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💚🌹Artist & Green socialist🌹💚 Art, environment, politics, border collies, growing veg & learning Italian I hate injustice & inequality hEDS & deafness 💙 NHS Batik Artist http://buffyrobinson.co.uk mum to the @rickardsisters.com graphic novelists

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Rickard Sisters@rickardsisters.com · 15h ago

Would you like to WIN a set of 4 Rickard Sisters tea towels? All you have to do is 🏖️ come to Whitstable 🎨 find the Horsebridge gallery 🎟️ buy a raffle ticket at our free talk* 🤞 be lucky See you there on Thursday evening? * £ to Pilgrims Hospices

Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social · yesterday

“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” @patrickgaley.bsky.social @fossiltreaty.bsky.social

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

theguardian.com

Paul Wilding@pwilding.bsky.social · 2d ago

War closes the Strait of Hormuz, your energy bills climb, and Exxon doubles its profits to $14.5bn in three months. Chevron nearly quadruples. Every fossil-fuelled crisis is their payday. Public ownership of energy isn't radical, letting this continue is.

Paul Wilding@pwilding.bsky.social · 2d ago

Driest July since 1885. Thousands of Londoners without water in a heatwave. 1,100 leaks fixed a week on a network privatisation bled dry for decades of dividends. Thames Water isn't failing, it's working exactly as designed. Take water back into public hands. www.ibtimes.co.uk/thames-water...

Thousands Left Without Water As Thames Water Crisis Hits London In Blistering Heat

Thames Water faces infrastructure issues during Britain's third heatwave, affecting water supply in London and Home Counties. Residents experience no water or low pressure as temperatures soar.

ibtimes.co.uk

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d ago

Everywhere I look today I keep seeing: 1) deadly wildfires ripping through our communities 2) people desperately trying to get by as energy costs soar 3) record oil & gas profits When will we see that these three things are connected? www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Big Oil Is Reaping Rewards From the Chaos in Energy Markets

ExxonMobil’s earnings doubled and Chevron posted its highest quarterly earnings on record as energy prices soared during the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

wsj.com

Rickard Sisters@rickardsisters.com · 5d ago

Do we think Mamdani has read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists? This is a key step in the book’s proposals for a better future: government stores selling the necessities of life at affordable prices

A full page of THE Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel, depicting a futurist style woman with groceries, as part of a described ‘better way’. The text reads: “State-owned shops will supply state employees with the necessities of life at the lowest possible prices. At first the stace wil buy from private manufacturers, in huge quantities to get things cheap. There won't be any advertising. The sole aim will be to supply goods at low prices, so they will be cheaper than profit-making private stores. The national shops will be just for those in public service, as they won't take metal money. At first, everyone will be paid in metal money, but public servants could opt to be paid all or part in tokens for the national shops, hotels restaurants, and so on. The national shops will sell practically everything for low prices, so it wont be long before people will prefer tokens. Anyone unemployed and willing to work will be employed cultivating land or making food, boots, clothing, furniture, and all the necessities and comforts of life.” A book cover: on a bottle green background a man is painting an ornate sign which reads Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. A young lad sits by his feet and is passing him a cup of tea in a tin mug. An older man in a painty bowler hat is reading a comic.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 5d ago

The cost of groceries has become one of the defining challenges of the affordability crisis. That's why our municipal grocery stores will offer a 30% discount on the grocery staples New Yorkers depend on — from meat to produce to dairy.

Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 6d ago

Is “pragmatic” the new, “grown up” word? Andy, there’s nothing “pragmatic” about drilling for more oil & gas - to even consider it with the planet literally on fire is total madness. How many times must we say it will do nothing for energy bills or security? It would be an act of utter recklessness

Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas

PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’

theguardian.com

Rickard Sisters@rickardsisters.com · last wk.

When we adapted This Slavery into a graphic novel, we set the action in the town where the writer, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, lived and worked. That meant several joyous trips to Great Harwood in Lancashire - including this one after the book was finished ☔️

Rickard Sisters@rickardsisters.com · 2w ago

Kitchens are the heart of a home, and in this case at the heart of a story. Kitchens are also workplaces, where labour happens and important meetings take place. We love kitchens.

Pete Marchetto@petemarchetto.bsky.social · 3w ago

... were 'led to expect' this, that or the other and Burnham has let them down, even U-turned. I don't think we should ignore the rumours, but I think we need to come at them AS rumours, not do the work of the right for it by ourselves treating what may be nothing more than malicious briefing as...