Don't you hate it when fighting age men flee their own country, leaving their families behind, then expect other people to give them a handout.
14.02.2026 20:16 โ ๐ 501 ๐ 123 ๐ฌ 37 ๐ 6@forthwrite2.bsky.social
Scottish & European. Writer mostly, now; was lecturer. Love literature, culture, languages, natural world. Environment & climate issues. Fed up with X.
Don't you hate it when fighting age men flee their own country, leaving their families behind, then expect other people to give them a handout.
14.02.2026 20:16 โ ๐ 501 ๐ 123 ๐ฌ 37 ๐ 6Thanks, but ... MUST I look at them? ๐ฌ๐
14.02.2026 16:56 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Photo: Steve Bannon and Matt Goodwin shaking hands and grinning together. Quote from Steve Bannon: "Darkness is good... Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing." - Steve Bannon, convicted fraudster, enabler of Jeffrey Epstein, friend of Nigel Farage and Matt Goodwin
Can't help thinking that this photo of Gorton & Denton Reform candidate Matt Goodwin with Steve Bannon - convicted fraudster, close friend & enabler of Jeffrey Epstein, promoter of violence to overturn a US election & admirer of Satan - has not had the coverage it deserves.
14.02.2026 16:10 โ ๐ 81 ๐ 61 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 3Photo of Goodwin Reform UK 'Handmaid's Tale future': Reform's Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments Byelection candidate accused of indulging 'alt right fantasy' by suggesting women need 'biological reality' check
HOLOCAUST ENCYCLOPEDIA LEBENSBORN PROGRAM Nazi authorities created the Lebensborn program to increase Germany's population. Pregnant German women deemed "racially valuable" were encouraged to give birth to their children at Lebensborn homes. During World War II, the program became complicit in the kidnapping of foreign children with physical features considered "Aryan" by the Nazis.
โThe idea that we should be telling young girls they have a moral obligation to have children earlier is both dystopian and deeply sexistโฆ Suggesting early motherhood is a civic duty is truly troublingโ
Reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
No thanks, Gorton and Denton.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
After an exceptionally wet start to 2026, two climate scientists explain whatโs going on.
14.02.2026 08:46 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
12.02.2026 20:38 โ ๐ 12400 ๐ 4408 ๐ฌ 204 ๐ 108It's still a shock to find a new PFAS forever chemical hotspot, even when it's inevitable. A bit of digging around paper mills, which often use PFAS, revealed the banned carcinogen PFOS at levels as high as 3,000ng/l in groundwater in south Cumbria
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This week on Bylines Scotland...
"Manchester Unitedโs squad currently includes 19 foreign players out of 26 โ thatโs 73.1% โimmigrantsโ, according to Transfermarkt. But apparently those immigrants donโt count. Theyโre assets. Investments. Tradable commodities. Certainly not immigrants!"
Matt Ridley, a whole career of being dangerously wrong about everything
14.02.2026 06:27 โ ๐ 248 ๐ 39 ๐ฌ 33 ๐ 8New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>>
floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
Indeed! As for childless women pursuing intellectual interests & developing critical thinking skills etc .... where will it all lead? (Oh heck, could lead to competitive academic careers...)
13.02.2026 20:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ด NEW - Reform Candidate Matthew Goodwinโs MAGA Network
โAnti-eliteโ GB News presenter standing in Gorton and Denton has ties to powerful anti-climate groups allied to Donald Trump.
๐ @adambarnett.bsky.social
As the EU explores a ban on forever chemicals, the UK announces a plan to make a plan of what to maybe do about PFAS. How many people are being exposed to harmful chemicals while the government dithers?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Absolutely brilliant take-down by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
of ludicrous myths & misinformation spouting from Tony Blairโs think tank. Why on earth does he think itโs sensible to make our energy more costly & less secure?
NEWS: Goldman Sachsโ top lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler has RESIGNED after newly released emails exposed a years-long personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein โ including advising him on handling sex crime accusations, media scrutiny, and accusers.
13.02.2026 02:23 โ ๐ 12471 ๐ 4718 ๐ฌ 1335 ๐ 665I certainly think he's got issues.
13.02.2026 12:20 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Once, marshes in East London could absorb some flood water. We've built over these with a sea of concrete, losing the 'sponginess' to absorb intense climate-driven rain. Sewers built for an era of lower rainfall can be overwhelmed, contaminating flood waters.
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Reform candidate calls for young girls to be given "biological reality check" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
13.02.2026 08:05 โ ๐ 107 ๐ 60 ๐ฌ 95 ๐ 92'Mr Goodwin also appeared to agree with the hostโs claim that universities have become hotbeds of โpolitically correct authoritarianismโ because they are full of โchildless womenโ .
Oh yeah, sure. ๐
This brave woman speaks for millions of British people.
Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.
"According to an assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the ongoing loss of nature poses a systemic risk to the global economy."
#ecocide for #greed
The Tony Blair Institute out there today calling for more oil and gas drilling in an absolute gift for Farage and Badenoch. Government will be forgiven for thinking, with friends like these... www.businessgreen.com/news/4525624...
13.02.2026 08:00 โ ๐ 119 ๐ 44 ๐ฌ 17 ๐ 22Businesses must take responsibility for biodiversity loss โ for their sake as much as ours
13.02.2026 07:01 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Important, shocking report that needs & deserves much attention (more than eg. Tony Blair & oil & gas interests) .... #pollution #wildlife #marinelife #biodiversity #climate
13.02.2026 08:09 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Long term, low level exposure to oil pollution can lead to lesions in seabirds' digestive tracts, internal bleeding, dehydration, starvation, reduced immunity, liver & thyroid disorders, chemicals from oil can be passed on to birds' eggs, harming the next generation:
uk.oceana.org/reports/sea-...
BREAKING: UK heat pump sales hit a record in 2025: 125,037 units sold (+27% vs 2024).
Growth across all segments:
โข Air-to-water +26%
โข Ground/water source +32%
โข DHW +36%
โข UK-made units +38%
Not only were the files that were supposed to be made available to Members of Congress still redacted, but we also learned that Pam Bondi has been keeping track of what Members have reviewed.
Clearly, this is one big cover-up led by Pam.
Pretending that climate change is not real changes nothing about the real harms climate change is already doing to citizens in the US and beyond. This affects everyone and is an n outrageous abuse of power and can we rename EPA the environment pollution agency?
12.02.2026 19:11 โ ๐ 48 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 2Because, after all, what do professional medical and climate scientists know about it?
A pig-ignorant orange shitgibbon, who wouldn't know research if it bit him in the face, has decided we can all choke...
Thanks, USA. And fuck you, #Trump! ๐คฎ
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...