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Lord Gid

@gidlord.bsky.social
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At work in the ruins. Permaculturer. Land worker. Forest denizen. BSc Ecology. 👉🏼Grow food, repair soil, smash capitalism. Also party creator & disc jockier. Probably not a lord. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🌱 earthedup.com 🥒 pingleproduce.co.uk

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s really starting to grind me down
The Barney/Moe’s Tavern meme

“Default AI features” Barney being kicked out
“Finding how to turn it all off in the settings” -satisfied Moe

Third panel Barney coming in behind “software update”
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Not now Nazi warship!
reuters.com
Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Campaigning in Greater Manchester today and just running through some life lessons...
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"Much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt." This isn't the new normal, this is just the beginning. Accepting this reality doesn't mean being defeated by it. Denying it does.
newscientist.com
If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you should be
The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt, says Michael Le Page
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Two headlines about the same story reveal how the BBC relentlessly launders Farage's reputation, even as the corporate media steps up. In-your-face malfeasance by the national broadcaster.
A Sunday Times headline that reads "Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal"A BBC headline that reads "Farage denies rules broken after reports benefits from ally were not declared"
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"I still use it because there are things I like on the platform run by a deranged, morally bankrupt, power-hungry billionaire con man who wants to destroy democracy" is just really weak sounding. Also: if you don't like bsky, don't use it either. Delete both. Put the phone down. Go outside.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
NEW: Why did Nigel Farage throw the 2019 ‘Brexit’ election for Boris Johnson? What does it have to do with Harborne’s £5m gift? And why is it tearing apart Britain’s far-right parties? A @thenerve.news investigation by me & @luciaoc.bsky.social (Link below) 1/ #TheHarborneReceipts
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Only 1/3 of the way in but "Wasp Jam" by Ensemble Entendu is just perfect, like someone soundtracking the inside of my brain... youtube.com/watch?v=HxaN...
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Ensemble Entendu - Wasp Jam
YouTube video by Astro Nautico
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Calling something "timeless" is always problematic ... But it's hard not to feel, as the tempo picks up through the collection, as post-punk & samba & house and psychedelia blur together, like there is some kind of deeper, extra-temporal spirit of a city making itself felt." 🩷
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Can't share a bandcamp review but @joemuggs.bsky.social thoughtful words about this new compilation instantly welcomed me into listening to something I might otherwise have scrolled past & I'm very grateful for that because it's wonderful stuff. loveinjection-nyc.bandcamp.com/album/10-yea...
loveinjection-nyc.bandcamp.com
10 Years of Love Injection: A Declaration of Universal Love - compiled by Barbie Bertisch & Paul Raffaele, by Love Injection
17 track album
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︀︀︀Damon Dawg ✌🏼🫶 @bigdawgnc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Now known as the Strait of Warm Ooze.
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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
Photo of a small group of mostly men wearing black, with masks and balaclavas, surrounded by a Police Scotland cordon in the bottom of the photo, in the foreground. In the background, a very large colourful crowd of people with saltires, trade union banners, and hand-made signs in support of migrants and against racism have turned up to gather to show solidarity, and the far right guys were hoping to thwart that. They didn't.
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Karl Scheifinger @karlscheifinger.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Absolutely mindboggling read about what happens when science poses a too high risk to fossil industry profits. The strategy: If the science is clear, attack the people behind it.
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Didn't have "whale necropolis" on my bingo card for today but I'm here for it. Astonishing.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
But I’m sure they’re buying a few thousand tonnes of carbon removal.
theguardian.com
World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds
JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The myth of "progress"
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
the fuck what now futurism.com/science-ener...
futurism.com
There's Something Living Inside Fog, Scientists Find
New research found that fog is rife with so much life that it's comparable to an ocean to an entire ocean in density.
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We have some (& a lot of young plants) but getting it to the US would not be possible sadly.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/05/2026
OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/05/2026
I maintain that generative AI is very much inherently bad, and extremely useful for the worst, most toxic applications A system that convincingly fabricates content with no designed drive towrads accuracy or ethics of humanity is not "useless". You can use it for lying, fakery, cheating, abuse
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Yep. Poor belted galloways. I was embarrassed for everyone involved.
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
No I hadn't seen that. Sadly the farmers I know round here are mostly interested in putting up fences to stop people going anywhere and killing wildlife. Oh, and one did spray St George's cross flags on all his cows.
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My son is now 15 and we no longer live in London, but I have such happy memories of us taking the DLR for no other reason than to do this when he was little. The added joy of it being a journey with no destination, no purpose other than itself...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
ms.now
Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate
Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
404media.co
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 12/03/2026
I’ve just seen an American TV programme refer to a pub crawl. Cultural appropriation has gone too far.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Arundhati Roy empties the clip!
