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Sananda Poole @sananda.bsky.social · 4h

I think it was Ben Elton who had the routine about fast food vendors being very exact about brands of cola, but not so keen to refer to the main product in precise terms as ‘shit, coated in shit, deep fried in shit and served with fries’

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 4h

How many times have they tried this now? If they're so scared of veggie alternatives maybe they should stop pretending and double down on the industrial meat production terms, call their stuff Cow discs, Pig tubes and reconstituted Chicken slurry balls. uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/eu-lawm...

EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday to ban the use of the term "veggie-burger" and limit food descriptions such as steak, escalope and sausage to products containing meat, part of a pr...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6h

“When streets became calmer & safer, more people felt comfortable trying a bike commute for the first time. Families began pedaling to the park…Local businesses saw new life…And cycling stopped feeling like a niche activity—it became part of everyday Parisian life.”

Via @momentummag.bsky.social

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution

Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 8h

The @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social climate monitoring application #Climate Pulse has been updated. Same climate monitoring data with new features and better layout. 🌏🌊⚒️🧪

User feedback always welcome so let us know what you would like to see updated in the next version:

pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 7h

Badenoch does not provide even the slightest hint as to what her 'proper' strategy for tackling climate change would be.

The plan is lots of policies that would increase emissions and undermine clean tech investment, while insisting the party is not climate sceptic.

Deeply, deeply unserious.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7h

If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try @samfr.bsky.social:

The Truth About Integration

I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.

samf.substack.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 7h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 8h

During its 14 years in office the Conservative government delivered half of one nuclear power plant that was massively over budget and behind schedule.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19h

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · 10h

The strategy does not develop linearly, it is adaptive and multifaceted. A summary of what we know about the fossil fuel industry and climate obstruction. Me, @kertdavies.bsky.social and @geoffdembicki.bsky.social in conversation with the great @amywestervelt.bsky.social

S14, Ep5 | How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11h

James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h

Hard not to see this stuff as basically revelling in your total impunity: doing donuts on your little motorbike, giving the finger with both hands. LOL Fuck. You.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11h

James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 2d

Yale researchers didn't stop there. They also identified what people most need to know to catalyze action and support climate policy; and it's not about global temps, ice sheets, or ocean currents.

What people most need to know about climate change is that (1) others care, and (2) there is hope.

Understanding six “key truths” about climate change predicts policy support, discussion, and political advocacy

Social norms and collective efficacy are strong predictors

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 2d

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 1d

'Many, especially women, speak of a sense of suffocation and dread; fearing their bodies won’t cope or that a loved one will collapse' - the brutal reality for people enduring climate-driven extreme heat:

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How extreme temperatures strain minds and bodies: a Karachi case study

Sleeplessness, anxiety and invisible care work show why extreme heat is a public-health emergency.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 1d

First time I managed to completely fill my carrying rack... 🌲💍💪

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Mr MT @mremtee.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! That’s quite some load. 💪👏👏

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.

The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.

The Greens say enough is enough.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

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Mr MT @mremtee.bsky.social · 1d

The BBC have some very powerful images to illustrate the point.
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Mr MT @mremtee.bsky.social · 1d

Remind me again how declaring some small patches of coastal waters “Marine Protected Areas” (in which it is still perfectly legal to rip up the seabed by bottom trawling) is going to save us all?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Marine heatwaves to become more frequent off UK and Irish coasts, experts say

Scientists find 10% chance that similar events to the ‘unheard of’ temperatures in 2023 could occur each year The unprecedented marine heatwave of 2023 was in line with climate modelling, research shows, as scientists warn such events will become more frequent. The “unheard of” heatwave off the UK and Irish coasts during a summer of 40C temperatures raised concerns that fish, shellfish and kelp would not be able to survive. Continue reading...

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Irene Tsherit @irenetsherit.bsky.social · 1d

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

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