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Geoffrey Harris @geoffreyharris.bsky.social · 3h

Ask him when he's going to pay back everyone's costs and losses, then, if he wants to own it.

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 1d

2/ - Because the EU will give us a great deal, that proves it was right for us to leave AND because the EU DIDN’T give us a great deal that ALSO proves it was right for us to leave.

- The UK-EU negotiations will be quick and easy AND the EU is slow and lumbering.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 1d

“I can’t stop the world burning and civilisation’s collapse, as it is hard.”

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 2d

Trump is effectively bullying the UK to pay more for its drugs

www.ft.com/content/dd11...

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 1d

I'm looking forward for the exceptionalists telling us the UK should be exempt from steel tariffs because:
- It used to be a member
- their steel standards are the highest in the world
- We need British steel
- They're part-time residents (unregistered) in Spain

Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 2d

1. This does not target the UK

2. This is clear evidence of being inside a customs union rather than floating alone

3. It was inevitable that Trump's actions at the head of such a large economy would result in dumping elsewhere.. Europe has to be able to take action to counter that.

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Geoffrey Harris @geoffreyharris.bsky.social · 1d

Objectivity would be a good thing. The racists are objectively racist, the liars are objectively liars, they can be called as such and if that were the BBC's guiding principle there wouldn't be nearly as many problems

Whereas "balance" is half-way between objectivity & the biggest bluffer's bluffs

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 2d

Ok. But are there any downsides?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 4d

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions The failure of carbon offsets to cut planet-heating pollution is “not due to a few bad apples”, a review paper has found, but down to deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve. Research over two decades has found “intractable” problems that have made carbon credits in most big programmes poor quality, according to the study. While the industry and diplomats have made efforts to improve the system, it found much-awaited rules agreed at a UN climate summit last year “did not substantially address the quality problem”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Geoffrey Harris @geoffreyharris.bsky.social · 4d

(Spoiler: having seen all this before as a Brit during the Brexit years, neither condition 1) nor condition 2) will be fulfilled by the harm-doers. They didn't get where they are today, and do the harm they do to others, through humility and self-reflection. Expect victimhood narratives/sore egos)

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Geoffrey Harris @geoffreyharris.bsky.social · 4d

Person A: "this isn't what I voted for!"

Person B: "that's interesting, because it's exactly what I - and many other caring, discerning and patriotic people - voted against"

If you write out a blank cheque of harm, you don't get to pretend you don't own those harms - all of them -

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Geoffrey Harris @geoffreyharris.bsky.social · 4d

1) is pretty difficult to do, because few things are as powerful / reach as far into everyone's lives as writing that blank cheque of harm on polling day

especially when you were, as the people discussed were, big-platform influencers encouraging many to sign the cheque

2) is easy tho. Any takers?

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Geoffrey Harris @geoffreyharris.bsky.social · 4d

...Unless-

1) you are doing something comparably consequential and far-reaching to undo/reverse what you set loose

2) you are openly reflecting on your mistake- calling it your mistake- and how and why you made it, and how you will be more patriotic, discerning, and caring & vote better in future

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Geoffrey Harris @geoffreyharris.bsky.social · 4d

Person A: "this isn't what I voted for!"

Person B: "that's interesting, because it's exactly what I - and many other caring, discerning and patriotic people - voted against"

If you write out a blank cheque of harm, you don't get to pretend you don't own those harms - all of them -

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🦇🧛‍♂️Bram Stoker’s GuitarMoogula🧛‍♂️🦇 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 7d

A country that tolerates this baloney emanating from its head of state and government for a day, let alone another four and a half years, has surely lost its mind.

Unhinged crackpot stuff anyone remotely connected with reality would be ashamed and embarrassed to say out loud.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

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Geoffrey Harris @geoffreyharris.bsky.social · 9d

Ah, so the chap who freely chose to adopt the name of a fictional rapist has written a book now?

