I've decided that I am taking a complete social media break from now until September, because – why not?

Paris, 2015 - world leaders pose for the cameras, pledging to keep global warming below 1.5C. Paris, 2026 - 40C heat in June as the world passes 1.5C, with 2C now inevitable & 3C & 4C likely in our children’s lifetimes. The greatest failure in the history of our species.

Big story from me and Aman Sethi about Palantir today. The headline should speak for itself. www.opendemocracy.net/exclusive-ho...

Appropriate design of both buildings and cities could avoid the need for most powered heating and cooling. But here too, Europeans need to get over their unwarranted, colonial sense of superiority, and learn from Indigenous people and the Majority World. e.g. www.archdaily.com/971216/what-...

This is what they said about Jews. This is what they said about Italians. This is what they said about the Irish. He is definitely done being careful; the House Majority Whip has decided to go back to 1920s nativism, full stop.

#Canada financing #genocide and #ecocide.

Our site was hacked earlier this week & this important blog post by ‘Lisa’ about #spycops so-called 'genuine feelings' hadn't been backed up. Reposted here. Please share. policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/genuine-feel...

Canadians may feel smug because the #USA has Trump, but #Canada is not fundamentally any better than the USA.

At this point, advocating #fossilfuel expansion or even just business-as-usual, is promoting genocide and ecocide. I do not say this either to exaggerate or as an analogy. I mean it literally and very seriously.

At this point, advocating #fossilfuel expansion or even just business-as-usual, is promoting genocide and ecocide. I do not say this either to exaggerate or as an analogy. I mean it literally and very seriously.

The Met Police have announced a major expansion of facial recognition 👁️ The use of this flawed and discriminatory tech still lacks oversight, putting our rights on the back foot. We should be able to walk down the street with a full expectation of privacy and not being ID’d at every step.

All of the climate denier goblins who orchestrated and enabled fossil fuel burning are now blaming the impacts of their actions on not enough air conditioning

It's just one long stream of BS from these fossil fuel-backed clowns. Adopting their policies would destroy a million jobs (see next post) while creating almost none in return. Total environmental and social vandalism. The absolute state of "conservatism". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I saw a kid/teen ________________ (insert complaint about kids/teen existing in the public realm doing basically anything kids do) Then say: Kids just don't go outside now, when we were young we were outside all day and got up to all sorts of hilarious trouble.

@citizenlab.ca analysed Russian activist Andrey Pivovarov’s phone, finding that 🇷🇺authorities used forensic extraction tools by Cellebrite to gain access to his device & continued to use them for political repression even after the company had cancelled its contracts. citizenlab.ca/research/rus...

🧵NEW: For more than a decade, police in South West England have been quietly experimenting with algorithms to score thousands of people. Most of them didn't know anything about it. Over two years, me and Mark Wilding investigated the messy setup, multiple parts have now been scrapped

Right now I'm in the epicentre of the heatwave, in southwest France, where the brutality of the heat has ground life to a halt. And I have to keep reminding myself: this is only the beginning.

Can I just say how fucking wild it is that a man travelled to Montreal, booked a hotel room across from the Pornhub offices, fired BULLETS INTO THE WINDOWS OF PORNHUB, killed two bystanders and the Guardian does not mention Pornhub or WHY HE WAS THERE. Even as they warn against "copycat attacks."

This is absolutely crucial. Platform capital is trying to make this a choice between stopping the #climatecrisis and accelerating #AI development. We should take them at their word... and stop the construction of planet-hostile #datacenters.

So-called surveillance advertising, which places ads based on individual online behavior, will also be banned from targeting children. The policy will take effect within a year. Read the full story: www.semafor.com/article/06/2...

Can you blame climate scientists for getting disgusted with politicians?: Climate scientists appalled by politicians' refusal to accept responsibility as heatwave hits France www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...

Hahahaha. WTF “Starting June 23rd, Google’s expanding its facial recognition feature so that people you’ve tagged in your Familiar Faces library can continue to be identified when their faces aren’t clearly visible, using ‘additional non-biometric signals (body size, clothing color, etc.).’”

