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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An Irish Atlantic Rainforest will be screening again in Cork next week. FYI, the film is *very* different to the tv version on RTÉ Player: much more immersive and meditative... You really feel like you've been transported into the rainforest. triskelartscentre.ie/events/an-ir...

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An Irish Atlantic Rainforest

Mon 12 Oct 2026 | 91 mins – Ireland 2026 – Documentary Director: Gary Lennon Featuring: Eoghan Daltun AN IRISH ATLANTIC RAINFOREST tells the story of Eoghan Daltun, a leading climate activist at the ...

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Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

More fire, more crime, more death and a globally important ecosystem driven ever more rapidly towards a point of no return. That’s the prospect for the Amazon rainforest if Flávio Bolsonaro wins Brazil’s election My take www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim jolt for climate campaigners

Inquest under way into why President Lula’s success in curbing Amazon deforestation has not led to success at polls

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I saw on your timeline a mention of John Barnes. It was sad & frustrating to see what athletes like John, Emile Heskey, Norman Cowans et al went through for so many years. The England football team now is a beautiful thing & a beautiful thing about it is no one thinks to mention anyone’s colour.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I got flak here for asking people to imagine how strange it was for people like my grandma in a working class area of Leeds to see without warning a large number of strange people who spoke no English arrive in a house across the street. People here couldn’t get it. I could see that as a good thing.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Change never suits all the people all the time. For sure not in UK just now. I get that. I see so much rage on both sides of the immigration debate. It’s never been easy, but now a lot of issues are colliding and on social media there’s little tolerance for complexity, and it’s a complex situation.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Whether or not that is true I didn’t comment on any individual country’s immigration policy. In the case of Britain I recall what Bonnie Greer once said ~ “This is the only country I know that constantly changes its self image to include the new from outside.” I’ve lived to see & celebrate that.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Would someone here tell me how this statement from me legitimises racism ? I’ve left out the name of the man who made the initial comment. I have no problem with him or what he said. But someone here has been trying for two days now to get me to confess to the racist content of my reply ~

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m genuinely mystified. Do you think it’s racist to wish for a world without border controls, or racist to accept border controls are at present a fact of life ?

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When you get around to telling me what I said that you disagree with this conversation might get somewhere.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Late morning in Kyiv after the overnight attack. Soon, I’m going to my workout. As usual on Wednesdays. Perhaps you’ve read about the casualties and damage. Not only in Kyiv. I hope you have. I don’t open the windows. The city is covered in smoke.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You mean the right exercised by every country to choose who they allow in ?

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But it’s a statement of fact that Zionism is racism. Jewishness is a race and a religion as a Jewish friend told me. Israel is a state founded on a racial privilege sanctified by God. And if we don’t face it their overt aspiration since Ben Gurion has been a holy land from the Nile to the Euphrates.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don’t negotiate with food terror

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I see no way back from that

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This guy got people from around the world to teach him their favourite dance moves. 📹Ed People

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ok. That’s your answer. Let’s not waste any more of each other’s time. Enjoy your achievements.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No. I did. More people means more consumption or a drop in consumption per person. I heard the average UK citizen takes 400 showers a year. The total UK appetite for meat requires a land area bigger than the UK. More & more houses will be lost to flood. Something has to change. I’m asking your view

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You want a growing UK population to service a growing economy to generate taxes to meet the needs of a growing population. Ok. Do you foresee any limit ? I’d agree we could make room for more with some lifestyle changes. Water & food scarcity is a growing problem. Take less showers. Eat less meat.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tell that to two people here who’ve reported their families scared to leave their houses when racist mobs are on their streets. The longer I spend on it the harder it is to see a way ahead. Both sides insist their answer is simple & the other side is deluded or evil. Neither tells me how it works.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every country on Earth exercises choice in who they let in. You can indeed say the whole structure of nation states is built on tribalism & it would be good to evolve past it but this country can’t dissolve it alone. So meanwhile i guess you want us to change our criteria of selection. Ok. How ?

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Show me what’s in your lane & it might help me pick mine. What do you think needs to happen in the UK immigration system ?

