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Rod Schoonover-Rey @rodschoonover.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Reality keeps asserting itself whether we’re ready or not. We are watching sea urchins collapse across oceans, another reminder that Earth systems don’t care about our attention, consensus, or permission. A dramatic rethink of security has never been clearer. gizmodo.com/the-sea-urch...
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The Sea Urchin Apocalypse Is Real, and It Might Be Spreading Globally, Scientists Warn
New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic.
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Even with climate change, we have enough water if we manage resources right. We need a well funded, well staffed regulator empowered to enforce rules, an overhaul of business use of water, repairs to leaking pipes, + to act to drinking water sources from forever chemical contamination.
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Rupert Kay @rupertkay.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Polar bears getting
Scientists think that Svalbard bears have adapted to recent ice loss by eating more land-based prey.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump in Davos, Switzerland: "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German". German is the main language of Switzerland.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It is really important to understand that the asylum hotel chaos of 2022-24 is a *failed experiment in closed borders* (in contrast to the liberal visa policy) The hotel chaos comes from passing multiple laws that all claims will be refused & to stop processing claims bsky.app/profile/pete...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
French Foreign Ministry: “The removal of Maduro from power and the violation of sovereignty constitute a serious act of aggression against the dignity of the Venezuelan people and their right to determine their own future.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/01/2026
Reminder: The US has refused to join the International Criminal Court because it argues extraterritorial justice is incompatible with national sovereignty and citizen's rights.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Good that Gen Z gets to experience what Iraq was like for older generations, but somehow dumber.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Global forest loss and degradation is proceeding at 62,500,000 acres a year. Knowing intimately the insane levels of biological richness and beauty in just my own patch of 30 acres, I simply cannot compute the scale of this crime, happening day in, day out. theconversation.com/millions-of-...
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Millions of hectares are still being cut down every year. How can we protect global forests?
We are still logging and degrading global forests at terrifying speed. How can we slow this destruction, including in Australia?
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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Are England's water resources being managed properly across industry and domestic use? I'm not sure about that. Tensions growing between govt, water sector & regulators over water supplies, amid warnings of potential widespread drought next year www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Water shortages could derail UK’s net zero plans, study finds
Tensions grow after research in England finds there may not be enough water for planned carbon capture and hydrogen projects
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"the fossil fuel industry has been lobbying the climate negotiations for 30 years now" ~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at: youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Deregulation - the dark path to poison in your lungs, excrement in your rivers, carcinogens in your food. A growing movement in Brussels is spreading the message that asking business to follow rules leads to economic death. They're working hard to destroy EU environmental + chemical protections.
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Jonathan Koomey @jgkoomey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
This is criminal, or should be. It’s definitely immoral. Burning old growth trees for energy should be banned. Biomass is not carbon neutral and it makes nasty air pollution.
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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
When Kemi Badenoch lays into Britain's Net Zero efforts and extols the virtues of fossil fuels, consider this: "wholesale electricity price [in 2024] could have been up to 33 per cent higher without contribution from wind power generation." Clean energy means freedom from disasters & dependency.
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'Marginal gains': Growth in British renewables has cut electricity prices by up to a quarter
New analysis suggests last year's wholesale electricity price could have been up to 33 per cent higher without contribution from wind power generation
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 01/10/2025
For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected. Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles. Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Subscribe today and never miss an issue of Private Eye! - Delivered free, first-class, every fortnight - Save £25 a year – just £2 an issue - Makes the perfect gift (with free e-card included!) Choose your offer: checkout.private-eye.co.uk/SingleItem?I...
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Part 1 of a new essay I wrote about my visit to the world’s biggest carbon bomb: the intensely fracked region of the United States that’s bigger than Florida, provides half the nation’s oil, and is oozing methane and benzene out of every orifice: the Permian Basin. 1/ www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/9/...
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Repercussion Section: The Intended Consequences of the Permian Basin (Part 1) — The Science and Environmental Health Network
Part 1 of a two-part series by Sandra Steingraber, SEHN senior scientist and writer in residence In September 2025, I traveled to West Texas to join Sharon Wilson and Miguel Escoto of Oilfie...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/09/2025
Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer’s search for a new US ambassador – cartoon
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Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer’s search for a new US ambassador – cartoon
The prime minister has sacked Peter Mandelson over his ties with Jeffrey Epstein
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Gun violence is out of control. The victims of gun violence are Republicans, Democrats, independents, and kids, who have no political affiliation whatsoever. We need to tone down the incendiary political rhetoric, for sure, but we also need to do something about guns. The guns!
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/09/2025
Come on. Just freaking come on.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
CLARE SHORT?????????
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I’d like to see more work done to preserve the site of the ancient palace of the Roman Emperors so that many more generations can visit and enjoy it. Which is why I, like many others #SupportPalatineAction
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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Now you C-D-See it, now you don't. @theonion.com
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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BREAKING: The #RealDailyBriefing [4th September 2025] - Larry and Paul
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
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Tiffany @tufftiffresists.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I’m going with refugees. “Kill ‘em before they get here”
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The abuse I've been sent has got noticeably worse in the last few months, escalating in some cases to violent threats, which are reported to the police. It doesn't matter how much you disagree with someone, threats of violence are never, ever OK. And they won't silence me. Me in the Guardian:
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UK MPs voice alarm at rise in online abuse over immigration debate
After further demonstrations at hotels housing asylum seekers, MPs say harassment is worse than during Brexit
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23/08/2025
In Nick Clegg's defense, nothing in his recent pre-Facebook experience could have forewarned him that accepting a position of supposed authority from bad people doesn't always work out the way you had hoped.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The far right wanted to march across Liverpool today… Liverpool had other ideas 👊 www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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Huge crowds of protesters shut down UKIP's Liverpool plans
SPECIAL REPORT: The ECHO was in Liverpool city centre as counter-protesters outnumbered the far-right party's 'mass deportations' march
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2025
me last week: “There was, and is, no external crisis facing the United States. But for reasons of both personality and political ambition, Trump needs a crisis to govern — or rather, to rule. And if the actual conditions of reality will not give him a state of exception, he’ll create one himself.”
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Sergio Chozas @sergio-chozas.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The larva spends 1–5 years feeding on decaying wood, mainly from broadleaved trees, so it usually inhabits oak-rich forests. Adults feed on tree sap and ripe fruit juices. Their life after metamorphosis is very short, just 15–30 days. (pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaca-lo...)
Lucanus cervus female
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T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
First Class! 👏👏👏👏
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I know one of the big arguments against a Republic is "what if we ended up with a President .... (insert your bogeyperson here) instead." But people forget that for some 32 years, we were just a single heartbeat away from Prince Andrew being the first in line to the throne.
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JBE POLITICS @jbepolitics.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
47% of Britons think there are more “illegal” immigrants in the UK than legal immigrants, despite only making up 4% of the overall figures! My latest article with exclusive research outlines how the UK are being sold a lie…. www.jacobbarclayevans.com/how-4-of-mig...
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How 4% of Migrants have Become a National Obsession.
According to YouGov, 47% of Britons believe there are more "illegal" Migrants than "Legal" Arriving in the UK despite "illegal immigration" representing only 4% of the numbers. Why is this?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
People are appallingly ignorant about immigration. They don't understand basic things about "net immigration statistics" and have a completely warped sense of what is going on. It is up to the government and the media to educate, but both are too busy batting their eyes at Nigel Farage's voters.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #FindsFriday #Archaeology
Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian artist’s painting of a swallow on a flake of limestone, dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c. 1479-1458 BC. 

