COVID for dummies; - No visible short term health impact 👍 - Government says nothing to worry about👍 - Your doctor says no need to worry 👍 - Scientists studying it say we need to take precautions 👎👎 🎉Just gotta get on with life, right🎉 See also tobacco, asbestos, HIV, brain injury from impacts...

1. Govt commissions report on climate 2. It says main risk is unprecedented migration from less developed countries 3. Unprecedented migration happens from Morocco to Spain 4. Entire moron news reports this as an immigration/ borders story 5. Govt pretends it isn't happening This is so bad

This doesn't happen every day, but today two young people working at a hire shop made a point of coming over to me and just saying, "by the way, I like the sticker on your phone". That's all, but always a lovely moment of human connection that makes me feel better about the world and humanity.

How can Andy Burnham look at the news, double down on new north sea drilling as an urgent priority and then go home and look those close to him in the eyes. Absolute shame on him.

Our local GP practice (Wickham brook, Suffolk, UK) has recently put a notice on the entrance, "please wear a mask if you have cold or respiratory symptoms", with a photo of someone wearing a surgical mask. But they're doctors, so they must know what they're doing.

Values test; - Climate change is terrifying, but I really need a summer holiday - Genocide and apartheid are evil, but buying from Amazon is just so convenient - AI is problematic, but look I made this crazy image - I would do anything for my kids, no, I don't want to hear about the COVID inquiry

Donating $26m when you have joint net worth of $1.1bn - is the same as someone earning $50k donating $1,200. Journalists are all fawning idiots

Most people have two sets of values; the values they would like to think of themselves as having, and the values they are actually prepared to make sacrifices for.

I just read "failure of leadership" in a post relating to climate. Just to correct this, there is no leadership, there may or may not historically have been, but it sold out, now we have people in positions of power who just implement the instructions of billionaires.

Heatwave news should be saying - this shows climate change is here not coming - so water/food shortages & massive climate migration are much nearer than you think But no, just loads of 'its very hot, we're going to need Aircon' Dumbing down of journalists & presenters was incredibly well done

Mexico building domestic low cost EVs and rolling out free healthcare for all. The US has spent the last 70 years invading & enacting regime change for exactly this. It sees this as a direct attack on its national interests, because there is no separation between government and corporations.

Every time we turn the TV on now there's going to be idiots saying how exciting the world cup is & earnestly saying banning refs, players and fans is "really unacceptable", but if the US hadn't done that apparently being engaged in multiple genocides would be absolutely fine .....

You either have values or you don't have values. If you override your values any time you "want to do something" , or, "it's just more hassle", then you do not have any values

Letting today's hate march happen today, the annual date for the Nakba commemoration march, is either unimaginably incompetent or politically motivated. Obviously a hard call with the met, but clearly the latter.

Fascism isn't politics, it's the destruction of politics. Reform is not a political party, it is a heavily funded vehicle to deliver the UK to autocracy

The fact no one can stop Trump speaking to the media, given what an absolute idiot he proves himself to be every single time, shows how pathetically weak every member of his team is

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Came across this community art installation on my walk today. If I find who put it there, I'll buy them a beer! (Zoom for full effect)

To all uk political reporters - reform are going to get more councillors than the greens because they have the money to stand and campaign candidates in every seat, greens having to be highly selective. Please explain and recognise this context when reporting the results

BBC leading on sensationalist stories about immigrants, must be elections coming up

Labour's true colours - instructing the met to arrest people sitting on the ground peacefully protesting our support for genocide and apartheid. Vote Green, consign labour to oblivion

The industries most impacted when COVID hit were oil & gas (travel), print media (sold at stations) property investors (WFH) & hospitality. They immediately poured millions into creating fake think tanks & lobby groups. Govts said nothing to see, get back to work. Everyone said, that's great.

This is beyond horrific. Dr Taylor has provided life changing care for my daughter, just getting to talk to her has a huge impact because she validates your issues and has bottomless knowledge on treatments to explore. Even without prescription the support would still have huge value

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One of the very few Long Covid doctors, Dr Claire Taylor, who's been a ray of light in the darkness, has apparently been harassed out of running her clinic. NHS clinics have shut or have nothing to offer. The government just wants to bury Covid and its victims with it. Don't get ill in the UK.

If Farage spoke at a march a tenth the size of today's Together Alliance march we'd have endless coverage of him talking on every news bulletin.

How am I supposed to get a decent score on Geogrid when it thinks the US and UK are not valid answers for countries that are below 'x ' on the perceived corruption scale!

If your home was destroyed, your livelihood destroyed, you lost all your belongings, had no money or source of income - I don't think you'd be saying you had been 'displaced' All our media are shameful

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I've had people I know, who spent their lives as high earners, say they generally like what the green party are saying but don't agree with the wealth tax. I say don't think of it that way, it is a mechanism to get the ultra wealthy, who don't pay any tax, to finally pay some tax like the rest of us

People belonging to a faith group are not responsible for and do not automatically support actions of states that are founded on the same faith. Jewish people are not Israel, Muslims are not Iran, Christians are not Trump Our media know this, yet stoke hatred using it as their narrative

We need to simplify politics #2. Do you want; a) Women's rights set back 50 years, no right to abortion & women penalised for not having children or b) True equality including men & women having identical post natal leave? If a) vote labour, reform or conservative If b) vote Green