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#GoodNews on #biodiversity, because we could all do with some H/t @inkcapjournal.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

Big UK banks pocketed £29.2bn in six months while our bills went up! A windfall tax on bank profits would raise £19bn for our schools & NHS. @TheGreenParty's already backing it - sign the petition and tell John Healey to #TaxtheBanks! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Just imagine you have hay-fever symptoms ALL YEAR ROUND. When uncontrolled, your nose streams like a tap. An abundant clear liquid. You eventually find that Cetirizine works most of the time but sometimes it fails. Sure there are other drugs you can try to take: acrivastine, steroid sprays.

Big UK banks pocketed £29.2bn in six months while our bills went up! A windfall tax on bank profits would raise £19bn for our schools & NHS. @TheGreenParty's already backing it - sign the petition and tell John Healey to #TaxtheBanks! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Just walked past Piers Morgan’s house. Froth oozing from every door and window. 👀

Reminder of how little we understand even about our own bodies. We need to #Unlearn 20th-century hubris www.ft.com/content/403a...

1/3 Dr Georgia Richards’ Preventable Deaths Tracker highlights a major gap in how we collect, analyse and act on evidence from coroners, medical examiners and Prevention of Future Death reports.

Queue de poisson (fish tail, literally): the action of cutting off someone when driving. Yesterday night, I was driving a large car on the A40 (autoroute des titans) in the French Alps. The weather conditions were atrocious. Very heavy rain, lines hardly visible.

“Yusuf, Jenrick and deputy leader Richard Tice are all said to be interested in succeeding Farage as Reform leader.” Yusuf. As if! Jenrick. Please get over yourself. Tice. Hahahahaha. The ugly clowns are all fighting to be lead clown. What a shitshow. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/471...

New government assessment says that disadvantaged men may miss out on vital prostate cancer tests My letter in the Cumberland news

“Dicky is ubiquitous these days…Perhaps he can’t resist the feeling of freedom he gets when not umbilically attached to Nige. It lets him believe he is a fully sentient independent being. Rather than one of the last clowns standing in the circus” Beautiful scorn. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Bankers' trade association, backed by UK's biggest banks, warns govt against higher tax on the industry. Shows how banks cooperate to advance common interests Silence on profiteering, branch closures, not investigating frauds, bailouts, subsidies, mega bonuses, dividends. Must tax obscene profits

If the 185 boats had got over can you imagine the banner headlines?

Dan was pleased to see the class had finally grasped morality.

Freedom is for everyone, or no one. Do you agree? harryeccles94.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

I can respect if you have a different opinion on the science/background. I cannot respect it if you deny trans people their rights or pretend they don’t exist. harryeccles94.substack.com/p/less-toxic...

Reform’s economic adviser called for end of pensioners’ triple lock. Highest state pension is less than 50% of minimum wage. He wants to privatise the NHS, sees migration as a poverty alleviation tool. Reform wants to repeal equality and human rights laws, remove workers' rights.

UK online fashion seller Boohoo fined €2.3m (£2m) in France for offering fake discounts. Also used terms such as “leather” or “suede” to sell synthetic products. Previously paid $100m to settle US allegations of using fake promotions. Is any corporation pristine?

Inflation is rising. Will the Bank of England raise interest rates? youtu.be/ruhW_MAGPy8?... If they did, they'd be punishing the people of the UK for a problem they could not create and a problem the Bank cannot solve. Neither makes any sense at all.

BREAKING: Exhausted, Delirious Zia Yusuf Deports Self

BREAKING Reform win first seat on Cumberland Unitary Authority Harraby South Ward by-election results just in Labour down 5% Conservatives down 17% Reform win with just 42% of the vote First past the post voting system favours extremist politics Results and analysis in thread 👇 🧵...

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Some overnight sales www.fantasticliterature.com

Turns out that examination of that code by @wired.com and an ex police officer revealed “can pick out potential witnesses by how often their cars pass through a neighborhood, or surface a driver’s “associates” from the cameras they pass together.“

If Bluesky is an echo chamber, why the f*ck does Michael Cohen have a bigly followed account on here?

As the climate emergency rages & our extinction grows ever more certain by the hour... Every single UK newspaper splashes with the story that a man and a woman are moving back to England.

