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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/06/2026

So here are some thoughts on this heatwave: against fatalism, against inevitability, and against the fossil fuel industry's ongoing efforts to ensure they do as much damage as they can over the coming decades. These fossil-fuelled extremes emerge from decisions we can identify in recent history

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The Epstein files grant us a rare glimpse into the kind of machinations that must be happening all the time. As @bylinetimes.bsky.social reveals, Trump's fixer, Steve Bannon, helped Boris Johnson overthrow Theresa May. Blatant foreign interference in our politics. 🧵 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

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Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May

The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office

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Dáithí @ismisedave.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Troy Parrott. Echos of Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in 2002. What a moment. #COYBIG 🇮🇪

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17

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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 20/06/2025

A week into the conflict between #Israel and #Iran we review some of the key environmental issues and trends, moving beyond risks from attacks on #nuclear facilities to the wider consequences of both parties’ military conduct. 🧵1/7 ceobs.org/the-emerging...

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The emerging environmental consequences of the Israel-Iran war - CEOBS

A week into the Israel-Iran War we review some of the key environmental issues and trends that are emerging,

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 15/06/2025

A recent study finds that the massive amounts of penguin poop, or guano, that can cover the ground for miles around penguin colonies with thousands of individuals, plays a critical role: ammonia gas released from the droppings helps form clouds over Antarctica, which can cool surface temperatures!

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Penguin poop helps form clouds over Antarctica, potentially cooling it

In Antarctica, penguin poop, or guano, can cover the ground for miles, especially around penguin colonies with thousands of individuals. In fact, large, brown guano stains on Antarctica’s white ice…

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …

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Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes

MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 09/05/2025

New Pope Leo blasts non-religious people, saying (quite shockingly) that 'lack of faith' comes from 'the loss of meaning in life, the neglect of mercy, appalling violations of human dignity' We'll remain composed in the face of such abject nastiness, but it's untrue to say the least

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West Leeds Dispatch @wldispatch.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

It's a year today since Farsley Celtic's men's first team played their last home game in Farsley, staging a 'great escape' to avoid the drop. This year's 'great escape' may well be played out off the pitch over the summer months... westleedsdispatch.com/opinion-fars...

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Opinion: Farsley Celtic's great escape may be off the pitch this summer - West Leeds Dispatch

Comment: By John Baron When I first brought my son to watch Farsley Celtic about eight years ago, it’s true to say neither of us were prepared for the impact […]

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

There's been plenty of hyperventilating in some UK media outlets about solar farm taking over 'productive farm land' and endangering food security But in fact the ambitious 2030 targets will cover only 0.4% of land, compared with golf courses covering 0.5% www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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Solar panel push still won’t cover as much land as golf courses

A study shows that Ed Miliband’s 2030 green energy targets are set to require up to 0.4 per cent of the UK, compared with 0.06 per cent today

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Eoghan Darbyshire @eoghan-d.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Get the sinking feeling that Smallwood red will go down - for all the wrong reasons - as iconic in the clubs recent history #bcafc

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The UK Government promised a planning system that works for people & nature. But as it stands, this Bill risks fast-tracking nature’s destruction. We’ve joined others calling for urgent change. Nature mustn't be written out of our future. 🚨

A screenshot from The Guardian with the headline: “Planning bill ‘throws environmental protection to the wind’, say UK nature chiefs.” The subheading warns the proposals could push species towards extinction and lead to irreversible habitat loss. Below, a photo shows a wide view of the English countryside in autumn, with green fields, scattered trees in golden tones, and wooded hills in the distance - representing the kind of landscapes at risk.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 30/03/2025

🧭🤖 “Turning right”? Political shifts in ChatGPT A study using 3,000+ tests shows newer ChatGPT versions are shifting right on the political compass. Not user-driven – the shift may stem from system-level changes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1057/s415... #SciComm #GenAI 🧪

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“Turning right”? An experimental study on the political value shift in large language models - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - “Turning right”? An experimental study on the political value shift in large language models

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 18/03/2025

For all of the noise and the hype, the basic facts are these: Ukraine and has agreed to an unconditional ceasefire. Russia has not. And tonight, Putin keeps on bombing.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The closure of Mauna Loa will cause irreversible harm to the scientific record and our understanding of our impact on the atmosphere. But the symbolism feels even more massive than that.

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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 12/03/2025

What headline captures the abject stupidity of our historical moment better than "Rainforest Felled to Build Road for Climate Summit"?

