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One life. One planet. One humanity. People before profit. Simply does it. 💚 🚲 🌱 🦜🦋 🐝 🌳 🏕 🎺 Wanderer. Birder. Learner. greenerfutures.substack.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 17h
This brilliant new tool allows blame to be allocated and shames those seeking - in the face of our collapsing climate - to load the atmosphere with even more carbon Please take a look and share www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Just what damage can the emissions from a new fossil fuel facility cause? A new tool has estimates
From crop failures to coral bleaching, a new tool developed by climate scientists aims to predict in detail the impacts of each megatonne of carbon emissions
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arnie @arnie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
'content creators' is some choice of words here
theguardian.com
‘English nationalist’ content creators film themselves in asylum seekers’ house
Video posted online shows men entering home through unlocked door and claiming to be looking for paperwork
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 6h
Dario says “my AI is the sneakiest and most likely to kill your economies and maybe you next week. Now you must pay $1Tn to stop me. Mwaahaahaa.”
bbc.co.uk
AI giant Anthropic woos potential investors ahead of stock market debut
It comes as some investors have become concerned about the amount of money being spent on AI infrastructure.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 18h
And here is Gabby to give us notice that the lads have had enough fun now. Apparently it’s time for us all to snap back to the sickly status quo and the traditional duopoly, just blown a bit to the right … but not too far.
theguardian.com
It’s not the old two-party politics – but Labour and the Tories now know they can shun their populist challengers | Gaby Hinsliff
Though Burnham and Badenoch may still need the votes of Green and Reform supporters, both leaders have drawn clear lines in the sand, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 18h
Bank profits on the tax increase menu? Yes please. Well basted, slow roasted and carved still pink in the middle.
bbc.co.uk
Banks say Healey is planning Budget tax raid on their profits
Senior banking executives have told the BBC they expect to be "on the menu" in the chancellor's Budget tax later this month.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 21h
Hunger Games it is then. Righto.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Looks like expert user status with Delay Repay is going to come in useful again today 🤦🏻‍♂️ @gwr.com
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
<looks at government> Anyone? <crickets>
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
😱
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Because we’ve all had skylarks on our feeding tables, right. Right?
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Round and round and round we go…. None of this is new. eco-popularism 🤦🏻‍♂️
theguardian.com
For the future of green politics, look beyond the Green party | Zoe Williams
Environmentalists of all political hues must find the language and ideas that turn passion for climate action into impetus, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
😢 We’ve had dragonfly and damselfly, but <crickets> on the crickets.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Reform UK councillors and candidates racist? 😱 You’ll be telling me they wear balaclavas and chase parked lifeboats next. 🤦🏻‍♂️
theguardian.com
Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making racist and misogynist comments
Party faces fresh crisis as three councillors quit after ITV undercover filming exposed violence, misogyny and racist views
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
😱
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
That is the correct incorrect answer. Or is it the incorrect correct one.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
‘Upholding the law’ is a serious business. </s>
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
We are truly terrified of the granny vicars with placards sitting quietly on the pavement. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It’s much easier to say ‘it’s the brown people’ than ‘it’s the logical conclusion of globalisation, climate change and centuries of ruthless, violent western colonialism coming home to roost’. The truths too uncomfortable to be told. A bit too ‘Winston wasn’t a good guy after all’.
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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Wild Bird Populations Indicator is compiled by the BTO, RSPB and JNCC This is made possible through huge efforts of skilled volunteers helping us track bird populations for over 50yrs By supporting our joint long-term monitoring programmes you can help strengthen our case for protecting nature
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Bird populations at lowest level in record 😢 I am a nerdy birder and keep records. At the simplest level, this summer’s drought saw off most of our local blackbirds and song thrushes. And that’s before we add loss of habitat, pesticides, pollution & disease.
theguardian.com
‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record
Nearly half of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Property insurance industry fudging its own numbers? What could possibly go wrong?
