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Herring gull in a trenchcoat | Game designer, artist and writer | They/Them
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George Monbiot
about 18 hours ago
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Todayās column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
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Letās be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/07/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-government
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James Ball
about 18 hours ago
I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grokās mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isnāt about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
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Patrick Galey
about 16 hours ago
If you're angry about the idea of paying for oil company opex in Venezuela to produce petrocaca that the market doesn't need and the climate cannot take, you're going to be furious about the amount you already pay to keep fossil fuel companies even viable
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment
President says a ātremendous amount of moneyā will need to be spent repairing countryās infrastructure
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/trump-us-taxpayers-oil-firms-venezuela-investment
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women
about 17 hours ago
Useful reporting from Translucent. When weāve suggested that trans women donāt pose a risk, people have argued thatās because of under reporting. These FOI requests suggest that might not be the case
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...
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Almost no one is complaining about trans women in women's spaces, study finds - LGBTQ Nation
āThis is a manufactured controversy, not a documented crisis.ā
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almost-no-one-is-complaining-about-trans-women-in-womens-spaces-study-finds/
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The Author, SƩamas O'Reilly
1 day ago
Has just occurred to me that if another globe-spanning mega-conflict does kick off, there'll be an entire cycle of discourse, even as the bombs are flying, bickering over whether or not it's appropriate to call it World War III.
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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy
about 17 hours ago
It's so quaint how in the 90s we worried that kids were gonna get fucked up by tamagotchis and now they're just giving every kid a free robot that generates child porn and tells you how to commit suicide
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Tax Justice UK
about 16 hours ago
The UK & other rich countries just gifted U.S. corporationsā a major exemption from int'l tax rules. The UK was already haemorrhaging an estimated $9 billion a year to tax-cheating US megacorps. š§µHereās what the latest capitulation to Trumpās bullying means... 1/9
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Royce Kurmelovs
1 day ago
There's also an assumption that solar must be built like coal fired power plants when it can be distributed. You can spread solar distribution over existing rooftops, carports, balcony's and combined them with grazing land to provide cover for livestock. You could do more of this if you regulate.
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Royce Kurmelovs
1 day ago
"[Cont'd] amount of energy. Some viable land is open and easy to purchase. Much of it isn't." Now. The issue here is that is false. The second chart Ketan shares here demonstrates:
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Ana Velasco
about 18 hours ago
"They have declared olive trees independent from their inconvenient roots. So many olive trees, inconvenient olive trees with inconvenient roots in an inconvenient land that was cared for by our inconvenient, non-existent grandparents. Why do they hurt olive trees?" Painfully beautiful šļø
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
1 day ago
He's really fine with burning the entire world down rather than face any consequences for his crimes
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Dave Vetter
1 day ago
The justifications for the invasion of Venezuela from both US govt figures and pundits are a reminder that the US political establishment regards *all the world's resources* as belonging to America by divine right.
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J. Mijin Cha
1 day ago
Another reason to end fossil fuel use.
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Phil McDuff
1 day ago
You know when we said it was a bad idea to put these people in charge of all our NHS data?
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Kelly Hereid
1 day ago
I get asked all the time about data needed to make better climate risk decisions Usually not another gridded temp map (sorry) But better adaptation data would help! - Households behind non-accredited levees paid 2x for flood insurance vs accredited levee
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Kathryn Ruud
2 days ago
The whole world should feel the genuine fear she expresses - and we must stand beside her and all who believe in democracy. America has foolishly unleashed a Hitlerian megalomaniac.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
1 day ago
Feels to me like it would be good for organisations that want to remain trans inclusive to contribute to this survey. We will certainly be influenced by the results.
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Exclusion Is Not Inevitable. Silence Is a Choice.
What the data already shows ā and why staying silent is no longer neutral
https://open.substack.com/pub/joannelockwood/p/exclusion-is-not-inevitable-silence?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2hqis
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Dolores DEI
1 day ago
It's honestly stunning just how ill prepared western leaders were for the US turning on them
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Ketan Joshi
3 days ago
This is a nice
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piece about how oil and gas extraction in Iraq is shockingly dirty, inefficient, economically absurd ->
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Big oilās dirty secret in Iraq
Gas flaring is remarkably high in Iraq. The impact this has had on ordinary people and the planet has been obscured. Until now.
https://projects.unearthed.greenpeace.org/big-oil-iraq/
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Peter du Toit
3 days ago
"Oh don't be so pessimistic! We will do something about emissions!" Oh really. UNEP 2025: "To date, no [governments] have set targets to reduce oil and gas production or phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidiesā Now thisšš» We are *firmly* on track to pass 2ĀŗC and more.
