The modern Conservative Party, where Net Zero gets you out and Neo Nazism gets you in
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@lotozi.bsky.social
Shy queer artist, professional wonderer, activist, surfer, occasional academic. Likes accountability. Black Lives Matter. Stop genocides.
What a strange, sad article this is. ‘Etiquette experts’ advising the best way to communicate with others is through passive aggression, and people needing guidance on how to navigate being drooled on my strangers. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The ultimate guide to travel etiquette: how to handle 36 tricky situations, from manspreaders to smelly armpits
It’s easy to lose your cool when you’re crammed into a train, bus or plane with a bunch of strangers and one of them is playing music without headphones or fighting you for the armrest. Here are the r...
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Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again - George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests
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This is something of a revolution in paradiplomacy! Traditionally and obviously NYC has been zealously symbolically pro Israel (even if tacitly willing to facilitate the UN and work with eg Palestinian delegations). This is reminiscent of boycotts against South Africa…a big blow to Netanyahu
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w agoBenjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
Did the BBC just say Pharrell was ASAP Rocky? 😭 #ESPARG
trump has also debanked Italian citizen Francesca Alabanese for her work at the UN to condemn Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. she is on an international blacklist created for terrorists and it is also illegal for anyone to bank for her — she must live entirely economically isolated and on cash
The complicated life of Francesca Albanese: A rising figure in Italy but barred from every bank by Trump’s sanctions
The UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories has become a leading voice in her country, but she is on a US blacklist as if she were a terrorist and can only use cash
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An unearthly gorgeous performance here. I went to the funeral of a Thai composer in Bangkok last week. 100 of the composer’s students (!) played the Thai khim along with a recording of their teacher playing over the PA. The overtones were nuts. Video actually caught the sound pretty good.
As I stated in a previous post: Domestic abuse incidents rise around major football tournaments, increasing by 38% when England lose. My heart goes out to all those that were waiting for the final whistle and are now scared, waiting for the front door to open.
Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️@gemmaclark.bsky.social · 3w agoResources and help for anyone, and it will be mostly women, affected by the increased risk of domestic abuse associated with football www.nhs.uk/live-well/ge...
Hello #PortfolioDay, I'm Joanna, graphic designer and illustrator from Poland. I worked in fashion for years, would love a chance to do so again! Here are some commercial print pattern examples. 🌺 www.joannakrotka.com ✉️ joannakrotka[@]gmail.com
I hope others may enjoy this treasure jazz NFB animation too youtu.be/0r2COvWPO4Y?... #nationalfilmboardofcanada #oscarpeterson #animation
BEGONE DULL CARE | Full Animated Film | National Film Board of Canada
YouTube video by NFB
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new romantasy dedicated bookshop is opening in Oxford today and 10/10, no notes
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
Why are we standing by and watching this happen? “Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an independent UN inquiry has found…. about 30% of the people killed by Israeli forces have been children.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds
Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist
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please anyone in/near Stratford look out for Emily, she's tiny and a fucking idiot goblin and I'm desperate to find her please please please bring her home safe 😩
More than 100 events are planned, organised by local groups across the Swifts Local Network and the RSPB. Now more than ever, Swifts need our attention: numbers have declined by over 60% since the 1980s.
Time to end the contract with Palantir “From my investigations, it looks like the UK sovereign solution [using their own data systems] in places like Greater Manchester are producing better results with faster systems and happier medics” @martinwrigley.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9348...
NHS England admits key data does not prove Palantir’s effectiveness
Health service adds caveat saying that performance improvements cannot be attributed to £330mn contract
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Find someone who wants to push the stones off your chest.
Alina Stefanescu@alinaetc.bsky.social · last mo.“You are always my concern, I ponder a great deal on it and speak to you and take your strange, dark head between my hands and want to push the stones off your chest…” - Ingeborg Bachmann to Paul Celan
Sort of spurred by this: I still think that part of the whole Post Pandemic Social Settlement should have been a huge (inter)national effort to properly ventilate our spaces and that should have included ACs and heat pumps for places in Europe, and it's just a shame we generally didn't do this.
Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · last mo.UK cannot ‘air con its way’ out of this heatwave says Professor www.channel4.com/news/uk-cann...
Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish
Refugee Week is a vital reminder of the resilience and strength it takes to seek safety and rebuild a life. Solidarity cannot begin and end with a single week. We must continue to defend the rights of refugees, including Black, minoritised and migrant women fleeing abuse, every day of the year.
Just Ryan Bridge from Raise the Colours at the Conservative Party Immigration policy launch while on multiple bails in multiple English counties including for wounding "Thank you to the Home Shadow Secretary, Chris Phelps for inviting myself and Siobhan down today" www.facebook.com/reel/1184777...
Teaching Fellow in English Literature. Department of English. Royal Holloway, University of London Salary: £41,374 per annum - including London Allowance #HigherEd #EduSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX684/t...