How average and extreme summer temperatures are changing in Western Europe. Graph: Robert Rohde. This will continue until we reach net zero emissions, whether you like it or not: it’s physics. @rarohde.bsky.social

I have many questions... #police #drones

The #surveillance habits of predators...

The Prairieland 8 are political prisoners. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Cars have grown 1.2cm longer, 0.5cm taller and 0.5cm wider each year on average since 2000, in what green groups call “relentless carspreading”. The increase in size “leaves people more likely to be killed in a crash and increases emissions that hurt lungs and heat the planet.” #CarSpreading

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Quite obviously freaked about being called in front of a Democratic congress in 2027.

Too many people have the idea that #surveillance is about the gathering and processing of information. But it's *never* just been about that. Often, the main purpose is Intimidation and internalization of control, reducing the ability and willingness to think, organize, act and fight back.

'But archaeology can be of the living, not just of the dead, and this means it's inextricably linked with the future'. 🧪 🏺 🔭

Brilliant new special issue of Surveillance & Society on “Resisting Surveillance Through Data Visibility and Invisibility.” Guest edited by Natasha Tusikov, Merouan Mekouar, & Francesco Cavatorta... #surveillance #data #visibility #resistance ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Yesterday was likely the hottest day in France since the last interglacial (125,000 years ago). There is going to be some terrible human news from this… #NothingToSeeHere #MoveRightAlong

Pakistani rights activist Mahrang Baloch sentenced to life in prison reut.rs/4w8kcCh

GASLIT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2L2...

Just because there have been some reversals like Hungary, this does not mean that support for the #Far-Right in #Europe has stopped growing. And let's not forget that this is only aided by conventional parties moving their policies towards the far-right. #Fascism has to be fought not accommodated.

It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero

Brilliant new special issue of Surveillance & Society on “Resisting Surveillance Through Data Visibility and Invisibility.” Guest edited by Natasha Tusikov, Merouan Mekouar, & Francesco Cavatorta... #surveillance #data #visibility #resistance ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Goddess grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to remember that someone is always wrong on the internet...

You know, it doesn't actually make any difference that a violent incel misogynist is somewhat articulate, you still don't have to hand it to him, especially after he's just tried to shoot a whole lot of people...

#UN inquiry finds #Israel continuing to commit #genocide in #Gaza by targeting children... Any state which continues to sell arms or supply military assistance or training to the state of Israel is an accessory to genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

40ºC temperatures in Europe in June, wildfires in Greenland, +20ºC seasonal temps in the Antarctic. Yes, this is #ElNiňo, but it's El Niňo added to the underlying #ClimateCrisis that industry and many governments are still trying their best to deny and worsen. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Is passive-aggressive now the dominant mode of conversation on BlueSky? I'm seeing (and experiencing) so many replies and responses which just assume that the person being addressed is acting in bad faith, or ignorant, or making implications that I didn't think were being made. 1/n

Elon Musk's destruction doesn't just stop at killing children, it also includes needlessly permanently blinding Black Africans because doctors no longer have the resources to fix kids' eyelashes from physically scraping their eyeballs, our exclusive reporting at @thexylom.com revealed this month:

As a signatory to the Genocide Convention, the US has obligations to prevent and punish the crime of genocide. That means: no more taxpayer funding to Israel, no more selling weapons to Israel, and imposing comprehensive sanctions on Israel.

The guy who invented to Facebook to rate girls is trying to convince us in 2026 that his thick pervert Ray Bans are smart glasses.

“Officers will be able to view intelligence from various siloed systems in one place, including body-worn police cameras, drones, public security cameras, the computer-aided 911 dispatch system and automated license-plate readers…”

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

#Starmer is a symptom of the #Labour Party's disconnection from reality, not the ultimate problem. The new Labour leader should rejoin the EU, tackle climate change, re-nationalize privatized utilities, and introduce Proportional Representation. But will they? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...