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I work for a major insurer. Much of my industry is fudging the numbers in the face of the climate crisis | Anonymous
Insurers are taking on more risk than they should. If – or when – a major disaster hits, the catastrophe will have far-reaching consequences, says an anonymous modeller and whistleblower
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Sounds fun 🙋‍♂️
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The job of every billionaire should be to become a millionaire.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump says ‘energy ceasefire’, Putin says ‘fuck off’. Remind me, who’s the poodle?
bbc.co.uk
Russian strikes leave 600,000 without power in Ukraine, Zelensky says
Ukraine's president says "critical" infrastructure was hit overnight, while emergency services say at least three were killed.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
And here’s another tame puppet doing Trump’s dirty work for him.
bbc.co.uk
Argentina targets UK in legal claim over Falklands oil exploration
The action filed with an international maritime tribunal is the latest development in an escalating row over the Falkland Islands.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
‘MI5 chief warns of threats to UK from Russia, Iran and AI’ Some context: only one of these 3 is new and unbounded. Russia & Iran are well understood and under active management. Rogue AI worries me most. Not least because it is crystal clear the techbros don’t care about you or me.
bbc.co.uk
MI5 tackling more state threats than during Cold War, warns intelligence chief
Sir Ken McCallum says operations to tackle terrorism and state threats are now roughly of an "equal scale".
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Less revolving door, more reverse tunnelling.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The money is the point. Sad little grifters.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
<Voice of Anthropic> “Look how I’m enjoying conducting live experiments on planet Earth and humanity without any self-restraint whatsoever. Bite me.” These fucks are so desperate for their IPO they’ll do literally any dumb thing.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Would this sound any less credible if we said USA? I mean, given their track record of foreign interference?
bbc.co.uk
It is inconceivable to think Russia did not try to interfere in Brexit vote, says PM
Andy Burnham says he is not questioning the legitimacy of the 2016 vote after facing questions from MPs.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Would the minister now care to define ‘public control’? Does it extend beyond letting regional mayors chimp in from the sidelines?
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Will be super exciting to see where the floor is and how hard.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
So more wage drag, poverty and wealth inequality it is then. Great job guys. Do keep this up.
bbc.co.uk
UK growth forecast upgraded but energy prices and rates to hit in 2027
The prediction from the IMF comes as final preparations are being made for the first Budget under Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The transparent dumbfuckery of government ministers, taking their constituents for fools. Or, can he not see what he’s even saying?
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Factional infighting it is then. Righto 🤦🏻‍♂️
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
‘manly prescience’ 🤦🏻‍♂️ Right you are.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Not just from outside the camp. Have you seen this, launched on the back of the Harris hit piece in the Grauniad?
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The ‘next’? You’re already in it.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Using Harris’s hit piece on Polanski is a hell of a launchpad for this project isn’t it? Just the thing to unite the party. Very clever. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Unless, ofc, it comes with sinister motive @carolinelucas.bsky.social @rupertread.bsky.social
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And don’t lose sight of this: the cartoons were drawn by an artist, approved by an editor and published by an owner. It says much about the quality of those people who hide behind The Daily Telegraph’s banner. It was them. Personally.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is magnificent.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Dumb thing is, it’s the same security, and the same crisis.
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yes, it’s been a tough week for the Greens: but don’t lose sight of how we’re transforming British politics
theguardian.com
Yes, it’s been a tough week for the Greens: but don’t lose sight of how we’re transforming British politics | Zack Polanski
We must now have unity and a discussion about party democracy. And let me be clear: as leader, I will never tolerate antisemitism, says Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party of England and Wales
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇬🇧🍉 More than 250,000 protesters took to the streets of London, marking three years for the genocide of Gaza Footage: Palestine Solidarity Campaign
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are more Ketchup sachets than nurses. More operational Furbies than professors of human geography. More dogs named "Digger" than people licensed to operate a JCB. And you ask why people are turning to Reform?
telegraph headline: ADHD benefits claiments outnumber soldiers.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Dumb thing is, it’s the same security, and the same crisis.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nick Ferrari bouncing off his rev limiter in anticipation? 😱 He’ll be needing his baggy trousers and a pack of tissues. 🤢
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Captain Corelli’s Harmonica.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Straight to ‘maximum screeching terror’ => impatient for results. It’s damn inconvenient having principled conscience in the political public square, especially one with 225,000 members. This Must Be Stamped Out.
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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Right idea, wrong way around Trumplethinskin. So desperate to cover the consequences of his Iranian debacle, he breaks his own sanctions vs Russia …. Consistent he ain’t.
bbc.co.uk
'Time for Ukraine to get new president,' says Trump after Zelensky condemns diesel deal
Ukraine's leader had said the deal with Russia to release diesel into the US would help Moscow fund the war.
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