Wigby
@wigby.bsky.social
Software, degrowth, trees, animals. Liberation for all sentients 🦊🐻❄️🐽🐔🦡🐿️🦎🦍🐋🐙🐬🦐🧘🏽
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Repeat after me. Just because a writer writes a shitty character doing a shitty thing, that does not mean that said writer condones that shitty thing in real life. This is common sense, I fear.
August 27, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Repeat after me. Just because a writer writes a shitty character doing a shitty thing, that does not mean that said writer condones that shitty thing in real life. This is common sense, I fear.
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I’d propose the opposite of this: sortition. Choose the House of Lords by random lot. Everyone chosen gets to serve for four years, and be addressed as Lord for the rest of their lives.
Let’s do the same for the Senate hole we’re at it, minus the honorific.
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Let’s do the same for the Senate hole we’re at it, minus the honorific.
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Towards a New House of Lords - Marginal REVOLUTION
In Britain, the House of Lords was traditionally dominated by hereditary peers–a right bequeathed by the monarch, sometimes in ancient times, to sit in the House of Lords that was transmitted generati...
marginalrevolution.com
August 25, 2026 at 2:54 PM
I’d propose the opposite of this: sortition. Choose the House of Lords by random lot. Everyone chosen gets to serve for four years, and be addressed as Lord for the rest of their lives.
Let’s do the same for the Senate hole we’re at it, minus the honorific.
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Let’s do the same for the Senate hole we’re at it, minus the honorific.
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
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What else can you call it?
August 18, 2026 at 3:06 PM
What else can you call it?
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We don’t want them thanks
Thousands of London's white-collar jobs will move to other parts of the UK in the next five years, new analysis suggests. Find out which roles will move — and where they're going: bloom.bg/4hYoiJm
📷: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg
📷: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg
August 12, 2026 at 9:12 AM
We don’t want them thanks
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Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
July 27, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
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Andy Burnham cabinet consists of neoliberal foot-soldiers.
All supported
Privatisation of the NHS by stealth
Greater role for private equity
PFI
Corporate profiteering
Benefit cuts
Higher taxes on the poor
Erosion of jury trials
Damaging fiscal rules
What will change?
All supported
Privatisation of the NHS by stealth
Greater role for private equity
PFI
Corporate profiteering
Benefit cuts
Higher taxes on the poor
Erosion of jury trials
Damaging fiscal rules
What will change?
Andy Burnham can’t transform the country while sticking to the current fiscal rules
Sticking to the 2024 election manifesto and fiscal rules will make it harder for him to deliver the headline promises and the change that he has paraded.
leftfootforward.org
July 26, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Andy Burnham cabinet consists of neoliberal foot-soldiers.
All supported
Privatisation of the NHS by stealth
Greater role for private equity
PFI
Corporate profiteering
Benefit cuts
Higher taxes on the poor
Erosion of jury trials
Damaging fiscal rules
What will change?
All supported
Privatisation of the NHS by stealth
Greater role for private equity
PFI
Corporate profiteering
Benefit cuts
Higher taxes on the poor
Erosion of jury trials
Damaging fiscal rules
What will change?
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"Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals, but the truly dangerous radicals are countries that are increasing production of fossil fuels."
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN
Source youtube.com/clip/Ugkxsfw...
#ExtremeHeat #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN
Source youtube.com/clip/Ugkxsfw...
#ExtremeHeat #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels
July 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM
"Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals, but the truly dangerous radicals are countries that are increasing production of fossil fuels."
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN
Source youtube.com/clip/Ugkxsfw...
#ExtremeHeat #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN
Source youtube.com/clip/Ugkxsfw...
#ExtremeHeat #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels
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He isn't even the Prime Minister yet. But Andy Burnham has already turned himself into a pariah. So unnecessary. So sad. www.rigzone.com/news/wire/bu...
