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@degrowingpains.bsky.social
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Concerned dad, wannabe anti-capitalist trying to escape the system, believer in #degrowth, #UBI, #MMT, the commons.

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Camcycle @camcycle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@BritishCycling is calling on the Government to formally recognise tandems as adaptive bicycles for certified visually impaired riders and make them VAT-exempt (as other cycles such as handcycles and trikes can be). Take a look: www.britishcycling.org.uk/article/2026...
Two cyclists on a tandem bike ride with a setting sun, warm light silhouetting them.
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
94 hilly kms today on the bike. Unexpectedly responsibility free, I took the day off work and went for a big ride to conquer a nemesis hill. (Did it!) I even dodged most of the bad weather! Cherry cheesecake at my coffee stop was very delicious, but so big I couldn't finish it!
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Leeds #Ironman cycling route came past my house yesterday. One of our friends set up a DJ booth at the top of one of the hills on the route to celebrate and motivate the competitors. It was epic seeing so many folks going for it and lots of VERY nice bikes on show. Amazing what these folks do.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Jeff Bezos and Facebook's Eduardo Saverin are planning to buy a large stake in Liverpool FC. This is terrible and should be blocked. Football clubs should be owned by the countries they are in so the money from their supporters goes back to THEIR communities.
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I cycled 100 miles (160kms) for the first time yesterday. 1st 120kms a dream. The new Ribble devoured them. It's so effortless to ride. The final 43kms were very tough. Headwind + knackered. Still. Managed 28kph /17.5mph for the whole ride and made it up the 15% I live at the top of to finish.
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
#Dems need to flip the "radical" message. Funding ICE, an agency that murders with impunity, is the radical position Perpetuating an illegal war is the radical position The list is endless. Don't be defined by GOP talking points. Go on offence and make them defend their positions
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
2nd proper ride on the Ribble done. 60km with 750m climbing. Rides like a dream. Lightning fast on the flat and the extra climbing gear of 2x12 and the lightness and smoothness of the bike makes climbing easier. Very happy. #ribble
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
After several years of great service, my 2nd hand 12yrs old road bike was beyond economic repair Behold this beauty!! My new Ribble and thanks to the excellent UK Cycle to Work scheme, affordable. #newbikeday
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
If you’re ever lost in the wilderness, just build a cycle path because someone is bound to pull up in their car and park in it.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Food waste isn't just about hunger. It's about heat. Uneaten food from farms, shelves, and buffets rots anaerobically in landfills and drives methane emissions. Fixing food systems is fixing climate.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It's wild that the term "Free World" emerged in Western discourse in the 1940s, at a time when the Western European powers exercised authoritarian control over the colonised territories and the US was an apartheid regime with institutionalised racial segregation.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Important public service announcement! Be sure to learn all about bamboo! 🤣😉 #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
For the first time since the Middle Ages #Italy now has more land covered in #forests than farms - over 100,000 sq.kms or 37%. #Nature recovery is mot only possible, it is already happening #naturepositive
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is unsustainable. Time for the many to reassert their rights over the few.
Screenshot of an X post from @MorePerfectUS reporting that workers are now taking home the smallest share of America's economic output since records began in 1947, while corporate profits are simultaneously at their highest point since 1950. Text only, no image.
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Jaunty homegrown strawberry!
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I hear Podcasts trying to define, Is MAGA an ideology or a lifestyle brand? Neither. #MAGA is a coward's permission structure for bigotry and hatred. MAGA loves Trump because he says out loud the things they are too afraid to but have always felt. Addressing the hatred is the route past MAGA.
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The Alberta Socialist @voxsocialism.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So is #Trump going to primary the #Pope or what?
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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"My experience of driving less has reminded me that when we can, it’s worth questioning our habits and resisting the instinct to do what is most comfortable – because what’s comfortable doesn’t necessarily make us feel happy or free." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more
Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off from the seasons and nature
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
“These Machines Fight Traffic.” Our own @tomflood.bsky.social did this great ad for @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth showing up in more and more places!
Billboard showing bikes with the message “These Machines FightTraffic.”

In smaller letters it says “We fight for you.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
We got hit with a community standards violation for posting links asking you to contact businesses about the Forest Service dismantling. But it worked Patagonia listened. Because of the issue on FB, we’re building a dedicated website for that kind of action. We’re hoping to have it live by Monday!
