@aabdab.bsky.social
Listening. Language. Optimism. Activism. Trees.
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The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.
October 1, 2026 at 5:29 PM
The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.
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What We Do in the Shadows, consumer edition
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
September 18, 2026 at 3:28 AM
What We Do in the Shadows, consumer edition
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For those of you still waiting for this administration's release of the full Epstein files and the prosecution of those involved in child sexual abuse,
consider this moment something of a tell:
consider this moment something of a tell:
The US secretly flew an American diplomat out of the UK after he was found with child abuse images during a dawn raid, reportedly without notifying British police beforehand.
mol.im/a/16127415
mol.im/a/16127415
US flew diplomat out of UK after he was found with child abuse images
The ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25.
mol.im
September 14, 2026 at 2:15 PM
For those of you still waiting for this administration's release of the full Epstein files and the prosecution of those involved in child sexual abuse,
consider this moment something of a tell:
consider this moment something of a tell:
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Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband; son of a man who had to flee the Nazis: I'm Jewish
BBC News: 😠 are you, though? You're doing it wrong
Fascist Daniel Thomas, in between attacking teenage cricketers and rnli volunteers: I'm Christian
BBC News: 😊
BBC News: 😠 are you, though? You're doing it wrong
Fascist Daniel Thomas, in between attacking teenage cricketers and rnli volunteers: I'm Christian
BBC News: 😊
September 12, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband; son of a man who had to flee the Nazis: I'm Jewish
BBC News: 😠 are you, though? You're doing it wrong
Fascist Daniel Thomas, in between attacking teenage cricketers and rnli volunteers: I'm Christian
BBC News: 😊
BBC News: 😠 are you, though? You're doing it wrong
Fascist Daniel Thomas, in between attacking teenage cricketers and rnli volunteers: I'm Christian
BBC News: 😊
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While I don't condone my son's use of AI to generate elements of this, I do now wish 'Sharples!' existed.
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @quantick.bsky.social
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @quantick.bsky.social
September 2, 2026 at 9:24 PM
While I don't condone my son's use of AI to generate elements of this, I do now wish 'Sharples!' existed.
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @quantick.bsky.social
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @quantick.bsky.social
@tonythorne007.bsky.social can you promote the term "hydronyms"?!
August 27, 2026 at 10:08 PM
@tonythorne007.bsky.social can you promote the term "hydronyms"?!
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Did you see this one?
Those 2 had to have personally interviewed practically every famous person on the planet at 1 point or another... And yet, they both came away with this impression.
Those 2 had to have personally interviewed practically every famous person on the planet at 1 point or another... And yet, they both came away with this impression.
August 26, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Did you see this one?
Those 2 had to have personally interviewed practically every famous person on the planet at 1 point or another... And yet, they both came away with this impression.
Those 2 had to have personally interviewed practically every famous person on the planet at 1 point or another... And yet, they both came away with this impression.
Take note, Burnham government...
But Carney found a way to make this *even worse*, turning over key aspects of the back-end of Canada's military to Palantir, the tech company most closely aligned with Trump, whose CEO boasts that his company was founded to kill America's political enemies:
thedeepdive.ca/canada-milit...
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Canada deepens Palantir ties with $7.4M annual software license deal—report
Canada’s military plans $7.4 million in annual Palantir licenses, raising procurement, transparency, and technology-sovereignty concerns.
thedeepdive.ca
August 26, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Take note, Burnham government...
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RIP Dolly, no celebrity left a finer legacy.
August 25, 2026 at 8:28 PM
RIP Dolly, no celebrity left a finer legacy.
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the guy who said he wanted to chair the harvard department of eugenics and race science??? people are signing a letter in support of his right to bully black men to death in pursuit of his dream of eliminating black people entirely?? just making sure i’m reading this right!!
There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
forbetterscience.com
August 22, 2026 at 11:43 PM
the guy who said he wanted to chair the harvard department of eugenics and race science??? people are signing a letter in support of his right to bully black men to death in pursuit of his dream of eliminating black people entirely?? just making sure i’m reading this right!!
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So Richard Tice, should farmers just "enjoy" low crop yields? Should the thousands who've died from the heatwaves just "enjoy" their premature deaths? What about the families whose homes have burned down in the wildfires?
Charlatans with their heads in the sand.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Charlatans with their heads in the sand.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat
Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2026 at 4:14 PM
So Richard Tice, should farmers just "enjoy" low crop yields? Should the thousands who've died from the heatwaves just "enjoy" their premature deaths? What about the families whose homes have burned down in the wildfires?
Charlatans with their heads in the sand.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Charlatans with their heads in the sand.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The momentum of this issue is in the wrong direction. The line should be: We're roasting, we're exposed to wildfires, we're experiencing drought, and these nutters aren't prepared to keep British people safe.
