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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

TikTok in which Danny Thommo of Pratriotic Platform announces the motivations behind the Dover blackshirts and his desire for a fascist militia on British streets youtu.be/8nxo0fS2VMM

Title card for television series ‘Fairly Secret Army’ includes the title text alongside a pencil illustration of lead character Major Harry Truscott in military uniform making a shush with pursed lips and a finger raised to the lips.

Screen grab from a video . Pratriot Danny Thomson speaking to Camera from the deck of a passenger ferry. On-screen subtitles read ‘We have to have an Army’ in all-caps

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The poor taxpayer is going to have to foot the bill for Nige's latest cunning stunt, a vanity by-election. Boy, this guy likes spending other people's money

Racist public school boy Nigel Farage sycophantically laughing while standing next to convicted felon Donald Trump in front of a tasteless fake gold door

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Free Screening: 'People's Emergency Briefing' Friday 7th August 2026 7pm United Reformed Church 53 Station Road Burnham-on-Crouch CM0 8HF No tickets, just turn up!

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

New post at dengiebioregion.blog/2026/06/10/t... It’s murder on the shop floor/you better not disapprove #DengieBioregion

Screenshot of a blog post titled “the communities we serve.” The post features a wide-angle photograph of the nearly empty interior of the Burnham-on-Crouch East of England Co-op store, showing bare shelving, vacant display areas, and a few people walking through the brightly lit supermarket. Beneath the image is an excerpt explaining that the last fresh food delivery has arrived, the store will close in three days, and no replacement supermarket is expected until a Sainsbury’s opens later in the year. The post is dated 10 June 2026.

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Save ASSL @saveassl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A whole floor of Cardiff University's main library is under threat of being repurposed to teaching facilities with the removal of 7km of shelving holding valuable books (including an amazing Welsh collection.) Please help us spread the word. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Stop Cardiff University from scrapping the ASSL's second floor!

thousands of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Rural Futuring - new on the Dengie Bioregion blog 'Future Rural' reviewed Dengie in Drought Neo-rurality Mezzo-level Entities Transition Troughs Local Nature Recovery Net Stupid Zero dengiebioregion.blog/2026/05/31/r... #dengiebioregion #futures #CitizenSciFi

Background is a textured wash of warm ochre, pink and peach colours, overlaid with a faint outline map of the Dengie Peninsula. Overlaid is text in black reading: 't John’s Day, 24th June 2045. It’s the eighth day in a row over 40°C, but the breakfast briefing from your AMi said Britain needs to prepare for -20°C winters. You’re walking the seawall between Sales Point and St Lawrence and there’s no shade - but someone's got to fix the wires on that rad sensor! This path wasn’t here 20 years ago. In the winter of 2034, a deep, intense Atlantic depression tracked south-eastwards down the North Sea, reaching the Essex coast during a high spring tide, and a breach took out a section of wall west of the old nuclear station. All the effort went into keeping the atomic carcass dry and the old alignment wasn't repaired. South of St Peter’s Chapel, other rifts mean there’s no decent route at all now. When the tide comes in, it goes a quarter of a mile inland. The fields inward of the breaches are brackish and strange, there’s hints of saltmarsh returning behind where the walls stood, the seasonal birds come in sky-darkening flocks and seals swim up the creeks, but it remains a broken, brittle landscape still in the process of becoming something else. The wind farm’s back online, remodelled to something closer to its offshore kin now the tides tickles it's towers. The mud walk out to service the turbines is worse than the mission you're on now though, so small mercies. and all that'

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Policy priorities now Reform UK are in the driving seat in Essex

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Despairing at the HS2 debacle and the Lower Thames Crossing inanity, I thought I'd cheer myself up by imaging a new Essex rail corridor - the Gemstone: Connecting East Anglia and Essex to Kent and the continent!

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

When I read Walkaway by @doctorow.pluralistic.net earlier this year, I kept picturing the Superstudio posters and their Supersuperficie concept

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Safe routes serve everyone walkers, wheelers and cyclists deserve a safe cycle route between every settlement #SharedUsePaths #rECOnnectDengie #ActiveEssex www.dengieclimateaction.org/reconnect-de...

Poster. At the top is an Open Street Map render of the Dengie peninsula with indicative cycle paths In the middle: a black ink image of a bicycle slightly overlays the map. Below these a line of text in black reads "A safe cycle route between every settlement'. Below this another line of text in red and bold reads "Let's reconnect the Dengie". The letters eco in the word reconnect are green.

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Local Government Reorganisation in Essex, climate denial, the hostile environment, unsolicited private parts, decline and collapse trajectories. What did you do in the war? dengiebioregion.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/h...

