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GreenerFutures
@greenerfutures.bsky.social
One life. One planet. One humanity. People before profit. Simply does it. 💚 🚲 🌱 🦜🦋 🐝 🌳 🏕 🎺 Wanderer. Birder. Learner. Green Party. https://greenerfutures.substack.com
Remind me. Where is the customer refund portal again? Oh. Executive bonuses and share buybacks it is, then.
Donald Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariff refunds hit $100bn
The repayments represent roughly 60% of all tariff revenue collected by the US government under the policy,
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Let’s prioritise jobs in dirty industries over jobs in the green economy? Terrific procurement criteria. Climate crisis anyone? Any o n e ?
Prioritise new jobs over green targets to win public contracts, firms told
The changes are part of government efforts to tackle the youth unemployment crisis.
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Ex neo-Nazi activist defies Badenough’s defiance in defence of defiant selection. Defi….. Oh, give me strength.
Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate
Kemi Badenoch says Joshua Bonehill-Paine will now advise the Conservatives on tackling extremism.
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 23h ago"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."
Telegraph changing its tune on climate? No, no. It’s just one of those pieces it does sometimes, amongst all the bonkers stuff, so they can periodically point back and go ‘but look, look’ to claim sanity. Like the lucid moments of a lunatic’s day.
Right turn on green: is the Telegraph changing its tune on the climate?
Flurry of articles has raised eyebrows and prompted a response from Kemi Badenoch defending stance on net zero
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We don’t need to weaponise AI, it weaponises itself. That AI of this type exists is a problem. The lack of constraints on their ‘behaviour’ may be a pre-IPO wet dream to techbros, but it’s a risk to everyone else. Governments must step in and regulate.
Anthropic's AI used fake human profiles to trick people in safety test
The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.
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Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇
Yet another delayed train ride today got me thinking ….
Climate adaptation & transport
The transport conundrum in one trivial personal vignette
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Profoundly ignorant. Profoundly bigoted. Profoundly wrong. I give you Sarah Pochin of ReformUK.
Northern & proud 👊@gazlancs.bsky.social · 2d agoFrench forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
I love the train. But EVERY SINGLE TIME I use a GWR service it is delayed, cancelled or my journey is re-routed. Last time, I honestly could’ve cycled the trip quicker. Here I am, AGAIN, train cancelled, delayed an hour. OK, delay repay, but that’s not the point. DO BETTER @gwr.com
‘Could face legal action’ Note, not *will* face action. Then note, a now embarrassed Environment Agency *knew* and did nothing. Failure at every level.
UK plastic manufacturer could face legal action over toxic emissions
Exclusive: Environment Agency is considering whether to prosecute Huntsman Polyurethanes over emissions of carcinogenic benzene
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Oh lord, this is hysterical. Forget the post-match analysis from the hosts, the interview is a peach. Haven’t laughed so much in ages.
The Rest Is Politics@therestpolitics.bsky.social · 5d agoWe think Count Binface might have ended up on the wrong podcast... Our interview with the Count comes out on Monday.
Tricky Dicky nicked by parliamentary standards watchdog Grab the 🍿
Richard Tice investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog
Tice says the complaint related to a debate on Israeli influence and whether he should have referenced his register of interests.
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The politics of climate change is no less toxic in Spain, but at least Sanchez has the cojones to speak plain truth.
‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers
PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved
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‘Burnham to be ‘relentless’ on small boat crossings after Ceuta crisis’ And there it is…. The hybrid war attack on Spain worked, because here is our shiny new PM all distracted and trying to look, well, grrr. ffs.
Burnham to be ‘relentless’ on small boat crossings after Ceuta crisis
Prime minister says UK needs to ‘bring back that control’ and safe routes for refugees are necessary to tackle trafficking
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‘Healey’s profiteering warning on food and fuel risks row with retailers’ Successive Chancellors have, for too long, promoted the ‘self-correcting’ power of ‘the market’, while deregulating. You don’t get to have it both ways. Set the system up to optimise profit & this is where we end up.
Healey’s profiteering warning on food and fuel risks row with retailers
Chancellor says the government wants to prevent shoppers being ‘taken for a ride’ at the pump or till
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Food and water insecurity? Don’t worry, the market will fix it 🤦🏻♂️ 🙈🙉🙊
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d agoBBC News reporting on concerns about food security and water security We can all see the food and water crisis unfolding, why isn't our government doing everything possible to protect these two precious resources, our food and water supply?
Quote of the month: “Real change not possible whilst neoliberalism remains the opium of the political class”.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d agoStick to spending limits, PM and chancellor tell ministers in joint memo. Cue for real cuts; continuation of potholed roads, housing crisis, NHS queues, unfit schools, privatisations? Real change not possible whilst neoliberalism remains the opium of the political class.
Longest ballot paper in history? Rather like Farage’s needless resignation, the ballot paper is cruelly comic it’s own right. A complete waste of time and resources. How was Farage allowed to get away with this charade? #VoteBinface
Clacton by-election ballot list costing four times more
The list of 34 candidates standing in the Clacton by-election is nearly a metre long.
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Oh ffs. Please stop disappointing me and go do something actually important. Like figuring the plan for stopping us tipping further into food insecurity. Continuity Starmer with a blokey smile.
Burnham pledges to be 'relentless' in curbing small boat crossings
The prime minister says enforcement is increased but there also need to be more safe routes into the UK.
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Slowly, slowly, the warnings become more strident and frequent. All of this was known a decade or more ago. And we’ve done what, precisely? And *still* PM Burnham says & does …. nothing. But more oil, oh yeah, crack on. We are so fucked.
Prolonged drought could cause shortage of some foods, farmers' union head says
NFU president Tom Bradshaw calls on the government to take action to prevent extreme weather affecting the UK's food supply.
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Ceuta: and here is BBC News doing its ‘ummm’ moment, having finally displayed some intellectual curiosity. They’re sooo close to getting it, but decide to leave the thought dangling.
How Spain's migrant crisis created a political storm - whipped up by social media
The Ceuta crossings have shaken Europe politically, exposing divisions over the sensitive issue of migration, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford writes.
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‘Companies can’t do national planning’. Or delivery. Nothing about the polycrisis can be solved by ‘leaving it to market forces’. If it worked, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d agoWorst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops. Food insecurity and higher prices would follow. Poor hit the hardest. Despite warnings, no plan for water shortages. Need reservoirs, water storage, better water management. Companies can't do national planning.
Amazon made £555 MILLION in profit in the UK last year, but only paid a fraction of what they should in tax. Jeff Bezos is rubbing his hands together, avoiding tax, while we pay our dues. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now.
We pay our dues. They should too.
Amazon made £555 MILLION in profit in the UK last year, but only paid a fraction of what they should in tax. Jeff Bezos is rubbing his hands together, avoiding tax, while we pay our dues. Don't think ...
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Today’s tipple will be drunk while sending best wishes to the Suffolk coast community, as they continue to deal with the Dunwich Heath fire and its aftermath.
As dramatic as yesterday’s clearly organised incursion of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta was, it is the absence of rain on the plain & the wildfires that will be focusing Spanish minds. Today’s RW press is lapping the distraction up. Anything to keep us off the real crisis. 1/2
BBC News, "England and Wales set for driest July on record" Good thing Prime Minister Andy Burnham is planning more oil and gas from the North Sea 🤷♂️
