Come on Greens you can do better than this! fullfact.org/politics/gre... @elliechowns.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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connect the dots

www.ft.com/content/c4e7...

"A campaign of criticism and threats by the Trump administration over the EU’s Digital Services Act, which forces big tech companies to police content on their platforms more aggressively, and the Digital Markets Act, which aims to curb their power."
#DigitalRights

@lrb I've had to hide this post for the offensive picture which I personally find obscene. But for some reason you keep reposting it. So I must see this face every time I open sky. I'm not a prude. Liam Neeson's crotch is fine. But please, not this man's face. Some alternative ideas attached.

"Of Flags and Families" : thanks, Helen Charman, for a reality check @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se... #art #artwork #fanart #Think

Photos of Banksy mural edited to feature England flags – Full Fact Thousands have shared altered photos of street artist Banksy’s most recent mural at London’s Royal Courts of Justice.

fullfact.org/culture-and-...

sad and desperate?

#wales #pembrokeshire #FlowersOnFriday #fanart

#BritishPodcastAwards Just voted Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring, with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, produced by @the-citizens.bsky.social at this link for the People's award here. Support independent investigative journalism 📰www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting

Screenshot of form on the UK Met Office website. Text reads: "You can provide up to 5 storm names in the boxes below. Storm Name: [a user has filled this in with "BigOil"] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with BP] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Equinor] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Exxon] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Shell]

So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.

And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...

This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

Fiona Spruce probably. We're doomed!

Quite possibly the biggest climate story of the year (especially when we look back on this in a few years' time)

For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...

Obvs if you're serious about Lenin you're gonna read Factory of Strategy files.libcom.org/files/antoni...

Wondering what Stob Dubh (Buachaille Etive Beag) is like covered in snow... #mountainmonday

get away from the crazies
#BlueskyMonday
#MountainMonday
#ArenigFach
#Landscape #Landscapephotography

Analysis: UK emissions fall 3.6% in 2024 as coal use drops to lowest since 1666 - Carbon Brief UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.6% in 2024 as coal use dropped to the lowest level since 1666, the year of the Great Fire of London

UK emissions fall 3.6% in 2024 as coal use drops to lowest since 1666 www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

I wonder if we'll hear more about young female voters or young male voters.

Perfect Days by Wim Wenders is simple, gentle, thoughtful, touching. #komorebi is the word the film ends with: momentary light piercing the shadows of tree leaves in the breeze. How fleeting human connection is. #art #filmsky #soundtrack

put all your resources into polarising society into extremes and then have the left reps veer towards the centre right. hand it over to the extreme right without a fight!

I didn't come on sky to see musk's face on my feed everyday

Image from the film The Sand Castle released in January 2025 written by Matty Brown, Hend Fakhroo, Yassmina Karajah

And just as you are about to cancel that subscription, they give you one worth watching. The Sand Castle, directed by Matty Brown, written by Matty Brown, Hend Fakhroo and Yassmina Karajah. #filmsky

Ben Miller | Undoing Maria Callas When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone loses...

The morbid fascination with the undoing of a woman by some man is there to gloss over the sweaty hard graft that goes into being excellent at what you do. Make sure you take away her agency to give it to some man. I'm giving this a wide berth www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

The Fire Boom | Mike Davis In this excerpt from Mike Davis's classic book Ecology of Fear (originally published in 1998), he explores the tinderbox of the wealthy "Los Angeles frontiers" and the massive public resources dedicat...

Mike Davis as Cassandra:
California Burns (2007) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (1998) tinyurl.com/mr39vjnp