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Hey remember when Jive Bunny went to No.1 with a funky remix of “In The Mood” by Glen Miller? Then it mixed in a bunch of 60s hits after? Well “In The Mood” came out in 1939, 50y before Jive Bunny. Today that’d be something from August 1976. The mix-ins would be the hits of the noughties.

Day 2: Part I Tough Day at the #Australian Office for #KXSteelers 2’s vs San Fransisco Fog A 🏉 Onto our next match in the @igrugby.bsky.social #BinghamCup 🏆 #WeGoAgain 💪🏻🐘🏳️‍🌈 #gayrugbyplayer #Steelers

Mitochondrial Eve, mt-DNA, and Y-DNA haplogroups origins in Africa, with "Out of Africa" migrations www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Eu...

May Reason Set You Free

An entertainment *city* built on top of a mountain. Sure, why not.

My art Goats Mythology and Mythological Caprids/Caprinae: Sheep and Goats damienmarieathope.com/2026/08/goat...

Goodnight, good people. And remember… if you can’t fight, wear a big hat! 😉 x

Just dusted off my typewriter (not literally) in recent days… and I’m absolutely loving it. Forgotten what a joy writing can be. The creative juices are flowing. Endless possibilities.

As the drought continues and farmers are forced to give their animals winter feed, one farmer near Chelmsford has found a way to keep his pasture green and nutritious all summer long. www.reuters.com/business/env...

Bridget Phillipson, "Climate change is beyond doubt real and happening, contrary to what the likes of Reform UK would say" "Richard Tice owes an apology to firefighters who were putting their lives at risk, in order to protect people's homes and deal with the fires that we see"

We rise by helping each other.

May I use all of whatever “Will” I have to be the best me I can be; may I be a good human. To me, we are responsible for doing what is of value. Not ego, not pride, not self-dealing, but genuinely embody a heart of kindness, one that breathes deep a care for humanity.

Train your brain to think ethically. We are responsible for the future; we are the future, living in the present, soon to be passed, so we must act with passion because life is over just like that. I am just another fellow dignity being. May I be a good human.

I know what they’re like. I grew up with them. This is about poverty, class, boredom, radicalisation and the boys I used to know. I didn’t want to paywall an article about poverty, so this is free. If you can afford to subscribe, I’d appreciate it! supertanskiii.substack.com/p/the-men-wh...

Don’t strive to make others wither under your gaze. No, BE a humanity hero, an inspiration of positive change all can become empowered by and become their best, even if only at one kind or thoughtful action at a time.

Melania Trump, "Good afternoon, I heard you missed me, here I am"

“This (Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires, 12 August) is a shocking revelation from a government that has repeatedly assured us it understands the risk of the breakdown of nature and climate. Clearly not.

Under capitalism, I learned not to care about others' suffering other than to say, at least it’s not me. But true humanity, not capitalism, would say no one should suffer; we should do all we can to change all the things harmful to humanity because real lives hang in the balance.

Why didn't you stop this happening? says person who voted for it to happen to person who voted for it not to happen.

Sadly, people are quite easy to influence and manipulate. We are emotional beings with the ability to reason, not reason beings that sometimes use emotions.

We live in a sad society where the first thought of a hero is someone with a gun who killed for a government. What other heroes do you think of??? We rise by helping each other. Kind people are some of my favorite heroes. Don’t let anger become an unethical behavior.

So many Americans hear the ugly truth about America, and instead of hating the harm done and ensuring change, they get mad at anyone bringing America’s shame up and can’t wait to make excuses for it all…

So many Americans hear the ugly truth about America and instead of hating the harm done and ensuring change they get mad at anyone bringing America’s shame up and can’t wait to make excuses for it all…

I often say too much, I like that about me.

What is the price of a tear? What is the cost of a smile? Can one see clearly when others pay the price of their fear? If we don’t stop the suffering and harm, will the cost be more than we can bear to our humanity?

Capitalism is unethical. Capitalist im-moral wage theft is always sold as a-moral “Sacred” Profits.

Capitalism is followed like a religion, in that no matter how much harm it contains or can produce, it will not matter much to the “sacred profits” placed far above being ethical caretakers of the Earth or ethical profit distribution. As always, privileges of the powerful.

Turner. Blake. Wedgwood. Three giants of British art and design – all influenced by a man born in York. A major new exhibition coming to York Art Gallery puts John Flaxman back in the spotlight, 200 years after his death.

