A Β£240m defence contract without tender.
Their fingerprints all over our health care data.
A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.
Everything around Palantir stinks.
www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
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A Β£240m defence contract without tender.
Their fingerprints all over our health care data.
A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.
Everything around Palantir stinks.
www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
US military sites across Britain have quietly multiplied. Findings expose how deeply the UK has become a US-run war hub with no accountability
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
Sending this to the various intelligent, articulate people I know who voted for brexit. They always believe they had good reasons ("at the time"), but in reality they were always just doing what these people wanted...
02.02.2026 20:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Space-based data centres are the CCS of big tech. They'll just be perpetually around the corner, there will be a handful of flimsy demonstration projects, and the concept will just suck up gov't subsidies for decades while serving as a rhetorical tool to fend off real regulation of industry
02.02.2026 10:09 β π 142 π 57 π¬ 9 π 3Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs.
They've stopped people from using drugs safely.
It's time to legalise *and* regulate.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
βThereβs no single answer that will solve all our future problems. Thereβs no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answersβat least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.β
β Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
βWithout significant increases in the UK food system and supply chain resilience, it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food.β open.substack.com/pub/climatem...
31.01.2026 08:04 β π 25 π 13 π¬ 0 π 2Ned Kelly looking like heβs about to open a toast cafe in Shoreditch.
30.01.2026 07:39 β π 369 π 70 π¬ 6 π 5Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
βBasically, what we are finding is that people hate AI.β
As Firefox pushes AI on its users, Vivaldi does the complete opposite. Even more reason to try it.
Amazon is producing a web series on #regenerativeagriculture. They are asking experts to pay a fee to be featured. So if you see a special on Amazon about regenerative ag, understand those expert voices were actually bought. Who has the cash to afford these placements? Corporations with an agenda!
29.01.2026 14:12 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0regenerative agriculture results!!
we are beginning to garden *at scale*
(aka simple practices informed by *soil* microbiology & biochemistry and not treating the earth as though it were rockwool)
Dr. Elaine Ingham is one of my faves on this topic
youtu.be/x2H60ritjag?...
Our highly paid stick consultant
27.01.2026 21:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Video shows a speeded up edit of the process of making potting mix starting with compost from a sack, worm compost from a bathtub & diverting into the process of making charcoal in an open metal kiln. Finally the ingredients are mixed in a wheelbarrow & ready on the potting bench.
27.01.2026 19:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Our potting mix has 3 ingredients & is the foundation of producing healthy plants for sale. With a base of Sylvagrow organic peat-free compost It uses locally sourced "waste" organic matter to feed the worms, comfrey and nettle grown on site + brash from garden work to make biochar.
π± #permaculture
Good work. Important work.
27.01.2026 10:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The UK gov has finally released the Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security report. We face catastrophe. Why aren't politicians acting? I think some are - but in ways perhaps just as frightening.
My latest for Technosphere Earth.
www.technosphere.earth/no-war-on-a-...
A short thread and a simple truth.
23.01.2026 15:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0FULL UPDATE!: We learn from the Times in this morningβs paper that indeed as I surmised (see thread below) the Govt >havenβt< released an unredacted version of this bombshell report. What a scandal.
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Without paywall: archive.ph/2026.01.23-0...
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!
Every goddamn day.
23.01.2026 09:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now
cybernews.com/security/dev...
Here Musk articulates the unspoken creed of the global elite, gathered at Davos: being right or wrong doesn't matter anymore, as long as you're in on the grift.
22.01.2026 16:22 β π 293 π 56 π¬ 8 π 0Context for this is that I've been part of DIY collectives making parties for over 30 years. For most of that time it never occurred to us that almost everyone in the various different groups was neurodivergent, or that we were unintentionally creating our own safe, freak-friendly spaces π
22.01.2026 16:22 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A good post about #neurodivergence & music/clubs/parties.
Cover image reads:
NEURODIVERSITY, SENSITIVITY & RAVE CULTURE
How sensitive and neurodivergent ravers and artists experience electronic music: challenges, belonging, and alternatives
www.instagram.com/p/DTsyf_tDN1R/
People don't accept that it's happening, even when it's literally happening TO THEM! A friend was in Cornwall as storm Goretti tore it apart and repeatedly heard shrugging locals describe it as a "one-off/freak event".
22.01.2026 10:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The chief of the burglary corporation says stop being so down on burglary and also please buy this stuff we made from the stuff we stole from you that is burning the planet.
22.01.2026 07:44 β π 163 π 32 π¬ 6 π 0BREAKING - @zackpolanski.bsky.social is telling defence surveillance corporation Palantir to 'pack its bags and get the hell out of the NHS'
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
Taunton Deane is a remarkable plant. Vigourous and productive, it keeps growing even during the winter months. Plants can easily get over 2m tall but become top heavy and shed side branches, especially in heavy rain or snow, so some pruning & care is advised. With that plants can last several years!
21.01.2026 18:41 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A view down a double row of bushy perennial kale plants. They are about a metre tall with a shrubby shape, deep green leaves with purple stems visible. The photo was taken at The Pingle organic market garden where the kale is used in their box scheme. Bare winter trees and a poly tunnel are visible beyond.
A closer view of some of the Taunton Deane perennial kale bushes. It's a wintery view of The Pingle with more rows of crops visible beyond along with bare trees, a pile of woodchip and the hills of the Derbyshire Dales.
The large scale Taunton Deane perennial kale trial at The Pingle continues... These were cuttings in pots a year ago! Now they've survived a week of snow & freezing temps. I did some maintenance staking some plants back upright & removing all large/old leaves. 1/2
π± #permaculture
Remember what I said about how when Trump falters, the media inserts a fake, imaginary version of Trump into the news instead?
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