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Tim Barraclough
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Greyish socialist with green tendencies. Soul, reggae, indie, jazz, classical, not much I wouldn’t listen to. MDANT 🇵🇸
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Really interesting study, looks like the water needs of carbon capture projects has been overlooked - in fact there’s no big picture in water at all, domestic supply is licensed and controlled, biz supply is a free for all. An analogue system in a digital world as Dieter Helm says.

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December 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper, Without Any Cutting
An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper, Without Any Cutting
Origami artist Juho Könkkölä spent 50 hours folding an origami samurai from a single square sheet of paper, with no cutting or ripping used in the process. He describes his process on Reddit: Folded f...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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'This is no longer a risk, it is an emergency,' explain climate experts to more than a thousand British MPs and civil society leaders.

theecologist.org/2025/dec/01/...
'If we take action, we might survive'
'This is no longer a risk, it is an emergency,' explain climate experts to more than a thousand British MPs and civil society leaders.
theecologist.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A perfect soundtrack for those long December nights.
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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This is unlikely to be a random act of animal cruelty, but done to protect the interests of the shooting estates in the area. It's all about money.
December 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Hen Harrier found poisoned on a grouse moor in North Yorkshire.

Once again, details have only come to light through scrutiny of a spreadsheet - where's the publicity from the Police? This is supposed to be a national wildlife crime priority!

#RaptorResearch

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/01/h...
Hen Harrier found poisoned on a grouse moor in North Yorkshire
I’ve blogged recently about a number of illegally-killed Hen Harriers whose deaths have not been publicised by the authorities (Hen Harrier ‘Susie’ who was found dead with gunshot…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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#OtD 30 Nov 1961 President John F. Kennedy authorised Operation Mongoose, a CIA operation aimed at overthrowing Castro's government in Cuba. Multiple terrorist attacks against railways, food storage and more were then carried out in the country stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1032...
November 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Massive decline in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park Peregrine population linked to intensive grouse moor management.

Press release from Cairngorms National Park Authority, copy of the new report, & commentary from me ⬇️⬇️

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/30/m...
Massive decline in Cairngorms National Park Peregrine population linked to intensive grouse moor management
Press release from Cairngorms National Park Authority (24 November 2025) PEREGRINE NUMBERS IN DECLINE IN CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK The last UK-wide survey of peregrines took place in 2014 and covere…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist

Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill

Or about who bought his house in Frinton
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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A reminder that my Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar starts tomorrow.
🎄
Of course, it may bear a distinct resemblance to my advent last year (and the year before that, and the year before that …)
😊
Artist: PB Hickling
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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One of at least seven Humpback Whales off the south Mainland of Shetland today. Amazing!

#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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More than 100 protesters have gathered in Edinburgh today to protest over the proscription of Palestine Action.

Organised by Defend Our Juries, demonstrators sat holding signs which read: 'I Oppose Genocide, I support Palestine Action'
November 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Cambridge union approves motion saying world 'failed Palestine'
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November 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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“Newly declassified British documents expose how radioactive clouds from nuclear tests in Australia took days—not hours—to clear, contaminating vast areas in the lead-up to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.”

www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...
UK Government begins to release Australia's nuclear tests documents after 75 years - Australian Institute of International Affairs
Newly declassified British documents expose how radioactive clouds from nuclear tests in Australia took days—not hours—to clear, contaminating vast areas in the lead-up to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics....
www.internationalaffairs.org.au
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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"Do you remember the figure that was on the side of the Brexit Bus?
Did that make you angry>
The same amount of money is added to Billionaire's wealth every 10 days according to a recent report produced by Oxfam.
We really do need to tax them properly."
via David Williams
November 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Please sign and share if you can.

Dr Abu Safiya is a hero. He sacrificed everything to save lives in Gaza – and now Israel is holding him, and reportedly torturing him, without charges. Doctors around the world are rising to free him and other Gaza medics.

secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Free Dr Abu Safiya
Israel has Gaza’s top paediatrician and around 90 other Palestinian medics in military prisons. Join the global call for their freedom!
secure.avaaz.org
November 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Wakey wakey. Born on this day 1956 Chris Bailey.
The Saints - (I'm) Stranded [HQ]
YouTube video by jetsonDos
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November 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Advocates say killing of two Palestinians in West Bank part of Israel's 'systematic policy of extrajudicial killings'.
Jenin killings highlight Israeli system of ‘total impunity’: Rights groups
Advocates say killing of two Palestinians in West Bank part of Israel's 'systematic policy of extrajudicial killings'.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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A very readable, deeply-informed piece by Naomi Klein that combines genocide, the Surrealists, fascism then and now -- and Mamdani.

www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Flag-shagging ain’t cheap — lad slapped with a £2,000 fine for decorating 64 lamp posts like it’s Brexit Christmas 🎄😂
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Beyond parody
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".

Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM