Ian Wilson
@greenmen.org.uk
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Refugee from Twitter. Computer scientist, photographer, dogaholic. Retired, thank goodness.
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I have been contemplating posting something similar to this, but why bother when Eileen (no relation) has done it so eloquently. Every word 👇🏻
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amanda moore 🐢
about 10 hours ago
Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.
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Reform Party UK Exposed
37 minutes ago
It is time for Nigel Farage to put his money where his mouth is. Release your tax returns, Nigel. Anyone claiming they aspire to be British Prime Minister should adhere to the highest standards of transparency.
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Sign the Petition
Urge Nigel Farage to Release His Tax Returns
https://www.change.org/p/urge-nigel-farage-to-release-his-tax-returns
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The Bear
about 21 hours ago
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has a massive problem with women, and
@carolvorders.bsky.social
helped expose exactly how deep it runs. No wonder they’re furious - she made them look small, cowardly and contemptuous.
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Sunday Long Read: Carol Vorderman Made Reform Look Small
One by-election exposed a wider pattern: contempt dressed as banter, grievance dressed as common sense, and "protection" offered without rights.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/sunday-long-read-carol-vorderman
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Chris Rivers
about 22 hours ago
In Spain today: installation of solar panels above major irrigation channels. Channels of more than 100 kms transport water from dams to farmland. - Reduces evaporation -Provides large agricultural areas with power & supports irrigation -Decreases use of water in food production, doubling the crop.
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RareBirdAlert
10 days ago
More vultures dead as Africa's poisoning crisis worsens Vulture Conservation Foundation reports that two separate incidents in Botswana and Senegal have added to a growing toll of vulture deaths across Africa in 2026.
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/M...
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More vultures dead as Africa's poisoning crisis worsens
Vulture Conservation Foundation reports that two separate incidents in Botswana and Senegal have added to a growing toll of vulture deaths across Africa in 2026
https://www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/More_vultures_dead_as_Africas_poisoning_crisis_worsens.aspx
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Dale Vince
1 day ago
The one thing we all need, to get energy bills down, permanently - is something we can't do ourselves. We need government to ‘break the link’ - the link which allows the global price of gas to set the price of our own wind and sun.
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Prem Sikka
1 day ago
Trump threatens 100% import tariff on European countries levying digital tax on US companies. So, UK can't impose digital tax on Apple, Google, Meta, eBay, Amazon even though they make profits in the UK. The felon thinks he is Master of the Universe. Govts should develop homegrown alternatives.
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Trump threatens 100% tariff on European digital services taxes
The US president says "Numerous European countries" have been discussing bringing in such a levy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4rd71411ko
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Robin Ince
3 days ago
Very proud of
@trunkmanuk.bsky.social
‘s incredible work with
@cosmicshambles.com
and creating this amazing documentary series
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music review – it’s amazing that this staggering show exists
Charlotte Ritchie presents a wildly ambitious and unapologetically brainy YouTube documentary that takes in Big Bang soundwaves, singing dolphins and an astonishing amount in between. Don’t miss it fo...
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jun/25/for-the-record-an-incomplete-history-of-music-review-youtube-documentary
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Parody Nigel Farage
1 day ago
In 1976 we didn't let a bit of hot weather bring life to a standstill. I was at school and can distinctly remember carrying on racially abusing other pupils as usual.
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Parody Nigel Farage
2 days ago
Me relaunching my media appearances this week:
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The Bear
2 days ago
He can fuck straight off.
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Reform Party UK Exposed
1 day ago
Farage pocketing £5m from a crypto billionaire makes the MPs expenses scandal look like chicken feed
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Farage pocketing £5m makes the MPs expenses scandal look like chicken feed
American politics can, notoriously, be bought. It’s time for the leader of Reform to provide the truth about his own finances to show Britain is not going down the same route, writes Alan Rusbridger
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-donation-crypto-reform-b3003688.html
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Mary L Trump
2 days ago
Albanian Protests
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Pete Buttigieg
2 days ago
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-203734900
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East Anglia Bylines
2 days ago
Imagine supermarket, hospital and station car parks that: ☀️ Keep cars cooler in summer. ☔ Keep people drier in winter. ⚡ Generate renewable electricity. Britain considered making it happen. It quietly decided not to.
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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/as-britain-bakes-ministers-quietly-park-plans-for-solar-carports/
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Sarah Murphy
2 days ago
“Even by his own standards, Farage seemed unusually irritable and fractious this week at the impertinent assumption that standing for high office goes hand in hand with transparency. Maybe he’s beginning to acknowledge that this democracy lark is not his thing”
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Al Ryan
2 days ago
The end of an era - After almost a century we said goodbye this morning to our great companion of the airwaves Radio 4 198 LW. I shall miss her warmth and crackle. Here’s the final sign off at the end of
#theshippingforecast
before she fell silent… ❤️
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The Cosmic Shambles Network
3 days ago
Episode 2 at 9pm night. Here's some of the stuff we explore with Charlotte Church, Donald Harrison Jr,
@drdeanburnett.bsky.social
, Grace Petrie,
@sparksmaths.bsky.social
, Sanju Sahai and more!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZHC...
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For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music - Part Two | Presented by Charlotte Ritchie
YouTube video by The Cosmic Shambles Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZHCvjUpciI
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James O’Brien
3 days ago
A thousand times this. The BBC would also benefit from not giving a shit what the Daily Mail has to say about anything.
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Stop Funding Heat
3 days ago
GB News gives its take on climate change. This is what a propaganda campaign looks like. Who'd have guessed that the GB News co-owner runs a hedge fund with massive investments in oil and gas?
