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The one and only Dave

@kitchingart.com
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Brit living in #Cyprus. AGW etc doomer. Proud dad of a doctor and an ecologist. Outsider. Ambivert. Big picture ponderer. Reader. Nothing has independent self existence. Everything has interdependent self existence. My art to buy at.... kitchingart.com

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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 29/09/2026
Need more of this everywhere...
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 29/09/2026
Nah.. there's no crash coming. Honest.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "We will contest the next election with a manifesto commitment to change the electoral system, so that everyone's vote counts. And everyone's voice is heard."
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "Homes, water, energy, transport, care, broken up and sold off." "The British right talk about taking back control. Never let them forget they are the ones. That gave it away in the first place."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump and his batshit crazy wars have turned a majority of Britons against the idea of continuing to host US airbases, new polling shows.
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EXCLUSIVE: Iran War – Majority of Britons Do Not Support UK Bases Being Used by the U.S.
A poll conducted for Zeteo UK before the suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford finds that more people oppose the use of UK military bases for the Iran war than support it.
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 29/09/2026
Carlo Rovelli (highly respected physicist) on relational quantum mechanics and human relations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojxO...
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Carlo Rovelli: Love and Quantum Physics are the Same | The Futurology Podcast
YouTube video by Futurology
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These sound like non-trivial problems.
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 28/09/2026
So American cars are going to get even worse.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 26/09/2026
"New ‘Musk’ Trailer Highlights the Mogul’s “Shocking” Conflicts of Interest" www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
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New ‘Musk’ Trailer Highlights the Mogul’s “Shocking” Conflicts of Interest
A taste from Bleecker Street ahead of Oct. 9 culture-jamming theatrical release.
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 28/09/2026
Rape and pillage by Trump.
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 28/09/2026
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Is Labour right to claim Reform UK would ‘scrap the NHS’? – Full Fact
In the run-up to the local elections, Labour is warning Reform UK would make people pay to use the health service—a claim the party’s strongly denied. Full Fact looks at the evidence.
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 27/09/2026
Here we go. Much more of this to come this year into next. And then every year after. Send the bill to the fossil fuel industry, and the weak minded, ignorant politicians everywhere who have allowed this to happen.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Love Hitch
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 27/09/2026
It's Trump gibbering about a united Ireland that's kicked this off.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The happiness of this girl after discovering that her dog, whom she had been trying to teach sign language for some time, has finally begun to understand her. [📹 erycadias22] Original post
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 27/09/2026
I always get a bit emotional at seeing kids finding themselves and their vocation. Perhaps because I never really found my own. This is great.
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 27/09/2026
"The universe was not designed for our benefit. We are one expression of its complexity" www.noemamag.com/a-new-form-o...
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A New Form Of Life | NOEMA
By any working definition that draws on biology rather than philosophy or religion, AI is alive.
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Never trumper Ever @okieblue54.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Never in my lifetime did I think the United States of America would be voting against condemning a Communist Dictator for invading a sovereign democratic nation. Donald Trump and the Republican Party have brought nothing but shame to our nation.
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 26/09/2026
#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 26/09/2026
Look at these primitive idiots. I hate institutionalised religion. Whatever flavour. Power hungry frauds manipulating fools. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/26/e...
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Why Russia is sending dead princes and saints into battle | CNN
As Russian troops on the front lines of eastern Ukraine are digging in for another winter, they are receiving an unusual form of support: the remains of a warrior prince who fought for Moscow more tha...
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 26/09/2026
www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seem...
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Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? | Quanta Magazine
The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This disinformation post is 100% approved (and potentially funded) by the Kremlin
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 25/09/2026
Yes S3, but don't know who 500 Design were. I couldn't figure out what was different about it, then realised the rear spoiler has been removed.. a great improvement imo.
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is so much disinformation about the "Super El Nino" floating around the internet b/c mentioning any sort of mechanism that affects weather seems to start a shouting match. So here's a good video that gives you JUST the info you need in under 2 minutes.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25/09/2026
⚠️ "If you don't have growth, then people's wages stagnate, then they start thinking that the whole system is broken, that government isn't working for them, and then they look for something else." 💷 "Why we've had no growth is frankly financial crash, Brexit, and the difficulties of the pandemic"
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 25/09/2026
"The systems we depend upon are more fragile than advertised. The assumptions we make about continuity are less reliable than we pretend. The future will likely bring challenges that current institutions are poorly prepared to meet" Another must read. substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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10 Unexpected Consequences of an Economic Crisis Nobody Is Talking About
Editor’s Note
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 25/09/2026
Speaking as a mere layman, could this be related to the start of a slow down in the AMOC and the Gulf Stream, carrying less warm water north and so cooling arctic seas?
