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Lu Curtis

@lfmcurtis.bsky.social

Climate Activist. Gardener. Photographer. Permaculturist. Practitioner in social and therapeutic horticulture. London.

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Tories pledge to scrap landmark climate legislation Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says her party would axe legally binding targets to cut emissions.

Climate change is already damaging the nature, beauty and heritage we care for. Without deep and sustained cuts to emissions, nature faces an even more perilous future and the places people love will continue to suffer.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

02.10.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 238    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 4
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1/4 Do you know what a SLAPP suit is?

02.07.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Israeli officers and soldiers have revealed they’ve been ordered to deliberately shoot at unarmed Palestinians trying to get aid.

That’s in Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Israel is deliberately massacring civilians it’s deliberately starving.

There are few crimes more depraved.

27.06.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 511    πŸ” 288    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 19
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A TIMELINE OF A GENOCIDE
Under siege for 75 years

Together with Palestine Action, we have compiled a Timeline of a Genocide detailing colonialism, dispossession, and the decades-long genocide of the Palestinian people.

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27.06.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shocking stats in today's FT: "England faces driest year this century."

April rainfall more than 50% below average across most of the country…

17.05.2025 07:35 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 17
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What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped? The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"If you’re younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earthβ€”massive crop failures, apocalyptic fires, imploding economies, epic flooding, hundreds of millions of refugees..."

www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

27.04.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 295    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 6
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I oppose facial recognition Facial recognition is dangerous and we need safeguards!

action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/167674/...

08.04.2025 06:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UK must spend Β£1.5bn a year on flood defences to protect public, experts warn Researchers cite Β£2.4bn annual cost of flooding and say a third of England’s critical infrastructure is at risk

As usual, all about hard defences

Bugger all being done to reforest uplands, unstraighten rivers, manage retreat from coastlines and other measures designed to tackle the CAUSES OF FLOODING in a #climate changed UK

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

20.03.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 614    πŸ” 182    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 12
Environment, Pollution, Thames Water, CEO, Citizen's Arrest, Thames Water executives citizen's arrested for crimes of public nuisance. Woman in blue jacket seen leaving the offices of Thames Water in Reading UK Tuesday 18th March.

Environment, Pollution, Thames Water, CEO, Citizen's Arrest, Thames Water executives citizen's arrested for crimes of public nuisance. Woman in blue jacket seen leaving the offices of Thames Water in Reading UK Tuesday 18th March.

BREAKING NEWS: Thames Water executives citizen’s arrested at their offices this morning.

It’s time someone held these criminals to account for the harm and disruption they are causing to our lives.

Follow for updates.
#CitizensArrest #ThamesWater

18.03.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 253    πŸ” 138    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 31
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On climate protest, a superb point from @richarddenniss.bsky.social. If protest wasn't effective, govts wouldn't try to ban it. And as much as politicians like to talk about parliamentary logjams, as soon as fossil capital is threatened, they mobilise with extraordinary rapidity and efficacy.

18.02.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 222    πŸ” 113    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 11
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🚨 BREAKING! 🚨

LORD WALNEY DUMPED (and on Valentine’s Day, no less)

EXCLUSIVE from @bylinetimes.bsky.social - The Home Office confirms that Walney, who was appointed by Boris Johnson, will leave Government.

Read: bylinetimes.com/2025/02/14/k...

#SackLordWalney #SackedLordWalney

14.02.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 191    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 20
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Follow the Money Podcast Episode Β· Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring Β· EP8 Β· 44m

NEW: Explosive new revelations from ex MI6 spy.

Why *did* Boris Johnson block the publication of the Russia Report before 2019 Gen Election?

Finally some answers..

Russian military intelligence - the GRU - targeted the Brexit vote.

"Money changed hands"
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podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

12.02.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2048    πŸ” 1094    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 81

I’m really looking forward to reading this 2nd edition. The writing is incredibly entertaining and informative. #ClimateEmergency #WhatCanIDo

03.02.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rachel Reeves holds newts in contempt, it seems.
So I thought I'd post this glorious painting of a "lion of the duckweed" by Jackie Morris + my paean to these "kings of the pond", both from The Lost Words.
Newt-lovers, unite!

30.01.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 480    πŸ” 114    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 11
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The irony of it all. . . . .

23.01.2025 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 301    πŸ” 107    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 4
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We need to make work pay.

14.01.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 282    πŸ” 120    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6
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LA wildfire damages set to cost record $135bn Some of the most expensive properties in the US have been wiped out by the fires.

If you think slowing or stopping #climate change is too expensive, you have it backwards.
Failing to slow or stop #climatechange is what's expensive.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

11.01.2025 06:34 β€” πŸ‘ 474    πŸ” 195    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 16
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β€˜We’re still in survival mode’: anger persists in Valencia weeks after floods Wreckage from Spain’s worst natural disaster this century may have been cleared but life for many remains in disarray

They weren't prepared. Nor are we.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

21.12.2024 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scrambled weather cycle prompts meteorologists to rethink models Top forecasting agencies in discussions after β€˜uh-oh’ moment on key readings of Pacific Ocean temperatures

Scrambled weather cycle prompts meteorologists to rethink models

- Top forecasting agencies in discussions after β€˜uh-oh’ moment on key readings of Pacific Ocean temperatures

#ClimateCrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/4c5d...

20.12.2024 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Government’s β€˜Independent’ Extremism Adviser Who Backs Palestine Protest Crackdown Has New Links to Defence Industry The former MP, who was appointed as a Government adviser by Boris Johnson, faces calls to quit over his potential conflicts of interest

Widespread calls for the compromised Lord Walney, who takes money from oil & arms while advising the government against peaceful climate and anti-genocide activists, to resign!

TL;DR #SackLordWalney

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/09/g...

10.12.2024 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Massive away win for the little fella.

02.12.2024 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 57903    πŸ” 9561    πŸ’¬ 581    πŸ“Œ 368
Yes, it's a genocide
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys Yes, it's a genocide

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent."

Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on)

youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as

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β€œYes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
(Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)

04.12.2024 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3425    πŸ” 1528    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 78
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🚨BREAKING: #ExtinctionRebellion activists spray fake oil & occupy fossil fuel enabling law firm

#CutTheTies

We're demanding an end to A&O Shearman's $285 Billlion+ fossil fuel deals.

Sign Up to Take action ➑️ JoinXR.UK

04.12.2024 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land

β€œSome 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax”

🚜🌾 vs. πŸ§πŸ’°

30.11.2024 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1487    πŸ” 625    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 7
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Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration.

And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA

A MEGA-THREAD 🧡1/

28.11.2024 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1314    πŸ” 579    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 59
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#PeacefulCivilResistance

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1. The difference so far (and for god's sake let's keep it that way) between X and Bluesky is not between right and left but between abuse and respect.
A good society is built on mutual respect. But what does this mean?
A short thread.🧡

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