July 18, 2026 at 8:48 AM
He isn't even the Prime Minister yet. But Andy Burnham has already turned himself into a pariah. So unnecessary. So sad. www.rigzone.com/news/wire/bu...
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How very ironic to see sheep finding relief from the current heatwave under trees they themselves are ensuring will die out.
June 24, 2026 at 6:15 AM
How very ironic to see sheep finding relief from the current heatwave under trees they themselves are ensuring will die out.
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It was wrong when the media did this to Ed Miliband when he was leader and it is wrong to do this to Polanski.
Genuinely have no idea how awfulness like this gets past editors…
It’s really not that hard to criticise policies or politicians without being antisemitic.
Genuinely have no idea how awfulness like this gets past editors…
It’s really not that hard to criticise policies or politicians without being antisemitic.
Recent Telegraph and Times cartoons of Green Party leader Zack Polanski, challenged for deploying antisemitic tropes + caricatures of a Jewish politician, by the Green party and by others.
May 6, 2026 at 8:33 AM
It was wrong when the media did this to Ed Miliband when he was leader and it is wrong to do this to Polanski.
Genuinely have no idea how awfulness like this gets past editors…
It’s really not that hard to criticise policies or politicians without being antisemitic.
Genuinely have no idea how awfulness like this gets past editors…
It’s really not that hard to criticise policies or politicians without being antisemitic.
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Average of all the polls.
We just hit crossover day!
Great moment to join as we take on Reform next.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We just hit crossover day!
Great moment to join as we take on Reform next.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
April 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Average of all the polls.
We just hit crossover day!
Great moment to join as we take on Reform next.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We just hit crossover day!
Great moment to join as we take on Reform next.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Over 100 children have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, Lebanese Health Ministry says
March 13, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Over 100 children have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, Lebanese Health Ministry says
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The majority of people in this country do not want us to be involved in this war.
Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war.
The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.
Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war.
The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.
March 2, 2026 at 8:19 AM
The majority of people in this country do not want us to be involved in this war.
Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war.
The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.
Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war.
The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.
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One of the worst things about AI, for me, is that it takes away from people the sheer joy of writing. Schools don’t often make this point, but writing should be fun. Putting words together, finding ways to express yourself, the pure pleasure of a well-crafted sentence. 1/5
February 24, 2026 at 7:44 AM
One of the worst things about AI, for me, is that it takes away from people the sheer joy of writing. Schools don’t often make this point, but writing should be fun. Putting words together, finding ways to express yourself, the pure pleasure of a well-crafted sentence. 1/5
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A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
February 13, 2026 at 10:22 AM
A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
It is 85 seconds to midnight
January 27, 2026 at 3:14 PM
It is 85 seconds to midnight
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It’s actually insane how Zionists say they are “making the desert bloom” while literally bulldozing and burning ancient olive trees by the tens of thousands in the process of ethnic cleansing Palestinians, live-streamed to our screens. They take us all for fools.
January 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
It’s actually insane how Zionists say they are “making the desert bloom” while literally bulldozing and burning ancient olive trees by the tens of thousands in the process of ethnic cleansing Palestinians, live-streamed to our screens. They take us all for fools.
Solidarity with the people of Iran
January 9, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Solidarity with the people of Iran
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America, get on the streets now. You've already left it too long.
January 8, 2026 at 10:02 AM
America, get on the streets now. You've already left it too long.
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Essentially every country in the world in a party to the UN Convention on Climate Change. Including autocracies, coal and oil producers
All except one, now
Hard to have better evidence that the USA has become a rogue state
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
All except one, now
Hard to have better evidence that the USA has become a rogue state
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty and dozens of other groups
The White House says the decision was taken because those entities
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Essentially every country in the world in a party to the UN Convention on Climate Change. Including autocracies, coal and oil producers
All except one, now
Hard to have better evidence that the USA has become a rogue state
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
All except one, now
Hard to have better evidence that the USA has become a rogue state
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...