The "Krampus" begin prowling parts of Europe this week as traditional & seasonal reminders for people to ‘be good’ An antihero who ‘seeks to prevent children from becoming spoiled by rampant consumerism flowing from the economics of Christmas,’ Charles Freger imaged these in Austria:

We are not safe. This is an emergency. Watch this summary of the UK National Emergency Briefing. youtu.be/8sa7uh192r0?... @nebriefing.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @scientistsforxr.earth

Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

🏛️ THIS is real Democracy. No Lords, Lobbyists, or Politicians in sight. Day one of @HouseOfPeopleUK was incredible. 100 ordinary people from across the UK building a National Charter. People are angry, but they are united. Donate to build momentum: www.houseofthepeople.uk/donate

Will your community be ready when the time comes? Organise an assembly in your neighbourhood. You’ll get to know your neighbours, increase community cohesion, and you’ll be sowing the seeds of direct democracy as the alternative to fascism when the shit hits the fan. @timetoassemble.bsky.social

Women co-lead every assembly. Minorites - Christians, Arabs, Yazidis, Assyrians - are guaranteed leadership roles and given the first chance to speak. This is how you unify people, prevent conflicts and make better decisions.

What is really fuelling humanity's destruction? According to Bookchin, it's the belief that we are in control of nature instead of being part of it. Trapped in concrete cities, we are alienated from ourselves and the natural world.

Bookchin said democratic decisions should be made by local communities, not distant political elites. Like in the villages of Ancient Greece where everyone (OK, not the women or slaves) took turns making political decisions. This idea can unite disaffected people on the left AND the right.

It's the wokest place in the world. 👩🏾 Women co-lead everything. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Communities make decisions for themeslves. 💰 No-one pays taxes. 🤝🏾 Prisons are being replaced with mediation. But now Islamists are trying to abolish it. This is the story of Rojava. �

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

The reality today is that only 8% of the countryside is open to public access, and only 3% of our rivers, with around 20 million people living more than 15 minutes from access to nature. Access under CRoW is a postcode lottery, with over 100 constituencies left with no access land at all.

The Countryside Right of Way (CRoW) Act succeeded in giving partial access across the nation.

Oh thats a Dub. Especially when the front quote of your “capitalism will fix climate change” book is by *bill gates*. #agedlikemilk

Thats strange because its a terrible one paragraph explanation of ‘innovation’ Consumers arnt being “showered with products and services beyond their dreams.” Lol. We are paying more for water, healthy food, decent housing. While plastic crap, that gives us cancer, and Ai is shoved down our throats

Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017

Seeing a new leader mock the old puritanical self-destroying “left”, who’ve wasted 20 years worrying about which words are mean and gatekeeping ‘the good guys’, rather than fighting the acceleration of fascism, inequality, nature death, and dark money corrupted politics - fills my heart with hope.

Hope is here. Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️

“saying they are going to help save the bee by encouraging all the farmers who supply them to keep more hives. This was, he went on, akin to trying to reverse bird declines by keeping more chickens”

The judge due to rule on the proscription of Palestine Action is swapped last minute for a panel that includes a judge with a history of working for the government and another who ruled in favour UK selling jets to Israel. Accusations of a “stitch-up”. novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...

A lot to unpack there, but imo most people want to do the right thing by the future, but don't have the time or head space to understand what's really going on. They wrongly believe the lies they're fed, and presume if climate breakdown was serious, governments and the media would be freaking out.

>As of 2022, most of the fish that humans eat are not caught wild from the ocean but raised on fish farms, which are so cruel they have been widely dubbed by animal welfare advocates as “underwater factory farms.”

"Juries are not the cause of the backlog. The cause is the systematic underfunding and neglect that has been perpetrated by this government and its predecessors for years." Obviously!

“The younger generation is the most ecologically informed ever." They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.” The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.

Debate today with a Labour MP on the economy. Also with a former advisor to George Osborne. Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system. Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼 youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...

“The entire financial system, including government bonds & mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.” - One of the aspects making climate policy more important, paradoxically, the more publicly ignored

and also of course delighted to see this excellent 2022 @thebulletin.org article—about what happens when the Earth gets too hot for animals (livestock, wildlife, humans) to survive—get a well-deserved mention thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...

Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names. "Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond." Please share with your MP #NEB2025

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?

"...Mass mortality events remain plausible at near-future temperatures* despite current adaptations to heat." *...for instance "comparable to peak COVID-19 mortality in Europe, and not substantially reduced by climate adaptation currently observed across Europe". www.nature.com/articles/s41...

That's the first 'human' death. There have been plenty of wild and domestic bird deaths (and the more virulent strains like H5N1 and H5N5 developed in domestic poultry)... Shifts to plant-based diets could greatly help reduce the risks of zoonotic pandemics.

Given that the words "information integrity" were followed by, effectively, science denial in the #COP30 text, that is not a win but rather a co-opting of the language folks are trying to use to fight climate disinfo. drilled.ghost.io/there-can-be...

EU commission president von der Leyen said today the EU isn't fighting fossil fuels, only the *emissions* from fossil fuels total nonsense, we can't separate fossil fuels from carbon emissions even IF we could, they're a disaster for health, nature & human rights even before you burn them #COP30

What is today's best example of soft denialist rhetoric?

!!! An advanced civilisation is one that realises it does not need to conquer the stars. Or conquer anything at all. One that creates a functionally permanent state of ecological abundance and personal wellbeing. None of which needs spaceships. If anything, needs them out the picture

Next up, CO₂ does not cause climate change.

At next week's budget, we're calling on the Chancellor to: 1. Recognise that nature - more of it, and better access to it - will boost the economy and could save the NHS billions of pounds

Nature isn’t a “blocker” – it makes our lives better. Our coast, countryside, heritage and wildlife underpin our food, water and health and put millions of pounds into the economy. The Government must not weaken the laws that protect them.

Ahem www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Academics need to quit publishing with these commercial behemoths (Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Routledge, etc) and support university nonprofit presses instead.

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth Chief Seattle

I prioritise BOTH. And you? Because if you're foolish enough to think it's one or the other, you should understand that killing off nature will be the death of us too.

UK govt's war on bats & newts - update UK Govt still sees this war as necessary to unblock infrastructure projects But the Environmental Audit Committee of MPs, said nature was being scapegoated, wasn't a block to growth, and is necessary for resilient towns www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Climate change is already biting.” The outgoing Broads Authority chief, Dr John Packman, warns Norfolk’s wetlands can’t be saved by resisting the sea. Read this informative interview with him ⤵️

COP30 is being flooded by fossil fuel lobbyists — more than any country delegation except Brazil. While other parties take their money, we never will. Help us stand up to dirty fossil fuel money and demand real climate leadership. Donate today.

When the obvious is ignored, perhaps look for ulterior motives. Politicians should be defined as people representing the people. Neoliberal-captured puppets are not politicians. www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

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