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GreenNet @greennet.social · 15/01/2026
From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Sign the petition to stop Trump's kill switch and demand digital independence: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop the "Kill Switch": Demand the UK takes back control of our technology.
From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Help us demand digital independence.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 13/01/2026
The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"The week after the Trump administration sent the military to Venezuela, it withdrew from more than 60 international organizations and treaties. One not included in the mass withdrawal: The World Bank’s ISDS convention." insideclimatenews.org/news/1301202...
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Fight Over Venezuelan Oil Highlights Shadowy International Legal System - Inside Climate News
Trump said the socialist government “stole” from American oil companies. Those firms have been seeking billions in compensation through a controversial arbitration system.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Imprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: ‘I’m dying’
Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says ‘her body is shutting down’
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GreenNet @greennet.social · 13/01/2026
Profits should never cost lives. We’re standing with the survivors of Typhoon #Odette in the Philippines in their fight against Shell. Sign now to join: odettecase.org/take-action?... #TheOdetteCase #OdetteCase
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Stand in solidarity with the Odette Case claimants!
Survivors of Typhoon Odette are taking Shell to court over its contribution to the climate crisis and the devastation of the super typhoon. Stand with them!
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GreenNet @greennet.social · 21/11/2025
Yes, when reading 'White Skin, Black Fuel' by Andreas Malm and Zetkin Collective.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷
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Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This is a good thing. Highly recommend.
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Salamander News @salamandernews.org · 06/11/2025
We're a media co-op, owned by our members .. hosted on 100% clean energy by ethical collective @greennet.social story by @ancavoinea.bsky.social in coop news 🙏 www.thenews.coop/pinf-forum-e...
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PINF Forum explores the future of independent local news
News co-ops Salamander News, Bristol Cable and organiser Leicester Gazette discuss the future of media at the Local News Forum
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🚨 The news-media is utterly failing to cover these momentous scientific findings. The public is not being informed of the danger posed. The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯 #EndClimateSilence
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 30/10/2025
The president says he’ll “kill people” without trial. Mark Weisbrot writes that the military is already doing it. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Can Trump’s War Be Prevented?
A congressional war powers resolution could bring pressure and is the best hope for averting another disastrous war.
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament @cnduk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"It is absolutely critical that we rachet up the political pressure to make these world leaders...step back from this nuclear escalation. Now more than ever, we need global nuclear disarmament." Our response to Trump's #NukeTest announcement: cnduk.org/trumps-nucle...
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Trump's nuclear testing will start a nuclear arms race - it must be stopped - CND
The announcement by Donald Trump that the US plans to restart nuclear testing is a wake-up call that the threat of nuclear war is real and accelerating.
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Over half a million Jamaicans are without power and 15,000 are in shelters after Hurricane Melissa tore through the island. A nation amongst those least responsible for the climate crisis is bearing its weight. This is the cost of fossil fuel greed and it’s time they pay up.
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GreenNet @greennet.social · 15/10/2025
#StopRosebank The misleading environmental statement by Equinor was published this morning, with a consultation closing 20 November. Please ask your MP to sign the pledge to oppose this disastrous polluting oil field. oilchange.org/blogs/shut-d... www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
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New Data: Shut Down 60% of Existing Fossil Fuel Extraction to Keep 1.5°C in Reach - Oil Change International
When you are in a hole, the first step is to stop digging. New data shows the majority of the fossil fuel reserves within active fields and mines must stay in the ground to maintain a liveable climate...
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We’re stepping up to show the government that thousands of us are not backing down on stopping Rosebank. Send your personal message calling for this disaster project to be stopped 👇 actionnetwork.org/forms/the-go...
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Decision time: Tell Keir to #StopRosebank
This is the moment we've been building towards: it's final decision time for the UK Government. Equinor is trying to get the new Rosebank oil field re-approved. It's up to us all to convince the Gover...
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My postbag has been filled with letters from constituents asking me to sign the #StopRosebank pledge. It's something I'm happy to back, because I support a just transition and fixing the UK’s broken energy system so we can mitigate climate breakdown through real solutions.
Postcards covering a table with the wording: 'Dear MP, Please sign the #StopRosebank pledge."
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Middle East Democracy Center @mideastdc.org · 23/09/2025
Alaa is FREE! 🕊️ We are relieved that he is out of prison and reunited with his family. It’s time for #Egypt to free all those unjustly detained. #FreeThemAll #AlaaIsFREE mideastdc.org/publication/...
