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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 9h

Two quakes for the price of one

Cascadia Subduction Zone quake and tsunami could trigger San Andreas

“Our preparedness level is poor.....We have a long way to go, and all these areas were built on top of ticking time bombs"

Grim

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

US west coast faults could trigger catastrophic back-to-back earthquakes, study finds

Study shows high-magnitude temblor in north-west could set off another in California, causing unrivaled disaster

www.theguardian.com

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 6h

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Profolus @profolus.com · 1h

KONSYSE: New research reveals that Sierra Nevada glaciers, continuously present for over 11000 years, are now on the brink of extinction. Scientists warn their disappearance would mark an unprecedented event in the entire span of human history.

Glaciers in the Sierra Nevada in California are Nearing Complete Disappearance — Konsyse

Scientists have reconstructed the full story of Sierra Nevada glacier decline.

www.konsyse.com

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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey30.bsky.social · 1d

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social the Lib Dems and the Green Party are not even mentioned when talking about opposition parties. Where is your balanced view?

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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 13h

The regulator works in the interests of the water companies, not the consumer.

Should be abolished and replaced with a democratically elected body that includes ordinary people

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 1h

Blue Labour are toast. Wipe out next local elections.

Tom @photaculous.bsky.social · 9h

This such an open goal..

Labour could easily deal with this nonsense and collect the good will.

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Gilly 📎 @gillmh.bsky.social · 1h

It's outrageously criminal for our Government to allow this dangerous pantomime to continue. So many rivers have been turned into open sewers, but let's not renationalise, let's wait for a typhoid or cholera epidemic.

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 1h

Just anogher bunch of Tories going for growf.

christobai.bsky.social @christobai.bsky.social · 3h

This is so an own goal for Labour govt, ffs can’t they see it’s being attached to them now? Hopeless

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14h

Water bills for England households to rise even higher.

Bills already up by 36%. Competition regulator permits another 1%-5%, £556m hike

No curbs on exec pay, dividends, sewage dumping as companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns.

End the Scam. Nationalise water

Five water firms provisionally allowed to raise bills by further 1% to 5%

An independent group appointed by the competition watchdog rejected nearly 80% of increases sought by companies.

www.independent.co.uk

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 1h

What is this stupidity?
And Blue Labour Wes is happy?
www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

Emergency responders in Cornwall to be replaced with volunteers

The ambulance trust deems the move as not being 'significant' but Cornwall councillors say rural communities feel it is

www.cornwalllive.com

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 1h

West Bank... what happens here?

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 8h

Francesca Albanese: "The request to demilitarise and deradicalise Gaza... in the name of Israels security. Where is the security of the Palestinians, who have been attacked without respite for decades... where is the demilitarisation and deradicalisation of Israels society?"

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 6h

A story in The Telegraph, Express and other usual suspects who've discovered certain EU countries (Spain) might start enforcing the 90/180 day rule properly which might fool some Brits and make them subject to fines or even deportation.

Outrageous that migrants might be deported for overstaying....

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 1h

Does anyone watch this trash?

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 1h

He is still a Thatcherite. Hates the poor.

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 1h

Tribals wont cooperate.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6h

If you want to abolish a tax on poor people you cut VAT.

If you want to abolish a tax that is almost entirely on Multimillionaires you cut Stamp Duty.

Please, please, please, don't be too stupid to understand this.

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 4h

You never did, so someone has to.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Person with no expertise in this subject at all has opinions www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kate warns too much screen time damages family life

The Princess of Wales says that smartphones and digital devices are causing an "epidemic of disconnection".

www.bbc.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

Noem claims Portland hid their war zone from her.

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 1h

Blue Labour are finished.

Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 3h

The deputy leadership election is a choice.

Back me to end child poverty, or take us back to our divided past.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Phillipson presses Starmer and Reeves to abolish two-child benefit cap in full

Exclusive: education secretary tells the Guardian scrapping limit entirely in November’s budget most cost-effective way to tackle child poverty

www.theguardian.com

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 1h

Labour are a bunch of fools.
www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc....

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says - BBC News

The government needs to "go further" in its review into protest laws, Sir Keir Starmer says.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 13h

For GB News' ideological backers, it's money well spent.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1h

New Reform UK councillors in Kent promised efficiency, but have taken just a few months to go back on their pledges. And the embarrassing mess is yet another sign that the posh-boy hatemongers have nothing positive to offer ordinary people.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Reform's embarrassing council mess shows the posh-boy hatemongers have nothing to offer

Reform blunder into a mess of their own making at Kent County Council as they realise their DOGE style cuts aren't feasible

www.thecanary.co

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 13h

🇺🇦🚀 Zelensky: Regarding our strikes deep into Russia, that is, our responses to Russian strikes. We understand that Ust-Luga, Primorsk are achievable.

What happened is really a great success. The enemy's gasoline deficit is up to 20% of the need.

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