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I see Tommy Robinson has been bravely out on the streets of war torn London putting the Christ back in Christmas. For all the little kiddies too afraid to go, here's a proper patriotic nativity.
December 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I see Tommy Robinson has been bravely out on the streets of war torn London putting the Christ back in Christmas. For all the little kiddies too afraid to go, here's a proper patriotic nativity.
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I've signed. Have you?
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I've signed. Have you?
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
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Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
Dammit. Farewell Bob.
a man with long blonde hair and a beard is holding a fishing rod
ALT: a man with long blonde hair and a beard is holding a fishing rod
media.tenor.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Dammit. Farewell Bob.
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Let's just say that calling North Sea gas "four times cleaner" than LNG imports is roughly equivalent to trying to persuade yourself, while dieting, that a slice of cake served with half-fat cream is twice as healthy as a slice with full-fat topping.
It. Makes. No. Sense.
It. Makes. No. Sense.
September 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Let's just say that calling North Sea gas "four times cleaner" than LNG imports is roughly equivalent to trying to persuade yourself, while dieting, that a slice of cake served with half-fat cream is twice as healthy as a slice with full-fat topping.
It. Makes. No. Sense.
It. Makes. No. Sense.
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This is a fight for life’: climate expert @doctorvive.bsky.social on #tippingpoints, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Interview by Jonathan Watts
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Interview by Jonathan Watts
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This is a fight for life’: climate expert @doctorvive.bsky.social on #tippingpoints, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Interview by Jonathan Watts
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Interview by Jonathan Watts
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
June 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
"The Holocaust has filled us all with a high sense of guilt, and so it should because we were complicit. But it also teaches us the lesson that we mustn't be complicit now when we see crimes being committed.” Helena Kennedy KC
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"The Holocaust has filled us all with a high sense of guilt, and so it should because we were complicit. But it also teaches us the lesson that we mustn't be complicit now when we see crimes being committed.” Helena Kennedy KC
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
- Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
- Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What happens when you lock up peaceful protesters and throw away the key? Escalation.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest
Tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What happens when you lock up peaceful protesters and throw away the key? Escalation.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
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I spoke to Chris York about how disordered discourse has captured institutional power in the US and is destroying democracy
youtu.be/aOi-Po5NO8k?...
youtu.be/aOi-Po5NO8k?...
How to fight back against Trump and Musk’s lies
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
youtu.be
March 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I spoke to Chris York about how disordered discourse has captured institutional power in the US and is destroying democracy
youtu.be/aOi-Po5NO8k?...
youtu.be/aOi-Po5NO8k?...
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If you can spare a minute or two to follow Jase please do!! His work is fantastic and as he says - FREE! Ta! ⭐️
I'm just 2.5% off getting my silver plaque from YouTube. Help me get there by spreading the word and subscribing. There's over 2,300 music lessons! They're free and always will be :) www.youtube.com/@thejaseguitar
March 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
If you can spare a minute or two to follow Jase please do!! His work is fantastic and as he says - FREE! Ta! ⭐️
"If everyone follows the lead of Trump and the fossil fuel industry, what happens when temperature increases push beyond 2C and 3C of warming? What does business-as-usual and return on investment look like in a world of rolling climate disasters, collapsing food systems, and surging migration?"
Lots more predictable attacks on net zero this week, but as @elpinchbeck.bsky.social pointed out today ditching decarbonisation would make voters poorer. And that would be just the start of the fall out.
www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/44...
www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/44...
'Scrap net zero?' OK, but then what?
Attacks on the net zero transition are ratcheting up, but what would happen if the critics of decarbonisation actually got what they wanted?
www.businessgreen.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"If everyone follows the lead of Trump and the fossil fuel industry, what happens when temperature increases push beyond 2C and 3C of warming? What does business-as-usual and return on investment look like in a world of rolling climate disasters, collapsing food systems, and surging migration?"
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Your periodic reminder that until economies get to net zero global temperatures will keep rising right up to and beyond the point where the Earth becomes practically uninhabitable for human civilisation.
February 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Your periodic reminder that until economies get to net zero global temperatures will keep rising right up to and beyond the point where the Earth becomes practically uninhabitable for human civilisation.
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Will be fascinating to see if BP attempts to explain how a strategy based on more fossil fuels and less renewables fits with a world on track for around 3C of warming and all that comes with it.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
BP expected to scrap renewables target in shift back to fossil fuels
Goal of increasing renewable energy generation 20-fold to be ditched, shareholders to be told this week
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Will be fascinating to see if BP attempts to explain how a strategy based on more fossil fuels and less renewables fits with a world on track for around 3C of warming and all that comes with it.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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The latest from Just Stop Oil HQ…
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
February 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The latest from Just Stop Oil HQ…
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
The more they pretend manmade climate change doesn’t exist, the worse it will get… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Ends Climate Work Inside Agency That Responds to Disasters
A memo sent to leadership at the US Department of Homeland Security orders the elimination of climate-related activities.
www.bloomberg.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The more they pretend manmade climate change doesn’t exist, the worse it will get… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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20 Reasons Why Forests Are Important
Help Us Breathe
Home to Nearly Half of All Species
Keep Us and Earth Cool
Make It Rain
Prevent Flooding
Block Wind
Clean Up Dirty Air
Without Trees we would not exist
Yet humans cut down 15 billion trees every year
www.treehugger.com/reasons-why-...
Help Us Breathe
Home to Nearly Half of All Species
Keep Us and Earth Cool
Make It Rain
Prevent Flooding
Block Wind
Clean Up Dirty Air
Without Trees we would not exist
Yet humans cut down 15 billion trees every year
www.treehugger.com/reasons-why-...
20 Reasons Why Forests Are Important
In case you're missing the forest for the trees, here are a few reminders of why woodlands are important and altogether wonderful.
www.treehugger.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
20 Reasons Why Forests Are Important
Help Us Breathe
Home to Nearly Half of All Species
Keep Us and Earth Cool
Make It Rain
Prevent Flooding
Block Wind
Clean Up Dirty Air
Without Trees we would not exist
Yet humans cut down 15 billion trees every year
www.treehugger.com/reasons-why-...
Help Us Breathe
Home to Nearly Half of All Species
Keep Us and Earth Cool
Make It Rain
Prevent Flooding
Block Wind
Clean Up Dirty Air
Without Trees we would not exist
Yet humans cut down 15 billion trees every year
www.treehugger.com/reasons-why-...
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Using AI to produce writing or art is like asking someone at the gym to lift weights for you.
The effort is the point.
The effort is the point.
February 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Using AI to produce writing or art is like asking someone at the gym to lift weights for you.
The effort is the point.
The effort is the point.
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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Big oil spent $445m in last election cycle to influence Trump and Congress, report @climatepower.bsky.social says
Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Big oil spent $445m in last election cycle to influence Trump and Congress, report says
Investments ‘likely to pay dividends’, analysis says, as Trump unleashes dozens of pro-fossil fuel executive actions
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Big oil spent $445m in last election cycle to influence Trump and Congress, report @climatepower.bsky.social says
Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Dry January
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
January 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Dry January
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.