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A book nerd. Worried about the state of planet Earth. A Finn in the UK 🇫🇮🇬🇧

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Lotta @lottasaysno.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I can’t open @thestorygraph.com the app just stays white. Anyone else?
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UNICEF @unicef.org · 28/08/2026
At least four children have been reported killed and many others injured in the Gaza Strip over the past five days. Details: unicef.link/45PDuBo
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Have you seen any *good* climate or environmental news lately? I don't care how small. I'm working on a piece about snippets of hope. I think we all need it.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 07/08/2026
Temperatures are on the rise again this weekend, with many parts of the UK experiencing a spell of warm to very warm weather. And the heat looks set to build further into next week for some. ☀️🌡️
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
As the UN Secretary General says, every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure. I hope Andy Burnham is listening. Caving in to the fossil fuel lobby as the planet burns would be unforgivable
theguardian.com
Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 10/07/2026
Last night, parts of southeast England recorded a tropical night, where temperatures remained above 20°C Tonight, attention turns to western regions to potentially experience this 🌴
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/07/2026
Absolutely.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 26/06/2026
Today has been another record breaking day, with a new provisional June temperature record of 37.3°C recorded at Santon Downham this afternoon
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Just for those of you out there who still claim 1976 was hotter And wait until the 2026 and 2027 maps are in 🥴 Thanks to @edhawkins.org
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 25/06/2026
The London Ambulance Service responded to the highest number of life-threatening emergencies in its history yesterday. The Chief Executive said this was "driven by the extreme heat across London".
The London Ambulance Service responded to the highest number of life-threatening emergencies in its history on Wednesday.

Temperatures soared to 36.1C in parts of the UK on Wednesday, and that record for June has been broken again today.

Ambulance crews responded to 642 calls relating to category 1 incidents - those that include the most serious, life-threatening injuries and illnesses such as cardiac arrests and patients who are not breathing.

