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Atmospheric Physics PhD, working in IT during the day, climate intervention in the evening. Centre-left, green, parent, songwriter, joiner of dots. #RejoinEU #ClimateEmergency. Edinburgh, UK. Normally FB
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Today in #FAFO news...

AP reporting Red Cross hospital in Gaza saying at least 21 people killed and another 175 injured in Gaza as they went to receive aid from an Israeli-backed foundation.

🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage’s “economically illiterate” clean energy crackdown would cost 60,000 jobs, knock £92 billion off the economy, and raise bills.

WikiLeaks was accused by Clinton of acting as a “fully owned subsidiary of Russian intelligence” after it published damaging emails, allegedly stolen by Russian operatives, during the presidential election campaign. Wikileaks regularly published Russian propaganda.

Reports of Bluesky's death have been greatly exaggerated.

Republicans are retooling the $42.5 billion infrastructure bill broadband grant program so they can hand billions of dollars in new subsidies to Elon Musk's congested, expensive, ozone-layer depleting satellite broadband service. Which means redirecting it away from better, cheaper, faster options:

The USA is barely recognizable after 4 months; if you think you can sit on the sidelines and it will be handed back to you in four years you are out of your mind.

A stable genius.

Margaret Thatcher. RT if you still do too.

"The consequences of state-dictated science can be catastrophic. When a researcher who denied the reality of genetic inheritance and natural selection, won favor with Stalin ... His disastrous agricultural prescriptions led to famines that killed millions." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump is not just a TACO on tariffs, he is a TACO Supreme when it comes to Putin.

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

Amazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration." I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech.

"There is a new kind of opposition to climate action. We are facing a discredit of climate policies. I don’t think we are facing climate denial. It’s not a scientific denial, it’s an economic denial." #ClimateEmergency #COP30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"[NGOs] have 'clearly identified' acts of genocide enacted by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), the letter says, while public statements by the Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir 'openly express genocidal intentions'." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.

To lean on the gloomy threads about Bluesky’s demise. Bluesky is fine and does the right things. For the past 3 months it’s been much better in detecting bots, suspending abusive users, and labeling spam farms. Bluesky doesn’t prioritize engagement stats; if it did, boosting them would be easy.

"registrations for new Teslas halved in April compared to ... a year earlier, despite a broader rise in battery electric vehicles." "the drop 'suggests the brand damage caused by Elon Musk’s political interventions may be lasting'." Used #swasticar anyone?🤪 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Dieselgate pollution killed 16,000 people in UK, study estimates

"Trump’s media company to take $2.5bn investment to buy bitcoin" 🤪 "During an event at Mar-a-Lago during.his presidential campaign in May 2024, #Trump received assurances that crypto industry backers would spend lavishly to get him re-elected"💩 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chris✝️insanity

UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

A few fellow skyers have already posted this but worth another post, if you want to see what this Government has done in just over 10 months check it out here whathaskeirdone.co.uk/results you'll probably have 'missed' the MSM reports.