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climatedad.bsky.social
Horrific scenes in Stourbridge.

As your home burns, remember the UK government met with fossil fuel lobbyists over 500 times during their first year in power

While we bin our BBQs, they’re being wined & dined by the arsonists.

Be furious.
Houses on fire as wildfires spread in Stourbridge
YouTube video by Sky News
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August 14, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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volcaholic1.bsky.social
Drill baby, drill.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Qj...
This is what climate change looks like.
YouTube video by Volcaholic
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August 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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bestforbritain.org
When extreme heat means shut schools, dying plants and restless nights, Brits know climate change is to blame.

So why is it that three quarters of media coverage of the June heatwave did not mention climate change?
July 14, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Can Burnham say that war crimes, let alone genocide, has occurred in Gaza?

Being clear on this is the most basic first step.

Without this, Labour hasn't even started its journey to rectifying for years of complicity and participation in this genocide.
Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali said "If you asked Andy Burnham whether Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine, he'd say yes. But when it comes to Gaza, he hides behind the international courts because admitting that the British government knows war crimes are being committed would trigger a legal duty to immediately halt arms sales."
July 9, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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defendourjuries.bsky.social
BREAKING

84 year old Reverend Sue Parfitt arrested under the UK Terrorism Act for giving speech outside New Scotland Yard on the anniversary of the proscription of Palestine Action.

Stood on a soap box, Sue explained her motivation.

Join the Escalation: wedonotcomply.org
July 5, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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michaeljstern.bsky.social
I've got one: Trump has had people arrested for touching a piece of the floating material that has peeled off the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool . . . but made sure no one was arrested for touching young girls.
June 22, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social
Hi Friends, Tonight marks 3 years and 156 consecutive weeks of posting a new stand up set to YouTube. When I started, my goal was really simple: just become a better comedian. I wasn’t focused on where it would lead. I was only thinking about the work. Writing. Performing. Learning. Repeating. Three years later, one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that consistency is incredibly powerful. It doesn’t guarantee success, but it absolutely gives growth a chance to happen. Most creative goals feel impossible when you look at them all at once and from far away. A book. An album. A film. A business. A body of work. But they all start simple and small. The book is a word The album is a note The business is a plan That’s what the week was for me. One week becomes two. Two becomes ten. Ten becomes fifty. Eventually you look up and realize you’ve built something that once felt completely out of reach. If you’re a creative person with an idea you’ve been thinking about, this is your reminder to start. Not when everything is perfect or when you have all the answers. Start now, then give yourself enough time to improve. The version of you that exists three years from today will be grateful you did. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do that for the last 156 weeks. See you tonight at 9 PM Eastern, Friends.
June 9, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
"Terrorism" on the left. "Protest" on the right.
People sitting with "I support Palestine Action" placards "STREET FURY Protesters hurl bins & bricks in clash with riot cops injuring 11 as two arrested amid outrage over Henry Nowak murder" Headline and still in The Sun
June 3, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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katharinehayhoe.com
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline.

“Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet.

Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming.

Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
May 30, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
happy earth day.
that’s it, that’s our home.
there is no planet b.
A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
April 22, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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john-abernathy.bsky.social
My last two shots before my world went dark.
January 17, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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ghostpanther.bsky.social
A story like this instantly weeds out who is full of sh*t & who isn’t.

This is highly credible scientific data pointing towards the livable world ending by 2050.

Anyone not engaging with this is economically captured, high on their own supply or a well paid idiot.
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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kottke.org
A lovely update from XKCD: Fifteen Years. Growing old is a gift. [kottke.org]
Q: “Want to Feel Old?” A: “Yes.”
In 2010, Randall Munroe’s fiancée (now wife) was diagnosed with cancer. Every once in awhile, he updates his audience at XKCD on how that’s going. The most recent missive: Fifteen Years. If you’re not up on XKCD lore,
kottke.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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davidrowewtl.bsky.social
I wouldn't board an aircraft, a bus, a train, a ship or even get in a car that had a 5% chance of crashing. Now AMOC collapse is closing in on over 25% probability we are all being boarded to a mad future.
Excellent eye opener of a presentation. Educate yourself, watch it.
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
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November 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
Today is the 60th(!) anniversary of the first public report on the dangers of fossil fuel pollution.

