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Eleanor Fielding @meownersclub.bsky.social · 2d

Yup.

You're told you don't deserve help
Your experience is being denied
Your support network is denigrated
You can't leave your house
You're afraid of dying but can't access healthcare
You cannot trust the people closest to you

Well Wise Cat has the answer “Has anyone else noticed that the psychiatric model of #ME is really just a form of
COERCIVE CONTROL?”

The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

Thatcher said "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

In this case the administrator is owned by the directors.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about it in 2018, but it's an issue so fiercely defended by social silence that I found it impossible to get any traction. It's one of those occasions on which everyone thinks you've gone mad, as the alternative is to recognise that the system is mad.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Enough of Carillion culture. Make bosses pay for the carnage they cause | George Monbiot

Here’s how to tame corporate power, and prevent ruthless executives from enriching themselves by harming us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

If insurers believe the liability arises through malfeasance or deception by their clients, they would then either seek to recover the money or return the liability to the client. It would not be the get-out-of-jail free card it is today.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
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Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

They're going to put an enormous lawsuit magnet in the sky.
mastodon.social/@sundogplane...

Prof. Sam Lawler (@[email protected])

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disas...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Jennie Jacques @jenniejacques1.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you 🙏 @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Here’s an interview with George and @davetuller1.bsky.social to learn more…!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpLM...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d

I've never been comfortable with the term comic for books like this, even after reading SMcC's magnificent Understanding Comics. I feel it diminishes such great work. And it's not a novel. It's a graphic biography. Anyway, whatever you call it, it is a breath-takingly beautiful thing.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d

This new book by @cartoonkate.bsky.social is a breath-takingly beautiful thing: I'd go so far as to say a work of genius.

It's my privilege to be interviewing her about it at the East Gate Bookshop, Totnes on 23rd October. Please join us if you can:
www.totnespulse.co.uk/product/tick...

Ticket: Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen

Kate Evans is a writer, cartoonist, illustrator and studied English literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton. From 1995 to 1998 Evans dedicated herself to environmental activism, providing c...

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 6d

Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory

If the world didn’t win, has it lost?

We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next

Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...

PART 1: Uncharted Territory

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 4d

There's good reason why the oil and gas industry lobbies so hard for carbon capture - because it's the one 'climate solution' that wouldn't necessarily require shutting down the oil and gas industry

But it doesn't work. They need to be shut down

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 4d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

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MVM - Totnes & South Devon @mvm-totnes.bsky.social · 17d

Live on November 14 in Totnes - come and join us.

George Monbiot - journalist and author
Anthea Simmons - co-founder of the South Devon Primary
Jonathon Porritt - former director of Friends of the Earth
Klina Jordan - former CEO of Make Votes Matter

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TIME FOR REAL CHANGE: democracy and climate justice

A live conversation about our shared future, with insights from distinguished speakers and activists.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks Robert

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 4d

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union

Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d

All eugenicists or "race science" advocates.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d

See the alt-text

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d

Behold. The "genetic master race".

A photo, originally posted by @magicmoneytree.bsky.social, of the eugenecists/"race science" advocates Richard Hanania, Curtis Yarvin and Nathan Cofnas.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

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ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have bee...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

On the one hand, medical science is beginning to get a handle on the very complex physiological basis of this disease. On the other hand, we can expect the greatest medical scandal (so far) of the 21st Century – the mass mistreatment and neglect of ME/CFS sufferers – to continue.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

This commission points to where the government is heading. If the problem is “overdiagnosis” – which appears to be its foregone conclusion – then large numbers of people with horrendous conditions will be put through an even more punishing regime of tests and obstacles to qualify for benefits.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

To rub salt into their wounds, these patients have watched as the man many see as their tormentor-in-chief has been garlanded with honours, including a knighthood. His latest appointment is yet another blow.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

Many patients have been forced into useless and sometimes dangerous “buck up” treatments such as Graded Exercise Therapy and CBT, in some cases long after these “treatments” have been debunked. The most eminent advocate of these treatments? Professor Sir Simon Wesseley.

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