Rachel Lowe
@rachellowe.bsky.social
Happiest outdoors but easily tempted inside by a glass of wine. Love to party but often found with my nose in a book. Opinions on most things & prone to sweariness when confronted by injustice. Lover & fighter. Feminist. Co-founder www.NakedRecordClub.com
So US have turned up to illegally drill in a conservation area without permission and #Greenland are too scared to act. This is terrifying for #democracy & #climate. World leaders must respond with strength & solidarity immediately We ignored Putin when he invaded Crimea and look what happened.
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Amazing hopeful news for democracy and antifascism 👏👏👏👏👏 Thanks @novaramedia.com Would be great if you also posted here on bluesky 😀 #michigan #AbdulElSayed
Cancelling ‘vertical drinking’ is a breathtakingly stupid recommendation from Westminster Council. Have they ever been in a pub or do they all drink horizontally like emperors lounging with Jacob Rees-Mogg in a subsidised House of Commons bar? #VerticalDrinking 👍 @london.gov.uk
Council wants pubs in London’s Soho and West End to ban standing
Sadiq Khan criticises Westminster council’s ‘anti-growth policies’ after it recommends stopping ‘vertical drinking’
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I wonder if the tories would have given such a warm embrace to a 3 years jailed former neo-nazi if he wasn’t a double barrelled former public schoolboy from Somerset but a working class lad from an inner city council estate? Performative politics, old boys network or a new faith in redemption?
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
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I do find it rather pathetic when right wing tax dodging millionaire politicians claimed to be christian. I’d have far more respect for them if they said ‘selfishness and cruelty work for me so take your religion and shove it’
Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · last wk.Man who shagged his girlfriend behind his wife's back lectures the Archbishop of Canterbury on Christianity.
"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."
London's first month without rain
Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?
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Hi @lewisgoodall.com Great j@lbc.co.uk show this am as always 😀 Can I make a request? We heard from Peter Lilley about climate this week so how about @carolinelucas.bsky.social next week? As you probably know she’s recently met with climate experts and is possibly even better informed than Lilley 😉
#BBC presenter was sent & read anonymous Reform party emails live on air during interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social which made serious allegations against Zack. Allegations which police later dismissed Taxpayers paying for @bbc right wing propaganda is something POLICE SHOULD INVESTIGATE!
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2w agoLATEST: The BBC has been criticised for a 'surreal' interruption during a Newsnight panel discussion on the Zack Polanski and Reform UK row 👇
Shambolic, disjointed, ignorant to reality (at the alter of ‘growth’) - and ultimately constrained by natural resources. apple.news/AsAcNDchKRAu...
‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk — The Guardian
Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk
May seem counterintuitive, but solar parks above fields can actually boost crops, as here. In another case it increased yield by 30% through providing shelter. Sheep and panels can also go well together. Doesn’t apply universally, of course, but still good news. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
Mixing solar power and agriculture: A blueberry farm does a test run
A farmer in Maine has teamed up with a solar developer and university researchers to find out how his berries fare when partially shaded by solar panels.
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I literally couldn’t believe my ears when I leant that we are being told to take short showers whilst data centres can guzzle & waste as much water as they like to power AI. Do we really value computers thinking for us more than avoiding thirst, growing food, washing and saving our wildlife?
Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · last wk.Shocking to discover designating AI data centres as “National Critical Infrastructure” means water companies are prohibited from restricting water to them even in times of drought. Households will lose water first. Thanks to @olliehayes.bsky.social at @globalactionplan.bsky.social for joining me
Cannot agree more. When Andy Burnham took on the role of PM he also took on a moral responsibility for protecting the citizens of a country which is (literally) on fire He has to have the balls to say no to Trump, the oil industry & oligarch owned media & and create a new UK we can be proud of
Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · last wk.As the UN Secretary General says, every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure. I hope Andy Burnham is listening. Caving in to the fossil fuel lobby as the planet burns would be unforgivable
This is scary. As if UK Gov’s (possibly illegal) arrests/jailing of peacefully protesting pensioners wasn’t enough now they seem to be coming after the barrister protecting their legal rights. This smacks of authoritarianism and must be challenged. What say you? @alexjjnorris.bsky.social
We are shocked that Palestine Action barrister faces contempt proceedings | Letters
Letters: Former clients of Rajiv Menon KC, including Tariq Ali and Hillsborough family members Margaret Aspinall and Sue Roberts, say the charges against him must be dropped. Plus a letter from Andrew...
