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American Ex-pat in Scotland, girl-dad, UK Denizen. Renewable energy and retrofit expert. Moonlights as a pitch black nightmare deep sea creature.
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Today is International Day of Play. As Ingrid Skeels - @playingout.bsky.social - says below: "we have to make the outside world a place children can play in real life." Instead of debating road "closures", we should be *opening* our streets so more children can play on the streets where they live.

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💔 This story broke today. A New Zealand bottom trawler dragged up 6,000kg of bycatch including protected coral in a SINGLE TRAWL. To protect the ocean for the future the fishing industry must stop trawling vital ocean habitats. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bottom-tr...

Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.

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Our very own Australia Institute Tasmania Director Eloise Carr is currently at the UN Ocean Conference 2025! 🌊🌊🌊 The UN is calling for urgent action from world governments, saying 'the time for incremental progress is over.' #auspol @eloise-carr.bsky.social

WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” @lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet. Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

In Canada, life is not a reality TV show.

Just once, I want to see a mayor give a speech like "I am calling on the good people of our city to rise up, flood into the streets, and push these traitors out of our neighborhoods"

The chemical industry is deploying every weapon in its arsenal to fight efforts to regulate harmful forever chemicals, including calling into question the very definition of what PFAS are, writes Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

this is going around as people finger wag about optics and peaceful protests and i just want to note that the cop here - john pike - received retirement, 8mos of suspended leave pay, and $38k for the pain and suffering of macing kids the students received $6k-30k, most at the lower end

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

The people at @smartelections.bsky.social are moving forward with a major lawsuit in NY over this obvious instance of fraud that took place in the 2024 Election... [ Reposted from @realdlhughley.bsky.social on Instagram ]

The tide is growing. 18 more countries pledge to support a High Seas Treaty as the United Nations Oceans Conference meets in Nice, France. #StopDeepSeaMining #ProtectTheOceans www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

Obligatory reminder that Sen. Cassidy, in explaining his decision to vote to confirm RFK Jr., stated that RFK Jr. had committed that "[i]f confirmed, he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes." This... is a change.

František Katz, 16 years old, just a teenage boy full of hopes and dreams for his future. Murdered by German Nazis like an estimated 1.5 million children. 🕯️

It is truly amazing how much Trump says “I have an unfettered right to rule” and how much the Constitution says “nobody has the right to rule; the people govern themselves” and nobody with any kind of platform or power points out the problem with this

The Ethicist | Our son's lacrosse team has a hazing ritual where they report one another's housekeepers to ICE. One teammate's housekeeper got deported to South Sudan as a result. His parents want restitution since they can no longer get cleaning services for $6/hour. Should we pay them?

The #BBC platforming and blatant preferential treatment of Reform is nauseating and massively antidemocratic. When the hell are they going to be called out and FORCED to give the @greenparty.org.uk equal air time? rebeliusblack.medium.com/five-mps-47-...

Even before Trump 2.0, gov't researchers struggled to assess America’s vulnerability to extreme weather. With few realistic alternatives to critical research from NOAA, NASA, and other agencies, it won’t be insurers, but homeowners and renters, who pay the cost for the White House’s climate denial.

I'll be saving thousands just this year alone from a solar and battery investment. I addition, I intend to expand that investment with heat batteries to reduce my gas usage.

9 June 1904 | A Polish man, Jan Gadomski, was born in Cracow. A doctor. In #Auschwitz fro 29 July 1941 No. 18850 He perished in the camp on 27 February 1943.

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'there is a special place in hell for politicians who object to solar farms & other renewable projects. But perhaps the hottest part is reserved for those who seek to slow pylons and other forms of electricity transmission, they keep us on course for a burning world. bright-green.org/2023/11/07/g...

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Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

Keir Starmer and David Lammy must speak and condemn this interception. All humanitarian aid must be able to reach people desperately in need. The UK govt have been active participants in the genocide. The eyes of the world must be on Gaza. Release the Madleen crew.

The IDF has intercepted and kidnapped the Madleen because they didn't want it to deliver baby formula n other things like that to Palestinians who are experiencing starvation due to the Israeli government refusing to allow aid in. That's the story no matter how you window dress it.

I am extremely concerned about what he is planning at Camp David and I suspect we all should be

This is a consistent theme since yesterday from people on the ground in Paramount. Yes, there are crowds, there are protesters. But they are PEACEFUL. ICE began firing tear gas, flash bangs and smoke bombs once they saw people who happened to be there start filming.

The magic of having the world's only fully privatised and most expensive energy.

Many Border Patrol vehicles and other unmarked cars just exited the anti-ICE protest area in Paramount, California. They were met with fierce resistance from protesters, with a number of vehicles being visibly damaged.

I think we’ve reached the point where it really doesn’t matter if it is ICE or Proud Boys. For these communities, they are all ICE, all Proud Boys, all KKK, all migra. Call them what want, the result & the behavior are the same.

That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.