The world is on fire. The last thing we need is more fossil fuelled aviation. This runway means death.
Campaign against Climate Change@campaigncc.bsky.social · yesterdayGatwick chief executive claims the process "carefully tested and scrutinised every aspect of our expansion plans". <government waves hands, sprinkles technofix fairy dust over massive climate impact, chants "economic growth" three times and closes their eyes to ignore heatwaves, wildfires & floods>
Jenkins is spot on. The vicious right wing backlash against prison reform must be resisted, not appeased. And it's not down to some dead cop's relatives to decide prison policy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Will Burnham fix our barbaric prisons – or cave to rightwing populism? The answer is a tragedy | Simon Jenkins
England and Wales’s prisons are overcrowded, drug-infested and barbaric. Labour has halted a once-in-a-generation effort to change that sorry state, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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What could have created the conditions for gender apartheid in Afghanistan? Who could have been behind those 20 years of futile war? Oh never mind that, here's former UK prime minister Gordon Brown. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
After five brutal years of Taliban rule, Afghan women and girls need our help – and I have a plan | Gordon Brown
Even in the face of appalling repression, girls yearn to fulfil their educational potential. We must set up a global fund to help them, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
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I agree with this. If your response to the Ceuta crisis is relief that the survivors were sent back to Morocco, you're part of the problem. 70+ people killed by a racist and unnecessary border control. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan Liew
It was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.
So let me get this straight - in the eyes of gender critical activists, a trans woman using a toilet/changing room, like we do in every liberal democracy in the industrialised world are irredeemable predators, but an (alleged) domestic abuser who is also homophobic and misogynistic is somehow ok?
Libby@captainlibatron.bsky.social · 2d agoDear god
I miss my fountain pen habit. This post Neal Stephenson makes me want to dig it out of the drawer and get cursive again.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d agoAs a reader, my enjoyment of your novel is the same whether it was dictated, typed on an Underwood Noiseless, keyed into a word processor, or scratched out with a fountain pen: nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by... 5/
AI asbestos is the perfect analogy
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d agoThese businesses aren't just wasting billions - they're replacing skilled workers with defective chatbots. As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society. 79/
"how can a society survive mass migration?" well, given that mass migration has happened for *checks notes* all of human history, I imagine it's not too hard
This week, a wildfire has torn through Dunwich Heath in Suffolk, leaving the entire nature reserve devastated. An area of around 210 football pitches has been affected with rare habitats and wildlife lost in a matter of hours.
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
Googling "sunset" used to give you the sunset time. Googling "sunset" now gives you an AI summarized definition explaining what the sunset is. The future!
This is as authoritarian, as anti-intellectual, as utterly cynical as anything imagined by Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451.
Lady Yapper (KJ Colt)@moistenedtart.bsky.social · last wk.futurism.com/artificial-i... Excuse me while I go cry
Thoughts with our friends on the North East coast and all volunteers trying their best to limit this massive plastic pollution disaster.
One billion plastic pellets spilled into River Tyne after two ships collide
Up to 25 tonnes of nurdles, the raw material for plastic manufacturing, have spread further than initially feared
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Climate Action Newcastle@climateactionncl.bsky.social · last wk.Around 1,000 volunteers have begun cleaning nurdles from 11 North East beaches, with the next few days critical to prevent the pollution spreading. The spill is one of the UK's largest ever - an estimated 25 tonnes (around 1 billion pellets) entering the sea after a ship collision at Port of Tyne.
"Structurally clean of modern poisoning tools" You mean like the poisoning tools that you're feeding with books so you can continue to do more poisoning? You want unpoisoned books so you can poison them?
I did not know this. Musk's recurring "kill the traitors" incitement to murder is taken from a book written by the USA 's foremost Nazi and linked to 200 murders. No longer available only by mail order to a small neo-Nazi group, now broadcast by the world's richest man on his own social media giant.
Avel Guénin--Carlut@fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · last wk.Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".
One thing you can absolutely guarantee in life. When Labour ministers talk about difficult choices, it's never the rich and powerful that will be taking a hit.
I had some hopes. John Healey has shattered them www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07... John Healey outlined what he saw as the role of the Treasury in a speech yesterday. It was pure George Osborne. There is no hope for Burnham with Healey in No. 11.
I had some hopes. John Healey has shattered them
John Healey’s appointment as Chancellor surprised many people, me included. The biggest reason for surprise was that he has no record as an economic thinker. As I noted on Monday evening, he might ha...
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If ever there was a job that should be replaced with a chatbot it's this guy's.
Zoë Crowther@zoecrowther.bsky.social · 2w agoThe AI minister thinks the UK should focus on being the world's best AI adopter, not the world's best AI model builder He said Britain can move "further and faster" than the US in applying AI across healthcare, public services and the wider economy (3/6)
I feel even "what to have for dinner or what to wear" isn't really low-stakes. What do you mean you can't make such simple choices for yourself? What do you mean you're OK surrendering your appearance and your sustenance to something that has never worn an outfit or eaten anything?
SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is fucking terrifying
So the "spend all the money on bombs and bullets" guy has been put in charge of spending the money. Contrary to previous reports, the "lock em up, send em back" lady remains in charge of locking up and sending back. Great #reshuffle
