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Ecosocialistanarchomodernism, cars, drone, ambient and the way we could have lived.
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This passage shocked me to my core.
The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
December 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This passage shocked me to my core.
The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
Ballardian.
Sitting in a comfortable home with a steady income; living a life of almost unbearable tedium and routine; fantasizing about the psychopathologies potentially unleashed by the fall of civil society, the only freedom still possible for him.
that's cool, man, but have you tried the taste of a refreshing matcha latte
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Ballardian.
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The Birds In The Brickwork 2026 calendar and album are now up for sale on Bandcamp!
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A Collection Of Augmented Field Recordings, by Birds In The Brickwork
12 track album
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December 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The Birds In The Brickwork 2026 calendar and album are now up for sale on Bandcamp!
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A commanding lead in the polls and still an air of utter desperation about them.
NEW: Reform UK have announced plans to create and register a party tartan
LIVE: Updates as Nigel Farage visits Falkirk for Reform UK rally
www.thenational.scot
December 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A commanding lead in the polls and still an air of utter desperation about them.
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it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
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Capitalists in democracies need a fallback position for contingencies, when the system they create stops delivering for most of the population. The public, left to their own devices, will abandon neoliberalism. Thatcherism is the motte, fascism is the bailey.
December 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Capitalists in democracies need a fallback position for contingencies, when the system they create stops delivering for most of the population. The public, left to their own devices, will abandon neoliberalism. Thatcherism is the motte, fascism is the bailey.
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As we’re seeing right now, liberal punditry is pathologically averse to acknowledging underlying material conditions and so it cannot be understood that Blair and Clinton were both products and beneficiaries of the post-Cold War boom where free market neoliberalism was in its ascendancy.
I really think they believe he is Blair 2, but Blair was both actually good at talking to people and one of the first politicians to take his tie off and be "one of the guys" which I imagine was quite surprising to people.
Wes just seems vaguely angry most of the time, and tries to be funny.
Wes just seems vaguely angry most of the time, and tries to be funny.
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
As we’re seeing right now, liberal punditry is pathologically averse to acknowledging underlying material conditions and so it cannot be understood that Blair and Clinton were both products and beneficiaries of the post-Cold War boom where free market neoliberalism was in its ascendancy.
Interesting thread, this. Centrists arguing that a large amount of tax and spend makes this a leftist budget, but too much tax and spend and too many taxes on the wealthy would be too left wing and the voters wouldn't like it. Actual leftists pointing out that doing a bit to balance out austerity...
Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
December 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Interesting thread, this. Centrists arguing that a large amount of tax and spend makes this a leftist budget, but too much tax and spend and too many taxes on the wealthy would be too left wing and the voters wouldn't like it. Actual leftists pointing out that doing a bit to balance out austerity...
This is it, basically. I see criticisms of Polanski (fair enough) but I think, 1 - Why would I give a fuck when the Greens are the only party offering policies that I'd want to vote for and 2 - Look at the fucking state of the PMs we've had for decades, every one media approved.
Sitting at the pub at Waverley Station takes me back to Christmas 2018 here with JK Rowling complaining Old Jezza’s Labour were rubbish. To which I recall saying: it’s not that I think they’re gifted or even mildly skilled, it’s that they’re the only people offering anything I actually want.
December 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is it, basically. I see criticisms of Polanski (fair enough) but I think, 1 - Why would I give a fuck when the Greens are the only party offering policies that I'd want to vote for and 2 - Look at the fucking state of the PMs we've had for decades, every one media approved.
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A mysterious black obelisk has appeared overnight outside the caves of some of the sharper pundits
December 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A mysterious black obelisk has appeared overnight outside the caves of some of the sharper pundits
Putting the decorations up so actually starting to feel Christmassy.
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Low - Just Like Christmas
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December 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Putting the decorations up so actually starting to feel Christmassy.
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Jake is right, but it’s worth recalling that the reverse ferret on splitting the post Brexit agriculture budget 3 ways, with 1/3 going to Landscape recovery started almost as soon as the policy was announced. Labour are continuing the long back track, which probably started when Gove left Defra?
"£500m over 20 years is sod all," said @jakefiennes.bsky.social, responding to this week's announcement of govt funding for Landscape Recovery
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nature recovery plan in England hit by clause allowing contracts to end with a year’s notice
Conservationists say changes, coupled with underfunding, will curb take-up and leave less land protected for nature
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Jake is right, but it’s worth recalling that the reverse ferret on splitting the post Brexit agriculture budget 3 ways, with 1/3 going to Landscape recovery started almost as soon as the policy was announced. Labour are continuing the long back track, which probably started when Gove left Defra?
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I buy the Cabaret theory of modern politics: current right wing politics was, once upon a time, a thing elites sold to rubes while merely pretending to believe themselves while they pursued wealth, but now the True Believers are actually in charge and acting on sincerely believed insane nonsense.
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I buy the Cabaret theory of modern politics: current right wing politics was, once upon a time, a thing elites sold to rubes while merely pretending to believe themselves while they pursued wealth, but now the True Believers are actually in charge and acting on sincerely believed insane nonsense.
