Necessary but not sufficient. He knew. And still appointed him. Starmer needs to go.

Contrast @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s clear, calm and consistent message with the absolute panic in Labour. Impressive.

I'd like to take this opportunity to point you towards AI-free independent author and books ... ScarletFerret.com

... yeah yeah yeah but it's the same rule for Prime ministers as it is for the hoi polloi. The real responsibility and decision lay with Starmer. McSweeney falling on his sword shouldn't save the PM.

here's my entry!! #Comics4Liam

Radiation and a cancer ward - letter in the Westmorland Gazette #cancer #radiationlinkeddiseases #sellafield #windscale #radiationfreelakeland #accountability #health #nuclear #cleanenergy radiationfreelakeland.substack.com/p/radiation-...

Fuck. The size of the collapse, and all those lives. Where I live, the loss of miners at the old pits that were here is still commemorated.

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Superb writing, whoever wrote this script did a *fantastic* job. Best piece of marketing I've seen for a looooong time, and *especially* in politics.

don't ask them to help you. there's no real reward to helping n00bs — it's like asking for charity. nerds are motivated by status, so you have to challenge them. this allows them to reinforce their position on the nerd community hierarchy, which makes them feel good.

Whatever you think about politicians, just vote green whenever you get the chance. It's pointless trying to replace Labour with Reform and expect things to get better.

Or, stop buying yoghurt in plastic poison pots and make your own. www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

They do this in nuclear too. Poisoning education and then making focus groups to 'find out what the kids think'.

Degrowth could look like being the only option for many people in Europe and the UK.

"Havering Council unanimously voted to pass ‘Zane’s Law’ last month, which requires local authorities and the Environment Agency to hold public registers of landfill sites." Amazing work from the brilliant @ruthyphro.bsky.social and others.

Shout-out to everyone who's tired as fuck of only seeing the first four lines of this poem shared around.

Listening to the @endsreport.com podcast Eco Chamber last night, and 12 minutes in the bs narrative of 'well its here now, so we better learn to live with it', incl in environmental work drove me back to

A grounded reminder of why Christmas is carnage, to give you strength to resist the urge to join in too hard.

So, what's your Christmas traditional food? When I was a kid, we were brought up on Christmas cake, marzipan, homemade mincemeat and the inevitable massive tin of Roses. But then Morrisons moved in on the edge of town, 5 minutes from our house.

Christmas always amplifies the inequalities, and the consumerism. It isn't just the adverts on TV, dripping with unctuous, artificially perfect food. Or the charity infomercials with starving children that come on just before them. (My 9yo niece pointed out the juxtaposition).

Goodness, and there was Starmer telling Guardian readers that residents doctors were literally killing people with flu, and bringing down the NHS. He must be squirming with embarrassment now. Wait. Oh no, of course not.

I listen to Rachel Donald, James Dyke, Chris Smaje. I'm reading about systems thinking, the history of progress, and the prehistory of humans. There's nothing in any of it that suggests we're going to be okay if we keep clinging to the old ways.

What I find more offensive is that they replaced the original workers by fucking billionaires.

There's this whole narrative going on in the Guardian this week, first about how this next two weeks' flu may break the NHS, with a mention of the planned resident doctor strike, and then Starmer doing a PM-special opinion piece, slagging off the doctors' strike. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Openly identifying as pirates, then

Like the internet isn't broken enough already 🙄

I heard someone say that they weren't concerned about AI surpassing human intelligence with AIG, so much as they were worried that using it now would make us so stupid that we would meet it halfway.

So can we ban Roundup already?

A community of trees holding each other up. Be more tree.

There we are. Right there. If you're wondering why we've got a massive uptick in political decisions that are bad for civilian life, look no further than the needs of our military 🙄

Document reveals approval to harvest remnant old-growth in B.C.’s northwest

Data centres are going to be the pathetic whimper that ends us, if the people in power at a local level don't start reading and understanding the issues more.

Sunil Amrith's book, The Burning Earth, talks abt the hidden migrations of people throughout modern history, who took their lives and their families, and left to make something better for themselves, somehow. The hysteria about immigration lately is bad enough: wait till people really start moving.

Combo of AI, apps that do thinking things, and poor reading skills due to a bizarre pedagogy around reading.

📢 New paper on the impacts of AMOC collapse on European hydroclimate. 🌊 We find an AMOC collapse would exacerbate drought conditions across Europe, linked to reduced precipitation. In combination with climate change droughts are expected to become more frequent and severe. doi.org/10.5194/hess...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

That study lead to ridiculous "an Ice Age cometh" claims in the Murdoch media (NewsCorp). Given their long history of climate science denial, they probably jumped on this opportunity to confuse the public about #GlobalHeating. bsky.app/profile/rahm...

Small nuclear reactors. A fiction. A fantasy born of lobbying, fossil fuel intoxication, and a slavish addiction to ideas of growth. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Posting this to remind myself to update the bit about plastics and landfill. I had totally forgotten about the dumpster fire that is "energy from [plastic] waste". Still can't believe those fuckers are gaily burning plastic in the hopes of eventual carbon capture systems.

Not forgetting that no long-term infrastructure project ever comes in under budget. That £30 billion is just the start.

Love this idea. A for real, for-profit government-run supermarket. Not that the supermarket model is ideal, but where else are city people getting everyday food? Government structures need to change, or be more flexible so that the gaps are addressed, instead of people dropping through the cracks.

The more I read about the climate disaster, the more I wish I didn't know. Today's learning was about how the government believes it can carry on burning 'recovered' plastics for power, if only CCUS can be brought in at scale. I want to make a joke about fantasy books right here, but I'm broken.

At which point does food stop being food? Meals may be the sum of their parts, but do their parts have inherent value if they've been squeezed and powdered beyond the point of recognition? Nutritional value of 0.1g of powdered, defatted soybean?

"Our landmark children’s wellbeing and schools bill is the biggest overhaul of children’s social care in a generation" Uh huh, right. Sure. Yep, the CWS Bill will definitely find all these missing children. Such a relevant quote 🙄🙄

Are any of us ready for even a temporary overshoot in significant enough numbers? theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

"COP30 was supposed to have a big focus on raising funds to help vulnerable nations adapt to climate change. But European nations have undermined these talks and stripped away the protections poor countries were seeking in Belem."

Great analysis of how we can use our consumer power to vote no. And a constant strategy means wholesale lifestyle changes. In the end they are only many small changes for us, but they could make big change at the other end.

Oh, the super clever, ascerbic answers he got to this post. Totally convincing, they were. Climate advocates are definitely allowed to use AI without being hypocrites. And offsets definitely work 🙄

I am sick of these clinical graphical illustrations of nuclear facilities. They just don't bear any resemblance to the reality.