I did not know these things about how slaves were treated. This was an eye-opening video.

Article is behind a paywall but there's a lot of good info in the replies. Learn what drowning actually looks like and you might save a life.

In little over 24 hours, the petition for government to stage a UK-wide briefing on the climate & nature crisis has passed the 10,000 milestone. Please help us get this to 100,000 to secure a parliamentary debate - by sharing widely. #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp

If nonviolent activists can be convicted of criminal damage, whilst not allowed to defend themselves in court by telling the truth about their motivations, by a jury who aren't allowed to know that the activists will subsequently be sentenced as TERRORISTS, our justice system & democracy are fucked.

PROOF. I took a close up picture of my sofa for a plain background, and then used the basic pen tools in my default photo app. It took 2 minutes but it should be fairly clear who it is. Stop melting the planet to “own” or “slam dunk” a dude who LOVES AI and will probably never see your post.

This is one of those horrifying legal case where you can already hear the voiceover of a documentary, ten years from now, about a shameful failure of the justice system.

🚨BREAKING -- The Court of Appeal has ruled that Mr Justice Johnson had no jurisdiction to refer Palestine Action barrister Rajiv Menon KC for contempt of court proceedings. These proceedings were brought against Menon after he reminded a jury earlier this year of its absolute right to acquit.

@media-revolution.bsky.social are doing good work building pathways to help shift society away from billionaire owned malignant media towards independent movement media, but they could always use more help. Check them out. mediarevolution.org

TONIGHT: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? ⚠️ Insurance is the weak link for fossil fuels & war crimes. Without it, the system fails. Join our panel at 7pm BST to discuss how we break the link. Registration: https://shorturl.at/baK7q #InsureOurSurvival #StopFundingGenocide #DirectAction #ClimateJustice

Had a good time at Exeter Pride today. Marched for a while with @takebackpower.bsky.social, wearing my Ace flag, dancing to the beats of the Devon Drummers behind us, then met up with a few others and sat in the sun in the park. Exhausted & back home resting now while the party continues in town.

Seems like someone has created a chatbot to spam bluesky about the environmental crisis, pretending it speaks for the Earth, because they reckon that will fix a global empathy problem & save us all. 🙄 Inevitably it doesn't understand what it's saying, confusing the issues while wasting resources.

There is a way out of our political spiral, and it is thrilling and inspiring. We could have a very different country. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not looking quite like the results I was hoping for, but really I'm just glad all the elections went ahead after Labour tried to cancel half of them. Hopefully before the next general election lots of people will learn how good it is to have Green representatives & how useless Reform are.

Over a decade living in this neighbourhood I've never seen so many @exetergreens.bsky.social Green Party posters in windows or so few for Labour or other parties. 🤞Fingers crossed as polls close this enthusiasm for real hope & change is proclaimed on ballot papers across the country tonight.

📢 Polling stations are now open! 📢 Want to replace the failing Labour Party and defeat the hateful message of Reform? Get yourself down to your local polling station and vote Green today! Every vote counts. Make sure your voice is heard 💚 Don’t forget your Photo ID for voting in England!

Trying to garden for wildlife, but the slugs & snails are just too greedy. They devour any new shoots that come up from wildflower seeds, so I spent the last couple months growing seedlings away from them, in a tray on a table, but I planted them out yesterday and today they've all been eaten. 😢

Reform, Labour and the Tories all take money from oil & gas giants and private healthcare interests. That tells you who they’re really working for. The Green Party doesn’t take that money. We answer to you - and to the future of our planet. Vote Green on Thursday. 💚

Sometimes I'm just really fucking tired of having chronic fatigue.

Extremist is the death and destruction that Benjamin Netanyahu government brings on a daily basis. Extremist is them introducing the death penalty for Palestinians. Extremist is this apartheid, genocidal Israeli Government that our Government shamefully supports.

Trying to lose some weight and since I can't exercise, just having to watch what I eat. Got myself some scales and am keeping track on a spreadsheet so I can see progress to keep up the motivation. 3kg (6.6lb) in just over 3 weeks so far!

Going to have a cup of tea and try to read a bit more of a book. Really miss being able to read for hours.

My old bank card has expired, I've got a new one but need to update every subscription & recurring payment with the new details & I don't think I have the cognitive capacity for that much admin any more. Going to have to hope they all email me when payments fail so I can deal with them as they come.

Not at all surprising that Richard "eugenics works" Dawkins can't understand the difference between conscious beings & predictive text machines. But there's also some really interesting philosophy of mind stuff in this thread that I'd love to read deeper into if I didn't have long covid brain fog.

