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Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge @jeffinerca.bsky.social · 19h
So excited for this program— getting folks with already-great experience into the thick of the carbon-climate conversation.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h
The most corrupt administration in the history of the US by far. You could add up all instances of corruption by every other admin in US history and it will not equal the amount of corruption perpetrated by this one in less than 2 years.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED,JACK.....
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Facts, plain and straightforward 💯🎯
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026
This is promising. The UK could go "all the way" towards rejoining the EU, Burnham tells the BBC. 🚨 EU membership is the only option that delivers £92 billion of growth. The government needs to take us back to where we belong: at the heart of Europe.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I cannot say to you truthfully that where we are is good enough. Brexit has done more harm than good. We need to restore a higher level of growth and prosperity for Britain." Britain needs EU membership - only then will we have the growth that our country needs.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
Finally, a Prime Minister has admitted Brexit has done 'more harm than good'. Burnham has promised to lay out "the different options" for what a new UK-EU relationship would look like. EU membership is the only option that delivers £92 billion of growth. Help us ensure Andy takes that option. 👇
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Help us Fight to Restore our EU Membership - Best for Britain
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CGIAR @cgiar.org · 29/09/2026
Rwanda's soils are diverse but its fertilizer advice was not. The fix came from Ethiopian peers, brokered by CGIAR. Read the full story 👉 on.cgiar.org/46IyZch
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I will not allow it to continue like this. Today I can confirm Angela Eagle will present a strengthened water bill to Parliament. The center piece of that bill will be this. The repeal of Margaret Thatcher's ideological ban on public ownership of water companies."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second. TW infrastructure has average age of 79 years. Industry average is 56 years. 40% of TW assets are over 100 years old. Profits siphoned-off, investment neglected, execs rewarded, customers fleeced
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Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second’
Leak causes outages and low pressure in parts of London and Surrey, affecting 6,000 properties and leaving some without water
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nigel Farage is now a desperate man. Chasing every headline; no low too low; the politics of the gutter, racism and fear embraced. His pronouncement on Fairford trying to link with ZERO evidence to asylum is beyond pathetic.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Someone from Reform & their shrill harridan who live as tax free exiles in Dubai have been entertained by the wife of a former minister of state of a country hostile to the UK and he failed to declare it to Parliament he's elected to sit in? You couldn’t make this up" via We loathe Reform UK Ltd
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC
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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Music can be relaxing, as can time in nature. Now it turns out that watching a river flow via a virtual-reality headset while listening to classical music seems to quickly bring people's blood pressure down from a dangerously high level in hospital. 🧪 #health www.newscientist.com/article/2590...
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Virtual green spaces and classical music reduce blood pressure in hospital | New Scientist
Watching a river flow via a virtual-reality headset while listening to classical music seems to quickly bring people's blood pressure down from a dangerously high level in hospital
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CGIAR @cgiar.org · 25/09/2026
#ScalingWeek2026 has wrapped up in Nairobi! 3 days of scaling superheroes listening, learning and working together on how to turn promising food, land and water systems innovations into lasting use. 🔗 on.cgiar.org/47eGqbk
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25/09/2026
📉 Every day we stay out of the EU our businesses lose money - that is fewer jobs and less money in our pockets...
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UK ‘losing up to £6.5bn a year in EU trade’ without post-Brexit product deal
IPPR finds failure to align testing standards costing 0.18% of national income and has seen companies abandon exporting
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joe Walsh Is Right......
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Helen Whately is being typically right wing by "othering" benefit claimants, as though they're not like the rest of the population. Twelve years as a foodbank volunteer has taught me poverty isn't caused by booze and ciggies. It's far more complex - poor pay and housing and bad health for starters.
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Rothamsted Research @rothamsted.ac.uk · 23/09/2026
🌱 New Soil Health Hub Out Now Explore the new Agricology Soil Health Hub, bringing together the best practical resources, advice & case studies to help farmers & growers understand, assess & improve soil health. Get digging 👇 agricology.co.uk/resource/soil-heal…
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MissTaylor1991 @feminists-areheros.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The PM is creating the National Centre for Information Defence - an organisation that aims to stop disinformation from foreign states. Nigel Farage says that this is an attack on Reform 😆 So he's admitting disinformation and foreign interference.
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LordSteveyPofStoke @lordsteveyp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OSWALD MOSELY  NIGEL FARAGE
THE SAME STORY, SEPARATED BY 80 YEARS... WEALTHY FAMILY, PUBLIC SCHOOL
EX-TORY, PART OF THE ESTABLISHMENT
POPS UP DURING A RECESSION CAUSED BY BANKERS 
FORMS NATIONALIST AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL PARTY 
CLAIMS TO SPEAK FOR THE MAN IN THE STREET
BLAMES MINORITIES AT THE BOTTOM FOR THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY PEOPLE AT THE TOP
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy at the UN: "Ukrainians understand that this winter could be very harsh for us, but in response we will have no choice but to make it harsh for Russia too"
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Graph source: ourworldindata.org/world-lost-o...
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The world has lost one-third of its forests, but an end to deforestation is possible
Over the last 10,000 years, the world has lost one-third of its forests. An area twice the size of the United States. Half occurred in the last century.
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Labour, Lib Dems, Greens, Plaid & SNP should all unite in a pledge to rejoin the EU. They don’t agree on much but they do all agree Brexit has been a financial and strategic disaster. It could unite progressive opinion and challenge the far right. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tony Blair says Britain should work towards rejoining EU in next 10 years
Andy Burnham under pressure to revisit Brexit as poll suggests pledge to rejoin could boost Labour’s electoral chances
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Possession of an offensive weapon, reckless endangerment, criminal damage ... Let's hope the police take this seriously. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/09/2026
⚠️ Brexit has left us poorer and more isolated on the world stage. 💪 Burnham must go for EU membership. Not only will it deliver £92bn to our economy but will restore our standing in the world.
