This weekend many more people will sit peacefully in non-compliance with the government's unjust use of anti-terrorism legislation to suppress anti-genocide activism. Arrests and charges for holding placards with non-violent expressions, and the proscription of Palestine Action, must be overturned.

Big Doughnutty News. Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There's still a complete lack of clarity about how this supposedly democratic process will be run. Local groups are not being empowered to organise. Effective deliberative democracy needs a lot more than a handful of assemblies & a 2 day national conference. I'm not paying to join an opaque process.

6am. I'll start a new thread. #SumudFlotilla Yesterday's thread. bsky.app/profile/babs... Tracker shows at least 26 vessels still sailing towards Gaza aje.io/e4f7v5?updat...

4 boats on the #SumudFlotilla livestream. I'm seeing lifejackets. ☹️ www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

📢 Britain faces a climate & nature emergency. On 27 Nov, top experts will brief 800+ leaders from politics, business, culture, faith & media. An unfiltered overview of the latest threats & solutions. Only by facing it can we rise to the challenge. Check if your MP is coming: www.nebriefing.org

No, "the world's taste for soya" isn't to blame: most people won't taste any soya, but the meat, dairy, eggs and fish produced very inefficiently with the soya as feed. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social often says: "If you want to eat less soya [to help save the Amazon], eat soya!" shorturl.at/bOvl1

This is why we need to open safe and secure routes. The perversity of a system, in which refugees have to cross the Channel in this way just to seek asylum, must end. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“They are pulverising Gaza, They don’t want it to exist. Well I’ve got a magic marker, so they call me terrorist for opposing genocide. Solidarity forever!” The mass defiance won't stop until the ban is lifted. Next weekend, on October 4th, hundreds will defy the ban in London. wedonotcomply.org

Bad idea! The ability to request judicial review is a vital safeguard against the govt making bad decisions and ignoring environmental rules & agreements. Without the Aarhus Convention, @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social and I would not have been able to bring our case on oil production at Horse Hill

Can we get this petition up to 2 million signatures by the end of today?

David and his co-defendants had bail conditions reduced today, including the removal of curfews and ankle tags. They were also threatened with legal charges if they refuse to voluntarily hand over the passwords to their technology within 14days. End the madness: wedonotcomply.org

'If you aren't doing anything wrong*, then you don't have anything to fear from ID cards' Things that might be arbitrarily defined as wrong: - Being brown - Thinking genocide is bad - Being trans - Not liking the government - Having any criminal convictions - Needing any kind of state assistance

Greta Thunberg reports the closer the #SumudFlotilla gets to Gaza, the bigger the risk of escalation towards the activists, urging governments everywhere to fulfill their legal obligations and end complicity in genocide. 7:20 PM · Sep 25, 2025 x.com/OnlinePalEng...

It was just pointed out to me that September 26 2025 is going to be the 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show! How should we celebrate???

100+ people are expected to defy Labour’s absurd ban at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Sunday. 🥀 Labour is complicit in Israel’s genocide, and they’re proscribing direct action groups to try and hide their own guilt. Full Press Release: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Ιsrael Is Trying to Smear the Gaza Aid Flotilla As ‘Terrorists’. We Must Not Let It novaramedia.com/2025/09/21/i...

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Has Starmer said "genocide" yet?

There. Is. No. Such. Thing. Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries. "Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.

BREAKING: A UN inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. All eyes are now on the UK Government who must stop indulging in genocide denial. It must fulfil its legal and moral responsibility by taking immediate, decisive steps to prevent and punish genocide.

I'd been feeling quite happy earlier as I went to a local Stand Up To Racism protest and for the first weekend this summer there was no one from the far right harassing refugees. Had hoped we'd worn them down. But it seems like they all just went up to London for the day.

Why are this Labour government quite so poor at messaging on migration?

There was an England flag painted on a wall near where I live. I was intending to go out with a marker pen to write messages of "Love not Hate" and "Refugees Welcome" in each of the quadrants, but by the time I next passed by it - someone else had already done it. There's more of us than them.

Your Party needs to fix up its transphobia problem sharpish Your Party claims to represent the most marginalised and vulnerable people in society. The Canary says this must include trans people. www.thecanary.co/editorial/20...

While there was some aggression earlier in the day between the public or other protesters & the police, 857 people were arrested for sitting peacefully with placards, sometimes singing, waiting late into the night to be arrested. Worth watching all the way through. #LiftTheBan

BREAKING: More than a thousand people are risking 'terror' arrests in Parliament Square as resistance grows against complicity in genocide and the Palestine Action ban. It is clear from this turnout that the public will not be intimidated.

