(Person in the future, probably) “Wait, there were pens without biometric authentication on them!?” “Like… the Government won’t even know what you’re writing!?”

Anyway, a good time to recommend my favorite David Graeber book. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/239809...

The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber: 9781612195186 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives   Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations,...

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Trump doesn't want us to talk about the big C (Climate) and the growing climate, ecological, environmental, humanitarian, medical, food, water and #ClimateRefugees crisis, or about all of life being headed for extinction for the sake of more profits for the war and extractive fossil fuel industries.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you had detectable cancer but decided not to let the oncologist scan you — indeed if you decided not to ever mention the word "cancer" again — you would die quickly and in a lot of pain, in contrast to someone who treated the same cancer early, before it metastasized out of control.

I've been talking for a long time about how closely AI simulations resemble the fae, even down to the flaws in their eyes and fingers which, early on, they struggled to hide. All the old warnings about them apply: the danger of being beguiled, addicted, unaware that one is consuming mud (slop).

"The climate crisis isn't a future threat, its affecting communities across the UK today." @alexsobel.co.uk, after watching a screening of the #PeoplesEmergencyBriefing by @nebriefing.bsky.social Every MP needs to see it and demand the Govet delivers a National Emergency Briefing for everyone. 🚨🔥🚨

Alex Sobel MP@alexsobel.co.uk · yesterday

I attended a screening of the People's Emergency Briefing and believe it deserves a national audience. The climate crisis isn't a future threat, it's affecting communities across the UK today. That's why I'm encouraging Channel 4 to broadcast it. 🌍📺 #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis

Who profits from the land grabs and the actual Data Centres. What do they need them for? Big Tech; The Military; 24/7 Surveillance; Data Mining and Collection on all of us; the Drone Technology being "Battle Tested" on babies and children in Palestine, so they can be sold for use against us all.

EuropeanPowell@europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Data Centre Land Grab: How Britain Is Being Carved Up for Big Tech — Without Your Consent Across Wales, Scotland, and England, the largest peacetime infrastructure seizure of community land and energy in modern British history is accelerating. open.substack.com/pub/european...

I want children to know what it feels like to catch tadpoles in a stream,climb a tree,hear frogs after the rain and watch butterflies drift across a meadow. I want more parks, more hiking trails, more protected wilderness and more places where nature is left alone simply because it deserves to exist

Lush Green Forest River Landscape

ALT: Lush Green Forest River Landscape

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1/ @mjflepage.bsky.social argues in @newscientist.com that more North Sea drilling doesn't matter for the #climate, because what counts is how much we burn. He's usually excellent as a climate writer and I found the piece a real let-down. A thread on why. 🧵

Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social · 2w ago

In UK's two-tier justice system it's jail-time for petty theft to eat, a slap on the wrist and more lucrative contracts for £billion PPE, Covid loans, postmaster targeting fraudsters ‘Scandal within a scandal’: DWP fails to begin Post Office convictions review www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/07/3...

Spine chilling to hear an Israeli lawyer say: One Jewish life is worth 10 million Palestinian lives and that he knows that sounds racist, but it's the truth. #EndTheGenocideOfPalestinians #EndTheZionistOccupation of Palestine and the world. #HoldThemAllToAccount 🕊⚖🇵🇸⚖🕊 youtube.com/shorts/ORkyA...

Inside an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. #BBCNews

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Given that a genuine UKIP policy under Farage was "to make the circle line a circle again" this all looks eminently sane.

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

The weekly Wednesday Webinars by the Climate Emergency Centres Network are always well worth listening to. This week, with @drandrewboswell.bsky.social, is no exception. Andrew will introduce the new Carbon Reckoning legal project that's taking the UK Govt to court over its Seventh Carbon Budget.⚖

Dr Andrew Boswell #CarbonReckoning@drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yesterday Carbon Reckoning put the Burnham Government on legal notice over the Seventh Carbon Budget. I'm speaking about the case tomorrow, Wed 22 July, 7-8pm — free webinar 👉 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Support us here👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...

Thank you to the MPs who have joined the Parliamentary Call for a government-led televised emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis in the last ten days. The public deserves to know. Enter postcode to see if your MP has joined: nebriefing.org/parliamentary-call #NationalEmergencyBriefing

Signed and shared. Please do so too. It matters. Thanks. Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks. #NationalEmergencyBriefing #ClimateEmergency #ClimateBreakdown @charliejgardner.bsky.social @europeanpowell.bsky.social @mackaycartoons.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social

@xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you haven't signed this yet please do and share it widely. #NationalEmergencyBriefing #ClimateEmergency petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Knowledge is power. Follow, subscribe to & support @europeanpowell.bsky.social, to be empowered by the phenomenal knowledge & research he shares on @bsky.app, X and Substack. I've followed and learnt so much about Freeports & SEZs from him for years. An issue & change that seriously impacts us all.

