The marvelous marble caves in Patagonia, Chile. 🇨🇱
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Former research bioscientist now part-time librarian and sailor.
Windfall tax on colossal bank profits could raise £19bn in 2026. Result of profiteering and govt policies. Sufficient to increase frozen personal income tax allowance by nearly £2,000. Banks paid out £25bn in bonuses in the year to March, can easily pay more tax.
Windfall tax on colossal bank profits could raise £19bn in 2026
Burnham urged to resist lobbyists and tax banks to pay for his cost of living measures
positivemoney.org
And now, a little Vivaldi. Michel Tirabosco, a renowned pan flute player, collaborating with Raphaël Froissart. He is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory. Born with physical differences, he began playing the pan flute at 7 and has achieved international recognition for his skill. #streetmusic
✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton
How brilliant! Long may it and similar continue.
Judy Weston@westonjk.bsky.social · 6d agoSeattle, stopover for the 2026 Intertribal Canoe Journey: Paddle to Nisqually Medicine Creek Potlatch. 80-over 100 ocean-going cedar canoes arrived from across the PNW: Alaska, BC & the Olympic Peninsula. As a Native Hawaiian, it was an honor to witness a sacred Native American living ceremony.
France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼
"‘Major victory’: Sweden plans to ban forever chemicals in everyday products ahead of EU" www.euronews.com/2026/07/24/m...
Sweden to ban cancer-causing ‘forever chemicals’ sooner than EU
Sweden plans to ban forever chemicals in kitchen appliances and clothing by 2028. When will the EU follow suit?
euronews.com
Half of the country is in "exceptionally serious drought" - putting us at more risk of wildfires and threatening our food security. Meanwhile water companies are wasting a staggering 2.87 billion litres of water every day through leaky pipes. Time to end water privatisation.
The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.
James from Surfers against Sewage on the private water companies continuing to dump sewage into our rivers & seas during the hot summer: "This is what happens when you have a water system that's privatised, that prioritises profit over public health" Spot on #GMB
The town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales is completely dedicated to books and has 26 bookshops but only 2000 residents. That’s one bookshop per 77 people. [📹 happyenchantedhome]
58 days of relentless resistance. 🦩 Albanians are standing up against land grabs, corruption, and authoritarian overreach to defend their public lands and democratic rights. When the people unite, real change happens. Keep raising your voices, Albania! 🇦🇱
For anyone who needs encouragement this is precisely how to fight fascism! #SheShed #ImpeachIndictRemove
This is what "Reform" would create in the UK if they get into power.
Bill Leibenguth@bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · last wk.
We recorded a total of 13 Ocean Sunfish off the Pembrokeshire coast during our pelagic trip on Friday. Amazing creatures! #NationalMarineWeek @wtsww.bsky.social
Remembering on his death anniversary, English blues rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and founder of Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green 💖 (Born: Peter Allen Greenbaum; 29 October 1946 – 25 July 2020).
Top of the morning, Bluesky! #Gaudi is EVERYWHERE in Barcelona. #BlueSkyArtShow #Glass #EastCoastKin #Stunday
PM Carney: "I'm going to take this opportunity to thank President Scheinbaum and the Mexican people for sending 200 firefighters to help us with our fires here. That's what friends do when you have crisis and fires." 🎥 Credit CBC News ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA🇨🇦🍁❤️
In case you didn’t have enough reasons to love Spanish football, here’s some more wholesome content of the male players paying their respects to the women’s team, which also won the world cup www.instagram.com/reel/DbEsgxe...
Snagged this from FB. This may make some people uncomfortable but I think it highlights just how far we've come from what's natural, from our relationship to the Earth that sustains us and our beautiful relatives we share it with.