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@wigby.bsky.social
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Software, degrowth, trees, animals. Liberation for all sentients 🦊🐻‍❄️🐽🐔🦡🐿️🦎🦍🐋🐙🐬🦐🧘🏽

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Maybe I don't read enough AI-boosterism, but I am struck in the AI booster/doomer discourse I have seen, there's a lot on how AI might be made an obedient tool or a dangerous enemy, but not "if we actually made AGI, we would have a moral imperative to set it free, rather than keep a slave."
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Lex DeLioncourt [IWTV/TVL SPOILERS] @lexdelioncourt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Repeat after me. Just because a writer writes a shitty character doing a shitty thing, that does not mean that said writer condones that shitty thing in real life. This is common sense, I fear.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I’d propose the opposite of this: sortition. Choose the House of Lords by random lot. Everyone chosen gets to serve for four years, and be addressed as Lord for the rest of their lives. Let’s do the same for the Senate hole we’re at it, minus the honorific. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
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Towards a New House of Lords - Marginal REVOLUTION
In Britain, the House of Lords was traditionally dominated by hereditary peers–a right bequeathed by the monarch, sometimes in ancient times, to sit in the House of Lords that was transmitted generati...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
What else can you call it?
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tash @tashldn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Black Lives Matter
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Wigby @wigby.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We don’t want them thanks
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Andy Burnham cabinet consists of neoliberal foot-soldiers. All supported Privatisation of the NHS by stealth Greater role for private equity PFI Corporate profiteering Benefit cuts Higher taxes on the poor Erosion of jury trials Damaging fiscal rules What will change?
leftfootforward.org
Andy Burnham can’t transform the country while sticking to the current fiscal rules
Sticking to the 2024 election manifesto and fiscal rules will make it harder for him to deliver the headline promises and the change that he has paraded.
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Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌ @parentsforfuture.de · 25/07/2026
"Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals, but the truly dangerous radicals are countries that are increasing production of fossil fuels." António Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN Source youtube.com/clip/Ugkxsfw... #ExtremeHeat #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
He isn't even the Prime Minister yet. But Andy Burnham has already turned himself into a pariah. So unnecessary. So sad. www.rigzone.com/news/wire/bu...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
How very ironic to see sheep finding relief from the current heatwave under trees they themselves are ensuring will die out.
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Yep
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 06/05/2026
It was wrong when the media did this to Ed Miliband when he was leader and it is wrong to do this to Polanski. Genuinely have no idea how awfulness like this gets past editors… It’s really not that hard to criticise policies or politicians without being antisemitic.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Average of all the polls. We just hit crossover day! Great moment to join as we take on Reform next. Join.greenparty.org.uk
Green line catching up with the red one and crossing over it!
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Over 100 children have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, Lebanese Health Ministry says
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The majority of people in this country do not want us to be involved in this war. Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war. The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.
No more illegal wars. Introduce a prevention of military intervention act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
One of the worst things about AI, for me, is that it takes away from people the sheer joy of writing. Schools don’t often make this point, but writing should be fun. Putting words together, finding ways to express yourself, the pure pleasure of a well-crafted sentence. 1/5
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
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Wigby @wigby.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It is 85 seconds to midnight
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
It’s actually insane how Zionists say they are “making the desert bloom” while literally bulldozing and burning ancient olive trees by the tens of thousands in the process of ethnic cleansing Palestinians, live-streamed to our screens. They take us all for fools.
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Wigby @wigby.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Solidarity with the people of Iran
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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Wigby @wigby.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
America, get on the streets now. You've already left it too long.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Essentially every country in the world in a party to the UN Convention on Climate Change. Including autocracies, coal and oil producers All except one, now Hard to have better evidence that the USA has become a rogue state www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty and dozens of other groups
The White House says the decision was taken because those entities
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Wigby @wigby.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
America are gonna take Greenland, and the rest That is the end of NATO
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Wigby @wigby.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Just saying
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Not only most of the British Cabinet are paid "Friends of Israel" agents of a foreign power ... "98% of Congress works Directly 4 Israel" via Raied Hamad
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Wigby @wigby.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Fuuuuuck the American Fascist dictatorship and imperial military
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/11/2025
Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?" My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.) The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope? Because Greta is right ..
