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kecastle.bsky.social
Singer, composer, and gardener. roguespeare.com
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The bird dance for the ages

Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy

When a conservative talking point suddenly becomes a widespread topic of conversation in public life, you can bet it's because loads of money has been poured into promoting it. Another crucial exposure by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social : democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

We are just three years away from 1.5°c climate warming barrier - the 'hot' model is the correct one. www.newscientist.com/article/2482...

Ecologists’ horror as nature reserves around the world are emptied of insects - with rising temperatures joining habitat destruction as likely causes: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The astonishing thing is how major mainstream media platforms, publishing companies etc have given this man all the rewards and platforms you might expect them to give an actual great thinker. Actually not astonishing, entirely predictable.

London Tate Modern's incredible 'Electric Dreams' show features artworks inspired by scientific advances. This 60's piece from Wen-Ying Tsai reacts to sound. Strangely relevant for me to how gravity now likely a quantum force via string theory... #science #twocultures #loveletterfromascientist

#KateBush is probably one of the greatest influences on our music. If any #katebush fans are on blue-sky we would really appreciate you giving Roguespeare's debut EP a listen! #artpop #avant-garde #indiemusic #folkmusic #progressivepop #alternativeindiemusic distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

🔴The BBC Must Be Mutualised to End Its ‘Pro-Establishment Bias’ Warns Report It finds that BBC reporting is overwhelmingly focused on the concerns of senior politicians and business people around Westminster, rather than the country at large bylinetimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

Check out the haunting flow of Roguespeare's debut album "Dreaming with the Crow" on all major streaming services Poetic & experimental art pop folk #indiemusic #chill #romancevibes #avant-garde #futurist #alternativeindie #folkmusic #baroquepop distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

NFU president Tom Bradshaw: “A deal in which we open our markets to US produce in return for nothing more than the reduction or removal of tariffs which didn’t exist eight weeks ago would be an unimaginable failure and is not a deal in anything but name” liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/368...

From the Punch archive, 1910: “It’s no good talking to me about Sisyphus: he was only a man.”

Ending poverty could save £75bn a year

“Hours before the eclipse, the trees were able to anticipate the astronomical event and change their bioelectrical behavior to gear up for impending effects like drops in sap flow.” How would that work?? 🧐🧐🧐🧪🔭

Sheep and Einstein's theory of everything? #twocultures #indiemusic #LoveLetterfromaPhysicist #alternativeindie #romanticsongs #chillvibes

Well, despite your disappointment, can I just say that it's always very refreshing when people are so deeply gracious in defeat. #Canada

Our first #hugelkultur is ready for planting! We'll be trying pumpkins & courgettes. A rich mini world of insects are already moving in. These mounds are prime beetle real estate apparently... #farmersmarket #forestgarden

Check out the ethereal flow of Roguespeare's new album "Dreaming with the Crow" on all major streaming services Poetic & experimental art folk caberet #indiemusic #chill #romancevibes #modernpsychedelia distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

We do to nature What we also do to our own selves #Songlinesfromskibbereen #folkmusic #Baroquestyle

Sign of the times-a new board game kickstarting called 'Billionaires & Guillotines'. What with Keir Starmer offering tax breaks to US tech oligachs & the world having to toady to America Inc seems timely #TrumpTariffs #Tesla #R4Today #wealthtax #ElonMusk #Newsnight #BillGates

Me and countless other authors today…😂

I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

The Labour party under Keir Starmer has strayed so far from its founding principles that it is light years away from anything its founders would recognise. It's now a party of big business and corporate interests.

Great news! For too long the vast majority of land has been held by a tiny minority, restricting the public benefits this land could deliver for nature and people.

‘Free speech’ latest…

If the EU could seize this moment, and issue eurobonds, “it would tap in to a deep well of willing buyers keen to trim US exposure” www.ft.com/content/4ba5...

First lifesaving international aid cut. Now billions to be cut from welfare & other govt spending. This govt is clear: if you are the wealthiest in this country, you don't have to contribute more to our society, you can just get richer - it's the poorest who will pay. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Privatised water has failed. Just look at your water bills or the sewage pouring into our rivers. Steve Reed - include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. Sign the petition weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

As we welcome the news that the UK will support Ukraine with a £2.26bn loan… Here’s your reminder that the Conservatives wasted £9.9bn on unusable or defective PPE Never forget their staggering corruption and incompetence.

Please, fill in the #AI consultation TODAY to stop the government gutting copyright. ALCS has a guide to the key questions, you don't need to do all of it. I was impressed by my MP's opposition to the plans. Write to yours. Meet them #PayTheCreator #MadeByHumans. #booksky #filmsky #creative

The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

1. Trump and his Death Eaters cannot tolerate any rival power. Europe, when united, is a major trading and diplomatic bloc. They see Russia (much less of a threat to US hegemony) as an excellent instrument for breaking up Europe, by threat or by force.🧵

SMITE!

“The dream of technology is now under the control of men who are vain, foolish, self-centred, amoral, desperate for power, and in some cases openly fascistic” @iandunt.bsky.social iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...

Saturday

The world may be crazy and chaotic, but I think we can all take a little solace in the fact that cats exist.

This is the standard of political behaviour which the Conservative Party has embroiled itself in. This sewer of racial hatred, paranoia, lies and violent extremism. This sickening pantomime. They are forming a de facto alliance with fascist street thugs inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...

Right winger admits it’s harder to argue with the left because… facts.

Thames Water intentionally diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups towards other costs including bonuses and dividends www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Christ alive this would be a terrible decision. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔴Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers’ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on “free speech” reports @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/12/17/c...

We, too, could have nice things if we collectively demanded them.

“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?” @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

🔴Hot Type: The Cult of the Billionaire Instead of glorifying hoarders of vast un-spendable wealth, the world must finally wake up to the huge damage they are doing, writes @heidicuda.bsky.social www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-t...

Nationalising essential utilities – like water – should not cost taxpayers anything at all youtu.be/TlVbKVBLOiM?... Labour claims taxpayers would face a massive bill for nationalising the water industry. But that’s not true.