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"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.

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A tiny 2% annual wealth tax on assets over £10 million could raise over £5bn from the 15 richest billionaires on the Sunday Times Rich List alone. That’s enough to reverse all of the government’s planned cuts to disability benefits. #DisabilityBenefits #TakingThePIP

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⚠️Global warming caused by humans is advancing at 0.27°C per decade – the highest rate since records began. This is one of the indicators updated every year by over 60 international scientists in the annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report – published today. doi.org/10.5194/essd... /1

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Amnesty International UK said it was “deeply concerned at the use of counter-terrorism powers to target protest groups”. Unless @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social has something serious on Palestine Action beyond vandalism (you cannot “terrorise” inanimate objects) then this is looney tunes stuff.

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Dissent is treated as terrorism, while terrorism is just state policy. #PalestineAction

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

It's about time these stories weren't accompanied by an image of someone frolicking in the water or eating an ice cream. It's not going to stop getting hotter, we really ought to fucking grow up and treat this seriously🤦🏻‍♂️

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

submitted 6 days ago • 142 comments

Essential fluid dynamics www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfbz...

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Much kudos to this new campaign group - give them a follow! @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/06/19/r...

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While the eyes of the world are on Iran, the Israeli military is still slaughtering civilians in Gaza as they try to access food after months of starvation. We can't let the Israeli govt's unprovoked attack on Iran distract us from the unfolding genocide www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Here’s the latest article about why swifts need help and how we can help them personally and politically www.theguardian.com/environment/... @ZacGoldsmith @patrick_barkham

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my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

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Anna Troup wins the Montane Summer Spine Race 2025 Anna Troup won this race in 2021 and 2022. Her course record has stood unchallenged since 2022. She has now returned 3 years later and once again won the women’s race, and this time as the first runner over the line… #SummerSpine #SpineRace

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Why do we continue to treat states as allies when they are so clearly committed to genocide and flouting international law? Are these your values, @labouruk.bsky.social? Do you think we are a country of psychopaths? These are not allies. We're not obliged to aid their atrocities. Let them go.

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🚨 BREAKING UPDATE Labour has FINALLY accepted defeat in our legal challenge of anti-protest powers We won this case in court twice - under both Conservative and Labour leadership Gov must now commit to reviewing ALL arrests made under these unlawful powers www.lbc.co.uk/news/exclusi...

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Every single day. on.ft.com/409SaZx

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Thanks, @bobberzins.bsky.social for writing this guest blog. Detailed observations and commentary about what goes on on Peak District grouse moors... raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/06/18/m...

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The world you grew up in no longer exists Its hot in Alaska as Alaska releases its first heat warming ever as temperatures nearing 90 F (32 C )degrees grist.org/extreme-heat...

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Still a performative ignorance and performative cruelty cult. Such a hideous, pathetic way to live

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The Astronomy Picture of the Day website posted its first picture OTD in 1995. It was a computer-generated image showing how Earth would bend starlight if it had the density of a neutron star. APOD is thirty years old today! 🧪 🔭 apod.nasa.gov/rjn/apod/ap9... Image: Robert Nemiroff

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Studio Ghibli was founded 40 years ago today, on 15 June 1985.

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We are now just a few hours away from what may be the biggest outburst of antiauthoritarian sentiment in America since—I don’t know. Maybe the uprising against the Intolerable Acts in 1774, writes @billmckibben.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/padi...

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What are the current and future environmental impacts of data centres/AI? Who is responsible - companies or individuals? This week's Rare Earth (on BBC R4 at 12:04 and available online afterwards) got pretty lively as we dug into it all. One not to miss! www.bbc.co.uk/progra...

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Backlash is the only thing that works, here. Without backlash, automated, unstoppable lie generation will seep into and infect every single space that human-created information exists

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In this special edition of Talking Climate, I take a fresh look at the rise of climate doomerism—why it’s spreading, what the science says, and why giving up is the only thing that will guarantee our failure. Read the newsletter at the link below!

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Important reading for our UK trail runners - the wild uplands are not all that they seem.

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1🧵We are grateful to @TheLancet for showing climate leadership by extending its ethical advertising ban to the banks funding the fossil fuel crisis. It is time for all medical organisations to divest their banking and investments away from climate destroying infrastructure.

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Eels are classic. And also classical! In fact, they're the only fish mentioned by name in Homer's Iliad. In Book 21, Achilles kills a Trojan in the River Scamander. Like ya do. And immediately, the eels begin to nibble on the dead man's kidneys. Nibble. 'Cause eels are dainty. 🗃️🧪

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