Reposted by Kevin BurdenLuiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification': 7530276
Reposted by Kevin BurdenThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/10/2026New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gazatheguardian.comNew Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in GazaSatellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire An update to Google Maps has revealed the extent of devastation during the three-year Gaza war and the severity of the continuing humanitarian crisis faced by the territory’s 2.3 million inhabitants. The images were taken in June this year and show further destruction of homes, businesses, places of worship and infrastructure since a fragile ceasefire came into effect almost 12 months ago. Continue reading... 13160105
Reposted by Kevin BurdenPaul Evans @pauliewaulie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A thoroughly disrespectful approach to serious and responsible journalism. 44611
Reposted by Kevin BurdenAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9653093277
Reposted by Kevin BurdenPress Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 29/09/2026The Guardian is creating 40 new jobs which will feature training on content creator skills across audio, video, photography, text and audience engagement The scheme will employ 40 journalists on 18-month fixed-term contracts with a salary of £48,000 pressgazette.co.uk/news/guardia...pressgazette.co.ukGuardian creates 40 jobs to train journalists as content creatorsThe Guardian is creating 40 new jobs which will feature training to help newer journalists gain content creator skills. 085
Reposted by Kevin BurdenMike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 15657431610
Kevin Burden @kevinburden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There's way too much attention focused on the horse race of politics in the UK, and way too little on policy. As a first small step I suggest that Radio 4's Week in Westminster should, in recess weeks, become The Week in Whitehall, looking a major policy challenges and options to meet them. 000
Reposted by Kevin BurdenMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m doing a talk at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media, and Culture on October 14 at 5.30pm. It’s open to the public and tickets are free. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-news-i...eventbrite.co.ukThe News is Dead: Why the media is broken and what you can do about itJournalist and author Mic Wright on what's really going on behind the headlines, why we don't get the news we deserve. 45033
Reposted by Kevin BurdenAndrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/09/2026The BBC is part of the problem... 24698260
Reposted by Kevin BurdenTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Seconded - by any of us who've had to deal with this stuff! 2437
Reposted by Kevin BurdenWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The way sources are attributed in this article is an absolute masterclass in Westminster code/speak. "one cabinet minister" "Another minister" "one MP" "one senior figure" "a minister" "an insider" "One influential figure" "One prominent figure" "one senior figure" "A senior source" One minister"bbc.co.ukHow long can Labour's feel-good factor last?The party’s spirits have been transformed since Burnham became PM, but what's coming down the tracks, asks Laura Kuenssberg. 2815930
Reposted by Kevin BurdenFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Coming Food Crisis “According to early September reports, the summer of 2026 saw Britain’s lowest cereal harvest since 1984. In continental Europe, France’s 2026 cereal harvest is set to drop by almost 8 megatonnes v 2025; Germany’s by c.4 megatonnes“ arthursnell.substack.com/p/the-coming...arthursnell.substack.comThe Coming Food CrisisDue to climate breakdown, falling agricultural productivity growth might be the new normal. This will feed a chaotic world order. 24222
Reposted by Kevin BurdenJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026What on earth is happening? 23833111338
Reposted by Kevin BurdenSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026While rightwing media nods approvingly at the prejudiced outcry in Piddington, a RNLI station has to close because of white British thuggery and threats. This is where the constantly toxic obsession with immigration leads. To racist, flag-wielding vigilantism that ruins this country for everyone. 44777297
Reposted by Kevin BurdenAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way... 791708565
Reposted by Kevin BurdenBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The merits or demerits of the asylum seeker base aside, you might imagine from listening to the BBC that Piddington was an isolated rural village as opposed to already right next to HMP Bullingdon and a bunch of army bases. 931690
Reposted by Kevin BurdenThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/09/2026‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Portland B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’theguardian.com‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Portland B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’Three little letters - bnb-side’s name is a play on the local b-side arts festival, but Silicon Valley colossus sees threat to global brand 1110326
