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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 1d

Dear friends, please read this. 😔

We owe it to our one and only living planet, not to turn away. To be uninformed is to be powerless indeed. We have to face reality, no matter how painful, to have ANY hope at all of driving the positive change we need.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

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

www.theguardian.com

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 1d

yeehaw!

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Robert Parsonage steps down as Cornwall Council leader of Reform UK. days after deputy leader quit the party to sit as an independent.

And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust, yeah. ~AA

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cornwall Council Reform UK group leader stands down from role

Rob Parsonage has stepped down from his role in charge of the Reform UK group on the authority.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Now boasting about giving "Bibi" all the "best weapons" the US had .... and gets a standing ovation.

That's a standing ovation for the murder of tens of thousands of innocent people and Gaza reduced to rubble and a living hell.

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 1d

Well. Tbh, that just doesn't work without addressing the source of the problems we face, ie. unbridled, runaway juggernaut extractive capitalism, which is being given even more power by the world's govt's, with a very few exceptions. We are way past individual sacrifices making a difference.

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 1d

Dear friends, please read this. 😔

We owe it to our one and only living planet, not to turn away. To be uninformed is to be powerless indeed. We have to face reality, no matter how painful, to have ANY hope at all of driving the positive change we need.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

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

www.theguardian.com

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 2d

good on you too! ♥️

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

Please, let the cease fire hold, and become a true peace 🕊️ I do not feel very optimistic, but not to hope would be to give evil total power over my mind.

Millions, billions, even, of us, all over the world, praying for Gaza, for Palestine, for peace ♥️ 🇪🇭

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5d

After pointing out that she's an immigrant Joanna Lumley asks why we don't fix the problems that create asylum seekers and address climate change

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

Ditto! ♥️

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

Well, I'm pretty sure that would be the case. As with most of the other world leaders and bigwigs. It's an environmental nightmare.

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

Hello! I'm not on a huge amount these days.... I try to consume less news, but right now it's impossible. It's way too 'end of days' out there. Makes Brexit feel like a picnic, tbh. In my whole life, I've never experienced anything like what we're living through. It's really frightening, isn't it

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

What? Brit here. Oh my god. 🔥

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4d

This is a big deal.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 4d

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

techcrunch.com

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

Good to know. The ones in my family aren't, unfortunately.

Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

Squeak eek... um... oh all right then. Etc.

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

Well, from what I read so far, too many are now going in the opposite direction, encouraged by Trump. And emissions weren't going down anyway... still on the same trajectory as we were before renewables set in. We just use more and more energy in total. It's not looking good.

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

Hi Jan. Have you seen that the Govt seem to have supressed an important report by UK defense chiefs (JIT) into the impact of climate change on UK security? (Including food/economic security.) Just a little way down my feed - piece from the Guardian, is worth a read.

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

Prince William attending Cop30 is A. Very. Good. Thing. It's likely that him going will persuade Keir Starmer, who is reportedly wavering, to do the same. If this Cop fails, as is all too likely, humanity will fail with it ☠️

It's crucial world leaders attend.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Prince William to attend Cop30 UN climate summit in Brazil

Prince of Wales’s decision welcomed as a means of drawing attention to the event and galvanising talks

www.theguardian.com

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

So poignant, watching them walk north, in hope... so hard for them, the not knowing whether it will stick. They've been disappointed so many times...

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

Please, let the cease fire hold, and become a true peace 🕊️ I do not feel very optimistic, but not to hope would be to give evil total power over my mind.

Millions, billions, even, of us, all over the world, praying for Gaza, for Palestine, for peace ♥️ 🇪🇭

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 4d

And puts citizenry at more risk than we need to be.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 6d

Good call thanks

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