"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true

What if we made the panopticon aesthetically pleasing.

I guess I have no choice but to stop everything I'm doing and listen to this then...

Gates and Blair are dangerously wrong and should be ignored on climate.

"We’re facing an era where fools are calling for a renewal of colonialism, where descriptions of violence and instability draw on the very colonial language of “barbarism” and “backwardness”. - Aimé Césaire

Those lovely folk at China Blue in Totnes are having a party tonight and you’re invited! Choir, free mulled wine and a collection to support our work. See you there🎄🤶 www.facebook.com/share/17hfE8...

This account is a bot.

This is superb.

I've got a bike you can ride it if you like, it's got a basket, a bell that rings, and things that make it look good.

I want to know from anyone with dealings with these people if the face MBS makes when Trump says "He didn't know anything about it." has any particular cultural significance in the Middle East (1m18s mark). To me it is the face of a guilty man scoffing at his own ability to lie to Dictator Don.

I see posts like this and yes it's awful - and did you work out yet they *want you flying blind* and there are reasons, even if you didn't get informed. And maybe that's something to consider.

Many many thanks to everyone who has donated and/or reposted - I really appreciate your help. The colonoscopy is next Tuesday, so if you could see your way clear to reposting/donating, I would be extremely grateful.

Peak Micro$oft

Carbon Brief has started a sweepstake on when the gavel will formally come down on COP30. No prize on offer - just the global bragging rights when we announce the winner(s) on social media. If you want to have a go, please enter your guess at the precise day/time here… bit.ly/CBCOP30Socia...

Omg this is the most wholesome thing I've ever seen in my life. I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING. youtube.com/shorts/IcICQ...

"I no longer believe that freedom and Peter Thiel's are compatible." ~ Yours Truly.

It was a tad controversial to be murdered in cold blood by Trump's guest.

You clearly aren't paying attention. This "immigration issue" is entirely created by the people who hold private capital (Sorry if you don't like left-wing terminology) There is no issue. Immigration is positive. Borders n3ed to be consigned to history anyway

I am on my knees begging climate people and energy people and housing people to just this once pass the puck to where they are skating to, not where they are at. This is the fight, here. The whole game is physical infrastructure. It is car-enforcing land use all the way down.

Guess I'm now looking for connections in New Orleans.

For those not yet with the program. Graeber nailed it.

“COP30 in Belém may well be remembered as the moment that the world accepted the leading role of China in addressing humanity’s most important challenge.” “China is helping enable the energy transition, while the U.S. tries to force countries to buy U.S. oil and gas. Global trends favor China.”

MeToo did not go far enough. People were saying "MeToo has gone too far" when it had barely just picked up momentum. It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.

The government should be ashamed that its migration policies are being cheered on by Tommy Robinson and Reform. Instead of standing up to anti-migrant hate, this is laying the foundations for the far-right. I questioned the Home Secretary on how she can be proposing such obviously cruel policies.

Suella Mahmood warns of 'dark forces.' “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” - George Orwell, Animal Farm www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

I do hope those sensibles telling me that Labour's new policy was fair and sensible are enjoying Tommy Robinson's endorsement of it this morning. That's who you've joined. Tommy Robinson.

they don’t think we’re people it’s so exhausting not to get to be people, I’m so fucking over it

"Not a penny from the licence payer". #StarmerIsOver

Nationalism is dumb.

Anything climate related in Amsterdam over the next few days?

I would trust China to have all my details rather than this shithead.

"It's not rocket science" is my second favourite expression, after "it's not rocket surgery".

Starmer in crisis after briefings against Streeting backfire" #NovaraLive As useless as a pair of infertile spermatozoa.

100% right. There is so much about this whole BBC saga that is simply mad but Lewis is right that the Corporation now has the chance to take a stand for something important. It should take that opportunity.

Starmer in crisis after briefings against Streeting backfire" #NovaraLive As useless as a pair of infertile spermatozoa.

"It's not rocket science" is my second favourite expression, after "it's not rocket surgery".

Polly is learning to kill feet.

If the universe is a simulation, it's a shit game. If there's a god, he needs to see a psychiatrist before playing creation games again (god is definitely male to have made this shizzle). If it's all a meaningless charade of consciousness playing with itself, please stop the mind games.

Because they know we can solve poverty and planetary problems only by ending plutocracy.

"I know not all plutocrats kill children, but you're wrong. They do." #Revolution

"Because 'China bad'" is not a reason to accept Thiel's electronic collar.

Anything climate related in Amsterdam over the next few days?

Nationalism is dumb.

In case you missed it: Teen Vogue, previously a remarkably useful source of US political news, recently fired all the black women in their organisation and their entire political journalism team. You can unfollow them now; I have.

THIS is the thing. THIS is what we need every government in Europe to wise up to and act against. The chances of our UK government doing anything to inconvenience the international far right by defending & bolstering our institutions against it? Roughly zero.

Protests at #COP30. “‘At last, something has happened here,’ said Juan Carlos Monterrey-Gómez, a Panamanian climate negotiator.” More: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Because 'China bad'" is not a reason to accept Thiel's electronic collar.

"I know not all plutocrats kill children, but you're wrong. They do." #Revolution

Which would be a travesty and a disgrace. But yeah a probable outcome.