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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 2h

Hopefully not another round of hand wringing about campus deplatforming and left wing activists which completely ignored the very hard reality of RW censorship online and in the media, or which talks about Charlie Kirk without referencing his campaign to have people fired for views he didn’t like?

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 3h

Q another round of articles on the BBC focusing almost entirely on campus-censorship.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3h

Remember when Republicans got mad that the federal government might be CENSORING political content on social media? Remember when they spent three years holding hearings trying to prove it happened? And threatened to jail anyone involved?

How times change!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4h

Statement from AG Pam Bondi:

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 3h

This is presumably why doing any sort of intellectually challenging activity now feels vaguely subversive.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h

"Their blatant stupidity is why they’re so popular. It’s the uncomfortable truth underpinning pretty much everything that’s happened in pop culture — including politics — since the 2010s social media revolution."

The Great Dumbening

Read to the end for it’s Tronin’ time

www.garbageday.email

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h

"Their blatant stupidity is why they’re so popular. It’s the uncomfortable truth underpinning pretty much everything that’s happened in pop culture — including politics — since the 2010s social media revolution."

The Great Dumbening

Read to the end for it’s Tronin’ time

www.garbageday.email

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 3h

There were some polls years back which showed that solar was more popular than ice cream, so it’s probably true!

Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 3h

Omnishambles really was used to early on them.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 4h

Liberal Democrat Ed Davey says the Conservatives and Reform have a message on energy bills that is "simple, beguiling and terribly, terribly wrong"

Calls for the sector to take on their "lies" and says "the Farage/Badenoch plan would fail".

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 4h

Not to mention that the boss of one of the companies paid himself a big enough bonus a few years back to personally add about £5k to every home they built.

Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 9h

There are four or five great tits on our pear tree just kicking the shit out of each other.

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 11h

Journalism that dares not name fascism, that dares not call out as wholly dangerous and illegitimate the anti-science, anti-rule of law policies and politics of one side, in the name of supposed 'balance', is the custodian of democratic rot.

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 11h

In the Parsifal myth, nobody in the court of the ailing king, in the ailing land, dares name the festering wound in the royal groin. The generative organ is rotting. It takes Parsifal openly naming the wound, calling it what it is, for the spell to be broken, for healing to begin.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 10h

Yesterday, many Palestinians (some children under the age of 18) who had been held without charge & denied their basic rights by the Israeli government were finally released

But thousands more remain in arbitrary detention under appalling conditions and must not be forgotten

Screenshot of an article about the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, with the full article linked in subsequent post

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 10h

England's Community Right to Buy must enable communities to own environmental assets.

Excellent to see this cross-party amendment to the English Devolution Bill tabled by @vikkislademp.bsky.social @simonforstroud.bsky.social @sianberry.bsky.social:

publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 11h

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 11h

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

Robinson says Musk is paying his legal costs in counterterrorism trial

Far-right activist accused of refusing to give his mobile phone pin to police

www.ft.com

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 10h

Obviously traumatic for the towns and people in question, but while frightening it also offers up the possibility to create something wonderful for the future by allowing some areas of land to flood - to allow the water and the wildness back into our lives and create new areas for nature.

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 11h

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

- Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 10h

It's an attitude I have encountered throughout my life in green politics, both in Ireland where I grew up and elsewhere. Particularly common in old left who are suspicious of environmentalism as a middle class thing. I'm not making a comment on the specific politicians in Ireland (or anywhere else).

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

Reform UK want to take public spending down to 35% of GDP — that’s a £275 billion cut, the equivalent of shutting down the NHS.

The Green Party knows the only way to rebuild our communities is by investing in our public services, not running them down and flogging them off to the private sector.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 10h

This is the problem with the romanticisation of 'community'....

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Philip Amies @amiesphilip.bsky.social · 11h

Skimmington or "rough music" was a custom in Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire,

It represented community disapproval.

Mllborne Port, 1890s, cause windows left open for ventilation in bedroom of small children.

This is a clear example of how varied the cause could be.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 11h

Agree to a point, but it does depend on if one sees the environment as about access to resources and ecosystem services, or if has a value of its own.. there is an element of the Left which seems very happy to destroy the environment as long as everyone has an equal share of the ashes.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 11h

Ill-judged cuts like this fuel inequality and populism - which in turn fuels the rise of fascism, and ironically given it is the exact opposite of what is needed, further cuts to energy security and net zero.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 11h

For anyone who think this is unfair, this is a graph of the insulation rates after Cameron had that moment when he'd look tough by going after the 'green crap'. Genuinely a huge strategic error which has led to far higher bills and reliance on international gas markets (e.g. Russia).

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 12h

Tory insulation mess-up latest. Luckily the scheme was such a monumental failure that only 23,000 homes need repair, despite that being 98% of those installed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds

Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

So it now appears the woman Farage and Gill were so close to has a direct link not only to Putin’s “Man in Ukraine” Medvedchuk, but his predecessor as President, Medvedev

These are top Russian agents.

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