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I can't imagine why I am angry and aggressive about being denounced as a Hitlerian racist with stupid student politics for 20 years by the people who said this was going to be incredibly popular and solve our problems. Sorry for being so irrational I guess.
ID cards, limiting trial by jury, and now "plans for a huge rollout for facial recognition cameras in cities, towns and villages across the country"
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
December 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I can't imagine why I am angry and aggressive about being denounced as a Hitlerian racist with stupid student politics for 20 years by the people who said this was going to be incredibly popular and solve our problems. Sorry for being so irrational I guess.
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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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This was obvious every year since the crash and every year, the lads have chosen to continue chopping up and burning the furniture to keep the Thatcherite consensus warm and mostly happy, and the right sort of chaps’ arses in the right seats. I see no reason why that would change now.
December 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This was obvious every year since the crash and every year, the lads have chosen to continue chopping up and burning the furniture to keep the Thatcherite consensus warm and mostly happy, and the right sort of chaps’ arses in the right seats. I see no reason why that would change now.
A funny thing about this is that the Greens first took a lead over Labour almost immediately after our foremost politics experts were all telling us that Labour were definitely the only alternative to Reform and it was ridiculous to suggest otherwise.
📊 POLL | Labour drop to just **14%**
➡️ REF: 31% (-)
🔵 CON: 20% (+2)
🟢 GRN: 18% (+1)
🔴 LAB: 14% (-1)
🟠 LD: 11% (-1)
Via @FindoutnowUK, 3 Dec (+/- vs 26 Nov)
➡️ REF: 31% (-)
🔵 CON: 20% (+2)
🟢 GRN: 18% (+1)
🔴 LAB: 14% (-1)
🟠 LD: 11% (-1)
Via @FindoutnowUK, 3 Dec (+/- vs 26 Nov)
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A funny thing about this is that the Greens first took a lead over Labour almost immediately after our foremost politics experts were all telling us that Labour were definitely the only alternative to Reform and it was ridiculous to suggest otherwise.
If this happened or anything close, how would our 'politics experts' explain how we got to this point?
📊 Seat estimate | Labour wipeout
➡️ REF: 360 (+355)
🟢 GRN: 79 (+75)
🟠 LD: 72 (-)
🔵 CON: 48 (-73)
🟡 SNP: 45 (+36)
🟢 PLAID: 7 (+3)
🔴 LAB: 4 (-407)
Based on @findoutnowUK poll, 3 Dec (+/- vs GE24)
➡️ REF: 360 (+355)
🟢 GRN: 79 (+75)
🟠 LD: 72 (-)
🔵 CON: 48 (-73)
🟡 SNP: 45 (+36)
🟢 PLAID: 7 (+3)
🔴 LAB: 4 (-407)
Based on @findoutnowUK poll, 3 Dec (+/- vs GE24)
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If this happened or anything close, how would our 'politics experts' explain how we got to this point?
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“Some of the chemicals were banned for use decades ago and their presence suggests that they are really persistent … so soils are a long-term sink of these pollutants.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances
Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
“Some of the chemicals were banned for use decades ago and their presence suggests that they are really persistent … so soils are a long-term sink of these pollutants.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A laughable sum.
🔎£500m
The government will today commit £500m to landscape recovery projects across England over the next two decades, funding large scale habitat restoration and creation to help meet climate, nature and water targets.
www.businessgreen.com/news/452256...
The government will today commit £500m to landscape recovery projects across England over the next two decades, funding large scale habitat restoration and creation to help meet climate, nature and water targets.
www.businessgreen.com/news/452256...
Environmental Improvement Plan: Defra pledges £500m for landscape recovery in revised plan
Long-awaited update to wide-ranging Environmental Improvement Plan set to be published later today by the government
www.businessgreen.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A laughable sum.
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1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
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This correct, and almost none of it is organically arising from the public. The relentless fear and hate of the last decade was deliberately imposed by opportunist politicians, toxic media outlets, crackpot activists and malignant squillionaires, working hand in hand towards similar goals.
There is absolutely nothing left to the UK but bigotry and spite. A hateful place, you can almost taste it in the air, makes it hard to breathe.
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This correct, and almost none of it is organically arising from the public. The relentless fear and hate of the last decade was deliberately imposed by opportunist politicians, toxic media outlets, crackpot activists and malignant squillionaires, working hand in hand towards similar goals.
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
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A moment that changed me: My unbearable grief kept growing – until I found solace in a silent community
A moment that changed me: My unbearable grief kept growing – until I found solace in a silent community
After my dad died, I tried to cope by keeping busy: a day job, a side hustle, socialising and working out. But I kept bursting into tears in public. At a Quaker meeting, it was as if someone had turned down the volume of the world
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
A moment that changed me: My unbearable grief kept growing – until I found solace in a silent community
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Couple of reports of unusual light pillar in the sky over Wexford this morning.
December 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Couple of reports of unusual light pillar in the sky over Wexford this morning.