It’s profoundly unsettling that many of the world’s most powerful figures named in the Epstein Files, including the US president and the wealthiest person alive, continue to hold positions of influence. What a terrible world we live in

On the Tibetan plateau, China has installed a 16-17 GW mega solar plant that is turning an alpine desert into a “micro-oasis”: more moisture, more grass, and soils with more carbon under 64 km² of panels www.ecoticias.com/en/on-the-ti...

"You must understand that in meditation we are concerned only with what is: with reality, nothing else. The past is a memory, the future an expectation. Neither past nor future actually exist. There is simply eternal now." -Alan Watts, from a lecture titled "ART OF MEDITATION" 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️

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Hi. May I draw your attention to my website, selling my art as framed or frameless, giclee printed canvases? This Collection of nine simple geometric abstracts, called 'The experience of simply being' was inspired by a book about Tantra. More can be seen at kitchingart.com/en-eu/collec...

The vast swarm of SpaceX satellites and the ones Bezos plans will only increase risks of a deadly cascade.

One of the most evil things humans do is the boiling alive of lobsters. Good to see a UK charity trying to protect crustaceans. @rosemarycrow.bsky.social www.crustaceancompassion.org

This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

Early indications suggest that major regional flooding events have the potential to cause economic losses in excess of $10 billion, according to a study by Willis Towers Watson.

Six people died as Storm Kristin battered Portugal with winds reaching record speeds, causing widespread destruction and leaving around 1 million people without electricity.

"...[the EU and India] announced the “mother of all deals”, which promises to bring together about 2 billion consumers and a quarter of the world’s GDP." So the US not so crucial after all. Nice one Trump. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wales is set to criminalize political lies during elections—should the world follow its lead? The Welsh Labour government is pushing forward with a groundbreaking bill hailed as "globally pioneering," aimed at rebuilding public confidence and improving the quality of democratic debate. If enacted...

"The biggest direct beneficiaries of such a change would be the high-income taxpayers"

Why is the governor of Louisiana volunteering to help Trump get Greenland's resources? (Hint: $.) @schuylermitchell.bsky.social reports on the US companies, with connections to Republican politicians, who see big money to be gained from MAGA imperialism.

'Lest we forget. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Would a functioning democracy allow this? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Congratulations Vlad. davekeating.substack.com/p/only-16-of...

Wow what a night! Thanks to everyone who came to The Owned Continent book launch last night, and to @respublicaeuropa.bsky.social for hosting! It was full to the rafters, which I think shows how much appetite there is right now among Europeans to do something about this continent's 🇺🇸addiction.

About time ABC covered the Atlas network. Good work 👏 @garethhutchens.bsky.social

Don’t want to be a downer or anything, but the Doomsday Clock has moved four seconds closer to midnight. Alexandra Bell, President and CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists which maintains the clock, said it was due to a “global failure in leadership” and an “Orwellian approach to governance.”

It rather looks as if 🇺🇸 has moved the goal posts on the 🇺🇦 peace deal, caving into territorial demands by 🇷🇺 that the whole of Donbas should be ceded to Russia….more land than Russia has seized in its illegal war. What’s the justification? I can’t see that sticking. www.ft.com/content/8ca0...

Here's what voting #Reform will lead to. Of course, a typical Reform voter will just deny this, because they haven't listened to their 'leader' and don't understand 'all that stuff' anyway.

Idiotic #antivaxxers

"Donald Trump is a monster, and a stupid one at that...." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good story from @jeremywallace.bsky.social on the tumult coming from China's glut of renewables and EV manufacturing which is roiling power and transport markets internally and internationally with some salutary effects for consumers. www.wired.com/story/china-...

Good to see some passion...

Imagine finding out a stranger secretly filmed you and millions have watched it online. That’s what’s happening to women targeted by men using smart glasses for content and profit. Should Meta be doing far more to protect people’s privacy, or does this tech need to be banned outright?

The fact that this is even being debated is shocking. Cyprus has more days of sunshine - and strong sunshine at that - than anywhere else in Europe.

So it's starting to feed on, and thereby amplify, its own slop and misinformation. Techbro airheads need to be taken down. Bring on the bubble burst.

They built wind turbines to make power — but under the sea, they “produce” something no one expected www.ecoportal.net/en/turbines-...

Thanks Simon for this important piece! www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-courag...

"Since 2020, [billionaires] collective wealth grew by 81%, or $8.2tn, which the charity claims would be enough to eradicate global poverty 26 times over. But the authors reported that most governments were failing ordinary people by capitulating to the increasingly blatant influence of the rich."

The orange freak child is frightened. We've had the foot stamping and now we're getting the screaming. www.euronews.com/business/202...

The Pentagon says it will provide the president with “credible options to guarantee U.S. military and commercial access to key terrain from the Arctic to South America, especially Greenland” adding that “we will ensure that the Monroe Doctrine is upheld in our time.” www.politico.eu/article/us-n...

Trump responds to latest fatal ICE shooting of US citizen in Minneapolis

Nigel Farage attended Davos on a pass sponsored by the family office of Iranian billionaire Sasan Ghandehari, which told the World Economic Forum that the Reform UK leader had advised the company since 2018. ft.trib.al/V138xDu

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

Board of Peace - Season 1

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

In an extraordinary court filing, government lawyers representing the SSA revealed that in March 2025, a DOGE staffer signed an agreement to share the private data of Americans with a “political advocacy group” seeking to “overturn election results in certain States.”

In Europe there is a vast, diverse and fragmented galaxy of Russians who oppose Putin’s policies and the war in Ukraine. From Paris to Berlin, from Vienna to Munich, a panorama of those keeping Russian civil society alive. #PulseEurope voxeurop.eu/en/exiled-op...

A small section of the Andromeda Galaxy, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, showing off nearly 2 billion stars. Attenborough Fans