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Mervyn Carter

@mervyncarter.bsky.social
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UK Social change #activist working for #sustainable future. 💚 #Green, #Peace, #Low_impact_living, #Fair_Votes, #Fair_Media, #Rationalism, #European. Born at #312ppm Twitter refugee.

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Nobel Peace Prize team are exceptionally good at trolling and throwing shade at you know who…
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
Map of tanker’s route
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Newly elected Greens doing great stuff on housing 👏 Lewisham Council's new strategy includes: 🤝 Zero-cost land to community-led orgs on condition they build social housing 🔐 Putting that land into community land trusts, locking in affordability. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Free land for those who will build social homes on it. Is this the radical solution to the UK’s housing problem? | Phineas Harper
A bold south London initiative to give land to community groups rather than private developers could transform the system, says writer Phineas Harper
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My latest Substack, wonderful women’s political history, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Harriet Martineau, to Brazilian spokesperson for indigenous rights Nisia Floresta nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...
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Jill Segger @quakerpen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Concert at Bury St Edmunds Quaker Meeting House on 25 October at 2pm, given by Bures & Sudbury Mandolin Ensemble. Includes late 19th/early 20th century Italian mandolin repertoire, waltzes and other dances, traditional tunes and contemporary pop favourites. Everyone is welcome.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 08/10/2026
Maricarmen, the 87-year-old pensioner in Spain whose eviction from her lifelong home sparked nationwide protests, died on Wednesday. “She literally put her body on the line for seven years, which is how long she fought this eviction for,” says Spanish journalist Maria Carrion.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 08/10/2026
She wrote all that code by hand and it landed on the moon. Such an iconic photo. Here’s to Margaret Hamilton (1936–2026). What an incredible and pioneering woman for science. An inspiration to us all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the moon, dies at 90
Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As a child, I used to watch the Wizard Of Oz and wonder how someone could talk if they didn’t have a brain. Now that I’m older and I have social media… I wonder no longer…
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Tjeerd Royaards @tjeerdroyaards.com · 05/10/2026
Our unwillingness to change our lifestyle will be our demise. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl. #SustainableLifestyle #environment #shopping #waste
A cartoon showing am affluent urban scene on the lower part of a hill, with modern buildings, a swimming pool, luxury cars in a garage, a 'Mega Market' store with shoppers, and green landscaping. In the background we see a highway full of cars and skyscrapers with billboards for Temu and Amazon. Meanwhile, a giant machine with industrial shovel is keeping a humongous pile of garbage from sliding down the hill, while a gauge is deep in the red. Underground, pipes dump brown sludge into a large tank that is filled up way above the indicated maximum level. The hillside itself is starting to crack, threatening the people living and shopping there.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t own a diesel car but if I did, I’d be keeping more of an eye on the record profits that Shell, BP et al will be recording over the next months & I’d be thinking these are the people making my life worse. Greedy corporate fbckers. Not people in boats who arrive with nothing but hope & dreams.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Join!
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dear men, Unless we say yes…it’s a no. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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Nula Suchet is an @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Irelands Shame
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Cartoon Movement @cartoonmovement.com · 01/10/2026
Areal view. Today's cartoon by @emadelrosso.bsky.social. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com
Two map snapshots labeled Gaza 2023 and Gaza 2026: a densely built neighborhood in 2023 and, by 2026, widespread destruction with remaining building outlines arranged to spell 'GENOCIDE'.
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Cartoon Movement @cartoonmovement.com · 30/09/2026
Call to action. Today's cartoon by Vasco Gargalo. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #UnitedNations #war #atrocities
Cartoon showing a Cubist-style anguished figures—one screaming upright over a collapsed body— from Picasso's Guernica standing behind a United Nations podium bearing the UN emblem, symbolizing civilian suffering and the UN’s failure or impotence to prevent atrocities.
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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just imagine that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense for the USA have intelligence so good that they knew about the ‘red diesel 5’… it’s incredible, isn’t it? Liar liar pants on fire…
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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An actual cartoon from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Mervyn Carter @mervyncarter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Cartoon Movement @cartoonmovement.com · 23/09/2026
Gag. Today's cartoon by Jorge Gonzalez. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #censorshop #freedom #USA
Cartoon showing the Statue of Liberty gagged by a White House–shaped muzzle topped with a small U.S. flag, symbolizing government suppression of free speech.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Says a British immigrant in Monaco who only lives there in order not to pay his fair share of taxes. I feckin hate these people with every fibre of my feckin being…
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Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Drawn in 30 seconds #MAGA #Trump #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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Daniel Boris @danboriscreates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jabba The Hutt Say What?
Jabba the Hutta seen seated at the resolute desk, wearing a red tie.

