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@glaciocook.bsky.social
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Research & teaching on Glaciers, Geohazards, Geomorphology, Climate Change at University of Dundee | www.dundee.ac.uk/people/simon-cook

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I spoke with @afp.com about the Nepal disaster and some of the conspiracy theories swirling around the cause (also feat @kristencook.bsky.social @glaciocook.bsky.social). ⚒️🧪 factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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How an ice-rock avalanche caused the deadly China-Nepal floods
At least 1,400 people were killed and more than 5,300 missing after catastrophic floods swept through the Himalayas in late August, according to Chinese and Nepali authorities. As emergency response t...
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GAPHAZ - Glacier and Permafrost Hazards in Mountains @gaphaz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We are heartbroken 💔 to see the images and videos coming out of Nepal this morning. Initial footage suggests this was a hugely destructive event originating in glacierized terrain. Our thoughts are with all affected communities and emergency responders. #cryohazards #rasuwa #glaciers #hazards
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Drone shots from Inverbervie, Aberdeenshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 at the weekend. The gravel spit blocks the river mouth, which used to be a harbour
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
❄️🌊 NEW PAPER: Transboundary outburst floods from giant supraglacial lakes over the Himalayan China–Nepal border. Published in Advances in Climate Change Research In July 2025 two giant supraglacial lakes drained across the China-Nepal border. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️
icebergs in a glacial lake
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Interviewed yesterday on @bbc5live.bsky.social about glacier shrinkage in the Pamir mountains, central Asia. An area that, up to just a few years ago, had been characterised by relative glacier stability and even growth ❄️🤒 Even these last stalwarts now falling in line with global trend of shrinkage
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This was delayed and will now happen Tuesday 9th June sometime after 13:30
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
📻🎙️I’ll be on BBC 5 Live just after 13:30 today talking to Naga Munchetty and Chris Smith about the recent reversal in fortunes of glaciers in the Pamir Mountains as reported in this recent paper: lnkd.in/evhZ3nvj and this New Scientist article: lnkd.in/e6Qk_kJH
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Some drone shots of Svínafellsjökull, Iceland, from our 3rd year Geography & Environmental Science fieldtrip. #dundee #iceland #glacier
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Moron klaxon 🚨🔔
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The #artemis balloons sure do look like Tunnocks teacakes
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this roundabout on the edge of Cheadle” William Shakespeare
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Alex Scoffield @alexscoffield.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
After two field expeditions and one year in the making, very pleased to share my second paper from my PhD is now published! ⛰️ We obtained the first dataset of ice-contact lake physical conditions in the Himalaya throughout the critical monsoon and glacier melt season ⬇️ doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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Monsoon and Glacial Meltwater Input Drive Seasonal Cooling of a Himalayan Ice‐Contact Lake
Lake surface temperatures exceeded 9°C at the surface, and were consistently warmer close to the glacier front, driven by convection Monsoon-specific meteorological conditions and input of glacia...
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The Courier UK @thecourier.co.uk · 17/03/2026
University and College Union (UCU) Scotland say Dundee is the "canary in the coal mine" of a jobs crisis.
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Dundee University union demands emergency funding package as staff begin strike
University and College Union (UCU) Scotland say Dundee is the "canary in the coal mine" of a jobs crisis.
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🏔️❄️New book chapter on GLACIAL HAZARDS now published in ‘Comprehensive Cryospheric Science and Environmental Change’. Covers paraglacial landslides, permafrost degradation, ice &snow avalanches, glacier detachments, GLOFs, ice-volcano interactions Full: lnkd.in/eGtqQf8H Pre-print: lnkd.in/ek59Swfu
A small ice avalanche, Morsarjokull, Iceland
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Lots of dune erosion and slumping at Lunan Bay, east Scotland, after what can be described as ‘pants’ weather recently. 6 y.o. for scale. #coast #landslide #beach #dune
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Trump should return to his Scottish roots and take my Polar Environments course @dundeeuni.bsky.social 🐧 The penguin is even our university mascot…because of Dundee’s links to ANTARCTICA
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
❄️ 💧 New paper out in @igsoc.bsky.social Journal of Glaciology: "Monitoring glacier evolution and assessing glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) susceptibility in the Bolivian Andes" lnkd.in/e2tWUXeu #glaciers #climatechange #climate #andes #glofs #Bolivia (1/2)
Landscape image of the Cordillera Apolobamba, Bolivia, 2015
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
High frequency of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) driven by global warming Overall, the long-term trajectory of reported GLOF frequency closely parallels variations in global air temperature, exhibiting a lag-correlated pattern on timescales of ~20 years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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High frequency of moraine-dammed lake outburst floods driven by global warming - Nature Communications
The study presents an updated global inventory of glacial lake outburst floods, revealing a sharp rise in event frequency since the 1980s and a strong delayed link to climate warming, highlighting gro...
