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@johnwenger.bsky.social
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Born 319.62 ppm. Life as emergent design, at the confluence of psychotherapy, spirituality & permaculture. Holding the beauty & joy with the suffering & grief. If you can’t disagree without being disagreeable, save yourself an aneurysm; I use mute

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16h
Deloitte paid its UK-based partners £1.125m. Firm has 784 equity partners. Due to self-employed status of partners, employer national insurance (ENI) is not paid on profits shared. 150,000 ENI avoided on every £1m of profits shared. Billions lost across the country. Must end this privilege.
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Deloitte UK advisory arm rebounds to growth as new boss insists AI 'can’t replace lived experience'
Big Four giant Deloitte's new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm's advisory arms return to growth.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 18h
75% of our leading food crops depend on pollinators. No bees = no tomatoes, no beans, no peppers, no mangoes, no coffee. You think food comes from the supermarket. It comes from a bee that just died from insecticide drift.
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another idiot who thinks 1984 is an instruction manual 🙄
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another illustration of my madcap thought experiment that you only get the vote between ages 16 and 65. (I’m nearly that age btw) To be making decisions for things that you’ll likely not live to see or be affected by should exempt you from voting. Also that voting is compulsory. Mad, I know
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Long read, but worth your time.
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The Eight Stages of Civilizational Collapse
I’ve been watching things fall apart for a while now.
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Far right activist??!! Is that what we’re calling Nazis nowadays?
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mmmhmmm. Charted. Documented. Pored over. Analysed. Found wanting, to put it mildly.
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exxon is now expecting a 2.5 - 3C rise by 2050 But says f*ck you - we are just going to keep right on sucking up as much gas and oil as we can Because even though we know what's coming, we really don't give a sh*t www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline
The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What a performer tho …
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You mean @thesnpmedia.bsky.social have an independence strategy? A hastily scrawled to-do list for a child’s party on the back of an envelope isn’t a strategy
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Philip Lymbery @philip-ciwf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, and happiness and misery” Charles Darwin #AnimalsMatter @ciwf.org.uk
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
…and the “winning” side was the angrier of the two…. Calm down dearies
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Haud on… You mean the English weren’t taught that part of their own fucking history incl. the Clearances, Destitution Road, the Alien Act, Culloden & the Act of Proscription….????? Colour me shocked Wow, thanks James thingy on London Broadcasting . FFS. #decolonisation #Scotland #SaorAlba
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Guess the album. C’mon 90s kids… (You’d given up on vinyl already, hadn’t you, you traitorous knobs…)
A vinyl LP
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Colour me surprised
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
….i have long wondered what, if anything, could possibly do for the web …maybe if AI destroys it, it WOULD help to improve people’s mental health… Cheers to unexpected consequences! 🥂
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So my professional body makes a statement, saying that AI has a place in helping improve people’s mental health…. THEY ARE NOT FUCKING PAYING ATTENTION …healing breath… …and back to paying them no attention… …sigh…. 🙄
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We’re toast
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sigh You CANNOT reverse Brexit. What’s done is done and can’t be undone. Unless you have a tardis or a Delorean. You have to REAPPLY…..and be prepared to follow the application process.
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From now on: both votes SGP.
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On brand for Piddington. I know the place.
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Dr Dwight Turner @dturner300.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#MidweekReflection
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Huh. I did not have “Ed Sheeran sabotages his own career by being a coward” on my “Everything is Mad” bingo card.
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is the sort of solid majority that will put actual realpolitik pressure on Westminster. A roughly 50/50 is within the margin of error and ignorable.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Almost every child on Earth is now exposed to at least one major climate hazard — heatwaves, floods, droughts, storms, or wildfires. The people who contributed least to the crisis are suffering first and worst. Climate justice isn’t optional. It’s the only path forward.
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
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dawn of the debb @debbshock.blue · 12/09/2026
I don't fuckin know; sometimes you just need to look at a jellyfish.
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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What a spiritual practice actually looks like:
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 11/09/2026
As of September 10th, the Nino 3.4 anomaly is now 2.94°C (preliminary) above the 1991-2020 baseline, setting the 104th consecutive daily record, a full 1.09°C above the previous record for the day, set in 1997. The Climate 8-ball is gobsmacked.
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Asking the coloniser to set the mechanism for liberation is an exercise in futility. Directing energy to building a momentum for independence is an exercise in change. #ScottishIndependence #decolonisation
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️
Sheep grazing in fields, the one in the foreground with white smoke apparently coming out of its bottom
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Less than 50% is NOT a majority. If it’s 51 or 52, it’s a flimsy majority within the margin of error for an opinion poll. Stop grasping at straws and start building a momentum for a solid and consistent majority.
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Juraj Mikurcik @jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oil & gas prices are likely to go up further📈 A good way to hugely reduce the impact and to improve quality of life long term is to stop using fossil fuels and: electrify heatpumpify switch your ICE car to an EV or an ebike
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Don’t let the fash get away with it www.crowdjustice.com/case/tommy-r...
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HOLDING TOMMY ROBINSON TO ACCOUNT
I never expected to end up here. Tommy Robinson's accusation about me, a Glaswegian dad, went viral before it was ever checked - and I'm not willing to just let that stand, or let him do it again.
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Covid cave dweller @mariablack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Are there any queers in the theatre tonight? Get ‘em up against the wall…. #Reformconference
Bob Geldof in the Pink Floyd film The Wall, portraying a fascist demagogue
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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 05/09/2026
Fipronil and imidacloprid have been banned from agricultural use since 2018 because of risks to wildlife. But they are still widely used in flea treatments for pets
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More than 50 rivers polluted by toxic chemicals used to treat fleas on pets
Wildlife is under threat from water pollution caused by pesticides which are hazardous, widespread and persist for years.
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We’re here but the music is godawful now
Animation of fascist hammers from Pink Floyd film The Wall
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
…to the background music of Tomorrow Belongs To Me…
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 05/09/2026
My cousin’s shirt took me a second. He said “it’s great because anyone who would be offended by it couldn’t understand it anyway.”
A shirt with the following words in rainbow colors:
Fluorine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Titanium
Rubidium
Uranium
Magnesium
Platinum
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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“You’re so quiet.” Thanks, I’m an introvert. I actually talk a lot when I'm comfortable around someone, so make of that what you will
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Of course he is. He wants his position back with the Trilateral Commission
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
26 years later, the floods in Nepal manifest. We were warned. 🧪 www.icimod.org/press-releas...
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Hindu Kush Himalaya glaciers losing ice at double the rate since 2000, new ICIMOD report confirm - ICIMOD
Kathmandu, 18 March 2026 – Glaciers across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) are melting at an accelerating rate, with ice loss rates doubling since the year 2000, according to two new landmark reports th...
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John @johnwenger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Food” 🙄
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026
Ordinary ppl wonder where all the money is going Whilst ppl struggle to pay bills or UK Gov is giving away our money From @europeanpowell.bsky.social on Substack europeanpowell.substack.com/p/sunak-buil...
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Sunak Built Teesside Freeport. Now He Advises Anthropic, The Company Positioned To Take the Profit.
In 2021, Rishi Sunak stood at Teesworks and announced his flagship Brexit freeport.
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