Joe Cassidy
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Prime example of the BBC framing heatwaves as a postive thing. The photo desk have selected a woman wearing sunnies, drinking a cold drink on a kayak. The headline reads “UK sizzles”. Sizzles? It’s bbq time guys, yay! Now let’s look at what this heatwave brought us👇
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Liam Kirkaldy
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I can't believe they got this interview with the walrus
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This is the kind of story that feels historic but I don't know enough to clearly say why.
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United Arab Emirates to quit oil cartel Opec
The UAE leaving Opec is seen as a major blow and potential death knell for the oil cartel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4pxwlr52yo
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Jan Rosenow
2 days ago
Norway sold 12 petrol cars in February 2026. Out of 7,272 new passenger car registrations, 98% were fully electric. Just 67 diesel & 12 petrol cars were registered. Hybrids? Only 66 in total mostly plug ins. More in my new Substack newsletter coming out every 7 days. Sign up here:
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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Criminalisation of climate protesters in UK is counterproductive, research finds
Study of 1,300 campaigners finds arrests, fines and jail terms increase determination of activists to take direct action
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/25/criminalisation-of-climate-protesters-in-uk-is-counterproductive-research-finds
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I don’t want AI. Please note Google, all I want is a search feature for items I need to purchase and collect today.
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Went to Earth Day at school, but none of year one were calling for Oil CEOs to be jailed? 🤷♂️🧐
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Anon Opin
6 days ago
Electric toothbrushes are too easy to knock over, this is an obvious design flaw that has never been rectified.
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Niko Stratis
6 days ago
Learned that Take Me Out To The Ball Game has verses, and now I can’t stop singing them like Thin Lizzy doing “The Boys Are Back In Town”
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People have too small an appetite for whimsy.
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Sam Whyte
7 days ago
You'll only drive it underground.
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Tim Onion
9 days ago
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of
@timheidecker.bsky.social
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At our first home league match as a fan-owned club, 256 fans came down to the "Stray Dog" pitch round the back of Wadham Lodge. 1712 at the
@oldspotteddog.bsky.social
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9 days ago
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Clapton CFC
10 days ago
Our club record home attendance of 1712. From these streets, we built this club.
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Vajra Chandrasekera
10 days ago
the use case for this is drone cops that can chase you where cars can't go, while the meat cops eat donuts and play it like a videogame
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All of this tech is solely geared at producing soldiers without conscience and you will never convince me otherwise.
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Pam Keith
10 days ago
I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for
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Graeme Swanson
11 days ago
I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”
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Clapton CFC
13 days ago
⚽ Next Men's First Team match ⚽ Last game of the season - get here early 🔥 📍 Old Spotted Dog Ground, E7 9NP 🚇 7 stations nearby 🎟️ £5 | pay what you can concessions | free U13s 🍻 3 bars, Fusion food
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/04/15/m...
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Jan Rosenow
12 days ago
Pakistan went from <5% to 25%+ solar in 4 years. Remarkable. I was cited in Pakistan's Express Tribune on exactly this — but also on what the Hormuz crisis revealed: electricity resilience ≠ energy security.
tribune.com.pk/story/2602438/ending-oil-dependency-cycle
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Ending oil dependency cycle | The Express Tribune
Ending oil dependency cycle
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2602438/ending-oil-dependency-cycle
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James Butler
12 days ago
So much of the Mandelson affair involves people making objectively insane decisions and thinking, well, this surely will not blow up in my face -- despite substantial precedent that, where Mandelson is concerned, it really will definitely blow up in your face.
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Genuine question, does the UK government have a plan for what happens after AI takes over hundreds of thousands of jobs?
14 days ago
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Love our free and open society 🙃
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15 days ago
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Nick Dearden
15 days ago
“If you criticise Palantir’s platform one more time, you are going to lose your job.” Solidarity to all NHS workers opposing this toxic corporation. Shame on those bullying them. But they won’t stop us. We’re going to ditch Palantir.
www.ft.com/content/ff70...
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Senior NHS officials warned staff over criticising rollout of Palantir platform
Ethical objections and uneven adoption have made the tech group’s contract a divisive issue within English health service
https://www.ft.com/content/ff701533-aa19-4ab0-80ff-70c9420f37d9?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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Clapton CFC
15 days ago
¡Viva la República! 🔴🟡🟣 Today is the 95th anniversary of the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic. We've been proudly wearing the colours on our away shirts since 2018 and now they're on a mural at our Old Spotted Dog Ground home. ¡No pasarán!
#DiaDeLaRepublica
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David F. Sandberg
15 days ago
I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…
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Olga Nesterova
16 days ago
Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.
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Andy Muirhead
17 days ago
In France, legislation came into effect recently for all car parks that have over 80 spaces to be covered with solar panels. Estimated to add around 11GW of renewable energy capacity to the national grid. Why not do likewise in Scotland? Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort etc.
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404 Media
18 days ago
"Iran’s use of LEGO set rap music tells me it’s been studying us. These are videos meant for the American people crafted in a language Iran knows we’ll understand."
www.404media.co/iran-is-winn...
