Yep. Poor belted galloways. I was embarrassed for everyone involved.

No I hadn't seen that. Sadly the farmers I know round here are mostly interested in putting up fences to stop people going anywhere and killing wildlife. Oh, and one did spray St George's cross flags on all his cows.

My son is now 15 and we no longer live in London, but I have such happy memories of us taking the DLR for no other reason than to do this when he was little. The added joy of it being a journey with no destination, no purpose other than itself...

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

HOLY SHIT.

A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.

Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

I’ve just seen an American TV programme refer to a pub crawl. Cultural appropriation has gone too far.

'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli War Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.

Arundhati Roy empties the clip!

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

An accurate description of much of what's playing out.

But humans are not mindless automatons, programmed to relentlessly kill off life on Earth, and most of the destruction is down to power structures that value only profit.

We HAVE the capacity to put the gear into reverse. Rewilding is how.

Zack Polanski pressures Wes Streeting over Palantir after Mandelson texts released ZACK Polanski has piled fresh pressure on Wes Streeting over Palantir’s NHS contracts after the Health Secretary’s newly-released text messages…

A £240m defence contract without tender.

Their fingerprints all over our health care data.

A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.

Everything around Palantir stinks.

www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...

The US has even more military bases in the UK than we thought US military sites across Britain have quietly multiplied. Findings expose how deeply the UK has become a US-run war hub with no accountability

US military sites across Britain have quietly multiplied. Findings expose how deeply the UK has become a US-run war hub with no accountability

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

Sending this to the various intelligent, articulate people I know who voted for brexit. They always believe they had good reasons ("at the time"), but in reality they were always just doing what these people wanted...

Space-based data centres are the CCS of big tech. They'll just be perpetually around the corner, there will be a handful of flimsy demonstration projects, and the concept will just suck up gov't subsidies for decades while serving as a rhetorical tool to fend off real regulation of industry

Drugs policy approach needs to change, Zack Polanski says The Green Party leader of England and Wales says there needs to be a

Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs.

They've stopped people from using drugs safely.

It's time to legalise *and* regulate.

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

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”

― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

10,000 voices called for climate resilience: the Government minimised the threat. by Rupert Read and Caroline Lucas

“Without significant increases in the UK food system and supply chain resilience, it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food.” open.substack.com/pub/climatem...

Ned Kelly looking like he’s about to open a toast cafe in Shoreditch.

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Latest Vivaldi release surfs a wave of anti-AI sentiment Interview: 'What we are finding is that people hate AI'

“Basically, what we are finding is that people hate AI.”

As Firefox pushes AI on its users, Vivaldi does the complete opposite. Even more reason to try it.

Amazon is producing a web series on #regenerativeagriculture. They are asking experts to pay a fee to be featured. So if you see a special on Amazon about regenerative ag, understand those expert voices were actually bought. Who has the cash to afford these placements? Corporations with an agenda!

regenerative agriculture results!!

we are beginning to garden *at scale*

(aka simple practices informed by *soil* microbiology & biochemistry and not treating the earth as though it were rockwool)

Dr. Elaine Ingham is one of my faves on this topic

youtu.be/x2H60ritjag?...

Our highly paid stick consultant

Video shows a speeded up edit of the process of making potting mix starting with compost from a sack, worm compost from a bathtub & diverting into the process of making charcoal in an open metal kiln. Finally the ingredients are mixed in a wheelbarrow & ready on the potting bench.

Our potting mix has 3 ingredients & is the foundation of producing healthy plants for sale. With a base of Sylvagrow organic peat-free compost It uses locally sourced "waste" organic matter to feed the worms, comfrey and nettle grown on site + brash from garden work to make biochar.
🌱 #permaculture

Good work. Important work.

No war on a dead planet If defence and intelligence agencies understand the risks from climate and biodiversity collapse, why can’t politicians?

The UK gov has finally released the Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security report. We face catastrophe. Why aren't politicians acting? I think some are - but in ways perhaps just as frightening.
My latest for Technosphere Earth.
www.technosphere.earth/no-war-on-a-...

A short thread and a simple truth.

FULL UPDATE!: We learn from the Times in this morning’s paper that indeed as I surmised (see thread below) the Govt >haven’t< released an unredacted version of this bombshell report. What a scandal.

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Without paywall: archive.ph/2026.01.23-0...

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!

Every goddamn day.

One developer’s tool strips AI and other junk from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox A developer released a free tool called “Just the Browser” that disabless AI features, ads, and other unwanted junk in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now

cybernews.com/security/dev...