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You’ll love it!

Only two? Think big, Mabel.

FACTCHECK UPDATE: No, the UK can't "be more like Norway" in the North Sea

🇬🇧 extracted most of its oil & gas after privatisation
🇳🇴 has much more left due to state stewardship
🤔Lawson spent UK windfall on tax cuts; Norway got a sovereign wealth fund

www.carbonbrief.org/...

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“Reinstating”? You mean it was withdrawn?😳

A six-year-old child cannot be transgender. Adults are projecting their own ideology, and groupthink onto children. This is a developing social & medical disaster. Freelance writer and journalist Janet Murray explains below why the Observer article is so appalling:

Everyone is either male or female.

DSDs (Differences in Sex Development) have nothing to do with self ID have been brutally, unfairly, weaponised.

No one is a third sex, or no sex.

Fossil fuel companies. Transgender. What’s the connection?

That’s beginning to sound like a conspiracy theory. Do you really believe fossil fuel industry boards and consortiums are taking decisions at the highest level to fund “anti-trans” organisations? What evidence do you have of this?

Flags on the Abingdon Road

Oxfordshire County Council has issued a formal legal notice to Raise the Colours Oxfordshire in response to the continued placing of flags across the county, on or near highways without consent. This notice requires them to stop the activity.
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/unauthorised...

🤷‍♂️ Pro-trans organisations are well funded by billionaires too. eg:
whatisawoman.uk/ArcusFoundat...

That’ll be because he’s a lady. Humans don’t change sex.
And “most women” only support trans rights because they assume trans people have all had bottom surgery. When they find out it’s possible for “trans women” to keep their penises, the poll results tend to change rather dramatically.

Three key points we seem to forget:

1. The cost of international bulk shipping has dropped 98% since the 1950s due to containerization.

2. *Everything* got off-shored, for everyone. It's all global supply chains now. Shipped by oil.

3. You can optimize for efficiency or resilience, but not both.

Brexit.

Misinformed and misled are early stages of under-educated.

It's stated in this quality thread, but by me not adding here where, could this be your own country?

"While enriching themselves, autocrats need to keep vast sections of the population intentionally impoverished (and under-educated). 4/6"

The grift will not stop til he and the entire bloody lot of grifters are extracted, then banned from ever holding a governmental position again. This once great nation has never witnessed an entire admin with such brazen corruption & utter incompetence.
They all must be held to account.

This weekend’s No Kings rallies were historically massive Organizers said eight million people turned out to protest the Trump administration.

On Saturday, millions of people around the country took part in more than 3,000 No Kings protests opposing the presidency of Donald Trump, whose approval ratings have plummeted to 36 percent, a record low since his return to the White House.

*Was the political wing of the trade union movement.
Nowadays it’s the political wing of management, actively working against the interests of the working class. Which is why so many @uklabour.bsky.social members are jumping ship to the Greens.

A man at a protest holds a sign with a Venn diagram. In one circle: Dumbest Shit You've Ever Seen." In the other: Most Evil Shit You've Ever Seen." And arrow points to the overlapping area labeled: "You Are Here"

Sign of the Day (from NYC):

Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum?
There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.

Global Temperature Report for 2025 - Berkeley Earth 2025 was the 3rd warmest year on Earth since direct observations began, and recent warming appears to be moving faster than expected.

The last 11yrs included all 11 of the warmest years observed in the instrumental record, with the last 3yrs including all of the top 3 warmest

The warming spike in 2023 to 2025 suggests that the past warming rate is no longer a reliable predictor of the future,

berkeleyearth.org/global-tempe...

Sky TV on Instagram: "Put your clocks forward, or else. #SNLUK #SNL #SaturdayNightLive" 7,531 likes, 100 comments - skytv on March 28, 2026: "Put your clocks forward, or else. #SNLUK #SNL #SaturdayNightLive".

Check it out yourself 😂

www.instagram.com/reel/DWc1vXm...

No.

If you're a Republican in line at an airport, remember that your party WILL NOT pay TSA workers unless Democrats "join them" to continue to allow ICE to shoot innocent people, to gut Social Security, and to *actually* rig an election to keep these same Republicans in office to continue to screw you.

Adam and Eve, from whom all humans supposedly descended, had three sons.
All you Christian folks might like to give that some thought…

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The broligarchy's war on journalism The capture of US media by Trump allies is accelerating and the UK is the next in line. Plus: the mystery money behind my old newspaper.

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why?

Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia…
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Options for Phones at Protests Simply showing up to a protest leaves you susceptible to all sorts of surveillance, including cameras, drones, facial recognition, and more. There's not always a lot you can do about pernicious street...

Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...