the breathless rhythm of scarlet #RedWed #photography #nature #bloomscrolling #flowers #gardens #lifeisbeautiful

"I’ve driven to New Mexico almost every summer since 1989. A few years ago, I found that I feared heat for the first time." #climatechaos #climatedenial 🌎💚 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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I thought Andy Burnham offered hope? All this charlatan is offering is more neoliberalism and corruption

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · yesterday

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

Hard to argue against.....

Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social · 15h ago

Anyone who has seen the utter terror on the faces of children in villages, towns, cities all over the world being bombed by the USA (and its Irrseli ally) knows who the real terrorists are meme via Rob Handsomeness

Anyone who has seen the utter terror on the faces of children in villages, towns, cities all over the world being bombed by the USA (and its Irrseli ally) knows who the real terrorists are meme via Rob Handsomeness

dancing sky at #Oban Harbour. #VisitScotland #Scotland #Sunset

I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

theguardian.com

This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?

After all. The Conservatives support the #genocide in #gaza so why not support both antisemitism and #zionism? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Badenoch defends decision to allow man jailed for antisemitism to stand as councillor

Tory leader praises Joshua Bonehill-Paine’s ‘contrition’ but says she has higher thresholds for MP candidates

theguardian.com

Creeping authoritarianism fueled by capitalist greed. I no longer had an X account have now withdrawn from Facebook. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Elon Musk’s X latest to block Saudi dissident accounts inside kingdom

Exclusive: More than 60 accounts on X have been made unavailable in Saudi Arabia, after similar action on Snapchat and Facebook

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See, it's funny because it's true. #Sad

Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social · 6d ago

The thin line between US President policy making satire and reality ... via Arthur Barnes

Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.

Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened

Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset

theguardian.com

It's 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆. You won't hear it from the BBC in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, but pass rates are up at every level, the poverty related attainment gap is closing further, and a record number of university places for Scots students have been awarded - a proud day for Scotland’s education system.

You’ve just got to love a Scottish Summer eh?

My son graduated from university this summer. He is a Scottish graduate who went to a Scottish university. As such he didn't pay any tuition fees. As he commuted from home, he has no debt from living in Edinburgh. A graduate with no debt. Just like his dad and mum were.

Pretending that the Navy taking back migrants would be a humanitarian mission and therefore legal, is a bit like pretending that a £5 million bribe is nothing to do with politics and therefore doesn't need to be declared.

We introverts cherish life on the periphery #stillness #peace #photography #nature #humannature #I'mgood #texturetuesday #inthepink #lifeisbeautiful

RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline

We need to act now.

Bold Politics@boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2d ago

Every new oil and gas project makes the heatwaves worse.

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

bloomberg.com

And 25% of voters would put these ridiculous moneyed fools in charge of the govt and treasury, would they? How many investigations into Reform’s dodgy finances are there now? I’ve lost count. And no, it’s not an ‘establishment’ plot. It’s just what happens when corruption/incompetence meets scrutiny

Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d ago

BREAKING: Parliamentary standards commissioner is now investigating Reform UK’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice (as well as its paused investigation into Nigel Farage). Tice is being investigated for allegedly failing to declare a financial interest.

Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.

Burnham scrapping net zero criteria in public procurement...

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · yesterday

Net zero/environmental criteria, and demands like tackling domestic violence and improving local high streets, will be scrapped from new social value model Haigh & John Healey will also direct Cabinet to “maximise the use of public procurement... to deliver innovation & growth in every postcode”

Worth Repeating.......

‼️‼️‼️ This is human safari- no one should be ok with this- this is the “honor” of russia 🤬🤬🤬

Margo Gontar@margogontar.bsky.social · yesterday

⚠️ this is difficult video . this is Russian FPV drone hunting a farmer selling vegetables in Kherson. It’s piloted so there’s some Russian watching through camera how this man is running from it and still circling, taking his time, and then, knowing it’s just a farmer, still choosing to attack

An art exhibition raising funds for Palestine is set to open in Glasgow this weekend 🎨

Art exhibition fundraising for Gaza to open in Glasgow this weekend

thenational.scot

Why is BBC News reporting that the Conservatives and Reform have criticised the UK Government early prisoner release policy ? Reform have MP numbers in single figures. What do the Liberal Democrats and SNP think ? #BBCNEWS

Watch out as they try again to blame the SNP but remember NO liberal democracy ANYWHERE has EVER closed the school attainment gap talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/25/n...

No liberal democracy ANYWHERE has EVER closed the school attainment gap yet in Scotland it’s a stick to beat the SNP with

Maoist China in 1960s closes attainment gap by simply sending middle-class students to the fields and not letting them sit the exams at all! BBC Scotland yesterday bypassed evidence of the attainme…

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