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All living things. Sanity is a garden to be tended. Facts always. Kindness. It’s bigger than us.
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She is spot on. What the fuck, America? Has every one of your past political leaders turned into Neville Chamberlain overnight? NC was the British PM before Churchill who handed Czechoslovakia to Hitler to appease him. Epic fail. You cannot appease dictators.

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Silence so far from the Australian government on the current coral bleaching event on the northern Great Barrier Reef, repeating mass mortality there in 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2024, No press release = no Australian media coverage.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

An excellent recounting of all the ways Republicans failed to stop Trump and a reminder that it's Republicans who put us here and all of this - waves hands around generally - is on THEM.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

This is a brilliant and rather terrifying analysis of Starmer and the Labour right by the great @owenjones.bsky.social www.owenjones.news/p/keir-starm...

submitted 19 days ago • 165 comments

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

submitted 22 days ago • 364 comments

Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik

submitted 27 days ago • 36 comments

Bravo to scientists speaking out against industry intimidation Discovery of dark oxygen in the ocean was met with personal attacks from deep sea mining companies. Prof Andrew Sweetman says “online bullying” has been “continuous” & a “challenge to live through” www.newscientist.com/article/2465...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

#Gardening Tips 1): If you pay a #gardener for 2 hours to fix an overgrown garden, expect 2 hours solid work, not an immaculate garden. 2) There is no such thing as a no-maintenance garden. 3) Roundup herbicide kills insects (it’s the surfactants, probably).

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Wow

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Important question: when and which political parties lie? This new publication is pretty clear in its findings: radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation. Based on an analysis of 32 million tweets in 26 countries. doi.org/10.1177/1940...

submitted 40 days ago • 13 comments

Don’t be misled by the title. Important insights here from the great AdamTooze. #climate #energytransition #history www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I’d wager that this article tells us nothing about why #Trump is really talking about #Greenland. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Adam Tooze, Chartbook 343: ‘The ecological crisis now must be the pace-setter and the paradigm of all other critical thinking. We have to take seriously ….modern economic history in terms of CO2 emissions ….unmistakably highlights the utter novelty and radicalism of our current moment.’ #climate

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Asking for a friend: how is it possible to have a “Shop pay” account without ever signing up for one? #Shop

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

A cicada: ‘What cicadas leave behind is a kind of crystallised memory’ | Helen Sullivan www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment