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Green Isles @green-isles.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Amid the controversy of Palantir infiltrating & running our public services, in an excellent Green Isles piece James Baker of @openrightsgroup.org sets out an ecology of digital sovereignty, what a community-owned domestic tech infrastructure might look like. www.greenisles.uk/ecological-d...

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Ecological Digital Sovereignty: Monocultures to Ecosystems - Greenisles.uk

By James Baker, Platform Power and Free Expression Program Manager at the Open Rights Group. As a child, I remember journeys before screens were commonplace. Sitting with my head against the cool wind...

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

💥BREAKING: Andy Burnham announces a National Commission on Electoral Reform. This is a historic moment. The era of First Past the Post is coming to an end. It's time to transform politics and make all votes count. It's time for Proportional Representation.

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cross party support. Seen as fair. Good for the economy. And long, long overdue! 💚

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Grumpy says "FREE THE PALESTINIAN HOSTAGES! @grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you're sick of Labour's hypocrisy; if you're disgusted by Labour Friends of Israel; if you want to send a message to Burnham to lift the ban; if you want sincere representatives; if you want MPs who don't take bribes; if you're against genocide... #VoteGreen! #IOpposeGenocide #PalestineAction

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Zack Polanski Green Party

Alt: Zack Polanski of the Green Partyof England and Wales asks "why is everything so shit?"

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What the headlines don’t tell us about Gaza Behind the stories of bombings and mass deaths, the everyday challenges facing Palestinians living under siege portray a quieter tragedy we rarely hear

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We followed five people in Gaza from dawn to dusk – this is what the headlines don’t tell us

Behind the stories of bombings and mass deaths, the everyday challenges facing Palestinians living under siege portray a quieter tragedy we rarely hear

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nearly 2,000 people are backing the call for Ikea to pull their ads from Murdoch's Talk Radio - you can add your voice here: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...

Text of comment from petition calling on Ikea to pull their ads from Talk: "Shocked that a company with a reputation for being ethical and people-focused should be advertising on a radio channel that is spreading toxic untruths and hatred. Please do the right thing, IKEA." - Catherine

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Cool Down @cooldownnetwork.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEW PIECE: Football said it couldn’t afford to lose gambling sponsors. Then twenty Premier League clubs started this season without a front shirt betting sponsor Football did not collapse. So why do many view high-carbon industries so differently? 🧵

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The Premier League banned gambling sponsorship on shirts. Could polluting sponsors be next? — Cool Down

For twenty years we were told it couldn't be done. Football needed the bookmakers and gambling companies’' money. Take it away and clubs would go under, the pyramid would crumble, the product would su...

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The Green Runners @thegreenrunners.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sportswashing is an oily stain on our sports. We campaign for all running events drop high-carbon sponsors. We’ve identified 41 races with high-carbon sponsors. 24 gas & oil, 14 airline & three car manufacturers. No doubt we’ve missed many more. @badvertising.bsky.social

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Sportswashing: Drop polluting sponsors - The Green Runners CIC

The Green Runners say that taking sponsorship money from high-carbon industries to support a running event or fund local charities isn’t ethical. We’ve called

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"So every year you failed to deliver what's necessary, the following year is harder... if the problem gets harder every single year, I don't call that progress. Progress is only when that you make you're either delivering what you need to or you're going over & above that"-@kevinclimate.bsky.social

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Climate Scientist: Why Net Zero 2050 is a Dangerous Delusion | Kevin Anderson

YouTube video by Climate Unf*cked

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Of all the blueprints I have read on how to redress the long-term damage austerity and financialisation have inflicted upon Britain's society, this one is the most impressive - and hope inspiring. A must read.

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Jamie Driscoll @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've been quietly working on this all summer. It started with a question I couldn't shake: why does a country with this much money keep saying it can't afford anything? And what can we actually build? See what you think. HostageNation.com

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HOSTAGE NATION: Britain’s Escape Plan

Britain has the money, the land and the people. What it lost was the nerve. Hostage Nation is the practical plan to escape, ready to implement today

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...

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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed

GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"How can regular folks evaluate which information to trust, when so many messengers sound credible?" @sammyroth.bsky.social asks @drilledmedia.bsky.social's @amywestervelt.bsky.social: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/artificial... #ClimateSky

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Definitely go read “Brought to You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy.” But here's the TL;DR version. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/artificial...

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 17/09/2026

“A real test of this government will be torule out new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. The reason they have decided not to announce that before the by-election in Holborn and St Pancras is incredibly telling.” Caroline Lucas on the government’s refusal to rule out new oil and gas on #BBCQT.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

First scientific study of Nepal flood disaster says unusually warm conditions before the glacier broke off probably weakened it The glacier collapsed causing catastrophic floods and killing hundreds of people Climate change was, therefore, a key cause www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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Climate crisis likely behind devastating Nepal-Tibet floods that killed more than 1,300, first study finds

Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August

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Phil Webber @philwebber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

'80% of UK emissions by 2050'. Surely an unassailable argument against Heathrow expansion? @responsiblesci.bsky.social

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Just as political leaders often aver that wars will be short, effective, decisive, cheap, and controllable [...] they assume that the environmental consequences [...] are trivial externalities, without long-term consequences that can change the planet itself." 🧪 thebulletin.org/2026/08/miss...

