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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 20h

The West is going to suffer terrible consequences from Israel's genocide.

New column 👇

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Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home | Owen Jones

History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised now, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 3h

UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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

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Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition @brumcjc.bsky.social · 13h

Academic axed from Labour conference panel for criticising energy policy

Sustainability expert was told panellists discussing North Sea oil and gas were meant to ‘agree entirely’ with each other

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Andy_Bilson @bilson.org.uk · 5d

Please sign this petition to protect our national parks from changes to the planning laws being debated by government ministers
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Sign the petition: Save our National Parks

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

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Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition @brumcjc.bsky.social · 22h

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Craigie 🇵🇸 🚩☮️🔻Proudly Un-British @craigsmive.bsky.social · 1d

More than half a million march for the freedom of the Palestinian people.

Fuck Starmer
Fuck Trump
Fuck Netanyahu
Fuck Blair

Fuck the fascists
Fuck the racists
Fuck the billionaires

There are more of us than there is of you!

#FreePalestine

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Over 500,000 march in London to protest two years of genocide in Gaza

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

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Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition @brumcjc.bsky.social · 1d

Microplastics are brought into the wilderness on hiking shoes and gear, study shows

Research comparing Adirondack mountain lakes in New York suggests foot traffic is significant source of pollution

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 1d

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2d

I stand with Salman Mirza.

Birmingham man takes down flags because he says 'people feel unwelcome'

Salman Mirza says he wants to

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Rajesh Thind @rajeshthind.bsky.social · 2d

The Undercover Policing Inquiry returns today, 13th Oct 10am, starting with 3 days of opening statements, online only. This will be 3rd Tranche of hearings, which will look at deployments of Special Demonstration Squad officers from 1993 until that unit was closed in 2007 youtube.com/@undercoverp...

Undercover Policing Inquiry

The Official YouTube account of the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Please email [email protected] to contact the Inquiry.

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Waistcoat Dave @waistcoatdave.bsky.social · 2d

Signed this today to call out @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social & set out my pride in the city I've called home for 8 years.

Kings Heath United Against Racism @khuar.bsky.social · 2d

Do you live in Birmingham? Have you signed the Brum Together statement yet?

#BrumTogether #RefugeesWelcome #StopTheFarRight #StandUpToRacism #Pride #Unity #Grassroots #RaiseTheLove

Add your name here:
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Brum Together

We are proud to live in Birmingham, a city built by many cultures, stories and traditions. Our diversity is our strength, and that’s what makes this place home. There is nothing wrong with people f...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

this is a great piece and it absolutely sucks that the outlet went for the ambiguous headline rather.

The idea that you can remain on X and "influence opinion" is equally true for creating a new Stormfront account, or a 4Chan account, or a TruthSocial account.

Our job is to kills its influence.

Did the centre-left bit of UK politics Twitter make an error in decamping en masse to I Can’t Believe It’s Not Twitter? The old site, now remade as X, remains significantly larger than the new, and much of the political class have failed to make the jump. Did those of us who went let our desire for a comforting liberal bubble undermine our actual influence?

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

The story of social media in the last few years is not one of a self-righteous liberal flounce, but of fragmentation: network effects are a thing, and if most of the people you like to talk to switch platforms, there feels little point in remaining behind. If we have lost influence, that’s at least partly down to the government’s reluctance to use its convening power to reshape the information environment, and its odd commitment to a site owned by someone who wants Keir Starmer in prison.

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 2d

Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

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Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition @brumcjc.bsky.social · 2d

“In 1995, global C02 emissions stood at 23.5bn tonnes; 30 years later, the level has reached a new record of 38bn tonnes. [In 1995], 85% of total energy consumption came from oil, gas and coal. Today, that has only dropped to 80%.”

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 2d

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-idf...

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

Pushing for a cease fire so you can look good in a genocide you specifically enabled, at the same time as you’re assaulting your own democracy & waging war on your own cities, is never going to get you a prize for peace. If there’s a prize for hypocrisy and narcissism though, you’ve got a real shot.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d

“Only with a combination of decisive policy & civil society action can the world tip its trajectory from facing existential Earth system tipping point risks to seizing positive tipping point opportunities.” - Prof. Tim Lenton, @gsiexeter.bsky.social

#ClimateEmergency

‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point

Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs under way, as world reaches first tipping point With global warming set to breach 1.5°C, world dangerously close to further catastrophic tipping points T...

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Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition @brumcjc.bsky.social · 2d

“In 1995, global C02 emissions stood at 23.5bn tonnes; 30 years later, the level has reached a new record of 38bn tonnes. [In 1995], 85% of total energy consumption came from oil, gas and coal. Today, that has only dropped to 80%.”

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Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition @brumcjc.bsky.social · 2d

“In 1995, Angela Merkel, then the German environment minister, opened the first Cop in Berlin, saying that global warming was “the greatest political challenge”. And yet, after 30 Cops and 30 years, the numbers seem to suggest that decades of “words” have produced only more hot air.”

Trump calls climate science a ‘con job’. That could make tackling the crisis a whole lot easier | Francesco Grillo

Europe and Brazil have a rare opportunity, unimpeded by the US, to make a success of Cop30 – and reshape the world order, says Francesco Grillo of the European University Institute, Florence

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Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition @brumcjc.bsky.social · 2d

we have already passed the 1.4C mark (not 2.4C mark)

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 2d

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 2d

100,000 members for the first time ever!
Come and join a winning team! - join.greenparty.org.uk

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 2d

Birmingham unites against the far right and racism.
Brum Greens joins them to say: no place for hate here.
#BrumUnited #NoPlaceForHate
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right

A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation

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National Education Union @neunion.bsky.social · 2d

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Jane Haynes @janerockhouse.bsky.social · 3d

Love this piece from my colleague @harryleach.bsky.social @birminghamlive.bsky.social from a visit to Stirchley which has been at the centre of flag debate - I asked people in Stirchley what they really think about the flags flying across Birmingham www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

I visited the flags 'front line' and asked people what they really thought

Some see pride, others see division - on Pershore Road opinions over the red and white flags couldn't be more different

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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