We cannot speak about global security and international cooperation without mentioning the climate crisis. If we want to safeguard our children and build a prosperous future for all, the govt must keep dirty fossil fuels in the ground.
EL Miller
@elmiller.bsky.social
XR Glasgow member and vegan. Climate justice is social justice. #ActNow @Loll1pops on the other place
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No to data centres, yes to wildlife! - Protect the Wild
No to AI data centres, yes to wildlife! 27177 people have taken action so far. Help us reach 50000 First name Last name Email Phone Subject Letter Dear Secretary of State Angela Rayner, I am writing…
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One far better way to raise money than stopping heat pump subsidies is to "put fuel tax on the 1,000 private jets who take off from the UK each year": bsky.app/profile/clim...
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 21h agoMinisters preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
🇮🇸 Iceland is also moving to end commercial whaling for good. The government will submit a bill next February rewriting the 1949 whaling law to ban the practice permanently, backed by a governing majority likely to pass it. 🐋
Icelandic government to introduce bill to end whaling - Whale and Dolphin Conservation
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MacKenzie Scott donated $7 billion in 2025 bringing her five-year total to $26.2 billion, even as she stays out of the spotlight. fortune.com/article/mack...
MacKenzie Scott alone accounted for one-third of America's $19.2 billion in megagifts last year | Fortune
MacKenzie Scott donated $7 billion in 2025—a third of all U.S. megagifts—bringing her five-year total to $26.2 billion, even as she stays out of the spotlight.
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Britain now bounces between heat/drought season and flood season It wasn't that long ago it was pretty safe all year round
Alasdair Cameron@alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 15h agoWet and dry. Fire and flood. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you haven't already, please take a minute to sign the official petition. If you’ve already signed, share this with your friends and followers. Let's hit 70,000 and make our voices impossible for Parliament to ignore! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
Petition: Make catapult attacks against animals a standalone criminal offence
Introduce legislation in England to make it a specific, standalone criminal offence to intentionally or recklessly use, discharge or attempt to discharge a catapult or slingshot at or towards any…
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Catapult attacks on animals are surging, yet these horrific acts aren't tracked as a specific, standalone crime. We need a dedicated law to ensure abusers face real consequences.
The session with @mikebernerslee.bsky.social, @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social and @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social was recorded, so you can watch at any time 👇
Annie Leymarie@annieleymarie.bsky.social · 14h agoExperts from the National Emergency Briefing project are speaking right now about this year's El Niño, including impacts on the UK. It's on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/IdwsrLj...
#FactoryFarming, as bad, or even worse, in marine environments as on land, given impossibility of #biosecurity www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Heart disease found in 5 of 7 open-net salmon farms: study | CBC News
Researchers are calling on the federal government to update its criteria when diagnosing the disease to align with other countries.
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“Tom Watson has taken a job lobbying for Palantir. Revolving doors. They really are a problem in British politics.” Natalie Bennett criticises the links between politicians and powerful corporations, and Watson’s comments about “mob rule" deciding government contracts.
#FOTW Daily Post 12 A Mars-sized object hit the young Earth and made the Moon -without this: no tides, no axial tilt, no seasons, and probably no us. Today's climate is the last link in a long chain of crazy serendipity that we're now pulling apart Pls share + tag 2 #DeepTime #FateOfTheWorld
On October 31st, hundreds more will mobilise to replicate this action outside the US Embassy, following Trump’s international designation of Palestine Action as a “terrorist organisation”. We do not comply with Trumpian laws. Join us: www.wedonotcomply.org
Lift The Ban - Defend Our Juries
Following intensive lobbying by representatives of the Israeli government and the arms industry such as Lord Walney, dishonestly presented to the public as ‘independent advisers’, domestic direct action group Palestine Action have been branded as a ‘terrorist organisation’, for trying to stop crimes against humanity and for exposing the British government’s complicity in genocide.
wedonotcomply.org
SOLIDARITY FOREVER 161 were arrested under the Terrorism Act for peacefully holding paper signs outside Labour’s conference in Liverpool. Labour must Lift The Ban on Palestine Action, or face prosecuting thousands of civilians under the Terrorism Act.
Is anyone reading this still with Barclays? It's been shown again and again to be the worst bank on all counts, with zero ethical values. @ethical-consumer.bsky.social gives it a rating of 0/100 (whereas Triodos gets 96/100).
Prof Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social · yesterdayEurope’s biggest funder of fossil fuels urges investors to see an opportunity in ‘super’ El Niño "For investors, a very strong El Niño should be viewed as a source of market dispersion rather than a uniformly negative shock" www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
UK drivers forced to use parking apps can pay up to 40% more. Hidden charges, full price not shown until the payment page. Neoliberals complain about regulation but silent on daily fleecing of people by predatory capitalism. All done to boost profits, exec pay.
