I don't remember half as much natural beauty in the other place... (Musk's hellscape)

ContempraInn 🌹@contemprainn.bsky.social · yesterday

The marvelous marble caves in Patagonia, Chile. 🇨🇱

Unbelievably tedious little men (their souls, not their bodies I have no idea how tall they are) www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Restore leader accuses Farage of ‘outright lying’ over pact offer but says his party ‘remains open’ – UK politics live

Rupert Lowe says no talks have taken place after the Reform UK leader said he was ‘open to conversation’ on some sort of electoral deal

theguardian.com

Even if Farage is done that doesn't mean that racism, immigrant scapegoating, hate and the far right in general have gone away.

From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.

When’s the manager going to realise he’s lost the dressing room?

We could have had this 10 years ago and avoided the disaster of Brexit if the media had done its job right. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

It's depressing that this moved me so much, but did. First time I've heard a politician praise a group of immigrants, without caveat, for a long while.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · last wk.

Andy Burnham, "To me, carers should be the best paid people in society, not the worst" "Many people from other countries have been caring for my dad" Andy Burnham praises migrants to the UK who care for our elderly, a stark contrast to Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer

I checked the stats in this. They're true. 1/2

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

They dont pay tax. Theyre leaving because they think they may have to.

It's not a disagreement about politics. Itr's a morality/decency thing.

It's my birthday the week of the Clacton by-election- what a delightful gift it would be if Farage were beaten by a bin 🤞🤞🤞

le SEUL avantage de cette période apocalyptique, c'est que les climatosceptiques ont disparu des réseaux sociaux. On ne se fait plus harceler, plus de "c'est l'été c'est normal", plus de "la sécheresse en 1976". Ca ne moufte plus.

#Switzerland is installing #solarpanels on the sides of mountains — and the results are rewriting everything engineers thought they knew about alpine energy production. Switzerland is not fighting its mountains. It is turning them into power stations. #renewables #solarpower #ActOnClimate

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Not every immigrant to Europe is a Kylian Mbappe or Bukayo Saka but the vast majority contribute to society - doctors, cleaners, carers, nurses, teachers etc. A truth that I wish more politicians would acknowledge.

South Korea built solar panels over highway medians and turned the space underneath into protected bike lanes. Clean energy + safe cycling, using infrastructure that already exists.

Just one para from @jdportes.bsky.social brilliant (and beautifully written) @theguardian.com piece on Burnham and the economy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m resisting commenting on every bit of speculation and briefing about what Burnham will or won’t do. Partly because I want to wait until it’s confirmed, partly because I don’t know how much more disappointment I can take.

"Reform UK platformed and celebrated a woman who publicly called for hotels full of asylum seekers to be set on fire. Yet the moment Nigel Farage is on the receiving end of hostile language, we're suddenly told words matter after all." via Truth Against Hate

Nigel Farage hypocrisy "the state has consistently refused to provide me with any protection at all" After he'd specifically rejected a package including a bodyguard, car and trained driver Meanwhile, Reform have no problem with their councillors saying others 'should be shot'

I found this take quite helpful.

Everyone deserves food to eat, a place to live, and healthcare to keep them living. Trillionaires should not exist in the same world as food insecurity, housing insecurity, or medical debt.

Oh

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... And yet people still want to vote for the party that denies man-made climate change is real and wants to frack/increase North-sea drilling... please let Farage be totally humiliated by his responsibility shirking by-election 🙏🙏🙏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A friendly reminder: life can feel heavy and sometimes even brutal, but make space to look for joy each day, in every small opportunity, even in the midst of rough times.

Privatised water has failed us. I’m backing @labourlewis.bsky.social’s call to ensure Andy Burnham meets water campaigners who’ve fought for years to clean up our water -not just the water bosses who’ve profited from the system. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

Dear Andy Burnham, meet with water campaigners to discuss bringing water back into public ownership

Privatised water is a complete failure. I’m backing Clive Lewis' call to ensure that Andy Burnham meets frontline water campaigners who’ve fought for years to clean up our water -not just the water ...

actionnetwork.org

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... As a journalist, I collated copy from news agencies for the Birmingham Mail in the aftermath of Dunblane. Hacks can become hardened to tragedy but I was moved to tears by accounts that I read. The lack of knowledge and empathy shown by this staggering oaf is shocking.

Restore Britain leader describes Dunblane tragedy as 'one murder'

Rupert Lowe criticised the ban of handguns in the UK, saying it was "because there was a murder in Dunblane".

bbc.co.uk

Glorious 🥰

TheBossRoss 🧶@thebossross.bsky.social · 4w ago

Oh, she's added the Chinese scale ... 😮 ... this is absolutely amazing. #music