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Veronica du Lac (She/Her)
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In Nov 2024, Keir Starmer announced a working partnership with US asset manager Blackrock, who own $11 trillion in assets.

Their endgame?
To turn green spaces into 'natures assets'. Your local park could become a tokenised asset.
Access may become conditional on fees or corporate permission.
November 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Bill Clinton was the most powerful man in the world, and Monica Lewinsky was an intern and his subordinate, and in any other workplace that would be called sexual harassment, and if you don't take power dynamics into account when you talk about things like this, you don't actually understand consent
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Tonight’s Shell station meal: Swahili fish curry made from fresh tilapia out of Lake Victoria, rice, house-made flatbread, avocado, fresh made strawberry lemonade. ($8)
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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When I studied abroad in South Africa, the cafeteria had a sign on the door that said "Keep closed on account of monkeys." We all laughed about it and then one day someone didn't close it and it became MONKEY CHAOS while we all tried desperately to cling to our chips and sarmies.
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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New from me and Afeef Nessouli in @theintercept: we report from inside the Yarmouk refugee camp, where Palestinian refugees see little hope in the new Syria theintercept.com/2025/06/17/p...
Palestinian Refugees in Syria See Little Hope — Even After Assad
“Even if they rebuild all of Syria, Yarmouk will remain destroyed,” said one Palestinian refugee.
theintercept.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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i like how if you talk about the donald trump / bill clinton thing you get a bunch of rando liberals posting homophobic memes and jokes at you.

you all see that flag in my name?

don't even. 🙄
November 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.

Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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I produce flower paintings every year but it's dim and dismal out there with pouring rain and very little subject matter. Taking a look back at photos of some older work in progress from a decade ago
#art #painting #botanicalart
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Bullfrog was always ridiculing the great gambler Brass until he got angry and dared Bullfrog to play the
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Oh dear how very sad
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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You are literally a rentier. You collect money that people have earned in the productive economy to pay off your loan on your appreciating asset. That might as well be the dictionary definition of parasitism.
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Hi Fran it's absolutely fair to brand all landlords as parasites. As a landlord you are paid money you have not worked for, in fact that your tenants have worked for, solely because you happen to own an asset. At the end of the tenancy your tenants have nothing and you have a paid off asset
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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A landlord on the Today programme just described landlords as “a race of people who are being targeted”. Parasites playing as victims.
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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I just saw this photo and now you have to see this photo
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I don't know if you're neurodivergent or from North Dakota
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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On this day, 45 years ago, #Visage released their debut album "Visage" including their breakout hit "Fade To Grey".

Dan LeRoy for AllMusic wrote "this is the music that best represents the short-lived but always underrated #newromantic movement", calling it "a consistently fine creation".
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it.

Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Sickening. Please support the brilliant hunt sabs who captured this footage.
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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It's note worthy that the Greens aren't just winning. We're taking seats from everyone and we're coming from fourth or fifth place to first, to do it.

But it takes a lot of work from us regular folks! So help us out
join.greenparty.org.uk
People have tried to say that the Green surge is just on social media.

Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.

Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.

Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Wincheap (Canterbury) Council By-Election Result:

🌍 GRN: 39.1% (+24.1)
🔶 LDM: 24.1% (-12.2)
➡️ RFM: 16.3% (New)
🌹 LAB: 12.8% (-25.5)
🌳 CON: 7.7% (-2.6)

Green GAIN from Liberal Democrat.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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"The science is evolving quite rapidly and time is running out to do anything about it because the tipping point may well be quite close," says PIK's @rahmstorf.bsky.social in this piece on Iceland declaring the potential collapse of #AMOC a national security risk. 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1op...
Iceland on alert amid Atlantic Ocean current's possible collapse | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour, he asked the Court to put TW into special administration.

Blatant attempt to silence MPs.

TW paying £200m a year to advisers, charges customers for its failures.

Abuses will continue until execs held personally liable.
Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour
Exclusive: Charlie Maynard accuses the utility of ‘retaliation’ over his push for government to gain control of company
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Improved for an even better experiment!
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Pressure on Robbie Gibb to stand down increasing. Well-deserved

union.bectu.org.uk/resource/let...
Letter to Lisa Nandy and Samir Shah on future of the BBC
Bectu letter to the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and Chair of the BBC Samir Shah on the future of the BBC.
union.bectu.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Musician: we need talk about the name of your new instrument

Musician holding a trombone: what’s wrong with Mr. Slippery Tubes
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM