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To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect? Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse? Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?

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The solution to the UK's economic problems is to rejoin the Single Market. It's like trying to run a bath and refusing to put the plug in. It is never going to fill up.

submitted 117 days ago • 22 comments

Sleepwalking to a deadly new future? Average temperatures in 2024 1.6°C above pre-industrial levels. It’s way past time for governments and populations to act.

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Justice is not justice when political interference takes place. Fancy being found guilty on 34 counts and then receiving unconditional discharge. #mockery #trump #dishonest #usa #differentrules

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“Dynamic pricing”, especially of tickets for popular sports and cultural events, is just a euphemism for profiteering. #profiteering #pricegouging #unfair #consumers

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BREAKING: 🚨Earth breached the internationally agreed 1.5C target for the 1st time last year, supercharging extreme weather & causing misery - represents ‘levels of heat never experienced by modern humans’ www.theguardian.com/environment/... #LosAngelesWildfire #PacificPalisadesfires

submitted 120 days ago • 5 comments

The warmth of the sun on your face, felt on a cold winter's day is a very particular and pleasant sensation. The word for that is 'apricity'. What a wonderful and little known word from the 17th Century. #words #sun #warmth #winter

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Don't mind waiting 2-3 weeks for #gp appointment to come around but, oh, how I hate the queuing, waiting and uncertainty when telephoning #gppractice for an appointment. My single no.1 gripe that needs fixing desperately #nhswales @nhswalesexecutive.bsky.social

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Hard to disagree with @yuvalharari.bsky.social saying "the beginning of inorganic evolution ... ChatGPT is the amoeba of AI ... what will the dinosaur look like?" #ai #evolution #aievolution #chatgpt #history #world www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfid...

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Bluesky tips: Unlike twitter, liking a post on Bluesky doesn’t get it seen by others. If you want to share a message, you have to repost. Likes: Tell the algorithm what you like, so the app can tailor your Discovery feed Reposts: Tells the algorithm the post is worth sharing with your followers

submitted 123 days ago • 6 comments

Dark chocolate ginger boosts the mood. #chocolate #ginger #goodmood

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#brockenspectre in the Brecon Beacons.

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#bluesky

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Can’t beat a Christmas spent dog sledding in Finnish Lapland. Five years ago.

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What’s the point of having a bot as a follower? How can I even tell if it’s a bot?

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Christmas cake before and after. #christmas #cake #merrychristmas there should have been a picture of a mixing bowl full of the raw ingredients as well but I don’t do time travel.

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Nothing as tingly as seeing your own letter in print on the Readers’ page of your fave magazine.

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Being a postie: is it, in fact, "better than walking the streets?" @slowwaysuk.bsky.social commissioned me to tell all about what happens when a walker becomes a postman... buildstories.slowways.org/could-you-be...

submitted 139 days ago • 2 comments

Prof. Richard Sennett (infed.org/mobi/richard...) has interesting things to say on community, civility, cooperation and the destructive nature of capitalism; especially in USA and UK. His #BookSky ‘Together’ is a fascinating read, accounting much of what we see today as society’s spiralling decline.

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

Royal Mail price for posting a Christmas card to France is £2.80. Outrageous!

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Nigel Farage is owned by Elon Musk, and Elon Musk is interested in the UK because he can privatise our healthcare and make $800bn a year profit. That is double his current net worth, every year. Nigel Farage is the most sold out, corrupt puppet of the lot.

submitted 144 days ago • 36 comments

If you’ve got children, you need to watch Swiped – and see how sick their phones are making them - “Smartphones must sooner or later be universally banned for young people under 16, with the same ferocity as are cigarettes, drugs and knives.”

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Today’s brain puzzler: Hey @bsky.app, how to make my discovery feed give me new stuff rather than just more of the same? It’s hardly discovery otherwise.

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For some people, it’s hard to have original ideas but perhaps there’s a greater value in being able to synthesise effectively?

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Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised. RT if you know it has to be.

submitted 161 days ago • 76 comments

Pen y Fan summit, 886m. Highest mountain in South Wales.

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I want my @bsky.app Discover feed to show me things that surprise and stimulate me, not just to serve up more of the same based on my first 10 likes. #veryannoying

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@bsky.app can we have tablet-sized display area as well as phone-sized please? #veryannoying

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What I’m reading right now #BookSky

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I want to be able to scroll forward from where I left off last time I looked, not backwards from the most recent post in my feed. Miss so much otherwise. What do others think, and can this be implemented please @bsky.app ?

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