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My feelings about generative AI: 1) I'm highly skeptical it'll ever work 2) It's distracting from actual use cases for AI 3) We need a pause until it can be done without wrecking the environment or stealing IP 4) If it does have real potential then it shouldn't be controlled by ruthless people

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Your 'moment of doom' for May 14, 2025 ~ Sooner than expected. “We’re witnessing ice dynamics that simply shouldn’t happen on these timescales. The acceleration pattern suggests we’ve potentially crossed a critical threshold that our models didn’t anticipate until the 2040s.”

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

most effective ways to motivate climate action Interventions ✅target future thinking Ex. write a letter for a child to read in the future ✅why climate change matters to people & loved ones —inspire people to share articles & petitions ❌focus on individual carbon footprints, is not effective

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Do not like.

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Look at her… Her name is Siwar and she is 6 months old Her tiny body desperate for food that is being deliberately held from her and countless others By an Israeli government that couldn’t be clearer as to its aims …and our ‘leaders’ watch on.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

15 years on, 230,000 badgers dead, and no meaningful reduction in bTB in cattle. Lets end the cull now, not years down the line. Sign the petition govpetition.uk/700317

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

It’s quite easy being veggie if you like and can cook Indian food. I’ve collected together some of my favourite recipes which you can download from this page alomshaha.com/simple-sag-a...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

COP30 is this year, and there's an anti-COP under way in Brazil, supported by Jair Bolsonaro's son. If you want a flavour of what's happening on the ground, I recommend supporting the Observatory for Information Integrity, which has just started an English language newsletter.

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"Israel killed nearly two-thirds of the 124 journalists who died around the world in 2024" - you would imagine this would cause a commotion in the world of news journalism, wouldn't you.

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

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One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

Who owns the South Downs? My new investigation maps the 29 landowners who own over 100,000 acres of the South Downs, stretching 100km along the chalk outcrop - from dukes and viscounts to councils & offshore companies: whoownsengland.org/2025/05/07/w...

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Couldn't have put it better myself ! Climate change is real , and fossil fuels are killing our planet . Just 5 days left to force a Parliamentary debate on banning fossil fuel ads – sign my petition today govpetition.uk/700024

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development The government’s own Impact Assessment for its Planning Bill states “there is very limited data on how environmental obligations affect development” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Spanish bluebells in the UK are a current and long term threat to our native English bluebells through hybridisation. Perhaps in a few hundred years we will have lost purity. Why do we still allow their sale in the UK? It should be banned now. @wtscotsocial.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

🔥 This is important. Really important. And none of the mainstream media are reporting it. So please read and share — because we are the news community for ourselves and the “mainstream” media are utterly hopeless for meaningful news.

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

Don’t let a man who is hardly at his own desk make you an absent parent or carer. Flexible working means more people can balance caring and career commitments - research consistently shows it makes a workforce happier, healthier and crucially there’s no loss of productivity. Our future. Not his.

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

You gotta laugh at the guys who go on about survival skills and being totally self-sufficient – preparing for the collapse of civilization. You know the solution to all that? Civilization. It’s the ultimate survival plan. We tried all the others and taking care of each other beat everything else.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered land and seascapes #WomensArt

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Invertebrate of the year 2025: vote for your favourite - Since February we’ve gone in search of the invertebrate of the year. Now it’s your chance to choose #teamcuttlefish www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 46 days ago • 9 comments

"autism, as we understand it today, was only recognised just over half a century ago when Leo Kanner first identified and named the condition. In 1943, while the Second World War was still ongoing, the condition was referred to as Kanner Syndrome"

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Happy Mother’s Day! (My cartoon for @theguardian.com books)

submitted 50 days ago • 14 comments

WOMENSART blog: Extraordinary Painter Betty Acquah womensartblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/28/e...

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Textile artist Jenni Dutton, from the large scale 'Dementia Darnings' series, started in 2011 whilst she was a carer for her #mother who was developing the condition #womensart

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Black lives matter. Gay, lesbian and trans people deserve the same rights as everyone else. Workplaces, and their staff & customers/clients benefit when they accommodate diversity. People should be allowed to follow their religion. These statements reflect basic human rights and a civilised society.

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

Happy #WorldRewildingDay 🌎 Rewilding offers a powerful solution to the interconnected climate and nature emergencies – but it’s a solution we must all work on together.

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

These attacks on protest and freedoms cannot be fought in isolation or in movement silos. We need broad, brave coalition. Climate, Palestine, labor, migrant, trans and reproductive rights; academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association ... Together we are mighty. Divided we fall.

submitted 60 days ago • 10 comments

Photographer Kathryn Cooper captures the fluid movement of birds, particularly migrating starling murmurations at roost sites across the North of England UK #WomensA

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Who could have predicted it? Lord Darzi, who led the rapid review of the NHS, held $500k undeclared shares & $800k undeclared share options in private health companies - all missing from his House of Lords register of interests - when Streeting appointed him. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 61 days ago • 19 comments

Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 63 days ago • 151 comments