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Trump is calling for the six Democratic lawmakers who urged the military not to follow any illegal orders to be arrested, and he’s reposting replies saying they should be hanged and calling them terrorists.
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Trump is calling for the six Democratic lawmakers who urged the military not to follow any illegal orders to be arrested, and he’s reposting replies saying they should be hanged and calling them terrorists.
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📮 In October, two letters were sent to the UK Government urging it to align with the EU’s updated toy regulation.
🧸 Children in the UK deserve the same protections from harmful chemicals as children in the EU.
Find more info on the letter here: buff.ly/f8PEtct
#ToxicToys #ChemicalRegulation
🧸 Children in the UK deserve the same protections from harmful chemicals as children in the EU.
Find more info on the letter here: buff.ly/f8PEtct
#ToxicToys #ChemicalRegulation
Patient organisations, healthcare professionals and scientists urge action on harmful chemicals in toys
Today, a group of 50 patient organisations, healthcare professionals and scientists sent a letter to the UK Government urging it to align with the EU’s update to its own toy safety regulation. The…
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📮 In October, two letters were sent to the UK Government urging it to align with the EU’s updated toy regulation.
🧸 Children in the UK deserve the same protections from harmful chemicals as children in the EU.
Find more info on the letter here: buff.ly/f8PEtct
#ToxicToys #ChemicalRegulation
🧸 Children in the UK deserve the same protections from harmful chemicals as children in the EU.
Find more info on the letter here: buff.ly/f8PEtct
#ToxicToys #ChemicalRegulation
When I visited LA, I remember telling someone that LA had a good public transportation system before switching to cars in the 1960s but they didn’t believe. It’s literally a case study in planning books. www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/...
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
When I visited LA, I remember telling someone that LA had a good public transportation system before switching to cars in the 1960s but they didn’t believe. It’s literally a case study in planning books. www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/...
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Well, once again it was shown that Trump's "support" for Ukraine was a con. He has been working with Putin in secret to craft a "peace" deal which the US and Russia will now try to shove down Ukrainian and European throats. Just sent out this free piece. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Trump Was Working With Putin The Entire Time
And Now Europe and Ukraine Will Pay The Price
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Well, once again it was shown that Trump's "support" for Ukraine was a con. He has been working with Putin in secret to craft a "peace" deal which the US and Russia will now try to shove down Ukrainian and European throats. Just sent out this free piece. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
Sounding like a Nazi is not empty rhetoric, it’s Nazi rhetoric. You don’t need to believe in it. That’s like Musk’s Nazi salute. The intent doesn’t matter.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Tommy Robinson backs Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms
Welcoming the proposals, the far-right activist posted to social media: ‘The Overton window has been obliterated, well done patriots’
www.independent.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Sounding like a Nazi is not empty rhetoric, it’s Nazi rhetoric. You don’t need to believe in it. That’s like Musk’s Nazi salute. The intent doesn’t matter.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Tell me you don’t know anything about the eurocrisis…
Remarkable turnaround. Looking at Spain and Greece now, seems like a bit of externally imposed discipline is the best way to get European countries to take the difficult economic decisions they need to... www.ft.com/content/6b8d...
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Tell me you don’t know anything about the eurocrisis…
If it looks like a Nazi policy, sounds like a Nazi policy… ditch it! #jewellery #ShabanaMahmood #asylum
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If it looks like a Nazi policy, sounds like a Nazi policy… ditch it! #jewellery #ShabanaMahmood #asylum
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Some good news on biodiversity.
Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
@paneurope.bsky.social
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Some good news on biodiversity.
Depressing to see on any FB post on road safety (30kmh, cycle paths etc) a pile up of comments complaining about cyclists breaking the rules. Most people seem to lack any sense of proportion and logic. Cyclists causing accidents should not be discounted but in the 99% of cases motorists are the prob
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Depressing to see on any FB post on road safety (30kmh, cycle paths etc) a pile up of comments complaining about cyclists breaking the rules. Most people seem to lack any sense of proportion and logic. Cyclists causing accidents should not be discounted but in the 99% of cases motorists are the prob
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I think the EU makes sense as an economic bloc if it is more politically unified on external economic policy (which unfortunately also means it must be a little more politically unified on domestic economic policy). Whereas the US, China, Japan, India etc. can intervene unilaterally in their...
