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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 40m

We have a chancellor who is both ignorant and stupid

And already hugely impoverished UK nature will suffer as a consequence

Despicable

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nature groups rebuke Reeves for ‘cynical’ 11th-hour planning bill changes

Chancellor accused of removing environmental protections to win short-term growth and save her budget

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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 39m

19 New GOP House Seats: Supreme Court Case Could Gut Voting Rights Act, Cement One-Party Control — Black Voters Matter blackvotersmatterfund.org/19-new-gop-h...

19 New GOP House Seats: Supreme Court Case Could Gut Voting Rights Act, Cement One-Party Control — Black Voters Matter

Atlanta — Fair Fight Action and Black Voters Matter Fund today released a new report detailing the stakes of Louisiana v. Callais, a case the U.S. Supreme Court will rehear on October 15 that centers ...

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Fonsi Loaiza @fonsiloaizap.bsky.social · 32m

Violencia policial hoy contra los manifestantes en solidaridad con Palestina en las inmediaciones del Roig Arena en Valencia en el boicot al partido contra el Hapoel Tel Aviv.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 31m

Right, that's Stormont sorted 😄

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

My Mom came home yesterday for Hospice comfort care. She’s on oral morphine every hour.

I’m am scared & furious because I am almost out of morphine & her Doc & nurses are busy looking for more. Not one pharmacy in my town has any right now & they don’t know when they will be getting more in.

The DEA’s 2025 quotas for opioids will leave seriously ill patients in pain

Palliative care physician Rebecca Rodin writes that DEA opioid medication production limits — which are set to be even lower in 2025 — don’t address the opioid crisis. They just leave her patients in ...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27m

Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.

The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.

The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.

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🏴𝐉𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐛Ⓐ 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐧Ⓐ🏴 @casvifactory.bsky.social · 27m

𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐃𝐄 𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐀

Ikasle Abertzaleak (IA) organización estudiantil del Movimiento Socialista, hoy, 15 de octubre, se movilizan con el objetivo de apoyar a la resistencia palestina y por la disolución del Estado de Israel

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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 7d

Suriname steps up and wants to protect 90% of its #forests reports the @rainforetrust.bsky.social 🌍

#30x30 #Rewilding #HalfEarth #TropicalForests

www.rainforesttrust.org/our-impact/r...

Suriname pledges to permanently protect 90% of its forests, far exceeding the 30x30 global goal for climate and biodiversity protection – Rainforest Trust

Suriname pledges to permanently protect 90% of its forests, a significant commitment for global climate action and biodiversity.

www.rainforesttrust.org

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ie-nb.bsky.social @ie-nb.bsky.social · 2d

Beavers, pigs and ponies to rewild 600-acre site in landmark scheme

https://www.newsbeep.com/ie/78137/

A pioneering rewilding initiative in Lincolnshire is poised to transform more than 600 hectares of former agricultural land,…

Beavers, pigs and ponies to rewild 600-acre site in landmark scheme - Ireland News Beep

A pioneering rewilding initiative in Lincolnshire is poised to transform more than 600 hectares of former agricultural land, utilising beavers, pigs, cattle,

www.newsbeep.com

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 23m

The government says it is “driving forward private finance efforts for Gaza's reconstruction.”

As if enabling a genocide wasn't enough. Now, they are allowing private companies to make some money out of it as well.

Have they no shame?

www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...

'No shame': UK invites private firms to compete for Gaza reconstruction contracts

As Britain positions itself as key player in the rebuilding of territory devastated by Israel's genocide, MPs point to its role in its destruction

www.middleeasteye.net

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 22m

"Developers of Rosebank oil field said nearly 250 million tonnes of [CO2] would be released from using oil products from the field"

"developer said emissions were "not significant" considering the UK's international climate commitments"

Bollox

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

Controversial UK oil field reveals climate impact if approved

The impact from the Rosebank oil field is estimated at nearly 250 million tonnes of planet warming CO2.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 22m

NSPM-7 watch: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday that Charlie Kirk's death was a "domestic 9/11" and that he's undertaking a commensurate response at home. Treasury is "compiling lists" and looking at funding streams, he said.

