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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 4d

Climate leadership out of Cardiff. 👏

Every 2 years, the average UK car gets 1cm wider - clogging streets and impacting public and planetary health.

SUVs are the worst offenders, but they're also the most advertised.

Time to ban SUV ads. ❌

More 👉 www.suv-alliance.org.uk

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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 5d

These ads and sponsorships aren’t background noise - they’re part of the same lobbying ecosystem.

Every time a fossil fuel logo sits beside a cultural event, it normalises their presence and associated their brand with our favourite pass times. 7/8

Revealed: Now There’s Proof That the Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Cultural Sponsorships to Block Climate Action

BP, Chevron, Shell, and other oil majors back arts and community groups to protect their business models, subpoenaed documents show.

www.desmog.com

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caron5.bsky.social @caron5.bsky.social · 7h

Let them!

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 7h

This you, Fred? 👀

BetFred may claim to have only made £500,000 in profits last year... but they had revenue of over £1 billion, and the owners' personal wealth grew by £500m.

They can find the money for the gambling tax.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 16h

Pictures of the week: People are warming up for the COP climate conference in Brazil to marching for peace and human rights in Mexico and Italy.

www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Greenpeace Pictures of the Week - Greenpeace International

Warming up for the COP climate conference in Brazil, marching for peace and human rights in Mexico and Italy, and calling out a telecommunications company in Australia, here are a selection of images ...

www.greenpeace.org

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 12h

Powerful call: we need to ensure that everyone in our societies has the chance to develop their full potential. That's morally right, and also essential to our capacity to deal with the many crises we face

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

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caron5.bsky.social @caron5.bsky.social · 7h

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them: 38d.gs/rezg

Sign the petition: Save our National Parks

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

38d.gs

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 9h

🚨READ THIS. vist.ly/4azzf

'After years of sewage and debt, Thames Water doesn't deserve another free pass' - LabourList

Ofwat has a choice. Special administration is the clear and viable alternative to selling our water system down the river.

labourlist.org

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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 11h

'Animals matter as we plan our world'

theecologist.org/2025/oct/20/...

'Animals matter as we plan our world'

Why animal welfare belongs in planning permission decisions.

theecologist.org

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20h

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 11h

Then fix it.

Screenshot from BBC: Rachel Reeves blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economy.

Rachel Reeves made the comment about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11h

Some politicians and commentators continue to talk our great city down.

The facts show a very different picture.

Fewest homicides in London since monthly records began. The number of homicides in London between January to September 2025 is the lowest in the first 9 months of any year since monthly records began in 2003.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 10h

🔥🔥 Fossil fuels are not the only industry roasting the planet - A new report shows industrial meat and dairy production is just as dangerous 😱

@foodrise.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social @iatp.bsky.social

Roasting the Planet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Big Emissions - Foodrise

Roasting the Planet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Big Emissions, a new report co-authored by Foodrise, Friends of the Earth U.S., Greenpeace Nordic, and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, reveals the...

foodrise.org.uk

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 9h

There are 7 Council By-Elections taking place this week:

🌹 Moseley (Birmingham)
🌹 New Town & Christ Church (Colchester)
🌳 Whittlesey North West (Fenland)
🌳 Dunster (Somerset)
🔶 Glastonbury (Somerset)
🏘️ Paulsgrove (Portsmouth)
🙋 Milton & Tamarside (Torridge)

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 9h

New @greenpeace.de research finds alarmingly high levels of toxic #PFAS “forever chemicals” in seafood from the Baltic and North Seas.

These substances are linked to cancer and immune system damage.

No one should have to worry about toxic chemicals in their food.

We need a global PFAS ban.

‘Forever chemicals’ found in Baltic Sea fish

Exposure to PFAS may be linked to harmful health effects in humans and animals.

tvpworld.com

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 8h

This is Katie Lam, Conservative leadership hopeful, just casually talking about deporting anyone who she doesn’t believe is ‘culturally coherent’ in the Times this weekend. This puts her to the right of Enoch Powell. And there’s been silence in media on these comments.

Much like Jenrick, Lam has been accused of shifting with the prevailing winds on issues of identity and immigration. She certainly shares his unsentimental toughness on the subject.
"Everybody who's in this country illegally I think needs to go home," she says. Indefinite leave to remain is off the table, too. "There are also a large number of people in this country who came here legally, but in effect shouldn't have been able to do so. It's not the fault of the individuals who came here, they just shouldn't have been able to do so. They will also need to go home. What that will leave is a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people’.

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caron5.bsky.social @caron5.bsky.social · 8h

Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky

caron5.bsky.social @caron5.bsky.social · 5d

We can't stop deforestation without the experts: Indigenous people. 💚

At #COP30, the UK govt has a chance to champion their rights, funding and legal protection.

Tell the UK climate minister: back the forest defenders. Sign our open letter. action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/def...

Demand UK support for Indigenous forest defenders at climate talks

Our world’s forests are under threat, worsening climate change, biodiversity loss and threatening vulnerable communities. This year’s UN climate talks – hosted in the Amazon – are our chance to act. W...

action.friendsoftheearth.uk

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 7d

Ministers are set to cave to a 25% NHS drug price hike - under pressure from Trump - handing a giant payout to Big Pharma from NHS funds and putting patient care and medicine access at risk. We can’t let this happen.

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 7d

Why we & @justtreatment.org delivered a massive cheque and 250,000 signatures to the UK government…

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 10d

🚨Urgent: Thames Water want permission from Ofwat to ILLEGALLY pollute rivers and seas until 2040.

🤮They want your bills to fill their pockets with gold, while they fill your rivers with sewage.

✍️Sign now. Tell Ofwat to say NO to Thames Water before Tuesday 21st October.

Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

weownit.org.uk

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Cllr Nick Hartley - Green Party @nickhartleygreen.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe next time when @zackpolanski.bsky.social is invited, Question Time can run an extended programme?

We Greens have spent a long time listening on doorsteps and working hard in our communities.

No wonder, now we are getting some media coverage, that we have a lot to say! #bbcqt

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Cheri @cheriisallelite.bsky.social · 9d

Boots on the ground in the North East today for @greenparty.org.uk doing a leaflet drop! 💚 Had some lovely chats with our wonderful residents! 🥰 #MakeHopeNormalAgain

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 8d

Expert and clear: "We’ll never bring an extinct species back to life."

Fascinating interview
english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Svante Pääbo, father of paleogenetics: ‘The reason for the Neanderthals’ extinction lies in how numerous we’ve become’

The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit

english.elpais.com

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 11d

Nigel Farage is courting UK's richest man, Jim Ratcliffe, the Ineos boss who called clean energy targets “absurd.” Ratcliffe’s empire has shut refineries, cut jobs, & blamed climate policy for it all. Farage wants him onside. That says everything about where Reform UK is heading.

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