I'm delighted to hear that BP doubled their profits, making £4.2bn in just 3 months. Not that I have any vested interest in it, other than the £50,000 given to us by the wife of former senior BP executive James Hay.

A viral video claims that three quarters of pregnant women vaccinated against Covid experience miscarriages. As we explain, that’s not true at all. There’s no link between the vaccine and miscarriage.

Covid vaccines don’t raise your risk of miscarriage – Full Fact

A widely shared video incorrectly claims that 76% of vaccinated women experience miscarriage.

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These messages are from UK women who know that behind every headline is a human being who deserves kindness, dignity and joy. We hope these words bring even a small moment of comfort to trans+ people in the UK today. 💗 #WithTheT #NotInOurName

Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

The Nigel Farage Controversies. It’s not just the £5m and Cottrell, his whole career has been scandal ridden.

While wildfires rage, oil bosses are laughing all the way to the bank thanks to Donald Trump’s idiotic Iran war. People across the country are facing sky high energy bills. If Burnham is struggling to find the money to help families with those bills, I’d start here.

Sky News@news.sky.com · yesterday

Oil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again

Today is the 20th day of the year in which a temperature of 32 °C or higher has been recorded in the UK - this exceeds the previous record of 19 days in 1995 📈

"Some reports suggest there were more than 10,000 excess deaths during the record-breaking heatwave. The economic toll was estimated to be close to $2 billion. UN climate chief Simon Stiell said the June heatwave had “the fingerprints of the climate crisis all over it”.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Western Europe is on fire. From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea, blazes are burning in France, Spain, Greece and Türkiye. Authorities are already calling it the worst fire season in modern history.” The worst so far. #ClimateCrisis

Adaptation is pointless unless we cut fossil fuel use to zero. We cannot put sticking plasters on every thumb while the Titanic sinks. We need to stop hitting more icebergs every day first.

Southern England experienced its "driest month ever recorded" in July, the Met Office said, noting that records dated back to 1836. England saw 6.5mm of rainfall 10% of its usual average and less than half of the record of 13.4mm, set in 1911 www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... #ClimateEmergency

England and Wales record driest July on record, Met Office says

Southern England experienced its "driest month ever recorded" in July, the Met Office added, noting that records dated back to 1836. #EuropeNews

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We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.

This is a fabulous thread on AI, by the man who observed and then coined the phrase "enshittification."

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2d ago

The greatest magic trick of them all is *lying*. The reason you can't figure out that coin vanish even after the conjurer performs it three times in a row is that they *didn't* do the same trick three times in a row! 1/

A bit of heated debate this morning about lockdowns, prompted by a post questioning experts. If you want a powerful reminder of what we were dealing with, visit the memorial wall opposite Parliament. It's a sobering sight - every ♥️ represents a life. It stretches way further than my photo shows.

New: A business that made a six-figure donation to Reform UK received interest-free loans of £67m from unnamed “related companies” in the months before, raising questions about the possible origin of the funds. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £6...

Nigel Farage’s party is facing questions about the lack of transparency over £100,000 in funds donated by a management consultancy

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People are just not ready for the consequences of climate change.

Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn

Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue

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#Medellín transformed its urban environment through its internationally recognized Green Corridors program, planting 880,000 trees and 2.5 million shrubs along streets, parks, rivers. It reduced average urban temperatures by up to 2°C while improving air quality and #biodiversity #ActOnClimate

I can’t believe that Reform UK turned out to be financed by a bunch of money laundering fronts for Russia. It’s just so unexpected.

✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness

Clacton bin day leaflet, make sure the local Facebook and tiktok groups have a copy

It would be easy to call this the “new normal“ but that’s incorrect. In actual fact, “normal” is going to keep getting worse and worse and worse. Just how bad it will get depends entirely on how fast & far we go on real, legitimate (not performative) #ClimateAction. We know how. It’s about will.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 5d ago

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

Facebook began as a way to connect friends. Today it's one of the world's most powerful corporations. This article explores how, according to former executive Sarah Wynn-Williams, the relentless chase for users and clicks transformed it into something very diffe

Clicks at any price: the corruption of Facebook

Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book about Facebook documents its decline from a force for good, into a global monster

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I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

“Neither the Starmer government, nor Andy Burnham’s, can say it didn’t know”: former Green party leader @carolinelucas.bsky.social on the shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see www.thenerve.news/p/caroline-l...

Half of the country is in "exceptionally serious drought" - putting us at more risk of wildfires and threatening our food security. Meanwhile water companies are wasting a staggering 2.87 billion litres of water every day through leaky pipes. Time to end water privatisation.

I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.

A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch

A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.

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