The sparrow stands in profile with head to the right. It is delicately painted with a pinkish body. The outline and details are highlighted in a reddish/brown pigment. It’s legs, eye, and beak are painted black. Limestone flake dimensions H. 6.6 cm x W. 10.6 cm.

This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’.

Egyptian artisans who decorated tombs and temples made practice sketches on flakes of limestone which are known by egyptologists as ostraca (singular: ostracon). Sometimes the drawings were used as a template when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available for this purpose as by-products of the construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of ostraca were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Since lots of rat hysteria - see "Giant Rat of Normanby" - at moment, a good time to point to my Substack noting our culture "is particularly bad at both creating messes, & blaming the creatures that flourish in world we created" nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...
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Change Everything No 22: Humans are the masters of unintended consequences
Of rats and men, and how one Baptist was disastrous for the long-beaked echidna
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
And this misunderstanding leads to ignoring one of the big opportunities brought by renewables: sometimes it gives us really cheap electricity. Such as: today! There is a huge opportunity here that we should learn to take advantage of... bsky.app/profile/cele...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
On Ofwat's CEO resigning this month month, Lib Dem Tim Farron MP said: “Captains usually go down with their ship, but in the wake of Ofwat’s abolishment, David Black has chosen to jump... “Ofwat has recklessly allowed profiteering water companies to spoil our precious waterways for far too long."
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
"Signatories include Sky News' special correspondent Alex Crawford, broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, CNN's Christiane Amanpour and chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, as well as iconic war photographer Don McCullin."
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Over 100 journalists demand 'immediate and unsupervised' foreign media access into Gaza
Signatories are calling on both Israel and Hamas to allow foreign journalists into Gaza to report independently on the war, something they have been barred from doing since the conflict started in 202...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 04/08/2025
Moscow already helped by Pyongyang; Zelenskyy says China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, African fighters on board.
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Ukraine says foreign ‘mercenaries’ from various countries aiding Russia
Moscow already helped by Pyongyang; Zelenskyy says China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, African fighters on board.
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