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350.org @350.org · 3h

Companies often pledge that they are working towards ‘net zero’, but instead of lowering their emissions, they just offset their emissions elsewhere. Carbon offset schemes are not a solution to the climate crisis.⁠ Many overstate their impacts and are also linked to destruction and colonisation.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4h

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 3h

Labour's Racist Right are lying shitbags

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

Pure Andor villain personality: relentlessly militant about stomping upon your inferiors; prostrate, fawning and eager to please your superiors. This is precisely the type of Britishness they’re talking about, when they accuse others of being “un-British”.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

Incredible really: facilitating genocide to the point you’re realistically going to worry about being arrested on holiday for the rest of your life, then continuing to grovel to the mad emperor who commanded you to do it.

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"It is difficult to see how you could have a deal like this without the United States behind it" Pat McFadden tells @StigAbell, stating that while a Nobel Peace Prize is for the committee itself, Donald Trump "does deserve credit"
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 4h

So Starmer at Labour party conference has his chance for a reset what does he do

Give us a bunch of Aims for his government that are wildly popular among the public?
Nationalise water
Nationalise the railways
Properly fund the NHS
Fund schools and education

No he wants digital ID's

Fucking twat

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 4h

Again, the beleaguered customers foot the bill whilst shareholders talk shite about investment and continue raking it in. The scam continues.

Why is the very stuff of life even subject to competitive practice?

If the Tories had found a way to privatise air would Labour still allow it?

#WeOwnIt

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills Millions of households in England will see their water bills increase by even more than expected, after the competition regulator gave the green light for five water suppliers to raise charges to customers – but rejected most of the companies’ demands. An independent group of experts appointed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally decided to allow the companies to charge customers an extra £556m over the next five years, it said on Thursday. That was only 21% of the £2.7bn that the firms requested. Continue reading...

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Gina @cissybgood67.bsky.social · 4h

WTF, UK! 😡

UK Government Allows Seabed Bottom Trawling in English “Protected” Waters

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UK Government Allows Seabed Bottom Trawling in English “Protected” Waters

On the 9th of September 2025, the UK government declared that seabed bottom trawling will be permitted to continue in English marine protected areas (MPAs), much to the disappointment of many animal…

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Netpol @netpol.org · 3h

"The escalating crackdowns under Starmer’s Labour expose not only its authoritarian instincts but also its political weakness. It is scrambling to shut down every avenue of opposition because it knows its agenda lacks legitimacy and popular support". tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/labo...

Labour’s War on Protest

Labour’s plan to criminalise recurring protests strikes at the heart of democratic life, transforming political freedom into a privilege granted by the state.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 17h

"50 % of profits went to the wealthiest 1 % of individuals, predominantly through direct shareholdings and private company ownership. In contrast the bottom 50 % only received 1 %."

It was a cost-of-living crisis only for the many.

#Inequality

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Best of times, worst of times: record fossil-fuel profits, inflation and inequality

The 2022 oil and gas crisis resulted in record fossil-fuel profits globally that rehabilitated the oil and gas industry, obstructed the energy transit…

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 13h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

#WarRavagedPortland

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James Woodfield @jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 14h

Starmer has been taken for a ride, hasn’t he? If so. the people of the UK will pay the price..

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.

These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.

AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.

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punkacademic @punkacademic.bsky.social · 14h

Was on the Freedom Anarchist News Review talking about Starmer's war on protest...

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 16h

Livestreaming now: The Anarchist News Review! With Starmer threatening to police both how many protests we have and what we can say while doing them, what other Faragist measures might there be on the Labour Party docket for 2025?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NztA...

Anarchist News Review: Labour hammers protest and the Tories hammer each other

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((Wee G )) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 15h

Starmer’s ID cards push us toward control. Let’s push back together. 👇

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 BREAKING | Greens hit 10% in poll average for the very first time, an all-time high for the party.

This is the first time in the party's history that they have hit double-digits in polls, and comes as the party stands within touching distance of 100,000 members.

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 14h

Never saw a fascist whose boots he didn’t want to lick

pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 14h

He doesn’t care about our security.

He cares about the security of the looter class, on whose behalf OSA was enacted as a “tool of social control”

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Neil A.Evans @neilevans.rocks · 15h

Because fuck me we TOLD YOU SO STARMER YOU FUCKING DOLT.

9to5Mac @9to5mac.com · 15h

Discord support breach may have exposed photo IDs for millions of users

Late last week, Discord reported on a breach that happened recently with its third-party customer support partner, Zendesk. But new information indicates the stolen data could be worse than originally thought, including millions of government photo IDs. more…

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 16h

Livestreaming now: The Anarchist News Review! With Starmer threatening to police both how many protests we have and what we can say while doing them, what other Faragist measures might there be on the Labour Party docket for 2025?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NztA...

Anarchist News Review: Labour hammers protest and the Tories hammer each other

YouTube video by Freedom

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