I'm 72, happily married. Vegan. I'm a dad and a grandad. Sheffield, UK. Climate catastrophe. Civilisational collapse. Degrowth will help. Sustainable communities will help. Sortition will help. But capitalism won't, Political Parties won't, the media won't
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The Environment Minister has approved a coal mine extension overnight – the first of the new Parliament. This is a decision that will lock Australia into providing coal for decades, and put threatened wildlife at risk. This is not climate action. This is a climate crime.
Tice is an expert on these things - and probably many more, dontcha know!
Greta Thunberg: “You do not kill journalists unless you have something to hide. “Israel is now deliberately targeting journalists. If that is not a sign of their genocidal intent then I don’t know what is”.
This has been my view for a long time.
Morning Bluesky. China has unveiled new laser weapons, nuclear ballistic missiles and giant underwater drones at its massive military parade in Beijing.
England voted leave, England got leave. Wales voted leave, Wales got leave. N Ireland voted remain, N Ireland got special deal. Gibraltar voted remain, Gibraltar got special deal. Scotland voted remain, Scotland got shafted.
How do we become Good Relatives - to the land, the Web of Life, each other... ourselves? How do we heal the predations of the Trauma Culture and rediscover the confidence and connection of Initiation Culture? accidentalgods.life/dreams-as-a-... #accidentalgods #podcast
...Can't be influenced by media, much more difficult to corrupt, greater stability and continuity, policies from evidence lensed through critical thinking, active listening and deliberative debate. What's not to like?
...will always be subject to corruption and to media influence. Democracy is not well served by parties/elections. A better way of achieving democracy would be government by Citizens Assemblies selected by sortition with turnover of 1/3 a year...
Elections are won by the Party the media support. The media are the propaganda arm of the neoliberal capitalists. In the UK, the media support Reform. If Corbyn/Sultana gets off the ground, they'll have a tough ride against the might of the media. But the point is, elections...
Tadhg Hickey is sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza. Your support and attention keep them safe. #TadhgHickey #FreePalestine #GlobalSumudFlotilla
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End the Genocide now End the Occupation now Isolate Israel
Letters in The Times that sum up Labour’s deeply inadequate response to the perceived immigration ‘crisis’. Cruelty as policy and performative patriotism to try to pacify (rather than challenge) the frothing right wing press and the baying racist mob. It’s all just so gutless and wrong.
When British people behave like this, it makes me ashamed of my country. I know there are good people out there. Those making all the noise are likely a minority, but they are getting the media attention and politicians will think they speak for us all. They don't. news.sky.com/video/share-...
It’s time for these victims receive justice. It’s time for Trump to stop protecting the rich & powerful & to start telling the truth. It’s also time for Republicans in Congress to find the courage to sign the discharge petition that would force a vote to release the Epstein files. (2/2)
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
The man behind JD Vance and many other dangerous projects
OK, you're right!
From the latest proof of life video released by the White House, Trump is caked with make up, reporters kept at a distance, voice is weak, and the podium is acting as a walker to help him stand up. It's not looking good health wise.
Is sending up fighter jets to respond to a press conference by your dead best friend's sex trafficking victims considered weird or not weird these days. I've lost track.
"If you celebrated justice for Hillsborough, you have to support the European Convention on Human Rights Without article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights the gross negligence behind the deaths at Hillsborough would never have been uncovered"
Not really! Thats100% luck! Have to change my start word now!
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Tonight may bring another attack. But I want to share Ukrainian art. Olga Sliota, Muse, 1999 Spectacular. We are more than the war here.
“Treated like an animal” = our baseline for abuse. That alone should tell us everything about human supremacy.
Left- Dead Palestinian child Right- Dead Palestinian child taken from rubble.
76 Palestinians killed across Gaza in last 24 hours – reports www.channel4.com/news/76-pale...
Now do the same analysis for every other country in the world. I think you'd be hard pressed to find another country with mass shooters of any stripe numbering more than 100. Wake up America!
When will the world learn that the USA are just Lawless Oil Pirates?
Left- Blind man killed by Israel today. Right- Dead baby in rubble.
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
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Wake up America. The Democrats are no more your friends than the Republicans!
Counter-terrorism police "arrested five of Defend Our Juries’ key spokespeople in dawn raids in London this morning, over Lift the Ban protests [against Palestine Action's ban], under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000." The arrests included the group's founder, Tim Crosland
Colombian "seed guardians" support draft legislation that would ban genetically modified seeds, "which they claim threaten their traditions, livelihoods and food sovereignty." Uprooter @gabybarzallo.bsky.social for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Facts. Not myths and lies from the far-right. Facts.
In many ways, it doesn't matter which of the two bodies takes the decision; unless they actually follow the science (for the first time ever), the resulting policies will be totally inadequate. In reality, the policy should be made by a European Citizen's Assembly selected by sortition.
My choice (not Carbon Brief's) is to label it as what it is: a propagandistic broadsheet. bsky.app/profile/asie...
RFK must go. President Trump should fire him and appoint a qualified scientist to lead the agency entrusted to keep us all safe and healthy.
10 former directors of the CDC agree on the anti-science actions of RFK Jr: "This is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings."
Five children in Gaza among those killed by Israeli strike while fetching water
America’s leading physician groups are now openly defying RFK Jr. US vaccine consensus has officially shattered. (www.vox.com/health/45922...)
The victim was identified as Keontae. He managed to escape and called his mom from a cornfield an hour away. Thankfully, he did not suffer serious physical injuries, but local leaders say the emotional scars are already heavy—mistrust, fear, and trauma. 4/4 www.wkow.com/news/top-sto...