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC) @apc.org · 25/09/2025
#AlaaisFree
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC) @apc.org · 11/09/2025
Routing for Communities #podcast The fourth and final episode of this season is on @joinpeertube.org 👇 www.apc.org/en/podcasts/... #Financing, #regulation and #publicpolicies in support of #CommunityNetworks
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#4 How can we strengthen the community-centred connectivity movement?
We’re back! And this is the fourth and final episode of the second season. Throughout our first and second season together, we've heard about the experiences of community-centred initiatives that are ...
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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This week the DSEI, one of the world’s biggest arms fairs, is happening in London. Our new campaigner, Laura, has joined the demonstrations on the ground. ✊ If you are in London, there’s still time to stand up against the arms trade. 👇 caat.org.uk/events/stopd...
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CAAT - Protest, London: Stop the Arms Fair! vs. DSEI
Resist the World's Worst Arms Fair!
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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
❌ Record military spending blocks peace and climate action. As the latest report of the UN Secretary General (citing SGR) warns: armed forces drive 5.5% of global emissions, all while starving health, education, and climate of funding. www.undp.org/press-releas... 🧪
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴 on the climate & nature crisis for 850 politicians & influential people. 𝟵𝗮𝗺 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗼𝘃 The science has advanced rapidly, with threats more immediate and severe than generally understood. Has your MP confirmed yet? Enter your postcode 👇
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National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats arising from the climate & nature crisis to an invite-only audience. Westminster Central Hall, 27 November. Has your MP confirmed yet?
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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Brian Eno, musician, artist and member of @patmillsuk.bsky.social, joins the global call to #TaxTheSuperRich. He warns that governments controlled by private wealth keep stacking the deck against the middle class — fuelling inequality, poverty, and distrust in democracy. #FFD4 #FfD4People
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
In 2001, as the Terrorism Act 2000 came into force, I warned that it could be used to ban non-violent protest groups and imprison those who support them. Government spokespeople and cheerleaders told me I was talking rubbish. And here we are. #PalestineAction www.monbiot.com/2001/02/22/w...
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Wrong T-shirt son? You’re nicked
The act which came into force this week could make terrorists of us all
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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 02/07/2025
We Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys Sam Walton & Reverend Daniel 'Woody' Woodhouse: In 2017, we did exactly what #PalestineAction did last week Our actions were extremely similar to theirs, and so were our aims. novaramedia.com/2025/06/27/w...
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We Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys | Novara Media
In 2017, we broke into a BAE Systems airfield to stop jets from going to bomb Yemen, write Sam Walton and Daniel Woodhouse. Our lenient treatment exposes the Palestine Action ban for what it is: racis...
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GreenNet @greennet.social · 18/05/2025
Websites should now be functioning correctly after an outage earlier on Sunday, caused by a faulty power supply affecting a database server. Incoming email until 1255 BST on Sunday may have bounced. Apologies for the inconvenience caused by the outage. greennet.social/@support
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GreenNet Support (@support@greennet.social)
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Extinction Rebellion UK @xrebellionuk.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🚨 BREAKING: XR disrupt Europe’s top insurance conference in Manchester We've crashed #BIBA2025 with 1 message: Stop insuring climate collapse #InsureOurSurvival A new report reveals 33 UK insurance firms still back #fossilfuels & just 5 invest over $6.5billion into climate-wrecking projects Why⁉️
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
2025: setting all the worst records 🔥
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Just 10 days left to get 100,000 signatures on this petition to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships – please sign and share govpetition.uk/700024
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Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
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Fiona Atkinson @fionafromkendal.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis
Communicate clearly: 1) the science behind the climate crisis - how & why for the first time in the last year we've averaged 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels 2) the implications of going beyond...
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GreenNet @greennet.social · 02/05/2025
🚨 Please sign Chris Packham's petition👇 today and share to all your media and friends! Only 10 days to get a Parliamentary debate. Fossil fuels 'will kill more people than smoking'. Coal, oil and gas should not be permitted to corrupt democracy and buy its 'social licence' to destroy the biosphere.
