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Tom Jensen
@absurdistworld.bsky.social
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Writer of absurdist plays, based in London. Terrified by climate meltdown, and seeking refuge from X for my sanity. Trolls & bots keep out. http://www.tomjensen.co.uk/ Instagram: @absurdistworld1
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Glad I made the switch away from X.
This is a "recommended" tweet pushed to a (very much not-Nazi) contact's iPhone lockscreen last week.

Who knows how many millions it was pushed to by Musk's platform, including in this case, in the UK?

It's now been deleted, but only after getting thousands of RTs.
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On Tuesday 28 October, join us to protest against Reform UK, its links to and advocacy for Russia

From 5.30pm @ Reform UK HQ, Millbank Tower, London
A brilliant play - go and see it if you can
Richard Fitchett’s black comedy "Starfish" plays at the Bread & Roses Theatre from 11th-15th November.

Lucy Appleby directs, and the cast includes Emma Riches, Peter Saracen & Edward Jobling.

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There’s something especially bleak about an industry dressing up exploitation in cartoons and sunshine. That’s exactly what The Happy Egg Co does - slapping a smile on slavery and calling it breakfast.
The Happy Egg Co: A Masterclass in Consumer Manipulation
Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi
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🚨 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝘄𝗶𝗻!

In a world-first, a Paris court has ruled that TotalEnergies has misled the public with its greenwashing ads.

This is a huge victory for those that have been calling out the oil giant's lies for years. 🧵 1/6
Oil firm TotalEnergies made misleading green statements, court rules
French multinational is ordered to remove its website messages about aiming for carbon neutrality
www.theguardian.com
Glad I made the switch away from X.
This is a "recommended" tweet pushed to a (very much not-Nazi) contact's iPhone lockscreen last week.

Who knows how many millions it was pushed to by Musk's platform, including in this case, in the UK?

It's now been deleted, but only after getting thousands of RTs.
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Here's something that's not talked about enough

The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year

1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#Review: Scenes from the Climate Era, The Playground Theatre ★★★★

"It connects the local and the global in the way that only theatre can, reminding the audience that we’re all the same in being individuals experiencing the same event."

#theatre #offwestend

everything-theatre.co.uk/2025/10/revi...
Review: Scenes from the Climate Era, Playground Theatre - Everything Theatre
A kaleidoscopic, funny, informative and positively therapeutic consideration of the human experience of climate change.
everything-theatre.co.uk
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'Woman with a Goat.' (1949)
Charleston in Sussex is hosting an exhibition of work by Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun (who painted this) and artists associated within their circle such as John Minton and Michael Andrews. Curated by @damianbarr.bsky.social the show runs to 12 April 2026.
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“Why would children be interested in our ‘Bubble Gum Minty Mint Pops’, ‘Spongebob Squarepants Strawberry Breeze’ or ‘Triple Cola Fuzzy Bears’ flavours, which are all clearly aimed at adults?”

From the new Private Eye, out now.
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More evidence that the #climate emergency affects *everything* - it should be front & centre of ALL government decisions. As well as serious adaptation (petition here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7300…) Govt must urgently stop making things worse eg greenlighting high carbon airport expansion
UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told
Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate
www.theguardian.com
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"Decarbonisation will be too disruptive, we shouldn't bother"

"Climate activists are too disruptive, they should be locked up"

Meanwhile...
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Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
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How much longer will the BBC, ITV, Sky, C4 and C5 hide AMOC collapse from the British people?

Campaigners were at City Hall today to demand London Assembly members start planning for the UK being plunged into a far colder, drier climate which would decimate agriculture. 🧵
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"The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away"
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
www.theguardian.com
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This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
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The greatest threat to our democracy, freedom, and human rights is not Farage. It is the overwhelming majority of the British news media.

They promote Farage, and they protect Farage.

If they carry on like this, we will soon have no democracy.