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Just listened to RestisPolitics brilliant series ‘When nature becomes a security threat’ with @carolinelucas.bsky.social Under discussion is a British Intelligence report with facts so shocking that No10 tried to bury it Podcasts are short, easy to understand and compelling. Highly recommend 👏👏👏
The Rest Is Politics@therestpolitics.bsky.social · 2w agoHow the climate crisis intensifies conflict.
Please someone give Andy Burnham a dictionary, he’s clearly confusing pragmatic and preposterous He can also look up immorality, cowardice and betrayal Let’s all hope @edmilibandmp.bsky.social has his big revolutionary pants on! @labouruk.bsky.social #climate #environment #northseaoil #rosebank
Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
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Infantino plans to sell off #WorldCup to the Trump/Kushner family. QUELLE BLOODY SURPRISE! “Thrive Eternal, a company launched in April by Joshua Kushner, the brother of United States President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, would lead the proposed investor group for FFE” #FIFA
Infantino losing support as 90 nations reject Fifa President's plan to sell off World Cup to private investors | LBC
Both the North American and European football confederations have expressly rejected the spin-off, with Uefa saying they would boycott tournaments should the plans go through
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Notice how incredibly silly it is that we have the police warning people not to commit terrorist offences, waiting quietly for them to reveal a t-shirt or something, and then arresting old people under anti-terror powers, who quite placidly accept being arrested.
Should someone tell this dipshit from the Daily Telegraph that the Mediterranean lifestyle he wants us to embrace currently involves fleeing for your life to escape fires and then walking through ash and stepping over dead tortoises in what used to be your garden?
Left: Nigel Farage says the police should act because Zack Polanski refuses to apologise Right: That time Keir Starmer asked Nigel Farage to apologise for when Reform UK's Deputy Council Leader in Lancashire shared a death threat against Natalie Fleet MP, he refused to do so
Kindness towards animals and kindness towards people come from the same place.
How fucked up is this headline and which sick fuck paid for this study? What’s next? Placing patients on life support machines has a worst impact on climate than letting them die? or Anaesthetising cows before slaughter has worst impact on climate than terrorising them?
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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🔥The UK government is about to make a decision that will affect us all🔥 New oil and gas is incompatible with a liveable climate, and makes us LESS energy secure. 👉We must urge the government to make the right decision. Sign the open letter: act.clientearth.org/page/195992/...
Simon & I moved from SW France to N Ireland this Jan. When we tell people this was largely for climate reasons, too hot & too heartbreaking watching rivers dry up & animals die they mostly look dubious & tell us we’re mad. Our old home’s surrounded by fire. I’ve never been so gutted to be right.
Pedro Sánchez says Spain is suffering effects of climate crisis as firefighters battle wildfires in France
Blazes near Madrid coming under control but efforts to contain huge fire near Bordeaux hampered by windy conditions while another heatwave forecast
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A voice of morality in the political cesspit that is Trump’s America. It’s a tragedy that arrest is impossible without Trump’s support but it’s highly unlikely Trump will be able to give Netanyahu the Putin style red carpet treatment in NYC. Thank you @mayor.nyc.gov
Mamdani calls Netanyahu a 'war criminal and architect of horrific genocide' in Palestine
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Just lost 2 hours of my life watching this. How the hell did Damon & Affleck start their career with Goodwill Hunting and end up here? #RIP indeed ☹️
Amongst terrifying reports of wild fires here at last is some good news… #climate #stoprosebank
New North Sea oil drilling faces delay after gear accidentally dropped in sea
Exclusive: Blunder at Rosebank, UK’s biggest undeveloped oilfield, comes as government considers granting licence
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Phew. I thought we were going to have problems... but, as the wise man once said... I take him at his word. See also: FFS 🤦♂️
Leandro Paredes should be banned from international football for life viciously assaulting Spanish players after the final whistle. Indefensible thuggery and criminality.
Wayne Rooney speaking for the entire world on the half time show. "I thought it was crap."