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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 1d

I've no time for a bigot who specifically covets stately homes encrusted with lavish internal plasterwork funded by the Atlantic Slave Trade.

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 1d

After years of Tory abuses, this new Gov "tool" coupled with major ethical betrayals by senior Labour Party politicians, has left me feeling that I am far less politically empowered than my grandmother b 1900, whose first vote was allowed in 1928.

Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 1d

Ellison says it's about one AI system "understanding our country".

Post-Humanist Neoliberalism?

Worse than that. They are not talking about FTSE 100 corps, or even a panel of AIs, in cohorts with our "democracy", but ONE AMERICAN TECH BILLIONAIRE's coding decisions rationalising our lives.

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 1d

Is this just about Criminal Justice and Prison Reform?

The infection of US Tech Billionaire ideology is rampant.

See Tony Blair (Institute) financed by Larry Ellison (Oracle) and their overt "AI" plans for our personal NHS data.

Via Novara Media

share.google/91OqcjZF8BLr...

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 1d

I'm not sure any of us asked for American tech giant billionaires to advise, voluntarily...?

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 2d

Just over 100 years later, A PANEL OF BILLIONAIRE AMERICAN TECH AND AI GIANTS is today's idea of "structural reform"; Neoliberal transfer of public funds towards private capital for the sake of expediency and GDP Growth.

Progress?

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

And we think

Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood told companies she wanted ‘deeper collaboration’ to tackle prisons crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 2d

Emerging from the Victorian rise of the so-called "self-made" individual from existing positions of privilege (Salt was himself an Etonian), the HL sought to shift culture towards equitable "sympathy" for ALL (today, call it compassion), reflected in structural reforms.

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 2d

The Humanitarian League called for deep and searching questions to be asked of society as to the causes of crime, rather than inflicting savage cruelty and repeated traumas to those already disadvantaged.

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 2d

Salt and friends such as legislators and judges assembled to his "Humanitarian League" campaigned for urgent prison reform, a change in criminal law and penal codes, leading to the establishment of the Court of Appeal and an end to "flogging."

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 2d

Caring about the planet and all species means the inclusion of the care for people.

Early 20thC humanists like the prolific writer and campaigner Henry S Salt recognised the importance of this connection.

He was an ethicist, vegetarian, and pacifist. Today, he would also be an "ecosocialist".

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · Jul 28

Despite almost zero visibility on Bluesky, why am I re-posting?

Because no matter how unpopular, boring, or "academic" it sounds, the value of co-operation, (particularly in American culture, which is where the British are increasingly pointed), is falsely "trumped" by competition.

Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · Jul 24

Meanwhile, back at the ranch... #BeingHuman

My first, and probably only, comment on YouTube.
Whistling into the vast, empty winds of

#SocialMedia

A long comment describing cooperation as the major factor in human evolutionary success, and criticising the use of De Courbertain's modern Olympics as an icon of human "nature" being biologically competitive to the extreme.

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 9d

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This week, white, chemically floral-smelling foam has been gushing from the Severn Trent treatment works outflow into the River Teme, south of Ludlow.

Although the EU helped to reduce phosphates in detergents, increased sales and increased "concentration" of product have increased.

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 9d

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Bacterial removal of phosphates in sewage is only around 20% successful in older treatment works, whilst newer technologies cannot remove beyond 80-90%.

A complete ban on phosphates in detergents and surfactants is necessary.

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · Jan 6

#Fluminism #Symbioethics #SymialRelatedness #SpeciesPorosity #exogenous #GeneticTransfer #Flow #Nagorasphere

Oliver Meacock @olimeacock.bsky.social · Jan 2

Our framework explaining why ecological interactions change between contexts is out in Ecology Letters!
A lovely collaboration with @saramitri.bsky.social which provides experimentally-testable links between the physiology and ecology of microbes.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Environment‐Organism Feedbacks Drive Changes in Ecological Interactions

Ecological interactions are central to our understanding of the composition and function of communities, but attempts to use them as a theoretical foundation for experimental ecology have been confou....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 18d

If a Hesgeth military does not adhere to the Geneva Convention & many other progressive UN Treaties, then it should expect no decency in return. Those conventions are written in blood to protect life, including civilians.

I worry for all our children, including American children.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 18d

I'm, honestly, speechless at any role Tony Blair is expecting to play.

Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 18d

For European leadership/UK Labour Gov to back Trump's attempt at a fait accompli against traumatised, grieving Palestinian people would be the third abject moral failure in as many years (after complicit inaction to stop Netanyahu's genocide and ecocide).

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 18d

"Israel does not recognize the PA’s signed trade agreements with the European Union, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), Canada, and Türkiye, which therefore cannot be implemented; however, the West Bank and Gaza remain eligible for the benefits of the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement."

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 18d

Furthermore President von der Leyen, the US Government's latest "investment" update on their website states that Europe's free trade deal with the PA is now dead in the water...

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 18d

Is Europe supportive? This is an utterly contemptible move by Trump to get "private" investors to undemocratically move in on Gaza "Riviera" before the bodies of all the dead children are cold and the forensic teams are done with one of the largest crime scenes in living memory (bombs per capita).

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 18d

The BBC are clearly not in the business of airing any valid post-colonial commentary or criticisms of the extreme capitalist charge on vulnerable Palestinians being made under the guise of "peace".

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 18d

BBC's Tom Bateman says Trump's plan is a "significant step" in diplomacy, but in diplomatic style, Bateman doesn't articulate the ethical direction of that step.

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 18d

Thank you. :)

Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 19d

Would creative ecolinguistics (neologisms) be of interest?

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Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com · 19d

...God forbid in case they have ANY influence on mainstream culture and the meaning of "progress".

#DeepInequity #ParadigmOfDistraction #Influence #culture #LabourParty #Starmer #SocialContractIsBroken

Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 20d

Gov to reintroduce maintenance grants for some poorer students, but not if they want to study the arts and social sciences!

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