Reposted by Kevin BurdenAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 11/09/2026New documentary about Israel's AI-powered mass killing of civilians in Gaza from two Oscar-winning Israeli filmmakers receives a 25-minute ovation at its premiere at the Venice Film Festival u.afp.com/SjYf 14520
Reposted by Kevin BurdenJules McHamish @julesmchamish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Why the blazes is my local paper, the Bournemouth Daily Echo advertising a call from Tommy Robinson for people from Bournemouth to march in Portsmouth? I have no respect for my local paper anymore. 275
Reposted by Kevin BurdenEpstein files or bust 🇺🇦 @crackermack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Guys, I think we proved we can conquer this one. 001
Reposted by Kevin BurdenDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Climate change is becoming a crisis. So we have a choice to make: 1. Pretend it’s not happening and do nothing. 2. See it’s happening, but spiral into “doomerism” and surrender. 3. See it’s happening and get to work fixing it. The third option is the right one. Join us. Drawdown.orgdrawdown.orgHomeProject Drawdown drives meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. 615953
Reposted by Kevin BurdenProf. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"Their aim is simply to reduce the number of non-motorists killed or seriously injured... This creates a perverse incentive. The easiest way to reduce the death toll of pedestrians and cyclists is to discourage people from walking or cycling in the first place" 1010042
Reposted by Kevin BurdenYale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The Trump administration is erasing climate data. Researchers are bringing it back.yaleclimateconnections.orgA review of rescued climate data » Yale Climate ConnectionsThe Trump administration has shut down websites like climate.gov and other climate data projects. Academics, journalists, and nonprofit organizations are working to rebuild what has been lost. 01110
Reposted by Kevin BurdenDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Climate change isn't a future risk anymore; it's today's cost of doing business. From a Chicago bakery buying $1700 of dry ice to save $30K in cakes to daycares battling blackouts, companies are scrambling to weatherproof operations, adjust staffing, and rethink supply chains just to stay afloat.nytimes.comIn a Summer of Climate Misery, Businesses Confront the Need to Adapt (Gift Article)Repeated heat waves, wildfires, droughts and storms are solidifying the understanding that new investments are unavoidable. 314156
Reposted by Kevin BurdenMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick. 1295273648186
Reposted by Kevin BurdenAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026We're gonna do it, aren't we? We're actually gonna do it. We're gonna let greedy rich cunts cook the planet and suck it dry of energy and water just so bots can send emails to other bots. Un-fucking-believable. 1946575
Reposted by Kevin BurdenTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Sometimes I think about how Michael Gove was able to dismiss the Tories £ 10 billion PPE waste & industrial scale corruption as an ‘ honest ‘ error & UK media said ‘ Oh that sounds credible ‘ 🙄 & the story disappeared after 2 days . 481200391
Reposted by Kevin BurdenIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026There's been a real failure on the part of progressive leaders this summer to link the weather and Net Zero in the public mind. Most people get it, but the consensus is crumbling and it would be useful to reinforce it. 551177295
Reposted by Kevin BurdenPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The USA is at the same time a nuclear armed superpower, and one of the most ridiculous states in the history of the world. 67727159
Reposted by Kevin BurdenNick Bryant. @nickbryantoz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Climate fatigue in a time of climate emergency. Why has media coverage fallen off when the earth continues to hot up? My latest, which comes with a mea culpa….. open.substack.com/pub/historyn... 12310
Reposted by Kevin BurdenGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Instead of using a photo of the current conflagrations caused by climate breakdown, the Telegraph uses a pic of a wind turbine burning ... in February 2025. Because that's the important thing: 17 months ago a turbine ignited. Caption: "It’s time to cease building wind turbines". #FossilFuelStooges 781151326
Reposted by Kevin BurdenRebecca John @rebeccajohn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Overloading Earth with pollution could cause a “disaster global in scale” warned James Lovelock in a "Shell Lecture" from 1985 I discovered researching this piece. Better to show “respect proper to a living planet” than live "where we are no longer a favored species.” Prescient words hit hard now.desmog.comThe Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ... 0118
