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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 8h
A drop in the ocean! Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion to fight climate change in 2020; 6 years later, his Earth Fund is putting more than $25 million into Pacific ocean conservation | - The Times of India share.google/lFR24YYdf49y...
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Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion to fight climate change in 2020; 6 years later, his Earth Fund is putting more than $25 million into Pacific ocean conservation
The Pacific is becoming a major focus of Jeff Bezos’ environmental philanthropy, with the Bezos Earth Fund announcing more than $25 million in new grants for ocean conservation across five Pacific nat...
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 9h
Economy deterioated under austerity but the Conservatives want to do it again.....Mmmm How are road repairs? Health Investment? Money feeding into the least wealthy households? Environment? Pollution? etc... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories plan to extend cuts beyond £47bn previously pledged, leak reveals
Exclusive: Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith told party members last year he had discussed making further savings if they win next election
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 14h
Integrity of the financial system? Surely Trump and his cohort The Financial crash QE and stock market prices AI The concentration of wealth and power usurping Democratic control Never ending Wars for private and political gain are all undermining trust??? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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UK urged to act as Polymarket takes bets on whether HSBC and Lloyds will fail
Revelation comes amid mounting concern over online prediction market’s effects on integrity of financial system
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 15h
Watch all the way to the end, the contrast visible over the length of this film is horrifying, the scale of destruction unbelievable....and yet still they bomb....
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How is Neo Liberal capitalism in the interests of the long term good of a society? Everywhere needs a local tax base to repair roads, fund services, educate people
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Market Rate.....? 😂🤣😂🤣...City Group having a laff
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Abu Dhabi Group?
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The roots of UK gov involvement and continual supply, to a Gov with the appearance of committing war crimes, goes back some time. Don't absolve Starmer, but others need to be included.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Should justice depend on how documents were obtained? Should whistle blowers be protected? If someone does wrong, does that mean the evidence they supply should be inadmissible? www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Criminal or saviour? Rui Pinto abandoned by Portuguese authorities after Manchester City leaks
Pinto, whose leaks of private documents prompted the investigation into City, has been advised not to return home, contact family members or visit crowded places
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blauesstrange.bsky.social @blauesstrange.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Andy Burnham is saying some impressive things & seems to be offering a big improvement on Starmer but i can't forget the fact he's surrounded by people who've been part of the Starmerite project. @zackpolanski.bsky.social would be a really important force in parliament, we need MPs like Zack
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not a good look by Burnham!!! To all intents and purpose, City have now been found guilty twice, by UEFA & by Premier league. The owners seem to feel that they should get away with rule breaking practise. How often do business people get away with this behaviour? www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Andy Burnham’s Manchester City comments stir fresh tensions with Premier League
Andy Burnham’s intervention in the Manchester City debate has revived tensions between the Premier League and the prime minister
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The recent history of tree planting in the UK www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
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Analysis: UK misses tree-planting targets by forest the ‘size of Birmingham’ - Carbon Brief
UK governments have fallen short of their tree-planting targets since 2020 that they have failed to plant an area of forest nearly the size of Birmingham
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
9+ years since Grenfell www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Lewis @lgambrose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They should've, but we should also loudly protest our partnership with we never have. We never had a real protest for Visit Rwanda, nor against Thomas Partey. A lot of Arsenal fans wanted Usmanov. It's them but it could've been us or any other club. It's pathetic. It's past time to wake up.
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Fllics @fllics.com · 30/09/2026
Antarctica’s ice loss is locked in, and extra snowfall won’t save it – that’s bad news for low-lying coastal areas elsewhere The Antarctic ice sheet’s future depends how a chain of events plays out. A new study finds the evidence points in one direction.
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Antarctica’s ice loss is locked in, and extra snowfall won’t save it – that’s bad news for low-lying coastal areas elsewhere
The Antarctic ice sheet’s future depends how a chain of events plays out. A new study finds the evidence points in one direction.
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Super-rich UK energy and food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises
Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions
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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 30/09/2026
Festival of Commoning in Stroud this Friday/Saturday www.festivalofcommoning.org/line-up - lots of speakers and wandering the town to visit the many successful community projects. I’m going and assume tickets still available.
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Line-Up | Festival Of Commoning
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Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP @catherinerowett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Get Palantir out of the UK. This is just part of what's creepy about them. 👀
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rich Elites keep falling back on this trope, as soon as their modus operandi is challenged. That, and the idea that they are all unique, and the only ones capable of driving society forward, which has become the subliminal messaging put forward by a lot of media outlets ....that they own!
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A couple of really radical options - engage in Brussels with why the UK wants to talk and what the EU is actually prepared to offer - learn from what has mostly failed in the approach to the EU question for the last ten years Which would quickly narrow the path forward.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reading the independent report into Man City's financial "arrangements" now, stopping after every paragraph, saying "Jesus"..."JESUS!"..."Holy fuck!" and again. This is beyond anything anyone imagined. Also started to wonder whether criminal proceedings are in the picture now.
