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Peter Garbutt

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I'm 73, happily married. Vegan. I'm a dad and a grandad. Sheffield, UK. Climate catastrophe. Civilisational collapse. Degrowth will help. Sustainable communities will help. Sortition will help. But capitalism won't, Political Parties won't, the media won't

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Peter Garbutt @petergarbutt.bsky.social · Jun 4

Much though my heart cries out to donate to Palestinians on this platform desperate for food, I'm a pensioner and have a limited income. I give to a charity, and I join protests and vigils to show my solidarity with you.
Your plight often brings me to tears, I feel helpless.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 1h

Global deforestation hasn’t slowed in any significant way in the four years since 127 countries pledged to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation by 2030.

The newly published 2025 Forest Declaration Assessment shows that nations are 63% off track from meeting their zero-deforestation target.

Global goal of zero deforestation by 2030 is severely off track

Global deforestation hasn’t slowed in any significant way in the four years since 127 countries pledged to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation by 2030. The newly published 2025 Forest…

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 20h

The Nobel Peace Prize is a bad joke.

Monsters like Henry Kissinger, genocide enablers like Aung San Suu Kyi and warmongers like Barack Obama have won it.

Time for an Anti-Nobel Prize for real peacemakers who end conflict through nonviolence & integrity.

Some winners of our REAL peace prize.🧵

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam war despite prolonging it and causing hundreds of thousands of deaths.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 20h

Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi led nonviolent strikes, boycotts and hunger fasts to force the British Empire to agree to Indian independence.

In 1922, when protestors set fire to a police station, killing 22 police officers, Gandhi halted his campaign. That is true commitment to nonviolence.

Mahatma Ghandi who led millions in the non-violent overthrow of British rule in India

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Liz Crosbie #AllianceNowUK #RebootGB #FBPE @lizcrosbie.bsky.social · 4h

Unexplained wealth & Farage 👇 Avoidance of stamp duty & HMRC? No reporting of supplementary income to Parliament? Russia & petrodollars links & Reform?

Nope nothing except @Bylines.bsky.social.

Tinpot Teflon gets a free ride from the BBC & the MSM.

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 5h

That £900k house in Frinton. Has anyone mentioned how it was paid for yet? Any laws broken, or all above board?

Anyone investigating? Media grown a conscience? Any journalist working for the British people? Anyone?

Half way through another week of silence then.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 20h

Dag Hammarskjöld

As UN Secretary-General in the 1950s and 60s, Dag defused dozens of Cold War flashpoints across Africa and Asia.

His peacekeeping was built on integrity, not intimidation.

He died on a peace mission when his plane was shot down over Congo.

Dag Hammarskjöld, the UN general secretary whose diplomacy stopped the Cold War getting hot

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 20h

José Mujica

The “poorest president in the world” compassionately and peacefully led Uruguay out of decades of ruthless military dictatorship.

The former guerilla put aside years of imprisonment and torture to champion democracy, oppose autocracy and preach peace through humility and dignity.

José Mujica, the president of Uruguay who helped lead his country out of dictatorship and into democracy

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 20h

Leymah Gbowee
United millions of Christian and Muslim women to bring an end to Liberia’s appalling civil war.

The solidarity sisterhood she created stopped the fighting between warlords that killed more than 250,000 people.

Their courage and desire for peace was more powerful than the gun.

Leymah Gbowee who led millions of women to end Liberia's brutal civil war.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 20h

César Chávez

Led the United Farm Workers’ movement in the USA into a series of mass strikes, boycotts, and fasting that forced the bosses and the authorities to back down.

He won working rights for America’s poorest labourers without violence in a remarkable display of justice from the ground up.

César Chávez, the union leader who led non-violent strikes and boycotts to win rights for the poorest farm workers in the US

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 20h

Pope Francis

The Argentinian-born head of the Catholic Church used his moral authority to mediate between Cuba and the US, defend refugees and challenge war profiteers.

In an era of cynicism, he preached radical empathy as diplomacy.

Pope Francis smiling and waving to crowds at the Vatican.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 20h

Gene Sharp

A game-changing theorist of nonviolent struggle, he mapped out 198 methods of civil resistance that guided movements from Serbia to Sudan to victory.

He was the mastermind behind peaceful revolutions and uprising, big and small, across the world.

Gene Sharp, the non-violent mastermind who inspired and informed peaceful struggle around the world.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 20h

Are there people advocating for nonviolence in the midst of current horrifying conflicts like Gaza? Few, and increasingly marginalised.

But they are the REAL peacemakers. The kinds of voices we should be lifting up and presenting with awards.