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Brexit has left Britain ‘impotent – a bobbing cork in the sea,’ says David Miliband
Exclusive: Former foreign secretary adds to mounting pressure for a new UK deal with EU to repair Brexit damage
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rebuilding our relationship with the EU “is the cheapest way to boost the economy, the fastest way to unite Europe in the face of security threats and the best way to get leverage on a global system that no longer has an American anchor.” So obvious it hurts. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Brexit has left Britain ‘impotent – a bobbing cork in the sea,’ says David Miliband
Exclusive: Former foreign secretary adds to mounting pressure for a new UK deal with EU to repair Brexit damage
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Art of the Deal is buying fertilizer from a Putin-aligned repressive dictator and paying to ship it 6,000 miles from his landlocked and sanctioned country so you can teach Canada a lesson.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/09/2026
The people who sold us Brexit said we'd get closer to the Anglosphere instead - but it turns out those countries want to prioritise Europe Tell Burnham that we don't want to be left out: bestforbritain.org/petition/tell-burnham-canadas-getting-closer-to-the-eu-we-dont-want-to-be-left-behind/
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Andrew McGuire @agronomistag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Cover crop composition, NOT diversity, was the strongest driver of changes to, and legacy effects on, soil microbial communities, agroecosystem multifunctionality and wheat yield." This is consistent across studies. Open access. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Cover crop composition, not diversity, drives agroecosystem multifunctionality and wheat yield
Cover crop composition, not diversity, was the strongest driver of changes to, and legacy effects on, soil microbial communities, agroecosystem multifunctionality and wheat yield. Our results highlig...
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So the US is “working on a deal” to buy Potash from a dictator allied with Putin instead of Canada.
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WutTheWut😵‍💫 RBroeck🗳️💙 @wutthewut.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
PO1135809 is a lame fuck president. Oh, and also a traitor.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jersey, a UK Crown Dependency, leads the race-to-the-bottom for shady dealings. A fiddle-factory named in the Panama/Paradise papers, global scams. Refuses to publicly reveal who ultimately owns companies. Senator Stuart Syvret exposed abuse of children in care, had to flee for his life.
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‘It’s unrecognisable’: How being a tax haven has changed Jersey
While global billionaires and multinational companies have been lured to its shores, many islanders feel left behind and priced out, with food bank use increasing
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davidpowlson.bsky.social @davidpowlson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Record-breaking carbon capture plant to snatch 800K tons of CO2 a year share.google/1rAIfvh3bxWy... I wonder how much energy (and hence emissions) will be used to achieve this and what is the net benefit. Are taxes being used to subsidise a fossil fuel company to do it?
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Record-breaking carbon capture plant to snatch 800K tons of CO2 a year
Norwegian chemical company Yara has inaugurated the largest industrial carbon capture facility in all of Europe this week. Set up at the company's ammonia and fertilizer plant in Sluiskil, the Netherl...
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SoilMicroBio @soilmicrobio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And #SoilHealthWeek is off! Join us for 'The Secret Life of Soil' webinar and live Q&A kicking off at 7pm this evening. For registration and further details on Soil Health week check out teagasc.ie/environment/... #SoilHealth #SoilBiology
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Right-wing press and ideologues will have you believe that the UK is the most heavily taxed place. They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation. This graph puts things in perspective.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Laura Kuenssberg asks if it bothers Labour's Bridget Phillipson that people who create jobs and pay a lot of tax, citing, Jim Ratcliffe, move abroad - except, that's not the full story. My View: Did you know companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received public support worth around £630 million?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/09/2026
Mark Carney has learnt the lesson that neither Canada nor the UK can rely on the US. The EU is Britain's closest partner. EU membership is a no-brainer.
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The Guardian view on EU-Canada relations: strategic ambition with lessons for Britain | Editorial
Editorial: Mark Carney’s response to the challenges posed by an unreliable US president contains a clarity of vision tha
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/09/2026
YouGov’s latest poll: 628 out of 632 constituencies in Britain want to rejoin the EU. It couldn’t be clearer: It’s time to talk about EU membership. Read more: bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…
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davidpowlson.bsky.social @davidpowlson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why are MPs wasting their time on this?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026
"All but four UK constituencies would support reversing Brexit and rejoining the EU, new polling has shown, as Andy Burnham seeks a 'deeper relationship' with the bloc and to win over voters." Read here: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polit…
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One way we can reconstruct ancient trade networks is via the presence of foreign coinage. This map shows locations of recovered coins of /purported/ Roman lineage. In 2013, on the island of Okinawa, 4th-century AD Roman bronze coins were excavated from the ruins of Katsuren Castle.
A crude relief/ecology map of Eurasia and Northern Africa, showing the location of Roman coinage (purported, many of these were amateur finds never confirmed), and the concentrations are in Europe, the Nile and India, with some coins in China, Vietnam and Japan.
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davidpowlson.bsky.social @davidpowlson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yes. If Farage and his ilk ever gained more power (perish the thought) there are plenty of thugs ready to do his bidding.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/09/2026
Absolutely devastating news. This is the impact of the radical right's hate. People who are saving lives are under attack. Appalling.
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RNLI suspends Portsmouth services after volunteers abused for saving migrants
Andy Burnham earlier this month hit out at 'appalling' abuse directed at hero crews after they were labelled as traitors
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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