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And again, I’m not complaining. I’m trying to express a point of view and understand what comes back. I want people who advocate UK population continuing to grow by the number of net immigrants arriving annually to explain where these extra people live, what jobs will be available, what we eat etc.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Integration of diversity requires some social cohesion. Otherwise it disintegrates. Immigrants and the poor suffer first. The rage I see from both sides of the debate threatens our social cohesion. So I’ll stay out of either trench line trying to reach both & getting called names by both. For now.

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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

BINGO!💥

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Something unusual is happening in Kyiv. Calm. Since last night. It’s 4 pm. This calm feels like a spider’s web. Delicate. Fragile. May the spider keep doing its job.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She didn’t do either. She even learned to read. Try it. You have no idea do you ? Centuries of training in xenophobia, endless wars, poverty, fear of joblessness, religious headbanging. That’s what new immigrants were dropped into. Yes there was trouble. I’m talking about what they created together

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I did think about it. I stand by it. You propose opening the country’s borders, ie removing all migration controls ? A few people here were advocating that. Otherwise what don’t you like in what I said ? I’m not saying it’s a desirable condition, just a fact of life at present we have to face.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I could agree with that. But we’re talking about impact on jobs not the nature of consciousness- unless you prefer that … Entry level jobs in US legal firms were down over 10% I read early this year. You don’t think the impact on work and economic output per person employed will spread & grow ?

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have no problem with that. Do you see me legitimising raciam ?

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Have I ? Must have missed that. Senile no doubt. Does that stop me asking someone who’s studied these trends ?

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No. I’m in this conversation trying to find a way forward together. I keep saying for me a vital part of that is a way that takes enough people with us to keep Farage out of no.10. We can disagree on a lot, but unless you’re someone who wants a social crisis to spark revolution let’s agree on that

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good. That’s the only reason I’m still talking. I get your point, perhaps not very well. Immigration has been a positive force in my life. I think if you ask them right most native born people here my age would agree. You accept to extend your graphs into the future we must factor in AI ?

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That’s sad. When Hanif Kureishi said c.1999 he thought the response of the native UK population to post WWII mass migration had been admirable ~ his words ~ I thought we’d come through something together out of our old black & white steak & kidney past into a brighter place. I still believe we can.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m not cheerleading for them. But 70% win elections. In fact 30% might do it in our present system. So do you advocate a campaign of civil disobedience like the Suffragettes to open the UK up for more immigration ?

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No. I’m neither entitled nor mediocre. But you don’t know that & I don’t know you, and I doubt if anyone else in this conversation gives a fuck. If you’ve got anything else but insults to contribute here that would be nice.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not only that you two are demonstrating it.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tell me what I’m whinging about. What am I refusing to know ? I’ve learned stuff while in this conversation, though not much of it from the comments. I didn’t understand IHS. I didn’t know net immigration for C21 so far. I didn’t know BlueSky can be a malevolent cesspit well up to X standards.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For anyone here interested in facts ~ Immigration Health Surcharge exemptions & refunds Before anyone jumps on me again I’m not saying it’s all fine, just here is what it is. IHS does not apply to all immigrants. Of course there is scope to change the exemption parameters.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ok pal. I’m out of here. I was trying to understand a system whose complexities, exemptions, refunds etc I was unaware of. But I think I’ll take your advice. Fuck off yourself.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh no. I can only envy your innate grasp of unemployment rates & annual net migration figures for this century. Clearly I’m unworthy. Don’t waste any more of your valuable time with me. Please.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ok I don’t understand the NHS surcharge. It would make new immigrants pay for their health care ?

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Explain. There’s nothing about net migration in that graph. You think the 2008 global credit crunch was caused by a fall in UK net immigration ? Net UK immigration in 2010 was 252,000, highest annual rate in history until then.

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

DeepSeek got it from official figures. If you think they’re incorrect show us. Just what is wrong with you today ?

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don’t see that. I think those measures are a crude attempt to manipulate the numbers in time for the next election & won’t last. Could be wrong. If you know something different, tell me. For example how many of the near 900,000 immigrants who arrived last year would be affected ?

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Steve Webster @croft1a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Try to get through a post without a stupid insult. I know it’s hard. You sure ? I get this from DeepSeek~ UK unemployment rate is 4.9% , with roughly 1.78 million people unemployed . OECD notes the UK labour market has shown signs of weakening, with unemployment 0.5% higher than a year earlier .

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