EuropeanPowell@europeanpowell.bsky.social · 4w ago

I am a volunteer who has been researching the duopoly's nationwide rollout of deregulated free-zones for nigh on 9 years. I would appreciate it so much if you read share, and subscribe to my Substack. If you are able, please consider a donation to my Ko-Fi account. ko-fi.com/europeanpowell

I know it's only a PCC election with low turnout but 11% for a party that happily accepts neo-Nazis as members is really bad.

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 4w ago

Norfolk Police & Crime Commissioner By-Election Result: ➡️ RFM: 26.7% (New) 🌳 CON: 15.0% (-18.9) 🌍 GRN: 13.8% (-2.0) 🙋 Ind: 13.4% (New) 🌹 LAB: 11.6% (-23.6) ◼️ RES: 10.9% (New) 🔶 LDM: 8.6% (-6.5) Reform UK GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2024.

“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”

This! Exactly this. 👇👇👇

Dale Vince@dalevince.com · 4w ago

People that work for a living pay twice the rate of tax as people whose money works for them - income tax versus capital gains tax. Capital gains are just another form of income. That’s my suggestion - talk of tax fairness and the need to balance our tax code better.

"When grandstanding comes at night, truth comes in the morning." - @skyeperryman.bsky.social Following the President's speech last night, the team at @democracyforward.org filed a federal court action demanding documents related to Trump's untrue claims around the 2020 election.

Disability News Service@johnpring.bsky.social · 4w ago

Disabled people’s organisations raise concerns over ‘less than honest’ and ‘diluted’ PIP review report #TimmsReview #PIP #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-review-d...

Further 'reductions in spending' means more #Democide. The evidence is mounting, measured in the number of #BenefitDeaths: that #CutsKill, #AusterityKills, #WelfareReformsKill, #ToryCutsKill and #LabourCutsKill. #DisabledLivesMatter #StopKillingUs #WelfareNotWarfare @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social

Disability News Service@johnpring.bsky.social · 4w ago

Disability minister leading PIP review warns there ‘may well be reductions’ in spending #TimmsReview #PIP #PIPreview www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-review-d...

Yesss!

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is what fighting fascism looks like.

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Earthjustice Sues to Block Trump’s Move to Gut Endangered Species Act

The Trump administration has introduced a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, a bedrock of successful U.S. wildlife conservation for more than 50 years, dramatically weakening its power ...

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Earthjustice: Because the earth needs a good lawyer

Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent plac...

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INSTAGRAM WORKSHOP So you've got an account, you can make a simple post but you want to learn more? On Sun 19 July 6pm - 8.30pm Francesca from XR Dirty Water Campaign will show us how to: 🔸make great content 🔸share some tips to engage your audience 🔸get more views for your actions or events

Instagram Workshop ~ Intermediate

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The Nuremberg trials cannot come soon enough for these murderous bullies with #BloodOnTheirHands. They think themselves so above the law and untouchable, they murder unarmed, innocent, peaceful civilians in broad daylight and in full view of the documenting public. #DefundICE #HoldThemToAccount

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4w ago

once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Your periodic reminder that intentionally targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime. If you want to know why you shouldn’t commit war crimes (beyond the blindingly obvious that OF COURSE YOU SHOULDN’T!), please see everything I or my excellent colleagues have ever written on military ethics.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Rep. Keith Self: "We are going to finish the job. And yes, we have to go after civilian infrastructure."

I'm a boomer and have millennial and gen-z daughters who understand why we have vaccines and believe in them. It's not a generational thing. It's an intelligence, critical thinking, feelings over facts thing.

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

"We need an accessibility charter, which should be the floor, not the ceiling, of our aspirations. “We need to promote and protect the rights and interests of disabled passengers.” Tanni Grey-Thompson #Access #RailwaysBill #AccessibleTransport @transportforall.org.uk @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social

Disability News Service@johnpring.bsky.social · last mo.

Railways bill must ensure accessibility becomes a reality, disabled peers tell minister #RailwaysBill #AccessibleTransport www.disabilitynewsservice.com/railways-bil...