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IWonderWhy

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I wonder a lot about the state of the world and how we can protect democracy? Pro science Pro International cooperation

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Thank EU for The Music @thankeuforthemusic.com · 12/09/2026
And we're off... For the TENTH year running the #thankEUforthemusic team are at the Royal Albert Hall to give out 5000 EU flags to concertgoers at the #lastnightoftheproms Brexit really is destroying musicians' livelihoods as EU touring barriers cost lost income and jobs. #LNOP
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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 29/07/2026
🎥 How to survive a heatwave - make your home a cool zone (without air conditioning) More detailed #video ▶️ youtu.be/mSSQmkH2XdM What other tips do you have!? PL RP🩷💚💙 Thank you! #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Klima #ClimateSolutions #ClimateAction #heatwave #heat
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Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ @rajannaidu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Please join me in opposingHeathrow’s climate-wrecking third runway. We need, as a matter of urgency, to tell this government we oppose any airport expansion @friends-earth.bsky.social Either we end the Fossil Fuel Era or the Fossil Fuel Era will end us action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/say-n...
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Stop Heathrow's climate-wrecking third runway
Take action We're in a climate crisis, with out-of-control wildfires in the UK, France and Spain and an ongoing battle to clean up the air in our cities. So why is Andy Burnham's government backing pl...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“Large scale emergencies require the state to behave, quite simply, like a socialist one. They demand a muscular, paternalistic response, international regulation, and spending tax revenue on the strict basis of need. So, every ideological fibre in a neoliberal soul rebels against it.“
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I have more to say… Not just a goddam waste of time but also resources, influence, security, opportunity, patience… Brexit has firehosed our country’s politics, economy and sanity with bullshit for 10yrs. And on it goes. Ruining our politics, making us tedious and idiotic. I am very much not a fan.
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🧵1/ In our new paper, @chrischirp.bsky.social & I argue that while institutions can resist authoritarian pressure, some enable it. Looking at the current US regime, we examine why universities, law firms, and corporations often chose accommodation over resistance.
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Media Reform Coalition @mediareformuk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
PANEL: "Without free and easy access to accurate information, all other fights will fail." Join us for 'The Future Of Public Media' - the theme of MDF26, the framing of the Public Assembly in the afternoon, and crucially, our opening panel. THIS TIME NEXT WEEK! Have you got your FREE TICKET YET!?
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
💥 NEW Best for Britain Report out: 💰UK membership of the EU alone would deliver at least six times more growth (£92bn) than every post Brexit trade deal combined 📈 Most benefits felt OUTSIDE of London (hello Andy!) 🇪🇺 EU gets growth too 📉 Refuk plan to diverge brings GDP hit of as much as £35bn.
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Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
🗻 NEW: SISYPHUS - Papa was a rollin' stone 🪨 Forever rolling a giant boulder up the steepest mountain side, only to watch it roll back down. Most know the punishment. But how many know the crime? Why was Sisyphus condemned? 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6EII... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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SISYPHUS - Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 25 May · 1hr 38min
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
So we have full 2025 immigration stats - Total net down by 2/3rds in 2025 (3/4 from peak) - Small boat arrivals in 2026 down 40%. Asylum backlog down 48%; returns up 9% - Asylum seekers in hotels down 35% (down 48% from peak) YET PUBLIC PERCEPTION 49% think 2025 saw increase; only 16% know it fell
Graph showing total net migration fell by two thirds in 2025. Graph showing use of supported accommodation lowest since 2022. Use of hotels halved from 2022 peak.Asylum applications, January 2025 to December 2025
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4% over 12 months
Home Office data, as of 26 February 2026
Returns and deportations from the UK, January 2025 to December 2025
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Home Office data, as of 26 February 2026
Arrivals by small boat, 1 January 2026 to 14 May 2026
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Home Office data, as of 15 May 2026Across the political spectrum, people mistakenly believe that migration is increasing
Perception net migration was higher in 2025 than 2024, by party respondent is likely to vote for
Reform
62%
Con
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Lib Dems
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Green
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Lab
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Guardian graphic. Source: British future. Note: 3,003 adults in Great Britain surveyed online, 19-30 Mar 2026
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
whoah-- @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I should have written a book about this crap! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u... #ScienceUnderSiege
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F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Thank you to all the fantastic groups around the UK generating so many local press stories about the efforts to spur the UK into action on the climate & nature crisis. Here's just today's summary of local press stories. #PEBuk #NationalEmergencyBriefing
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🚨Screenings up & down UK from April🚨 The People’s Emergency Briefing. A new film building on last year’s National Emergency Briefing. A friendlier, watch-together version that pulls no punches and inspires action. Learn more here; nebriefing.org/the-film #PEBuk
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
