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For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.

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Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?

The tall red mountains of Zion national Park

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur

Pic of the day

#photography

Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe’s richest man LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, who could take €1bn hit, says proposed 2% levy ‘aims to destroy liberal economy’

These greedy, psychopathic fucks are actually listened to
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Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

Ex-Israeli spokesman: "You represent sharia. You represent the hatred of Western society."

Me: "I am Western, you racist piece of shit... I thought I was coming on to debate John Spencer not this ridiculous war criminal."

Full debate between me & an Israeli racist:
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Turns Out Meat Is Still the Ultimate Luxury After four years of vegan cuisine, the fine-dining stalwart Eleven Madison Park is cooking animals again.

Eleven Madison Park, once named the world’s best restaurant, is no longer vegan—a sign of how Americans can’t quit meat, and of fine-dining hubris, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov: Israel’s campaign in Gaza is genocidal

Jewish Israeli-American historian and Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov: Israel’s campaign in Gaza is genocidal Omer
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Science Communication through Poetry At Edinburgh Napier University, we nurture talent and create knowledge that shapes communities all around the world.

🎉 New #Scicomm opportunity! 🎉

📅 Places now open for 4-week online course on science communication through poetry with @edinburghnapier.bsky.social.

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#SciArt #CPD #PoetryInScience 🧪 #HigherEd #Poetry

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“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”

- Robert Anton Wilson

Graeber is unique in that he offers a blueprint for ecological survival that starts with everyday mutuality, non-hierarchical organisation, and the courage to treat alternative ways of living as already possible.

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The New York Times Continues to Give Netanyahu the Benefit of the Doubt - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/12/t...

French philosopher Jacques Rancière says today’s politics is either hollow “police” showmanship or genuine “dissensus.” #PalestineAction www.critical-theory.com/who-the-fuck...

Amnesty International France just projected a giant message in the sky over Paris. 🕊️🌌⚖️

Tell your wife that Ozzie #SharonOsbourne

UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told Intelligence assessment before proscription found that vast majority of group’s activities were lawful, court hears An intelligence assessment before Palestine Action was banned under anti-terrorism laws found that the vast majority of its activities were lawful, a court has heard. Raza Husain KC, appearing for Huda Ammori, a co-founder of the group, said Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe the group on 5 July was “repugnant” and an “authoritarian and blatant abuse of power”. Continue reading...

UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet

Plastics and petrochemical industries wield outsized influence in global treaty negotiations, often overwhelming scientific voices and less-funded countries:
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Satire is a cultural safeguard, revealing the absurdities, cruelties and abuses of power. How long before mocking the U.S. government becomes a treasonous act?

‘I’d be proud to be thrown out of America!’ Eric Idle on Trump, life after Python and not talking before lunch Ahead of his UK tour, the former Monty Python star responds to questions from Catherine Zeta-Jones, David Mamet, Janet Suzman, Steve Coogan, Bill Oddie and others

Eric Idle ❤️https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/11/id-be-proud-to-be-thrown-out-of-america-eric-idle-on-trump-life-after-python-and-not-talking-before-lunch

Caring about Palestine is not some niche political issue it’s like the absolute bare minimum of being a human being

Against Purity: Why Maria Popova Is Wrong About Poetry and Artificial Intelligence in Claiming That ChatGPT Can’t Move Us Like Walt Whitman I’ve been reading Maria Popova for years, with the kind of admiration that turns underlines into quiet rituals. Her essays have moved me, surprised me, and st

Against Purity: Why Maria Popova Is Wrong About Poetry and Artificial Intelligence in Claiming That ChatGPT Can’t Move Us Like Walt Whitman www.jotdown.es/2025/07/agai...

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

Rilke

Selection of illustrations of birds common to Ireland with their name in the Irish language. This featured in a 1950s primary school textbook.

Sctars we are, schtars!

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin

Hour Visit the post for more.

Poem of the Day: Hour by Carol Ann Duffy poemsontheunderground.org/hour

“Self Portrait”, 30x27cm, oil on canvas, 2023.

Included in the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award exhibition 2025, opening on Thursday.

At the National Portrait Gallery, London.

From 10th July - 12th October.

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