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Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...

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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 21m

@thegodpodcast.com

Have you smited the MAGAts?

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 2h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 16m

Trump wants to DOUBLE Argentina's bailout to $40 billion to save his political ally.

Yet he is doing nothing to prevent 15 million Americans from losing their health care and 20 million from seeing a doubling in their premiums.

Is this what Trump means by America first?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13m

It's all global oil combustion emissions SINCE NINETEEN EIGHTY FREAKING TWO

(and nearly 70% of all global CO2 oil combustion emissions SINCE FOREVER)

a chart showing global oil combustion emissions

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16m

It's the equivalent of the total historical emissions from the United States for all time, and about double the historical emissions of China

a chart showing cumulative emissions by country

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20m

It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread.

As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT

archive.ph/grTVe

How AI can unlock an extra trillion barrels of oil
And deliver the volumes needed to meet resilient demand
15 October 2025 3 minute read
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Simon Flowers
Chairman, Chief Analyst and author of The Edge

Andrew Latham
Senior Vice President, Energy Research

Orla Marnell
Principal Data Scientist, Upstream

Josh Dixon
Senior Research Analyst, Upstream
Stronger-for-longer oil demand will heap pressure on the upstream industry to deliver new supply. I asked our subsurface experts, Dr Andrew Latham, Orla Marnell and Josh Dixon how artificial intelligence can identify opportunities to meet the challenge.
Why do we need to unlock new supply?
The slow pace of the energy transition means that oil demand is likely to be far more resilient than some thought just a few years ago. Wood Mackenzie forecasts annual consumption won’t peak until the early to mid-2030s, and cumulative demand will be almost 1,000 billion barrels through 2050.
Firm demand throws the spotlight onto where new supply can be sourced. Production from assets already onstream or justified for development will gradually decline under current investment plans from just over 100 million b/d today to 50 million b/d 2050, cumulatively 650 billion barrels. That leaves a huge supply gap of 300 million barrels.

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Mike Benson @mbensonster.bsky.social · 8m

Oh, I see, you're CIA, the only real drug cartel.

Mike Benson @mbensonster.bsky.social · 9m

The US has the balls to call Maduro authoritarian?

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 11m

New research carried out in Colombia by the University of Cambridge suggests that local surveys assessing the effect of land clearances on biodiversity may be underestimating the impact by as much as 60%.

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study

A survey of Colombian birdlife, which evolved over more than a decade into the world’s largest-ever ornithological study, has found that clearing forests to create new pastures is causing as much as…

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Mike Benson @mbensonster.bsky.social · 28m

Mehdi Connects the Dots Between ICE and Gaza
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Mehdi Connects the Dots Between ICE and Gaza

In an unfiltered rant, Mehdi breaks down what the Gaza ceasefire deal really means, calls out the ‘dumbness’ of our fascistic leaders, and unpacks the shared US-Israeli playbook for state violence.

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🏴𝐉𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐛Ⓐ 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐧Ⓐ🏴 @casvifactory.bsky.social · 1h

𝐒𝐞𝐠ú𝐧 𝐞𝐥 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬...

EEUU está estrechamente involucrado en los ataques ucranianos contra la red energética y la infraestructura de gas de Rusia, en un esfuerzo por “debilitar la economía de Putin y llevarlo a la mesa de negociaciones”

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Canal Red @canalredtv.bsky.social · 1h

"Israel y Trump están reconociendo que tienen niños palestinos secuestrados y que los liberarán solo y cuando la resistencia palestina libere a soldados prisioneros"

Daniel Lobato sobre el 5º punto del plan 'de paz' de Donald Trump para Gaza 👇🏽

📺 LA BASE | youtu.be/oaDVRTb7ImI

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 4d

“Humans today are unable to imagine themselves or civilisation for that matter, without the expansionist structures of a society that has been built to exhaust, not sustain”
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Delusion Is The Ultimate Renewable Energy Source

When a species eliminates all its predators, it automatically becomes a planetary-level threat.

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 6d

“Capitalism is a trap that lured humans into believing they had created a stable world. Indeed, an economy where everyone exploits everyone else is surprisingly stable in the short term”
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