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Peter Garbutt @petergarbutt.bsky.social · 5h

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Peter Garbutt @petergarbutt.bsky.social · 13h

Give most of it away; it doesn't keep for long.

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Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social · 13h

There’s beauty in what breaks, light in what endures.
These poems come from the quiet after the storm—
where truth cuts, fire flickers, and faith rebuilds itself from ruin. 💙 💙 💙
#poetry #poetsofbluesky #writingcommunity

A poem about carrying what the rain can’t wash away—grief, memory, and the quiet resilience that keeps you standing.

The Weight of Rain

It falls the way old grief returns,
Soft at first, then sharp and deep.
The sky forgets, but the earth still learns
The names of what it cannot keep.

Each drop recalls a buried plea,
Each echo hums through hollow bone.
The ground absorbs the memory,
And I walk soaked, but not alone.

I used to beg the storm to end,
To let me dry, to let me mend.
Now I let it wash, unmake, restrain—
There’s peace in being broken by the rain.

Let the clouds cry what I cannot say—
The flood remembers me anyway.

A poem about breaking your own silence and finding truth in the shards.

Glass Tongue

I’ve bitten words till they bled red,
Polished lies till they gleamed like grace.
I learned to love the things unsaid,
To hide the hurt behind my face.

The truth is fragile, sharp, and small,
It cuts me even when I kneel.
I drink its edge, I take it all,
And call that ache the way I heal.

Each sentence costs a piece of skin,
Each poem’s just confession’s twin.
Yet still I speak, though silence pleads—
To bleed with meaning is all one needs.

I’d rather shatter than stay contained—
Glass only shines when it’s been strained.

$A poem for anyone who’s held themselves together when everything else fell apart. Kingdom of Cracks I built my altar out of stone, Each prayer a scar, each vow a chain. The gods were silent, cold, alone, Their eyes unlit, their thrones insane. I begged for signs, for some return, A voice to mend my shattered creed. But all I found was what I burn— The faith that bleeds is faith I need. Through every fracture, light still came, Unasked, unholy, without name. I learned the truth the ruins lend— We break, but that’s not where we end. In the cracks, I see my reign— A crown of loss, but not of pain.$

A poem about losing what once defined you, yet still finding a flicker that refuses to die. The Fire That Forgot Its Name

The Fire That Forgot Its Name

Once it burned with holy might,
A storm of gold, unbound, alive.
Now it flickers in the night,
Too tired to flare, too weak to thrive.

I feed it words, I feed it sin,
I whisper love it can’t recall.
Its glow lives deep beneath my skin,
A ghost that answers every call.

It hums like faith turned faint with time,
Like ash still dreaming of the climb.
I guard it close, this nameless flame—
It’s me, without the need for name.

Let darkness take what it may claim—
I’ll burn, if only to remain.

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ed-never-forget.bsky.social @ed-never-forget.bsky.social · 14h

It is NOT "extreme", to suggest, the GOP is running on a platform that includes destruction of our Republic; they do not want free, fair elections if it means Dems will win.

This is happening. The GOP does not represent what our Founding Fathers wanted. They HATE America as it stands now. Period.

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Naked Footy @nakedfooty.bsky.social · 14h

Complaints? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Peter Garbutt @petergarbutt.bsky.social · 13h

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Sortition revolution: a bold plan to avert civilisation’s collapse

Can we save the planet and rebuild democracy? A radical proposal to replace political parties with citizens' assemblies might be the answer

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 14h

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Supports Israel’s Genocide - PopularResistance.Org

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to María Corina Machado, a far-right coup leader in Venezuela who has been funded by the US government for decades. Machado has openly called for the US mi...

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 1d

Mainstream media not covering this news. #alaska #hurricane

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 15h

"... what Holden has accomplished is a detailed, meticulous exposure of right wing perfidy. It sounds like a dossier of damnation, and one whose evidence could form the basis of civil and legal cases against the Labour Party in general, and McSweeney and his boys in particular."

Uncovering Starmer's Fraudulent Politics

I was privileged enough to score an invite to Tuesday morning's presser for Paul Holden's The Fraud , a forensic examination of the shenanig...

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 1d

"Hamburg voters have backed a citizen-led referendum that obliges Germany’s second largest city to step up climate action and reach climate neutrality by 2040, five years earlier than previously planned."

#ClimateAction

www.cleanenergywire.org/news/hamburg...

Hamburg referendum backs more ambitious climate action, 2040 net-zero target

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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 17h

#alaska

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 19h

What's this? The data suggests the far-right agitators who talk London and the UK down are wrong?

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19h

Some politicians and commentators continue to denigrate London and talk our great city down, but the facts show a very different picture.

The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than in any year since monthly records began 22 years ago.

A graphic reporting: 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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