Reposted by Kevin BurdenCovering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 29/07/2026“The problem with climate change reporting is that sometimes it feels like you’re intellectualizing something that doesn’t actually need to be intellectualized. This is pretty simple. It’s fossil fuel companies destroying our future for a quick buck. That’s all you need to say.” @emorwee.bsky.socialbuff.lyEmily Atkin Is Not an OptimistThe founder of HEATED on fossil fuel advertising, billionaires taking over media, and what removing plastic from her life is teaching her about systems change. 213060
Reposted by Kevin BurdenBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/07/2026So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...ted.comOur last, best chance to cool the EarthWe're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl... 21526222
Reposted by Kevin BurdenEd Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 29/07/2026👕 It might just look like yet another silly season story. But the furore over Andy Burnham's casual-wear actually tells you rather a lot about the architecture of the economy around us, and the profound challenges facing anyone wanting to change it👇 edconway.substack.com/p/what-andy-...edconway.substack.comWhat Andy Burnham's £80 T-shirt really tells usThis isn't just a story about expensive clothes. It's about where things are made, about why you can't really trust what it says on the label and about what happens after the "end of geography" 117733
Reposted by Kevin BurdenMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/07/2026all happening at the Mail today www.dailymail.com/home/article... 511306324
Reposted by Kevin BurdenPress Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 27/07/2026A UK survey of journalists has revealed increasing safety fears leading to self-censoring, with the shift to video making reporters more identifiable www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...theguardian.comUK journalists ‘self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’ 047
Reposted by Kevin BurdenSalomé Saqué @salomesaque.bsky.social · 26/07/2026J’espère que nous ne reverrons plus jamais ce type de une après l’été que nous sommes en train de vivre, et que l’ensemble des journalistes vont enfin prendre ce problème au sérieux. 1221914717
Reposted by Kevin BurdenSammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...climatecoloredgoggles.comResearchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health. 16175152809
Reposted by Kevin BurdenPaul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 23/07/2026"We, the undersigned, urge the Prime Minister to convene a live, televised emergency briefing, delivered by independent experts." We've an open letter in the FT today calling on Andy Burnham to hold a national emergency briefing on climate and nature. 716074
Reposted by Kevin BurdenDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Do you want reliable, science-based information on climate solutions? Without the hype, greenwashing, or BS? Then check out Project Drawdown — the world’s leading guide to science-based climate solutions. Follow them here! @projectdrawdown.bsky.social 24114
Reposted by Kevin BurdenMeade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The fires in Ontario - like so many others - demonstrating viscerally how climate change perpetuates the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, who have least contributed to emissions and over and over again put their bodies on the line to prevent fossil fuel development. 5374156
Reposted by Kevin BurdenIan Christie @ianpchristie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026As Wolfgang Blau has said, climate crisis is in part a crisis of journalism - and to be precise, of ideologically motivated rightwing editorial decisions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comHeating up the headlines: How tabloid framing reshaped Germany's Buildings Energy ActMedia has become a decisive force in shaping climate and energy policy, influencing not only which issues gain attention but also how they are framed … 02013
Reposted by Kevin BurdenSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The Norweigan Ambassador to the UK 611842300
Reposted by Kevin BurdenArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt 37120862093
Reposted by Kevin BurdenPaul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Pretty classy message by the Norwegian Embassy. #WorldCup 152111731858
Reposted by Kevin BurdenRob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 09/07/2026Imagine being the Question Time producer at the moment, just for a laugh, wouldn't you be phoning Farage and Binface and offering them a leader's debate, double lectern, questions from the audience thing? You would, whilst being barely able to not choke with laughter down the phone. 310110
Reposted by Kevin Burdena rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026binface vs farage vs lawrence fox is like el classico for “different ways your mate’s dad could end up taking the divorce” 4830228