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We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

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“Things aren’t just getting worse. They’re getting worse faster,” says @hausfath.bsky.social. Kinda seems like a bad time for the US to scrap all its clean energy policy & double down on fossil fuels.

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

Feels like this should be getting more attention: Treasury today: The govt's new Infrastructure Strategy includes "£16bn to establish a new, publicly-owned National Housing Bank that will end the social housing crisis once and for all." Even accounting for spin, that could be quite significant...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

I can officially confirm it is taps aff weather in Glasgow city centre tonight.

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

Repost as much as possible. Allegedly speaks for the working classes, but continually votes against bills that would make the working classes lives better. If you thought the Tories were horrendous in the 14 years leading up until the last GE. Farage, & Reform Limited would be much more worse.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

This is what to do with JD Vance in Bluesky

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

THE INDEPENDENT: Legal risks loom as UK faces pressure to engage in US-led strikes on Iran, with the attorney general cautioning against involvement unless directly threatened. - by Archie Mitchell

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Instant block for Vance 😡

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Amazing correction in the Telegraph.

submitted 17 hours ago • 41 comments

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

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Governor Tim Walz, "The way our nation moves forward is not through hate. It is not through violence. It is through humility, and grace, and compassion.

submitted 2 days ago • 962 comments

The BBC has many journalists with a deep understanding of the Middle East but insist on using the woeful Chris Mason to interview Starmer using his usual gotcha type questioning.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

Despite being declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern 10 months ago, the mpox outbreak is not over. And in places like Sierra Leone, it is spiralling. ✍️ @pauladepoju.bsky.social reports: tinyurl.com/fn99vt6u

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

If like me you've ever been accused of being born in a barn and want to chat about it, remember: my door is always open.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

Here’s the massive, magnificent but very rare Octobasse, invented in 1850. To play it, the musician must stand on a platform. You can hear its rather alarming deep bass tone, and see it being played, at www.youtube.com/watch?v=12X-...

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Turtle Mutual Aid:

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Dreadful and shocking news from Minnesota where Tim Walz is Governor. 🔴 Two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota shot in their separate homes www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

This gives every impression of troops trying very hard not to march in step.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Listening to an interview of a woman whose husband was taken by ICE. It’s very like the family stories I heard about Kristallnacht, but without the broken glass, and spread out rather than on one day. People desperate to get family members back but no idea how, and opposition at every point.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Poor old vaccines. Plugging away and saving countless lives for decades, then an incredible success for rapid discovery and deployment for a couple of years. But now for no reason anyone can give, shunned and suppressed, with terrible consequences for illness and death. An America Tragedy.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

"We are the party of fiscal responsibility" says Mel Stride, whose party famously triggered a bond market meltdown which crashed the UK economy and plunged the pound to its lowest ever level against the dollar

submitted 8 days ago • 51 comments

#booksky

submitted 8 days ago • 47 comments

Trump underwater in literally every single issue. 38% approval overall. 27% approval on his spending bill. 40% approval on deportations. Musk also at 30% approval. 38% approval for RFK Jr. 35% approval for JD Vance. Nobody fucking wants any of this. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

submitted 8 days ago • 293 comments

It’s about time.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Best for Britain CEO Naomi Smith: "Leaving the EU, a project spearheaded by Nigel Farage, has been a disaster for Welsh farmers, business owners and young people" 🚨 However, alignment with the EU could provide a 0.36% boost each year for Wales! www.bestforbritain.org/closer_uk_eu...

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🔴Reform UK’s Elon Musk-Style ‘Doge’ Team Is in Turmoil Following Major Resignations The team set up by Nigel Farage to slash spending in the local authorities his party now runs across England is already falling apart bylinetimes.com/2025/06/06/r...

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🚨 Reform UK is in crisis. Again. Just hours after a row over a proposed burqa ban, party chairman Zia Yusuf has quit. He says it’s no longer worth trying to get Reform elected. If Farage’s own chairman has lost faith, why should voters back them?

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On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

Ukraine says it has struck bridge connecting Russia to Crimea with underwater explosives, days after its attack on Russian air bases.

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

Ukraine used $47,000 in drones to inflict $7,000,000,000 of damage. War changed today. Forever.

submitted 18 days ago • 72 comments

Summer 1974 and the ferry from Burtonport Co. Donegal to Bran Island has made room for a “precariously perched car”. According to photographer Frank Bodson, the whole caboodle “excited no interest” among those on-board. (Observer magazine, 1/9/74.)

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

🔥 Because I've not seen it anywhere yet... Here's a map I made of the 4 Russian air bases that Ukraine hit with drone attacks just now (red stars) Look how deeply they penetrate into Russian territory. From the Arctic Circle to mid-Siberia, nowhere in Russia is now safe. Slava Ukraini. ✊

submitted 18 days ago • 29 comments

The shadow justice secretary went head-to-head with Lewis Goodall.

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad: 1. The Swimming Pool.

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I still remember my shock as a child when I was told that in America you had to pay for healthcare. “What if you’re really ill but don’t have the money?” I asked. I was answered with a shrug. That increasingly seems to be US official policy on an widening range of issues.

submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments

Rise in crashes caused by tourists driving on wrong side of Scottish roads

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HIV VACCINE sabotaged

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If nothing can be done in America to stop the US government from destroying America's leadership in science and technology then the EU and UK need to be pragmatic about seizing European strategic opportunities that emerge through American decline.

submitted 19 days ago • 87 comments

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

submitted 20 days ago • 188 comments