Felicity P
@slightlydespairing.bsky.social
Left leaning environmentally aware, thinks that collective solutions to big problems are possible. Loves left wing political ranters. Will repost and repy, few direct posts. Terrified of the NHS going down the tubes. Lives in the UK capital.
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www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Regulation has failed.
This government imposed a Bonus Ban, but water bosses and shareholders will always find ways to reward themselves for their failures, with eye-watering payouts.
It's high time for the whole English water sector to come into public ownership.
vist.ly/4jhcw
This government imposed a Bonus Ban, but water bosses and shareholders will always find ways to reward themselves for their failures, with eye-watering payouts.
It's high time for the whole English water sector to come into public ownership.
vist.ly/4jhcw
Yorkshire Water boss 'mistaken' to keep £1.3m payment secret
Nicola Shaw says she was wrong in "not being transparent" about the extra money she received.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Regulation has failed.
This government imposed a Bonus Ban, but water bosses and shareholders will always find ways to reward themselves for their failures, with eye-watering payouts.
It's high time for the whole English water sector to come into public ownership.
vist.ly/4jhcw
This government imposed a Bonus Ban, but water bosses and shareholders will always find ways to reward themselves for their failures, with eye-watering payouts.
It's high time for the whole English water sector to come into public ownership.
vist.ly/4jhcw
🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Over 100,000 acres of our public forests used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger than the Isle of W...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
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this is insane
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
this is insane
Trump Administration Live Updates: Honduran Ex-President Is Out of Prison After Pardon
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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🚨 #Water #England #UK
⚡️We shd be focusing on water reuse/using less water in the first place/separating drinking water from those recycled waters that we could use/using nature-based solutions/thinking about the way that we’re building developments⚡️ @hancloke.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social
⚡️We shd be focusing on water reuse/using less water in the first place/separating drinking water from those recycled waters that we could use/using nature-based solutions/thinking about the way that we’re building developments⚡️ @hancloke.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social
NEW! Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across Europe
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🚨 #Water #England #UK
⚡️We shd be focusing on water reuse/using less water in the first place/separating drinking water from those recycled waters that we could use/using nature-based solutions/thinking about the way that we’re building developments⚡️ @hancloke.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social
⚡️We shd be focusing on water reuse/using less water in the first place/separating drinking water from those recycled waters that we could use/using nature-based solutions/thinking about the way that we’re building developments⚡️ @hancloke.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social
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Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.
These ads are poisoning trust in media
‘Native advertising' allows fossil fuel companies to disguise their ads in news outlets. A new book argues the practice undermines journalistic credibility.
www.exxonknews.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.
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"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents.
They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."
abc7.com/post/ontario...
They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."
abc7.com/post/ontario...
Immigrant rights group placing 'ICE stole someone here' signs in Ontario
A citizens group in Ontario is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving ICE agents detaining and arresting undocumented immigrants.
abc7.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents.
They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."
abc7.com/post/ontario...
They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."
abc7.com/post/ontario...
If you need stoical ballast see
Born #OTD in 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish essayist, poet, & author of fiction & travel books, best known for his novels Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, & The Master of Ballantrae.
To mark the occasion, a quote 🧵
To mark the occasion, a quote 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
If you need stoical ballast see
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Sansui SC-3100
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Stereo Cassette Tape Deck (1978-79)
October 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Sansui SC-3100
Stereo Cassette Tape Deck (1978-79)
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💩💩
Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit
Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
💩💩
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#ClimateChange ➡️ #PublicHealth
🚨...epidemiologists estimate heat fatalities by calculating excess/unexpected deaths during a severe hot spell. Eg: the 2022 heatwave in #Europe ➡️ ~62k heat-related excess deaths, while this summer 16k more people died prematurely. The US chooses not to know...🚨
🚨...epidemiologists estimate heat fatalities by calculating excess/unexpected deaths during a severe hot spell. Eg: the 2022 heatwave in #Europe ➡️ ~62k heat-related excess deaths, while this summer 16k more people died prematurely. The US chooses not to know...🚨
October 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
#ClimateChange ➡️ #PublicHealth
🚨...epidemiologists estimate heat fatalities by calculating excess/unexpected deaths during a severe hot spell. Eg: the 2022 heatwave in #Europe ➡️ ~62k heat-related excess deaths, while this summer 16k more people died prematurely. The US chooses not to know...🚨
🚨...epidemiologists estimate heat fatalities by calculating excess/unexpected deaths during a severe hot spell. Eg: the 2022 heatwave in #Europe ➡️ ~62k heat-related excess deaths, while this summer 16k more people died prematurely. The US chooses not to know...🚨
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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Iran’s death machine: why the world must stop the next massacre
Iran slaughtered thousands of citizens with impunity 37 years ago; it’s happening again and we must not look away
By Zolal Habibi
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Iran slaughtered thousands of citizens with impunity 37 years ago; it’s happening again and we must not look away
By Zolal Habibi
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Iran’s death machine: why the world must stop the next massacre
Iran slaughtered thousands of citizens with impunity 37 years ago; it’s happening again and we must not look away
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Iran’s death machine: why the world must stop the next massacre
Iran slaughtered thousands of citizens with impunity 37 years ago; it’s happening again and we must not look away
By Zolal Habibi
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Iran slaughtered thousands of citizens with impunity 37 years ago; it’s happening again and we must not look away
By Zolal Habibi
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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Imagine borrowing someone’s credit card, spending it on yourself.. then charging them for the privilege.
