Rebecca Cottrell
@rebeccacottrell.bsky.social
small steps towards utopia
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Watch through. An undocumented person in Minneapolis brought dogs to a shelter after ICE kidnapped their humans, abandoning the dogs in their homes with no humans around.
January 30, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Watch through. An undocumented person in Minneapolis brought dogs to a shelter after ICE kidnapped their humans, abandoning the dogs in their homes with no humans around.
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On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sidcup man convicted aover explosive attack on Ulez camera
Kevin Rees's homemade bomb caused damage to vehicles and property including a child's bedroom.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:43 AM
On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
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Bolsonaro supporters protesting and demanding that he is set free got hit by a lightning bolt, 3 persons are in hospital now.
🚨⚡ Um raio atingiu bolsonaristas em Brasília nesta tarde. Eles estavam aguardando Nikolas Ferreira no Memorial JK para um protesto pela soltura de Bolsonaro quando um raio atingiu a praça. Três bolsonaristas foram para o hospital.
January 25, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Bolsonaro supporters protesting and demanding that he is set free got hit by a lightning bolt, 3 persons are in hospital now.
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Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
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How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?
How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?
Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins here
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:45 PM
How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?
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A 'flat' organisation or team with little or no defined roles or processes just means you have invisible and unaccountable power structures, favouring privilege
October 19, 2024 at 1:15 PM
A 'flat' organisation or team with little or no defined roles or processes just means you have invisible and unaccountable power structures, favouring privilege
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One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.
I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”
December 31, 2023 at 3:23 AM
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
"A rustic, ordinary-looking English garden hut"
sorry but ordinary-looking ?
sorry but ordinary-looking ?
Garden shed of vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner added to heritage at risk register
Garden shed of vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner added to heritage at risk register
Hut where father of immunology trialled first smallpox vaccine among 138 additions to Historic England list
A rustic, ordinary-looking English garden hut regarded as the birthplace of immunology – revolutionising global public health and saving countless lives – has been added to the nation’s heritage at risk register.
The hut belonged to Edward Jenner (1749-1823, regarded as someone who has saved more lives than any other human. It was there that he first trialled a vaccine for smallpox in the late 18th century. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"A rustic, ordinary-looking English garden hut"
sorry but ordinary-looking ?
sorry but ordinary-looking ?
Hell yes to Zack Polanski bardoburner.com/2025/10/12/w...
‘We need to avoid having cult figures in the vegan community and to acknowledge the work of women’
Flashback to 2019: Zack Polanski is a BardoBurner Everyday Vegan Before stepping into national leadership, London Assembly member Zack Polanski shared his commitment to sustainability in his daily …
bardoburner.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hell yes to Zack Polanski bardoburner.com/2025/10/12/w...
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims
As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day.
In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
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Moderate voices in the US, particularly in the UK, need to recognise you can decry political violence, “offer sympathies” whilst also recognise that Kirk was a despicable person who touted extremist views and profited off the fear of minorities.
It is possible to express these concurrent thoughts.
It is possible to express these concurrent thoughts.
September 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Moderate voices in the US, particularly in the UK, need to recognise you can decry political violence, “offer sympathies” whilst also recognise that Kirk was a despicable person who touted extremist views and profited off the fear of minorities.
It is possible to express these concurrent thoughts.
It is possible to express these concurrent thoughts.