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HOW TO HELP BUMBLEBEES 💛 Queens are waking up from their long winter sleep about now. Once she emerges from her hibernation burrow she spends a lot of time resting, allowing her metabolism & temperature to rise. Here see she is warming up her body ready for flight. 🧵

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NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

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New study confirms previous findings: most people underestimate the environmental/climate impacts of behaviours like flying and eating meat/dairy. More accurate perceptions lead to change in individual behaviour and in support for relevant policies. See 🧵👇

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🔴Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is Now Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Threat, Finds Report The ‘State of Hate’ report comes in the wake of last summer’s racist riots and growing waves of extremist sentiment stirred up by public figures like Elon Musk bylinetimes.com/2025/03/07/n...

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Lots of talk about ‘left behind’ places & far-right’s rise. How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support? In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper exploring Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out shorturl.at/xgeho

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Absolute top notch combination of headline and photo here.

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🧵One of the biggest learnings I've had about being #disabled is that adaptation and accommodation = freedom. Here's me, absolutely buzzing with joy on my first cruise round the park with my new rollator. Feeling more free 😀 1/2

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So much profound beauty in our world. But it seems the forces unable to see beyond their own wealth, power, and egos are in the ascendant right now. It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍

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Norwegian government announces that it's more than doubling its support for Ukraine this year, up from €3bn to €7.2bn. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre: "We are increasing support because there is a need for it, and it is a solid contribution to peace and stability in Europe."

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Eutelsat, the owner of OneWeb, a satellite rival to Starlink, said today that it was “actively collaborating with European institutions and business partners,” adding that it had equipment that could be “deployed swiftly in Ukraine to connect the most critical missions and infrastructures.”

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If you're wondering what happens when a democracy slides into authoritarianism, here it is! truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off. That's what blackmail looks like. That's what the world is up against.

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🚨BREAKING - Steve Reed has just launched the biggest review into the water sector since privatisation. But wait…..he says the commission can’t even consider public ownership. 🤯 We need to act quickly to change his mind. ⏰ Sign our petition now ✍️ weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

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FT says "The US Congress is missing in action". Also civil society, trade unions, press, Church, judiciary, academics missing as the US shifts to fascism. All protecting their position, currying favours. What of the long-term? Europe slow to respond. Need new alliances. archive.ph/hVMn8

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🇪🇺🇬🇧 Through my first set of meetings in Brussels. The praise for Starmer is overwhelming: “What he has managed to do is not just good for him. It's good for all of us. Absolutely top notch. This is the UK at its best. The UK we have always admired.

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This is a really important step in the right direction - better stick pay keeps people healthier (as they are less likely to try to work while sick) and also in employment www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...

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NEW: "There is no set of measures the DWP can cook up that will achieve the savings the Treasury is demanding, on the timescale it is demanding them, without blanket-bombing disabled people." My deep dive on what the DWP isn't trumpeting about its latest research: www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

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old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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This article makes the point which needs answering: it’s not just that you expect Russia to break a ceasefire (they will eventually) but they lead the world in hybrid war which they’ll be rolling out on day one. on.ft.com/3DfwKlu

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"Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats" www.science.org/cont...

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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

submitted 9 days ago • 170 comments

It's important to me to learn from others and even if I disagree with someone, I try to at least understand where they are coming from. It's why I follow a broad range of accounts and views.

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Re sharing since Bluesky is really taking off now 💙

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Does that include Trump? on.ft.com/41ednB9

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I used to enjoy a bit of a mindless scroll on Insta from time to time. Even that's gone to shite, with mainly videos and identity politic pile-ons in the comments. Just show me some cooking inspo and pics from my friends FFS

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For the love of god

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The UK's anti-protest laws pre-legitimise far right authoritarianism. Labour must repeal them now. My column today. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

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Incredible. Full scale coup underway in the U.S as he's just sacked the military generals. @cnn.com's expert analysis suggesting to 'take the politics out of it'. #trump

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Hey #disability community, does anyone know of a program, fund, or mutual aid that could help me afford a service dog? I need one trained for POTs and the price of everything is astronomical Any help would be appreciated! #ChronicIllness #NEISvoid #POTs #Dysautonomia

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This woman is dignity and courage personified. This case perfectly demonstrates the banality of evil of normalised sexual violence against women everywhere.

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How many voters got turned away or dissuaded from voting at #GE2024 - and take a guess at which party probably benefited. doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...

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I'm starting a campaign (well, more of a mini rant before coffee) against blocklists. Can we go back to trusting ourselves to block someone as and when they piss us off on our feed, rather than relying on someone else to tell us who we shouldn't talk to? Who's with me? #BlocklistsAreShit

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💩Quite the sentence here from Dieter Helm on the cascade of failures that has led Thames Water, and the UK water sector more generally, to the pretty pass it's in right now 👇 From this long piece, which is well worth a read dieterhelm.co.uk/regulation-u...

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Wealth tax wealth tax wealth tax wealth tax wealth tax wealth tax wealth tax wealth tax wealth tax!!! #budget #starmer #reeves

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March for Clean Water on 26th October 24, is a gathering for people to protest the state of our waterways. They demand the government end pollution and restore our rivers, waterways, seas and reservoirs to full health by 2030. marchforcleanwater.org?fbclid=PAZXh...

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Come the fuck on. This is not a lot to ask. Unite calls for 1% wealth tax on super-rich to fund UK public sector pay rises www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

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I could not love this more. This is the message right here. I hope more young boys see this and know they don’t have to follow the path of toxic masculinity & patriarchal bullshit. Express your feelings. Support women. Listen. 🎨 Stephanie Chinn Art www.instagram.com/p/C--7VCgpN3...

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Just had my first ever submission declined by a leading journal for 'lacking rigour''. Feeling pretty deflated. Can I ask for elaboration or is that not the done thing? #AcademicSky

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