Imagine a world with enough excess to support all humanity, yet we choose to change for everything, even that found for free in or on the land. And a sociopathic society more moved to want killing in war, spending almost like an addicted mind bent on killing itself rather than change.

Tessa Dunlop on #C4News "In the last month the British press has profoundly let itself down with the hounding of Jason Arday" "And I very much hope that for this initial part of their - Harry and Megan's - new start in Britain, the right wing press particularly, behave themselves"

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” Ernest Hemingway Maybe we’re not meant to have it all figured out, maybe we’re simply meant to keep learning as we go. 🧡 #learning #SelfCompassion Picture by Positively Present

I am an anti-nationalist and anti-capitalist to my core. I stand in solidarity with humanity, not borders or nations, rather it is the humans from every single plot of dirt they happen to currently live on. We are all one. Don’t let imaginary borders tell you who to love or hate.

In times of struggle or strife, we humans can be most out of shape mentally, so be as patient as you can with others, as we are all going through hell right now and desperately need each other. I just strive to live in the wonder of the moment.

Capitalism does not reduce poverty; it simply moves it to different countries or communities and claims victory. Capitalism is an unethical economic system based on profit over people.

America is a country of shame that glorifies itself as the hero while actually being a real constant part of the world’s problems: capitalism, bigotry, war, and nationalism.

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Can we do better? Reparations for Slavery, American Terrorism? Reparations for Jim Crow, American Terrorism? Reparations for Red Lining, American Terrorism? Reparations for Lynchings, American Terrorism? Reparations for Unarmed Shootings, American Terrorism? Yes, I believe we should!

We are not the scars that make us or the abuse that enslaved us; we are not the dark narrative that may have caused our life of pain. We are who we choose to be now. We are the authors of our lives, and we are not the thing abuse made us, but a shining example of true self-mastery.

American Propaganda and the Myths of Freedom, Equality, Democracy, and Liberty! damienmarieathope.com/2022/05/amer...

Ciaran Jenkins, "Do you think racism played a role in the intense scrutiny Jason Arday was subject to?" #C4News Lucy Powell, "That is clear for all to see"

Direct Democracy and some of My Anarchist Socialist thinking damienmarieathope.com/2024/12/dire...

I support Direct Democracy

www.bbc.com/news/article... They should all sanction Israel

Lund, who sobbed when he was sentenced, “was found to have attacked nine police vehicles, punching windows, kicking off wing mirrors & letting air out of their tyres. During the trial, footage showed Land - wearing a face covering - climbing on top of one of the vehicles and kicking the windscreen”

Thiel: religious but not spiritual. He likes the discipline and slavish compliance from the masses..and the power of apocalyptic language to mobilise We've seen AI/SM is destroying intellect. Kids will be growing up unable to function without the tech supplied (OR WITHHELD) by the tech bro gods.

Trump (dis)approval rating? Worse every week, as the Iran standoff continues and oil prices remain expensive

Harry & Megan could use a welcome boost in this Mirror poll. Only on at c 20% at present. But then the rags have been gunning for them from the get go & even more so since Harry took their gutter tactics on. www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/...

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Tonight's sky 😍🌈

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making my boyfriend cry at dinner by testing out my “surely I’m not still allergic to almonds” bit at desert and flaring up like a wildfire :)

Is there any topic you don’t nail? #MyManUsman 🙌

The people we elect to tell the media "enough" are too vulnerable. The media can destroy them, and often does. And that's a problem. So here's an idea of how to change that. No paywall. russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-hiss-o...

Thank you so much to everyone who supports my Substack. I really enjoy writing, and it’s great to know it’s appreciated 🙏 open.substack.com/pub/harryecc...

You can’t have freedom and capitalism. Where Libertarianism has gone wrong… harryeccles94.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

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My highly-trained hunting beast walked straight past the goat without noticing. I had to alert him to its presence.

A goat has escaped, and Baxter thinks it's his new best friend. The goat disagrees.

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It’s called karma and it’s pronounced ha ha ha ha

JFC change the fucking record already!

Okay, right wing libertarians will likely disagree with me here, but let me explain. This is my piece of Libertarianism, why it’s essential, and where the right-wing have gone wrong on freedom. Let’s talk! harryeccles94.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

@jojofromjerz.bsky.social you know how to sock it to the #PedoInCharge. Just saw this on insta and OMG it’s perrrrfection. www.instagram.com/reel/DbuHwkk...