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epicurious.bsky.social @epicurious.bsky.social · 1h

The climate models will have to be adjusted and not in a positive way.
Collapse is happening now and happening fast and saying it isn’t doesn’t seem to be solving the problem.

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

www.theguardian.com

epicurious.bsky.social @epicurious.bsky.social · 2h

The farmers who lost their EU subsidies now have Reform banners in their fields. I despair.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.

Elon Musk does too.

Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.

There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.

One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,

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epicurious.bsky.social @epicurious.bsky.social · 2h

Farage appeared so often on Russia Today that he was included in their publicity material.
If you read Dugin, dating back to the 90s, Russian strategy was to split the UK from the EU. They just needed a useful idiot. Enter Farage.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 6h

"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister"
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...

Reform’s Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

'Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant'

leftfootforward.org

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 6h

He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you?

Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18

#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5h

When Baroness Mone of Mayfair gave her inaugural speech in the House of Lords - a chunk of it consisted of her quoting Whitney Houston's Greatest Love of all.

And you need to watch it.

Now.

youtu.be/Az2tbyySVAY?...

Mone quotes Whitney Houston in Lords speech

YouTube video by All Is Here

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3h

Caroline Lucas is wondering why Michelle Mone is still a member of the House of Lords

And most of us are wondering the same as well!

But if Mone is going to be removed from the Lords, there are others too who fail to meet the standard and should be removed as well

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3h

I notice all those brave journalists, Guido alumni, and Tory hacks, who manufactured a scandal - a dangerous one to national security, at that - out of gossip, supposition, and sticky tape, have gone ALL QUIET now the witness statements have been released and are exactly as the PM detailed at PMQs.

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Ternfortheworse @ternfortheworse.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t like Starmer much, but they’re nuts if they think he’s going to do unethical shit. He’s far too much of a Boy Scout.

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epicurious.bsky.social @epicurious.bsky.social · 2h

They are awful now. No spine.

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epicurious.bsky.social @epicurious.bsky.social · 16h

As every toddler knows, you push those boundaries until the consequences are sufficiently negative to make further pushing unproductive. NATO needs to implement an effective naughty step.

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 17h

🇱🇹 Russia is constantly creating strategic dilemmas for NATO. Are we finally ready to create strategic dilemmas for Russia? - Lithuanian Defense Minister.

🗣️ "So until Russia feels that it is suffering consequences for its aggressive war, until then everything else is just talk."

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17h

Do listen in. It became quite, ahem, heated.

The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 17h

NEW EPISODE: Will we survive climate change?

Join our expert panellists as they answer your questions about curbing rising global temperatures and what life could be like in a warmer world.

Listen on your favourite podcast platform: www.lnk.to/AQOSClimateBB

Panel of speakers with the title ‘Can We Survive Climate Change?’ from BBC Studios and The Francis Crick Institute.

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epicurious.bsky.social @epicurious.bsky.social · 17h

How telling that the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs stepped in to criticise Time’s image choice.

“Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and hatred –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo”, Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram.

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epicurious.bsky.social @epicurious.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has made clear any US economic assistance depends on whether right-wing President Milei and his party continue governing Argentina.
Apparently Trump is now king of everywhere.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE bought $2B of Trump’s crypto — and gets computer chips

Saudi Arabia gave Kushner $2B for a new Trump Tower — and gets weapons

Qatar gives Trump a private jet and a $5.5B real estate deal — and gets US military protection

This is how bribes work.
popular.info/p/quid-pro-p...

Quid Pro Presidency

Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits fro...

popular.info

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Author is a "senior policy researcher" at The Prosperity Institute, which used to be known as the Legatum Institute

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

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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epicurious.bsky.social @epicurious.bsky.social · 1d

The Tories set up yet another scheme to benefit dodgy business owners whilst ripping off bill payers. And of course Johnson’s certified trader scheme isn’t worth the paper it was printed on.
The shadow of these incompetents is very very long.

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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epicurious.bsky.social @epicurious.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, how quickly they forget!

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epicurious.bsky.social @epicurious.bsky.social · 1d

And that’s the problem, isn’t it? Like Trump, Farage invents fantasy problems and then fantasy solutions that only he can deliver.
I don’t know how we ever get out of this ridiculous state of affairs

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Michael @gillymg.bsky.social · 1d

Like spend,spend, spend, scrap the full funding rule so the bond markets don’t ’spook’ and start investing. Double all council budgets as a start, with consequentials given to devolved parliaments for their councils. Make a difference locally, start there. www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...

Why the British state is a magic money tree

Government spending power is limited not by tax revenues or borrowing, but by the productive capacity of the UK economy and political will.

www.newstatesman.com

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting that Stamp Duty is specifically in here, when we know from experience that any reduction of stamp duty immediately increases house prices by the same amount.

Removing stamp duty moves money from the Treasury directly into pockets of large home sellers.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Faintly amusing that the IFS' argument to Reeves on tax reform is basically: You're fucked either way, so you might as well do something decent for the country while you're taking all this pain www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...

UK's Reeves should use budget to reform tax system, IFS says

British finance minister Rachel Reeves should use her budget in November to carry out a long overdue reform of the taxation system which could help her to raise more revenue while limiting the hit to the economy, a think tank said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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epicurious.bsky.social @epicurious.bsky.social · 1d

Where was Musk when his new buddy was convicted of kicking a policeman in the head, possession of cocaine with intent to supply, or…. entering the US illegally?

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

To all you patriots (and UK authorities)

Is this not political interference of the most egregious and socially divisive kind?

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epicurious.bsky.social @epicurious.bsky.social · 1d

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