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Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War
“White House videos—AI or otherwise—are like group-chat in-jokes aimed at keeping cohesion.”
https://www.404media.co/iran-is-winning-the-ai-slop-propaganda-war/
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Reform will pick up councils in May undoubtedly. But once people get to experience a Reform-run council, like the people of Kent have had for the last year, the shine will wear off incredibly quickly.
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Election Maps UK
19 days ago
Cliftonville (Kent) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 38.8% (+26.7) ➡️ RFM: 33.1% (-7.0) 🌳 CON: 15.2% (-4.5) 🌹 LAB: 10.4% (-11.6) 🙋 Ind: 1.3% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.2% (-1.9) No Ind (-3.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.
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If I owned a paper warehouse I would simply make sure all my employees were gruntled 🤷♂️
thenightly.com.au/world/usa/on...
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WATCH: Disgruntled staffer allegedly burns down warehouse
Shocking video has emerged of the alleged moment a disgruntled employee lit a stockpile of toilet paper in a warehouse, burning the entire place down.
https://thenightly.com.au/world/usa/ontario-toilet-paper-warehouse-fire-video-emerges-allegedly-showing-disgruntled-employee-starting-blaze-c-22114361
20 days ago
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David Ho
20 days ago
Our burning of fossil fuels is melting sea ice and drowning emperor penguin chicks, putting them in danger of extinction. 😱
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Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction
Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/mass-drowning-of-chicks-puts-emperor-penguins-at-risk-of-extinction?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Saul Staniforth
20 days ago
Yesterday Israel murdered another Palestinian journalist in Gaza Jodie Ginsberg: ".. at least 260 journalists have been killed.. that makes Israel the biggest killer of journalists since
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Anon Opin
20 days ago
Eurostar should stop pretending their trains have wifi. "Trains have a hotspot with worse connectivity than your own phone" would be a more honest way of putting it.
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Unearthed
20 days ago
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has declared emperor penguins officially in danger of extinction, as melting Antarctic ice has been causing mass drownings of chicks.
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Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction
Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/mass-drowning-of-chicks-puts-emperor-penguins-at-risk-of-extinction
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Played my first football game in 15 months last night. Not sure about
#backstronger
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21 days ago
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Jan Rosenow
21 days ago
Uruguay generates nearly 43% of its electricity from wind and solar. In 2010, the share was less than 1%. Most of the rest if hydro. Today, Uruguay produces nearly 99% of its electricity from renewable sources. More here
www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...
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Not sure how I’m meant to catch up on my emails when Trump is threatening nuclear war tonight…
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸
22 days ago
In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.
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Jess O'Thomson
22 days ago
It's now the obligation of every nation to intervene to prevent this.
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Prem Sikka
22 days ago
Private equity controls our lives from the cradle to the grave. Profiteers from hospitals, nurseries, housing, care homes, undertakers. Business model - high prices, low staffing/wages, high debt, asset-stripping, tax abuse. Life commodified & financialised. Profits for the few, misery for many.
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Want to know capitalism’s endgame? Just look at private equity – it has captured our everyday lives | Hettie O'Brien
These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the bill, says Hettie O’Brien, author of The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned C...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/07/capitalism-endgame-private-equity-captured-nurseries-care-homes
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Clapton CFC
23 days ago
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Chris Person
24 days ago
Everyone loves NASA missions so much. It’s not just because it’s space travel it’s because there is a sense that we are doing something collectively that isn’t purely evil vs. 20 exploding SpaceX rockets that dump garbage in poor Texas communities and low orbit that everyone forgets an hour later.
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Clapton CFC
25 days ago
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Urban Truth Collective
25 days ago
In Belgium, employees receive compensation for every kilometre they ride, with some cyclists earning up to €810 per year. And why not? Biking saves public money for everyone. “All employees in Belgium who cycle to work are entitled to a bicycle allowance of €0.28 per kilometre of their commute.”
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Belgian commutes pay off: Employees earn up to €810 for cycling to work
One in five people in Flanders commuted by bike and received compensation last year, but this figure is significantly lower in Brussels and Wallonia.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1401729/belgian-commutes-pay-off-employees-earn-up-to-e810-for-cycling-to-work
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Paul Byrne
26 days ago
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
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Luke O'Neil
27 days ago
This is NOT what I signed up for
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Jack Tindale
27 days ago
If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.
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Just ONE English striker under 26 has appeared in the Premier League this season. Hardly surprising they are totally reliant on 32-year old Kane...
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England 0-1 Japan: A failed experiment as Tuchel gets grim glimpse of life without Harry Kane
England's World Cup hopes rest on captain Harry Kane after a grim taste of life without him in the defeat against Japan at Wembley, says chief football writer Phil McNulty.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c070185ygpno
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Clapton CFC
29 days ago
The Clapton CFC Men's First Team have sealed a play-off place 🔥 In fact we're guaranteed a top three finish which means a home tie in the play-off semi-final 💪 That's assuming we don't sneak top spot (unlikely but not mathematically over...) Permutations 👇
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/03/30/e...
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Eastern Counties League Division One South promotion permutations with 3 CCFC games to go - Clapton Community FC
As we enter the last few weeks of the season, the Clapton CFC Men’s First Team have sealed a top three spot.
https://www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/03/30/eastern-counties-league-division-one-south-promotion-permutations-with-5-ccfc-games-to-go/
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