Ritch Tadman
@ambiental.bsky.social
Green Party EW member [Hyndburn]; left, pluralist and republican. Post-growth sustainability. Shy 4X gaymer - G with the T. Ambient/drone-lover. Courtyard gardener. Born at 324ppm CO₂. Married to @ds1618.bsky.social
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Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
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Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.
November 28, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.
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You gotta love this rehab project and the straw mat manufacturing. This is the definition of a green business.
www.copano.fr/chantiers-r%...
www.copano.fr/chantiers-r%...
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
You gotta love this rehab project and the straw mat manufacturing. This is the definition of a green business.
www.copano.fr/chantiers-r%...
www.copano.fr/chantiers-r%...
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No. No. A thousand times no. We honour the memory of the dead
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
No. No. A thousand times no. We honour the memory of the dead
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Catch me on BBC Newsnight at 10:30pm TONIGHT! 💚
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Catch me on BBC Newsnight at 10:30pm TONIGHT! 💚
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I notice that Labour MPs have been told to refer to themselves as “progressives” in any social media posts. Labour are clearly trying to row back from courting Reform and are very worried about the popularity of @ZackPolanski
and @TheGreenParty policies.
and @TheGreenParty policies.
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I notice that Labour MPs have been told to refer to themselves as “progressives” in any social media posts. Labour are clearly trying to row back from courting Reform and are very worried about the popularity of @ZackPolanski
and @TheGreenParty policies.
and @TheGreenParty policies.
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‘You should come back to Twitter instead of staying in a liberal echo chamber’
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
‘You should come back to Twitter instead of staying in a liberal echo chamber’
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Oh, we'll let voters down will we, Darren? More than your genocide-enabling, non-child-poverty-alleviating, non-wealth-taxing, protest-criminalising, authoritarian bunch of suitcase career politicians have?
Doubt it mate.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Doubt it mate.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Oh, we'll let voters down will we, Darren? More than your genocide-enabling, non-child-poverty-alleviating, non-wealth-taxing, protest-criminalising, authoritarian bunch of suitcase career politicians have?
Doubt it mate.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Doubt it mate.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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If we are willing to pay lots of money to have a super capable machine in our homes controlled by Elon Musk we actually don’t deserve to survive as a species.
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
If we are willing to pay lots of money to have a super capable machine in our homes controlled by Elon Musk we actually don’t deserve to survive as a species.
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You think it'd be in Zia Yusuf and Reform's interests to be a lot more convincing than this...
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
You think it'd be in Zia Yusuf and Reform's interests to be a lot more convincing than this...
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A good example of why we need more media able to scrutinise local government.
BREAKING: Councillor Pauline Giles, who @bylinetimes.bsky.social revealed had condemned "young black males" supposedly "flooding" Britain, has just resigned from the Conservative party
Follows more Qs from us to CCHQ today, and local media follow-up
Follows more Qs from us to CCHQ today, and local media follow-up
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A good example of why we need more media able to scrutinise local government.
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Absolute genius strategy. No way that could backfire…
Unless, say, the greens started polling ahead of Labour and became the new tactical vote against Reform.
But nah. Who could imagine that?!
Unless, say, the greens started polling ahead of Labour and became the new tactical vote against Reform.
But nah. Who could imagine that?!
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Absolute genius strategy. No way that could backfire…
Unless, say, the greens started polling ahead of Labour and became the new tactical vote against Reform.
But nah. Who could imagine that?!
Unless, say, the greens started polling ahead of Labour and became the new tactical vote against Reform.
But nah. Who could imagine that?!
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Incredibly hilarious that at the 11th hour, all of the worst guys imaginable (Trump, Elon, Stephen Miller) are all coming together to endorse Andrew Cuomo and 100% vindicating a line of attack Zohran’s been using for months
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Incredibly hilarious that at the 11th hour, all of the worst guys imaginable (Trump, Elon, Stephen Miller) are all coming together to endorse Andrew Cuomo and 100% vindicating a line of attack Zohran’s been using for months
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Trans people warned those groups like the “LGB Alliance”, and other Vichy gays etc, that the fascists were coming for them after they had helped the fascists come for us.
Every single one of these anti-trans “LGB” groups, is a Quisling group & should be referred to as fascist collaborators.
Every single one of these anti-trans “LGB” groups, is a Quisling group & should be referred to as fascist collaborators.
Judges in Texas can, tragically, now refuse to hold same-sex weddings, the state’s Supreme Court has ruled.
Read more: https://bit.ly/43N6LvI
Read more: https://bit.ly/43N6LvI
November 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Trans people warned those groups like the “LGB Alliance”, and other Vichy gays etc, that the fascists were coming for them after they had helped the fascists come for us.
Every single one of these anti-trans “LGB” groups, is a Quisling group & should be referred to as fascist collaborators.
Every single one of these anti-trans “LGB” groups, is a Quisling group & should be referred to as fascist collaborators.
