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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 3h

The fact that the UK govt blocks a report on the impact of rainforest collapse in south America says so much:

1. They know climate change and the impacts are real and will be deadly

2. Instead of planning for solutions, their response is to:
- suppress the information
- block refugees
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 5h

Officials in Downing Street have blocked publication of a report warning that the collapse of tropical rainforests could push up food prices in British supermarkets.

Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 10h

no I didn't--and thank you!

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 1d

It’s clean-out-the-greenhouse night. (Not the burrata, obviously),

Two white plates of caprese, with sliced tomatoes over a bed of basil leaves, topped with torn burrata.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations!

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 3d

Truth.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 3d

Ok, just had the leisure to enlarge. Engagement membrillo? 👀

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 3d

Good point. 👇

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 3d

We need to get over the fact that no one takes VHS cassettes on free cycle days.

Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 4d

Woo hoo!

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 4d

*swoon* I mean, their fabrics alone make one an addict.

Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 4d

Next year! (Hope springs eternal &c!)

Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 4d

Hadn’t realised *quite* how many quinces were on our little tree. Jelly and membrillo day it seems.

A large wicker basket full of yellow quinces.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 4d

It must be said though, that that story is so *North* Oxford as to look like a spoof. A part of the Oxford fabric, but still.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 4d

An Oxford treasure indeed. 👍

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 4d

Wonderful, John, thank you (as always).

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you! It’s my second; old one in lighter fabric only lasted 5 yrs. LOVE the lining colour on this one.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 5d

Well that almost broke me (stiff canvas, lining, zipper), but I now have a new bag ready for term to start. (Pattern and fabric from Merchant & Mills, Rye.)

Oh, and those lectures I wanted to revise . . .

New navy blue canvas shoulder bag with a dark yellow lining, zip close across top, two outer pockets, and a brown leather strap.

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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 6d

The importance of ceremonies like these is not merely in honoring those who fought for what was right when so many were wrong. It’s also to remind us, in this age, that determined people doing the right thing is never easy — and always worth it.

Andy Bass @andybassny.bsky.social · 6d

The late civil rights activists Paul and Orial Redd were commemorated with a street co-naming in the city of Rye, New York, on September 27, 2025. The Redds won a housing discrimination case in 1962 that led to the passage of fair housing laws in the state.

Ceremony video👇
youtu.be/4voRFouwZI0?...

Congressman George Latimer (D-NY-16) delivers remarks at the Paul and Orial Redd Way Street Naming Ceremony at Station Plaza in Rye, New York, on September 27, 2025. He was the first of six elected officials to speak at the ceremony. The others were New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (SD-35), State Assemblyman Steve Otis (AD-91), Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins, Westchester County Legislator Catherine Parker (D7), and City of Rye Mayor Josh Cohn.

Paul Redd, Jr., son of M. Paul Redd (1928-2009) and Orial Redd (1924-2024), unveils a new street sign commemorating his parents at Station Plaza in Rye, New York, on September 27, 2025. Assisting with the unveiling are Anne Fausto-Sterling and Peter Sterling, daughter and son of Dorothy Sterling (1913-2008). The noted author was a close friend of the Redds and a key ally in their struggle for fair housing. She participated in a testing investigation that provided important evidence in the couple’s successful housing discrimination case in 1962.

Participants and attendees of the Paul and Orial Redd Way Street Naming Ceremony stand beside the newly unveiled street sign at Station Plaza in Rye, New York, on September 27, 2025.

Pictured (alphabetically):

Marion Anderson, Co-organizer
Mayo Bartlett, Co-MC, attorney
Cheryl Brannan, Founder, Sister to Sister International
Terry Clements, Westchester County Legislator (D11), Majority Whip
Josh Cohn, Mayor, City of Rye
Aisha Cook, Pres., NAACP New Rochelle Branch
Christine Fils-Aime, Dir. of Constituent Services & Community Affairs, NYS Sen. Shelley B. Mayer (SD-37)
Janice Griffith, Pres., NAACP White Plains/Greenburgh Branch
James J. Henderson III, Pres., NAACP Port Chester/Rye Branch
Gina Jackson, Greenburgh Town Councilwoman
Ken Jenkins, Westchester County Executive
Steve Otis, NYS Assemblyman (AD-91)
Paul Redd Jr., son of Paul and Orial Redd
Tejash Sanchala, Co-MC, Exec. Dir. Westchester County Human Rights Commission
Peter Sterling, Redd family friend, neuroscientist
Andrea Stewart-Cousins, NYS Senate Majority Leader (SD-35)
Ingraham Taylor, Co-organizer
L. Joy Williams, Pres., NAACP NYS Conference
Carla Woolbright, former pres., NAACP New Rochelle Branch

A mockup of a new “Walk Rye History” panel about Paul and Orial Redd Way was unveiled at the Street Naming Ceremony at Station Plaza on September 27, 2025. The panel will be installed at an undetermined spot near the new street sign. It was created by the Rye Historical Society and sponsored by the City of Rye.

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 7d

From Berwick, Robert Gascoigne, a royal messenger, writes to Walsingham complaining of incompetence in the postal system the north-east; apparently letters took 17 hours to get from 30 miles from Berwick to Alnwick. The excuse was that the postman's boy fell in the water. 4/

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 8d

Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely

Poster: detail from Lincoln's Inn stained glass window showing palatial buildings, with a forest covered landscape beyond. In the foreground are two men in hats and cloaks having a little chat. A dog runs towards them from the right. In the centre of the poster is a black circle containing the following text

TEXT:
Call for Papers on John Donne and Architecture
13th January 2026
Lincoln College, Oxford
Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough
Please send abstract of up to 250 words to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) & Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk) by 14th November 2025

Call for Papers

John Donne’s Architecture

Submission Deadline: 14th November 2025

Event Date: 13th January 2026, Lincoln College, Oxford

Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough.

We welcome 150–250 word abstracts for twenty-minute papers relating to any aspect of Donne and architecture from critics and historians of literature, architecture and related fields. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

The use of buildings in rhetoric or the arts of memory.
Donne’s metaphorical use of architecture, as well as related disciplines such as geometry, cartography, and visual art.
The buildings in which Donne lived, worked and preached (e.g. the Chapel Royal, York House, St Paul’s Cathedral, Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, St Dunstan’s in the West, etc.) and their influence on his life and work.
Donne’s encounters with buildings on his travels through Europe.
The relationship of literary to architectural form.
Please send proposals or enquiries to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) and Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk).

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 7d

I couldn’t possibly comment. 😂

Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 8d

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 8d

We had egg hunts too, but probably more rustic in the Gold Country (e.g. always found some in the woodpile). And OMG how’s this for a 70s tragicomedy of trying to look butch with an Easter basket in the obligatory annual family photo?

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