🙏 Good morning, May all beings have happiness And the causes of happiness. May all beings be free of suffering And the causes of suffering. May all beings not be separated From high births and liberation’s bliss. May all beings abide in equanimity Free from bias, attachment, and aversion.

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today is trans day of visibility, and it breaks my heart to see the way the world is trying to turn these wonderful people invisible I am not trans, but the reason I have a voice on this platform is trans people, because they welcomed me and got me to stop lurking the way I did on twitter

#Poetry #Bluesky #RoyMarshall Instant Karma by Roy Marshall

'This is apartheid': Zack Polanski leads condemnation of Israel death penalty law

Young Israeli teens burning draft letters they received. A perfect example of noncompliance that people can participate in to fight back against fighting a foreign war. This is similar to how veterans here in the US are encouraging soldiers to refuse to carry out unlawful orders. #Israel #Gaza

This seems a very weird approach by Starmer. Wouldn't fewer training places lead to fewer trained doctors? How would that be good for patients and the NHS? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Regardless of the issue, it's always the same story: commercial interests allowed to ride roughshod over everything and everyone else. Faced with the urgent need for action, successive governments twiddle their thumbs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nigel Farage and Reform claim to stand with ordinary people, but are backed by billionaires and fossil fuel interests. They are pushing for more oil and gas, fracking. Will you join me and stand with Greenpeace and others to fight for the climate, nature and against divisive politics? act.gp/4s2jRP4

Israel has pushed ground forces into multiple areas of southern Lebanon They've displaced huge numbers of civilians... Yet it barely registers. Russia did the same in Ukraine and the world responded with sanctions, outrage and coordinated pressure The double standards are UNFORGIVABLE.

"Act of domination" latest

It appears that Israel's security establishment is much more bearish on the Iran war than the political opposition, which (almost entirely) supports the war.

Ooh look... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Bad losers at Reform just cost the taxpayer ££££ on an investigation carried out on the basis of hearsay and promoted by right wing news channels. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Greater Manchester Police has found "no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting" in the Gorton and Denton by-election, after Reform made a complaint over alleged "family voting" The investigation looked at potential offences under the Representation of the People Act

Tyson Fury’s former advisor and a one-time boxing promoter, Daniel Kinahan, leads one of the world’s largest organised crime groups. Learn how he infiltrated the sport... Watch the full film on our YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj0G... In short: youtube.com/shorts/oMlsR...

The new lady Archbish has a rather plain hat. What say you, oh great Popetato? @ashashman1.bsky.social And what say you, great hat expert Wulfie? @wulfhelm.bsky.social

Sickening anti-semitism. Good to see Starmer condemning it so quickly. Everyone should be doing the same. There is no place for hate like this. Anti-semitism, islamophobia and every form of hate should be called out and condemned loudly.

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz... Four Jewish ambulances set on fire in north London, with Starmer calling attacks 'horrific' - BBC News Which brain dead people would perpetrat this kind of frightening nonsense on British streets ? RACIST attacks on innocent folks doesn't belong in here!

This NPR article portrays the House of Lords as the product of some sort of quaint and exotic custom from a undeveloped backward country that hasn't yet worked out what democracy means. Which it absolutely is. Abolish the House of Lords. No more unelected legislators of any description!

Just remember: the hateful claims made against Muslims today were previously made against Jews (and often still are). Sometimes word-for-word. Same hate, different targets. We all stand together against hatred, or we will be picked off one by one.

Here's a terrifying thought. People born in 2000 are going to be 26 this year.

Hot take: We should be ashamed of the fact that we need massive telethons for charities like Comic Relief to tackle poverty in this country.

European Union. Never let them tell you it's not British.

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

Such performative BS (as she's not even planning on going). I bet it plays well - "you might be fed up of running to the shelters at all hours of the night, and starting to wonder what the hell we're doing here, but see, the whole world hates us really, so just be grateful we're protecting you" 🙄😤

Bring back shame

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

The government's "earned settlement" proposals "pull the rug from under those who have planned their lives and commitments and are contributing to our economy and to our society...I believe in a country where we keep our word and live up to our values” Absolutely right from Angela Rayner.

The only way Reform UK could win a general election is through our first-past-the-post system. If we had proportional representation, the threat would evaporate. We don't have PR because Starmer has blocked it. This allows him to say: vote Labour or you get Farage. Because it's all he has left.

Ed Miliband, "The price of gas is set on the international market, whether it comes from the north sea, or is imported" "We're price taker and not a price maker" "We need homegrown clean power that we can control" "We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster"

Beautiful statement from Ayman Odeh, Palestinian MK and head of Hadash-Taal. For those who do not read Hebrew, I will translate:

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It's difficult to overstate how important this is youtu.be/scJP80Lltt4?... Your largest two expenditures are housing and energy. Living in a flat in a city without the need for a car tackles both of these

A very happy 15th of March to one and all.

There’s light at the end of the tunnel. 🔦 TfL uses as much electricity as 600,000 homes, but the network is officially shifting to be part-solar powered. We’re on the fast track to a 100% renewable commute by 2030.

Morning Bluesky.

From computer manuals to apps and interfaces, women in technical communication made technology accessible. Women in Technical Communication preserves their voices and work. Order your copy: a.co/d/0gDZKOhN #WomenInSTEM #TechComm #WomensHistory

This is a pretty remarkable image I captured. Its an area called Markarian's Chain. There's 18 separate #galaxy's here. Some faint, some brighter, but each with billions of suns. The photons have traveled 50 million lightyears, to my back garden, just for you... #astronomy #astrophotography

🙏 Good morning, May all beings have happiness And the causes of happiness. May all beings be free of suffering And the causes of suffering. May all beings not be separated From high births and liberation’s bliss. May all beings abide in equanimity Free from bias, attachment, and aversion.

I think heads of state should have to lead their troops into war, if they go to war. That would soon sort things out. The last English head of state to lead his troops into battle was Richard III and look how that went for him.

Education Secretary defends freezing the repayment threshold for student loans in England. Ridiculous plan to align repayment threshold with minimum wage. Graduates pay tax+repayment at marginal rate of 37%, higher than capital gains tax rate for the super rich. Abolish uni fees. Write-off debt.

We hosted a panel in Parliament today to brief MPs and people from across the trans rights sector on the implications of the High Court decision earlier this month – and our grounds of appeal.

Remember Brexit? Public opinion on leaving the EU was minimal for decades. Then media, social media etc whipped it up as being the solution to societal issues from fishing to steel to the NHS. Was it? Nope. Its not public opinion if its whipped up snake-oil. Same for this. Same for leaving the ECHR.

If we can’t save our environment, politics won’t matter.

Much better than spending it on murdering kids.

Jeez. This is awful. Well done Victoria Derbyshire for not letting it go #StudentLoansScandal

This guy gets it.