Six people have been charged with terrorism offences over arranging public demonstrations and online meetings in support of Palestine Action. Charged. With terrorism offences. For Zoom calls. About holding cardboard signs. With 7 nonviolent words on. www.lbc.co.uk/article/six-...

We need a #MediaRevolution. 🌍 Register now to join the next Open Call. 🗓 Friday 5th September @ 11:00 – 12:00 BST Come along to find out more about the Media Revolution campaign, the plans for Media Liberation Day and how you can get involved! @media-revolution.bsky.social

A tank arrives at set up for the UK’s largest arms fair, DSEI, in London. Next week, 45,000+ arms dealers will gather to buy & sell these “battle-tested” and “genocide-tested” weapons. 📹 via boaters_rising_now

Utter authoritarian absurdity. Arrested under the terrorism act for speaking on a Zoom call, encouraging people to sit silently with placards in protest of the government's heavy handed use of the terrorism act. We must stand up for free speech & the right to protest. Join Defend Our Juries now.

It's so refreshing for a political leader to speak so directly.

I've had this exact conversation across the British-American divide. 🤣

Really fed up with this weak out-of-breath sort of feeling, like I've just been chased up a mountain I wasn't fit enough to climb, and that I quite often even feel it when I wake up in the morning because sleep doesn't lift the fatigue. #LongCovid

“Writing has given me a voice… it helps others in my community know they are not alone.” Christine - South Sudan When displaced people have a platform, the narrative changes from hate to humanity. We need a #MediaRevolution for migrants. mediarevolution.org/news/a-media...

post a random picture or else everything will go bad in september.

With the authoritarian crackdown on protest over the past few years, the UK currently has many #PoliticalPrisoners. Activists for Gaza & environmental action have been given extreme prison sentences that have been condemned by many human rights organisations & the United Nations. 1/4

You have to organize. I don't know what else to tell people. And organizing is not sexy and it is difficult and it matters that you be persistent. We need long-distance runners right now.

New interview with Greta Thunberg in Barcelona yesterday by Middle East Eye. The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza

Spent too long trying to decipher the difference between the Socialist Party & the Socialist Workers Party. Both are active locally & looking to influence the formation of Corbyn's new party. I'm interested in making connections with local activists, but it's all looking a bit Judean People's Front.

Not many farmers would tell you that we need to eat less meat; that wealthy landowners shouldn’t moan about inheritance tax but should “pay the whole fucking lot”; & that Reform UK are “a load of rich rightwing toffs” 😂 But Devon farmer Guy Singh-Watson does: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Another Saturday, another Exeter Stand Up To Racism counter protest against the far right. Until they give up, we will keep showing how outnumbered they are. I just wish our Labour government @exeterlabour.bsky.social hadn't joined the rest of the establishment fanning the flames. #RefugeesWelcome

I don't know about you but I've had about enough of mainstream media & politicians legitimising racist anti-asylum protests that terrorise refugees & communities. I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...

These two evil old billionaires are using a secret brainwashing weapon on you. It’s called Pluralistic Ignorance Rupert Murdoch and Viscount Rothermere target you with it through their nasty newspapers - to convince you another better world is simply NOT possible. Here’s how..🧵

We must be ready. Join a group e.g. Stand Up To Racism, XR, a local growers co-op, a homelessness charity. Get educated on the issues, read up on civil resistance, books like "Let This Radicalize You". Build alliances between groups. Only community & inclusive collective action can stop fascism.

Scientists are begging politicians to act on a ticking time bomb - and of course, the media are ignoring it. Another of the #99Problems and reasons we need a #MediaRevolution If AMOC collapses: ❄️ Europe freezes 🌧️ Monsoons fail 🔥 Amazon burns 🌊 US floods. 👉 mediarevolution.org/news/a-media...

First nasturtium flower in my garden. Planted it a bit late and it's been struggling, I'm not sure about the quality of the soil in the pot it's in, but it's got there in the end.

Stand Up To Racism Exeter at a counter protest today massively outnumbering the far right for the 3rd week in a row, also joined by the wonderful Devon Drummers, saying loud & clear that refugees are welcome here, and that Devon is anti-fascist!

I'll write more about this later, but for now, here's my newest article for the Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter! I explore the question: "Does AGI actually pose an existential risk?" I think my answer offers a somewhat unique perspective on the topic! www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/is-the-hyp...