Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽
@robinlayfield.bsky.social
Coder, Councillor, Activist, Active Travel Enthusiast Green Socialist, working for Rodborough in Stroud. Let's GO! “Shock them into focus with clarity of intent” — Kae Tempest, cf Ian Rickson
Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...
Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.
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El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.
Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
This is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.
Let's talk about JK Rowling's 'bearded men'... I want to vent something that's been on my mind: The way transphobic groups and individuals are also actively homophobic. I've experienced it first hand, and know many others have too. 1/
So much to #Unlearn in many subjects. Economics is the standout leader in needing to abandon disastrous, failed ideas theconversation.com/decolonizing...
Decolonizing economics means questioning where its ideas came from — and imagining new ones
Calls to decolonize economics challenge the discipline’s foundational assumptions about development, markets and inequality.
theconversation.com
We may technically no longer be in a heatwave because we have 3 days of sub 25C temps before going back up to 30 again. However, we have not had a below-average temp since the beginning of May. I know the BBC don't want to mention climate change, but this IS it.
International law doesn’t apply to western/white nations. The rules based order are not written anywhere, the UN, ICC, ICJ, World Bank and IMF are tools, used by countries of the global north, to control the resource rich global south.
Julie Peel@juliepeel2327.bsky.social · 15h agoWhere is international law?! aje.news/2t1eap
Major oil firms make $93bn profits in just 3 months amid war and climate crisis. They shift profits, dodge taxes, fuel poverty and inflation. They don't bear the social cost of their business. Forever holding people/govts to ransom. Polluters must pay. Need windfall tax now.
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Trying to make every project Do All Things is bad, but "innovation and growth in every postcode" 🙄
Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · yesterdayNet 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”
BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.
BWM cars now showing owners and unskippable ad for the new Spider Man Film whenever they start the vehicle. This shit needs to become illegal, yesterday, else how long before you have to watch it *before* you can start the vehicle.
BP quarterly profits up from $2.5bn to $5.73bn as Iran war sends oil prices soaring. Shell doubled its net profit to almost $10bn. High bills fuelling poverty and misery for households and businesses. Boon for execs and shareholders. Must levy 100% windfall tax on oil, gas, energy companies.
BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring
Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record
theguardian.com
Japanese scientists created a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours—no microplastics left behind. Made from plant-based CMC with salt-sensitive bonds, it breaks into harmless nutrients. [📹 RIKEN CEMS / Univ. of Tokyo] Original post
This is a disaster. They MUST fire the break clause. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... NHS England to revise Palantir platform data after staff concerns
NHS England to revise Palantir platform data after staff concerns
Changes to two most widely cited claims come as scrutiny grows over US tech company’s contract
giftarticle.ft.com
Stick to spending limits, PM and chancellor tell ministers in joint memo. Cue for real cuts; continuation of potholed roads, housing crisis, NHS queues, unfit schools, privatisations? Real change not possible whilst neoliberalism remains the opium of the political class.
John Healey and Andy Burnham urge ministers to stick to spending limits in joint Budget memo
The Chancellor said the Budget on 28 October would “meet our fiscal rules” and give families "stability" to plan for the future.
bbc.co.uk
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BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring
Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record
theguardian.com
What actually counts as basic income? The most comprehensive definition — 7 tenets: universal, unconditional, uniform, individual, cash-based, periodic, sufficient. Read it here → basicincomeaction.org/about?tab=de...
Definition | Basic Income Action
The seven-part definition of basic income: universal, unconditional, uniform, individual, cash-based, periodic, and sufficient.
basicincomeaction.org
Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy. Datacentre prioritised over building affordable homes. Little attention to environmental issues. Govt overturning local council refusal is not devolution or democracy. Big business always wins.
Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy
Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes
theguardian.com
"new state laws and safety codes are reclassifying these plug-in kits as standard appliances — meaning renters can finally treat home solar like a simple toaster oven, plugging a personal power plant into any wall socket and cutting electricity bills by up to 25% with zero landlord approval."
Renters have been locked out of solar energy for years, and a tiny balcony device now "picking the lock" is spreading through 8 states
Renters have been locked out of solar energy for years, and a tiny balcony device now "picking the lock" is spreading through 8 states to make it available.
energiesmedia.com
The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com
Rewilding is the best defence against wildfires (and why the Telegraph is unsurprisingly wrong): spectator.com/article/rewi...
Rewilding is the best defence against wildfires
Rewilding is not the cause of Britain's worsening upland wildfires. Increasingly, it looks like one of the most promising solutions.
spectator.com
