Sweden: The right wing government gives new fossil subsidies for airlines. What it is to live in the stupidest of times...

The glee with which the transphobic lobby is celebrating this says everything. Nasty, spiteful, and hateful. Shame on anyone bullying this most bullied of communities. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

När det gäller bidrag till fossila bränslen tycks det inte finnas några som helst gränser. De spenderar våra skattepengar.

This...

Motornormativity.. Treating the public road as a dragstrip and thinking it's normal.

"Superpower" Cartoon: Enrico Bertuccioli (Italy)

If flying were a country it would be the fifth largest emitter in the world. Arlanda (Stockholms airport) gives rise to more than double the climate emissions of Stockholm itself.

We strongly condemn the declaration signed today by the Council of Europe.This is a decision which rolls back human rights. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

What you might call an agent for a foreign power...

"Att då ytterligare stimulera efterfrågan på en produkt som vi redan innan denna prisökning borde ha minskat vårt beroende av kan ju ge vem som helst hjärnsläpp."

Så här www.vk.se/2026-05-14/m...

Det var debatt i dag i P1 mellan S och M om "bidragstak". @lindellch.bsky.social lade maa upp detta diagram på LinkedIn. Det var givetvis ingen som nämnde utvecklingen i P1. Diskussionen pågår i en parallell verklighet. Vi avhandlar det och "bidragstak" i vår bok. press.volante.se/posts/pressr...

Wes Streeting just gave your address, your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, if you are cis or trans, if you've ever had an abortion, an addiction, are disabled in anyway and a million other pieces of info about you, to a far right tech company the UK government has no control over.

Knock me down with a feather... He told the truth 😯

When election after election produces the same distorted outcomes, local elections can start to feel less like a meaningful expression of voters’ choices and more like a lottery shaped by the quirks of the voting system. electoral-reform.org.uk/voters-in-en...

Great thread as always from Doctorow here, this time on systems theory and how it applies to our current political landscape. When I was in the PhD program, my dissertation was going to be centered on modeling violent extremist groups as complex adaptive systems in order to better combat them.. 1/2

Because I guarantee you, if your small world feels better, your outlook on the wider one will feel better too. It has absolutely ruined us being this 'connected', and uninformed about absolutely everything. And the powerful are relying on it and preying on it.

Sweden, and the number of electric buses in service is rising rapidly - 900 new buses in a year bringing the total to over 2200. More than a fifth of buses now use electricity.

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What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

This is marvellous. Proponents of PR win council despite only polling fourth. Opponents of PR all outraged… 🤣

Drastic action is not possible without widespread acceptance of the climate crisis. This means people need to be aware and talk about it in clear language. Else we'd be left with minor tweaks and rolled back policies when in reality, decarbonisation of entire industrial sectors requires a lot more

Mera svenska värderingar....

Tänk om vi hade ledarskap som står upp för palestinierna istället för att överge dem.

Work requirements for benefits is *literally* the government forcing taxpayers to subsidize exploitative employers who would otherwise let their employees starve

Dear @mattpope.bsky.social - I don't know if you're aware of this but as vice-chair of the Board of Trustees for Sussex Past you might want to ask some questions about this questionable development. This account is such a great advert for Fishbourne and a model for public engagement by museums.

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.

Those microplastics from tires and such don’t just pollute & prematurely kill us. They’re also fuelling the climate crisis. Scientists found that “tiny, colored plastic particles absorb sunlight as winds blow them around the world, trapping heat and contributing to temperature rise.” #ClimateCrisis

I wish reporters would stop saying stuff like 'Scientists say we need to rapidly decarbonise to avoid catastrophic global heating' And simply say 'we need to rapidly decarbonise to avoid catastrophic global heating' It's not an opinion, it's a fact

"I was once given £5 million by a crypto billionaire and claimed it was a non-political personal gift and that he wanted nothing in return"

Climate action supporters bring you falling prices for solar, wind, and batteries. "Drill baby drill" folks bring you war, death, supply chain disruption, and price spikes. Yes, the climate crisis imposes some energy transition costs. It is not our fault. We can handle it. Let's get to it.

I think all the time about how Nazi Germany needed to be put down violently and at great cost whereas we could stop Israel just by turning off the tap of weapons and aid. And how every day we choose not to do that.

In 1982 Margaret Thatcher cutoff weapons to Israel because they invaded Lebanon. Today Israel are invading Lebanon and instead of banning weapons to Israel they are trying to ban Palestine marches.

Europe needs stronger social media regulation, and it has nothing to do with censorship. We just need total transparency on the algorithms. We have the right to know exactly what these platforms are pushing into our feeds and why

A statue commemorating immigration. How times change....

There's a special place in hell..... Sweden to deport a sick 95 year old to Iraq after 20 years in Sweden, despite all her family being in Sweden. Unfathomable bureaucratic inhumanity

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

#Israel #Gaza #shiptogaza

Yes: but being a “good citizen” involves understanding the extent to which our history is not a single narrative (narrative written by whom and to what end?) but a contestable and contested story about which we as citizens have to make up our own minds.

In the next three years I expect we'll see Americans scrambling to see if treatment with leeches will be covered by their insurance. Something, something, #meritocracy

Exploitative pricing.. when the seller knows just how much you want or need their product and just how much you are able to pay. Another must read on how technology is screwing over consumers.

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

Doubleplus good 🥺

Maybe the US would like to have a king after all?

Vad märkligt då att arbetslösheten idag är nästan 10% trots att utveckling för a-kassan sett ut så här:

a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

“A newly released manifesto from the @ecf.com European Cyclists Federation & its partners lays out a 10-point plan to dramatically scale up cycling across the continent—positioning it not as a niche lifestyle choice but as critical infrastructure in a time of crisis.” momentummag.com/the-energy-c...