I think the EU makes sense as an economic bloc if it is more politically unified on external economic policy (which unfortunately also means it must be a little more politically unified on domestic economic policy). Whereas the US, China, Japan, India etc. can intervene unilaterally in their...
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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I think the EU makes sense as an economic bloc if it is more politically unified on external economic policy (which unfortunately also means it must be a little more politically unified on domestic economic policy). Whereas the US, China, Japan, India etc. can intervene unilaterally in their...
I think the EU makes sense as an economic bloc if it is more politically unified on external economic policy (which unfortunately also means it must be a little more politically unified on domestic economic policy). Whereas the US, China, Japan, India etc. can intervene unilaterally in their...
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence.
The late Conor Gearty on @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The late Conor Gearty on @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act
The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. None of this is being done in secret – the...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence.
The late Conor Gearty on @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The late Conor Gearty on @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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The World’s Youngest Self Made Billionaires Just Slashed These Workers Wages By A Third
www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
Mercor Contractors Allege The AI Company Slashed Their Wages
Mercor allegedly canned an AI training project with thousands of contractors just weeks after hitting a $10 billion valuation.
www.forbes.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The World’s Youngest Self Made Billionaires Just Slashed These Workers Wages By A Third
www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
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"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
This would work better if cities & towns adopted sustainable mobility = trams, e-buses, bikes. Cutting air (and noise) pollution is essential for safe farming.
Incidentally, rural farming is incredibly polluting,
Incidentally, rural farming is incredibly polluting,
"Could urban farming feed the world?"
- @david-farrier.bsky.social Environment Professor at Edinburgh University
- @david-farrier.bsky.social Environment Professor at Edinburgh University
Could urban farming feed the world?
From back gardens to hi-tech hydroponics, the future of food doesn’t have to be rural
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
This would work better if cities & towns adopted sustainable mobility = trams, e-buses, bikes. Cutting air (and noise) pollution is essential for safe farming.
Incidentally, rural farming is incredibly polluting,
Incidentally, rural farming is incredibly polluting,
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Why is this something anyone even considered doing?
Environmental groups have won a landmark case against a project to drill for offshore gas in Italy's Po Delta, a UNESCO-designated biosphere reserve.
The 500 km2 wetlands located around an hour south of Venice are some of the largest and richest in the Mediterranean. www.euronews.com/green/2024/1...
The 500 km2 wetlands located around an hour south of Venice are some of the largest and richest in the Mediterranean. www.euronews.com/green/2024/1...
Italy’s UNESCO-designated Po Delta saved from offshore gas drilling
Offshoring drilling threatened to submerge parts of the delta, which is already bracing against a barrage of problematic, climate change-induced conditions.
www.euronews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Why is this something anyone even considered doing?
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ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.
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America First my ass!!!
Are we great yet?
Are we great yet?
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
America First my ass!!!
Are we great yet?
Are we great yet?
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UK rail electrification in three graphs, for folks who prefer their information in graph format
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
UK rail electrification in three graphs, for folks who prefer their information in graph format
Great @danielagabor.bsky.social on @lrb.co.uk podcast. Alas BoE, politicians, journos still cling to a flawed neoliberal ideology. @isabellamweber.bsky.social has proven that inflation was the result of shocks & sellers’ inflation yet we’re stuck with immobility podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain?
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 29/10/2025 · 1h 6m
podcasts.apple.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Great @danielagabor.bsky.social on @lrb.co.uk podcast. Alas BoE, politicians, journos still cling to a flawed neoliberal ideology. @isabellamweber.bsky.social has proven that inflation was the result of shocks & sellers’ inflation yet we’re stuck with immobility podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Funny how right-wingers hate welfare but refuse to do anything to make work pay. 🤔 Indeed they think it’s efficient & smart the mass firing of people, the imposition of low wages, and company asset-stripping.
Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Funny how right-wingers hate welfare but refuse to do anything to make work pay. 🤔 Indeed they think it’s efficient & smart the mass firing of people, the imposition of low wages, and company asset-stripping.