CrowZen
@crow22.bsky.social
Working towards a saner more inclusive commons, where merit not might is valued. I’m an eco-anarchist who values people before money and interpersonal connection above all else. We are what we’ve been waiting for and we must act for all species.
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I just signed a petition: QBE: STOP INSURING REFORM UK. #BoycottBloodyInsurance
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/qb...
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/qb...
QBE: STOP INSURING REFORM UK
Without insurance, Reform UK cannot function, cannot hold events, and cannot spread its toxic agenda. QBE has a choice: stand with the people and the planet, or stand with the polluters and the purvey...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I just signed a petition: QBE: STOP INSURING REFORM UK. #BoycottBloodyInsurance
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/qb...
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/qb...
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Housing diversity is actually really important!
A big problem in urbanism: getting enough family-sized apartments built in dense areas. Without them, people come when they're young & then flee to the suburbs when they have a family.
Cities made a bet on millennials — but forgot one key thing
Can cities learn to love kids again?
www.vox.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Housing diversity is actually really important!
It’s tough enough for women to peruse a prosecution already and the lack of commitment to pursue the perpetrator by the police is a double blow. These toxic men need to be held to account not let free to do it all again.
How will sexual violence stop if the police won't take it seriously?
When Nina Cresswell named the man who sexually assaulted her he sued for defamation - and he lost. But why did she have to take that risk? We're helping her sue the police who failed to investigate him. goodlaw.social/vtev
When Nina Cresswell named the man who sexually assaulted her he sued for defamation - and he lost. But why did she have to take that risk? We're helping her sue the police who failed to investigate him. goodlaw.social/vtev
Help Nina Cresswell stop the police failing women | Good Law Project
goodlaw.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It’s tough enough for women to peruse a prosecution already and the lack of commitment to pursue the perpetrator by the police is a double blow. These toxic men need to be held to account not let free to do it all again.
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Amal Ismail, 28, a Palestinian journalist, was injured in shelling, leaving her blind in one eye and with serious damage to the other. Doctors say she needs treatment outside Gaza, but closed borders are preventing her travel and her condition is worsening.
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Amal Ismail, 28, a Palestinian journalist, was injured in shelling, leaving her blind in one eye and with serious damage to the other. Doctors say she needs treatment outside Gaza, but closed borders are preventing her travel and her condition is worsening.
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We need Heathrow airport expansion like the dinosaurs needed an asteroid
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Heathrow airport’s £33bn third runway plan chosen by government
Scheme includes plan to move the M25 and could mean up to 760 more planes in the skies around London every day
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We need Heathrow airport expansion like the dinosaurs needed an asteroid
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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England's bathing water results are out! I've mapped them here:
MAP: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
Defra says it's an improvement but I'm not so sure. A few thoughts here about what the results don't tell you:
watershedinvestigations.com/the-environm...
MAP: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
Defra says it's an improvement but I'm not so sure. A few thoughts here about what the results don't tell you:
watershedinvestigations.com/the-environm...
England’s bathing water results are out, but do they tell the full story? - Watershed Investigations
The Environment Agency has released England’s latest bathing water classifications and Defra is calling the results a success, but the testing regime masks a host of potential problems.
watershedinvestigations.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
England's bathing water results are out! I've mapped them here:
MAP: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
Defra says it's an improvement but I'm not so sure. A few thoughts here about what the results don't tell you:
watershedinvestigations.com/the-environm...
MAP: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
Defra says it's an improvement but I'm not so sure. A few thoughts here about what the results don't tell you:
watershedinvestigations.com/the-environm...
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Successive UK govts have failed to achieve sustainable economic growth because of:
Impoverishing the masses
Regressive taxation
Poor infrastructure
Unchecked profiteering
Low investment in productive assets
Neutering public investment
When will govts change course?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87f2...
Impoverishing the masses
Regressive taxation
Poor infrastructure
Unchecked profiteering
Low investment in productive assets
Neutering public investment
When will govts change course?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87f2...
House of Lords Economy Debate 13 Nov 2025
YouTube video by Prem Sikka
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Successive UK govts have failed to achieve sustainable economic growth because of:
Impoverishing the masses
Regressive taxation
Poor infrastructure
Unchecked profiteering
Low investment in productive assets
Neutering public investment
When will govts change course?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87f2...
Impoverishing the masses
Regressive taxation
Poor infrastructure
Unchecked profiteering
Low investment in productive assets
Neutering public investment
When will govts change course?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87f2...
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"The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped.
This is the conclusion reached by @ethz.ch researchers on the basis of new calculations. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore continue at pace"
This is the conclusion reached by @ethz.ch researchers on the basis of new calculations. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore continue at pace"
Cost of direct air carbon capture to remain higher than hoped
The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped. This is the conclusion reached by ETH researchers on the basis of new calcu...
ethz.ch
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
"The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped.
This is the conclusion reached by @ethz.ch researchers on the basis of new calculations. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore continue at pace"
This is the conclusion reached by @ethz.ch researchers on the basis of new calculations. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore continue at pace"
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🚨BREAKING:
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
Just days to STOP new NHS private finance debts - take action now
Your MP can help STOP plans for new private finance debts in our NHS in the Autumn Budget
weownit.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🚨BREAKING:
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
You know times are dark when the truth can not be spoke for fear of the repressive tyrants and their fragile egos being damaged.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
You know times are dark when the truth can not be spoke for fear of the repressive tyrants and their fragile egos being damaged.
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"The carbon level has reached 426 parts per million – well over scientists’ “safe” limit of 350. According to them, the planet is heading to oblivion. All that time news editors have told me not to be too downbeat.
This is my last column. I think the facts speak for themselves.”
This is my last column. I think the facts speak for themselves.”
As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves
Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"The carbon level has reached 426 parts per million – well over scientists’ “safe” limit of 350. According to them, the planet is heading to oblivion. All that time news editors have told me not to be too downbeat.
This is my last column. I think the facts speak for themselves.”
This is my last column. I think the facts speak for themselves.”
A race to the bottom, #Labour #NotWorkingForYou all they can do is pander to the hate peddlers and far right loons.
Is this what Labour politicians came into politics for?
To get cheered on by Tommy Robinson as they kick some of the most vulnerable people on earth?
How are they not all dying of shame
To get cheered on by Tommy Robinson as they kick some of the most vulnerable people on earth?
How are they not all dying of shame
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A race to the bottom, #Labour #NotWorkingForYou all they can do is pander to the hate peddlers and far right loons.
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The Trump administration wants you to stop watching the BBC and watch GB News instead. Meanwhile this is what passes for “journalism” on GB News…
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Dounreay nuclear power station last produced electricity 30+ years ago, yet decontamination is expected to last until the 2070s and cost £8Bn, with full decontamination of the site estimated to take more than 300 years. Now Westminster wants to build *more* nuclear power stations in Scotland.
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Dounreay nuclear power station last produced electricity 30+ years ago, yet decontamination is expected to last until the 2070s and cost £8Bn, with full decontamination of the site estimated to take more than 300 years. Now Westminster wants to build *more* nuclear power stations in Scotland.
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Iceland did something after the 2008–09 crash that the US, UK and EU pretend is impossible as Trump and his vile ilk ride rough shod over our democracies.
It confronted and punished its corrupt bankers and failed politicians.
And rebuilt a fairer society from the rubble. 🧵
It confronted and punished its corrupt bankers and failed politicians.
And rebuilt a fairer society from the rubble. 🧵
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Iceland did something after the 2008–09 crash that the US, UK and EU pretend is impossible as Trump and his vile ilk ride rough shod over our democracies.
It confronted and punished its corrupt bankers and failed politicians.
And rebuilt a fairer society from the rubble. 🧵
It confronted and punished its corrupt bankers and failed politicians.
And rebuilt a fairer society from the rubble. 🧵
Ban the Tax Free Economic Zones. The only thing "Free Ports" are good for is circumnavigating the law and avoiding paying into the country where the profits are made. #BanFreePorts
Zone Fever Is Creating Future Victims Who Don't Know They're Victims Yet.
We are witnessing a national reconfiguration of UK critical infrastructure: a country carved up into corporate-governed patchworks of feudal territories and tax havens.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
We are witnessing a national reconfiguration of UK critical infrastructure: a country carved up into corporate-governed patchworks of feudal territories and tax havens.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Zone Fever Is Creating Future Victims Who Don't Know They're Victims Yet.
Zone Fever Is The Corporate Coup Britain Isn’t Talking About
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Ban the Tax Free Economic Zones. The only thing "Free Ports" are good for is circumnavigating the law and avoiding paying into the country where the profits are made. #BanFreePorts
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New type of climate dad just dropped
This week I wrote about the rise of the e-bike dad - this piece was originally going to run alongside the story I did in September about the bike boom in general, and we didn't have space in print, but here it is:
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
Parents on e-bikes are transforming the school run
They’re smug, snug and often faster than drivers
www.economist.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
New type of climate dad just dropped
Health Care should be for the treatment of illnesses not for the creation of wealth. The ability to maximise profits whilst claiming to be working to cure diseases and treat illnesses has got to be one of the biggest cognitive disconnections in human history. #HealtyNotWealth
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I'll bet there is some dirt on Peter Thiel
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick calls Epstein "the greatest blackmailer ever"
www.salon.com/2025/10/05/t...
I'll bet there is some dirt on Peter Thiel
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick calls Epstein "the greatest blackmailer ever"
www.salon.com/2025/10/05/t...
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Health Care should be for the treatment of illnesses not for the creation of wealth. The ability to maximise profits whilst claiming to be working to cure diseases and treat illnesses has got to be one of the biggest cognitive disconnections in human history. #HealtyNotWealth
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Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
#TaxTheBanks
Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing.
The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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An AI chatbot's per-query environmental impact may be small, but does focusing on individual AI usage miss the big picture?
As Dr Simon Clark explained at our conference, it is time for transparency and regulation of large AI corporations, not individual guilt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK0R...
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As Dr Simon Clark explained at our conference, it is time for transparency and regulation of large AI corporations, not individual guilt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK0R...
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Climate, AI and ... me?
YouTube video by Scientists for Global Responsibility
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
An AI chatbot's per-query environmental impact may be small, but does focusing on individual AI usage miss the big picture?
As Dr Simon Clark explained at our conference, it is time for transparency and regulation of large AI corporations, not individual guilt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK0R...
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As Dr Simon Clark explained at our conference, it is time for transparency and regulation of large AI corporations, not individual guilt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK0R...
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There at it again. Attacking our local voice that acts in our best local interests. The new structures proposed to supersede our current councils will ensure it harder to have a local say. Let’s ensure our voices are written into the new constitution by making #CitizenAssemblies part of the process.
Rescue democracy in Devon!
Instead of snatching decisions away from local people, we demand that Citizens’ Assemblies form the beating heart of Devon’s new council so ordinary people decide what happens, not out of touch politi...
actionnetwork.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
There at it again. Attacking our local voice that acts in our best local interests. The new structures proposed to supersede our current councils will ensure it harder to have a local say. Let’s ensure our voices are written into the new constitution by making #CitizenAssemblies part of the process.