Those Os
@thoseos.bsky.social
A couple of people concerned about nature, the climate, and extremism. And if you have some cute pictures of kittens, that would be good as well.
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Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water.
There are no warnings on bottles.
Either companies do not test their products, or conceal the harms to boost profits and exec pay.
What do regulators do?
There are no warnings on bottles.
Either companies do not test their products, or conceal the harms to boost profits and exec pay.
What do regulators do?
Bottled water drinkers ingest 90,000 more microplastic particles each year
New review finds people who drink tap water ingest only about 4,000 microplastic particles a year
www.independent.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water.
There are no warnings on bottles.
Either companies do not test their products, or conceal the harms to boost profits and exec pay.
What do regulators do?
There are no warnings on bottles.
Either companies do not test their products, or conceal the harms to boost profits and exec pay.
What do regulators do?
So much of this is also true for the UK. Let's hope both countries - and others in the same position - can find a way through.
Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us | Robert Reich
Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us | Robert Reich
I’d like to believe that the horrific darkness of this past year is a necessary prelude to a brighter and saner future
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
So much of this is also true for the UK. Let's hope both countries - and others in the same position - can find a way through.
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A year ago, U of T’s Laura Tozer was adding climate policies to her lecture slides. This year, she’s deleting them, and asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain the rollbacks directly to her students. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/24/n...
This University of Toronto Professor wants Carney to answer to her students
Each year, University of Toronto professor Laura Tozer updates a slide deck that she presents to her graduate students on the state of climate policy in Canada. This year, she is deleting everything.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A year ago, U of T’s Laura Tozer was adding climate policies to her lecture slides. This year, she’s deleting them, and asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain the rollbacks directly to her students. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/24/n...
As a Jew this saddens me beyond words. I pray for justice for the Nassars and that they will overcome.
Reading this really hurts
Reading this really hurts
‘A gift that cannot be sold’: the Palestinian family fighting to save their West Bank farm
For more than three decades, the Nassars have battled Israeli efforts to reclassify their property as ‘state land’
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
As a Jew this saddens me beyond words. I pray for justice for the Nassars and that they will overcome.
Reading this really hurts
Reading this really hurts
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Please ask your MP to add their name to this Parliamentary call for Government to lead a prime-time televised emergency briefing to the nation.
Experts are clear: climate and nature breakdown threaten the UK’s security, food supply, health and economy.
#NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing
Experts are clear: climate and nature breakdown threaten the UK’s security, food supply, health and economy.
#NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing
Parliamentary call for a televised emergency briefing
For MPs and Peers to express support for briefing the nation on the threats from climate & nature breakdown to the UK’s security, food supply, health and economy.
www.nebriefing.org
December 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Please ask your MP to add their name to this Parliamentary call for Government to lead a prime-time televised emergency briefing to the nation.
Experts are clear: climate and nature breakdown threaten the UK’s security, food supply, health and economy.
#NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing
Experts are clear: climate and nature breakdown threaten the UK’s security, food supply, health and economy.
#NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing
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Is this a joke @washghost1 asks?
Gaining 1million views, and a comments section full of FUMING right wingers frothing at the mouth!
No, it’s not a joke
It’s not a thing
It is entirely made up to elicit exactly that reaction
(This is a twitter thing but the moral of the story holds here!)
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1/7
Gaining 1million views, and a comments section full of FUMING right wingers frothing at the mouth!
No, it’s not a joke
It’s not a thing
It is entirely made up to elicit exactly that reaction
(This is a twitter thing but the moral of the story holds here!)
🧵
1/7
December 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Is this a joke @washghost1 asks?
Gaining 1million views, and a comments section full of FUMING right wingers frothing at the mouth!
No, it’s not a joke
It’s not a thing
It is entirely made up to elicit exactly that reaction
(This is a twitter thing but the moral of the story holds here!)
🧵
1/7
Gaining 1million views, and a comments section full of FUMING right wingers frothing at the mouth!
No, it’s not a joke
It’s not a thing
It is entirely made up to elicit exactly that reaction
(This is a twitter thing but the moral of the story holds here!)
🧵
1/7
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Excellent analysis, as always from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social.
"This is not politics as normal. And we can’t treat any of it as politics as normal."
broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-message-...
"This is not politics as normal. And we can’t treat any of it as politics as normal."
broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-message-...
A message to America: we are not your enemy
Last night, the US launched an all-out assault on the "global censorship industrial complex", I respond with some deep breaths, solidarity and a vibey video (it's all I have)
broligarchy.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Excellent analysis, as always from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social.
"This is not politics as normal. And we can’t treat any of it as politics as normal."
broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-message-...
"This is not politics as normal. And we can’t treat any of it as politics as normal."
broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-message-...
