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Afanasiew @afanasiew.bsky.social · 9h

We could have a sensible conversation about the implications of climate change, but hating immigrants is less intellectually challenging and requires no change of behaviour by fossil fuel corporations.

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10h

Last month observed above average temperatures across large portions of both the #Greenland and #Antarctic Ice Sheets. Anywhere in dark red shading is more than 5°C warmer than the 1981-2010 climatological average.

Data available from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Map of Greenland showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in September 2025. Red shading is shown for warmer than average temperatures, and blue shading is shown colder than average temperatures. Anomalies are calculated relative to 1981-2010.

Polar stereographic map of 2-m air temperature anomalies in the Antarctic for September 2025. Red shading is shown for warmer anomalies, and blue shading is shown for colder anomalies. There is a sharp gradient in temperature anomalies across the region. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Mike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 9h

The EU should keep its nerve. The US either wants market access or doesn't; if it does, these threats will be quietly forgotten.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12h

US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal on.ft.com/48PllGs

US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal

Washington wants American companies to be exempted from rules such as having to draw up climate transition plans

on.ft.com

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Mike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 1d

Flash fiction: The Creatives
Meeting a tech bro.
#shortfiction #IT #AI

Flash fiction: The Creatives

A tech bro's ambitions

mikerobbinsnyc.blogspot.com

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Mike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 1d

An important milestone #climate

www.itv.com

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Mike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 1d

Flash fiction: The Creatives
Meeting a tech bro.
#shortfiction #IT #AI

Flash fiction: The Creatives

A tech bro's ambitions

mikerobbinsnyc.blogspot.com

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ryan (BenGraven) @bengraven.bsky.social · 1d

Goooood lord this would be a fun story to write and the outrage would be delicious.

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Mike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 1d

Cars are going electric, and European carmakers are going to have to compete with Chinese - and Korean - EVs in export markets even if they don't at home. So maybe this will do the German industry more harm than good in the end?

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Germany wants EU to scrap its planned 2035 deadline for ending combustion-engine vehicle sales.

Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz are struggling to build up competitive electric vehicle businesses against Chinese rivals like BYD

u.afp.com/Smf2

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine if Russia attacked and seized a UK vessel in international waters & kidnapped the people on board, including UK citizens, and the only response from the UK govt was to say that's "a matter for the Russian govt".

No, me neither.

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 2d

A man joins forces with a giant frog to save the city in this lovely new hardback edition of Murakami's strange and iconic short story, "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo", now out!

💙📚🪐

A hand holds three copies of the book in a bookshop

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Mike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. Very timely.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 2d

I guess this simply confirms that my Rebellion! project, exploring and celebrating the importance of peaceful protest as part of our cultural identity, in the face of draconian anti-protest legislation, has never been more timely.

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Mike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 2d

This is how it feels to me too.

Does it have to be this rightward-lurching sh*t all the time? Can't we have politicians who can tell us how life can be better, nicer? Offer us some hope?

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

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Mike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 3d

Short fiction: A Time of Darkness
#fiction #shortfiction #politics

Fiction: A Time of Darkness

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

mikerobbinswrites.substack.com

Mike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, that's very kind.

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Nya 🧿 🇨🇦 @artbyseranya.bsky.social · 4d

#JaneGoodall
Arrives
In Heaven,
Looks Down
At Earth,
Burning Up,
And Asks
God/Dess:
What About
Humans?!
Silence……
Out Of
Politeness.
©️ #Seranya #Poetry 🦄

#Writing #Prompt #SpicyPoetrySaturday

Whistlertimbc @whistlertimbc.bsky.social · 5d

#ও☉❢☉✑
#poetry
#micropoetry
#blueskywriters
#writingcommunity

Use hashtag
#spicypoetrysaturday

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Mike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 4d

Short fiction on Substack:
A tear in the fabric of time
#shortfiction #urbanfantasy #paranormal

Fiction: Another Time

A tear in the fabric

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 7d

Out this month: Rigby's Encyclopaedia of the Herring, by @rigbysherrings.bsky.social. About the Atlantic Herring and its far-reaching dominions. From @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @michaeldwyer.bsky.social www.herripedia.com

Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring

Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring is a one-stop definitive herring information source - fisheries & fishing, history, natural history, cures, recipes & culture.

www.herripedia.com

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Mike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 4d

The old model of Burkean conservatism is dead. The Tories will now slug it out with another authoritarian right-wing party and they will bid each other rightwards.
Many British people are instinctively conservative, but decent and not illiberal. Who can they vote for now?
#ukpolitics

UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says

The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 4d

Amongst other things, this is the problem with the "triangulate with Farage" theory of Labour government - the right does not have a limited list of demands - every time you try to appease them, they just go further.

Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 4d

#BBCNews - UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says
www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says

The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

www.bbc.com

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chrid @chrid.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning world 👋
Happy Saturday 🌥️
Have a wonderful weekend everyone 🤙😊💚💛

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Jul 8

NEW: Getting to net-zero will be much cheaper than thought for the UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly, says OBR

Quick piece / thread with 4 key charts showing, yet again, why climate action is far less costly than inaction

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www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Mike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 12d

Flash fiction: Fashion
...Subversion with style at the local art college.
#shortfiction #art #politics

Flash fiction: Fashion

Subversion and perversion in the lecture theatre

mikerobbinsnyc.blogspot.com

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