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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry but 💀

Our rivers and seas can’t wait FIFTEEN YEARS, Thames Water.

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 3h

And the longer we wait the more it will cost and the poorer our water quality will get

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 3h

Nationalise the risks and costs, privatise the profit, so business as usual then. 😡

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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. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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

www.theguardian.com

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 17h

Also chemistry

a cartoon character is holding a can of crude oil in his hand

ALT: a cartoon character is holding a can of crude oil in his hand

media.tenor.com

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 20h

I love the way Zack stays calm while those on the losing side of the debate get angrier and angrier.

Debating talents aside, I guess its one of the benefits of knowing your brief and being backed by facts and science rather than prejudice and vested interest!

Well done for even engaging with PM.

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The Register @theregister.com · 1d

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

High gas prices and surging AI demand send operators back to the dirtiest fuel in the stack US datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand.…

dlvr.it

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 2d

Left less divided now.

Just join the Greens

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 2d

Replaced journalist with an AI?

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 2d

Corbyn is the biggest blocker to an alliance, he's proven completely unable to work as a joint party leader, never mind in coallation.

IMO he's also too old, has too much baggage, has too big an ego, and is willing to throw minorities under the bus when it suits him.

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 2d

👍
So much could happen in next few years, only sure thing we know is that nothing will change for better if we give up now

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 2d

It's years to the next general election.

Would be better to compare Green party polling now to Reform polling only 2 years ago when they were around 10%

If reform can go from 8 to 32% in 2 years, then imagine where Greens could be in 2 years...

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 3d

The Chancellor says she 'fixed' a problem caused by “some snails or something”.

Comments like this pit nature against growth – it’s the wrong target.

Here, the system has worked: protecting one of UK’s rarest species while allowing 20,000 homes to proceed.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 3d

Probably sees Vetinari as a role model....

kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 4d

I suspect they think the purpose in life for us plebs is to be a cog in the machine that allows them and their peers to have a fulfilled life.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 4d

20,000 new members have joined the Green Party in the past month.

This is the Green surge.

Want to be part of it? Join the Green Party today ⤵

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 4d

British food, you mean like curry, pizza, bananas and potatoes?

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 5d

I certainly remember opposition MPs seeming to take their role in government as official opposition a lot more seriously, but then how much of what we see is filtered through what the media want to show us and their need for 24hour attention grabbing news.

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Irene Tsherit @irenetsherit.bsky.social · 5d

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 6d

And the Scottish, NI and Welsh parties.

Britain isn't just England

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 6d

Yep, you're probably right. I did wonder that just as I hit the reply button.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 7d

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

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kestrus.bsky.social @kestrus.bsky.social · 7d

I think he'd spoil his vote in an accidentally amusing way, because he thinks they're all useless.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 7d

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."

The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

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