Lord Gid
@gidlord.bsky.social
At work in the ruins. Permaculturer. Land worker. Forest denizen. BSc Ecology. 👉🏼Grow food, repair soil, smash capitalism. Also party creator & disc jockier. Probably not a lord. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🌱 earthedup.com 🥒 pingleproduce.co.uk
Campaigning in Greater Manchester today and just running through some life lessons...
"Much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt." This isn't the new normal, this is just the beginning. Accepting this reality doesn't mean being defeated by it. Denying it does.
If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you should be
The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt, says Michael Le Page
newscientist.com
Two headlines about the same story reveal how the BBC relentlessly launders Farage's reputation, even as the corporate media steps up. In-your-face malfeasance by the national broadcaster.
NEW: Why did Nigel Farage throw the 2019 ‘Brexit’ election for Boris Johnson? What does it have to do with Harborne’s £5m gift? And why is it tearing apart Britain’s far-right parties? A @thenerve.news investigation by me & @luciaoc.bsky.social (Link below) 1/ #TheHarborneReceipts
Can't share a bandcamp review but @joemuggs.bsky.social thoughtful words about this new compilation instantly welcomed me into listening to something I might otherwise have scrolled past & I'm very grateful for that because it's wonderful stuff. loveinjection-nyc.bandcamp.com/album/10-yea...
10 Years of Love Injection: A Declaration of Universal Love - compiled by Barbie Bertisch & Paul Raffaele, by Love Injection
17 track album
loveinjection-nyc.bandcamp.com
A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
Absolutely mindboggling read about what happens when science poses a too high risk to fossil industry profits. The strategy: If the science is clear, attack the people behind it.
Gernot Wagner@gwagner.com · 2mo agoThe fossil industry shenanigans here aren't exactly surprising but no less disturbing. And yeah, it's the "Honest Brokers", "Skeptical Environmentalists" and other hyphenated attention seekers, who are the most pernicious actors in all of this. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
Didn't have "whale necropolis" on my bingo card for today but I'm here for it. Astonishing.
Jo Wolfe, PhD@jopabinia.bsky.social · 2mo agoGenuine rewrite the textbooks discovery! 🧪🦑 The same team led last year's discovery of even deeper chemosynthetic animal communities. And they are in a crewed submersible, so they actually SAW THE WHALE GRAVEYARD!!! Can't wait for them to keep exploring!
But I’m sure they’re buying a few thousand tonnes of carbon removal.
World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds
JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say
theguardian.com
OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child
I maintain that generative AI is very much inherently bad, and extremely useful for the worst, most toxic applications A system that convincingly fabricates content with no designed drive towrads accuracy or ethics of humanity is not "useless". You can use it for lying, fakery, cheating, abuse
HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate
Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”
ms.now
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
404media.co
I’ve just seen an American TV programme refer to a pub crawl. Cultural appropriation has gone too far.
An accurate description of much of what's playing out. But humans are not mindless automatons, programmed to relentlessly kill off life on Earth, and most of the destruction is down to power structures that value only profit. We HAVE the capacity to put the gear into reverse. Rewilding is how.
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social · 6mo agoMy world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
A £240m defence contract without tender. Their fingerprints all over our health care data. A meeting in the USA but without any minutes. Everything around Palantir stinks. www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
Zack Polanski pressures Wes Streeting over Palantir after Mandelson texts released
ZACK Polanski has piled fresh pressure on Wes Streeting over Palantir’s NHS contracts after the Health Secretary’s newly-released text messages…
thenational.scot
US military sites across Britain have quietly multiplied. Findings expose how deeply the UK has become a US-run war hub with no accountability www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
The US has even more military bases in the UK than we thought
US military sites across Britain have quietly multiplied. Findings expose how deeply the UK has become a US-run war hub with no accountability
thecanary.co
Sending this to the various intelligent, articulate people I know who voted for brexit. They always believe they had good reasons ("at the time"), but in reality they were always just doing what these people wanted...
Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️@philsturgeon.com · 6mo agoWe’ve known for a long time Brexit was asshole Americans baiting the racists into shooting themselves in the balls so Americans could sell us more trash cheaper. Weird to see it spelled out so clearly.
Space-based data centres are the CCS of big tech. They'll just be perpetually around the corner, there will be a handful of flimsy demonstration projects, and the concept will just suck up gov't subsidies for decades while serving as a rhetorical tool to fend off real regulation of industry
vsamsondc.bsky.social@vsamsondc.bsky.social · 6mo agoOne MILLION satellites www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-...
Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs. They've stopped people from using drugs safely. It's time to legalise *and* regulate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Drugs policy approach needs to change, Zack Polanski says
The Green Party leader of England and Wales says there needs to be a
bbc.co.uk
“Without significant increases in the UK food system and supply chain resilience, it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food.” open.substack.com/pub/climatem...
10,000 voices called for climate resilience: the Government minimised the threat.
by Rupert Read and Caroline Lucas
open.substack.com
Ned Kelly looking like he’s about to open a toast cafe in Shoreditch.
