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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Aug 29

The last of the days sun on a #brighton high-rise

Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Aug 27

On the money again from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social with a suitably feisty flourish at the end too!

There are a lot of people in the U.K. currently wondering exactly when Kier Starmer / Labour are going to say and do what the moment requires?

Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · Aug 27

Column, on a grimly familiar Farage plot line and Starmer sticking to the script in the Brexit sequel. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr

Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Aug 9

Hummingbird Hawkmoth doing its thing on the Verbenas this afternoon

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jul 14

Meme Monday

Aint it just

Cartoon of two people talking whilst walking down a street, both with blank far away looks. One says to the other “my desire to be well informed is currently at odds with my desire to stay sane”

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jul 5

Monty Twisty

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jul 5

Very bad news, the kind of thing which ought to be considered news

“instead of sinking into the depths, surface water is being replaced by deep water masses rising to the surface, bringing with them heat and carbon dioxide (CO₂) that had been trapped for centuries.”

www.icm.csic.es/en/news/majo...

Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications | Institut de Ciències del Mar

www.icm.csic.es

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jul 2

I don’t have any famous uncles, but I do have one called Bob

a man with a beard wearing a camouflage hat is looking at the camera .

ALT: a man with a beard wearing a camouflage hat is looking at the camera .

media.tenor.com

Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jul 2

And a legend he was!

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jun 27

Global temps, exceeding worst case scenarios (which as a reminder, are really really bad) and still accelerating.

Several scientists have been screaming that it’s accelerating for some time now, all have been ignored and rounded upon.

And STILL, this isn’t considered newsworthy.

Newly released chart from NYT report showing global temperatures between 1880 and 2020. The trend line clearly shows temperature increase is accelerating. This indicates global temps are on course to exceed the worst case scenario projections within IPCC assessments.

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congratulations ✨

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jun 25

It’s good. A little sturdier. Just don’t rely on the flappy bit on the back

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jun 24

Think we’ll have to make do with turning our dining tables into Morrison shelters. Not sure a kallax will cut it.

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jun 13

Water sausage 🤣

In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · Jun 13

BREAKING NEWS: Local water sausage executes a flawless 360,493° ultra-zoom mega spin. Physicists baffled.

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jun 13

“Cindy, none of these planes are staying in America, they’re all going overseas,” 😳

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jun 13

“Two people deeply familiar with the Charleston 787 plant told the Prospect they had particularly acute quality concerns over planes that were delivered to Air India.” 😱

One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed

Whistleblowers always warned that passengers would pay a price for Boeing’s tyrannical corner-cutting, especially with the planes shipped overseas.

prospect.org

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jun 13

The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot

The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jun 12

Horrible scenes that Air India crash. One survivor is crazy.

I’ve seen the videos, hardly a single identifiable aircraft object survived apart from tail and wheels.

But this one chap seems to have just walked away🤯

Luck? destiny? superpowers?

The Mirror @mirror.co.uk · Jun 12

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, was sitting in the seat 11A of the Gatwick-bound flight when it took off from Ahmedabad on Thursday and miraculously managed to survive the crash

'Miracle' Brit passenger survives horror plane crash that killed hundreds

www.mirror.co.uk

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jun 10

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.

If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.

📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

A horizontal bar chart titled "Percentage of Global fossil fuel emissions (since 1751) occurring in my lifetime." The chart shows how much of the total historical global fossil fuel emissions have occurred within the lifetime of individuals of different ages, from 5 to 100 years old. The vertical axis on the left lists ages in increments of 5 years, from age 5 at the top to age 100 at the bottom. The horizontal axis represents the percentage of fossil fuel emissions, marked in 10% increments from 10% to 90%.

The black bars represent the proportion of fossil fuel emissions that have occurred during each age group's lifetime. The bars increase in length as the age increases, meaning older individuals have lived through a larger percentage of the cumulative emissions since 1751.

Three specific age groups are highlighted with red bars and white text annotations:

Age 30: "if you are 30 it is more than 50%"

Age 50: "if you are 50 it is about 75%"

Age 85: "if you are 85 it is about 90%"

The source of the data is cited at the bottom: "CDIAC and globalcarbonproject.org." The graphic is credited to "@neilrkaye."

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jun 10

I just don’t understand how uk insect populations have dropped >60% in the last 20 years and how biodiversity is collapsing globally when developers are doing very thoughtful things like putting a bug hotel alongside 12,680sqm of concrete and steel.

Local news article from Littlehampton, Sussex, England.

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If approved, of the 12,680sqm of floorspace, 12,410sqm is set to be demolished, with 10,333sqm of floorspace and 2,220sqm of mezzanine area to go up in its place, according to the plans.
The nine retail spaces will see seven retained warehouse units (A1, A2, and A5-A9 in the plans), whilst two will be new-build infill units (A3 and A4).
There would also be changes to
pedestrian-route and road layouts, planting areas including a pond, more parking spaces including EV bays, and 'sustainable' drainage infrastructure.
The plans say the HQ's removal will also reduce the 'apparent bulk' of the site from Norway Lane and the A259.
A bug hotel is also to be constructed in a bid to increase biodiversity net gain on the site, creating 'microhabitats' for insects and pollinators there.
No objections have been registered by nearbv residents or official bodies

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jun 10

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left?
All the shifts are in just one direction.
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output

The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

bylinetimes.com

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jun 9

Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins:

$Quote; "The conditions that have led to what's happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built. We built 20th-century democracies on the assumption that truth could be verified, public discourse could be deliberated, and those in power could be held accountable. But the system those assumptions relied on, gatekeepers, shared facts, institutional trust, are in decline, and deservedly so. In its place: an algorithmic chaos where every citizen is a broadcaster, every feed a battleground, and every truth contestable. We didn't design for this. We didn't adapt in time. And now the cracks are widening. If we continue down this path, ignoring the collapse of shared reality, failing to rebuild the systems that stabilise truth, we will see democratic norms erode from the inside out. Not in a single catastrophic moment, but in a thousand small compromises. What follows won't look like an obvious dystopia. It will look like normality hollowed out: Parliaments still sit. Elections still happen. But truth becomes optional, reason performative, and power untouchable. People won't trust courts or parties. They won't believe evidence. They'll be certain their side is right, no matter what reality says. That's not disagreement. That's epistemic fracture. And once it sets in, it's nearly impossible to reverse. This is not just an American story. It's a preview. And the question for every other democracy is simple: Do you adapt now, or do nothing and slide into authoritarianism?"$

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Mr Ro-Jo @rojoclick.bsky.social · Jun 7

OP

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jun 6

Extremely fun little secret recording in @desmog.com by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social here - Lomborg just openly saying to the Fraser Institute that CCS wont' work but that it can be used to soak up subsidies

www.desmog.com/2025/06/05/c...