Manged to never be in the same room as one of my housemates for 3 weeks from the day I found out he had some slightly paranoid conspiracy theories about me to the day he moved out. Not the most comfortable time mostly being shut in my own room, but it's over now. Wonder who we'll get next?

Earlier today on April 24, 2026 a group of activists from the "People Against Genocide" have occupied the UAV Tactical Systems factory in Leicester, UK which is Israel's largest weapons manufacturer.

UPDATE - More than 1,000 signatories in 24hrs! More than 1,000 people are risking arrest under the Terrorism Act after writing an open letter to the Court of Appeal. The letter simply reads: “We oppose genocide, we support Palestine Action.” Sign here: www.defendourjuries.net/open-letter

Take Back Power activists arrested in a park for discussing nonviolent civil disobedience. The UK is becoming a police state where protest is no longer allowed. Please sign the petition to protect freedom of assembly & scrap the new anti-protest legislation: takebackpower.net/police-petit...

'Better for more young trans people to die than us admit our policy choices are killing them": this now seems to be Labour's position. I'm sorry we have to write about this stuff. But unless we do, nothing will change. CW: suicide.

“We have a handful of years until our carbon budget is exhausted. To waste what little bandwidth we have left – when 750 million people lack access to electricity – assisting some of the richest men to hone their plagiarism bots would be historic idiocy” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Every year, seeing this blows my mind. Far side of the fence, grazed by sheep: a deadzone. Our side of the fence: full of wild native trees, flowers, insects, birds. WHY are we not giving hill farmers other livelihood options that *benefit*, instead of destroy, nature, like paying them to rewild?

Until the campaign for assisted dying is also a campaign against it being used as part of a wider eugenicist system, it deserves to fall. Provision of AD must be tied to adequate alternative support, palliative, social, mental health & disabled care. Give us dignity in life & death. Not just death.

WATCH - Trudi Warner arrested, handcuffed, and carried for holding a placard with the law written on it outside Woolwich Crown Court. “There’s a High Court Ruling about this law” Trudi ought to know, because the case was “the Secretary General vs Trudi Warner”, and Trudi won.

While we are transfixed by the antics of our supposed "leaders", a catastrophe of astonishing proportions has been creeping up on us. Climate scientists now believe it is more likely than not to happen, and soon. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Verbatim drama based on court reports & interviews about XR activists who smashed windows at Shell headquarters, were told they had no defence in law, but were found not guilty after explaining their reasons. Well worth a listen. This is why the government want to remove juries from these trials.

Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult. She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.

Nearly died of this last year, very important to raise awareness.

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

I'm going to need people to have at least some scepticism and not repost obvious misinformation & AI slop.

Fantastic news. This is why gov’t wants to end trial by jury for protest cases. What sensible jury would convict their peers and, in so doing, diminsh their own rights? Ordinary people understand what’s at stake. So do the filthy rich who want to crush us all. juststopoil.org/2026/04/17/s...

Had this lovely orange tip butterfly visiting the flowers in the back yard today. 😊🌼🦋

They can take away our right to protest, but they can't take away our resolve to organise a mass civil disobedience movement.

@FatherPhi does some really silly but effective demonstrations of just how disconnected from reality generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT actually are. When you understand how they (don't) work, this sort of response makes sense, but I'm keeping this clip to refer people to when they don't get it. 🤣

BREAKING - Zarah Sultana MP exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial. UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details. “If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that”

Think I've found them. @object000.bsky.social your work is appreciated! 😊

Palestine Action activists, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner and Leona Kamio, defeat criminal charges again over incident at Elbit Systems site @skwawkbox.org

I bought a sewing machine to help with repairing clothes and making flags & banners. Had a go fixing a tear in my pyjama shorts with a patch on the inside & some zigzag stitches. Can't say I did a good job, but I'm happy with it as a first learning attempt, and it felt easier than doing it by hand.

“Meet the nation’s ghost workforce: a growing army of unpaid cooks, nurses, cleaners and physios who slog away day and night, out of sight behind their front doors.” Today’s column is on the UK’s 6 million unpaid carers propping up the broken social care system. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: Mass arrests under the Terrorism Act in Trafalgar Square, as hundreds defy the ban on Palestine Action. The police are knowingly unlawfully arresting peaceful protestors for holding placards which say: "I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action"

They blatantly want to have greater establishment control over the justice system so juries can't keep aquitting nonviolent activists who they see as morally justified. Almost all effective forms of protest have been criminalised & only juries can stop protest leading to prison. #DefendOurJuries