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On understanding the 'personality of volcanoes. What’s a ‘Strombolian eruption’? A volcanologist explains what happened at Mount Etna theconversation.com/whats-a-stro...

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Just do it Albanese…the USA under Trump is anti science, anti education, anti DEI etc and most importantly no longer reliable or serious. #australia #horizoneurope #trump #trumpism #research #science #australianresearch #australianscientists #albanesepm #auspol #australianpolitics

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Five years ago Edward Colston's statue got thrown into Bristol Harbour. Despite many arguing that it was cancel culture, I'd suggest that the opposite was true as far more people subsequently learned about Colston's life as a result than had ever done before. An era defining moment either way.

submitted 13 hours ago • 29 comments

There's never been a better or cheaper time to take Thames Water into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP Our letter to Environment Secretary Steve Reed today 👇 Signed by @weownit.org.uk @compassoffice.bsky.social @windrushwasp.bsky.social @henleymermaids.bsky.social weownit.org.uk/news/steve-r...

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Thanks to The SNP, Scotland's education system still produces one of the best educated adult populations in Europe 👏 Westminster isn't in charge: we have no England-style Academies or Grammar schools. A much smaller proportion go to private schools. University fees are paid by our Government.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

The tactic for Labour should be simple. Govern as a Labour Party. Don’t try to take Reform’s place, or Reform’s voters. Let Reform implode.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

While Reform has a mini meltdown and Musk/Trump tear chunks out of each other, maybe media could start scrutinising these grifting tossers who do nothing but harm and call it patriotism. They don’t even know how to behave, let alone decide policy. Time to start binning off these foghorns of failure.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

I really don't agree with biosecurity laws being 'reviewed' to allow US beef into Australia If US beef can't pass our strict biosecurity laws that keep our farming communities safe, healthy & free of disease then that's just too fucking bad, not our problem 🐝 #auspol

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'Musk spent $277m to help get Trump elected. If this happened somewhere else we would call it corruption'... 'Musk got his Doge gig, through which he weakened all the agencies that were regulating his businesses in the name of saving the US a load of money.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Links to my media etc on #AtlasNetwork's history of fossil fuel funding of anti-climate policy, anti-Indigenous campaigns, neoliberal & authoritarian policies in #Auspol, #NZpol and globally. My scholarly work also at Researchgate & my UTS page. Pls send wide! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

submitted 120 days ago • 12 comments

This is a stain on Parliament. A vulgar triumph of prissy legalism and historical fabrication over justice and reality. Naked exercise of majoritarian power to punish those who insist that the truth of history is still the truth even if it is not popular www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Yikes

submitted 3 days ago • 665 comments

🚨BREAKING: Wael Al-Dahdouh has just delivered a speech to journalists in the UK demanding our government stops arming Israel. And telling UK journalists they must use their platforms to speak out against Israel's genocide or risk complicity. #AmnestyMediaAwards

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

This is welcome and long overdue. MPs are now calling on the UK government to ban trawling and dredging in "Marine Protected Areas". It's outrageous that this wholescale destruction is permitted anywhere, let alone in these "reserves". It has to stop. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

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The world's clean-energy investments are now twice as large as those in fossil fuels, the latest IEA data shows

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Russia abducts, indoctrinates & militarizes Ukrainian children – seeking to erase Ukrainian identity entirely. A crime so cruel, it defies belief. As 🇺🇦 marks the Day of Remembrance for Children Lost to War, let’s call it what it is: war crimes & crimes against humanity. 🇷🇺 must be held accountable.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

This seems important — we’ve been talking for a long time about how “short trips” make up a LOT of traffic in cities & have BIG implications for pollution and GHG emissions. So it’s a big opportunity to convert them to walking or biking trips. But guess what — they’re ALSO REALLY BAD FOR YOUR CAR.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

The infighting and chaos surrounding a President with no grip on reality means that the US under Trump will be too feeble to stop Russia and too paralysed to stop Ukraine Lessons that over time the EU, India, Iran, KSA, Brazil and other big players will start acting on as well

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

“Trading out the four wheels [of a car] for a bicycle on trips under a mile could save nearly two million metric tons of CO2 each year in the US alone.” This and 9 other myths about short trips in cities that might make you reconsider using a car for them. Discuss. #TheTruthAboutTraffic

