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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

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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Donald Clark @dsc.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Tourists, come and visit #aotearoa #newzealand - our government doesn't shut down and all our museums,.galleries and parks are open to explore 😜

#tourism #uspol

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Donald Clark @dsc.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 4d

This is fucking nuts. At a time when most house burglaries, low level theft and shop lifting go uninvestigated for lack of police resources, hundreds of police are arresting peaceful demonstrators for holding signs with the words #PalestineAction on them.

The only response is to DDoS the system […]

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Donald Clark @dsc.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@pezmico very similar process.

Remove fascists / racists, car brained, obviously comedy candidates, first and see what is left.
I found the local board candidates way more compelling than Mayoral.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 6d

At the request of DoJ, Apple has removed apps that allow people to alert others nearby about sightings of ICE agents in their area. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/tech/iceblock-apple-removed-trump

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 6d

#supremecourt will consider overturning Hawaii's strict ban on #guns on #private property

#scotus said on Friday that it will take up its latest gun rights case & consider striking down strict #regulations on where people can carry #firearms in #hawaii.

#Trump’s admin had urged the justices to […]

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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 7d

🚆 BBC London finds bike theft at train stations has become almost 'decriminalised: bit.ly/4q5WNzk

LCC CEO, Tom Fyans: "Many victims of theft in the capital just stop cycling - if we want to reduce car trips in London and encourage cycling we have to redouble enforcement against cycle theft."

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

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Council Estate Media @cemedia.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

We're winning the argument

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/support-for-digital-ids-has-collapsed

Support for digital IDs has collapsed in the UK

Not long after the woeful Keir Starmer unveiled his latest flagship policy that no one voted for, public support for it has collapsed.

www.councilestatemedia.uk

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 12d

For those who don’t seem to quite get it yet.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Good quote.

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Donald Clark @dsc.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 10d

It's almost always the far right.

https://mastodon.online/@zl2tod/115285662229745989

zl2tod (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Former President of New Zealand's far-right Act Party Tim Jago fails in his appeals against convictions and sentence. #NZPol https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360838252/serious-and-repeated-sexual-offending-court-dismisses-former-political-figures-appeal

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 10d

“There’s no fixing this once it starts. It’s another irreversible shift driven by a warming planet”

Alaskan rivers turn orange as permafrost thaws, threatening fish and communities

#ClimateCrisis is the global #HumanRights crisis of our time.
#ClimateActionNow

news.mongabay.com/2025/09/alas...

Alaskan rivers turn orange as permafrost thaws, threatening fish and communities

The writer John McPhee once described Alaska’s Salmon River as having “the clearest, purest water” he’d ever seen. Today, that same river runs orange with toxic metals unleashed by thawing permafrost....

news.mongabay.com

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Donald Clark @dsc.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Great interview on #garyseconomics with #chloeswarbrick - co-leader of #aotearoa #newzealand Green party

https://youtu.be/zl_LgDjpzxE

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Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 @danwentzel.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

I will ask again.

Where are the missing 1200 people from Alligator Alcatraz?

Sent to a foreign gulag?
Sold into slavery?
Dead in a mass grave?

Every one of these people were human beings with minds, hearts, souls, and families.

Where are they? What happened to them? […]

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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

If your book(s) were, or are pirated on LibGen and subsequently used by Anthropic to train its AI models, the courts have ordered them to pay a minimum of $1.5B. Authors might/could/perhaps get an estimated payment of $3,000 per work (based on current estimates of the # of pirated works trained […]

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Spo0000opybirb :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 18d

Ooooh, okay, it's a bribery scheme.

#uspol #uspolitics #Corruption #trump #h1b #visa #bribery #fucktrump #fuckmaga

Andrew Fleischman (elsewhere) says:
Ohhhhh it's a bribery scheme.

while quoting Justin Wolfers noting:
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

embedded clip from white house order reading:
(c) The restriction imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to any individual alien, all aliens working for a company, or all aliens working in an industry, if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in the Secretary's discretion, that the hiring of such aliens to be employed as H-1B specialty occupation workers is in the national interest and does not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States.

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Tim Bray @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19d

“Yikes”: Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says - Ars Technica https://share.google/ukrEc6jZFaKueb6N6

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 @blogdiva.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

❝ THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT YOUR SHOW ANDOR IS ABOUT ❞

― message from a hand-written poster held up by one of the unionized entertainment talent calling for a boycott of Disney & ABC

“Hundreds Of Union Writers & Actors March Outside Of Disney To Protest ABC’s […]

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Donald Clark @dsc.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 19d

@sundogplanets harae mae harae mae for when you get here :)

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John Schrag @jvschrag.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21d

“But if we block the street to cars, it will kill local businesses!”

#carsRuinCities #urbanism

Photo of a pedestrian-only street in Nice, France. The street is packed with people dining on patios and shopping and just enjoying themselves. In the foreground are retractable bollards that block vehicle entrance at most times. There is a sign saying in French that deliveries are allowed between 4am and 10:30am

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20d

Oh wait.
I forgot to add smart tv

Smart tv is smart because it makes a lot of money for the people who put ads on it that you can't get away from, people who put in spyware you can't turn off.

https://www.pocket-lint.com/real-cost-super-cheap-tvs/

Reminder: your public library has a ton of […]

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Democracy Matters :verified: @democracymattersalot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d

These stupid fucks can't stop incriminating themselves. The tribunals will be a blast!

Trump DOJ erases report showing far-right violence outpaces 'all other types of terrorism'
https://www.alternet.org/trump-right-wing-terrorism/

#trumpkillsamerica #republicansownthis #agentkrasnov […]

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23d

Hollywood Reporter - Channel 4 is welcoming Donald Trump to the UK with a special program: an unbroken catalogue of what it categorizes as 100+ falsehoods, distortions and inaccuracies since taking office in January […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 23d

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Panel 1. image of a huge nuclear plant.
“Reactor Overheating”

2. A worker in a hazmat suit works at a computer. The screen reads:
“Press cancel to avoid critical overload”

3 - 9. The worker continues to type at the computer. The screen changes in each panel and reads:
“Enter password to confirm”
“Incorrect password”
“Incorrect password”
“Do you want to reset your password?”
“Reset link has been sent to your email”
“Please choose a new password”
“New password can't be the same as old password”
The colour gets hotter in each panel. Starting blue in 1 and ending in red in 9.

Panel 10. Wide view. The entire earth is blown up.

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