Michael Sheldon 🌎
@michaelsheldo.bsky.social
Standing up for diversity, equity, inclusion, climate & social justice. InterBeing. Growing fruit & veggies. Parkrunner. Born at 319 ppm.
Apathy is the greatest ally of the authoritarian.
Silence is consent
Inaction is complicity
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Apathy is the greatest ally of the authoritarian.
Silence is consent
Inaction is complicity
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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We’re launching the Earth Rover Program - trying to make geophysics actually usable for farmers. That means tackling the ridiculous price of equipment and opening up a global, easy-to-use dataset so anyone, anywhere around the globe, can understand what’s happening under their feet.
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We’re launching the Earth Rover Program - trying to make geophysics actually usable for farmers. That means tackling the ridiculous price of equipment and opening up a global, easy-to-use dataset so anyone, anywhere around the globe, can understand what’s happening under their feet.
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The European “patriotic” parties the Trump administration seeks to encourage are exactly those far-right parties which the Kremlin has so amply funded and supported for the last decade
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
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From ‘Civilisational Erasure’ to the Fourth Turning: How Bannon and Dugin Captured US Strategy
The newly released National Security Strategy document vows to “cultivate resistance” inside EU states – language that tracks Steve Bannon and Aleksandr Dugin's joint declaration of war on modernity
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The European “patriotic” parties the Trump administration seeks to encourage are exactly those far-right parties which the Kremlin has so amply funded and supported for the last decade
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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This is Gaza City, filmed by the @AP
Complete destruction. This is what Israel, and its backers in the US, UK, and Germany, call "targeting bombing
Gaza will one day recover
The West's moral standing will not
Complete destruction. This is what Israel, and its backers in the US, UK, and Germany, call "targeting bombing
Gaza will one day recover
The West's moral standing will not
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This is Gaza City, filmed by the @AP.
Complete destruction. This is what Israel, and its backers in the US, UK, and Germany, call "targeting bombing."
Gaza will one day recover.
The West's moral ...
substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is Gaza City, filmed by the @AP
Complete destruction. This is what Israel, and its backers in the US, UK, and Germany, call "targeting bombing
Gaza will one day recover
The West's moral standing will not
Complete destruction. This is what Israel, and its backers in the US, UK, and Germany, call "targeting bombing
Gaza will one day recover
The West's moral standing will not
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A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
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We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.
December 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn't that the same guy that once described his opponent as ‘Sleepy Joe’?
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn't that the same guy that once described his opponent as ‘Sleepy Joe’?
June 23 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen testified to the US Senate stating the greenhouse effect had been detected - the climate was in fact changing.
37 yrs ago.
All this is a political choice.
As a species we decided - profit was more important than life.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
37 yrs ago.
All this is a political choice.
As a species we decided - profit was more important than life.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Death toll from Indonesia floods passes 700 as one million evacuated
About 3.2 million people on Sumatra island have been affected, 2,600 have been injured and 504 are missing
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
June 23 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen testified to the US Senate stating the greenhouse effect had been detected - the climate was in fact changing.
37 yrs ago.
All this is a political choice.
As a species we decided - profit was more important than life.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
37 yrs ago.
All this is a political choice.
As a species we decided - profit was more important than life.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Yes, and we are the only country that has a Luigi as well.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Yes, and we are the only country that has a Luigi as well.
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“Over nine months, Sky News’ Data and Forensics team investigated whether X’s algorithms amplify right-wing and extreme content.
Their findings were clear: Elon Musk’s X is boosting right-wing and extreme content, as well as politicians Musk favours.”
Their findings were clear: Elon Musk’s X is boosting right-wing and extreme content, as well as politicians Musk favours.”
The X Effect and the dangers of social media bias
Sky News' investigation The X Effect has exposed a right-wing bias in X's algorithm, which boosts extreme content over left-wing voices
centralbylines.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“Over nine months, Sky News’ Data and Forensics team investigated whether X’s algorithms amplify right-wing and extreme content.
Their findings were clear: Elon Musk’s X is boosting right-wing and extreme content, as well as politicians Musk favours.”
Their findings were clear: Elon Musk’s X is boosting right-wing and extreme content, as well as politicians Musk favours.”