Nigel Farage at a podium bearing a sign reading ‘Reform Will Fix It’. AI has been used to dress him as Jimmy Saville: he wears a red tracksuit top with the saltire on one side, the Union flag on the other. He has a large cigar in his right hand. He has shoulder length golden hair on his head. He has a large gold watch on his left wrist

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The recent and successive cycle strategy documents from Essex and Maldon have failed to suggest what cycle routes on the Dengie could look like - so, I've had a go... dengiebioregion.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/p... #rECOnnectDengie #DengieBioregion #Cycling

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Push Biking

The recent and successive cycle strategy documents from Essex and Maldon have failed to suggest what cycle routes on the Dengie could look like – so, I’ve had a go… [I should star…

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Justin Hopper @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

21st of March in Colchester - first North Essex gathering via the East Anglian Landscape Network, a new opportunity to hear from and meet people from a variety of landscape-related fields in the arts, sciences and community. Tix are free but filling up; info and signup: tinyurl.com/EALNCol

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East Anglian Landscape Network Colchester

A gathering to meet like-minded artists, archaeologists, activists and more interested in contemporary landscape practices.

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Elizabeth protected this nonce using the wealth, power and influence of the Crown #abolishthemonarchy #NoKings www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

If AI is so great, why aren't the first problems it solves it's own dependence on $billions, GWh ⚡️, km³ 🚰 ? & if its a job killer and makes everything easier, why is it so dependent on grind? www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us

San Francisco’s AI startups are pushing workers to grind endlessly, hinting at pressures soon hitting other sectors

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Is the Trans-Canada Trail inspiring @essex.gov.uk to implement a transformative plan for new walking, wheeling & cycling infrastructure in the county? Or is it just an intern's stock photo #fail? What does it mean for the Dengie?https://dengiebioregion.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/the-essex-wide-lcwip/

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I’m trying to track down the book "Medieval Roads of Essex" (2014) by Helen Walker I understand that it was only released as an e-book through Amazon’s Kindle store - but it doesn’t currently appear there & appears to be a victim of the digital dark ages (1/2)

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Do you want to learn more about the wildlife of the Dengie Peninsula? Dengie Climate Action Partnership wants to run a series of free, friendly, local talks about Dengie’s wildlife, habitats & ecology — from farmland & hedgerows to saltmarsh & coastline — & how climate change is affecting our area

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The automobile was the Johnny-come-lately joining road users which had enjoyed these paths for hundreds of years. Bridleways, byways & footpaths were additional to these — not substitutes for them, routes to be retired to when the motor-car demanded the road

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Poop-Poop

Barely a week goes by now without a collision on the Dengie roads. A couple of months ago this sadly included two fatalities. There’s clearly a problem with drunk and drug driving, but this a…

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

We won’t be able to defend some areas against the sea in the long term. We need to consider where to retreat from the current coastline. For Hamburg we need a plan to move the city 30 or 50 kilometers inland to the northeast by 2200 #ManagedRetreat

Screen grab of text from linked article. Reads:

Among your 10 specific demands to policymakers is one that calls for “debating a withdrawal from low-lying coastal regions of the North and Baltic Seas.” Until now, this has been taboo.

KR: In the very long run, over many decades to a century or more, sea levels could rise sharply. That is why we must start discussing it now. If we act early, we will have the time for careful adjustments.

FB: We won’t be able to defend some areas against the sea in the long term. We also need to consider where to retreat from the current coastline. For Hamburg, for instance, we need a plan to move the city 30 or 50 kilometers inland to the northeast by 2200. To be clear, no one is suggesting mass relocation tomorrow. But we can already ask whether it makes sense to build a new technology park or major production site right by the shore.

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

T-minus 89 hours until the launch of Witbrictesherna-IV at Southminster Spaceport. Local residents are requested to secure animals until Mission Control confirms successful interstage separation. #HereComesEverybody

Aerial photograph of fields outside Southminster, Essex. tow-thirds of teh image is the cloudy sky above the fields. The image has been manipulated using AI to include a photo-realistic render of a terrestrial spaceport with a rocket ready to launch. The words 'SOUTHMINSTER SPACEPORT' are overlaid in the NSA typeface in a black colour. In addition: overlaid on the middle left of the image is a circular mission badge with the words 'Dengie Space Programme' and a graphical representation of a space shuttle launching against a background of stars and the full moon.