#ClimateCrisis
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Erik Hoffner
2 days ago
Miguel Ćngel de la Torre Loranca is a Mexican biologist who kidnapped on November 21 His family received a ransom demand but after an initial payment, communication stopped Since then, there has been no verified information about his whereabouts, please share this along toward finding/freeing him:
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Biologist kidnapped in Mexico
In the mountains of central Veracruz, scientific work is rarely abstract. It means walking narrow paths through cloud forest, speaking patiently with communities, and learning to read landscapes that ...
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/biologist-kidnapped-in-mexico/
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Ketan Joshi
2 days ago
As we've been saying for a while: the "backlash" against climate policies has been wildly, absurdly overstated. This new survey shows how UK MPs badly understate support for climate policies
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Jigar Shah
2 days ago
Oil markets suffer from the same blind spot electricity markets once did: they rarely treat efficiency as a competing resource. China is now taking their domestic success on peak oil demand to 50+ Emerging Markets.
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How China Is Taking its Fight Against Oil Demand on the Road
Most discussions of global oil markets fixate on supply: where the next barrel comes from, how much it costs to extract, and which producer sets the marginal price. That lens is in full force with the...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-china-taking-its-fight-against-oil-demand-road-jigar-shah-p5eke/?trackingId=U%2BEzvV7BQLuQMSaFAyGqPA%3D%3D
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Elliot Njus
2 days ago
What's that quiet?
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Portlandās gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect
For the first two years, gas leaf blowers will be prohibited for nine months out of the year, with the year-round ban starting on Jan. 2028.
https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2026/01/portlands-gas-powered-leaf-blower-ban-goes-into-effect.html
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Climate News
1 day ago
Young women like Greta Thunberg are mostly focused on long term survival of our species while old men like Donald Trump are mostly focused on short term gains for themselves. Generalisations donāt apply to everyone - but there is a definite pattern.
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Jeff Berardelli
8 days ago
Climate change intensifies the water cycle. A generalization: Rich get richer. Poor get poorer. Not always true, but a good rule of thumb.
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force? MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO T: So force is on the table? M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
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Jon Worth
1 day ago
How the mysterious absence of one train on Easter Saturday has led me to reconsider what (printed) train timetables are for A reliable train service needs a way to communicate what is normal to passengers
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Iāve been wrong all these years about printed train timetables (the lessons from a Montbard ā Nuits-sous-RaviĆØres train that doesnāt run)
I am a child of the digital era. When I planned a first Interrail trip in 1999 Deutsche Bahn's website already had a timetable search for pretty much everything (I still have the printouts from back t...
https://jonworth.eu/ive-been-wrong-all-these-years-about-printed-train-timetables-the-lessons-from-a-montbard-nuits-sous-ravieres-train-that-doesnt-run/
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Jan Rosenow
1 day ago
I have been saying this for some time to students seeking career advice: the energy sector is one of the most exciting places to work with a huge transformation taking place right now. Electrification is a game changer and means a redesign of our energy system as we know it.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
1 day ago
Just learning from
@supertanskiiii.bsky.social
(on Insta) about the scale of image based abuse taking place on
X.com
(and elsewhere). We have been working with a leading specialist org to bring legal action for victims. But I also want all men who care about women to call this out as unacceptable.
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muscular baby jeb lund
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you can put any gross caption here and it works. "i'm the reason porn sets have mandatory STI panels," "the urban legend about the guy hiding under your car is real and it's me," "you can get court-martialed for farting on a submarine," all of them true
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Could my life not collapse so spectacularly all at once
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Kat Abughazaleh
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Thatās right!
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molly conger
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itās so important to approach an unpredictable situation with a chill attitude
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Prospect Magazine
3 days ago
It was a little over three years ago that Keir Starmer promised to do away with the House of Lords altogether as part of his plans to restore trust in politics. Now, he's nominating his own (less than stellar) allies, writes
@arusbridger.bsky.social
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The PM vowed to abolish the Lords. Why is he stuffing it with allies?
In Matthew Doyle, we are about to get another less than stellar peer. Now is the time for change
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/westminster/house-of-lords/72007/starmer-vowed-to-abolish-the-lords-why-is-he-stuffing-it-with-allies
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Zack Polanski
1 day ago
Outrageous. Ministers should be listening to scientists, frontline communities and those working towards a green transition ā not hosting the interests of oil giants in their own offices. āš¼ -
@adamramsay.bsky.social
abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/revealed-o...