That’s the scam of privatised water.
Households foot the bill for upgrades, but £22bn will go to investors and creditors.
inews.co.uk/news/consume...
That’s the scam of privatised water.
Households foot the bill for upgrades, but £22bn will go to investors and creditors.
inews.co.uk/news/consume...
£22bn of water bill hikes will go to private investors - not cleaning up rivers
Investors will see their returns from water bills double over the next five years
inews.co.uk
August 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Imagine borrowing someone’s credit card, spending it on yourself.. then charging them for the privilege.
That’s the scam of privatised water.
Households foot the bill for upgrades, but £22bn will go to investors and creditors.
inews.co.uk/news/consume...
That’s the scam of privatised water.
Households foot the bill for upgrades, but £22bn will go to investors and creditors.
inews.co.uk/news/consume...
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Despite all efforts on recycling plastic production continues to increase as microplastics cover the entire earth in a thin layer that will last for thousands of years. The focus must be on controlling production & distribution not just consumption and recyling.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns
Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Despite all efforts on recycling plastic production continues to increase as microplastics cover the entire earth in a thin layer that will last for thousands of years. The focus must be on controlling production & distribution not just consumption and recyling.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Important (if depressing) to remember that the kind of authoritarian race-baiting expressed by Jenrick on Today (eg presenting all refugees as sexual predators and promising to deport all of them) was taboo in British politics for decades. Yet I doubt any Tory will publicly criticise him
August 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Important (if depressing) to remember that the kind of authoritarian race-baiting expressed by Jenrick on Today (eg presenting all refugees as sexual predators and promising to deport all of them) was taboo in British politics for decades. Yet I doubt any Tory will publicly criticise him
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Miles & miles of maize
but 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 insect—in 2 days of 🚴♀️🚴in Brittany.
Maize is mainly 🐄 feed.
Linked to high pesticide use—and damaging soil erosion.
Governments must be honest about the hidden costs of meat.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social warned about maize a decade ago 👇
but 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 insect—in 2 days of 🚴♀️🚴in Brittany.
Maize is mainly 🐄 feed.
Linked to high pesticide use—and damaging soil erosion.
Governments must be honest about the hidden costs of meat.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social warned about maize a decade ago 👇
August 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Miles & miles of maize
but 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 insect—in 2 days of 🚴♀️🚴in Brittany.
Maize is mainly 🐄 feed.
Linked to high pesticide use—and damaging soil erosion.
Governments must be honest about the hidden costs of meat.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social warned about maize a decade ago 👇
but 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 insect—in 2 days of 🚴♀️🚴in Brittany.
Maize is mainly 🐄 feed.
Linked to high pesticide use—and damaging soil erosion.
Governments must be honest about the hidden costs of meat.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social warned about maize a decade ago 👇
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Your 'double bonus moment of doom' for today:
"The team concludes with a sentiment that is becoming more common in this field: It may be worse than we think. It’s not an uplifting thought, but one that should be confronted"
www.404media.co/scientists-r...
"The team concludes with a sentiment that is becoming more common in this field: It may be worse than we think. It’s not an uplifting thought, but one that should be confronted"
www.404media.co/scientists-r...
Scientists Report Surreal Scenes In the World’s Most Northern Town
Researchers witnessing warming in Svalbard worry that “we have been too cautious” with climate warnings.
www.404media.co
July 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Your 'double bonus moment of doom' for today:
"The team concludes with a sentiment that is becoming more common in this field: It may be worse than we think. It’s not an uplifting thought, but one that should be confronted"
www.404media.co/scientists-r...
"The team concludes with a sentiment that is becoming more common in this field: It may be worse than we think. It’s not an uplifting thought, but one that should be confronted"
www.404media.co/scientists-r...
Another assault on greenery in Central London.
July 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Another assault on greenery in Central London.
The current state of the USA. I now understand the meaning of the term 'Rogue State'.
July 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The current state of the USA. I now understand the meaning of the term 'Rogue State'.
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
July 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&