Tom Barrance

That's 90,000 signatures!

90,000 of you calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.

If we reach 100,000, we can get this debated in parliament. So please sign and share - help us get there!

Speaking truth to tech gods: I return to TED Six years ago I was sued for libel. This time, I call Silicon Valley collaborators and data rapists. What could possibly go wrong?

"We have to start acting as if we're living in East Germany, and Instagram is the Stasi" - powerful TED talk from the heroic @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

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Prediction:

Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

Air pollution graphics for central Paris between 2007 and 2023.

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.

Dire wolves remain very extinct Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.

One more re-up for my hissy fit about wolves.

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Coverage: Get the Shots You Need - Learn About Film Learn some simple tips for getting shots that will edit together, including the five shot rule, the ten second rule, and more.

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A scientifically illiterate fascist who is defunding science, and FRS.

The toadying lickspittles who championed this marketing creep should lose their privileges. What did they want? To brownnose a big boy under the misapprehension that standing near the powerful gifts them power.

Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!

Delighted to reveal the hard-hitting paperback cover for my book, THE LIE OF THE LAND - an exposé of what the 'custodians of the countryside' have done to nature in Britain.

The paperback's out 8th May - order yours here: lnkfi.re/JhxHno

More upcoming talks here & details below: lnkfi.re/PkfOhd 🧵

Making economic growth the overriding purpose, to which all else must be sacrificed, not only trashes ecological and social values. It's also spectacularly bad politics. Governments can't control growth, but when it dips, this government, by its own criteria, fails. A rod for its own back.

A painting of the assassination of Julius Caesar

Happy ides of march!

Today it is tradition to give the gift of stabbing to would-be dictators 🫶🏻

Once again for the love of god just put taxes up, you'll have to anyway before this parliament is out so do it now, cite defence as the reason, lean into the fact the world has changed & govt must too. (Me and @johnharris1969.bsky.social discussed this on the Guardian Politics Weekly pod btw..

John Heartfield | Der Sinn Des Hitlergrusses: Kleiner Mann bittet um grosse Gaben. Motto: Millonen Stehen Hinter Mir! | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Like the John Heartfield tribute - here's a link to the original: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Really important cause here for #UK folk to stop #Musk and people like him polluting our politics with their dirty money. The petition below will be debated on 31 March. Please email your MP and ask them to support a change in the law. Find them here: members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP

This is the crux of it. Leaders *change* public opinion. Trump has *radically* changed public opinion. Democratic consultants who do focus groups aren’t who Democrats should be listening to—they should focus on leading the public and aggressively reshaping views of Trump.

A lot of very rich people are still wrongly assuming that they will be fully insulated from the deep social dysfunction, economic collapse, and rising authoritarianism being ushered in by Trump. They won’t—but it currently looks like they’re willing to find that out the hard way.

Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions | George Monbiot The supposedly green project – brainchild of the previous Tory government – will increase emissions, not reduce them, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Yes, the UK government SHOULD abandon its Carbon Capture and Storage scheme, which
a. would cause a net *increase* in emissions
b. is unlikely to work
c. uses tens of billions that'd be much better spent on genuinely green projects.
Let's hope it has seen sense.
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Much of America today

Oxfam GB | Demand Keir Starmer reverses aid cuts

I’ve just sent an email to my MP asking them to speak out about the aid cuts and to put pressure on Keir Starmer to reverse the decision before it’s too late. Will you email your MP too? www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

The more people who take action, the more impact we can all have.

If you want more money, try a wealth tax.

Cutting aid to fund defence, Mr Starmer, is both cruel and self-defeating. I agree we need to defend ourselves. But creating a less stable, less humane world is no way to do it.

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

80% of German VOTERS went for parties that promised to have nothing to do with the AFD...

MEDIA: Huge win for AFD!

Yesterday I had the privilege of joining Cwmparc residents on a peaceful march, protesting the blocking of a historic right of way that separates the community from their mountain.

There was rain, mud, a little bit of trespassing, and hypothermic stand-off 🌧️

Here's my report of events. /THREAD 🧵

Thought for the day.

Hundreds of tractors block Westminster Farmers from across the UK protesting in London against changes to inheritance tax.

If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much.
The real #TwoTierPolicing
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Wales is the land of song. Now it’s being silenced by cuts that threaten our culture | Will Hayward Language, history and arts are what make us a nation – and they’re at risk when funding is slashed to levels among the lowest in Europe, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward

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If you want to win an election against far right opposition you need to bring together two groups. The activated liberals outraged by the other side and the more moderate groups who want govt to make their lives less difficult. Not by trying to win the enthusiastic supporters of the other side.

John Swinney rules out reintroduction of lynx to Scotland The first minister tells farmers that no carnivorous species will be reintroduced under his government.

Annual release of millions of non-native gamebirds for shooting? Sure, no problem, no licences/permission required, fill yer boots, do what you like.

Carefully managed & licensed reintroduction of a native species? Not if its got sharp claws and teeth.

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Ancient DNA Points to Origins of Indo-European Language (Gift Article) A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others.

If you need another break from current news, come with me 7000 years ago to search for the first speakers of Indo-European languages. 🧪 Gift link: nyti.ms/42ILio5