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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 9h

The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, a South African jurist who chaired the United Nations commission of inquiry that determined in 2025 that Israel had committed genocide during the Gaza war.

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2026 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Navi Pillay

This is a breaking news story.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 9h

"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks for this! @ukhsa.bsky.social It is a shame you aren't prioritising the most aggressive rise / risk as your first post.

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UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · 3h

🆕📊 The first #UKHSAVirusWatch graphs of the season are here, showing both flu & COVID-19 increasing, with possible signs of an early flu season. 🟢 Flu positivity rose to 6.5%, up from 5.0% the previous week

Flu positive tests (%)
Data: 06 October 2025 to 04 October 2026
Green line chart showing flu test positivity peaking during winter 2025/26, remaining low through spring and summer, then rising again ahead of winter 2026.
Source: SGSS, England only, 7-day rolling average.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 06/10/2026

Sometimes, you get the impression that all of the most unhinged, incompetent, venal, lazy dregs of the Tory party have defected to Reform. Then, you take a look at the Conservative shadow cabinet and realise your mistake.

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

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Anonymous Old Person @scruffypeasant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems my first reaction to this news was shared by others. Basically "good riddance". Remembering the Greenham Common women today.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“They shall not pass.” 90 years ago today, as antisemitism and fascism were on the rise throughout Europe, Oswald Mosley’s racist British Union of Fascists planned a provocative march through the Jewish community of East London.

A placard that reads "every street is cable street" in front of the Cable Street mural

Someone holding a sign that reads "no pasaran"

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Collapse Scout @xrscout101.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It hasn't been hard to work out that food shortages & agricultural crisis would have been in the redacted section of the report. The questoon is what are you & your community doing about it. Some climate influencers are dangerous & will mislead to starvation solidarityprepping.co.uk/2026/10/02/e...

solidarityprepping.co.uk

Every Culture Plans for Hard Times: Preparedness and Storing Food is as old as Knapping Flints & Has Always Been A Communal Activity in Hunter-Gatherer Societies

Storing food for hard times is as old as hunting and gathering. Every human culture has put by surplus for hard times, even if those hard times are the predictable gaps between planting and harvest…

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the climate context, doomer has always equalled realist

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Climate fueled extreme weather will destroy most data centers in the next 2-4 years. Along with most infrastructure and factories.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

We can't afford to continue living under oligarchy, and as oligarchs' greed and folly drives the old system beyond its breaking point, we must seize the opportunity to build a better successor. eof/

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Anonymous Old Person @scruffypeasant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A thread about how awful Thatcher was. For years she's been the one I love to hate! Though some more recent Tories have joined her on my list of despicables, most of them being Thatcher worshippers of course.

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Anonymous Old Person @scruffypeasant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm still at the stage of relief that he's so much better than Starmer. I know he's not the messiah but I'm hoping against hope that he'll make a half decent job of things.

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Anonymous Old Person @scruffypeasant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I posted this a few days ago. bsky.app/profile/scru...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.

Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The way the media talk about the triple lock is so irresponsible, as if touching it is the same as slashing the pension in half or something. If I was a pensioner I'd happily sacrifice a few quid to know that a decent care system is going to look after me in the future.

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Anonymous Old Person @scruffypeasant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham keeping the manifesto pledge but adjusting in 2030 seems a fair compromise to me. And importantly in the clip of his speech I saw he explained what and why he was doing this. So refreshing to have a good communicator at the helm now!

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not that this will penetrate, but there are serious economic reasons why the triple lock created a ratchet effect that was perverse and economically unsustainable. Sometimes people disagree with you for honest reasons. Not just because you are good and they are wicked. ifs.org.uk/articles/wha...

ifs.org.uk

What do you need to know about the triple lock? | Institute for Fiscal Studies

The triple lock has boosted the level of the state pension over time and it creates high and uncertain costs for the future.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How is it free? Because the absence of tax and overheads allows a vast investor bubble, which will burst and cause a financial crisis like 2008, when we haven't even recovered from that yet. You think the far right came from nowhere? No, it came from a financial crisis. Which we are still in.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI brings genuine benefits. Medical research, better understanding of complex systems. Useful. Keep that. Making 25% of us permanently unemployed and rendering pics of Fat Johnny Depp is not useful. It harms the planet and society. If it costs users money, it will stop. So tax the compute.

