Palantir hoovering up European defence and NHS contracts whilst funnelling earnings back to the US to pay negligible corporate tax is a complete failure of digital sovereignty. European states must stop enriching tech firms that drain public coffers. Is it time to ban them? #FBPE

Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds

A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.

politico.eu

NEWS! SpaceX rocket crashed into Moon after being equipped with Tesla's Full Self Driving mode newsthump.com/2026/08/05/s...

SpaceX rocket crashed into Moon after being equipped with Tesla’s Full Self Driving mode

SpaceX has confirmed that the Falcon 9 upper stage, which smashed into the Moon today, had recently been fitted with Tesla’s latest Full Self Driving software, describing the collision as …

newsthump.com

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Subvet@subvet.bsky.social · 24h ago

Not only is his senseless war killing people, destroying the economy and causing untold harm to the stability of the region but now it’s also threatening ocean habitats with invasive species.. apple.news/AjavOSk1zQKK...

Release The Epstein Files NOW!

Take note #Cyprus

Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@maxbrockbank.com · 2d ago

Barcelona is ending Airbnb as we know it. Rents soared 68% in 10 years, pricing out locals. Now, by Nov 2028, all 10,101 tourist rental licences will be revoked, returning homes to the local market. Owners – many of them absentees – challenged the move, but Spain’s Constitutional Court upheld it.

From the same country that arrests politicians caught lying.

Philip Lymbery@philip-ciwf.bsky.social · 3d ago

Thank you #Wales & Welsh Government for standing up for lobsters, crabs & crustaceans 🦞 🦀 And for declaring that boiling lobsters alive is just “not an acceptable method of slaughter" 👏 The government is now considering legislation to protect lobsters, crabs l & crustaceans from this cruel practice

Since 1970, over 20% of the Amazon has been cleared — an area ~3x the size of the UK. In 2025, Brazil lost millions of hectares of natural forest, releasing 1.2 Gt of CO₂. Every tree felled weakens our fight against climate change and extreme weather. The field tells the truth.

#AI #AIBubble A hard nosed look at reality.

Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · 3d ago

‘The market’ didn’t decide that AI would be our future. Capital did. And when the devastating consequences of their decisions become clear, capital must be made to pay. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/data-centr...

One of many implications of #ClimateChange is disruption of power supplies, especially nuclear, which needs masses of water. Already Hungary has had to shut down its nuke power plant. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – Europe live

Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant

theguardian.com

🌍 So never, ever shoot a Puffin.

🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦@joycomes.bsky.social · 3d ago

Atlantic puffins typically live between 20 and 30 years in the wild. They are monogamous and mate for life, returning to the exact same burrows and partners each year. They perform a tender billing ritual by topping and rubbing their beaks together, reinforcing their bond

#music www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTng...

Celeste | Midnight Jazz

YouTube video by Midnight in New York

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#music youtu.be/8xV20ZJf2Ks?...

ANGINE DE POITRINE live in Strasbourg, May 16 2026 - FULL CONCERT

YouTube video by Christopher “Nattermann” Kreiss

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These people were victims of online disinformation; told Spain had opened its borders, and they could go work there. Once they were told it wasn't true, they returned. A gift to the far right & we must find out who was behind what is a form of hybrid warfare, meant to destabilise Spain and the EU.

Mary Trump, Donald’s niece and a psychologist, On Donald Trump: "Everything he does is driven by fear and by a desperate need to avoid humiliation.' That fear, in her view, is not just a psychological footnote. It is a vulnerability that shapes American politics." tinyurl.com/76dykcph

Donald Trump Is a Terrified Little Boy Driven Entirely by Fear of Humiliation, Mary Trump Claims

Mary Trump has launched a searing new assessment of Donald Trump, alleging accelerating cognitive decline and a lifelong terror of humiliation that leaves him easily manipulated.

ibtimes.co.uk

So whaddya say, american 'Young People'? Should your government attempt to save the skin of this verminous thug who, in my opinion, should be hung?

News Hub - A Home for Better News@thenewshub.bsky.social · 3d ago

www.joemygod.com/2026/08/lawy...

Excellent.

Ariaa®@ariaa.bsky.social · 3d ago

An Oregon bow hunter was fatally gored while tracking a bull elk he had wounded with an arrow the previous day. The hunter returned the next morning to continue searching. When he found the bull still alive, the hunter attempted to shoot it again. The wounded elk charged and gored him in the neck.

Facts, plain and straightforward 😡🤬

Turns out that Nixon Giovanni Pérez' claim that he had a well-grounded fear of bodily harm if he were forced to return to Guatemala was absolutely correct. More blood on Trump's hands. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Guatemalan man deported from US and wife found dead in sugarcane field, baby alive beside them

A Guatemalan man deported from the U.S. and his wife, ‌who recently self-deported to join him, were found dead in a sugarcane field in southwestern Guatemala, authorities said on Tuesday.

reuters.com

European countries need to stop acting like the war is about to end and place large long-term orders of air defense systems and interceptors for Ukraine

Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · 5d ago

Trump is unreliable and Ukraine will never get enough Patriot batteries or PAC interceptors. It should be obvious to Europeans: if we care about Ukraine, we need to order 10+ SAMP/T NG batteries and 1,000+ Aster interceptors. If we don’t do it, we simply don’t care

England received only 7% of the long-term average rainfall for July. Southern England, just 1%. Factoid: There has been a weather station in Kew Gardens for 155 years. This July was the first month ever to record 0mm of rain. Tomorrow, London will again hit 30C+ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

July set to be driest on record for England and Wales after relentless heatwaves

Climate scientist urges better planning as southern England had just 1% of long-term average rainfall last month

theguardian.com

Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

#wildfires Good map to see extent of wildfires globally. Look at central Africa. currentwildfires.com/en/

Live Wildfire Map — Current Wildfires

Track every active wildfire worldwide with NASA FIRMS satellite data. The map refreshes automatically every 10 minutes.

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Just now in the UK.

It's interesting how they literally tell us what they do.

“...if you destroy nature, you destroy the core on which our economies depend. And that got people’s attention. This is not some kind of a flower-power, tree-hugging exercise. This is core economics. This is core financial stability, core price stability.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’

Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy

theguardian.com

Please read..... #BookSky

The more I read about the new British Prime Minister, the more I like him. www.politico.eu/article/why-...

Why Andy Burnham is no ordinary Labour prime minister

Britain’s new leader is the first to be drawn from the Co-operative Party — and that will shape how he governs the U.K.

politico.eu

“Neither the Starmer government, nor Andy Burnham’s, can say it didn’t know”: former Green party leader @carolinelucas.bsky.social on the shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see www.thenerve.news/p/caroline-l...