Friend of a friend is fundraising to meet her housing crisis needs. www.gofundme.com/f/please-hel...

An excellent article on resisting AI in schools: “It took software developers in an METR study who used AI tools 19 percent more time to do their work. Nevertheless, because they expected to save time, they believed their work had been sped up by 20 percent.” (Via @allisonpugh.bsky.social)

"Since 2025, the Israeli army has demolished approximately 2,000 housing units belonging to 2,000 families in Tulkarem's two refugee camps." "Our neighbors, our families, our sad and happy memories — all of it is being erased." #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #Housing #EthnicCleansing

"The war has destroyed everything, and many have lost their lives just to survive.My family & I rely on your support to stay warm, safe, and hold on to life.Only $450 remains for my husband’s surgery, and if he does not have it urgently, he will lose his leg or his life." chuffed.org/project/omsham

France has Europe's only truly independent (of the US) nuclear deterrent. #justsaying

Unbelievably accurate www.instagram.com/reel/DTGYPn-...

Virgin Active decided to restrict changing room access based on 'biological sex'. We're acting for, and financially supporting, a non-binary transmasculine person and a trans woman who are suing it for breaching the Equality Act. We've published the Letter Before Action.

Ireland has one of the world's highest concentrations of data centers. The expansion has reshaped the grid & deepened fossil fuel use. As the EU pushes to triple data center capacity, Ireland offers a warning, writes Louis Boyd-Madsen. Read our investigation with @algorithmwatch.org:

Rethinking Schools published my article about pushing back on some of the arguments made by those seeking to rush AI tools into schools.

"An actuarial review of key #climate change assumptions shows we may have seriously underestimated the rate of warming as well as the related economic impacts. Unless we rapidly change course, climate damages will start to impact growth & future prosperity" #ClimateEmergency

You can believe both (1) Big Tech is evil and needs to be properly regulated and (2) putting the blame for the crisis in adolescent mental health wholly on Big Tech is awfully convenient for a Government that seems determined to ignore the real problems young people face. You can, and I do.

Climate threats are significantly worse than thought even a few years ago - with 2°C now likely by 2050 without much more urgent action. Government now needs to: 1️⃣ To tell the public 2️⃣ Pass emergency legislation MPs: Please sign the Parliamentary Call for a televised emergency briefing 👇

Folks, this deep pit in interior Alaska, swallowing the ground and mature trees, developed over a week or two as permafrost became unstable. Imagine what will happen to the North with prolonged warmth and warm rainfall.

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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

Poor George by James Supercave only gets more relevant with time

So to be clear we have actually reached the point where NATO states are deploying tripwire forces to deter *another NATO state* from invading *another NATO state.* I struggle to communicate the strategic and just regular insanity of this moment.

Please continue to support our friend Aseel and her family. You can help her by signing up for a recurring dollar amount for her campaign, and with a share, to widen the reach. I appreciate any support from you. Thank you.

“Are you yelling at reporters as if they were politicians? There’s hope: Bluesky-itis is treatable. Ask your doctor about Logging Off for a Little Bit. In studies, people who took Logging Off for a Little Bit had 36% fewer incidents of yelling at reporters as if they did the thing in the story.”

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

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Discrimination law should mean that people have their rights protected *regardless* of their sex, not because of a defined category of sex they fall into. The terrible notion of "sex-based rights" is exactly how we have ended up in such a terrible legal position in the UK.

Oil services giant SLB to pounce on Trump’s Venezuela opening ft.trib.al/FFGiwee

Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ICE agents are fucking stealing and selling peoples’ PHONES

They are building this massive new data science and AI institute (that will house 100 faculty) next door to the department that studies climate change (which, checks notes, has 15ish faculty) in a building that is non-functional most days. Which says just about every fucking thing about 2026.

This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication. I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵

"Continued solar and storage growth would avoid the use of 29 billion cubic feet of natural gas, which is equivalent to 25% of the natural gas currently used by the Massachusetts electric sector." A couple of years ago no one was talking about residential storage being widely used.

trying to prioritize paying for this so i can start the classes as soon as possible, because december bills are looming and i keep pushing it for later to pay bills. any help is appreciated 💜💚 C - $permanentalien V - @permanentalien PP - @AlyssumBorges gofund.me/982b699b or wovenalyssum.com

Mr Beast said he’s “cash poor”, despite having the net worth of a billionaire. “No one ever believes anything I say because they’re like, ‘you’re a billionaire.’ I’m like, that’s net worth. Actually I have negative money right now.” Billionaires borrow money to spend because debt doesn’t get taxed.

I am a mother of five kids and suffer from a heart valve prolapse. The rainstorm destroyed our tent and we are now homeless, exposed to the rain and wind without shelter. Please help my kids with $150 to buy a tent. They cry in the rain Verified @mommunism.bsky.social chuffed.org/project/1574...

Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here

I'm not convinced birth rates are a problem but if they are, making it so that it doesn't cost an insane amount of money to have kids, raise kids, send kids to school, educate kids, and keep them housed and healthy would seem to be step one. There you go, leftists talking about birth rates!

Clips from Professor @mikebernerslee.bsky.social's powerful opening & closing statements at the National Emergency Briefing. "We are asking for a WW2 level of leadership. Leadership, as if the survival of our society depends on it... because it does." #NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing

A low-pressure system is tearing our tent apart, and the wind and rain are drowning us. We are dying, and no one is looking at us Link support 🙏 chuffed.org/project/ahme...

Adding on to what the other person said, her wife has been encouraging people to donate to other victims of ICE. This is a fundraiser started by Keith Porter's parents to support his daughter. He was shot an killed by an off duty ice officer on New Years Eve. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45

Today I'll be chairing London's Fire Committe. Today's investigation is on mental health. 👇🏼

🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero 1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system 2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free 3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us" 4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous 5) That's it! 1/10

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid

Criticism, opposition and activist pushback against the excessive and unjustified over-deployment of genAI matters. If you want proof, here's two ultra-rich and unstoppably successful tech CEOs begging us to stop gizmodo.com/jensen-huang...

Here, we have the professional TERF, Maya Forstater, self-promoting her happy solidarity with the neo-Nazi and white supremacist Nina Power. Every TERF is Max Naumann.

Elon Musk says he’s going to file for full custody of his child with Ashley St. Clair after she expressed regret for engaging in transphobia. He also took away her account verification on X. Of note, she has been calling out Musk for enabling Grok to produce child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on X.

So what is REALLY happening? The anti-trans brigade are properly scared that the pathways trial will provide firm evidence of the value of puberty blockers to trans young people. And given it’s the Cass-specified trial, they wouldn’t have an answer to it. Just smell that hair on fire. 🔥

I’m trying to stay sane and for this reason am currently unable to be as engaged about trans issues as I have been since Alice died. However… I’ve seen the petition demanding the UK government bans the puberty blocker trial for trans youth. PLEASE READ ON there’s only one of me but 1000’s of you

I think this column is, basically, completely wrong. There is nothing "amorphous" about the rage directed at Starmer. The left hate him because he keeps kicking their friends in performative cruelty. The right hates him because he feeds their hateful paranoia. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...