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Gosh, Brazilian, Israeli and American elections, all within four weeks of each other! Where we’re all going to end up at by Christmas is anyone’s guess at this stage…

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 11h

They would, of course, be very wrong. I’m not calling it that, even if I’m clamouring to get back in!

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That’s a pity. Every little helps, if possible.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not before time too. You still have a vote, right?

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, even if he only gets half of this done, I’m certainly on board with sounding the end of Thatcherism. About bloody time too.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Probably one of the better pieces you might ever read amidst all the froth about AI taking away all human jobs (and, um, then destroying humanity)…

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The key annual conference for my sector used to run at exactly the same time as the start of term for most of us parents. Now it’s moved, but to where many others have half term. Seems there was just no optimum time to have it, particularly when balanced against when work was at its busiest.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Around the start of term too!

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I can’t do that for you, Dave.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Much like membership of the EU…

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have to admit that ‘easy target’ was my first thought for this brain fart…

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m honoured, Sue - thank you! Been meaning to ask, actually. Can I interest you in doing a show for #ALTcRadio26? I’ve currently got spaces for pre-recorded ones in the draft schedule.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Am absolutely thrilled to be one of the nominees for the inaugural ALT Volunteer of the Year Award, for the work done on #ALTcRadio. If you’ve listened to the shows, played a part, or want to help out a chap hustling for votes, you can add your vote here 👇🏼 #altc docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

(appreciate your point was probably rhetorical)

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Nuremberg on the Potomac - bring it on…

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026

When it comes to climate change, we're using every tool at our disposal — including everyday infrastructure — to keep New Yorkers safe.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes, yes, very much so. Good piece. #BeMoreHuman

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

But it will make us even more likely to vote for whoever is best placed to stop him, whatever the results. Which might be no way to run a democracy, but can only be better than losing one.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

But is it fascism? Do they really yearn for apocalypse? Isn't that polarizing? Shouldn't we be nice to them? We made a short video so folks can hear the end timers in their own words and judge for themselves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...

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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...

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There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate Uncensored

I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Every single nation on the planet needs to extract zero fossil fuels. Every single nation on the planet needs to burn zero fossil fuels. Both need to be true.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Spent a chunk of today co-hosting a screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing at work. Although I’d already seen it, I still felt quite emotional in putting it on. So important to discuss the #ClimateCrisis with colleagues afterwards. #PEB Host your own 👇🏼 www.nebriefing.org/host-the-film

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National Emergency Briefing

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from nine leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Even a stopped clock, and all that…?

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Or the staggering lack of self-awareness to say such things into an open microphone today…

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ain’t another soul in that stable that would even get it to 25%.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

‘Hope I die before I…get a big tax bill’? 😉

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I guess antifa has all the best tunes…

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s like a British negative of the KKK…

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Slop Presidency sure has turned into a major low point in the (hi)story of the Republic.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Very serious food for thought. And action, for that matter. #PostAmericanInternet

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Next week will be pretty full on. Not only will I be co-hosting a workplace screening of the ‘People’s Emergency Briefing’, but will also be taking part in the large ‘Creative Intelligence’ exhibition at London’s Southbank: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/exp... A first for everything!

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Exploration Bazaar | Southbank Centre

The UK's largest arts centre & the heart of London's cultural life.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Late summer highlights, now the heatwaves have ended + back-to-school is on: a passenger ferry family day trip to Dieppe, the Bowie immersive exhibition near King’s Cross with friends, and a solo day of volunteering for the Ealing Beaver Project at Paradise Fields. Much else awaits this year.

Setting sun behind French coastal town with harbour waters in the foreground and a cloud-mottled dark blue sky above.

Large projection of David Bowie in concern in 1978 looks down on an onlooking seated audience in a darkened room.

Wild-looking aquatic area with pond water in the centre and a profusion of plant life around the edges.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Can one overdose on schadenfreude?

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Guess we’ll have to wait and see. Interesting timing though, given that their party conference is *just* about to kick off…

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Seems pretty damned explosive, if you ask me…

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Fascinating. When I saw ‘The Odyssey’, I was perplexed at why Nolan had chosen to depict the Trojan Horse differently from all those other historical depictions (ie on wheels). Never thought of the connection with the Statue of Liberty on the beach in ‘Planet of the Apes’…

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A fair summation of a man to whom fairness itself clearly means nothing.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Quite stunning to put Musk in the same category as Stalin or Mao. When you put it like that…wow.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

‘Berlin and the Machine’ - my latest bit of writing, where I wrestle with whether to deploy a bot or not as a tool/writing partner. A particular struggle during these times of techlash, but at least I finally got a reflection on last year’s #OEB event out. dompates.medium.com/berlin-and-t...

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Berlin and the Machine

Harnessing the centaur

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A solid set of essential principles to live by… #transitionism

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There is infinitely more damage to be done, or to put it another way there is infinitely more damage we might still be able to forestall. And that’s what should concern us. billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-growin...

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The growing rumble

Politics--alas--is what we need

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is seems such a curious way to go. Ulez is a success. The results are in, and unarguable. The arguments have stopped. People have adapted.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

These people just don’t seem to care about a wider population than their own narrow demographic of voters…

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