1/ Yesterday @wmo-global.bsky.social made Earth's Energy Imbalance a headline #climate indicator for the first time. I think this could be a significant reframing of climate discourse, and it's worth paying close attention to why. 🧵
A staircase diagram with six levels rising from bottom-left to top-right. Each level on the left represents a stage in the causal chain of climate change, connected by a dashed arrow to a corresponding intervention on the right. From bottom to top: Root Drivers (economic system, fossil finance, colonial and historical structures, geopolitics) connects to Transformative System Change (economic restructuring, post-colonial redress, geopolitical shifts); Human Activities (consumption and production patterns) connects to Socio-technical and Behavioural Change (electrification, behaviour change, market incentives); Energy and Land Systems connects to Infrastructure Transition (renewables, grids, land-use redesign); Emissions connects to End-of-pipe Controls (CCS); Atmospheric GHG Concentrations connects to Carbon Dioxide Removal (including NETs); Earth's Energy Imbalance connects to Geoengineering (SRM). A diagonal arrow runs across the full diagram from Structural/Preventative at the bottom-left to Reactive/Compensatory at the top-right.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
You might have formed the impression that Paul Johnson, former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, knows what he's talking about. The media treats him like the voice of God. But here he is - and not for the first time - talking out of his hat. Let's break it down in a short thread. 🧵
This is utter garbage. I believe in net zero. We need to get there. But renewables are not competitive. That's why they are subsidised. Fossil fuel markets are highly competitive. It shouldn't be hard to hold these two thoughts at the same time.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills. Norway - 0 UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643k
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Turns out that siding with Russia, insulting your allies, piling on tariffs illegally, lying, behaving like nutters, starting illegal wars and making threats against erstwhile allies if they don’t join in, isn’t such a great strategy after all. But FIFA will give him a toy to make him feel better.
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New York underwater. Agriculture in Northern Europe wiped out by a big freeze. Southern Europe plunged into drought. That’s what's coming if the AMOC current in the Atlantic keeps slowing or shuts down altogether. How can we be so sure? Because we got a preview in 2009. 🧵
satellite image of snow covered Britain from 2010
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Richmond and Twickenham Friends of the Earth @rtfoe.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Great to hear that this beautiful chapel is reopening on 7th March. It will be a #Repair&Reuse hub, as a 1 year experiment by @richmondcouncil.bsky.social offering clothes swaps & 2nd hand sales; repairs for clothes, small electronics and bikes; a cafe; & workshops on repair and reuse.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 17/02/2026
An extraordinary new column in the Daily Telegraph (no, that's not a typo!) by Ambrose Evans Pritchard. Yes, it includes two charts by Carbon Brief, sure. But stay for the concluding few paragraphs about the electoral suicide of climate denial... www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
#ResistanceEarth A decade ago, nations set a goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. It's increasingly clear that we'll pass that target. When we cross the point of no return, scientists predict we'll trigger irreversible tipping points. e360.yale.edu/features/1.5...
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Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate
With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Nobody would claim it's easy. But the EU and UK combined have a GDP only 13% smaller than that of the USA - the equivalent of the USA minus Texas, Washington and Nevada. If he REALLY claiming the USA couldn't defend itself without the money from those states? It takes will. That's all.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
44% of the population of Denton and Gorton are ethnic minority, the majority of them born in the UK. Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation. It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British
Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British
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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/01/2026
“Danes are turning to mobile apps to scan everyday products and boycott those associated with the US. … The most popular — UdenUSA (Danish for Without the USA) — is now the No. 1 free-to-download application in Apple’s App Store in Denmark, after seeing a sudden surge in recent weeks.”
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Trump-Weary Danes Turn to Technology in Boycott of US Brands
Vegemite, the yeasty spread from Australia, gets a passing green checkmark. So does a French bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape. But Diet Coke, a favorite of President Donald Trump? To that, a popular new ...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Yet more evidence that the crucial Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC is weakening. Bad news for our climate future. More reason to finally get serious about ending fossil fuel use. As fast as we can.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Farage’s Brexit was peddled as “taking back control”. It’s been a shitshow. And not because we didn’t leave the ECHR. But because flouncing out of our cooperative arrangements backfires. Prejudice makes for easy slogans but ruinous policy. We should be very wary of this simplistic bullshit by now.
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Why are axolotls celebrated around the world for their “happy faces” yet are under threat in the wild? The answer is there surely? Humans being gushingly anthropomorphic about wild creatures, but not caring enough to act on ecological collapse www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Every time I look at one, I smile!’: how axolotls took over the world
Our passion for these cute-looking salamanders means they are everywhere – except in the wild, where the species is under increasing threat
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Most Brits want climate action but think their neighbours don't. Most Brits support renewable energy but think their neighbours don't. This is the work of relentless misinformation by our right-wing press and the oiligarchy.