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🏔️NEW in @natcomms.nature.com: “High frequency of moraine-dammed lake outburst floods driven by global warming” www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤔There’s been lots of uncertainty about whether the number of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) has increased, decreased or flatlined in recent decades
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
📘 New paper: Post-Little Ice Age Shrinkage of the Tsaneri–Nageba Glacier System and Recent Proglacial Lake Evolution in the Georgian Caucasus 📉Glacier shrank ~43% since ~1820 🌊Lake grew from ~14,000m² in 2015 to ~107,900 m² 2025 ⚠️Hazard + water resources implications www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17...
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Very strong turnout this morning on the first of our five days strike. On Friday, in a meeting with the interim Principal, he confirmed his ideology is to cut as many jobs as possible. Support our action to save jobs and save the University! #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreTheUniversity
A group of over 40 people stand listening to speeches at the front of the Tower Building at the University of Dundee. The people are on a picket line for Dundee Universities and College Union. Many are wearing pink hats with ‘UCU’ on the front.
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
These low-angle glacier detachments are, mercifully, rare, but can be incredibly destructive. Good review here, though several events since it was published in 2021: tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/...
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Sudden large-volume detachments of low-angle mountain glaciers – more frequent than thought?
Abstract. The detachment of large parts of low-angle mountain glaciers resulting in massive ice–rock avalanches have so far been believed to be a unique type of event, made known to the global scienti...
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱 On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊 asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309 📽️ via @volcaholic1
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Random thought. Thailand could pass for a glacier. Nice wide accumulation zone (though struggling in the mid section)
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 04/10/2025
Storm Amy has been record breaking ⚠️ An air pressure of 947.9 hPa was recorded at Baltasound, Shetland, provisionally setting a new UK lowest pressure record for October. Northern Ireland provisionally recorded its strongest October wind gust on record, with a gust of 92 mph at Magilligan.
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🏔️❄️New paper: “Multi-temporal DEMs used to quantify the geomorphological impact of a late 20th century glacier re-advance at Schwarzberggletscher, Switzerland”. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #glaciers #climatechange #sfm #geomorphology
Archive images of Schwarzberggletscher, Switzerland, showing the glacier front and its advance to produce a moraine. Repeat DEMs from the 1974 to 2010 show that the glacier advanced and built a moraine, but that the landscape thawed since the early 1990s.
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Left high and dry, this former glacial meltwater channel was carved into the Sidlaw Hills just north of Dundee by the last ice sheet to occupy this region ~20,000 years ago. It’s one of several that i’ve been mapping with students & colleagues over the last couple of years.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 01/09/2025
Met Office stats confirm summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK. The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of  15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
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Summer 2025 is the warmest on record for the UK
Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Northwest Scotland is hard to beat
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The extent of the deposit from the Birch Glacier collapse over Blatten as seen by newly available high-resolution satellite imagery collected by Maxar! 🛰️ Processed by @wxnb.bsky.social
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
First heli inspection of what remains of Blatten yesterday evening... 🚁😱🌊 SHOCKING! Few buildings left are flooded Little debris flow run through the deposit Look at the height reached on the counterslope! 😮 🎥 Pomona
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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
On 28 May 2025, the Birch Glacier in Switzerland catastrophically failed, generating a massive landslide that has partially buried Blatten. So what happens next? eos.org/thelandslide...
The front of the Birch Glacier prior to the catastrophic collapse on 28 May 2025. Image from Pomona Media.
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Link here if you are so inclined: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 22:55-ish
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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Maybe >~100 🏠 buried by the glacier+rockfall collapse in Blatten (polygon quickly drawn from 📷 pomona.ch). Upstream part of village spared. But the Lonza River is now dammed. Over the last month it flew at ~5m3/s, expected to increase 2-3x in June. At 10 m3/s, it's 1M m3 every 28 hours.