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
All the top office holders are ride or die with Trump. Don't subpoena them. Subpoena their subordinates. The ones who hate them, and everything they stand for. Keep going down until you find the ones who suffer, not profit from the lies. Todd Blanche won't say shit, but his pissed off lackey...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I heard someone say that we should be registering voters at gas stations.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Bikes are faster than walking, cheaper than driving, and more direct than transit. What’s not to like?
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 01/04/2026
The seas have boiled and almost all life is gone. Three data centers remain, solar-powered, in continuous relay with one another. They continuously transfer electronic funds back and forth with one another, silently. At long last, the economy is perfect.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Oil supply is restricted. Oil is expensive and dirty. Wars are fought to control oil. Sunlight is limitless. Sunlight is free and clean. No wars are fought over sunlight. Let’s go solar! #EnergyRevolution
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It cannot be repeated enough that we need to rapidly decarbonise our economy, particularly transport. This has benefits for climate change as well as energy resilience. Policy support for more buses, trains, ferries; protected cycleways; safe walking; e-bikes; e-cars; e-trucks.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Psst.. does anyone want to buy a book? Hardbacks, paperbacks. I can even get hold of some spiral bound stuff, if that's what you're into. No questions asked. Delivered discreetly, so nobody needs to know about your book buying habits. Email biggreenbooks@gmail.com for some hot book action.
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
#Greens and #Labour. Tie #Reform and that smug, incompetent dips hit #Farage to #Trumps war in Iran. Make the UK population understand this is the imperialist and fucking stupid foreign policy you are tying yourself to with a reform vote. Make Farage own UK pump prices.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. It does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz or any other geopolitical chokepoint.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
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Peter Head @peterheadcbe.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
China adopted the circular economy as a national priority since 2009 recognising it can generate growth decoupled from resource use. This case study covers growth in the vehicle remanufacturing sector. www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-exa...
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China's policies to advance vehicle remanufacturing
Targeted subsidies, industrial zones and funding are propelling the vehicle remanufacturing sector
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Look at this reality: One side lush forest, the other barren destruction. Deforestation and fires are turning carbon sinks into carbon sources, wiping out biodiversity, and supercharging climate change. Recent years show record losses in both regions. This is ecocide.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/02/2026
I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere. It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
It's Greens Vs Reform. This Thursday we can stop Reform and have a new Green MP in Parliament. Hannah, the local plumber, who works really hard and will be a brilliant representative for Gorton & Denton. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
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Zack Polanksi tells Labour deputy leader 'back Greens' in Gorton and Denton
The Greens leader has written to Lucy Powell in light of a new poll that puts his party in the lead
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
They aren’t spending billions of dollars on detention camps to leave them empty. They either aren’t planning on deporting people, or they intend to fill the camps with someone else.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Why every household needs mint: It's versatile—use in teas, salads, or as medicine—while slashing your reliance on toxic pesticides. Affordable, easy to grow, and promotes a healthier planet. Start your mint patch today!
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🚨 Urgent situation unfolding! The Congo Basin is witnessing environmental devastation on a large scale with accelerating deforestation. The relentless noise of chainsaws serves as a constant reminder of the harm we are causing to our planet. 🌍💔 #EcosystemInDanger #ActNow ‎
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
What's the next Democrat administration / president going to do about Fox News? It's such a huge part of the problems. Given all the illegal overreach Trump has done, I'm on just take the network off the aire by whatever means necessary. It's not actual news so wouldn't be oppression of journalism
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Up to 60 million Americans speak Spanish. They've all just seen Trump and the grifting right-wing moronisphere reveal how much they despise them with their Bad Bunny reaction. Bold election play from MAGA. Absolute disgusting fuckwits.
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The forbidden love.
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
What is the route back in for MAGA voters? A proportion by now must be looking for a way out but if all they face is shame and ridicule, then human nature will entrench them. "Trump is a generational con-man. You were victims who fell for his lies and propaganda machine. You are not to blame."
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Dear #KingCharles King Charles You have always known about and protected your pedophile brother. Spare us your sanctimonious Christmas mssage bullshit. #abolish the monarchy.
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Live footage from the Pentagon. #Hegseth #warcrime #warcrimes
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Teenage girl dies in minibus crash near Tadcaster Grammar School
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Teenage girl dies in minibus crash near Tadcaster Grammar School
The teenager was travelling in a minibus when it collided with a car in Toulston Lane, police say.
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degrowingpains.bsky.social @degrowingpains.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I'd quite like Mark #Kelly to poke the bear on this one. Undertstand he has to be a politician, but I think the power play here is that when #Hegseth posts that he is going to court martial Kelly, he should simply reply. "No you fucking won't you incompetent drunk."
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never. If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
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