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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 33m

UK fishing industry is symbolic of humanity & climate destruction.
Determined to destroy their own future by overfishing now for short term profit boost.
And Starmer govt reaction to report on collapsing fish stocks is Orwellian.
"We have made significant progress"... 🙈🙈

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 45m

The @theguardian.com has article on Oct7th Holit kibbutz terrorism attack by Palestinian Resistance. Failed to say built on bulldozed,ethnically cleansed Palestinian village El Buhdari. Residents ethnic cleansed into Gaza ghetto 2 km away.
This war did NOT start on Oct7th
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 3h

Davey says “Badenoch has decided to abandon the traditional British values of tolerance, decency & the rule of law”

Lib Dems launched an ad van outside Conservative Party conference, inviting those One Nation Conservatives who are appalled by their party’s lurch to the extremes to join the LDs.

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 6h

Deeply disturbing that under the Tories, the Office for National Statistics stopped counting the number of homeless deaths in 2022.
Why has Labour not restarted this?
Record number died in 2024/5 according to NGOs.
We need transformation in drug/mental health services
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 8h

Yikes! Apologies! But very thankful that my mistake did not wrongly portray you! 🫶

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 8h

Exposed US Billionaire Dark Money funding UK climate denial on GB News.
Celebrated Times poll that public supports rich carbon polluter taxes to fund climate action
Explained what GP leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social ecopopulism cld mean 4 low-income ppl
shorturl.at/fCORF
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 1d

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Highlights
For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 19h

UK does not even have a constitution to fail...

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 19h

China buying shedloads of soya from Brazil, since Trump drove them away from US farmers.
I feared this could lead to ratcheting up Amazon destruction.

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 23h

Usual internalised insecurity - look at me I can be whiter than white, despite my brown colour!! Let me be part of your white club! I will even trash my own coloured people to prove how white I can be! 🙈

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

Media blackout of LDs & Greens includes @theguardian.com & bbc.
Note this full page analysis of next election deletes ALL mention of Greens & LDs.
#FreeThePress

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

US Republican Presidency implementing summary execution on the high seas.....
He stayed clearly that he admired the Duterte police murder squads in the Phillipines.
He is now fulfilling his promise to murder without trial suspected drug carriers.

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

US media billionaire oligarchy further tightens it's authoritarian grip on US news media...
#FreeThePress
#BanBillionaireMedia

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

Finally some ICC justice for a perpetrator of horrific Darfur massacres in Sudan.
One day Blair Netanyahu & Bush should also face trial.

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

Nasty Tories going full MAGA - lying about "millions" of people in disability allowance getting "free cars".... 🙈😪
Fact is 850,000 disabled people use transport allowance to lease vehicles so that they can get around, despite disability.

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

Disgusting...
@ofcom.bsky.social has time to harass Irish gay radio station.
But is fine with criminal offshore media billionaires trashing Britain's democracy.🙈😪
#FreeOfcom
#FreeThePress
#BanMediaBillionaires
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ofcom: LGBT radio head 'baffled' by watchdog's ruling over programming

Broadcasting regulator Ofcom found Juice Radio in breach of some of its "key commitments" of service.

www.bbc.com

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

Nasty Tory Party proposes handing UK sentencing policy over to Daily Mail / Murdoch, after they get rid of Supreme Court/ECHR & any non-Tory/Reform judges...
Murdoch is fast creating a fascist authoritarian state in UK.
#FreeThePress

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

The nasty Tory Party emerging more racist than ever.
But Jenrick is truly vile...

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 5d

How can the British government departments take the action we need on climate breakdown when their boards are littered with the people causing the problem: theecologist.org/2025/oct/03/... - me for @theecologist.org

The real power brokers

We won’t get real climate action while big polluters are overseeing government departments.

theecologist.org

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

Starmerist plot to smash the Labour Party & turn it into the Tory Party exposed in astonishing bare faced admission by top Starmer aide.

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely MUST WATCH video of Starmer's Paliamentary Sec Josh Simons admit the plot to have Starmer lie re his support for Corbynism, so he could win leadership AND THEN MOVE RIGHT & SMASH THE LABOUR PARTY & REMAKE IT!
#StarmerMustGo
youtu.be/RnaCy8SLcVQ?...

EXPOSED: Starmer Allies Hired Private Investigators to Dig Dirt on Journalist

YouTube video by Double Down News

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

Well they are already well qualified at that ! 🙈😪

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer's stupid fascist Reform2.0 attack on NHS workers.
Imagine demanding that doctors after a 14 hour shift or nurses exhausted from emergency room are to be forced to do "voluntary community work", as well as look after their families?!
Also proposing ban on childcare for them!
#StarmerMustGo

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 1d

It's worth remembering that the First Intifada was wholly non-violent.

The Great March of Return was non-violent.

The violence we witnessed on October 7th was inevitable, because non-violent protests such as these (and others) were ignored.

They've been ignored since 1948.

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer aping Tories again.
Pathetic crumbs for cycling, as £billions poured into roads.
£0.3b cycling budget for whole country.
£11b for just one Thames road crossing.
@StopKillingCyclists.bsky.social
www.gov.uk/government/n...

Government launches £1 million competition to take active travel innovation to the next level

Organisations and businesses can bid for a share of £1 million funding to help them deliver initiatives that enable more people to walk, wheel or cycle.

www.gov.uk

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