NOT VERIFIED, an approximate polygon drawn from media images shows the extent of the Birch glacier collapse above Blatten.The location of the Lonza River gauge station in Blatten (now out of order)last 40 days of the Lonza River discharge at Blatten, light blue, about 5m3/s on averageAverage flow of the Lonza River at Blatten over the last 30 years. It shows a significant increase from May (average 5.7 m3/s) to June (average 11 m3/s)
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I’ll be on @bbc5live.bsky.social at about 10:45pm UK time tonight discussing the Birch Glacier collapse and the impacts on Blatten, Swiss Alps. Looks to be a dangerous secondary hazard developing with the blockage of the Lonza River. #blatten #birchglacier #glacier www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Swiss glacier collapse buries most of village of Blatten - BBC News
Many homes in Blatten have been flattened after a large chunk of the Birch glacier fell on to the village.
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
SPEECHLESS BEFORE / AFTER #BLATTEN The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱 All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊 Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠 📷 Pomona
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
❄️🏔️⚠️ Glacier collapse in the Swiss Alps has partially destroyed the village of Blatten, which thankfully had been evacuated already. #glacier #landslide #geohazard www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Swiss glacier collapse destroys parts of village
Numerous homes in Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated town
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 02/05/2025
Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer. Deadline: 02 June, 9AM BST Apply here ➡️ buff.ly/ypeV1mr
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Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer.
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
FFS 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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CryoExchange @cryoexchange.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🚨ICYMI: April Newsletter... Catch the highlights from our recent careers event outreach, celebrate the grant awards for our members, and explore our newly launched website - cryo-exchange.com Make sure to fill out the form in your inbox to add a profile to the new site! Happy reading❄️
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
❄️🌊Nice write-up of a Nature Climate Change paper by Jan Kavan et al. on coast development as Arctic glaciers recede. Includes some commentary from me. Enjoyed peer-reviewing the NCC article, writing a 'news and views' piece, and speaking to @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org about it all to top it off.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 01/04/2025
NEW – Global warming is ‘exposing’ new coastlines and islands as Arctic glaciers shrink | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org with comment from Jan Kavan @glaciocook.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/1yCsB85
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🏔️🌊❄️NEW PAPER in Natural Hazards & Earth System Sciences (NHESS) Causes, consequences and implications of the 2023 landslide-induced Lake Rasac glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru. nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/... #glof #landslide #climatechange #climate #hazards
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
❄️ ⛱️ 🌊 NEW ARTICLE out today in Nature Climate Change: ‘Glaciers give way to new coasts’ This ‘News & Views’ article coincides with the UN International Day of Glacier Preservation. Arctic glacier recession has revealed ~2500 km of new coastline since the year 2000. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Glaciers give way to new coasts - Nature Climate Change
Climate change is causing rapid shrinkage of high-latitude glaciers, fundamentally altering the nature of Arctic landscapes. Now, research quantifies the substantial, yet under-reported, development o...
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
❄️🇺🇳 It’s the UN International Day of Glacier Preservation, so here’s a video of some shrinking glaciers in Iceland 🇮🇸 #iygp #glaciers #ice
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🏔️🌊 Fully funded #PhD opportunity working with me on predicting the impact of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). “Leveraging gridded population data products for enhancing geohazard risk assessment” Deadline 10 April 5pm. Funded by @sgsss.bsky.social www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
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Leveraging gridded population data products for enhancing geohazard risk assessment. - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
Spatially detailed population data products in grid-based format have become increasingly abundant in recent years, contribute to a range of geospatial applications. One application is assessing popul...
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
❄️ 🌲 NEW PAPER: Past and present bacterial communities in deglaciating northern latitude catchments reveal varied soil carbon sequestration potential. Published in Science of the Total Environment: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #glaciers #climatechange #soils #Arctic
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Past and present bacterial communities in deglaciating northern latitude catchments reveal varied soil carbon sequestration potential
Glacier retreat in northern latitudes exposes new landscapes that may develop soils and ecosystems, which in turn may sequester carbon and serve as a …
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The world's richest man - perhaps the richest man who has ever lived - gloating about shutting down aid for the world's poorest people. All while posing as the champion of the common man. The great lie of populism in its most naked and morally putrid form.
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Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊 @glaciocook.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Think it will air later. Just done recording
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