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Olivia Williams's powerful reading of an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer and the national broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing. Full version here: www.youtube.com/@nebriefing

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#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

“The lack of public access to accurate, science-based information has created a vacuum which has been filled by polarized headlines designed to deny and delay action.” Precisely! It was the same with Covid in 2020: the lack of Government-sponsored, scientific, educational information was stunning.

MAGA likes authoritarian behavior, until they don’t, again.

Tá sé chomh ceanamhail céanna, cinnte.

Bhí Ciarán Ó Duibhín ann ó thús fosta, agus chomh tábhachtach le na daoine eile. Tá sé ag obair leis go fóill 🫠 – nár laga Dia a lámh!
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Thèid an còigeamh Seachdain na Gàidhlig a chumail eadar Diluain 23mh dhen Ghearran is Didòmhnaich 1ad dhen Mhàrt 2026. #Gàidhlig #Gaelic

Ionnsaich tuilleadh 👇
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Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cothroman Obrach - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Na cothroman obrach as ùire aig an t-Sabhal.

Cothroman-obrach aig Sabhal Mòr Ostaig: Oide-cànain
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UK taxpayers on hook as failed Cumbria coalmine investors sue government Singapore firm using secretive international legal system to seek compensation for climate concerns blocking plans

Outrageous. Britain is being sued in a corporate court, for stopping the Cumbria coal mine.

We’ve been saying for years that this system of corporate courts (ISDS) is an obstacle to climate action and democratic politics. Now it couldn’t be clearer

Cùis nàire.

Brilliant!

While UK ministers post on the cesspit that Twitter has become.

Climate breakdown is an "urgent existential threat” and countries have a legal obligation to act, the International Criminal Court has ruled.

We can already see the huge cost of inaction as heatwaves, droughts, floods and wildfires sweep the UK. There's no time left for excuses.

Oifigear Leasachaidh – Obraichean Gàidhlig Tha sinn a’ sireadh Oifigear Leasachaidh a bhios ag obair làn-ùine a’ cumail taic ri Fèisean anns na h-Eileanan Siar, an t-Eilean Sgitheanach agus Eilean Thiriodh, a’ toirt air adhart leasachaidhean...

Tha Fèisean nan Gàidheal a' sireadh Oifigear Leasachaidh ùr

While Trump throws everything he can to distract from the Epstein scandal, the focus on this neo-fascist kakistocracy by every mainstream media outlet (except Fox) distracts us from the ongoing collapse of civilization and sixth great extinction.

Sad for every living thing.

Tá focal dòtaman ‘spinning top, tee-totum’ i nGaeilge na hAlban, ón Laidean tōtum:
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Seo ceann eile, b’fhéidir:
seaman ‘little stout fellow; rivet’ < PCelt sexman ‘rivet’
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Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Don't look up is a documentary, as we keep finding out.

H/t @ghostpanther.bsky.social

At which point I realised I knew far far more about politics than many of the people who would be voting.

In 1969 the voting age was changed from 21 to 18. As a 16 year old, I thought this was a bad idea. I didn’t feel that in under two years I would know enough about politics to vote. Then I heard a friend’s aunt say she wouldn’t vote for that Enoch Powell “because he was letting all the blacks in”!

Ceòlas Uibhist – Obraichean Gàidhlig Tha Ceòlas a’ toirt cothrom sònraichte air eòlas fhaighinn air dualchas beò ann an coimhearsnachd bhlàth Ghàidhlig. Tha a’ bhuidheann ag amas air ceòl, cànan, cultar agus dualchas a chomharrachadh,…

Tha Ceòlas a' sireadh daoine gus 2 dhreuchd a lìonadh - Oifigear Ionnsachaidh is Coimhearsnachd agus Rianaire. Feumaidh sibh tagradh a chur a-steach ro meadhan-latha air Diardaoin (17 Iuchar).

Tuilleadh fios an seo: www.obraichean.co.uk/buidheann/ce...

Elon claims that Grok became MechaHitler because it drew too heavily from X.

Very cool that every Congressional Democrat and progressive organization is still on the neo-Nazi website!

In Liverpool 1 in every 4 children have not been vaccinated against MMR (mumps, measles, Rubella)

Weekend Update #141: Trump vs Biden: A Laughable Comparison The Bombardment of Ukrainian Cities—How Trump Has Already Helped Russia; The New York Times Embeds With The Waffen SS?

Just sent out my free weekend update. As part of reality weekend i compare what Biden did for Ukraine and what Trump has actually done. Look, I was more critical of Biden than most, but compared to Trump, he was a Ukrainian lion. Trump has made Russia stronger. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

A man at a lectern says "And so, whie the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit."

That means a huge chunk of the world's wealth is based on "stranded assets" - fuel that can’t be used without killing billions, destroying the liveable Earth, and thereby destroying the economy too.

Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine for his puppet-master in Moscow is fully underway. Thousands more innocent civilians including children will die because of Trump. Netanyahu gets a blank check in Gaza, Putin gets to bomb with impunity in Ukraine.

Cartoon from 2017.

In 2025, he finally got his way…

Gàidhlig: tarbh-nathrach = ‘snake bull’

In ancient Rome, the rumors of this would spread far and wide and herald great calamity.