Deborah Tomkins

Scrap Palantir UK contracts over Mandelson links, Zack Polanski demands

Zack Polanski demands on BBC Newsnight that the UK Government scraps its contracts with Palantir over Peter Mandelson links

#Booksky #Italy 🥰

Themes of #climatechange, #socialjustice, #ethics, and more...
Published in the UK as #Aerth in January 2025.

My novella #Aerth is published tomorrow (4/2/26) in Italy by @zona42.bsky.social. Wonderful translation by @madampsychosis.bsky.social Chiara Reali, beautiful cover art by Annalisa Antonini. Nota bene: No generative AI used in any part of this work.
Molte grazie, Giorgio Raffaelli & all the team!

I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com

It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.

Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵

Have you read our recent report, Brave New World? It's a co-authored groundbreaking report that shows the onset of a creative jobs crisis in the UK. buff.ly/vIuLqfn

Join our chair @samblakebooks and create your own reel to show the creator behind the book.

Use the #JusticeForCreators and tag us

I think fear - what might happen to their families, their homes, their businesses. Their small children. We now see that these terrible people will stop at nothing to get power.

This is the democratic opposition party in Italy protesting against ICE involvement in the Winter Olympics in Milan

A black pen in a crosshatch technique and black block printing ink applied with a roller on white paper illustration. The dark silhouetted shape of a woman in a black funeral dress stands at the foot of a bed in an Edwardian style room, she stares at a tired looking man under a heavy quilt. Moonlight shines into the room from behind the woman. Creepy and atmospheric.

I left my old job a couple of years ago. I’m getting by (just) but crikey, having done my tax return & seen how little I’m earning it was a shocker, it’s getting more & more difficult to earn money from illustration.

I have been out of action too so…I’ll get cracking!

Buy my art (FEBRUARY) 🙏🏻

An image featuring a text titled "A Prayer for Holocaust Memorial Day". The prayer reads: Eternal God, we come before You to remember the victims of the Holocaust. We lament the loss of the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust, the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution, and victims of all genocides. As we remember and lament all those whose lives have been lost, help us to work for a better future today. We pray for a day when all shall be free to live in peace, unity and love. Amen.

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day.

This year marks the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Pray with us using this prayer from the Council of Christians and Jews.🙏

"Nigel Farage attended Davos on a pass sponsored by the family office of Iranian billionaire Sasan Ghandehari, which told the World Economic Forum that the Reform UK leader had advised the company since 2018"
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ps Sasan Ghandehari donated £100K to Reform

Petition: Ban the use of smart glasses with recording capability in public spaces We ask the Government to ban smart glasses with cameras in public spaces. We believe they allow secret filming, and undermine privacy, safety and the public’s right to know when they’re being recorded...

I found a petition to ban smart glasses in public spaces that needs a bit of a boost, if anyone else feels strongly about this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Nature loss is a national security risk, intelligence groups warn The degradation of ecosystems around the world threatens UK food security, a long-awaited report says.

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

Sadly suppressing such a devastating report doesn’t make the risks go away - it just makes them even harder to deal with. Facing up to the truth is the first step to coping with it - it’s beyond scandalous that ministers tried to prevent this. They need to act - and fast

NEWS: UK police launch ‘Report Fraud’ service - AML Intelligence UK officials have formally launched 'Report Fraud', a new service aimed at changing how victims of fraud and cybercrime contact police.

Palantir software is now the basis of the Government's fraud reporting service. So it now handles sensitive financial data for millions of UK citizens. Plus NHS data. Plus military analytics. Plus policing.

And, of course, it's quite explicitly far right in its politics.

What could ever go wrong?

Trump and Farage

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

A reminder how ICE treats priests.

I've had to do that too. You will never forget your wonderful paragraph :).

Consensus, because those who remained alive at the end of WW2 vowed it would never be repeated. Unfortunately almost everyone with memories of that time (and leading up to it) is now dead. People are influenced by movies/war hero stories, forgetting that the damage took decades to repair.

Tweet from PBS correspondent Nick Schifrin: NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador: President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”

There are, I promise you, still serious and important people who think that Trump is playing 3D chess — putting on an act to convince his laggard NATO allies to pony up their fare share.

But stuff like this is pretty clear evidence that he's *the* immediate risk to our collective security

I'd wager this is the angriest statement ever issued by the Nobel Peace Prize people...

How scientists can contribute to the social movements essential to protecting climate and nature - npj Climate Action Scientists have much to contribute to the growing social movements pushing for urgent and transformative change to address the climate and biodiversity crises. Depending on their skills, interests and...

There is much to be done, at all levels.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We didn't careers test in my *highly academic* girls' school... but when I went to talk to the careers teacher, she suggested nursing or being a secretary. That was all she had to offer! I have had a varied and fulfilling career since then, and it hasn't stopped!

And several of his staff team were killed. Soldiers/police shot through the garage door where they were hiding.

Thrutopia: Stories of Active Hope with Monique Roffey, Rupert Read & Laura Baggaley - Kairos Tuesday February 17th, 6.30 for 7pm With the prospect of civilisation collapse looking ever more likely, Utopian visions of any sort now appear beyond our reach. And yet the opposite, the bleak future...

Our co-director @rupertread.bsky.social is featured in this powerful upcoming event at Kairos, London - Thrutopia: Stories of Active Hope brings together philosophy, fiction & climate realism to imagine futures beyond the utopia/dystopia trap.
Tues 17 Feb - Tickets: www.kairos.london/event/thruto...

Un’altra Terra: la copertina – Zona42

My novella #Aerth is about to be published in Italy!
🥰
www.zona42.it/wordpress/un...

Deserted beach on winter's day, blue sea, yellow sand, grey/white fluffy clouds.

When Roly takes a walk on a beautiful New Year's Eve, she doesn't expect to become trapped in a cave with only a cormorant for company... The Wilder Path, from @aurora_metro Aurora Metro Books. (I took this photo on a winter's day near St Ives). #climate #nature #grief #Booksky

Govt minister Mike Tapp refuses to say that the US should not attack Denmark and Greenland.

Moments later he declares that sticking to international law is what we stand for as a country.

But what an admission.

BREAKING: Trump’s administration ordered NASA to shut down its largest library and throw the books in the trash. Not move them. Not save them. Destroy them. That’s not cost cutting. That’s straight up war on knowledge.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...