zeteo.com
'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli War
Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
An accurate description of much of what's playing out. But humans are not mindless automatons, programmed to relentlessly kill off life on Earth, and most of the destruction is down to power structures that value only profit. We HAVE the capacity to put the gear into reverse. Rewilding is how.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
A £240m defence contract without tender. Their fingerprints all over our health care data. A meeting in the USA but without any minutes. Everything around Palantir stinks. www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
thenational.scot
Zack Polanski pressures Wes Streeting over Palantir after Mandelson texts released
ZACK Polanski has piled fresh pressure on Wes Streeting over Palantir’s NHS contracts after the Health Secretary’s newly-released text messages…
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
US military sites across Britain have quietly multiplied. Findings expose how deeply the UK has become a US-run war hub with no accountability www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
thecanary.co
The US has even more military bases in the UK than we thought
US military sites across Britain have quietly multiplied. Findings expose how deeply the UK has become a US-run war hub with no accountability
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Sending this to the various intelligent, articulate people I know who voted for brexit. They always believe they had good reasons ("at the time"), but in reality they were always just doing what these people wanted...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/02/2026
Space-based data centres are the CCS of big tech. They'll just be perpetually around the corner, there will be a handful of flimsy demonstration projects, and the concept will just suck up gov't subsidies for decades while serving as a rhetorical tool to fend off real regulation of industry
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs. They've stopped people from using drugs safely. It's time to legalise *and* regulate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Drugs policy approach needs to change, Zack Polanski says
The Green Party leader of England and Wales says there needs to be a
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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
“Without significant increases in the UK food system and supply chain resilience, it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food.” open.substack.com/pub/climatem...
open.substack.com
10,000 voices called for climate resilience: the Government minimised the threat.
by Rupert Read and Caroline Lucas
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Simon Love @simonloverules.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Ned Kelly looking like he’s about to open a toast cafe in Shoreditch.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/01/2026
“Basically, what we are finding is that people hate AI.” As Firefox pushes AI on its users, Vivaldi does the complete opposite. Even more reason to try it.
theregister.com
Latest Vivaldi release surfs a wave of anti-AI sentiment
Interview: 'What we are finding is that people hate AI'
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Kate Fried @katefried.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Amazon is producing a web series on #regenerativeagriculture. They are asking experts to pay a fee to be featured. So if you see a special on Amazon about regenerative ag, understand those expert voices were actually bought. Who has the cash to afford these placements? Corporations with an agenda!
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ad bibliothecam @adbibliothecam.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
regenerative agriculture results!! we are beginning to garden *at scale* (aka simple practices informed by *soil* microbiology & biochemistry and not treating the earth as though it were rockwool) Dr. Elaine Ingham is one of my faves on this topic youtu.be/x2H60ritjag?...
youtu.be
The Roots of Your Profits - Dr Elaine Ingham, Soil Microbiologist, Founder of Soil Foodweb Inc
YouTube video by Oxford Real Farming Conference
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Our highly paid stick consultant
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Video shows a speeded up edit of the process of making potting mix starting with compost from a sack, worm compost from a bathtub & diverting into the process of making charcoal in an open metal kiln. Finally the ingredients are mixed in a wheelbarrow & ready on the potting bench.
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Our potting mix has 3 ingredients & is the foundation of producing healthy plants for sale. With a base of Sylvagrow organic peat-free compost It uses locally sourced "waste" organic matter to feed the worms, comfrey and nettle grown on site + brash from garden work to make biochar. 🌱 #permaculture
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Good work. Important work.
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 23/01/2026
The UK gov has finally released the Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security report. We face catastrophe. Why aren't politicians acting? I think some are - but in ways perhaps just as frightening. My latest for Technosphere Earth. www.technosphere.earth/no-war-on-a-...
technosphere.earth
No war on a dead planet
If defence and intelligence agencies understand the risks from climate and biodiversity collapse, why can’t politicians?
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A short thread and a simple truth.
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
FULL UPDATE!: We learn from the Times in this morning’s paper that indeed as I surmised (see thread below) the Govt >haven’t< released an unredacted version of this bombshell report. What a scandal. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme... Without paywall: archive.ph/2026.01.23-0... PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!
thetimes.com
Suppressed climate report warned of mass migration and nuclear war
Unabridged document said disappearing forests and rivers drying up could drive people to Europe and lead to conflict in Asia
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Lord Gid @gidlord.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Every goddamn day.
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Onikunooooooooooo~! @onikuno.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...
cybernews.com
One developer’s tool strips AI and other junk from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
A developer released a free tool called “Just the Browser” that disabless AI features, ads, and other unwanted junk in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
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