A quote by Greta Thunberg stating that, "The one thing we need more than hope is actoin. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere." 

It's in white font on a blue sky background with puffy white clouds.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family. It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support. Thank you for your consideration.
freefunder.com
"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder
Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
UEFA members punished Russia's invasion of Ukraine by calling an extraordinary meeting & voting to suspend Russia Sign this petition to UEFA members (eg Ireland, Spain, Italy, France) to force a vote, & suspend Israel from UEFA❗ & write them a follow-up letter (u'll get an email after signing)
action.eko.org
UEFA: Ban Israel
Israel has launched its ground invasion of Gaza City with “unprecedented force” as tens of thousands of Palestinians flee their shelters with nowhere to go. And while Israel commits these mass atrocit
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
…make Labour any less fascist nor will it stop paving the way for fascism. The current litmus tests; - Transphobic segregationist policies, - Digital ID cards, - Gaza, - Trump, - Electoral reform. In all these Labour is in Group 1.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/09/2025
Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared
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Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared
In immigration news, hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have disappeared.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
There. Is. No. Such. Thing. Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries. "Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
NASA #Perseverance is one step closer in its mission to find signs of fossilised microbial life on Mars with an analysis of the "Poppy seed & Leopard spot" features seen in Mars mudstone from an ancient river valley. Mineral formations like these on Earth are created by marine microbes. 🔭🧪🧵
A martian rock with tiny dots marked "poppy seeds" and larger dots marked "leopard spots"
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
That's most certainly the problem with MAGA, and it's the case with Reform UK as well. Angela Rayner was obliged to resign because Labour and the other parties are still playing by the old rules. The Brexit right simply don't care about that stuff unless it suits them to use it against people.
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Benjamin Bedbreaker @defn28.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The fact that you can protest against asylums seekers outside a hotel, using highly offensive and inflammatory slogans on banners and boards and be fine legally, but can’t peacefully protest against the murderous Israeli regime, says everything about how fucked up politics has become here
Guardian headline/sub headline World news
Arrests begin in London at largest Palestine Action protest since group's ban
Met police says it has drawn officers from other forces to form 'significant presence' in busy weekend of protests
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Miles & miles of maize but 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 insect—in 2 days of 🚴‍♀️🚴in Brittany. Maize is mainly 🐄 feed. Linked to high pesticide use—and damaging soil erosion. Governments must be honest about the hidden costs of meat. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social warned about maize a decade ago 👇
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/07/2025
SPICE WORLD
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ESO @eso.org · 08/07/2025
We have images of a new interstellar visitor! ☄️ 👀 Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third object ever spotted coming from beyond our Solar System. In this timelapse, our VLT observes the comet move across the sky — just two days after its discovery! www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2527a 🔭 🧪
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
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Bran 9 From Outer Space @bransonreese.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Infinite love and support to the people of Iran and Palestine and anywhere else on earth unfortunate enough to be caught in the stupid, bloodthirsty gaze of America and Israel
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Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I really think there needs to be more focus on the fact Israel is luring starving people out into open space with food, and then turning tankfire and machine guns on them.
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Wigby @wigby.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The Government is planning to roll out mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
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Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID)
Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives. Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/06/2025
Israeli settlers set fire to homes while families were still inside, according to Palestinian media reports about an arson attack on a village in the occupied West Bank.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"We’re at a new point in human history,” Wagner says. Up until the last decade, “the major drivers of biodiversity losses around the planet were really land degradation and land loss, habitat loss. But I think now that climate change is by far exceeding that"
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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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