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wilf-abundantearth.bsky.social @wilf-abundantearth.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The Power of Permaculture Principles, my new book available to pre order now at Permanent Publications shop.permaculture.co.uk/products/the... Written over three years with 40 collaborators. Officially out March 1st 2026 linktr.ee/wilf.richards

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

'Governments with resources will be forced to engage in long, nightmarish episodes of triage: deciding what and who can be salvaged from engulfment by a disordered environment. The choice will need to be made primarily among the poorest, not just abroad but at home' #ManagedRetreat

Screengrab of text: 'Governments with resources will be forced to engage in long, nightmarish episodes of triage: deciding what and who can be salvaged from engulfment by a disordered environment. The choice will need to be made primarily among the poorest, not just abroad but at home. We have already previewed the images, in the course of the organisational and spiritual unravelling that was Hurricane Katrina.At progressively more extreme levels, the decisions will be increasingly harsh: morally agonising to those who must make and execute them - but in the end, morally deadening'

- Leon Furth in Gwynne Dyer's 'Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats' (2010)

An aerial photograph of the Brooklands area of Jaywick, Essex under water following the 1953 coastal flood

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

'Farage tells donors he expects Reform UK will do an election deal with Tories' #VoteGreen www.ft.com/content/ecf5...

Photograph of Kemi Badenoch looking down. A Tiny Nigel Farage is appearing from her neckline. White background. Text in grey in top right corner reads: 'Vote Green'

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Online and on the streets, some people are stepping on a platform marked ‘concern about irregular migration’ and flying the Union Jack or the Bratach na hÉireann. When the platform slowly moves to ‘against all migration’ and ‘pride in our national flags’ most are happy to go with it (1/2)

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

@danravenellison.bsky.social Hi Dan, the stat in this quote would be useful for local campaigning. Could you point me towards the DfT source? Is it in a report I can reference? Thanks

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The next Maldon District Green Party social is this Saturday 22nd - meet Greens by the riverside Saturday 22 Nov 2025 - 2-3pm Ye Old White Hart The Quay Burnham on Crouch CM0 8AS Nearest bus stop/service: Burnham Clock Tower (esxjdgwm & esxawtmt) D7 31 331 @rgl25.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk

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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice. Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in. It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her. open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...

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Reeves in Zugzwang

Incremental politics no longer works

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

“At some point, some hard decisions have to be made – that certain communities will have to be relocated. Protection becomes so expensive that it’s not worth it, so you have to move communities to safer, higher ground” #ManagedRetreat www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris

Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Single figure polling after this surely

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Reform UK too frit to field a candidate for #Essex Mayor yet (major parties & independents have already put their cards on the table) Reform obviously want to limit the time the public have to find out about their candidate & their policies for Essex www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Who wants to be the first elected mayor of Essex?

Meet the candidates hoping to be elected the Mayor of Essex next year

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I’ve reviewed the 4 competing proposals submitted by existing councils as to how Local Government Reorganisation in #Essex should take shape It's barefoot textual analysis to see what they have to say about the climate and nature emergencies dengiebioregion.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/t...

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The Lost Words

By national government edict the 15 councils in ‘Greater Essex’ must reorganise to form new unitary authorities through a process of Local Government Reorganisation. This will change the current tw…

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

“There isn’t a magic money tree that we can shake that suddenly provides for everything that people want”

Photorealistic generative AI image of a wine glass shaped tree in a parkland environment. The image is overlaid with text from the 'Champagne glass distribution of wealth' diagram showing that the richest 20% of the world's population hold about 80% of the global wealth, while the poorest 20% are at the thin stem with almost nothing. [That image originated from the 1992 UN Human Development Report highlighting the "champagne glass of world poverty"]

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Reform UK's bold new political offer: AUSTERITY 3.0

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Which of these parties do Your Party expect to be taking votes from?

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

First in a series looking to connect up existing routes on the Dengie - pavements, cycle paths, bridleways, byways. Where are the easy wins? What's the next achievable step? Starting in Burnham & working outwards - where else should I cover? dengiebioregion.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/s...

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Stitching the Path: Connecting Disjointed Walk & Cycle Routes 1

A mission objective of the rECOnnect Dengie project is to improve the active travel infrastructure on the Dengie and get a safe network of routes connecting all the settlements. As I’ve noted…

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The world missed its goal for tackling climate change What happens next? That's the question I'm asking in a new documentary series We uncover the fantasies that brought us here and meet the people with ideas to navigate what's next Listen to the trailer👇 open.spotify.com/episode/2ICK...

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Overshoot: a new podcast about a world beyond 1.5°C – trailer

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James Piers Taylor @yourmindfire.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Wilf Richards’s new book The Power of Permaculture Principles - out now from Permanent Publications includes contribs from many familiar folk in the UK #permaculture scene there’s little work examining the core thinking tools of permaculture & this is sure to become a much referenced text

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