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Keep it under your hat. #ReformRussianBribes

Mid-autumn reflections on the river Irwell 🌱🌳 #ForestFriday #Trees #Nature #Scape #EastCoastKin #FoliageFriday

This is how it’s done

This Is Fascism

Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.

Mount Gaussier with the Mas de Saint-Paul - 1889 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14587

For more on how to survive the climate upheaval, read my book of solutions Nomad Century

Reform UK are fossil fuel lobby dinosaurs Poll: 80 per cent of UK public support pensions being invested in renewable energy

Join us in celebrating World Teachers' Day. Despite russia's targeting of schools, kindergartens and universities, Ukrainian teachers find ways to keep education going. We admire their resilience and devotion. Thank you for shaping the future of Ukraine! u24.gov.ua/donate/educa...

And here we are. Another damn’d thick, square book. A real wrist-sprainer. UK edition (pictured) has endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboard and colour plates. Both U.K. and US editions have sections heralded by a double page photo as here. Loads of illustrations. Out in November!

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

I’m joining Hugh Grant & @hackedoff.bsky.social in calling for fair, independent regulation to protect ordinary people from abuse and restore trust in the press. It's time to finally hold them to account. Please join us signing the petition to change the law🙏 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

I've been saying this for two weeks! AOC: Trump is weaker than he looks. They double down in public to overcompensate for it. They rely on the 'perception' of strength. They rely on the 'perception' of inevitability. They want you to give up! We can't give up. We have to be their consequence."

Newcastle says no to fascism. The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance. Newcastle united.

“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth… And once truth is gone, they can build an empire of lies… Just keep repeating the facts. Stop giving equal time to lies.” Garry Kasparov bsky.app/profile/garr...

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

FUN FACT: Autism was first diagnosed at least 40 years before Tylenol was created.

Our own @hannahritchie.bsky.social has a new book about tackling climate change coming out on September 18th! Called “Clearing the Air”, it covers everything from renewable energy and nuclear power to electric vehicles, heat pumps, minerals, carbon capture, and geoengineering.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... What a heart-rending story about Mr George, and relief that he has had a rightful 'reprieve' from deportation Is he having assistance to finally have a home of his own? @dianetaylor.blsy.social

@diane-writer10.bsky.social About terrible threat of deportation experienced by Mr George, is anyone helping him to get settled home of his own?

400 days to save US democracy. My latest, based on a long summer in the US. How Trump is exploiting structural weaknesses of the American system & why all democrats must want Democrats to win November 2026 midterms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I read David Reich's book on ancient human history a while back but I'm sure it's already out of date now. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Yep, Bird lives! 🎷

Sadiq is right, "for our leaders silence is no longer enough. The time has come to stand up and say: this is not who we are"... But we're not holding our breath! And meanwhile we will say it ourselves - LOUD & CLEAR TODAY!

superb column from @stephenkb.bsky.social “racism does not diminish through rising GDP but through the willingness of politicians to argue against it….” www.ft.com/content/fbbd...

"We should all be deeply concerned about the most recent challenge to the integrity of America’s national forests—the proposed repeal of the 2001 Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation Rule." – Suzanne Cable, Wilderness Watch missoulacurrent.com/viewpoint-wi...

I'm grateful to our brave officers who put themselves on the line to keep Londoners safe this weekend. The violence towards our officers and the racism we saw has no place in our city. The far-right wants to divide us. They will never succeed.

Journalist,historian,author @anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum: "I spent most of the day talking to Ukrainians,some of whom are fighting,some of whom are making drones,some of whom are doing other things to keep their country going.I’ve to say it doesn't feel like a place that's giving up…”

Far right organisers in this country consistently side with foreign billionaires over our democratic institutions. They are not patriots. They are quislings.

Small but wonderful crop of chillies and aubergines in our modest greenhouse this year. Urban Manc.

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Is it the 17th Sept - 10 days away - when the UK has the great privilege of hosting the well known paedophile, dictator, crook the demented Donald Trump? He may try and silence people at events booing in America but wait till you get here pal

Nick Robinson just asked John Curtice if the BBC giving a platform to Farage & Reform was responsible for their popularity; presumably hoping to hear the polling guru say a resounding "no". Instead, Curtice said, "it's not just that, it's also how he uses it" So the answer's clearly yes. #r4today

The US has announced sanctions against 3 Palestinian human rights organisations that gave evidence to the ICC As Basel Sourani from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (one of the organisations) explains, its an attempt to silence Palestinian voices & anyone who opposes Israeli crimes

🚨 START POINT CONFIRMED - National March for Palestine - Stop Starving Gaza ⏰ Saturday 6 September, 12pm 📍 Russell Square to Whitehall The start point for the next national march for Palestine has been confirmed. We will assemble at Russell Square and march to Whitehall. Join us.

Farage dodged parliament, went to the US, slagged off the UK, lied to Congress, grifted for donations and hoped to persuade the US to punish us for the Online Safety Act. And got his arse handed back to him. You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.

IN TWO WEEKS TODAY DONALD TRUMP TOUCHES DOWN IN THE UK And we’re not gonna take Starmer’s capitulation to this genocide-enabling, authoritarian maniac lying down, are we? Great chat on @politicsjoe.bsky.social podcast today

Councils are under a legal duty to divest their pension funds from companies enabling Israel's genocide in Gaza. Use PSC's online action to write to your councillors to demand they support divestment: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/divestmentduty

🔴‘Notting Hill Carnival’s Success Shows That Hate and Division Will Never Win’ Labour’s Mayor of London @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social writes for Byline Times on why the city’s haters need to admit that “diversity is a strength to be celebrated, not a weakness to be hidden”

🎶 Those Epstein files gonna bite your butt, but it ain’t gonna go away … 🎶

Bad enough in its own right, but.... "the true figures could be even worse, because the models did not include the torrent of meltwater from the Greenland ice cap that is also freshening the ocean waters" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵

Depressing, but also an interesting reflection, the amount of spam on Bsky trying to take advantage of people's heartache for Gaza. Over on X it's nonexistent; all the spam is about how to make millions without trying. Please do not engage with random gofundmes or amplify their exploitation. Block.

I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up. Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.