😔💔😢Please read and share these harrowing testimonials from people terrified about plans from @northumbriauni.bsky.social senior management to freeze pay to force through pension changes: ucu-unn.org.uk/news/315-tes... @ucu.org.uk

And before all of this there was the epic, no-gender-neutral-marketing-it's-1995 Raleigh Big Shot. Available online now for the princely sum of £4.

Introduce yourself with 5 bikes you've owned: Dawes Kokomo- bright yellow, with cheeseburger bell... Something else Dawes but black and hybrid Puch Clubman - 42 years old and still boneshaking strong! Bakfiets classic short cargo bike Trek Checkpoint AL5

🔴 NEW - Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture The Labour peer called for new coal power in the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s annual lecture. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

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Newcastle City Council closes roads in the vicinity of St. James's Park each time the footy is on. This means if you walk to/from the match you have more protection from cars than actual children walking to school do.

Cannot imagine what these families must be going through. This road is so dangerous but it doesn’t seem to matter how many times parents complain of this, cars come first. Hope some people in Newcastle City Council are taking a long hard look at their priorities and working out how to change this.

Raiding the Warm Homes Plan to find the money for a one-off cut to energy bills is utterly perverse when the Plan exists precisely to insulate homes & thus keep bills lower in perpetuity- this simply isn’t serious #budget2025

Gambling taxes are long overdue and an ethical way to raise revenue. But while advertising and lobbying are so rampant, harms will continue until they are controlled. #Budget

MISSING: Closing tax loopholes for private jets, taxing airplane fuel, a frequent flyer levy. Why does the Chancellor have such a blind spot for anything that might tackle the excesses of the aviation industry? #Budget

Literally all of society hates this abominable scam homunculus and the weird little death cult bubble of vampiric losers who spewed it forth upon the world. Take a break from bragging about how gullible you are and give yourself a swirlie and stuff yourself in a locker and sort yourself out.

"About 35% of children in Newcastle are growing up in poverty, which is absolutely disgraceful" South Jesmond Councillor Sarah Peters appeared on #BBCPoliticsNorth on Sunday to discuss the upcoming budget and what the Chancellor should do to alleviate poverty in Newcastle.

Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion. This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

OH to 5yo this morning (warningly, as he refused to cooperate in getting dressed for school): “Do I need to tell Santa about you?” 8yo (deadpan, without looking up from her book): “I think he probably already knows.”

This sort of position sounds somewhat justifiable, until you confront the question of who's actually doing the work to oppose fascism. Here in Newcastle, Labour have vanished from communities - and particularly those where Reform are slated to do well. The Greens are the only party opposing Reform.

What makes me furious is how many institutions and elites bowed down to Trump like he was an unstoppable god-king when they only needed to hold out for a few months

We've got 3 more days to urge MPs to join 100s attending the @nebriefing.bsky.social 1️⃣ Check if your MP is going and if not email them from this link: www.nebriefing.org 2️⃣ Tag your MP in social media 3️⃣ Share this event on your social channels

We’re facing an emergency. We understand how busy MPs are, but ask them to change plans to attend this crucial briefing. Top scientists will set out latest threats and key actions so MPs can protect the public. Please click to see if your MP is coming: www.nebriefing.org #TimeToStepUp #NEB2025

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Of course, what would be truly ambitious would be to make all our existing cities into forest cities...

It's that time of year again... (Although tbf I was going to wait until next weekend!)

The Green Party of England and Wales are polling above 15% on average and is swiftly approaching Labour and the Tories. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

"I love you, but I love fossil fuels more." 💔 COP = Conference Of Polluters #COP #COP30 #EndFossilFuels

Hugely disappointing, with world now on track to yet more heating & chaos, & poorest hit first & hardest. This process needs radically rethinking - meantime it’s vital that the Brazil-led coalition of the willing urgently delivers on plans to leave fossil fuels in the ground #COP30

COP30 in Brazil ends without new pledges to cut fossil fuels. Fossil patriarchy is a killer.

The US "peace deal" was literally written in russian and then translated into English. Any chance this actually gets reported in the US?

⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk! A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action. (1/4)👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Kudos to all those #VikingBiking across Heaton and the City Stadium today.

Good news for a snowy day! 🤩❄️☃️

Zack Polanski: "Labour Has Lost Its Soul On Immigration, Their Silent MPs Should Be Ashamed" Writing for HuffPost UK, the Greens leader says only his party will stand up to the powerful and defend the 99% www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...

The Greens are winning the support of around half of 18 to 24 year olds. Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right! And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics

We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood. Meanwhile in Denmark:

UK Labour want everyone to know that their new asylum policies, inc stealing the valuables of asylum seekers, were inspired by the Danish Social Democrats. In Denmark's local elections yesterday the Soc Dems took a hammering, losing Copenhagen for the first time in 122 years. The new mayor? Green.

Countering car-centric definition of what constitutes "good weather" and "bad weather" at every possible opportunity...

Your seasonal reminder that the amount of snow needed to have a bit of fun on the way to school is very small indeed.

What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be. It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

They're savvy enough not to submit something that's entirely fabricated, but it's clearly part of their workflow, which they think is ok bc the university has basically said as much. So feedback takes longer, as you're really just coaching them on where the AI has failed them. It's not sustainable.

For anyone feeling deep despair - I get it. There is hope, though. And Green Party membership is continuing to rise every single day. That's thousands and thousands of people coming together to demand change & to make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

What is it that people expect from deporting people? Because it won't lower House prices or rents. And it won't make food or energy cheaper. There won't be more jobs and they certainly won't pay better. At what point do you realise it is going to achieve nothing?

Submissions for ISSUE #3 – AIRBORNE, are now open! We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet. More details 👇

This whole "small boats" issue is ridiculous! It is INSIGNIFICANT 36k people arrived in 2024 = 0.05% of UK population! 568k people died in the UK in 2024. We're not full! If we paid ALL of them an average wage it would cost you £17 a year. Let them work & you pay nothing. UK will be better off.

Rise of @greenparty.org.uk continues. Listen to the deafening silence in the media that enthusiastically reported the rise of Reform when it hit similar voting figures.

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I hear that Chris Day, @newcastleuni.bsky.social VC and current @russellgroup.bsky.social chair admitted in a NU Town Hall meeting that he and other RG VCs had recently had lunch with the chairman of Reform UK Ltd. I'd love to know how he would justify this.

We are governed by monsters.

If Edinburgh Uni, with no operational deficit, gets to sack 1800 people, imagine what this will signal to more fiscally challenged Scottish universities? MSPs need to realise that this is more than a local crisis – we need urgent public scrutiny of Edinburgh’s governance.

I'm on strike for the next three days in protest at my employer's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies as part of their cost-cutting vision for a radically diminished university. My school makes a healthy profit, most of which goes back into central coffers, yet still we're told to save more.

We must stop the hostility towards, and demonisation of, people just trying to seek safety. Our statement on just some of the Home Secretary's proposed changes to the asylum system

#CycleToWork has a number of problems, but this isn’t addressing the biggest one - that those on the lowest wages who would benefit the most can’t access the scheme. #DecarbonisingTransport @walkridegm.org.uk @heidialexander.bsky.social

Pope Leo absolutely cooking