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In fairness, this is also Cybertrucks when there is LESS than an inch of snow 🤷♂️ #TeslaTakedown #MuskMustFall
Cybertrucks when there's an inch of snow. 😆 #Cyberstuck
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
In fairness, this is also Cybertrucks when there is LESS than an inch of snow 🤷♂️ #TeslaTakedown #MuskMustFall
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UN compares UK’s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia
UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
UN compares UK’s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia
UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights
www.independent.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
UN compares UK’s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia
UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
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🎥: On the latest episode of the Prospect Podcast, Cory Doctorow joins @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and @aloner.bsky.social to discuss why tech platforms get worse over time—and how AI could supercharge this: prospectmagazine.sub...
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🎥: On the latest episode of the Prospect Podcast, Cory Doctorow joins @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and @aloner.bsky.social to discuss why tech platforms get worse over time—and how AI could supercharge this: prospectmagazine.sub...
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Hope is here.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Labour's internal polling must be showing a flood of their voters going Green.
The normal thing to do (according to so-called political wisdom) would be to barely acknowledge the party exists while taking and neutering enough of their policies to peel away support.
They're absolutely freaking out.
The normal thing to do (according to so-called political wisdom) would be to barely acknowledge the party exists while taking and neutering enough of their policies to peel away support.
They're absolutely freaking out.
Watch as Rachel Reeves brands Greens leader Zack Polanski a 'keen hypnotherapist'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Labour's internal polling must be showing a flood of their voters going Green.
The normal thing to do (according to so-called political wisdom) would be to barely acknowledge the party exists while taking and neutering enough of their policies to peel away support.
They're absolutely freaking out.
The normal thing to do (according to so-called political wisdom) would be to barely acknowledge the party exists while taking and neutering enough of their policies to peel away support.
They're absolutely freaking out.
This video deserves many more views.
It's becoming more & more relevant by the day here in the UK.
youtu.be/wTR3s4wNw6o?...
It's becoming more & more relevant by the day here in the UK.
youtu.be/wTR3s4wNw6o?...
Right To Acquit - blank placard protest outside a UK court
YouTube video by Real Media
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November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This video deserves many more views.
It's becoming more & more relevant by the day here in the UK.
youtu.be/wTR3s4wNw6o?...
It's becoming more & more relevant by the day here in the UK.
youtu.be/wTR3s4wNw6o?...
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Juries of 12 randomly selected citizens put the moral intuitions of ordinary people at the heart of the criminal justice system.
Vested corporate interests want to remove trial by jury to protect wealth and power at the expense of democracy.
More: defendourjuries.net/about-doj/
Vested corporate interests want to remove trial by jury to protect wealth and power at the expense of democracy.
More: defendourjuries.net/about-doj/
About DOJ - Defend Our Juries
About Defend Our Juries Juries of 12 randomly selected citizens put the moral intuitions of ordinary people at the heart of the criminal justice system. Over the last few years, when juries have heard...
defendourjuries.net
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Juries of 12 randomly selected citizens put the moral intuitions of ordinary people at the heart of the criminal justice system.
Vested corporate interests want to remove trial by jury to protect wealth and power at the expense of democracy.
More: defendourjuries.net/about-doj/
Vested corporate interests want to remove trial by jury to protect wealth and power at the expense of democracy.
More: defendourjuries.net/about-doj/
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The judge due to rule on the proscription of Palestine Action is swapped last minute for a panel that includes a judge with a history of working for the government and another who ruled in favour UK selling jets to Israel.
Accusations of a “stitch-up”.
novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...
Accusations of a “stitch-up”.
novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...
A ‘Stitch-Up’: Palestine Action Case Gets New Judges | Novara Media
The judicial review of Palestine Action’s proscription has been thrown into turmoil by a last-minute change. A new panel of judges includes one with a long history of working for the government and an...
novaramedia.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The judge due to rule on the proscription of Palestine Action is swapped last minute for a panel that includes a judge with a history of working for the government and another who ruled in favour UK selling jets to Israel.
Accusations of a “stitch-up”.
novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...
Accusations of a “stitch-up”.
novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...