Ginny Battson
@seasonalight.com
Symialosopher, ecologist, neologist. Rivers. Interdisciplinary. Ecofeminism is more important now than ever. www.seasonalight.com CEP: https://thinkingintheworld.com/members/ginny-battson/ Alt Txt: butterfly wing (vector design)
Bookings now open for Leaf Support - the #plant -themed online #poetry workshop that I'm looking forward to co-facilitating with @burnedthumb.bsky.social on Saturday 19th September. Further info and booking details here: www.elizabethrimmer.com/workshops?fb...
Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
Doctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in England * UK politics live – latest updates * Business live – latest updates A US private equity firm will take control of NHS patient records in a deal experts say should “ring alarm bells” amid concerns sensitive health data is increasingly being handed to private companies. The investment firm TPG has bought Optum UK, the healthcare technology business behind the electronic patient record system used by most GP practices in England, in a deal worth about $400m (£300m). Continue reading...
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I've been out in Canada talking to people who fear their health will be affected if the gov't allows oil firms to treat + release tailings waste into the Athabasca River - which feeds drinking water supplies for First Nations. Hear the full report here: theworld.org/segments/202...
"City relieved" = Burnham's government won't challenge the power of the bankers, or tax their wealth. Who is choosing our politicians - the people or the banking sector?
Currently writing a piece on the tragedy of a continuing and expanding "Miranda Effect", particularly in ecological philosophy and ethics. The Patriarchal Algorithm.
Perhaps @churchofEngland.org could be the first to LOCACEDE land to a Real COMMONS. #AllLife #Law
Wild Card@wildcard.land · 4w agoThis Tuesday the @archbishopofcanterbury.org and the members of the @churchofengland.org’s internal parliament, The General Synod, have a massive choice to make that will affect all of us. Will they restore 30% of their land to nature by 2030? #SynodVoteForNature @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Our remit. To guarantee eco-illiteracy is history. In every quarter. "Environmentalism" serves no living being on this Earth. No more "othering". No more polarisation, just a symial energy between education and culture. #values #knowledge #share #LiFE
Ginny Battson@seasonalight.com · 3w agoDon't know whether to hate or pity his ignorance. This man is the pinnacle of ecoilliteracy, core value about as far away from mine as possible. He cannot change, he & his like are lost causes. But we can ensure ecoliteracy is mainstream, inc politics, without his despotic executive dis'orders.
Up is down; black is white; and habitat destruction doesn't hurt endangered species.
Trump rule says habitat destruction does not harm endangered species
A new rule rescinds the definition of what it means to “harm” a plant or animal under the Endangered Species Act and could lead to more habitat destruction.
washingtonpost.com
Why does this post generate almost ZERO traction? Social Media and the "Miranda Effect." news.cornell.edu/media-relati...
Women’s voices ‘invisible’ thanks to social media gender bias | Cornell Chronicle
A new study shows that female academics have disproportionately fewer Twitter followers, likes and retweets than men, regardless of their professional rank or amount of activity on Twitter. Brooke Eri...
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Ginny Battson@seasonalight.com · 7mo agoHeard of Ada Gobetti? I think she is an icon of thought, via her direct experience resisting Mussolini and influencing post war "critical" pedagogy, often referred as "partisan" in Italy. A Life of Resistance: Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902-1968) on JSTOR share.google/Wz8Q0zKV4SCJ...
I was shortlisted for the Working Class Nature Prize back in 2024, but I haven't share the piece with anyone yet 😅 Yesterday they announced this years winning names, so in celebration, and for anyone curious for next year - here is my piece #Poetry #NatureWriting substack.com/home/post/p-...
"Vanity Corners" - My Shortlisted Nature Poem
Read my entry for the 2024 Common Ground Nature Writing Prize
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'the report argues that much of the agenda, governance + technical work has effectively been delegated to industry as its representatives occupy key leadership positions across steering committees + working groups, while environmental organisations have largely been excluded from decision-making...
WATERSHED Investigations@watershed-i.bsky.social · 4w agoEU's new Critical Chemicals Alliance 'a front for industries pushing for deregulation + relaxed pollution rules'. New report by @corporateeurope.org + @eeb.org says chemical firms make €billions in profits + don't need light touch pollution regs to stay afloat: share.google/AoEAChjsCSmY...
I live near his Carolean Manor. Plain brick hides one of UK's most lavish plastered interiors, retirement project of "The King of the Black Market," ancestral Norman who's immense fortune was made by one of the most ruthlessly violent labor systems in human history ~ Barbadian code/interloper ships.
Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · last mo.Would Jenrick also like to explain how £5Mill Farage hawking gold bullion and grifting for crypto and fossil fuel billionaires while pledging to scrap the Equality Act, bin new employment rights and lower the minimum wage is not working for the super rich, against the interests of the rest of us?
“Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in Cheyenne’s water system”
Kristen Seversky@kr1573n.bsky.social · last mo.aaaahhhhHHHHHHHHHH www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Kier Starmer repetitively states his responsibility for purging his political party of anti-semitism. He makes no connection between supporting an extreme right wing Israeli government & military, actions of which subject all Jewish people to an increased risk of unwarranted backlash, & heartache.
Yes, we women ecophilosophers face huge citation gaps and intellectual erasure, particularly across media platforms such as this one.
Magnificent irony. 25% total global CO2 emissions since 1751. #250
Channel 4 News lavishes us with both the IFS AND Lord Dannat, Chief Protectorate Charity for the Rich, and one-time suspended peer for improper defense lobbying, respectively. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Two peers suspended from House of Lords for breaking lobbying rules
Lord Evans of Watford and Lord Dannatt were filmed breaking rules, in undercover footage recorded by Guardian
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Ginny Battson@seasonalight.com · last mo.Why are we expected to accept defense "lobbyists" and NATO re Russian threat, when Putin's attack on Ukraine is a specific attempt to "reclaim" suposedly Russian territory (ex "Empire")? Shouldn't you be countering escalation rhetoric in the name of good journalistic non-partisanship?
WHO chief says gov'ts must recognise extreme heat as a health crisis + get ready: 'the London Ambulance Service said the extreme heat contributed to its busiest day on record...cooling failures disrupted medical equip't, operating theatres + wards' www.euronews.com/health/2026/...
Treat heatwaves as ‘health crisis,’ WHO Europe chief tells governments
With temperatures soaring across Europe, WHO Europe chief Hans Kluge has called on governments to recognise extreme heat as a health crisis and strengthen health system preparedness.
euronews.com
When the UK State, as a signatory to multiple International Law Treaties, has three human rights lawyers in charge, and, whether secretly or not, aid continues to be delivered to Netanyahu's forces, along with any political will granted to far-right populism to stay in power, the system is corrupt.
Will there ever be CONSEQUENCES for those who ignored genocidal acts, particularly against babies and children? The evidence is overwhelming. And they gaslighted us all.
Ginny Battson@seasonalight.com · 11mo agoWhen the UK State, as a signatory to multiple International Law Treaties, has three human rights lawyers in charge, and, whether secretly or not, aid continues to be delivered to Netanyahu's forces, along with any political will granted to far-right populism to stay in power, the system is corrupt.
In all honesty, I am finding the behaviour of the UK's Labour Government hugely difficult to understand. It's as if loyalty and cognitive bias towards Israel's existence have completely and utterly blinded them to the reality of the situation. www.thejc.com/news/israel/...
Lammy: ‘UK does not believe Israel is committing genocide’ - The Jewish Chronicle
The now ex-foreign secretary set out the government’s position in a letter shortly before being ousted in a reshuffle
thejc.com
Heard of Ada Gobetti? I think she is an icon of thought, via her direct experience resisting Mussolini and influencing post war "critical" pedagogy, often referred as "partisan" in Italy. A Life of Resistance: Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902-1968) on JSTOR share.google/Wz8Q0zKV4SCJ...
A Life of Resistance: Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902-1968) on JSTOR
This biography of writer, translator, teacher, and feministAda Gobetti, the first in English or Italian, frames her activismin the Resistenza as a chapter in a ...
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Ginny Battson@seasonalight.com · 7mo agoKeep making the connections, follow root motivations of hierarchies of power... we cannot allow the interconnected drivers of planetary destruction to remain invisible. #MachinesLearnWhatTechBillionairesTeachThem #EconomicGrowth #VastInequity #Nature #ResourceMentality #Testostereign
#ArcticMilitarisation #Shipping #Defence #Svaalbard #Greenland #NearArcticMyth #Russia #China #US #Denmark #Patriarchy #Wealth #Canada #Norway #Iceland #Finland #Sweden #SouthKorea #Oil #Gas #IceBreakers #Climate #Engineering #DataCentres #HybridWar #Renewables #Oceans #Cables #Satellites #Space
Ginny Battson@seasonalight.com · 7mo ago@channel4news.bsky.social the electrification lobby ignore interconnected problems, for the sake of... *input any ecomodernist perspective that supports the neoliberal economic status quo".
Our public and active transport systems are ... pitiful, a disgrace, stupid, inequitable, badly planned, expensive, ecoilliterate. Change = valuing these instead of... ROADS. ROADS are the thing that drive all car sales.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · last mo.‘Carspreading’ could lead to extra 2,600 crash deaths a year by 2040, study by @transportenvironment.org finds - Analysis shows cars in Europe have grown longer, taller and wider every year since 2000 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
