Only when you have to assemble a piece of flat pack furniture that was NOT made by IKEA do you come to appreciate the science and artistry that goes in to making all their kit assemble-able by ordinary people 🥵

Britain's leaders think X's diversification into child porn-on-demand is "unacceptable". Although, in good news for people who want child porn on demand, they will continue to accept it. thecritic.co.uk/poli...

A reminder that Kemi Badenoch wants to create a UK “Removals Force” explicitly modelled on ICE

Farage wants to bring Trump’s death squads to the streets of Britain. Together, we will stop him. www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

I have struggled with a sense of impending doom since my 20s when I first grasped the gravity of the climate crisis. But I hadn’t banked on the destruction of western civilization *pre-empting* wholesale environmental collapse, & instead just being prosecuted by neo-fascists somehow seizing power 😫

In the UK, where Reform wants to usher in ICE and Labour wants to imitate Reform, we should not regret, as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, to inform ourselves of who is going to win. Fascism is here, but there are more antifascists than fascists in the US and the UK.

Renee Good, a citizen & mother was shot 3 times in the head, on camera, by a masked gang. She is smeared by Trump & MAGA lunatics. May she rest in peace & her family find comfort. Frankly the only surprise is it took this long. Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today

Farage wants UK ICE. Shouldn't we just be saying this over and over? Anyone voting for ReformUK will be voting for the introduction of a UK SS, armed to the teeth and ready to terrorise.

Today my pastor of several years was detained by ICE at the lawful demonstration where ICE officers murdered Renee Good. Three times they taunted and asked him if he's afraid yet. They let him go because he's white, saying, "Well you're white and it wouldn't be any fun." This is his story:

How is any of this in any way right? “Muraisi's trial is not scheduled to take place until June, by which time she will have spent close to two years in prison on remand. Or she’ll be dead. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...

Right to protest is under attack in England and Wales, reports warn

Back in November I told Westminster's women and qualities that the UK government needed to get off X. The committee's chair @sarahowen.org.uk is completely right - X is not an appropriate channel for comms. Quite the opposite

The Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense

Dozens of feds, large MPD response, an observer saying he's a physician and had a gun pointed at him for checking the victim's pulse

It's time to embrace climate conspiracy heated.world/p/its-time-t...

A US citizen has apparently been shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis. I’m gathering information, but the situation on the ground is volatile. ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.

MAGA ICE stormtroopers now openly murdering people in the street. I’m happy not to be in the US right now, but this is what Farage has planned for us here in the UK! The far right HAS to be stopped here *before* they seize power and our democracy is bleeding out on the floor like we see in the US

Someone really good needs to do this! 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.gndrising.org/jobs/wales-o...

If the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...

President Trump mocks Keir Starmer for paying £3 billion extra for drugs from the US

New from us: India’s coal-fired power generation fell in 2025 by 3%, only the second drop for a full calendar year since the 1970s, and the first one driven to a significant degree by clean power growth - the only other time coal power fell was due to Covid-19.

wait we can just do this? no impact studies? no community consultation meetings? no council votes? we can make a little bit of bike infrastructure nicer? gosh..

FT doing excellent work here! 👏

Just checking with how Starmer's crusade to ban apps that produce deep fakes is going

all but one of the 19 released wildcats survived their first 10 months, very few signs of injury or disease, and the cats put on an average increase of 20% in bodyweight 😻 this is lovely news (I used to look after some camera traps searching for these in the southern part of the Cairngorms)

Another great reminder that we don't need to retreat and scurry into silence when it feels like right wing forces are surging on climate. If anything, now is when it's most important to be persistent, clear and focused on message discipline!

Just a few things I'd like to say about this @hausfath.bsky.social piece. The first is that every 10th of a degree of heating over 2C raises risks for multiple irreversible catastrophes MORE than every 10th of a degree of heating under 2C. That's why the 2C target exists. It's not random. 🧵

Meanwhile

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

"Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erect inns there. Rationally one wants to have traffic *stop* there, not go *through*." —Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale.

Hopes and prayers is all he can muster

I have lost count of the number of times I have been given this government line in response to SO MANY @politicshome.bsky.social stories about X If the platform was going to "act appropriately", it would have done so by now

As we've been saying for a while: the "backlash" against climate policies has been wildly, absurdly overstated. This new survey shows how UK MPs badly understate support for climate policies www.theguardian.com/environment/...

All my bulbs started to come up just before Christmas

Under the Treason Felony Act 1848, it is a crime punishable by life imprisonment to intimidate parliament or encourage any foreign power to invade the U.K. We should be applying this law to every traitor openly calling for the U.S to depose our democratically elected government.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Next month, the Winter Olympics will get underway in Italy. ⛷️ Stories have now started to emerge about reduce snow cover at Europe's ski resorts. But there is one glaring omission - ENI, the fossil fuel giant sponsoring this year's Games. 💰💨 1/6

It’s time for Starmer to find some backbone. We can’t tiptoe around hoping to be spared, Under Trump, the US is not reliable ally, friend or partner. Where Congress won’t act, other world leaders have duty to call out Trump’s behavior for what it is. Many Americans will also appreciate such clarity.

"it might be an elaborate Instagram proposal!🤞🏻"

Councils struggling to get kids to sign up for swimming lessons in shark infested waters. Like something out of @tomflood.bsky.social Rovélo Record....

Hammersmith Bridge is open, just not to those dragging a few tonnes of metal with them.

A PSA for the benefit of west Londoners regarding the latest steaming horseshit to emanate from Wandsworth council and Putney MP Fleur Anderson regarding Hammersmith Bridge, by which I specifically mean their claim, that traffic is up 25% on Putney Bridge since HB closed in April 2019

The big difference is that solar+battery is fit and forget. Once it's installed, whether from China or anywhere else, it's yours and you are independent. No more payments to anyone. With fossil fuels you're an addict, dependent on your dealer who can make you dance to their tune.

This is a good piece summing up why Venezuela's oil is at least a partial real factor in what happened over the past few days, beyond just 'big reserves'. Some big US oil majors aren't exactly thrilled but the industry itself never found a dirty, inefficient project it couldn't get subsidised....

This is very good. He even gets the language right that too many of our media outlets still fail on. People aren't randomly killed by "cars", but by people driving them. And people are men, women, children, not defined by whether they are "a pedestrian" or "a cyclist". 🙌🏻

Nobody could have predicted this.

Cool cool cool cool cool 🆒

Depressing Yet Familiar

it’s honestly incredible to hear a mayor talk like this about transportation and the harm that comes from cars