🟨 Print Edition — How Labour Became a Party of the Super-Rich
The Telegraph journalist Charles Moore once remarked that whereas Margaret Thatcher believed in privatisation, Tony Blair just liked rich people.
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change?
Here it is.
Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.
The largest technology companies are contributing to a surge in data centre investment, as their capital expenditure exceeded USD 400 billion in 2025 – and is expected to jump by another 75% in 2026. Capital expenditure of just five technology companies is now larger than global investment in oil and natural gas production. Many jurisdictions are seeing project pipelines accelerate dramatically, although not all projects will come to fruition. Those that are moving forward are doing so at pace: the IEA’s unique satellite-based tracking shows that “artificial intelligence (AI) factories” – cutting-edge data centres specifically designed for AI – have more than tripled in capacity in the past 18 months. Meanwhile, the capabilities of AI are improving quickly, increasing the likelihood that it will reshape economic growth, innovation and competitiveness and disrupt established industries and jobs.
- Total data centre investment is now greater than total global oil and gas investment
- Nvidia's "AI factories" marketing phrase has infected.......everything
Laura doesn’t seem to realise that the word “pledge” is not simply there for a temporary brain fart during an election campaign.
A pledge is something you say to the electorate is a holy and immovable promise because the previous government was so terrible.
Keir Starmer lied. Pure and simple.
Peter Mandelson claimed he conducted unofficial diplomacy with Israel on behalf of the last Conservative government after fresh details of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein had emerged, we found.
www.declassifieduk.org/mandelson-lo...
“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,
I must listen to the birds.
And in order to hear the birds,
the warplanes must be silent”
- Marwan Makhoul
A young girl in a blue shirt gives a peace sign and smiles at the camera, standing in front of a cosmic, galaxy-themed background. Text highlights her achievements in science despite being diagnosed with autism and bullied.
The Future Is Female 🌌 Diagnosed with autism at 3. Bullied throughout school. IQ of 162 -- Graduated high school at 7. Earned a bachelor's degree. Now pursuing a master's in mathematics. Her name is Adhara Pérez Sánchez, and her dream is to work for NASA and colonize Mars. She's from Mexico City.
In #Gaza, UNRWA operates these lifelines:
➡️ 100+ generators provide electricity to shelters, healthcare and water systems.
➡️ 150+ vehicles deliver aid and collect waste.
UNRWA teams continue working despite shortages.
More supplies need to be let in urgently.
#UNRWAworks
👉 NEW -- Minister misled parliament over arms exports to Israel
by @john-mcevoy.bsky.social
Chris Bryant told a parliamentary committee that UK-made aircraft parts would not benefit Israeli fighter pilots. His briefing said otherwise.
www.declassifieduk.org/minister-mis...
👉 NEW -- Strong pro-Israel bias among BBC bosses, new data indicates
by Dania Akkad
BBC executives met nine times with pro-Israel Jewish groups and just once with pro-Palestinians in 14 months of genocide, Freedom of Information shows
www.declassifieduk.org/strong-pro-i...
This New Yorker article on Sam Altman is excellent, but extremely disturbing about both Altman and AI's race toward money and away from safety.
🏭 China’s latest Five-Year Plan embeds forced labor targeting Uyghurs into its industrial strategy, argue Samir Goswami and @nyrolaelima.bsky.social.
The authors, writing in @thehill.com, call for stronger accountability measures.
thehill.com/opinion/ener...
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
The BBC leads with a story suggesting widespread asylum seeker fraud
At the same time Reform UK is using the issue as a campaign wedge in the May elections
And that combination shapes how the story lands
“Gas prices? What gas prices?” better cities create choices. Via the Urban Truth Collecrive Image of people riding bikes in a protected bike-lane in Paris
“We could never do THAT in OUR city!” Leadership doesn’t make excuses. Via the Urban Truth Collective Image of people walking on a wonderful pedestrianized street in central Montreal
NEW: “Our ultimate goal is better decision-making about cities, so we want to influence decision-makers. But to do that, we have to reach & influence everyone.” READ & SHARE our new @urbantruth.bsky.social initiative profiled in @momentummag.bsky.social! #UrbanTruth momentummag.com/urban-truth-...
Food served at the pentagon Vs food served to US soldiers sent to die for the empire.
"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV
Yes, the Republicans -- every single one -- are environmental pillagers, happy to destroy rare ecosystems for a fast dollar.
The @nationaltrust.org.uk only rarely ask their members to take political action, but when they do, it’s seismic.
Please take the NT’s action, email your MP demanding the Government protect 30% of the UK for nature by 2030: campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk/page/186395/...
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We're recruiting for a Research Farms Data Manager to support digital data recording and reporting across @rothamsted.bsky.social field trials, helping ensure farm research data is captured securely and accurately for research and reporting. Apply here: jobs.rothamsted.ac.uk/vacancies/86...
More screenings of the People’s Emergency Briefing being confirmed by groups around the UK all the time.
Find one near you.
www.nebriefing.org/screening-map
Find out why business-as-usual is no longer an option, and how emergency action will improve lives.
#PEBuk
"What exactly are these negotiations really doing, other than giving Netanyahu basically the green light, or at least the ability, to buy more time for his aggression in Lebanon?"
"To bring justice, to bring peace, to bring equality and dignity to all of us, we have to work together."
Well, even if a few abuse the system, one has to think how abusive the system is too, that pushes people to be desperate, and others to exploit the situation
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Glaciers had one of their worst years in 2025:
👉 408 billion tonnes of ice mass lost
👉 ≈1.1 mm added to global sea levels
👉 6 of the 7 worst years have happened in the past 7 yrs
Since 1975: ~9,600 billion tonnes gone (≈26.4 mm SLR)
This isn’t a gradual change...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