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The new Gates climate memo isn't a pivot; it's a continuation of "a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested," @michaelemann.bsky.social argues in @thebulletin.org:
You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The new Gates climate memo isn't a pivot; it's a continuation of "a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested," @michaelemann.bsky.social argues in @thebulletin.org:
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We have ****ed the climate. Dressing this up as temporary overshoot is indefensible. But this does not mean we are doomed, & it certainly doesn't mean there is no point in trying to turn off the fossil fuel spigot. It's time to get real with climate risks.
www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...
www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...
Derailment warning as world faces threats to its ability to act on climate change
We may have seriously underestimated the risks of climate change. This includes derailment risks. This does not mean we are doomed, and it certainly does not mean there is no point in trying to turn o...
www.technosphere.earth
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM
We have ****ed the climate. Dressing this up as temporary overshoot is indefensible. But this does not mean we are doomed, & it certainly doesn't mean there is no point in trying to turn off the fossil fuel spigot. It's time to get real with climate risks.
www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...
www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...
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It's not confused and it's not hapless. They got what they wanted and got the center-right to establish it as the new common m normal. Then, consistent with the behaviour of all right wing racists for the last century, they refused to take yes for an answer and upped their demands.
More confusion from the hapless Philp/Lam team
“It is now our formal announced policy to restrict benefits to anyone who is not a British citizen. That is policy.".
Obviously, that would mean tearing up the Conservatives' own Brexit deal with the EU.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
“It is now our formal announced policy to restrict benefits to anyone who is not a British citizen. That is policy.".
Obviously, that would mean tearing up the Conservatives' own Brexit deal with the EU.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Tories deny they have thrown out plans to toughen up indefinite leave to remain
Plans to retrospectively remove the settled status are no longer Tory policy, a spokesman suggested on Wednesday.
www.independent.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It's not confused and it's not hapless. They got what they wanted and got the center-right to establish it as the new common m normal. Then, consistent with the behaviour of all right wing racists for the last century, they refused to take yes for an answer and upped their demands.
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Contrary to Harriet Harmen's characterisation of @zackpolanski.bsky.social as a "big I am", of all the political figures I've observed in any detail he is easily the most collaborative and the one who uses his platform to lift other voices and to listen to people way more than anyone else I've seen.
October 29, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Contrary to Harriet Harmen's characterisation of @zackpolanski.bsky.social as a "big I am", of all the political figures I've observed in any detail he is easily the most collaborative and the one who uses his platform to lift other voices and to listen to people way more than anyone else I've seen.
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October 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Once you legitimise discrimination and hate-speech against one minority group, you open the floodgates for bigotry against all minorities.
"The nursing union has urged the government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it said was putting staff at
risk."
Disgusting that this is necessary. On my last hospital trip nurses were from Nigeria, Zambia, Scotland, & Botswana. All were terrific.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
risk."
Disgusting that this is necessary. On my last hospital trip nurses were from Nigeria, Zambia, Scotland, & Botswana. All were terrific.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Once you legitimise discrimination and hate-speech against one minority group, you open the floodgates for bigotry against all minorities.
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I’d love to say this Mein Kampf stuff about Bolsheviks collaborating with the lesser races is rare and unusual but it isn’t, it’s been increasingly bog standard on news stands and in parliament for ten years at least.
October 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I’d love to say this Mein Kampf stuff about Bolsheviks collaborating with the lesser races is rare and unusual but it isn’t, it’s been increasingly bog standard on news stands and in parliament for ten years at least.
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the new Plaid Cymru assembly member for Caerphilly sounds like a proper community-minded character:
"Still a councillor, he also has four voluntary jobs, working in two local schools, a community coffee shop and a foodbank...."
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...
"Still a councillor, he also has four voluntary jobs, working in two local schools, a community coffee shop and a foodbank...."
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...
What you need to know about Lindsay Whittle, new Senedd member for Caerphilly
The veteran Plaid Cymru campaigner won the Caerphilly by-election
www.walesonline.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
the new Plaid Cymru assembly member for Caerphilly sounds like a proper community-minded character:
"Still a councillor, he also has four voluntary jobs, working in two local schools, a community coffee shop and a foodbank...."
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...
"Still a councillor, he also has four voluntary jobs, working in two local schools, a community coffee shop and a foodbank...."
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...
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Where were you when you learned that CO2 improves homosexuality?
October 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Where were you when you learned that CO2 improves homosexuality?
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so this is my initial stab at that -
reactionary centrism presents itself as data-driven, pragmatic, independent thinking but its not - it's core impulses are conformism & deference to informal social hierarchies (particularly gender)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
reactionary centrism presents itself as data-driven, pragmatic, independent thinking but its not - it's core impulses are conformism & deference to informal social hierarchies (particularly gender)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
October 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
so this is my initial stab at that -
reactionary centrism presents itself as data-driven, pragmatic, independent thinking but its not - it's core impulses are conformism & deference to informal social hierarchies (particularly gender)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
reactionary centrism presents itself as data-driven, pragmatic, independent thinking but its not - it's core impulses are conformism & deference to informal social hierarchies (particularly gender)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...