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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"A unanimous court of appeal victory that, alongside chastening election results, must now trigger a total Labour rethink on how we treat protesters in this country" Liberty Director Akiko Hart on our victory against anti-protest laws today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We fought and beat the government in the courts because every Briton has the right to protest | Akiko Hart
The appeal court verdict makes clear these anti protest laws should never have existed. Labour must now reflect on what sort of democracy it wants us to be
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 29/04/2025
👉NEW -- British military chief walks away from Gaza spy flight questions by Phil Miller and Alex Morris The chief of the defence staff – Britain’s top soldier – refused to answer questions yesterday about intelligence sharing with Israel. www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
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British military chief walks away from Gaza spy flight questions
‘I don’t really have time for this conversation’, Admiral Radakin tells Declassified when asked about his role in Israel’s genocide.
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Netpol @netpol.org · 02/05/2025
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the government's appeal of the High Court's decision that the serious disruption regulations is unlawful.
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Jonathan Koomey @jgkoomey.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Stop all deep sea mining. There is zero justification for disturbing ecosystems that have mostly been beyond human reach until now.
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Zero Hour: the campaign for climate and nature @zero-hour.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🤯 A massive 89% of people EVERYWHERE want stronger action to fight the #climatecrisis — but feel they’re trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” — because they mistakenly believe they’re in a minority.
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Zero Hour: the campaign for climate and nature @zero-hour.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
NO NEW OIL AND GAS. #NoNewOil ✊ #NoNewGas @avaaz.bsky.social @friends-earth.bsky.social @stopcambo.bsky.social
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VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Lately I’ve been reflecting in all the marvels I have seen that my children or grandchildren will only know through photographs and memoirs. It’s no small grief. apnews.com/article/cora... 84% of the world's coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record
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84% of the world's coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record
Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The ‘spiral of silence’ blocking climate action and how to end it - Globally, people are hugely supportive of climate action but wrongly believe their fellow citizens are not - revealing the truth could spark a social tipping point #The89Percent Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 23/04/2025
"What would it mean if this silent climate majority woke up – if its members came to understand just how many people, both in distant lands and in their own communities, think and feel like they do? How might this majority’s actions – as citizens, as consumers, as voters – change?"
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A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"Emissions linked to Chevron, the highest-emitting investor-owned company in our data, for example, very likely caused between US $791 billion and $3.6 trillion in heat-related losses over the period 1991–2020" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
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Daniel Gorman @dnlgorman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
If you are in London and available please join this vigil today from 5 - 6pm opposite Downing St to call for the UK government to do more to #FreeAlaa. @englishpen.bsky.social will be attending. Join us!
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GreenNet @greennet.social · 27/03/2025
Tomorrow, Laila Soueif, mother of imprisoned activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, will be at a #MothersDay vigil opposite Downing St, London. She'll be almost 6 months without a meal, since Alaa’s sentence in Egypt ended. UK govt must intensify efforts to #FreeAlaa www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Solidarity vigil at Downing St with Laila.  Friday 28 March. Opposite 10 Downing St, 5-6pm.
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Thank you @maggiechapman.bsky.social for pledging to oppose the disastrous Rosebank oil field! For a safe climate and affordable energy, we must end new oil and gas expansion.
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament @cnduk.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🙏Thank you to CND Vice-President @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social for supporting EDM 925, opposing military spending hikes in the upcoming budget! #BenefitsNotBombs Has your MP signed? It's time to demand better! ✍️Write to them today using our lobby tool: cnd.eaction.org.uk/EDM925Milita...
Image of Jeremy Corbyn and CND symbol. Text reads: "Boosting military spending at the cost of the most vulnerable is the wrong priority. True security isn't in nuclear weapons- it's in investing in people, planet, and peace." Jeremy Corbyn MP. Ask your MP to sign EDM 925 now!
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
These attacks on protest and freedoms cannot be fought in isolation or in movement silos. We need broad, brave coalition. Climate, Palestine, labor, migrant, trans and reproductive rights; academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association ... Together we are mighty. Divided we fall.
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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 13/03/2025
Will the last small site turn off the lights? The Online Safety Act imposes the same duties and penalties on blogs and forums as huge platforms. Crushing competition is the last thing we need for a safer Internet! Act now before 17 March #SaveOurSites 🌐 action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sit...
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Save our sites - Write to your MP
Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the ...
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
All power to @drandrewboswell.bsky.social holding the UK Government & the duplicitous CEOs, etc., of major Oil & Gas companies to account.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 12/03/2025
🧵 I'd like to share some of the recent and ongoing collaborative projects I’m most proud of from my time at NOAA. Some will continue on in one form or another, but others will not - a direct result of the cuts hitting science across the board.
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