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Nico Thæccan
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Grandfather, husband, despiser of SUV's and (almost all) Tories. Ik ❤️ Zitterd.
It was always about the music. We'll miss you Chris, auf immer und ewig.
December 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The more I think about it, the more I reckon the 2003 Iraq War began the process that let Trump win. The blatant lies we were told by our governments, the disregard for public opinion and mockery of international law created a rupture that never healed. Trust, consent and cohesion were smashed.🧵 1/3
December 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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The government handed an NHS data contract to Palantir – a spy-tech firm with links to war crimes and deportations.

We’re demanding that the NHS stops using Palantir’s toxic tech.

Find out if your local NHS Trust is using the software and say no to Palantir 👇
https://goodlaw.social/658abc
Say no to Palantir in the NHS - No to Palantir
goodlaw.social
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The most sensible take on the BBC/Trump thing I've yet to hear, from the BBC!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Naked Week - Series 3 - Trump, Traitors, and RIP Tim Davie - BBC Sounds
This week the team fundraise for the BBC, welcome a traitor, and necromance a potato.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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A very useful analysis that give the bigger picture.
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The BBC is in a fight for its survival
The BBC only has itself to blame for its handling of a serious error in a documentary on Trump. But its demise—as the US media landscape shows—would l...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"The invisible pesticide problem
We can’t feel, see, smell or taste the chemical residues in or on our food & most UK supermarkets refuse to share the results of their testing."
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/the...
The invisible pesticide problem
We can’t feel, see, smell or taste the chemical residues in or on our food & most UK supermarkets refuse to share the results of their testing. So where should concerned citizens turn for accurate…
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
"Behind the logo lies a dirty truth: according to recent Environment Agency data, 60% of inspected Red Tractor farms have breached environmental regulations."
upyourstandards.riveractionuk.com
Home - Up Your Standards!
Contact your supermarket today to tell them to call out Red Tractor, and pave the way for robust environmental standards on their products.
upyourstandards.riveractionuk.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Rising sea temperatures, fuelled by burning fossil fuels, are devastating coral reefs around the world.

Scientists say unless global heating is reduced ASAP, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
It'll be a John Lodge/Moody Blues weekend for me then.
October 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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They should stop polling, and just stick with the big one we had in 2016 that revealed that roughly half of us will believe any old shit.
October 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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For the first time, renewable energy has OVERTAKEN coal in global electricity production!!

BAD NEWS for the fossil fuel industry, BRILLIANT news for the planet! 🌍
October 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Always look forward to our Friday Riverford Farm delivery and the inspiring missives from Guy Singh-Watson.
October 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Today is the start of World Land Trust’s #BigMatchFortnight saving threatened forest in Colombia 🌳🐆🌲🇨🇴

Donations through my JustGiving page up to £5k target will be multiplied by 6️⃣!

Please donate if you can or share.

@worldlandtrust.org
@markavery.bsky.social

www.justgiving.com/page/andrew-...
October 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"10 years ago the WHO classified processed meat, including ham, bacon, and salami as ‘Group 1, carcinogenic to humans’. Both the fact that this happened a decade ago, and that today, 68% of councils still serve nitrite-cured meats in schools."
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/news/carcino...
Carcinogenic meat served on most school menus
68% of councils serve nitrite-cured meat in schools…
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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🍃NEW EPISODE: "We are a society of altruists governed by psychopaths."

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social shatters an entrenched myth around human nature in less than 90 seconds.

Listen to the full episode of It’s Bloody Complicated, out now, wherever you get your podcasts.
September 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
August 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"We discovered during the pandemic, that some of the lowest paid jobs, are actually the key jobs, in society."
Putting so many of my own thoughts into words, thank you Stephen.
August 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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With friends like these, who needs enemies
August 28, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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I posted this 20 months ago in an unmentionable place. It has become no less true.
August 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Seltsam, ich finde für diese Behauptung von Harald Martenstein nirgends einen Beleg. Was das wohl für ein Interview gewesen sein soll? www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin...
August 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM