Ben Johnson
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Ben Johnson
@benjgeo.bsky.social
· Nov 29
Maps like this suck. They imply climate change will flood vast swathes of the country very soon. Climate change will (and does) cause more flooding, but flooding is not about whether land is below high tide...
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"A French Fry Restaurant"
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"A French Fry Restaurant"
Should be a live tracker on the Green membership numbers while this budget goes on
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Should be a live tracker on the Green membership numbers while this budget goes on
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At the Budget, the Chancellor just announced 250 new Neighbourhood Health Centres...
... but didn't mention their decision to use private finance to fund them 🧐
Why? Are they ashamed of their plan to resurrect the corpse of PFI in our NHS? They should be. #AutumnBudget
... but didn't mention their decision to use private finance to fund them 🧐
Why? Are they ashamed of their plan to resurrect the corpse of PFI in our NHS? They should be. #AutumnBudget
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
At the Budget, the Chancellor just announced 250 new Neighbourhood Health Centres...
... but didn't mention their decision to use private finance to fund them 🧐
Why? Are they ashamed of their plan to resurrect the corpse of PFI in our NHS? They should be. #AutumnBudget
... but didn't mention their decision to use private finance to fund them 🧐
Why? Are they ashamed of their plan to resurrect the corpse of PFI in our NHS? They should be. #AutumnBudget
I don't think it's a coincidence this comes after @defendourjuries.bsky.social and wider public knowledge of juries' right to acquit according to conscience.
Conspiracy brain talking, perhaps, but I wouldn't be shocked if this was to try and stop protestors - Palestine-supporting and climate activist ones in particular - from having a chance to evade prison after the many rightful Ls the governments taken on jury trials so far...
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I don't think it's a coincidence this comes after @defendourjuries.bsky.social and wider public knowledge of juries' right to acquit according to conscience.
Casually spending around 10% of England's active travel budget expanding 1 road junction 🫠
A 70-room “boutique roadside destination” motel with diner is proposed for the Shores Green A40 junction on the edge of Witney. The junction is currently being rebuilt to have west-facing slip roads at a cost of £26m.
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Casually spending around 10% of England's active travel budget expanding 1 road junction 🫠
Why is the press so keen to pretend climate change is not that urgent while inventing scenarios out of nothing to get scared about?
When it comes to modern war, Ireland is a high-value target: its waters on the western fringe of Europe contain three-quarters of all undersea cables in the northern hemisphere. Despite this, is unprotected and unprepared.
An #FTEdit 🧵 on why this determinedly neutral nation is Europe's weak link 👇
An #FTEdit 🧵 on why this determinedly neutral nation is Europe's weak link 👇
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Why is the press so keen to pretend climate change is not that urgent while inventing scenarios out of nothing to get scared about?
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Every week, we’re trying to raise the bare minimum for six families’ food, shelter, emergency healthcare, winter blankets and clothes, baby supplies, and more.
Answer these still-life-and-death hours with boldness. Click “weekly” to sustain hope.
Answer these still-life-and-death hours with boldness. Click “weekly” to sustain hope.
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
chuffed.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Every week, we’re trying to raise the bare minimum for six families’ food, shelter, emergency healthcare, winter blankets and clothes, baby supplies, and more.
Answer these still-life-and-death hours with boldness. Click “weekly” to sustain hope.
Answer these still-life-and-death hours with boldness. Click “weekly” to sustain hope.
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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RIP to Udo Kier! What a cool actor, and he made to 81 too! He’s mind-controlling Soviet dinosaurs in heaven now 😢
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
RIP to Udo Kier! What a cool actor, and he made to 81 too! He’s mind-controlling Soviet dinosaurs in heaven now 😢
The letter would be stronger if it could cite Zarah saying anything incorrect.
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The letter would be stronger if it could cite Zarah saying anything incorrect.
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the cheapest thing the government could do is fully nationalise all modes of rail and make them free to use. it's legit such a huge multiplying effect on so many other issues, the country would save money and it would spur growth economically, socially and improve mental health.
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
the cheapest thing the government could do is fully nationalise all modes of rail and make them free to use. it's legit such a huge multiplying effect on so many other issues, the country would save money and it would spur growth economically, socially and improve mental health.
The gruel is feeling pretty thin I must be honest
G20 DECLARATION: Fascinating to see this doc explicitly "welcome" the "global stocktake" from COP28, which included the call to "transition away from fossil fuels"…
This comes after it proved impossible to secure similar language at COP30, which was also chaired by Brazil
This comes after it proved impossible to secure similar language at COP30, which was also chaired by Brazil
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The gruel is feeling pretty thin I must be honest
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"Twitter made them racist" is the last refuge of a woefully obsolete liberal politics.
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"Twitter made them racist" is the last refuge of a woefully obsolete liberal politics.
Is this a joke?
Not saying people stare at their phones like zombies, but there was a pretty life-changing product launch in 2007
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Is this a joke?
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Public transport should be free.
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Public transport should be free.
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95 ARRESTS
Police arrested 90 sign-holders at the Peace Garden today. 5 arrests were made at an autonomous action in Hastings.
45 people held the same signs in Derry and Belfast, without arrest.
Join us on any of three days of action this coming week: www.wedonotcomply.org
Police arrested 90 sign-holders at the Peace Garden today. 5 arrests were made at an autonomous action in Hastings.
45 people held the same signs in Derry and Belfast, without arrest.
Join us on any of three days of action this coming week: www.wedonotcomply.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
95 ARRESTS
Police arrested 90 sign-holders at the Peace Garden today. 5 arrests were made at an autonomous action in Hastings.
45 people held the same signs in Derry and Belfast, without arrest.
Join us on any of three days of action this coming week: www.wedonotcomply.org
Police arrested 90 sign-holders at the Peace Garden today. 5 arrests were made at an autonomous action in Hastings.
45 people held the same signs in Derry and Belfast, without arrest.
Join us on any of three days of action this coming week: www.wedonotcomply.org
75% of the public are smarter than 90% of journalists
Congratulations to British fascists, who have quite thoroughly retoxified their own favourite symbols in just a few months, just by association with them.
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
75% of the public are smarter than 90% of journalists
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Prescriptions should be free.
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Prescriptions should be free.
The entire UK energy system makes me so mad. Introduce everyone who made this insane system to The Wall.
There’s some very bad news hidden in the Ofgem price cap for January announced yesterday: the electricity to gas price ratio has jumped to 4.67, its highest level since before the energy crisis.
This is a big barrier to households adopting heat pumps in Britain, and threatens our climate goals
This is a big barrier to households adopting heat pumps in Britain, and threatens our climate goals
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The entire UK energy system makes me so mad. Introduce everyone who made this insane system to The Wall.
"To take from one.....is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it" -- Thomas Jefferson
This would hit different if Jefferson hadn't owned slaves huh?
This would hit different if Jefferson hadn't owned slaves huh?
Text of the resolution
They are using the black book of communism numbers which the authors of the book have retracted
And an amazing range of 15 million-55 million for Great Leap Forward.
Vietnam is not mentioned
They are using the black book of communism numbers which the authors of the book have retracted
And an amazing range of 15 million-55 million for Great Leap Forward.
Vietnam is not mentioned
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"To take from one.....is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it" -- Thomas Jefferson
This would hit different if Jefferson hadn't owned slaves huh?
This would hit different if Jefferson hadn't owned slaves huh?
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Offline for health // I won't list out all the needs these six families aren't meeting due to a drop of support, but do know that it has had a real impact, especially for families waiting to get shelter before winter, which has now arrived.
Six families & a camp: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Six families & a camp: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Offline for health // I won't list out all the needs these six families aren't meeting due to a drop of support, but do know that it has had a real impact, especially for families waiting to get shelter before winter, which has now arrived.
Six families & a camp: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Six families & a camp: chuffed.org/project/hope...
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On one of the dirty hippy US politics podcasts in 2017, after the torchlit Nazi rally where one of the marchers killed a woman.
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
On one of the dirty hippy US politics podcasts in 2017, after the torchlit Nazi rally where one of the marchers killed a woman.
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Not eating animals is a very robust rule of thumb when it comes to reducing your environmental footprint and the amount of suffering your diet may be producing.
FT investigation:
Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.
If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.
If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Not eating animals is a very robust rule of thumb when it comes to reducing your environmental footprint and the amount of suffering your diet may be producing.