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Liew points the direction .....the City case is just the tip of an amoral code that seems to be prevalent in many of the Super Rich, they equate their accumulation of power and wealth to some kind of right to rule and decide what lesser people should know www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Manchester City case shows us how the global mega-rich now expect to operate with impunity | Jonathan Liew
When transnational alliances have scarcely been weaker, the way the club was allegedly run offers a bleak vision of a world driven by brute power and wealth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Surely one of the most relevant pieces of information found about two thirds of the way through the article Reporting on this incident has been very strange! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The US???? 🤣😂 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford bomb plot
The US secretary of state offered no evidence for his claims, and also said many people were ‘disturbed’ that the five suspects had been released on bail
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Loss of a moral compass.... www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Israel captain stokes feud by saying ‘our country is 10 times better than Ireland’
Manor Solomon has reacted angrily to the Republic of Ireland team’s behaviour before their Nations League match in protest at Israel’s military action in Gaza
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
The suspects in the RAF Fairford case have now been bailed - and it’s been confirmed that there were no viable bomb making substances in their vans. This is, undoubtedly, a very odd case here - and it has by and large shown the dangers of speculation, especially as per the below.
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel is an occupying power and has no legal right to close the British consulate in East Jerusalem. Israel will do what Israel does, ignore International Law that it does not like, change the facts on the ground and then pretend to negotiate! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Israel does not have right to close UK consulate in Jerusalem, Foreign Office advised
Former attorney general Dominic Grieve says Israel is not entitled to shut mission in occupied Palestinian territory
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Go 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Other contracts for consultancy work, outside of main contract (of course they were not linked Mr Mancini!!!) and so I presume, not counted in Man City spending....Mmmmm! Wiggle room either way I suppose! www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Mancini refers to ‘double’ Manchester City contract and says it ‘isn’t my problem’
Roberto Mancini has appeared to acknowledge he had ‘a double contract’ when he managed Manchester City
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great article Numbers, facts and hope...what more could you ask for? ... it is well written as well!
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just saw a film about the AI-enabled apocalypse. Only it's not science fiction. It's not even in the future. It's in the present. The film is called NAZA. See it. @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com youtu.be/98xLCdc7t7E
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Apocalypse is here
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dragged into supporting a war (logistically) that never should have been ........... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Five arrested for alleged terrorism offences after ‘major incident’ near RAF Fairford
Men held also suspected of explosives offences as homes evacuated near British airbase used in US attacks on Iran
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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
90 years ago today, 30,000 people gathered on Holbeck Moor in Leeds to stop British fascist leader Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts holding a rally. My grandad was there to help stop the fascists. I was so proud to speak at the unveiling of the plaque commemorating that historic day.
A plaque explaining: 

The Battle of Holbeck Moor

On 27 September 1936, 30,000 people assembled to prevent the leader of the British Union of Fascists, Sir Oswald Mosley, and his Blackshirts, from holding a rally.'They shall not pass.'
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Those who still claim that Zionism has nothing to do with colonialism, capitalism and the West only have to look at this map
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yet another example of how the lifestyle of the well off contibutes the most to resource use and onto pollution
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Amazing how self interest seems to be relative and short term, resulting in many failing to follow the observable facts and act according to not only their own self interest, but also in the self interest of billions
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How?.... I thought that part of our cultural heritage was being good with boats! Sir Walter Raleigh Captain Cook Nelson Sir Francis Chichester It seems Mr D Thomas does not have 'English' credentials!!! www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/danny-t...
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Danny Tommo buys boat to police Channel, sinks it within weeks
Far-right activist Daniel 'Tommo' Thomas was involved in an embarrassing debacle earlier this year after buying a boat.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 27/09/2026
Handrail - Schwabisch, Germany
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Enforce the Law .... a fine slogan (nuance as ever is key, but for a slogan) To be fair to Ed Milliband as a minister he has shown great ability to get things moving!
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reconciling the Irreconcilable Fascinating interview, outlining the realities of Israel/Gaza, Emphasising the political possibilities of now.....as long as Politicians feel the pressure!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW0j...
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Norman Finkelstein | Israel Has Been Told To Leave. Who Will Enforce It?
YouTube video by Dr Myriam François
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Smoke and Mirrors..... The usual fraudulent claims that accompany Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’
The US’s oil deal with Venezuela faces multiple legal and logistical problems, including questions about whether it can be implemented
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 26/09/2026
Researchers found plastic bags, rubber boots, and fishing gear at depths of up to 3,814 meters in a deep-sea canyon off Argentina's coast. Likely from offshore fishing, the waste shows how human pollution reaches even the most remote ocean habitats. mongabay.cc/ujEgLu
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Plastic and rubber litter found in remote submarine canyon off Argentina’s coast
Plastic waste has been found in the most remote places — including, now, a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Argentina, according to a recent study. “The very first item spotted was a plastic bag…
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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A stunning speech. Don't scroll on. Please make the time to listen to it.
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Kieran @eslsys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The players will face the backlash if the game goes ahead when it should be directed at UEFA, the FAI and the Fianna Fail, Fine Gael government #StopTheGame #speirGorm www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...
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‘It’s not too late’ – Trade unionist Mick Lynch calls on Ireland players to boycott Israel games at Siptu event in Dublin
British-Irish trade unionist Mick Lynch has urged the Ireland footballers to “make the right choice” ahead of their upcoming double-header of Nations League fixtures against Israel.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
International Law requires that Nations speak up for the Law and reinforce that authority. Silence is tacit support, as time allows facts on the ground to change. Human Rights are the core for International Law. A speech of support from the King of Jordan www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGkw...
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The UN Falls Silent as Jordan's King Rips Into Israėl Over Gazą
YouTube video by TANN
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🤣😂
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In a political environment that tacitly allows violence to groups of vulnerable people, it is not surprising that at the personal level some feel empowered to engage in their own horrific violent acts.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A former staff member of Tony Blair Institute said they had serious concerns that this was “very much trading money for access”, but was instructed by a colleague not to describe it that way. ‘They were saying you have to be really careful not to make it seem as if they’re paying money for access’😬
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