Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

Imagine if the Deeside and Buchan lines were still open?

‘A hacker’s dream’: Britons on Keir Starmer’s plan for digital ID cards

Why is it that the same media who can't wait to cover every brain fart that emerges from Farage's mouth seem uninterested in a scandal showing close associates of Farage taking bribes to spread Russian misinformation?

We need help to #SaveCoulLinks!📢 One of Scotland’s last remaining undeveloped dune systems is under threat again. Plans to build a golf course would destroy this beautiful & vital ecosystem. Join us & send a message to Scottish Ministers 👉 https://loom.ly/rnKdZDw#SaveCoulLinks 📷Craig-Allardyce

#SaveCoulLinks protected nature from golf. Apt Freudian slip:

People with UK connections, Save Coul Links you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/co...

Trump is the Dunning Kruger king of chaos... and everyone is too busy kissing his butt to stop the carnage www.noosphere.app/donald-trump...

NatureScot, supposedly an organisation that cares about nature. Then why did they license the cruel killing of 500 young gannets?! What a joke!

This Labour government seems to determined to create all the tools necessary for a future government of the far-right to control, surveille, and discipline the entire population.

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Trump at the UN: Says he doesn't care about prizes just after he brings up that he should get the Nobel Peace Prize. (from the archives)

The former president called out aging world leaders “who are afraid of death and insignificance.”

Catherine Connolly compares German arms build-up with 1930s

Why vote Reform when it means paying for healthcare? youtu.be/PKZU8cVaXkE?...

China’s plans to cut emission too weak to stave off global catastrophe, say experts

Feels like the world is burning so time for weird jellyfish facts 🧵

I’ve written to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper demanding urgent action to ensure the safety of the Global Sumud Flotilla. 52 boats carrying aid and peace activists to Gaza. The UK must act to assure their safety. Israel is committing a genocide. All eyes are on this flotilla.

@tommckinney.bsky.social Woodpigeon

A vast number of the most brilliant scientists, including some of those developing vaccines, are on the spectrum. You might even say autism causes vaccines.

No evidence. No science. No solutions.   Just Trump peddling another dangerous lie — this time about Tylenol and autism — that sows chaos, scares parents, and puts our health at risk.

Autism is not a "disease" or "epidemic". Autism has a strong genetic component. There is no evidence that vaccinees or Tylenol cause autism. Access to autism diagnostics have dramatically increased as reported rates increased. Neither Trump nor RFK Jr are scientists or medical professionals.

Hmmm now let’s see, how can we move a lot of people around our city by efficient using the space needed to do so? Well, as this ad showed, using private vehicles isn’t the answer.

Israeli attacks force Gaza hospitals to close as healthcare system nears collapse

"With emissions from aviation rising as climate extremes increasingly batter the planet with more intense floods, droughts and wildfires, it's a struggle to see how the government can conclude expansion at Gatwick is a wise move." - Rosie Downes, Friends of the Earth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"But perhaps the ground is shifting. Citizen journalism is flowering, through the Bylines network, openDemocracy, Double Down News , Novara, Declassified and DeSmog, and in particular at the local level." 👏👏👏 Thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

#SaveCoulLinks for Fonseca's Seed-fly (& >1400 other species) Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No. 618: Survey and ecology of Botanophila fonsecai Ackland (Diptera, Anthomyiidae), a seed-fly endemic to Scotland D. Gibbs, 2013.

I've been reading about the threat to Coul Links and the endemic Fonseca's Seed Fly. In the course of this I found a great report from 2013 about the distribution and habitat of this species. The bit that stood out to me? They couldn't survey at Coul Links because 'permission... was not forthcoming'

Right now, Scottish Ministers are deciding if Coul Links will become a golf course. As well as a globally-protected habitat, these Highland dunes are home to informal paths & the John o' Groats Trail, which up to 7 holes would cross. ✍️ Please, act to #SaveCoulLinks: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

There's a moral confusion in this kind of coverage. Anyone can condemn the killing of people they like.What matters is that we condemn the killing of those we dislike & disagree with (as Maguire does). We blur that message if we insist on making those killed into saints or try to silence criticism

Exactly right. It's not hypocrisy, it's hegemony.

It's astonishing that what threatens to snap Trump's patience with Putin isn't the invasion of another country, the thousands dead, the children abducted or cities destroyed, but his sense of personal grievance. "He's let me down". I can't think of a president so incapable of seeing beyond himself

I learned most of what I know about the world from The Beano.

Tony Blair used to talk about the difference between the 3-second, 30-second & 3-minute conversation - the point being that simplistic policies, that poll well, collapse under the more sustained scrutiny of an election or time in govt. So what happens when there is *only* the 3-second conversation?

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." Successful presidential candidate George W Bush.🦈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojB3...

Trump: "I think water fishing, I think almost anything we have to get into a boat right now in that area would not be doing too well."

Not land fishing tho

'This long-overdue recognition marks an end to Britain’s denial of the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination, freedom, and independence in our homeland' 👉 www.heraldscotland.com/news...

Malcolm Rifkind, "President Trump is claiming credit for ending wars, but is not taking action on the one war he could end, Israel's assault on Gaza"

Brown hare backlit by early morning sun anxiously watching signatures on the petition heading for 30,000. I'm sure you've signed the petition to protect hares from shooting in the breeding season, but any more family and friends to sign? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... #UKwildlife #mammals

Check out a new central page for The Atlantic's ongoing investigations into the books, videos, and other media fueling the AI boom: AI Watchdog. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

OpenAI and other generative-AI companies are running headlong into problems that plagued the social-media era, @kait.bsky.social and @matteowong.bsky.social write:

Someone once said to me that it's best to assume that you have immediately lost control of any photo that you post online. These companies are horrendous and we should all be very careful about what we give to them www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Oil trade faces ‘crude awakening’ as rising seas threaten global ports... www.eco-business.com/news/oil-tra...

UK PETITIONS #SaveCoulLinks Loch Fleet SSSI, SPA & Ramsar wetland from Mike Keiser's new golf developments. 1st planning application was rejected by Scottish Government MSPs: Vandalism you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/co... 2nd submitted with hoodwinkery: Groundhog you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Animals that spread seeds are critical for climate solutions... news.mongabay.com/2025/09/anim...

🙄 #PreventativeMedicine @scottishgreens.org @greenparty.org.uk @mareetodd.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk Drug drivers kill & injure others. Smoking weed increases lung cancer risk: www.nhs.uk/conditions/l... #Cannabis has psychosis risks: www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Summer wildfires at Carrbridge described as the worst in Scotland's history likely killed thousands of animals, according to an expert who helped fight the flames.... www.bbc.com/news/article...