Andrew Green
@drandrewjgreen.bsky.social
I write about music and musicians, activism, climate + environmental crisis, México. Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music @KCL. Nie wszystko co pozytywne jest realne
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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Paul Marshall, the co-owner of GB News, has tripled his hedge fund investments in fossil fuel companies in the first quarter of 2026 to £2.1bn. They're a propaganda channel cashing in on destroying our future. Always follow the money.
Total insanity at a time wildfires intensified by climate change are ripping across the UK www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails
£2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport
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❗️Zelensky: Today, many were shocked by another video of the Russian drone safari against people in Kherson. The man was injured by the explosion. The world must see this. It must see every fact that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that the Russian military enjoys killing and mocking people.
Btw, just in case you had any illusions left that Trump’s promise of a license for Ukraine to was genuine, the US NATO ambassador just said nothing can happen until winter at the earliest. It was all a cruel joke to weaken Ukraine by the USA. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
US ambassador to NATO believes agreement on joint production of interceptors for Patriot systems is unlikely before winter
US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker has said that talks on the joint production of interceptors for Patriot air defence systems with Ukraine and European partners are ongoing, but that an agreement...
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View of wildfire on Middlewick Ranges in Colchester
Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree
Latest free piece is out. Praising a racist, conspiracist, anti-democratic, Trump-worshipper because she takes one position you like is a dangerous move and is to be regretted. The struggle is basically the same in the US and Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
It Is All One
Because a Racist, Conspiracist, Anti-Democrat, Oppression-Supporting, Trump-Worshipper Takes One Good Position, Does Not Make Her Worthy Of Praise
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Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains
Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 2w agoPost a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains
Not the point and not going to sway anyone, but as someone who has a degree in (among other things) biological anthropology, I just want to point out that the argument that there is only a gender binary is complete and utter bunk, the sort of thing that gets demolished in a 101 course on this stuff.
"Don't comply in advance" includes not telling everyone around you that things are only going to get worse and that there's no hope for anything. Cynicism is complicity.
🥹 "I didn't recognize you." A border guard released from captivity saw his son for the first time in a long time
Burnham’s new chief of staff was chief executive of lobbying firm Flint It’s like the British political elite is addicted to conflicts of interest www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff
Decision is one of Makerfield MP’s most significant since his Westminster return as he builds his team for government
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"AI whoops" of the week www.newscientist.com/article/2531...
People training new AI models admit they just get chatbots to do it
The next generation of AI models are meant to be trained by people paid to have conversations with them, but several of these workers have admitted to New Scientist that they simply get chatbots to do...
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Today we celebrate the Windrush generation and the immense contribution they have made to communities across Britain. Their story is one of courage, resilience and determination, and their legacy continues to shape our country for the better.
Say what you like about Keir Starmer as PM, but he had his moments of insight www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8ow...
Keir Starmer “Meep Meep”
YouTube video by PoliticalDigest
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Absolute chancers. Nationalise water. Now. And keep it in public hands forever.
We probably should be asking ourselves more often "what stage in the Oryx and Crake timeline is this" www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
OnlyFans: Inside the Machine review – monumentally grim and unsexy TV
Amber Haque’s preposterously bleak film shows how hordes of men have turned the ethical answer to sex work into a sleazy nightmare – and how big tech is turning a blind eye. Sound familiar?
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This transition will affect roughly 2.5 million civil servants as part of a 2026 strategy to achieve "digital sovereignty." France already has a successful precedent; the national police force has operated 100,000 computers on Linux since 2008, proving that such a massive shift is feasible.
Absolutely delighted for new @kingsmusic.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social colleague Robyn Arkle who has just been named one of the 2026 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers! She specialises in 19–20C Austrian & German music; currently working on Alma Mahler-Werfel ♥️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-gene...
Dr Genevieve Robyn Arkle named BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | King's College London
Dr Genevieve Robyn Arkle has been selected as one of this year’s BBC and AHRC New Generation Thinkers.
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❗️742 thousand children were deported to Russia between February and December 2022, — Ombudsman Lubinets According to him, a total of 1.6 million Ukrainian children lived in the temporarily occupied territories.
So Mandelson was in talks with Farage, and told Labour comms not to say anything "disobliging". But Farage obliged by recommending Mandelson as Ambassador. Something about all this stinks
Old housemates, old school friends, family members, - they even asked a local launderette for an itinerary of what I've had washed! All this from billionaire owned media because they don't want a party to continue growing that challenges power & wealth. Join.greenparty.org.uk
The point of these attacks is twofold: 1. Flood people with nonsense until it feels true. 2. Grind people down until they lose hope. We know the answer to that: fight back - with hope & a plan for change. There is absolutely no way they win this. Join.greenparty.org.uk
We could have seen a nationwide programme of home insulation, going door to door, making sure every home can keep in the heat, so no-one would risk getting sick or dying because they can’t afford heating in the winter. Why is this Government running from crisis to crisis?
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2mo agoDan Tomlinson says the govt won't be rolling out a universal scheme to help everyone with their energy bills. Instead it'll take targeted steps. The interviewer asks him who'll receive the targeted help & when it will be available. Dan refuses to say