August 17, 2026 at 1:58 PM
The momentum of this issue is in the wrong direction. The line should be: We're roasting, we're exposed to wildfires, we're experiencing drought, and these nutters aren't prepared to keep British people safe.
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White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
August 15, 2026 at 2:22 PM
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
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Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
August 15, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.
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Glad to have added my name to a letter from 50 green groups urging PM to be clear that #climate breakdown is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. The public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces & offers a robust plan to tackle them
Green groups urge Andy Burnham to break silence on climate crisis
More than 50 organisations say PM urgently needs to show leadership and prepare British people for scale of change needed as UK struggles through another heatwave
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Glad to have added my name to a letter from 50 green groups urging PM to be clear that #climate breakdown is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. The public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces & offers a robust plan to tackle them
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I think the lesson here is “if you don’t invest in infrastructure then everything gets worse and gradually falls apart, and governments have to do humiliating announcements about everything being fucked and broken”. That applies to prisons, same as it has to everything else.
August 12, 2026 at 9:22 AM
I think the lesson here is “if you don’t invest in infrastructure then everything gets worse and gradually falls apart, and governments have to do humiliating announcements about everything being fucked and broken”. That applies to prisons, same as it has to everything else.
I can't think of a track of his I didn't love. RIP William Orbit.
RIP William Orbit, who produced several indelible hits for other people (Ray of Light, Pure Shores, Tender) and some beautiful music of his own, like this tune with a very young Beth Orton. One of the people who defined the sound of the 90s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PneA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PneA...
William Orbit - Water From A Vine Leaf
YouTube video by atmosfearic1
www.youtube.com
August 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I can't think of a track of his I didn't love. RIP William Orbit.
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Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.
August 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.
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There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below).
Bad things are happening. Fast.
Bad things are happening. Fast.
August 2, 2026 at 10:52 PM
There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below).
Bad things are happening. Fast.
Bad things are happening. Fast.
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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
July 31, 2026 at 9:35 PM
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
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Is “pragmatic” the new, “grown up” word? Andy, there’s nothing “pragmatic” about drilling for more oil & gas - to even consider it with the planet literally on fire is total madness. How many times must we say it will do nothing for energy bills or security? It would be an act of utter recklessness
Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas
PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Is “pragmatic” the new, “grown up” word? Andy, there’s nothing “pragmatic” about drilling for more oil & gas - to even consider it with the planet literally on fire is total madness. How many times must we say it will do nothing for energy bills or security? It would be an act of utter recklessness
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This is an appalling lack of judgement and the surest sign yet that Britain will continue to be Trump's lackey.
The war in Iran has cost countless lives, and breached international law - yet we continue to support it.
Very, very concerning. Very, very continuity Starmer.
The war in Iran has cost countless lives, and breached international law - yet we continue to support it.
Very, very concerning. Very, very continuity Starmer.
Burnham Approves Use Of UK Bases For Some US Strikes On Iran - BBG
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Burnham Approves Use of UK Bases for Some US Strikes on Iran
New Prime Minister Andy Burnham has approved the use of British military bases by the US for what the UK calls defensive strikes against Iran, in a continuation of his predecessor Keir Starmer’s polic...
www.bloomberg.com
July 21, 2026 at 7:16 PM
This is an appalling lack of judgement and the surest sign yet that Britain will continue to be Trump's lackey.
The war in Iran has cost countless lives, and breached international law - yet we continue to support it.
Very, very concerning. Very, very continuity Starmer.
The war in Iran has cost countless lives, and breached international law - yet we continue to support it.
Very, very concerning. Very, very continuity Starmer.
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Economists, think tanks and commentators like Jim O'Neill on #bbcpm keep saying UK welfare spending is "out of control." The BBC reports it uncritically. The Resolution Foundation, one of the UK's most respected economic research bodies, looked at the actual data. Thread. 🧵
Jim O'Neill, ex Goldman's banker, is part of the problem. Regularly prognosticates on what's best for the financial markets, & now what Burnham's policies in govt should be, on #r4today, but never mentions the restraint on corporate environmental externalities we need to prevent climate catastrophe
It's incredible to me that even Thatcher recognised the approaching climate catastrophe in 1988, and since then, not only have we not prevented further global heating from being baked in, but we have actually accelerated it because of fosssil fuel lobbying and capitalism.
#r4today
#r4today
July 20, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Economists, think tanks and commentators like Jim O'Neill on #bbcpm keep saying UK welfare spending is "out of control." The BBC reports it uncritically. The Resolution Foundation, one of the UK's most respected economic research bodies, looked at the actual data. Thread. 🧵