Laura Swash
@laswa.bsky.social
Psychology teacher, scuba diver, gardener and occasional writer. Living on Porto Santo island.
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Help us build a 50,000 strong team.
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Look at how Israeli soldiers treat Palestinian children.
I cannot believe the shame this “President’s” administration has lowered everything America has EVER stood for so ardently to FIGHT for, to below our very knees. Shame. Shame. Shame on us.
Please consider donating any amount, however small, to stop the pollution of this river by illegal gold mining secure.avaaz.org/en/campaigns...
Our rivers are in crisis
From the Ganges to the Thames, and the Nile to the Amazon, freshwater ecosystems are now degraded in half the world's countries. Canals riddled with sewage, wetlands poisoned by pesticides, our stream...
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Solar farms usually need large stretches of open land. India found another place to put them: directly above water that was already flowing through irrigation canals.The idea took shape in Gujarat. #ActOnClimate #Renewables #ClimateActionNow #solarpower
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Sandra Bem
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Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d agoin this week's newsletter! I spent 2,500 words trying to figure out where I stand on as many of the big feminist issues of the day I could think of before losing my mind: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/behold-my-... [free to read!]
Priceless response and whats even better… it’s TRUE!!
Very decent of the BBC to report our £50bn savings claim as though it's a fact, rather than the made up load of old bollocks that it actually is.
You can see the exact second his brain opened the folder and only found a screensaver.
Appalling headline from BBC .. not “ they claim it would “ just a statement accepted and repeated as fact ! Bias, what bias ??? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social please challenge this !
An innovative floating offshore solar project that generates electricity and converts seawater into drinking water. The farm near Gran Canaria produces 85 MW of renewable electricity while using that same power to operate reverse osmosis systems that desalinate seawater #ActOnClimate #renewables
So many people putting on a brave face to the world till they can’t. To ignore this call for help was unthinkable. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
Matilda in pieces: what one mother’s suicide reveals about the carers broken by the system
Parent-carers of disabled children are exposed to chronic levels of extreme stress and often reach crisis point before help is available – then they face a ‘fight for basic support’, experts say. This...
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Turns out it happened on July 23rd. Give him a boost and let's do something nice
Remembering Robin Williams on the anniversary of his passing. His humor, kindness, and incredible talent continue to touch our hearts and inspire us every day. (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014)
The next time Trump hides in a catering cart they should claim the threat is ongoing and keep wheeling the cart, farther and farther, into a vast warehouse, just like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the final shot is his cart lost in an endless vista of identical carts.
To anyone in Essex living near enough, this promises to be a good day out. And for a very good cause.
When it comes to our new policy of sending people to El Salvador, Reform is very fortunate in having our own expert with first hand experience of paying £290 million to send four people to Rwanda.
“We can’t tax the rich! They’ll leave!” First off, no they won’t, that’s a lie Secondly, good let them leave. We don’t need super yachts clogging up the marinas anyway
It's depressing, but predictable, that the Arday scandal (and it is a scandal) is now being used to try to discredit the entirety of social science, and even the entirety of universities as institutions. Which, apart from anything else, is itself an example of poor social science.
An investigation by BBC Verify and the BBC Russian Service revealed that since 2024, 34,002 properties belonging to Ukrainian citizens, including apartments, houses, and dachas, have been confiscated or designated for confiscation to be transferred to holders of russian passports.