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 25/09/2026
The Bank of England was set up in 1694. Blair looks quite young for his age. A good example of the pig ignorance of these right wing populists.
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 24/09/2026
🌍 Bees
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"A senator in Vermont has noticed who is buying Reform. Why do you think so many British papers haven't?" via Very Brexit Problems
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 24/09/2026
#collapse #economics #GlobalWarming #Society "There’s a threshold past which the feedback mechanisms that allow societies to correct themselves{..}get captured by the people who benefit from things staying exactly as they are." A must read for everyone. tinyurl.com/ea5xebjk
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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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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 23/09/2026
This is grotesque. That there are such greedy, evil people in the world. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Police use teargas on protesters as disabled woman, 87, evicted from Madrid home
Housing rights campaigners decry landlord’s ‘barbaric behaviour’ after apartment Maricarmen had lived in for 71 years was bought by a developer
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has "lost confidence in the UK"... A man who is so 'patriotic' to our country that he doesn't even live here! He lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties." via Jay Church
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 23/09/2026
Not just Farage. Johnson and his 'Russia Conservative Friendship Group, or whatever it was called (remember the garden party?). Then there's the Cambridge Analytica scandal, involving US people like Heartland Inst, and Bannon, and general US support for orgs like Farage, who's just a useful fool.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 22/09/2026
For millions, Terry Pratchett opened the door to a lifelong love of reading. The passage below, from Reaper Man, has always struck us as one of his most moving – a humanist meditation on death and legacy that continues to be read at humanist funerals today. #GNUTerryPratchett
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 22/09/2026
Great news. Ludicrous monstrosities.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Guardian joins the campaign to abolish the state pension triple-lock. Portrays it as a old v young, social security v defence spending issue. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich, maldistribution of wealth, low govt spend on state pension, how future retirees will survive.
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Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 21/09/2026
What a great thing to do.
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 20/09/2026
The global warming solutions are there, and they're not actually that hard to achieve. We just need to do them. legal-planet.org/2026/09/19/t...
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The Overlooked Fast Track for Cutting Planetary Warming - Legal Planet
Guest contributors V. Ram Ramanathan, Durwood Zaelke, and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco write that we can, and must, cut the rate of warming by 30% to 50%.
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PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Last Angry Bernie Brother cast adrift 😒 @powerfromspace1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@garrykasparov.bsky.social As predicted, and mostly deserved. Now what is preventing Europe—Belgium, especially—from finally seizing Russia’s assets and using them to defend itself from Russian aggression? Still playing by a rulebook that Putin has ripped into confetti. x.com/kasparov63/s...
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 18/09/2026
Worried about AI Robots? All you need is more ram, and a dogged determination to overcome.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So those £36million 'donations' to Reform UK were actually speculative investments ... "Analysis seen by The Independent reveals the wealthiest crypto investors would get £100million a year in tax relief from Nigel Farage’s party" trib.al/P2B8D6C
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 17/09/2026
This just about sums up the American Govt.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The two £36mn contributions from crypto billionaires turn out to be an excellent investment. Here's what Nigel Farage has promised them in return. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Reform to hand crypto investors hundreds of millions in tax breaks
Exclusive: Analysis seen by The Independent reveals the wealthiest crypto investors would get £100m a year in tax relief from Nigel Farage’s party
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 17/09/2026
"At this pace, the world is on track for a temperature increase of between 2.5C and 3C by 2050" Catastrophic. Just over 20 years away. This Exxon-Mobil talking.
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 16/09/2026
“That creates a fundamental challenge for AI oversight: observability is not the same thing as understandability,” As is usually the case it seems with anything #AI related, this is scary. They're inventing their own, shared common languages. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon
Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 16/09/2026
It's clear to anyone seeing it from the outside that America is not just in decline but is disintegrating. What kind of society does this?
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 16/09/2026
This is great news. Welcome #Canada. Although I wish someone would explain what 'Associate' membership is. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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European Union opens door for Canada to become first associate member
Commission president says partnership will create ‘common prosperity’ based on shared democratic values
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Show me a politician that’s a millionaire and I’ll show you a crook.
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