What happened? A whole lot of fossil fuel bullsh*t and corruption in service of a whole lot of nothing.

All while pollution and warming escalated far beyond what scientist predicted in 1965.
This Whole Thing Really Snuck Up On Us
Looking back, and ahead, on the anniversary of a White House warning.
www.gravityisgone.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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ledbydonkeys.org
Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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fascinatorfun.bsky.social
This is so good.

Negotiating skills + good will
nickknudsenus.bsky.social Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · Sep 20
Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.
September 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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shoaibmkhan.bsky.social
The depressing, awful reality of where we are as a society.

People are made to feel guilty for literally saving human lives.
shoaibmkhan.bsky.social Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · Jul 29
Lifeboat crew members who are called out to migrants crossing the Channel in small boats have told the BBC they make no apologies for saving lives at sea.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
RNLI crew makes no apologies for saving migrants' lives in English Channel
It says it has saved the lives of 58 people crossing the Channel
www.bbc.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
A BEAUTIFUL NEW COMBINED WEBB AND CHANDRA IMAGE OF THE BULLET CLUSTER!! 🌌
Webb near-infrared data combined with Chandra X-ray data of the Bullet Cluster show many overlapping objects, including foreground stars, galaxies in galaxy clusters, and distorted background galaxies behind the galaxy clusters. The objects are all at various distances set against the black background of space. Most galaxies appear as tiny fuzzy ovals in white, orange, or red. A slightly larger, very bright, light blue spiral galaxy is at center. To its immediate left and right are two large bright pink splotches representing X-rays. The right pink area has a rounded nose facing right, where it is darker pink, and fades to the left as a triangular shape. This is referred to as the Bullet. To the far left and far right, next to the pink regions, are two blue regions representing dark matter mass. The left blue region is a large, long oval at an angle. The blue region at right is a far smaller oval. Webb near-infrared data combined with Chandra X-ray data of the Bullet Cluster show many overlapping objects, including foreground stars, galaxies in galaxy clusters, and distorted background galaxies behind the galaxy clusters. The objects are all at various distances set against the black background of space. Most galaxies appear as tiny fuzzy ovals in white, orange, or red. A slightly larger, very bright, light blue spiral galaxy is at center. To its immediate left and right are two large bright pink splotches representing X-rays. The right pink area has a rounded nose facing right, where it is darker pink, and fades to the left as a triangular shape. This is referred to as the Bullet. To the far left and far right, next to the pink regions, are two blue regions representing dark matter mass. The left blue region is a large, long oval at an angle. The blue region at right is a far smaller oval.
July 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
yes, the news lately has been TERRIBLE. i mean just god awful.

but today we’re reminded of the good in this world. the vera c rubin observatory is going to propel us into a new era of astronomy and help us learn more about the universe than ever before 🌌
A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars. A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. Throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black. A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. Throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are spiral like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black. A sprawling, textured field of galaxies is scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At center left lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. At center top, another smooth elliptical galaxy is oriented horizontally, with a wispy tail extending right. At right, a group of interacting galaxies is connected by delicate streams of stars like spider silk. All throughout the image, millions of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
June 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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number10cat.bsky.social
I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
I'll make you so sure about it...
June 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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medcrisis.bsky.social
Haha excellent, I didn’t realise the MAHA clowns were in-fighting this much
May 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Genuinely astonishing. You could almost believe in telepathy.
dottsky.bsky.social D*o.t_s>k°y @dottsky.bsky.social · Apr 21
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
Bridget with The Beatles on Abbey Road. Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic. Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse). The Cat With The Pearl Earring.
April 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM