EXCL: Home Office rejected appeal from foreign secretary Yvette Cooper that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world’s most dangerous countries from changes to UK’s immigration system.
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Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
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The HSE may class the PFAS used by AGC's factory in Lancashire (EEA-NH4) as a possible carcinogen & reprotoxic substance. @watershed-i.bsky.social previously uncovered they're emitting 800kg per year into the River Wyre and it's in the soil around the plant.
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Reform UK have picked this moment to say they'd scrap support for converting homes to heat pumps, thereby keeping them - & Britain - more dependent on fossil fuels
It's not like there's massive instability & security issues with the world's biggest supplier....
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Judging by the amount of helicopters flying into Cheltenham today I think we can safely assume the cost of living crisis is over.
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.
As we witness the horror of attacks on desalination plants, we need to be aware, on a warming planet, conflict over water, using water as a weapon of war, & targeting people seeking water is on the rise
- in the past 4 years, it's nearly doubled:
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Tehran was already on the brink of running out of water.
Now, even the rain is contaminated.
This is one of the most core war crimes available.
It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.
My friend Hannah is a community farmer in Gloucester and deserves to be paid for her work - but funding this role is really tricky right now, so if you can please donate and share this go fund me gofund.me/e7ff8683b
This is incredible. UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet
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The UK Oil and Gas industry knows the North Sea is in terminal decline. And they even say so. So always call BS on those who suggest otherwise. It has been in terminal decline since before any climate legislation. Details on LI.
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Beautiful! Communion, confirmation and marriage all in that building ❤️
💧💩Fountain of Filth: Today we joined other water campaigners to attend the opening of a fountain depicting river users getting sick from dirty water
Our waterways shouldn’t be making us sick. Sewage pollution MUST end✊️
Tune in: Dirty Business (9pm on Channel 4) spotlights Britain's sewage scandal
If nothing is done & the existing trend prevails, there will be 106 road deaths on Birmingham’s streets under the next council administration’s four year tenure ☠️
Imagine there was a poison gas leak in Birmingham that was projected to kill that many people, & politicians had no real plans to fix it
We hooked up our rainwater collection tank about 6 weeks ago on our new charity building and it’s already full! Glos and the rest of the south west can’t take much more rain.
It's the Ship of Theseus but all the original parts are being used to build a second, crappier ship.
Truly the Mondayest of Mondays today.
BREAKING NEWS: UK loses its #measles elimination status
@benk-d.bsky.social highlights failure to reach 95% measles #vaccine coverage target in UK
+ need for secure funding for vaccine outreach efforts & joined-up #PublicHealth response
Read more: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
“professional grade logistics” is literally just moms existing
Two things to learn from this.
1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors.
2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie.
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"Single ship load of solar PV – which can ultimately deliver 170 terawatt hours of PV once installed, is now worth 120 coal carries, or 57 LNG tankers"
I mean….
David Mitchell dressed as a nazi asking if he's a baddie.
"Hans, are we on the board of peace?"
Be more lichen.
Photo of a round, orange lichen growing flat on light grey rock. The lichen is comprised of tightly packed, branching arms all radiating out from the centre. The lichen is covered in numerous small, round, orange discs - the apothecia.
Elegant Orange Sunburst Lichen, Rusavskia elegans. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Like there’s a ton of individual issues but the broader problem is that there’s an assault on giving a shit about anyone besides yourself, nihilism that tells people the only way to prevent getting hurt is to hurt enough other people and that sickness is filtering into the bones of everything.
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
This is also true about some climate folks, honestly the most frustrating thing about it is that it’s never the people doing loads IRL (organising, leveraging agency, building community and collectives) but just people hyper online arguing with bots mostly. Joy and humour are ok peeps, touch grass.
