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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 6m

#FreeThePress

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 11m

SPECIAL REPORT 🚨 The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s most influential non-politician

✏️ @jamesrball.com
🔗 Read report: buff.ly/abyD6hO

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 7m

Doing my best to do so. 😏Have managed to get info re my house out to millions over the years. 🌄

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 47m

lol now that is a reply I do not normally get on twitter nowadays! Thanks

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 48m

Hey @thesolarshed.bsky.social thanks for your help. So far, so good. Zero imports since Feb 15th!
But now comes the testing 4 darkest months, with highest consumption...

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 50m

8mths since start of my north facing roof & south facing wall solar expansion experiment
Zero import from grid
Best south wall panel: 222kwh
Best north facing panel: 254kwh
Consumption 700kwh. Saved £168
Exports 4400kwh. Total prod 5370 kwh Earned £660
Now comes testing darkest 4months of year!

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1h

My climate media work requires me to know what the current right wing attacks on climate and nature are, so I can refute them factually.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 1d

"How to Stand Up to a Dictator" author @mariaressa.bsky.social explains how social media companies used the Philippines as a testing ground for mass manipulation before employing their tactics in the U.S.

via @thedailyshow.com

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1h

Far right billionaire captured media car-centric propaganda

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1h

Another great statistic is we have reduced UK electricity grid fossil fuel import dependence from 54% to 25%, thus cutting fossil gas imports last year by £7 billion!!

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 1h

This from the International Renewable Energy Agency is pretty mindblowing compared to a decade ago

www.irena.org/-/media/File...

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1h

Good news!
IEA report says UK green electricity slashes % of UK electricity dependent on fossil fuel imports from 60% to just 25%!💚
UK saved over £7b in fossil fuel imports last year alone!💚
100 nations globally slashed fossil fuel imports for electricity grid! 💚
cleantechnica.com/2025/10/10/i...

IEA Report Claims Fossil Fuel Imports Have Declined In More Than 100 Countries - CleanTechnica

The IEA annual report on renewables finds that transitioning to renewable energy promotes energy security and saves billions of dollars.

cleantechnica.com

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1h

My twitter feed has turned 99% far-right since so called zionist genocide "ceasefire" was announced...
🙈🤷
#FreeThePress
#BanBillionairePropagandaMedia

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 3h

The cab industry & billionaire captured media opposition.
@stopkillingcycl.bsky.social

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 3h

Zionist Starmer will do nothing, after his colonial zionist "allies" immediately break ceasefire agreement with Palestinian Resistance.

#PowerToThePeople @civilsocietyd.bsky.social · 4h

@ShaunKing
😡Israel is saying that because Hamas can't find the dead bodies of hostages buried beneath the rubble THEY CAUSED, they will not honor ceasefire deal.

Tens of thousands of bodies are buried beneath the rubble. Israel knows this. They caused it. On purpose.
lnkd.in/exPqbscA

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 8h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 14h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 3h

The zionist monsters will not stop until they kill or deport every Palestinian from the river to the sea.
The West must stop collusion with the fascist racist apartheid colonial regime.
#FreeAllPalestine

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 14h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Ian Mackay @ianmackay.bsky.social · 13h

It's fucking nuts that after two years of committing a genocide, the rest of the world acts like it's normal that Israel is still able to exercise total control over Gaza. It's akin to the allies allowing the SS to carry on controlling Auschwitz in 1945.

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 3h

Good news!
IEA report says UK clean green electricity slashes % of UK electricity dependent on imports from 60% to just 25%!!💚
UK saved over £7billion in fossil fuel imports last year alone!💚
100 nations globally slashed fossil fuel imports for electricity grid! 💚
cleantechnica.com/2025/10/10/i...

IEA Report Claims Fossil Fuel Imports Have Declined In More Than 100 Countries - CleanTechnica

The IEA annual report on renewables finds that transitioning to renewable energy promotes energy security and saves billions of dollars.

cleantechnica.com

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 15h

Good. But should be bye election when anybody defects..

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 15h

Christian fascism has attacked freedom for centuries, leaving millions dead in its blood drenched wake....

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 19h

MJT seems to have had extraordinary Damascene conversion on a number of issues... Palestine, healthcare, govt shutdown, Trump !!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

“I don’t think those people are being served”

ICYMI — Marge says Trump is only serving his rich donors not regular folks, and his trade war is hurting American businesses.

(Spoiler: she is right)

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 1d

Human resilience? !
Surely human barbarity?

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 2d

My work often involves responding to right wing environmental talking points, hence I retain an a/c.
But since ceasefire, reckon either £millions spent promoting far RW/Zionist talking points or Musk's is hammering the algorithms.

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 2d

It's time we started treating this as an emergency, and mobilised on a wartime scale 👇

National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 2d

Experts warn of food shortages and civil unrest. Yet nearly half of Brits think climate change won’t affect them.

This gulf in perception is why we’re staging the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis.

Has your MP confirmed they’ll be there? 👇
www.nebriefing.org

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

www.nebriefing.org

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