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#geoveille After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up - Yale E360 https://e360.yale.edu/features/iran-water-drought-dams-qanats
December 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#geoveille After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up - Yale E360 https://e360.yale.edu/features/iran-water-drought-dams-qanats
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Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
Beautiful
Stained glass and driftwood sculpture by UK artist Louise V Durham #WomensArt #Solstice
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Beautiful
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Oh my God it just keeps getting worse. This #RFK sponsored #hepatitis vaccine trial in #Guinea-Bissau is being run by people whose research methods have been totally discredited. This isn’t research, it’s gun-for-hire antivax nonsense. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What is actually the emerging evidence about non-specific vaccine effects in randomized trials from the Bandim Health Project?
www.sciencedirect.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Oh my God it just keeps getting worse. This #RFK sponsored #hepatitis vaccine trial in #Guinea-Bissau is being run by people whose research methods have been totally discredited. This isn’t research, it’s gun-for-hire antivax nonsense. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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UK’s largest proposed datacentre is understating the scale of its planned water use.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’
Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimates
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
UK’s largest proposed datacentre is understating the scale of its planned water use.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Get. Them. All.
(And what an occasion to clean house of voices that should not have had platforms for ages regardless.)
And even if there had been no conflict of interest:
People who rape children or are complicit in the machinery of child rape should have no public voice ever. Period.
(And what an occasion to clean house of voices that should not have had platforms for ages regardless.)
And even if there had been no conflict of interest:
People who rape children or are complicit in the machinery of child rape should have no public voice ever. Period.
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Get. Them. All.
(And what an occasion to clean house of voices that should not have had platforms for ages regardless.)
And even if there had been no conflict of interest:
People who rape children or are complicit in the machinery of child rape should have no public voice ever. Period.
(And what an occasion to clean house of voices that should not have had platforms for ages regardless.)
And even if there had been no conflict of interest:
People who rape children or are complicit in the machinery of child rape should have no public voice ever. Period.
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Today is International Migrants Day.
The immigration debate has become increasingly toxic - so we asked the public what they think.
Watch and share if you agree 🔁
The immigration debate has become increasingly toxic - so we asked the public what they think.
Watch and share if you agree 🔁
December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Today is International Migrants Day.
The immigration debate has become increasingly toxic - so we asked the public what they think.
Watch and share if you agree 🔁
The immigration debate has become increasingly toxic - so we asked the public what they think.
Watch and share if you agree 🔁
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Yesterday in @commonshealth.bsky.social we were joined by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting.
This is what we asked him...
This is what we asked him...
December 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Yesterday in @commonshealth.bsky.social we were joined by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting.
This is what we asked him...
This is what we asked him...
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2025: Labour's Steve Reed, "There have been no findings that the outcome of any election to date were affected by malign foreign interference"
2020: Stuart Hosie, "The UK government have actively avoided looking for evidence of Russian interference"
Labour as pathetic as Conservatives
2020: Stuart Hosie, "The UK government have actively avoided looking for evidence of Russian interference"
Labour as pathetic as Conservatives
December 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
2025: Labour's Steve Reed, "There have been no findings that the outcome of any election to date were affected by malign foreign interference"
2020: Stuart Hosie, "The UK government have actively avoided looking for evidence of Russian interference"
Labour as pathetic as Conservatives
2020: Stuart Hosie, "The UK government have actively avoided looking for evidence of Russian interference"
Labour as pathetic as Conservatives
More evidence that the Labour manifesto really should have been labelled "Change? Fuck that, there's money to be made."
🚨 SCOOP: “I’m a Labour donor”
Ben Howlett is an ex-Tory MP, owner of influential PoliticsUK account, and the fixer we exposed selling access to Westminster
Turns out he's also involved in Labour fundraising, and discussing donations with Labour MPs
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/im-a-labou...
Ben Howlett is an ex-Tory MP, owner of influential PoliticsUK account, and the fixer we exposed selling access to Westminster
Turns out he's also involved in Labour fundraising, and discussing donations with Labour MPs
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/im-a-labou...
“I’m a Labour donor”: ex-Tory MP exposed in cash-for-access sting
Exclusive: Details of Ben Howlett’s fundraising for Labour prompts Green leader Zack Polanski to call on Starmer's party to “come clean” about its relationship with him.
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
More evidence that the Labour manifesto really should have been labelled "Change? Fuck that, there's money to be made."
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A letter to the Daily Telegraph
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A letter to the Daily Telegraph
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Good morning and happy Sunday, my loves.
Enjoy some cheeky and occasionally foul mouthed, little angels.
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Enjoy some cheeky and occasionally foul mouthed, little angels.
🤣
December 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Good morning and happy Sunday, my loves.
Enjoy some cheeky and occasionally foul mouthed, little angels.
🤣
Enjoy some cheeky and occasionally foul mouthed, little angels.
🤣
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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Remember Cameron's EU tour before the Referendum to secure the migrants benefit brake....
“It is the Brexit playbook:…
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”
Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”
Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all | Steve Valdez-Symonds
The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty, says Steve Valdez-Symonds, refugee and migrant rig...
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Remember Cameron's EU tour before the Referendum to secure the migrants benefit brake....
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Good to know UK government only wants to allow moderately inhumane and degrading treatment. Only brief episodes of torture (applied with politeness and a smile maybe)? Will they publish a guidance manual?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK joins call for Europe’s human rights laws to be ‘constrained’
Britain aligns with some of Europe’s hardline governments in calling for change to allow Rwanda-style migration deals
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Good to know UK government only wants to allow moderately inhumane and degrading treatment. Only brief episodes of torture (applied with politeness and a smile maybe)? Will they publish a guidance manual?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...