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Revealed: oil industry lobbyist working inside UKās climate department
Polanski slams arrangement; experts warn of 'corporate infiltration antithetical to democracy'
https://abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/revealed-oil-industry-lobbyist-working
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Paul Bernal
1 day ago
Again, this is inevitable. This is the generative AI that you've been telling us for the last few years is going to make the world a better place. This is what it is.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
1 day ago
in February 2023, the nation's first openly nonbinary state legislator described the death of 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict, and the policy and rhetorical attacks on trans life, as part of a "transgenocide." Mauree Turner stepped down from public office the following year.
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Luke LeBrun
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Mark Carney did not join NATO allies in signing this joint statement reaffirming the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Denmark and Greenland:
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
1 day ago
All this analysis arguing that we should support more oil and gas development and just make clean energy cheap, because we donāt have the power to restrict fossil-fuel supply right now! May I remind the analysts that we donāt have the power to make clean energy cheap in the US either? 1/2
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Mike Murphy
1 day ago
This is I think the fundamental point. If the argument is supporting further fossil fuel build-out is "politically pragmatic" you need to articulate either how this will enable *faster* reductions in future or how politics will be *easier* under additional warming. Otherwise it's just can-kicking
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
1 day ago
It's very easy right now to see the centrist tic of treating oil and gas companies like rational actors innocently trying to maximize their utility instead of authoritarian collaborators who do everything from lying about science to encouraging war in order to maintain their hegemony.
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Zack Polanski
1 day ago
We canāt go on like this. In just two days, the average FTSE 100 CEO has made a median workers full time annual salary. The right calls this āwealth creationā. Itās wealth extraction. Time to tax the rich.
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Fat Cat Day 2026 - High Pay Centre
Data shows the average FTSE 100 CEO will take just over two days to earn the median UK worker's full time annual salary. Median FTSE100 CEO pay amounted to £4.398 million (excluding pension), 113 time...
https://highpaycentre.org/fat-cat-day-2026/
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TACC
1 day ago
We got a 'response' from the BBC, who couldn't be bothered to write more than 3 small paragraphs (153 words) to our letter, and avoided all the points raised. This is why your help is important.
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GLAAD
2 days ago
Nearly three years ago, a coalition of 100+ organizations and leadersāincluding GLAADālaunched a campaign against the
@nytimes.com
ās biased, inaccurate coverage of transgender people. A former NYT editor shares her perspective about what's really going on:
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'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
https://transnews.network/p/a-directive-from-above-former-nyt-editor-lays-out-how-the-paper-pushes-anti-trans-bigotry
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Jolyon Maugham KC
2 days ago
Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.
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Palantir lands biggest ever UK defense deal
The Ā£240 million contract with the Ministry of Defence has renewed a debate about Britainās dependence on American technology.
https://www.politico.eu/article/palantir-lands-biggest-ever-uk-defense-deal/
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Claire Mullaly
1 day ago
āAs a permanent member of the UN Security Council the UK has a duty to protect international law.ā
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The Guardian
2 days ago
FTSE 100 CEOs earn more than average workerās yearly pay by noon on 6 January
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FTSE 100 CEOs earn more than average workerās yearly pay by noon on 6 January
High Pay Centre calculates bosses will pass milestone on third working day of 2026 with median pay of £1,353 an hour The bosses of FTSE 100 companies will have made more money in 2026 before midday on Tuesday than the average worker will all year, according to figures laying bare the yawning income gap. Median annual pay for FTSE 100 chief executives is £4.4m, the High Pay Centre thinktank calculated, 113 times higher than the £39,039 earned by the median full-time worker. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/ftse-100-ceos-earn-more-than-average-worker-yearly-pay-by-noon-on-6-january-2026?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Gabriel Milland
2 days ago
This almost certainly explains why journalists and politicians have remained on Elon's Porno Website. They're not especially interested in talking to the country. They're more interested in talking to their mates.
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rn Hammamšµšø
2 days ago
I am Hammam from Gazašāāļø Today is my birthday, and my family & I are homeless because our tent was destroyed by the rain. šMy birthday wish is that you would stand with me & support us so we can buy a tent that costs $100āŗļø I hope you give me hope life to buy tent Don@tion Linkā¬ļøā¬ļø
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