Graeme Purves
@gaspurves.bsky.social
Citizen. Environmentalist. European. Spatial Planner. Democrat. Geddesian. Withered Botanist. Lapsed Munro-Bagger.
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Big Oil is "wildly desperate to dodge the growing array of lawsuits over the damage caused by their decades-long scheme to deceive the public about climate change," writes @aaronregunberg.bsky.social.
The fossil fuel industry is again urging the Supreme Court to help them escape accountability.
The fossil fuel industry is again urging the Supreme Court to help them escape accountability.
The Supreme Court’s Ethics Code Is a Joke. Big Oil Knows That.
Oil companies want the Supreme Court to intervene to dismiss lawsuits about climate change. Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito both have big conflicts of interest on that front.
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Big Oil is "wildly desperate to dodge the growing array of lawsuits over the damage caused by their decades-long scheme to deceive the public about climate change," writes @aaronregunberg.bsky.social.
The fossil fuel industry is again urging the Supreme Court to help them escape accountability.
The fossil fuel industry is again urging the Supreme Court to help them escape accountability.
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Jeremy Corbyn calls Zarah Sultana
Jeremy Corbyn calls Zarah Sultana
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Jeremy Corbyn calls Zarah Sultana
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I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Vital point. The expectation of far too many in the UK was that others would bear the consequences:
If states could just leave and nothing would change for citizens, why would anybody stay?
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If states could just leave and nothing would change for citizens, why would anybody stay?
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To which I would add the startling expectation that the UK could leave the EU but nothing would really change.
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Vital point. The expectation of far too many in the UK was that others would bear the consequences:
If states could just leave and nothing would change for citizens, why would anybody stay?
1
If states could just leave and nothing would change for citizens, why would anybody stay?
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Scotland goes to the polls in 2026, and Community Land Scotland reminds all aspiring MSPs that Scotland faces multiple and overlapping issues | Charlie McCarthy
Community Land Scotland launches their 2026 manifesto
Scotland goes to the polls in 2026, and Community Land Scotland reminds all aspiring MSPs that Scotland faces multiple and overlapping issues
bylines.scot
December 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Scotland goes to the polls in 2026, and Community Land Scotland reminds all aspiring MSPs that Scotland faces multiple and overlapping issues | Charlie McCarthy
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@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”
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Sen. Kelly, "How many times in our country's history have you heard a president say that members of the Senate should be hanged, executed?"
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Sen. Kelly, "How many times in our country's history have you heard a president say that members of the Senate should be hanged, executed?"
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Three Girls, 1935 by Hungarian Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil #WomensArt
December 2, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Three Girls, 1935 by Hungarian Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil #WomensArt
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🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Russia started this war and Russia is the only country that can stop this war.
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Russia started this war and Russia is the only country that can stop this war.
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I don’t consider ICE to be a law-enforcement organization. I consider them to be an organized crime syndicate. Nothing more, nothing less.
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I don’t consider ICE to be a law-enforcement organization. I consider them to be an organized crime syndicate. Nothing more, nothing less.
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We are drowning in bullshit
I’m no fan of this Labour government, but ’less trusted than Liz Truss?’ People are just being ridiculous now.
news.sky.com/story/budget...
news.sky.com/story/budget...
Budget 2025: Over a third of Britons think Rachel Reeves exaggerated bad news
In a big blow for Sir Keir Starmer, Labour are now less trusted than Liz Truss - who oversaw the mini-budget - on the economy. Latest polling reveals some 52% think the country will be worse off becau...
news.sky.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
We are drowning in bullshit
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Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Priorities from the dude pretending to be president. 🙄
November 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Priorities from the dude pretending to be president. 🙄
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
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Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel to help victims of devastating flooding that has killed nearly 1,000 people across four countries in Asia in recent days.
Militaries assist Asia flood victims as toll nears 1,000
Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel to help victims of devastating flooding that has killed nearly 1,000 people across four countries in Asia in recent days.
www.rte.ie
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel to help victims of devastating flooding that has killed nearly 1,000 people across four countries in Asia in recent days.
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Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
Victoria Whitworth on the case for the Pictish monastery at Portmahomack as the place where the Book of Kells was made.
#BookSky💙📚
#BookofKells
#Pictland
#Portmahomack
#BookSky💙📚
#BookofKells
#Pictland
#Portmahomack
A quote from The Book of Kells
Why resist the Iona hypthesis? In part to play devil's advocate, but mostly because the wit, verve and apparent sponteneity - the daredevil quality of th...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Victoria Whitworth on the case for the Pictish monastery at Portmahomack as the place where the Book of Kells was made.
#BookSky💙📚
#BookofKells
#Pictland
#Portmahomack
#BookSky💙📚
#BookofKells
#Pictland
#Portmahomack
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“.. the 10th straight month of declining Tesla sales in Europe.”
@yahoofinance.com $TSLA
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@yahoofinance.com $TSLA
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November 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“.. the 10th straight month of declining Tesla sales in Europe.”
@yahoofinance.com $TSLA
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@yahoofinance.com $TSLA
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David Davis said there wouldn't be a single downside to Brexit.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-4.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-4.
The Davis Downside Dossier
David Davis famously said there would be no downsides to Brexit only considerable upsides - so we started recording them.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
David Davis said there wouldn't be a single downside to Brexit.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-4.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-4.
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Mairi Gougeon MSP has submitted a motion condemning the UK Government’s decision to award a paltry 7.78% of the "Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund" to Scotland.
Scotland accounts for more than 60% of the UK’s fishing capacity.
Scotland accounts for more than 60% of the UK’s fishing capacity.
Scottish Parliament overwhelmingly supports Scottish fishing
The UK Government’s decision to allocate Scotland only £28mn of the £360mn Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund is condemned in the Scottish Parliament
bylines.scot
November 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Mairi Gougeon MSP has submitted a motion condemning the UK Government’s decision to award a paltry 7.78% of the "Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund" to Scotland.
Scotland accounts for more than 60% of the UK’s fishing capacity.
Scotland accounts for more than 60% of the UK’s fishing capacity.