I guess we'll never know why, of all possible false names (or his own real name), he feels the need to choose that rapey one from behind which to publish his deliberately dishonest Brexit propaganda

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Geoffrey Harris @geoffreyharris.bsky.social · 9d

Pragmatically locking in thousands of years of planet-wide harm with our choices in this decade and the next, for the sake of a few years' contemptible and unnecessary personal profit for a few utterly blistering idiots

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 10d

"The excuse most often provided for turning away from green measures, for expanding fossil fuel production, for ignoring the science, is pragmatism.... this is dangerous drivel".

@profbillmcguire.bsky.social hits the nail on the head
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire

In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 10d

"The excuse most often provided for turning away from green measures, for expanding fossil fuel production, for ignoring the science, is pragmatism.... this is dangerous drivel".

@profbillmcguire.bsky.social hits the nail on the head
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire

In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 9d

Labour continues to show complete disregard for either basic humanity or reality.
While family reunion routes are already fairly limited, you couldn't create a bigger gift to smuggling gangs than cancelling them. These policies will increase number of people forced to use irregular routes. #r4today

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 9d

There is no such thing, as Starmer well knows, as a "golden ticket of resettlement and family reunion" for people who have been granted refugee status. This is meaningless guff aimed to play to populist fantasies that refugees get provided with everything. 1/

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 9d

In addition, I think also: politics is about argument! When I say 'the free movement of services, goods, capital and people is good for growth', I am not saying it because it is popular, but because it is true. It is in fact racist to say that mixed-race people should be deported!

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9d

The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 9d

Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

📊 @bwalker.uk

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 9d

Imagine if the EU institutions bungled their budget-setting process so badly that all staff would be placed on leave without pay. You'd never hear the end of it! But oh hey it's America so just one of those things.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 9d

This is the very definition of “mealy-mouthed”

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 9d

The Royal Society has met to discuss Elon Musk – and they’re NOT removing his fellowship. They are criticising him publicly, but stopping short of actual removal.

This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.

“I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish. Today at a meeting of the Royal Society’s Council, I led a discussion regarding some of those threats.

“Science thrives when individuals and institutions have the freedom to carry out research without fear of discrimination, censorship, or other restrictions that would hinder their work. In support of that, Council believes that it is not the role of the Royal Society to police the personal political opinions of individual Fellows and disciplinary procedures should not be initiated because of a Fellow’s social and political views.

“However, the Society can and will criticise Fellows who act in a way that runs counter to the values of tolerance, courtesy and respect for others that allow science to flourish. Elon Musk’s contribution to the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally is an example of a growing tendency towards the use of the language of violence, and narratives of division and polarisation. This language and these narratives threaten the values that enable science to thrive and the Royal Society rejects them, from wherever they originate.”

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9d

There is no quote from Elon Musk's "contribution".

There is no call for Musk to retract the call for violence in our country to remain as a Fellow.

Without doing that, the mildness of this expression of general disapproval of many contributions does more harm than good to the RS & to norms

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 10d

well then stop using his website my good man!!!!!!! you can't hang out on someone's lawn all day every day then complain that he happens to also be on the lawn!

Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 10d

Ed Miliband turns on Elon Musk. “He incites violence on our steeets. He calls for the overthrow of our government. He disseminates disinformation. He thinks he can tell us how to run Britain. We have a message for Elon Musk: ‘Get the hell out of our politics and our country!’”

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

At least a third of EU citizens in UK report discrimination by public bodies

Long-term residents post Brexit also say they have faced difficulties exercising travel and equal treatment rights A significant number of EU citizens living long term in the UK post Brexit are experiencing discrimination in work and in public services, a report by the UK’s statutory Brexit watchdog has revealed. Five years after the UK quit the bloc, more than a third reported feeling discriminated against by public bodies. One in five said they had experienced difficulties accessing their rights including the right to work, the right to travel in and out of the country and their right to equal treatment in public services. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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