Jabba:
“I’m banning news organizations that write negative things about me.”
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Honestly, I’m in the real depths of despair & feeling completely overwhelmed by helplessness. What are we going to do about this right wing mob, these vigilantes & their ignorant leaders when there is no leadership from our government? There will be deaths on our streets before something is done.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I really like @barcajim3.bsky.social Blunt as my vegetable knife right now…and I’m here for it!
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh look…not an immigrant or person of colour in sight. Where’s your fucking outrage Farage, Tommo and Robinson. We can’t hear you…
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Carla Francome @carlafrancome.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Two wonderful rides for children and families next Sunday in Haringey. Details below. Huge thanks to everyone who organises and marshalls these, it gives children such a sense of freedom, and what is possible 🙌🏻🙌🏻
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“If the UK develops additional oil and gas production, that does not mean an equivalent quantity of production elsewhere automatically stops. It adds additional fossil-fuel supply to an international market." Why is this point so hard for so many to grasp? climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
UK aviation emissions to be 50% higher than thought by 2050, government admits www.carbonbrief.org/uk-aviation-...
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UK aviation emissions to be 50% higher than thought by 2050, government admits - Carbon Brief
The Labour government has signalled its support for a contentious third runway at Heathrow airport, with a final planning decision expected by 2029.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Some of these right wing knobheads have suggested that they’ve been contacted by RNLI lifeboat volunteers claiming that they are being told that they don’t want to be involved in rescuing migrants. I don’t fvcking believe that for a second, do you? These masked up babies will say anything… #RNLI
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Bought Xmas cards, stocking fillers, baseball cap, jelly babies & made a donation. We’re in Salcombe the lovely volunteer manning the shop today says they’ve been inundated all week! Mostly, the British public are legends but a minority have the big gobs & say hateful things! #RNLI
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When the lady in the RNLI shop asked if we needed a bag I said yes and asked for the loudest RNLI bag they had… Et voila…
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant!
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Cartoon Movement @cartoonmovement.com · 11/09/2026
Mount Hatemore. Today’s cartoon by Jason Lutes. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #Trump #HateSpeech #hate
A political cartoon showing a cliff carved into the snarling face of Trump labeled "MOUNT HATEMORE," a vulture perched atop, green bile and bones spewing from its mouth while we see climbers cling beneath. One climber says to the other: "Sometimes it erupts."
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Channel 4 investigation into secret foreign funding of polling for Reform is explosive. JL Partners are cooked IMO. The Times and Telegraph will be livid with Reform over it. And Farage will almost certainly face police, Standards and/or EC investigations over it. youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?...
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I wish it were illegal to call people illegals. It’s not the correct description of anyone trying to enter this country and a human being cannot be illegal…
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Honestly, I don’t know what sort of sentence is handed out to people who vandalise cars or vans but if they are found to have targeted and vandalised the vehicle of any RNLI volunteer or staff member regardless of whether they’ve previously had a clean record, they should go to prison. 💯 %
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Cartoon Movement @cartoonmovement.com · 10/09/2026
People around the world are reading fewer books. Today's cartoon by @tjeerdroyaards.com More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #reading #books #smartphone
Cartoon depicting a sailboat named 'Reading' moored at a jetty overlooking the sea, where a galleon, a mysterious island, and a large sea monster are visible on the horizon. The sea simultaneously forms the front cover of a gigantic book. A staircase runs along the cover of the book to the jetty. Next to this staircase stands a sign reading 'Join the adventure'. This sign is completely ignored by the people walking by, who are all hunched over, staring at their smartphone screens.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Individually ,these masked thugs couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. I want to know who paid for this? Organised this? Organised their ‘uniforms’ and their transport? There was nothing spontaneous about any of it and MSM need to stop saying it. Dangerous times call for the truth.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bye bye Charlestown. You were gorgeous!
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s fvcking grim day when anyone in the uk considers someone masked up in a black balaclava to be a brave patriot whilst calling RNLI volunteers traitors when they risk their lives to save people…we’re talking posties, barmen and bar women, construction workers. What a fvcking time to be alive…
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Arseholes Heroes ⬇️ ⬇️
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As some of you may know, we spend about 4 months of the year in San Diego and as a consequence I have many American friends. Recently one of them asked me if I have any plans for the fall and honestly, it took me a minute to realise she meant autumn and not the total collapse of civilisation…
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s not that long now till Remembrance Sunday comes around. Lest we forget? Seems we’ve forgotten… It’s a black day for Europe. Don’t agree? Look around and see who is celebrating. Be worried.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The way I see it is that all parties are frightened of doing the right thing least it loses them support or a cushy life in power. Show me the principled people in politics now? The ones willing to put their heads above the parapet. We are now at a point where power is more important than country.
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Cartoon Movement @cartoonmovement.com · 08/09/2026
The extreme right is on the rise throughout Europe. Today’s cartoon by Luc Descheemaeker. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #extremism #ideology #racism #fascism
Cartoon showing a brain being forced into a metal meat grinder. The exit of the grinder is shaped like a swastika. German caption below reads "Wir haben es nicht gewusst" ("We did not know").
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