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This stance is for the birds. Ignoring the scale of US and global shifts is a threat to our own national interest. Trump’s evolving oligarchy is hostile to UK values—our future lies with Europe.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

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Huge win! Government announces plan to open up Land Registry

This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Today the UK Government has announced plans to open up the Land Registry – which, if delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wale…

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

All of the major U.K. party leaders have now issued statements about the Trump-Zelenskyy fallout except for Nigel Farage. He has been tweeting tonight but not about this.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Harassing Zelenskyy about wearing a suit is on the nose for modern conservative hypocrisy. It's all about theatre—appearing to conform to ideals as propaganda tools without having actual honorable ideals. This explains how Trump can target vulnerable people and then welcome Andrew Tate to the US.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 27/02/2025

This is still happening. It's your Wednesday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is still the *lowest* on record for the date (JAXA) about 670,000 km² below the 2010s mean about 2,250,000 km² below the 1980s mean A winter for the record books in the Arctic. More info zacklabe.com/graduate-res... ⚒️

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Standing up to the authoritarian wave requires more than cheerleading for democracy; it demands making democratic societies more participatory, responsive, and adaptable at all levels, from local to national, in response to the societal shifts driven by the Internet over the past 15 years.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Zelensky is perhaps the defining figure of our age. Brave, ingenious, pragmatic and defined by his convictions. They hate him because he kills fascists.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

"Move fast and break things" sounds like some bold techbro vision of innovation, but it's also the same motto of thieves who want to do a smash-and-grab and get the fuck out before anybody can catch them.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 19/02/2025

The equivalent would have been Roosevelt calling Churchill a dictator when the Luftwaffe were bombing London. It's beyond belief, really.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Trump is on Putin's side. That's it. That's the story and if you are on Trump and Putin's side then you're on the side of murder, fear, war and autocracy. Find it absolutely staggering that some people who you'd expect so much more of are cheering this nightmare on

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Eoghan Darbyshire @eoghan-d.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Get in city!! Raised me from my flu stupor. Deserved that #bcafc - not a pen imo, just, stansfield tried to buy the contact rather then control the ball - hope he’s alright tho

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David Hartwell @davidhartwell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

If you can’t see the direction in which he’s going it’s because you’re choosing not to.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 15/02/2025

Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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We need to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us.

This may have been the biggest moment for European security since 1991.

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

UK is subsidising forest-burning #Drax power station with around £2 million a day. Now we hear Gov is considering extending the subsidy past 2027 😡 This is the Emporer’s New Clothes. Drax is as bad as coal. And everyone knows it. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I see lead in the gasoline, pipes, water, and house paint still has a lot to answer for in America

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GALBA - Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport @galba.uk · 03/02/2025

Rachel Reeves says SAFs (so-called Sustainable Aviation Fuels) have changed her mind on aviation expansion. Here’s why she’s wrong, from our friends at @flightfreeuk.bsky.social flightfree.co.uk/post/the-tro...

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The trouble with SAF

SAFs, or sustainable aviation fuels, are heralded by the aviation industry as the answer to carbon emissions. But is that the full story? Finlay Asher and Flight Free UK explain.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This is the peril of allowing weapons of mass destruction to exist. Sooner or later, men like Trump and Putin realize they don't want to use them for deterrence. They want to use them to do whatever the hell they want. Multilateralism cannot co-exist with Might-Makes-Right. We need to choose.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Uragh rainforest, some of the less than 0.1% of Ireland still covered in ancient, ie pre-1660, forest, and an *immeasurably* special place. It's one of the surviving biological time capsules that could rebirth our lost forest wonderlands, if only grazing pressure were lifted. 🌎

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

A third runway at #Heathrow in the midst of a climate emergency is a vile act of vandalism. Rachel Reeves is happy to burn the planet for a tiny (probably elusive) increment of GDP. How does this benefit us? Article coming later today.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

🚨SCOOP: Starmer's ‘AI opportunities’ advisor didn't publicly declare numerous AI business interests - while he was writing key AI 'action plan' he's now charged with delivering Concerns gov't AI policy “could be directed by vested interests” New: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-t...

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Starmer’s top AI advisor did not declare role at Hakluyt AI investment fund

Exclusive: Concerns that government’s flagship AI policy “could be directed by vested interests”

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Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Google Earth has updated its publicly available satellite imagery of Sudan's Khartoum to 30 November, 2024, which shows the widespread impact on the city and its surrounding areas of the clashes between SAF and RSF. Example below shows Khartoum Airport, between April 2023 and November 2024.

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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

So it begins... @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social sued Trump today minutes after he was sworn. We're demanding the hidden records of Musk's DOGE Committee which will reveal his illegal, right-wing maneuvering to trash America's air, water and wildlife. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

FYI, all the Neo Nazi Telegram channels I monitor are absolutely THRILLED about this

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The Military Emissions Gap @militaryemissions.org · 18/12/2024

In many ways, #COP29 was a disappointment. Developing countries were failed, in particular fragile and conflict-affected states. Yet, peace and security had a higher profile than ever before. We take stock of what happened at COP29 in our latest blog post: ceobs.org/reflections-...

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Reflections on COP29: what price do we put on peace and security? - CEOBS

Peace and security had never enjoyed a higher profile than they did at COP29, we look at what happened and look ahead to COP30 in 2025.

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