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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 11h

Data centers are "shaping up to be the mother of all political issues...pretty much everyone pays electric rates, & under Trump they’re starting to skyrocket...he’s simultaneously accelerating demand w/ his support for data center buildout, & constricting supply by shutting down cheap solar & wind."

Hey Grok, What's a Waste of Energy?

AI amidst the climate emergency

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 12h

🌱 #PlantBased food isn’t a limitation or a punishment - it’s a ✨PROGRESSIVE CHOICE✨that is better for animals, the planet & our health. It’s about making a conscious decision to start treating all species w the respect they deserve, and by extension creating a more just world for all ⚖️

veganstreet meme

Pictures of a salad, a milkshake, a loaded cheeseburger & chick’n strips, labeled: this is vegan 🥗 So is this 🍔🍦

Below is black figures of a cow, duck, turkey, chicken, pig, with: ‘vegans just don’t use these as ingredients’ printed over top of them

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Ben Vost ❤🇺🇦🇵🇸 @beevee23.bsky.social · 9h

That looks delicious. I had beans on toast this evening - I make a bean stew with kidney beans and haricots blancs on a base of onion and garlic with a birdseye chilli chopped finely into it. I don't rinse the beans and it cooks for an hour. I had that on toasted fruit and nut bread - yum!

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Yellow Dot Studios @weareyellowdot.bsky.social · 10h

The Trump administration is intentionally increasing your energy bills to pay back fossil fuel campaign donors.

@whitehouse.senate.gov exposes this corruption in a must-watch speech on the Senate floor.

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Ben Vost ❤🇺🇦🇵🇸 @beevee23.bsky.social · 17h

I know it works well in China, but they need the network of battery charging stations for it work here in Europe

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Ben Vost ❤🇺🇦🇵🇸 @beevee23.bsky.social · 20h

#TaxWealthNotWork

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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Hatstand @hatstand.bsky.social · 22h

youtube.com/watch?v=zdWr... This is an important video!

ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Debbie Tann MBE @debbietann.bsky.social · 21h

We are being sold a false story that nature is the enemy. That newts, bats, snails and spiders are somehow responsible for the so-called housing crisis and a blocker to economic growth. This is a deliberate lie - using a cynically chosen group of species that could be found in a witches cauldron.

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Ben Vost ❤🇺🇦🇵🇸 @beevee23.bsky.social · 21h

I wonder if their European cars have the battery swapping feature? I think a Nio Firefly with that would be a huge seller

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Ben Vost ❤🇺🇦🇵🇸 @beevee23.bsky.social · 21h

We finally have Pithon! www.python.org/downloads/re...

Python Release Python 3.14.0

The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Henry Edwards 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🔵 @henryedwards3.bsky.social · 1d

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · Jul 10

"People are allowed to come here and claim asylum."

@carolinelucas.bsky.social challenges Tim Montgomerie's irresponsible language on BBC Newsnight.

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Ben Vost ❤🇺🇦🇵🇸 @beevee23.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 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: 38d.gs/rezg

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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Ben Vost ❤🇺🇦🇵🇸 @beevee23.bsky.social · 2d

Haha, at trump and his carbon cronies. #Coal is dying and #Solar is winning. (Thanks to @wedonthavetime.bsky.social for the image)

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Ben Vost ❤🇺🇦🇵🇸 @beevee23.bsky.social · 2d

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

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Ben Vost ❤🇺🇦🇵🇸 @beevee23.bsky.social · 3d

This is to distract from Epstein

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DemCastDonGA @donshantajr.bsky.social · 4d

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

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MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Ben Vost ❤🇺🇦🇵🇸 @beevee23.bsky.social · 3d

I forgot the pic!

Ben Vost ❤🇺🇦🇵🇸 @beevee23.bsky.social · 3d

#vegan gochujang fruit and nut flapjacks - I think they'll be better than the cookies - less sugar, more fibre

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 3d

Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

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Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe

Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’

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NevereverDave.bsky.social @nevereverdave.bsky.social · 5d

The British by Poet Mr #BenjaminZephaniah

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English Poets

The British by Benjamin Zephaniah

"Take some Picts, Celts and Silures And let them settle, Then overrun them with Roman conquerors.

Remove the Romans after approximately 400 years Add lots of Norman French to some Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings, then stir vigorously.

Mix some hot Chileans, cool Jamaicans, Dominicans, Trinidadians and Bajans with some Ethiopians, Chinese, Vietnamese and Sudanese.

Then take a blend of Somalians, Sri Lankans, Nigerians And Pakistanis, Combine with some Guyanese And turn up the heat.

Sprinkle some fresh Indians, Malaysians, Bosnians, Iraqis and Bangladeshis together with some Afghans, Spanish, Turkish, Kurdish, Japanese And Palestinians Then add to the melting pot.

Leave the ingredients to simmer.

As they mix and blend allow their languages to flourish Binding them together with English.

Allow time to be cool.

Add some unity, understanding, and respect for the future, Serve with justice And enjoy.

Note: All the ingredients are equally important. Treating one ingredient better than another will leave a bitter unpleasant taste.

Warning: An unequal spread of justice will damage the people and cause pain. Give justice and equality to all."

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Ben Vost ❤🇺🇦🇵🇸 @beevee23.bsky.social · 4d

🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs
agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne

Signez la pétition maintenant !

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Ben Vost ❤🇺🇦🇵🇸 @beevee23.bsky.social · 4d

Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as French prime minister
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... - will he last as long as a mayfly?

Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as French prime minister

Lecornu, who resigned as PM on Monday, is tasked with urgently delivering a budget to parliament

www.theguardian.com

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 4d

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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