1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

Grass-fed or not, cow flesh is a climate disaster. The emissions, the deforestation, the water use, the methane - it’s a perfect storm. And we’ve known it for decades.

We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution. This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Prototype 4 band EQualiser. It worked!

Saving lives, saving you money, improving the flow of traffic, there’s no downside to switching to 20mph default limit.

This new report on the connection between food and species extinction is astounding. If we want to stop our fellow Earth creatures from going extinct, we need to change our diets and stop eating so much meat.

The Israeli Government has made an ad about the Global Sumud Flotilla headed for Gaza, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

26 Police Officers were injured at today's riots but only 9 people were arrested. Compare that with the peaceful Palestine Action protest where 0 Police Officers were injured but nearly 900 people were arrested. The Government has got Law Enforcement ridiculously wrong.

“I just want people to know that AI is being sold as this tech magic – that’s why there’s a little sparkle symbol next to an AI response,” said Sawyer. “But it’s not. It’s built on the backs of overworked, underpaid human beings.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

When I think about climate change, I see a lot of progress — except in one sector. Food. The food system is responsible for 22-34% of our greenhouse gas emissions, with no end in sight. And it swims in a sea of greenwashing and disinformation. Here’s how we can fix it. Go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24

It's very simple. The people costing all the money, are the people with all the money. Not the people with hardly any money. It really shouldn't need explaining.

Why do we have a Government when they have moved control of everything to billionaires. We should demand they take back control or fire them.

Dear music fans, here is yet another reminder to please stop using Spotify. Not content with poisoning music culture, and undermining musicians ability to earn income from their own recorded music, Spotify are also indirectly associated with seriously unethical stuff (including AI weaponry).

I wrote a blog about “surviving AI” gameaudioprogramming.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/o...

For every muppet writing in the guardian about “tree planting is bad” we lose a few donors, but every time I explain how this works as a backstop for projects that otherwise never had a chance we gain a few more. Ask me anything. I can explain more about this whole thing than those clowns.

My advice to people, take I'm angry at people not being paid as badly as me. And turn it into, I'm angry at being paid badly. Median wage 2008 - £24,769 Median wage 2025 - £29,600 Inflation from 2008-2025 - 70.51%, your wage should be £42,231 We should all be angry.

Asbestos as a metaphor for where I suspect we might be going with LLM tools: rapid push to shove it into everything as a "modern solution," then an eventual "oh shit" walkback.

🚨 Mythbusting #LongCovid with Dr Amir Khan🚨 Long Covid is real. It’s serious. And it’s affecting millions. On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, #DrAmirKhan joins us to bust harmful myths. Watch, learn, and share—because the more we talk about Long Covid, the harder it is to ignore.

You're so close

In the UK, they are going to spend around $100 billion to build the Sizewell C nuclear power plant. It will start producing power in "in the mid- to late-2030s" and it will produce 3.2 gigawatts of power. (1/2)

Motherfucking wind farms…

Dear music fans, here is yet another reminder to please stop using Spotify. Not content with poisoning music culture, and undermining musicians ability to earn income from their own recorded music, Spotify are also indirectly associated with seriously unethical stuff (including AI weaponry).

My response to those who say it’s “too late” to address climate change and global environmental damage. It is NOT too late. As long as one tree is still standing, one whale is still swimming, and one child is still breathing it is not too late to protect something precious.

Fuck the warmongers. All of them.

I generally take a 'tech isn't inherently bad, capitalism just makes it manifest in bad ways' position but..............honestly, I think LLMs are inherently bad. Their technogical characteristics just fundamentally skew towards harming human information spaces severely and rapidly Wild piece:

Fuck the warmongers. All of them.

"you remained resolute and resourceful in an atmosphere of extreme pessimism". Having a blast replaying Portal 1 (Switch version) with my kid.

Labels don't change the fact that infant lives are taken.

This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10

1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

YIKES @soundcloud.dev no thank you

If you are not already following @zoejardiniere.bsky.social please start now, for genuine heartfelt and empathetic discourse on immigration. Along with the @greenparty.org.uk one of the very few voices that challenge the Reform consensus on immigration.

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Let’s be honest: if every plant-based product tasted better than the animal one, people would still buy the latter. Why? Because once you've spent a lifetime justifying something, your ego’s on the line. medium.com/@herbivor...

If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community. And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account. goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...

In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players. Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue. Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Launched today: the EarthCARE Science web site, to promote and support the widest possible international exploitation of #EarthCARE data! Includes: explainers of the scientific applications of the satellite (more to come), meet the team, tools, web stories, history and more. www.earthcarescience.net

The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer. Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer. We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is. It will never reach you.

A handful of companies drive environmental degradation and cruelty to feed their pockets rather than the hungry. Welcome to the world of animal agriculture, an industry which gets away with practices which would be considered illegal in any other sector. www.planetcritical.com/p/animal-agr...

Jewish Journalist EXPOSES Israel's DARK SECRET

Why Labour and Trump will both fail www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCnI...

1. This is what it’s really about. Farage, Truss and co have no convictions of their own. They are mere channels for the demands of capital. Here they are, supporting a climate science-denying lobby group funded by oil and oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

Throwing tomato soup on a painting seems like an under-reaction, to be honest

Reminder. Don't stop advocating for positive change. youtu.be/hcmbATnQcMo?...

Time for my annual repost of this banger by Australian artist Denis Lushch. Ever-more relevant with each new horrible year.

Why do they still even make headphones out of this stuff?