He cheated on humanity. Palestine Climate change Maintaining capitalist control over the Global economy. Please wake up America!
🇺🇸 dictatorship is what happens to a country when its political parties intentionally split society in two. As the two factions fight, the billionaires across Democrats and Republicans who brought this dictatorship on stand united. ➡️ As they’ve always been
Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream" Well said
Rejoin isn’t the issue of the era. Racism is. Britain is drowning in hate. We can’t let Farage remake us into a truly nasty nation www.thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-r...
The water level in the Vistula, Poland's longest river, has fallen to a new record low of just 5cm in Warsaw amid continued hot, dry weather. For more on the situation, see our report from last week: bit.ly/42bQ1xo.
🔴 Sacked, Expelled, or in the Dock: All the Reform UK Councillors Nigel Farage Has Lost in Just Four Months Party faces questions over candidate screening after string of resignations, expulsions and criminal investigations bylinetimes.com/2025/09/02/s...
The world's largest academic association of genocide scholars - the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars - has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
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My Phrase of the Day: Hedonic calculus A method for calculating the amount of pleasure or pain a specific action is likely to cause.
Never forget #HindRajab! #IsraelisATerorristState #ZionistsAreWarCriminals #DismantleApartheidIsrael brick by fascist brick!
I was curious about what proportion of emissions produced by Chevron’s giant Gorgon gas plant is captured by its $3.5 billion carbon capture and storage system. The answer? About 1% michaelwest.com.au/chevron-carb...
A superb ending to a superb first season. It goes in directions that I never saw coming, and I found myself better-informed and more curious about things that I didn't expect as well. A truly unique and intellectually nourishing pod series. Honestly, give it a listen
They did nothing. Trump isn't an exception. He's the natural outcome of all that the USA has stood for since JFK. I'm glad Americans are waking up to that fact.
Feeding frenzy
An important update from Francesca Albanese, special UN Rapporteur on Palestine. The flotilla fully complies with International Law. Any attempt to violate the flotilla’s mission is a violation of International Law which @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has said she will uphold. Empty words, Ursula?
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Money and waste are fictional concepts engineered by humans to enable and conceal ecological fraud. While money made ecological fraud possible, waste made it invisible. open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
I'll have to change my start word now!
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
“We have built death-worshipping civilisations which come with temporary benefits, and permanent side effects” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
The global cleptocracy has all but explicitly advertised its vision for the near future, its titillating, salivating wet dream of domination by making Gaza its marketing demo for all future living. open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Rather than seek the news we now seek shelter from it like civilians in a bomb raid open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Shocking: Thames Water connected lobbyist hired as Treasury advisor 😠 As my colleague @sophieconquest.bsky.social just told @boycottthameswater.bsky.social "If that's not corruption I don't know what is" Our letter to Rachel Reeves demanding Jenny Scott step down 👇 weownit.org.uk/news/water-l...
6)accountability, and freedom It is the harbinger of authoritarianism clothed in the sleek garb of innovation, a warning that the future we are building is one where the individual is lost beneath the crushing weight of surveillance & control—a fate too grim for silence
Plastic a product of the modern (petro)capitalist world. Plastic and other substances associated with its production and processing are causing serious negative effects on the Planet. Habitats and species grossly polluted. Progress? Benefits of Growth? To what end?
Politics today is less driven by ideological conviction and more by parties chasing votes based on a distorted picture of public opinion, one filtered through algorithms that amplify emotionally engaging content. This incentivises performance over substance and erodes democratic deliberation.
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Farage is whipping up anger against the ECHR with false claims. As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.” That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.
“6.3 million people are now skipping meals”. What the IMF is doing to Sri Lanka is actually barbarism. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Israel bombed and murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen along with several cabinet members, and there is zero outrage in Western media… it’s barely even a story. The level of impunity is breathtaking.
Nine. Nine children blown up by the Zionist entity. Nine children whose dreams are lost in blood soaked sand and rubble. And I paid for it. I don’t know what to do with that. #GazaGreatMinds #Gaza
As noted elsewhere in this thread, Isaac from Crystal Clean Windows York Limited came over and cleaned the restaurants windows for free and helped remove the graffiti. That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.
Did Brexit cause the small boats? Are any countries managing immigration well? How do I stay calm when arguing with dickheads? What can we all do to fight back against the hate? Wonderful questions from the @bremaininspain.com community :) - my answers here www.bremaininspain.com/bremainers-a...
A bakery. They bombed another bakery with children in it. Near the hospital.
A huge landslide causes homes and land to plunge into the sea, Norway.
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Hey UK, quick heads up. If you keep allowing your media to promote Farage, you're gonna end up like 🇺🇸 . Do yourselves a favor and stop that shit right now
Government represents neither people nor a privileged class of humans. It represents, defends, and protects what is behind every single one of humanity’s decisions: money, wealth, and toxic growth. open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Your 'moment of neo-fascist kakistocracy' for today: “We’re not just failing to protect vulnerable people, we’re actively making life here more precarious. And while some will be able to buy their way out of the problem, most people can’t. This is an existential crisis,”
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
Yemen vows revenge after Israel assassinates its prime minister and several ministers www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/yemen-vows...
“This system wants us to be as lifeless as possible yet live under the delusion that our brains and bodies still function.” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
We thought the internet would give us more transparency, more wisdom and more truth, but ultimately humans always choose their own truths despite all the evidence at their fingertips open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Being a “Doomer” doesn’t automatically qualify you as depressed, and vice versa. You are simply someone who can see things others can’t.
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Prof. David Kitchener 