Chief Executive Jason Killens KAM said this was "driven by the extreme heat across London".
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What happened between 2015 and 2020 taught me that, should that awful day come and we, settled EU migrants, become the target of Reform, the Great British Public will do nothing to protect us. Friends will be appaled but powerless. A few marches, some nice, principled words, that'll be all.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero
bylinetimes.com
As Extreme Heat Hits London, Fossil Fuel Interests and Global Far-Right Politicians Gather for a 'Glastonbury of Climate Science Deniers'
Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch are both scheduled to address the event, reports Max Colbert
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 16/05/2026
This is the man now trying to brand himself as the voice of Britain. He is not a martyr and he is not a victim. Save and share this thread. hopenothate.org.uk/who-is-tommy...
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WHO IS ‘TOMMY ROBINSON’?
‘Tommy Robinson’, real name Stephen Lennon, has spent years spreading division, targeting Muslim communities, and presenting himself as a victim. HOPE not hate has been at the forefront of investigati...
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 16/05/2026
Tommy Robinson is marching through London again today. He presents himself as a patriot, a journalist, and a victim of the establishment. But in reality he is a serial criminal with a rap sheet two decades long. Here’s the record he’d rather you didn’t read. 🧵
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Reform, ladies and gentlemen. There is no level too low. If they ever take power people will die Wake the fuck up before it’s too late
thecanary.co
Sunderland Reform councillor David Barker beat up his girlfriend and abused child
So much more than a slip-up in vetting, Reform UK are allowing these men to run because they don't see anything wrong with what they did
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 08/05/2026
Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/05/2026
JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.
Two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in first for Scottish parliament
Dr Q Manivannan and Iris Duane secured regional list seats for the Scottish Green Party.
David Young
Friday 08 May 2026 17:52 EDT
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Lotta @lottasaysno.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Book recommendation. This was a joy to read. Great observations of Finland & Finns #Finland #BookSky #BookRecommendation
A photo of a book called happy land by Tim Bird taken against a tree and a grey fence, the book being held in a hand.
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 22/04/2026
Our planet is sending us a clear signal. From climate change to deforestation and land-use change, the pressures on our planet are growing. On #EarthDay and every day, the world must accelerate its shift to a sustainable economy, one that works for both people and the planet.
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Green Alliance @green-alliance.org.uk · 15/04/2026
4/ The UK imports roughly 40 per cent of its food. A quarter comes from the Mediterranean, where extreme weather is devastating yields. The countries we depend on face far higher climate risk than we do.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.
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Lotta @lottasaysno.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This is fun. Dual nationals need to use correct passports entering different countries. But #Ryanair only allows one travel doc in the system and now won’t issue return boarding pass because the child has no ETA. They don’t need it, they are also a British citizen but Ryanair won’t allow 2nd doc!
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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 22/03/2026
A Greater Manchester school has censored books under the guise of “safeguarding risk.” The list of nearly 200 titles includes a graphic adaptation of 1984, White Teeth and Girl, Woman, Other. The school admitted to using AI to categorise the books ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
indexoncensorship.org
School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/03/2026
While Jared Kushner is negotiating on behalf of the United States with governments in the Middle East, he is also soliciting investments in his private business ventures from the same governments www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
nytimes.com
Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Starting to think the British press aren't coping too well with the Green Party wanting to tax wealth fairly. Join.greenparty.org.uk
Starmer is powerless to stop Polanskis savage Green army
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Fully *one year later*, the Telegraph has been forced (by @ipso.co.uk) to admit that it was lying about foreign nationals claiming benefits.
An article “More than one million foreign nationals are receiving benefits”
(March 17, 2025) referred to the number of “foreign nationals” receiving
benefits, and gave the rate of benefit claims for various nationalities. In fact,
the particular DWP data on which the article was based recorded the
nationality of claimants when registering for a National Insurance number,
rather than the nationality at the time they were claiming benefits, so that
some claimants might have since acquired UK citizenship, and would not be
foreign nationals at the time they were claiming benefits. This correction has
been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press
Standards Organisation.
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I'll be in Bath this Saturday chatting small boats, the Home Office and my book. Tickets here. Join us! share.google/4PCe1GMJFzOL...
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Who Belongs? Britain and the Small Boats Debate with Horatio Clare and Nicola Kelly — Curious Minds: A Festival to Ignite Ideas
Shining a light on the small boat crisis, revealing the human stories and global pressures shaping one of the defining issues of our moment.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Would this be the same Iran conflict Kemi Badenoch has just spent an entire week calling Keir Starmer a coward for not wanting to join?
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 09/03/2026
After a major fire broke out in Glasgow yesterday, X users asked its AI chatbot Grok to verify imagery from the scene. But it misidentified genuine footage as firefighters tackling a blaze in Tel Aviv - and even claimed a real photo of the fire had been made with AI.
fullfact.org
Grok wrongly claims footage of Glasgow fire shows blaze in Tel Aviv – Full Fact
X’s AI chatbot also said a real photo of the fire was fake and made with AI.
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Lotta @lottasaysno.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
And they said this would never happen in the lead up to joining NATO…
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 25/02/2026
A bar chart shared by Labour ahead of tomorrow’s Gorton and Denton by-election shows the party polling one percentage point ahead of Reform UK. But the graph omits the Green Party, which was level with Labour in the same poll. Our fact check 👇
fullfact.org
Labour by-election bar chart fails to show poll put them level with the Greens – Full Fact
A bar chart shared by Labour showing it polling slightly ahead of Reform UK in Gorton and Denton doesn’t tell the whole story.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 25/02/2026
Enjoying the sunshine in the southeast? ☀️ 18.6°C has been provisionally recorded at Kew Gardens, London today, making it the highest temperature recorded in the UK in February since 27 February 2019, when 19.2°C was recorded at Heathrow Airport 🌡️
Satellite view of the UK with clear skies in the southeast but cloudier skies in the north and west.
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Lotta @lottasaysno.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Charity buys £2.2m tract of land for Wales’ biggest rewilding project
Project in Ceredigion aims to help country catch up with large-scale nature recovery projects elsewhere in UK
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/02/2026
Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We don't know what's happening, but there's no good news here. As long as we keep burning fossil fuels, the world will continue to become more dangerous and chaotic.
wapo.st
Scientists thought they understood global warming. Then the past three years happened.
The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
My constituent, Ray, is at risk of removal from the UK due to the Govt’s outdated visa criteria. Ray founded Club395 and is vital to Bristol’s accessible, global-majority, queer creative scene. I urge the Govt to update the criteria to reflect the reality of grassroots culture.
Screenshot of first page of letter. Machine readable version available at link in next post.Screenshot of second page of letter. Machine readable version available at link in next post.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Nigel Farage has just moved his company address to...Mayfair. As Private Eye notes, nothing says 'man of the people' like it. (The office appears to belong, through a complex web, to Reform treasurer Nick Candy's firm)
Company Name: THORN IN THE SIDE LIMITED
Company Number: 07650770
Received for filing in Electronic Format on the: 26/01/2026 XEULR5D6
New Address Details
New Address: 49 UPPER BROOK STREET
LONDON
ENGLAND
W1K 2BR
The company confirms that the new registered office address is an appropriate address as outlined
in section 86(2) of the Companies Act 2006.
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Lotta @lottasaysno.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
As airlines go #BritishAirways has consistently let us down but #Finnair has now caught up with their non-existent customer care. Never their fault for delays / missed connections. Zero help or compensation. I wish I didn’t need to fly because Ryanair is starting to look like an attractive option!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🎯🎯
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 04/02/2026
The Gorton & Denton by-election is Green vs Reform.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Boy it's a good thing the UK government isn't up to its eyes in deals with the company founded by one of these guys
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Why isn't this a major news story?
Churchwarden linked to
foreign-born billionaire is
behind £200k Reform gift
The man whose firm made the donations will
not discuss where the money came from, nor
his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not
hold citizenship


Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor
Saturday January 31 2026, 8.00pm, The Sunday Times


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A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works
for the family of a highly secretive,
Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as
the man behind £200,000 of donations to
Reform UK.,


John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old
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Lotta @lottasaysno.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
If you haven’t already read this, it’s a must read #booksky
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A Green victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election would feel like divine justice.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We promised to throw the kitchen sink at this election. Well we've definitely voted for the right candidate with the skills for the job! Hannah & the Greens are taking the fight to Reform. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Labour are desperate and will say to do anything at this point. It’s time to unite behind the Green candidate.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is shocking. New @jrf-uk.bsky.social report has found ‘very deep poverty’ in Britain has hit its worst level in 30 years. Why is this not on every UK news show this morning?
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Lotta @lottasaysno.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds
Exclusive: Beijing, Delhi, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro among worst affected, with demand close to exceeding supply
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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 19/01/2026
#Iran: With internet access still cut, the reports that do emerge are deeply disturbing including thousands of suspected deaths and accounts of sexual assault and torture of detained protesters. The people of Iran deserve our solidarity. We must keep raising our voices.
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University of Reading @uniofreading.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
2025 adds another dark red stripe to the climate stripes New data confirms Earth’s third-warmest year on record, and 11th warmest year in a row. Created by Prof Ed Hawkins, the 2025 stripes reflect a century of climate science and provide a clear call for climate action. 👉 rdg.ac/4sGfjPX
The global climate stripes for 2025. Vertical stripes in varying shades of blue transitioning to light blue and then to red tones on the right side. The latest stripe is dark red, depicting the urgent need for climate action.
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