Chris Phillips
@drartanalytics.bsky.social
Operational Researcher, Artist, Gardener. DnB, Techno, SciFi, Ocean Physics. DM'S will get a block in most cases.
Gordon Brown is right. Make time to read this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
After five brutal years of Taliban rule, Afghan women and girls need our help – and I have a plan | Gordon Brown
Even in the face of appalling repression, girls yearn to fulfil their educational potential. We must set up a global fund to help them, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
theguardian.com
amazing video on the article for a welsh island
Massive influence on my childhood in The Goodies and young adulthood as a naturalist and campaigner.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · last wk.Bill Oddie, naturalist and broadcaster, dies aged 85 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
"Among the stock believed to have been damaged were “generators, drinking water, hygiene kits, and water storage tanks that are critical for UNICEF's response in #Ukraine, particularly for #children and families in frontline areas and for the coming winter,” tvpworld.com/94467811/rus...
Russian strikes destroy UNICEF humanitarian aid for Ukrainian children
The warehouse contained 106,000 items valued at almost $4 million.
tvpworld.com
Billionaire tech titans are spearheading a new space race while they litter Earth’s skies with their debris. As the likes of Elon Musk rake in the dollars, our new magazine examines the privatisation and militarization of space, and what’s at stake for people and the planet. a.nin.tl/spacerace
This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"
Matt Binder@mattbinder.bsky.social · last mo.this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb
I have relied on NI for proper international news and analysis for over 25 years and would like to see it go on for many more years. Please donate if you can. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/5lLZ6g2...
Save New Internationalist: More than a Magazine
We need to raise £150,000 by 7 July to save New Internationalist from closure and continue to publish our unique global justice journalism.
crowdfunder.co.uk
Edinburgh Attacks Expose ‘Two-Tier’ Coverage of Racism in UK, New Data Shows The Edinburgh attacks on five Muslim men received seven times less coverage than a comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier, reports Hugh Wilkinson...
Edinburgh Attacks Expose ‘Two-Tier’ Coverage of Racism in UK, New Data Shows
The Edinburgh attacks on five Muslim men received seven times less coverage than a comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier, reports Hugh Wilkinson
bylinetimes.com
Horrifying to read how the ebola outbreak is worsening in large part due to aid cuts and a drastic lack of water infrastructure. Aid cuts impede efforts to to track virus spread as well as care and water infrastructure issues endangers control efforts. There is no vax for this strain
Ebola: Largest ever outbreak of rare strain 'likely even greater' – and the 'first line of defence' has collapsed
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the DRC's Bundibugyo outbreak is the largest on record. Oxfam warns the number of cases is likely higher than official figures, as conta...
news.sky.com
I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...
Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People
An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...
thedissident.news
Israel refuses to stop attacking bsky.app/profile/did:...
Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 2mo ago💥 Apocalyptic scenes in Harouf, South Lebanon. Israel dropped bombs on residential buildings in the middle of the night. Entire families are now buried under the rubble. @sarahabdallah.bsky.social
Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas from space 🌊 Did you know that this location was already featured in our very first Image of the Week back in 2004? This new Copernicus Sentinel-3 image marks the thousandth we’ve published — take a look at the other 999 here: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
The Major Oak has stood at the heart of Sherwood Forest for over a thousand years. This spring, it failed to come into leaf and experts now believe it has died. But its story isn’t over. Its ancient trunk & branches will continue to support life for years to come: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
"June heatwave: Europe braces for more extreme heat as temperatures set to hit 40°C" www.euronews.com/2026/06/17/t... Note that 40C brings the danger of lethal heat stroke Many parts of the world - such as India - have recently experienced 50C
Heatwave forecast with 40C in Spain, France and Portugal this weekend
Experts are warning about the dangers of ‘tropical nights’.
euronews.com
I’ve also grabbed this from Twitter, absolutely haunting sound of the bells ringing out this morning.
How about this as a portrait of 21st century masculinity? Frame it!
I tell you what's not Englishness, this! The dark underbelly perhaps! I'm English by birth Welsh by choice. To me English is Anglo Saxon, open minded, stiff upper lip - 'keep calm ...", globalised for over 1000 yr, diverse, multilingual, multicultural - I'm thinking of the old cultures here as well.
Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2mo agoEr. I hope someone has reported this to the police because I really feel this should be reported to the police
#academics please don't do this: "The society confirmed that its members had “contributed to the cost of his report”. Wragg told us the SML had approached him as “they were looking for an independent report and they approached me as an expert in the field”. Check your financers motives.!
Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo why are British libel cases so expensive? Governments have promised comprehensive anti-Slapp legislation but it's not happened And at same time defendant libel laws have run a major lobbying campaign against reform... democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...
1/ Russia's attempts to block Telegram and force the population to switch to the state-approved messenger app MAX have simply resulted in the population adopting VPNs en masse. Ordinary Russians describe how they are evading the government's blocks. ⬇️