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Poll: Majority of Brits support renewables, but think their neighbours disagree with them
Major poll reveals 70 per cent of Brits would back a new solar farm in their local area, but only 27 per cent think that other people would support such a development
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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 03/11/2025
🎥 How WHO is taking #ClimateAction to ensure #health systems are resilient to #ClimateChange Learn more 📖 www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w... PL RP Thank you! 🩷💚💙 original graph from: 'Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability' @ipcc.bsky.social #Video #climate #EndFossilFuels #hope #Klima
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
At today’s National Emergency Briefing, Chris Packham delivered a clear message: act now. Decision-makers must step up and tackle the climate crisis before it’s too late. Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer. #climatecrisis #neb2025 #netzero www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir
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Scientists on Survival @scientistsonsurviv.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social in Westminster today is a call to action for politicians. @chrisgpackham.bsky.social started with “let’s work on creating hope, where there isn’t much of it left”
Chris Packham speaking to the audienceExpert assessment
Ten leading scientists and other experts will present the latest, authoritative assessment of the climate and nature crisis, highlighting the implications for the UK and pathways forward.

Chris Packham CBE- Opening Statement
Prof Mike Berners-Lee- Chair
Prof Kevin Anderson- Climate
Tessa Khan- Energy Transition
Prof Hayley Fowler -Weather Extremes
Prof Nathalie Seddon- Nature
Prof Paul Behrens- Food Security
Prof Hugh Montgomery OBE- Health
Lt Gen Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE- National Security
Angela Francis- Economics
Prof Tim Lenton- Tipping Points
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Susan Board, PhD @suseboard.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Thread about national emergency briefing to MPs; they know; we must continue to push for action and positive tipping points to respond to climate breakdown
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Great to see!!
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
We're not doing a very good job of reducing CO₂ emissions from burning fossil fuels, but maybe we can do something about other greenhouse gases like CH₄ from leaky gas wells and pipes, belching cows, and rotting organic matter, N₂O from agriculture, and HFCs from refrigeration.
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The fast-fix for global warming that the UN climate summit can’t ignore
Removing so-called ‘short-lived climate pollutants’ from the atmosphere could reduce global warming – fast.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
UK and Norway won nature's lottery in 1970 - found oil/gas in the North Sea. UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations. Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies. Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis. UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.
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How sparsely populated Norway amassed $1.8 trillion | Fortune Europe
Launched in the early 1990s to invest mostly in bonds, the fund has grown to become the largest of its kind by acquiring small equity stakes in thousands of companies across the world.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 18/11/2025
Interesting part of this is that the report finds protest is good way to mitigate eco fear, eco anxiety and eco depression - terms the authors use to describe various outcomes in people caused by the overwhelming climate crisis. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Media is reporting that #COP30 delegates are appropriately questioning Canada’s commitments to #ClimateAction. To be clear, we can’t do nation-building, we can’t grow and diversify the Canadian economy and global relationships, and we can’t make Canada strong, if we don’t lead on #ClimateChange.
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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Fossil fuel lobbyists once again make up the second largest delegation at #COP30. That’s beyond unacceptable. It’s like letting wolves into a conference run by sheep about what to do with the wolf problem and then letting the wolves dictate what the sheep will do to them.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
$170,000 a minute: Why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on? #COP30 #climatecrisis Story by me 1/7 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
It's not just ambition on climate action that's being run down, but nature. Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing. It's our duty to work out why, and act on it. share.google/N0QU31GX4Znw...
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Conservation projects abandoned as rich countries retreat from climate fight | The Observer
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
True story. Via @xkcd.com
Cartoon showing how each time vehicles have gotten bigger, it’s led other people to think their vehicles need to be bigger too. The final panel shows people discussing that they’ll need to install whirling spike clubs, or else be destroyed by other drivers…
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Dr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Whilst its easy to get used to scary graphs, this one made me pause! The 2025 State of the Cryosphere report published yesterday has this one overlaying observations of #AMOC slowdown against model predictions. The report states that “AMOC shutdown appears all but inevitable”
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IWonderWhy @kitofnowhere.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Do get the flu jab if you can, this flu is really horrible 🤧 😪
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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” This is the unbelievable story of the man who said those famous words, Frederick Douglass. Born a slave. Died a global resistance leader. 🧵
Frederick Douglass, born a slave, died a global icon of resistance to tyranny
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
One of the biggest problems with mainstream media is its regular platforming of lunatic people with mad ideas. Particularly the BBC, which is meant to be about public education. UK politics is broken in large part because we have lazy gatekeepers of MSM. Which is why so many are turning off MSM.
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