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UK spy chiefs warned government ministers of the catastrophic impacts on national security from the collapse of vital ecosystems around the world, driven by the climate crisis and the overexploitation of nature www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?

Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister

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Anonymous Old Person @scruffypeasant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have never understood the modern obsession with travel, especially short term travel as opposed to long term residence abroad. I can gain a better understanding of foreign places by reading a book or watching documentaries than from a 2 week holiday!

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...

broligarchy.substack.com

Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'The highest temperatures this late in September have been astonishing'. (From the little column at the back of The Times which is the only place where that esteemed organ tells the truth about the unravelling of our climate).

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David Dunlop @lawt-d.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"More than 40 mega-dairies exist across the UK, the largest housing 2,600 cows. Yet unlike intensive pig & poultry units, large dairy & beef farms are not subject to the same government monitoring, meaning their size & environmental impacts are left unchecked." www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/rise-me...

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Rise of 'mega-dairies' pushing nature to breaking point | The Wildlife Trusts

Tighter rules on intensive dairy farms and increased support for farmers to cut pollution, restore nature and build a more resilient sector are urgently needed, say The Wildlife Trusts

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Anonymous Old Person @scruffypeasant.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Twitter effects are amongst the worst. But I'm beginning to realise that all social media affects me in some way. Hoping that with that realisation it will be possible to get the positive effects while minimizing the negative ones.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My personal view is that it’s even worse than that. This whole approach to AI is inherently flawed. There isn’t a responsible way to do it with this model. It’s inherently privacy-invasive, inherently irresponsible.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The FT piece by @willoyd.bsky.social has some good insights, the main one being that Britain since Thatcher has become such an ideal student of late capitalism that it threw overboard all notions of self-sufficiency and backups because our leaders all believed next-day delivery would never end. Oops

From the FT longread:

There is no going back to the past without incurring enormous costs. “The central economic problem of resilience,” said Lang, “is that it asks capitalism to do what it doesn’t want to do at the moment.”

Stockpiles in a fatty civil defence system built to confront the Soviets — what an engineer would call “redundancies” — were stripped away and sold off, argues Thornton. “It’s now hard to go back to spend the money to recreate the kind of agencies and facilities and resources that we had in the cold war.”

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here’s another way climate change will kill us: the expansion of mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry. In Paris, the invasive Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), an aggressive, day-biting nuisance, is now everywhere. So excited to get Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika in Paris.

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Scientists explore new ways to target mosquitoes as warming climate expands threat

It doesn't have sharp teeth or claws, but the mosquito kills more people than any other animal on earth. As the climate warms, mosquito season is lasting longer, giving them more time to spread danger...

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“The swallows can be distinguished from the martins by their reddish-chestnut throats and foreheads, their beautiful steel-blue backs and wings, and their long, forked tails” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist : CF Tunnicliffe

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Frankie Rickford @frickfo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

60-69s are the age group most supportive of Reform closely followed by over 70s, but it's still only one in three voters (compared to more than one in 5 40-49s) so two thirds of old people have not and would not vote Reform.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes, it's that time again when the Fascism scene returns to London and this year black is very much in vogue. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Think of all the issues people should really have ‘legitimate concerns’ about Biodiversity loss Ecosystem degradation Extreme heat Droughts Intense wildfires Water shortages Dirty water Polluted air Sea level rise Crop failures Floods New pandemics Food shortages Plastics in our bodies & env’t…

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Autumn poem just dropped.

[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:

comm n pr ble whe writin p ems
in the shape of decid o s trees
is t at once t ere ar ives
the fir t sti rings of he new aut mn breeze,
he oems will begi to shake hemselves ge tly
ntil their letters loos n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then

[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]

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Anonymous Old Person @scruffypeasant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The only time I even think about this stuff is when I have to fill in a form. It just seems weird (or racist) to me to obsess about it. I'm more interested in identities such as Trekkie, music lover, football supporter etc.

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Anonymous Old Person @scruffypeasant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every time I glimpse a robin in my garden it gives me happy feelings. They are so bold around humans. I know they are just waiting for me to dig up worms but it feels so friendly.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Leaf ombré my daughter made 🍁🌼🌿

Breach leaves in autumn arranged on a tree stump so their colour shifts gently round a circle

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Climate change isn’t just about heatwaves and emissions targets. When climate and nature loss affect food, migration, economies and geopolitical stability, they become national security issues too. That conversation is long overdue. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

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