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
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James O’Brien
3 days ago
And there it is…
www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
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Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/reform-uk-nigel-farage-millions-donations-fossil-fuel-interests-climate-science-deniers/
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Prof Christina Pagel
2 days ago
this is exciting and goes some way to countering
@rory-stewart.bsky.social
worries about always needing fossil fuel/nuclear backups to renewables. Also important to strengthen network so that renewable electricity from one region can be shunted to another region easily
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Sir Michael Take CBE
3 days ago
I’ve been given £5m by a cryptocurrency millionaire so my wife Bunty & I will be taking a break. We’re off to buy Ferraris, hire security & tell anyone who asks to bugger off as it’s none of their bloody business.🤬 Off to the South Pole to escape the socialist heat. Back Monday!
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Marc Veldhoen
4 days ago
Let's be very clear, this 👇, is total nonsense. This is flat-out misinformation. The case involved a terminally ill child with unbearable suffering, under strict legal oversight. Multiple doctors, parental consent, and last-resort criteria apply. This is not “murder.” 1/4
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 days ago
Fauci needs to sue this man into bankruptcy, if only to dissuade the other inveterate liars of this administration.
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Helen Czerski
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I think that there is a very fundamental reason why AI (any of its manifestations) can't and shouldn't be left to "do" critical thinking. The foundation for critical thinking is a set of values, and values are a human responsibility & a very human thing. They cannot be out-sourced. [1/n]
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo
4 days ago
FACT CHECK This is a Member of the Welsh Senedd and Reform's Welsh shadow minster for "Fairness, Families and Communities". This is not "normal British summer". Yesterday the UK experienced its hottest June day on record.
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Juraj Mikurcik
4 days ago
This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.
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Natasha Devon
4 days ago
I work in education and media so I know what it’s like to be in a poorly ventilated room with 30 kids of different needs trying to teach them stuff and I know what it’s like to sit in an air conditioned studio pontificating. I say ppl who do the latter should STFU about ppl who do the former.
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Michael Savage
4 days ago
The story of social media’s problem with news, in two posts (these are from X)
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Sir Michael Take CBE
4 days ago
Who I blame for all this ghastly hot weather: Keir Starmer Andy Burnham Lazy teachers BBC Meghan Markle Ange Postecoglou Mounjaro Jude Bellingham Matcha Chat GPT Hydration breaks Spiteful class warriors Call The Midwife Women who vape Langoustines That Norwegian rowing chant. 😡
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Heather Anne Campbell
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can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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About time too. The way in which the mainstream media are trivialising the current situation is a complete scandal.
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Full Fact
5 days ago
The UK Statistics Authority has written to Kemi Badenoch today, following our fact check of her inaccurate claim that the total welfare bill is now higher than income tax receipts “for the first time ever”. We hope she will correct the record soon.
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Statistics watchdog challenges Badenoch over welfare claim after Full Fact intervention – Full Fact
The UK Statistics Authority has called on the Conservatives to “clarify” the inaccurate claim in their Alternative King’s Speech
https://fullfact.org/economy/statistics-watchdog-challenges-badenoch-over-welfare-claim-after-full-fact-intervention/
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Jemma Forte
5 days ago
Still, all the billionaires who don’t give a stuff about climate change, have air con. So that’s nice for them
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Emma Monk
5 days ago
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
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Katie Martin
5 days ago
I don't have anything profound to say about the 10-year anniversary of the Brexit vote. Brexit was always going to be shit, was shit, and now continues to be shit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Niall Harbison
5 days ago
My only non negotiable is that I start my day feeding the 80 street dogs in Thailand. I've so many bigger things to do for the charity and scaling up but this is the part I'll never give up. It's one hour of the day but it keeps my heart full and depression at bay!
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The London Economic
5 days ago
"He's had a milkshake thrown at him, Jo Cox and David Amess were murdered - the man is a whining coward." Read more:
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Leo Hickman
5 days ago
Also see letter by Sir Brian Hoskins in today's Times...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Russ Jones
5 days ago
A reminder of this day in 2016, from The Decade In Tory
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Abbey
5 days ago
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Parody Nigel Farage
5 days ago
On the 10th anniversary of Brexit, I'm celebrating with everyone who thinks it was a great idea that worked really well.
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WeRateDogs
5 days ago
This is Lady and Piper. Lady really loves playing fetch. Maybe even enough for the two of them. 13/10 for both (TT: rachaelsteinle)
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Parody Nigel Farage
5 days ago
Back together again - the 'Bad Boys of Brexit' Or the 'rich entitled lying grifting pricks' as they are better known.
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Sarah Murphy
5 days ago
“Britain is only going to move on when it starts realising it’s one little cog in a whole load of cogs that make up the EU, that make up global geopolitics, and the UK on its own, not being a cog anywhere, is really unwise” “Independence Day” How bloody stupid.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘A total, utter nightmare’: small businesses on Brexit, 10 years on
Cheesemakers, farmers, exporters and wine merchants say red tape, lack of vision and rising costs mean they have stopped trading, sold up or retired early
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/24/a-total-utter-nightmare-small-businesses-on-brexit-10-years-on?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
5 days ago
It's not easy being green
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Parody Nigel Farage
5 days ago
Yesterday I repeatedly said I was the most attacked MP in the UK. Which is true if you don't count the two who were killed, or those attacked with a sword or who had their offices set on fire and if you only count 'attacks' with milkshakes or eggs.
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Mary L Trump
5 days ago
Stock Market
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
5 days ago
Everything is made better by adding googly eyes!
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