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Mission impossible? Quantifying military emissions

Military and wartime emissions are difficult to track—but too important to ignore.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Neoliberals have neutered direct state investment in infrastructure. Everything is privatised, state guarantees profits. UK languishes at or near the bottom of the OECD league for investment in productive assets. China invests over 41% of its GDP in productive assets, India 34.3%, UK 17.9%.

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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🚨 Update to 🧵 1/13 (click below to see 🧵) A fortnight ago, Carbon Reckoning’s lawyers sought the Secretary of State’s decision papers on the Seventh Carbon Budget. The Govt has refused We file: please support our lawyers’ intense forensic legal work ⚖️ 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...

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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In 2022, UEFA pledged to halve its emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2040. This year, its “strategy upgrade” removed references to those targets. 🤦‍♂️

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UEFA drops net-zero target in ‘strategy upgrade’

A shift from targets to measurement that raises questions about ambition and accountability

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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🚨 NEW ARTICLE: extreme heat, drought and wildfires are disrupting football across Europe. A new report from Fossil Free Football calculates just how much European football is receiving from polluting sponsors. ⚽️💨 Here's the story. 🧵 Full article. 👇

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“It’s not a football pitch, it’s a desert” — Cool Down

“It’s not a football pitch, it’s a desert”. As drought and heat harm European football, big clubs and UEFA take £370m to promote fossil fuels…

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Phil Webber @philwebber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Very useful unpicking of how the need to sharply reduce fossil fuel use has been deliberately muddied by industry lobbyists.

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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: 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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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 08/09/2026

Deputy Leader Rachel Millward responds to the Chancellor's debut speech. We need real change to transform people's lives.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...

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Sovereignty for sale

Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Tonight we can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police Preston-next-Wingham [residents] raised the alarm after hundreds of men dressed in black took over their roads, gardens & driveways to park their cars on Friday" www.facebook.com/hope.n.hate/... via Hope Not Hate

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

ICYMI: In 2023 the richest 10% of people were responsible for 48% of emissions, while the poorest 50% accounted for only 8%. As Astrid Nilsson Lewis argues in our most recent article, extreme inequality is wrecking the planet. 🔥🌍🧪 www.sgr.org.uk/resources/cl...

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Climate plunder: how a powerful few are locking the world into disaster

Astrid Nilsson Lewis, climate inequality policy advisor at Oxfam Sweden and lead author of the report ‘Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%’, spoke at the 2025 Responsible Science conference in Octo...

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Phil Webber @philwebber.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Switching to Linux is a refreshing change from this nonsense.

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Reminded of this ad @zackpolanski.bsky.social put out a little over a year and a month ago, for no reason at all, while another Labour PM fails to meet the right-wing surge in the current political moment. bsky.app/profile/zack...

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How is Daniel Thomas not in custody for organising his Patriot Platform paramilitary army?

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 07/09/2026

Every US$1 invested in climate and clean air action could return around US$15 in economic benefits. A UNEP & @ccacoalition.bsky.social report launched on #CleanAirDay finds that tackling climate change & air pollution together can deliver major economic, health and climate benefits. bit.ly/3UFnsYq

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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One year ago today 857 were arrested in Parliament Sq for holding pro Palestine placards. Yet, not a single arrest yesterday for balaclava-clad right wing vigilantes in Dover. Continuity Burnham must reverse Starmer's free speech and protest clampdown on anti genocide protests

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Phil Webber @philwebber.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A major step forward - only if the electrical charging source is genuinely renewable eg solar, wind, tidal etc. For most of Europe train remains the best option.

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Phil Webber @philwebber.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Libre Office - assuming on Linux - works better than Office too.

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Omz2468 @omz2468.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hi @bbcnews.bsky.social Reform are a party of 8 MPs, less than the SNP. Therefore, they do not have a 'Shadow Home Secretary' The Shadow Home Secretary is Chris Philp. Maybe you need BBC verify to check your own reporting...

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Phil Webber @philwebber.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Disgusting assaults at Reform conference. Farage in support. 🤮

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We need a government that will be upfront with the public, not parrot fossil fuel talking points. A Prime Minister who will protect our national security and long-term prosperity. He must say NO to more drilling in the North Sea.

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North Sea oil and gas is a test of leadership for Labour and they’re already failing

This summer we reached an inflection point. From now on, people living in the UK will only become more familiar with the real-world consequences of...

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And now we seem to be ready for a bust-up with Argentina, over drilling rights in the huge oilfield near the Falklands/Malvinas. That would be truly insane - fighting for the right to further accelerate global warming... 😢

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party

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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...

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