Some thoughts on why I think it's important to remember that the natural and physical world provide joy and curiosity, even though global geopolitics is very mean and horrible right now. Appreciating the world around us gives us joy & agency. Don't forget the bad, but hold on to the good too.

"The Labour Party under Starmer will abandon its core idealism and principles and it won't even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and nobody will, in fact, vote for it." . - David Graeber

David Graeber made a warning about Keir Starmer in 2020. They did not listen

Well thank goodness the USA is Capitalist and not Socialist!
No universal Health Care in USA.
If they can't pay, they let'em die.
Shithole country

Farage - grifting multimillionaire and highest earning MP
Tice - family money multimillionaire
Yusuf - multimillionaire
Jenrick - millionaire
Zahawi - multimillionaire

But they want to cut the National Minimum Wage down from £12.21 per hour. (It goes up 50p in April.)

God, they’re hideous.

@ianwalker.bsky.social Motornormativity referenced by @edplowden.bsky.social

remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened

I saw your post about the local Lamborgini garage at Pangbourne so guessed you were local.

I went to the v Stockport game. Evened each other out until Wing's 89th minute goal. Good luck for the rest of the season though.

A joke for the history buffs.

The Massive Marshian Stomp on Fobney Marsh this morning, opening up another area for winter wildfowl, enabling a variety of habitats at Fobney Marsh, Reading. Happy Solstice! 🦆

#masstrespass #berksbirds

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.

Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.

While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.

That's how privatisation 'works'.

UK: Call Time on Corporate Courts The UK has just been sued, via corporate courts, for halting a controversial coal mine. It follows the government saying in its trade strategy that it would continue inserting Investor-State Dispute S...

The UK's new trade strategy says it will continue inserting controversial corporate courts into its trade deals.

Sign the petition: Call time on corporate courts. #StopISDS

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What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

Hammersmith Bridge Where did 25,000 vehicles go?

insights from Hammersmith Bridge nickmaini.substack.com/p/hammersmit... (Nick Maini) "closing a major bridge carrying 25,000 daily vehicles should lead to more traffic on other nearby crossings and less economic activity on either side. The evidence shows the exact opposite."

Frontiers | Reducing meat consumption with consumer insights and the nudge by proxy: the anomaly of asking, the power of protein, and illusions of insufficiency and availability High global meat consumption presents significant environmental challenges. Interventions to reduce meat consumption, such as carbon labelling, have shown mo...

🥳 The new paper has quickly gained over 2000 views!

In the paper, I reveal new and highly effective approaches to increase sustainable meal choices.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...

#sustainablefood #greennudges
#behaviourchange #climatechange
#vegan #sustainability

Sign the petition: Save our National Parks 🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

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People thinking that Reform's suggestions of getting rid of legal immigrants will fix the NHS have no idea how much it will hurt healthcare. Immigrants & children of immigrants keep the NHS functioning. Same with social care.

Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...

Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
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I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

This article misses 2 important points:
1. Soya is the secondary driver of Amazon deforestation, the primary cause is cattle ranching,
2. More than three-quarters of soya produced worldwide is fed to livestock.
Directly or indirectly, it is the meat industry that is eating Brazil's Amazon.

The billionaire class want you thinking Israel controls the West Western elites don’t care what you think or say, so long as you don’t notice that they are the ones making money from a genocide, asset-stripping western economies and trashing our planet

jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-billio...

By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing By choosing to transform how we grow food and what we eat – rather than letting climate change dictate the pace of change – we have so much to gain.

theconversation.com/by-changing-...

Where would I start? Discouraging short car trips for those who can walk, obvs, and taking steps like banning pavement parking and fixing pelican crossings to make walking easier and quicker. Getting house builders to stop building car-dependent transport deserts could also be a lasting impact

STOP UK HATE FEST - email the Home Office Over 5-6 September, Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. We’ve stopped gigs like this before, now we need to put pressure on the Home Office to block the...

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THIS WAS ALWAYS THE POINT.

When they talk about 'red tape' they usually mean health and environmental regulations. Business lobbyists call it red tape when they don't want to be seen to publicly hate wildlife and people.

Imagine if BBC spent as much time on the dangers of climate collapse as they do on immigration. Imagine the public response when they realise what the real danger is to our children & who is causing it. Instead of anger at refugees there’d be anger at oil companies, media bosses, politicians & BBC.

By a fellow human being working incredibly hard to support themselves and secure a better life?

Gaza: Dozens killed by Israeli gunfire near aid distribution sites, Hamas-run ministry says More than 100 others were also injured near two sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, according to the Hamas-run health ministry and civil defence agency.

These IDF 'mistakes' are happening with such sickening regularity one might think it was intentional....

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I am all for decarbonization, but this is a tax subsidy for car ownership and for cementing public space as someone's personal car parking space. We will never be able to remove a parking space to plant a tree or install on street bike parking where a home owner has licensed such a cable.