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Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer Hannah Spencer elected as party’s first MP in northern England, as Labour sees a 25.3% drop in vote compared to 2024

"I can’t and won’t accept this victory tonight without calling out politicians and divisive figures who constantly scapegoat and blame our communities for all the problems in society.”
Hannah Spencer, after showing that politics of division has limits.

Onward!

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sure, yet again taxpayers can pick up the bill for bad development

Turn off the Toxic Algorithms For ourselves, for our children, we must get rid of these toxic algorithms on social media platforms that push harmful content at people, all for the sake of their profits. The First Interim Report o...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/tu... @uplift.ie

Stop the corporate grab of seaweed rights I just emailed my councillors telling them to stand firm against corporate takeover of seaweed harvesting, can you do the same?

I just emailed councillors in the west, asking them to stand firm against corporate takeover of seaweed harvesting, can you do the same? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/st...

Get on it!

They won't, unless we embarrass them into it every step of the way.
Total capture of this government by certain business interests is rather obvious, sadly

Bullies are bullies, everywhere

Origin Story did a whole season on Socialism last year and the amount of energy "we" (the left etc) spend on bitching about people with sometimes only marginally different pov is incredible.
Much easier for fascists who basically just agree to fuck shit up.

They don't have the style of president Epstein and cronies but they are going into the same direction

Hurray!

Better start building some decent infrastructure with our Exchequer surplus before the bond market takes it all away again

YouTube video by rvTelevision Party political broadcast 2026 - Green Party 2

Why does it feel like everybody is always running but not getting anywhere? The wealth we create doesn't end up in our communities, where does it go?

A lesson in class conscious messaging in this new broadcast by the Green Party of England and Wales:

youtu.be/Neow-dakbtI?...

#speirgorm

I can see those working out alright as they look like they would work with a decentralised grid.
We can't ignore that renewables will not serve a commodity driven business model and as such need more complex grids to serve local communities

Stop a Canadian corporation harvesting huge forests of seaweed from the west coast There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to demonstrate the fact that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights gi...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/st... @uplift.ie

Text: 'Urgent! Stop Minister's fossil fuel power Grab! Act today to keep Ireland LNG Free!' Image of Darragh O'Brien wearing a crown holding an LNG tanker

Ministers are preparing a report on a climate-wrecking fossil fuel bill giving Darragh O’Brien unprecedented power to bypass planning processes

Email the Committee today to urge them to stop this!

Link to @uplift.ie: Tinyurl.com/StopLNGPowerGrab

Should be no problem to scale that until 2050?
We've already proven that we can do it, unlike building nuclear reactors. I remain unconvinced that that is security

No, we'd just have to shut down a load of datacenters that don't run essential services to power almost everything on the renewables we already have. Give me local, and give me storage. I don't want to buy neither fossils nor uranium from anyone for my kids future

Yeah - in 2050, judging by the way we build big projects. Oh and then we'll have to buy uranium from who?
I don't think that nuclear is a practical solution to energy security at all

All for nothing, I'm afraid
They won't find that golden ticket for the last flight to Mars or whatever escape plan they imagine up in that hole

Stop Fossil Gas - Greenpeace International Dirty energy deals with Trump have to end. Europe must break free from fossil fuel dependence and build an energy system with 100 % renewables.

I signed to stop President Epstein controlling Europe’s energy.

Fossil gas brings chaos. Renewables bring security.

Join me. Add your name:

#StopFossilGas act.gp/3O5yFOv

Aye, I believe cynically so, as they're convinced they'll be on top of the dumpster fire. Full on power play in place since the Paris agreement.

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

All Hands on Deck Needed to Respond to the Latest Attack on Access to Justice The Government is seeking to dramatically erode the public right of access to justice via the courts by imposing prohibitively expensive costs on eNGOs and members of civil society who seek to challen...

Deadline to make a submission is 5.30pm today.
Submissions can be sent by email to aarhus@dcee.gov.ie

Info on consultation from Govt (found under DCEE): www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

For more on why you should make a submissions and support on content: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...

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Letters to the Editor, January 9th: On students, housing and investors, funding Irish theatre and flying in the face of climate change Accommodation is a national infrastructure issue requiring coordinated public action

Letters to the Editor, January 9th: "Flying in the face of climate change". Great letter by Angela Deegan, pushing back on lazy @irishtimes.com aviation boosterism!
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing & sharing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? I've signed this petition calling for the government to stop X allowing their chatbot Grok to ‘digitally undress’ women and share sexualised and illegal photos of children. Will you sign too?

I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie

We don't need United States-led (or any) LNG!

Let's reclaim our power in 2026 to
Keep Ireland LNG Free!

Colonialism in its latest form.

Hahaha yesssss