Drivers forced to use parking apps can pay up to 40% more
Council car parks have switched away from ticket machines to cut costs, leading to extra fees for users
theguardian.com
Deloitte in Cyprus helped in falsifying documents to hide Roman Abramovich's wealth and evade tax, Leaked documents show transactions backdated and tailored. Assets spirited away to BVI. Big four accounting firms advise UK govts, get public contracts, routinely implicated in scandals.
Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth
Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, BBC finds.
bbc.co.uk
Pretty sure herring gulls (pink legs) are endangered are they not?! www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wi...
Herring Gull Bird Facts | Larus Argentatus
Herring gulls are large, noisy gulls found throughout the year around our coasts and inland around rubbish tips, fields, large reservoirs and lakes. Read more
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Protect the Wild@protectthewild.bsky.social · 18h agoBuilding Canolfan Ddata Menai near Caernarfon, north Wales, means demolishing the old Ferodo factory, whose roof is now a gull breeding colony. Developer Gwelyfenai Ltd's own figures put it at 300 pairs of herring gulls, about 2% of the Welsh population, plus 80 pairs of lesser black-backed gulls.
New report: "Support for climate action & net zero policies are strongly linked to trust in government, and confidence in government’s ability to address the issue. This requires clear, sustained leadership." Instead of slashing heat pump subsidies, slash the perverse ones for fossil fuels & meat
Public engagement with climate and net zero policies - PACT
People are concerned about climate change and expect government action, yet policymakers often underestimate public support for climate policies. This perception gap can limit progress. Effective clim...
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 21h agoMinisters preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute. UK infrastructure is owned by foreign investors/states - ports, airports, water, energy, microchips, auto, steel, computers, phones. Can't reduce UK vulnerability without abandoning neoliberalism.
UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute
George Williamson says ‘national resilience’ is key focus of ATI amid US and China’s runaway leadership in field
theguardian.com
Good to see the terrible harms done by fish farming exposed (including in the London underground and elsewhere by #projectslingshot projectslingshot.com/campaign/sal...)
The Dirty Secret Behind the Farmed Fish You Eat
Forced labor, rancid waste, harmful chemicals. What to know about the seafood that could end up on your plate.
nytimes.com
#FOTW Daily Post 11 I'm unflinching about the science — but I refuse to trade in despair. The past tells us things WILL be grim, but if we lose hope and fail to act, they will be far worse So, pls share and tag 2 That's how hope becomes momentum #FateOfTheWorld #TogetherUnstoppable #ClimateHope
Rescuers at Swan Support retrieved and X-rayed the swan. They found three airgun pellets lodged in her body. The swan has undergone surgery and Swan Support is hopeful that she will recover.
Repeated acts of cruetly at an RSPCA-assured 'model' dairy farm in Gloucestershire, that had been supplying Müller and M&S: metro.co.uk/2026/10/06/d...
"A milky haze has shrouded the cities for more than a month as smoke drifted from fires on Borneo and Sumatra islands."
Haze pushes Kuala Lumpur, Singapore into world's most polluted cities
Malaysia's capital topped a global pollution ranking on Wednesday and nearby Singapore came in third, with smoke from wildfires in neighbouring Indonesia blamed for the unhealthy conditions.
france24.com
Bank of England governor tells the UK chancellor to agree a budget that reassures financial markets. Govt told to serve markets, speculators, corporations. Healthcare, education, social justice, housing is secondary in neoliberalism. Wither democracy.
Bank governor urges John Healey to use budget to allay market fears amid bond turmoil
Andrew Bailey tells chancellor ‘whatever the stance of fiscal policy, it must be credible and be seen as such by financial markets’
theguardian.com
Science Talk. The Biggest El Niño in History I Path to Collapse I Climate Crisis & Heatwaves I #climate youtu.be/ocpTV62fUQs?...
The Biggest El Niño in History I Path to Collapse I Climate Crisis & Heatwaves I Difficult Future
YouTube video by Science Talk
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#nepal has suffered another significant landslide and flood event, this time on the Budhi Gandaki river at Chumnubri & Dharche in Gorkha. The cause may be a valley blocking landslide near Chumchet. At least 5 people may be missing and bridges & houses have been destroyed. youtube.com/shorts/ZBlOC...
BUDHI GANDAKI मा महाप्रलय!बिहानै भीषण बाढी, गाउँ नै तहसनहस!#nepal #flood #budhigandiki#sad #news
YouTube video by Khada Devi Video
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Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
theferret.scot