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

As the USA shuts down programs to develop HIV vaccines, we have exiting news from Australia of new work delivering RNA encoding bits of HIV to T cells #Immunosky 🧪🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Public transport investment? Always good. But it must extend to making our bus and rail network accessible to all and slashing train fares. The money’s there, being wasted on traffic inducing road schemes, let's use it to make the greenest transport, the easiest and cheapest.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Another demonstration of the fact that there is no point in bending to Trump, not just morally, but strategically. Columbia gave in & he just hits them harder... MAGA's goal is to destroy the universities (& newspapers & law firms etc etc etc) and the only logical approach is to unite and fight back

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Ukraine’s spectacular drone attack on Russia revealed that a small but innovative nation can deploy cheap, scalable, decentralized tech to challenge a much larger, conventionally superior foe, writes @ianbremmer.com. The lessons will reverberate globally. www.gzeromedia.com/300-ukrainia...

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This is a slippery slope. Pandering to the whims of antivax eejits is both unethical and impractical. There have been multiple good retrospective studies showing matched vaccines are superior. Moderna are appeasing their new ignorant paymasters. @krishgm.bsky.social www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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Bet even the Emperor sat naked in his palace makes jokes about Donald Trump. Trump is a fraud, thrashing around doing insane stuff while being applauded by salivating morons.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

My father, bless him, would follow cars that "look like they know where they are going."

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

Since becoming an MP, Nigel Farage has managed to fit in nine trips to the US, has held down twelve jobs, which earned him nearly £1million, but has been too busy to hold any surgeries for people in Clacton who actually voted for him.

submitted 4 days ago • 111 comments

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THREAD: I’m going to share this thread here to clearly state my perspective on electric vehicles, car dependency and better cities, for all those who frequently ask me about it, including media, elected leaders and many others. Here goes. Please share it frequently if you think it will help. 🧵#EVS

submitted 207 days ago • 111 comments

Europeans see it clearly: Russia’s war is a threat to EU security, and they back sanctions. The EU must act and adopt the 18th sanctions package, targeting Russia's energy and financial sectors. Time to strike the aggressor where it really hurts.

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This is incredibly unfair: high-income nations with large dairy sectors are looking to adopt a "no additional warming" target, avoiding the methane cuts needed to meet international targets and pledges. We have written an open letter to the NZ PM and I spoke to the FT👇🧵 www.ft.com/content/2ea6...

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The foolish rationale for spending $368B on #AUKUS subs is to support the US in war with China over Taiwan. The US says this could happen in 2027. We won’t get US subs until at least 2032; if ever. AUKUS is strategic folly at every level. But don’t expect anyone to admit that. #auspol

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

Despite the video evidence. Despite the witness testimonies. Despite the testimonies of aid agencies and doctors. Despite overwhelming evidence of Israel relentlessly lying about its atrocities. The BBC still muddies the water about today's Israel aid massacre.

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

🕸️🃏 "Zelensky has no cards…" they said

submitted 6 days ago • 408 comments

You take one nap and 1/3 of the russian strategic bomber fleet evaporates. 5 aibases hit with 40 frames destroyed with drones launched locally from special built trailers sneaked into russia

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🔥🔥JUST CONFIRMED NUCLEAR SUBMARINE BASE was ATTACKED 🟡russians confirm that the nuclear submarine base and the headquarters of the Northern Fleet of the russian Navy were attacked in Severomorsk.

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"History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists who are able and willing to do so will have to enter the public arena ... This is such a time." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Tariffs crush American Agriculture. Trade War Escalates - The U.S. farm collapse is no longer a distant warning, it’s happening now.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

This is Olenya airbase - one of Russia’s key strategic aviation facilities, hosting aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapon

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Brilliant !

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Farage would plunge UK into 'Liz Truss doom loop' - 10 times he praised ex-PM www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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🔥🔥 JUST WOW!! LOOKS LIKE 3 AIRBASES ARE BURNING ALREADY Meanwhile, it is reported that explosions are already taking place at the third airbase - Diaghilevo. At least 7 explosions have been recorded.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments