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Events and Project Manager; cat parent; interests - climate change, tech, politics, entrepreneurship , history, art and food.

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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

07.03.2026 10:34 👍 3920 🔁 1522 💬 66 📌 113
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Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government

25.01.2026 19:12 👍 17207 🔁 5032 💬 300 📌 163
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The actual President of the United States...nothing more than a petulant child.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

19.01.2026 17:38 👍 3161 🔁 700 💬 356 📌 68
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‘Purrsonal’ favorite
🐾💕🤭

19.01.2026 04:18 👍 1906 🔁 401 💬 0 📌 0
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14.01.2026 13:55 👍 3750 🔁 1930 💬 134 📌 139
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Nadhim Zahawi would be frightened to live in a country run by Nigel Farage.

Zahawi has deleted it, but it is too late.

12.01.2026 13:13 👍 518 🔁 248 💬 37 📌 7
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Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

10.01.2026 08:29 👍 11021 🔁 4508 💬 203 📌 342
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“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are:

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

08.01.2026 09:37 👍 5331 🔁 1734 💬 123 📌 59
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One of the people the USA killed in Venezuela was Rosa Gonzalez, 80 who they blew up in her apartment.

Will you hear this on the European News?

I doubt it.

04.01.2026 11:32 👍 825 🔁 503 💬 40 📌 33
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More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”

03.01.2026 16:16 👍 15194 🔁 5185 💬 992 📌 363
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WELL, I GUESS WE’RE NOT TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN TODAY.

03.01.2026 18:19 👍 374 🔁 132 💬 13 📌 4
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​​Antarctica’s melting ice is raising global sea levels, worsening damage from floods and storm surges. Our reporter explains why the Thwaites Glacier is crucial for scientists who are trying to pin down how much extra water to expect, and how soon.

Learn more: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

30.12.2025 20:17 👍 744 🔁 333 💬 39 📌 20
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Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...

📢 This petition reflects what many of us already feel about Brexit’s impact. If you haven’t signed yet, here’s the link:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

16.12.2025 07:58 👍 1060 🔁 584 💬 52 📌 34

Please remember this next time you hear Nigel Farage and Reform say we must leave the ECHR to control our borders

11.12.2025 20:45 👍 670 🔁 301 💬 21 📌 4
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Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour | Frances Ryan Starmer’s ailing government is happy to pursue ideas like cutting Motability, but all ministers will do is damage lives and themselves, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

“when living standards are stalling and public services failing, society turns on a minority said to be having it easy at taxpayer expense”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

08.12.2025 17:21 👍 247 🔁 89 💬 12 📌 5
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🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!

If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

28.11.2025 17:51 👍 628 🔁 391 💬 30 📌 28
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John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss"

"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"

"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"

"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"

19.11.2025 18:39 👍 929 🔁 358 💬 30 📌 29
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When we dehumanise refugees, we dehumanise ourselves - Bylines Scotland If we allow lies and propaganda to inform our views of refugees, what does that say about us?

Seems like a good day to post this...

#Refugees
#Asylum

17.11.2025 10:19 👍 257 🔁 109 💬 5 📌 0
Green graphic reading 'No human being is illegal'

Green graphic reading 'No human being is illegal'

Today and every day the @scottishgreens.org stand with our refugee and migrant neighbours.

17.11.2025 20:53 👍 110 🔁 43 💬 0 📌 0
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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

16.11.2025 10:41 👍 2567 🔁 992 💬 47 📌 53
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Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Frankenstein

Guillermo Del Toro

15.11.2025 11:27 👍 36 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1
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How did those presenters keep a straight face

12.11.2025 17:27 👍 1009 🔁 269 💬 89 📌 43
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07.11.2025 00:31 👍 249 🔁 54 💬 3 📌 1
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🤣🎯

07.11.2025 00:37 👍 9884 🔁 2458 💬 180 📌 89

Rachel Reeves says we have a £25 billion black hole

Rachel Reeves knows Brexit makes us £40 billion poorer

Rejoining the EU would give us a £15 billion surplus

Why doesn't Labour want what's best for the UK?

Tax rises? That'll be Brexit

04.11.2025 22:00 👍 1285 🔁 369 💬 73 📌 18
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OK I admit it I ‘borrowed’ it from the other place.. why should the devil have all the best tunes? #wato

10.10.2025 12:02 👍 44 🔁 15 💬 7 📌 1
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Let’s make today about who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, not who wasn’t.

The Committee awarded it to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

10.10.2025 15:36 👍 210 🔁 45 💬 15 📌 2
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Gary Neville, "Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country"

"The messaging is getting dangerous"

"All these idiots out there spreading hate speech in any form, abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them"

"And get back to a country of love, peace and harmony"

"And become a team again"

06.10.2025 09:24 👍 1702 🔁 493 💬 45 📌 32

One of the most powerful messages ever 🤍

05.10.2025 14:38 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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Jane Goodall was a hero who used her life to make the world a better place. If the world uplifted and amplified people like her over fascists and billionaires, the world would be a very different place. #3E

01.10.2025 19:08 👍 3009 🔁 673 💬 58 📌 39