Georgina Roche

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

"When that happens, the path to authoritarianism becomes inevitable, through algorithmic manipulation on social media and the normalisation of lies." - Powerful argument for countering US coercion by @johnnyryan.bsky.social of Irish Council for Civil Liberties @iccl.bsky.social #AIethics

Feels especially dangerous and courageous to be a journalist in these places at this time. #ProtectJournalists #PressFreedom #EndTheGenocide

Rockström would do well to read this:

"even if it seems complicated & deeply unpopular in the moment – working towards a more environmentally sustainable future is impossible without working towards peace & addressing the root causes of social & human rights issues"

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When the Met Office shared that this summer was the hottest in UK records, the comment section was sadly all too familiar

Over on Instagram, we took the opportunity to reshare a Reel debunking a common bit of misinformation about climate change, using the superb Climate Stripes graphic.

The word for tea in almost every language comes from just two roots: tea or cha.

If your country got tea by sea trade, you say some version of tea.
If it came overland, you say some version of cha.

English has both: tea and chai!

There's the portuguese though who say chá though they got it by sea

In this moment the EU is missing the UN deadline for new climate pledges.

➡️ No 2040 target due to #Macron, #Merz and #Stocker
➡️ Paris Agreement at risk
➡️ Our credibility on the line

The world is watching. We must show up in Belém with real climate ambition. #COP30 #EU2040

Keir Starmer has no plans to attend COP30 climate summit in Brazil Final decision has yet to be made amid ‘big fight inside government’ over trip by prime minister

A massive dereliction of leadership and duty, if true. A few years ago, Starmer branded Rishi Sunak’s absence from the world’s top #climate conference as a “failure of leadership”. He was right then - he must do the right thing himself now #COP30

#COP30 is the last chance for govts to make nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that can get us back on track to #1.5degrees. Starmer must attend.

Summer Detour III: Outcasts and Desperados

The final instalment of our summer archive detour features writing on what it means to be an outsider, including pieces by James Wood, Edward Said, Lorna Finlayson, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Adam Phillips, Jacqueline Rose, Adam Shatz and Wendy Steiner.

Read here: www.lrb.co.uk/collections/...

A significant flow of British LGBTQ ppl is already happening as the British government removes basic human rights from trans ppl & talks of exiting the European Court of Human Rights which guarantees the equal rights of all Queer people.

Resource: lgbt.ie

First Farage platformed notorious UK anti-vaxxer, Aseem Malhotra, who insinuated that Covid vaccines caused the Royal Family’s recent cancers.

Now he’s openly trashing scientific method & evidence, pretending neither can be trusted & facts are a free for all.

This is deeply dangerous populism.

Couldn't be clearer from the #IPCC. #DeGrowth #PostGrowth, call it whatever you like. We need to stop the demand for more stuff. But how do you do that without first making capitalism a fossil?

A list of urgent priorities for action, including scrapping the government's immigration white paper, implementing safe reporting mechanisms and ending the criminalisation of survivors.

Survivors are being harmed by hostile immigration policies. The policies in the government's new immigration white paper will cause even greater harm.

Migrant women deserve safety. We urge the government to take action now! #NoWomenLeftBehind

Read more ➡️ buff.ly/mAzPl65

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson

Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat The Normal People author can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest, according to a statement read out by her publisher at the prize ceremony

Disgraceful. Absurd. As with the Kimmel situation, politicians across the world want to suppress protest and creative resistance. They hate opposition. They hate protest. They hate satire. They hate art. Soon we will wake up and find our mouths gagged, our hands tied, our pens and laptops taken away

As someone living with Lp(a), I was struck by the violent beauty of this #Wellcome #photography prize winning image and the power of scientific micro imaging to make visible to all something previously only visible to scientists. @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Reform branded ‘threat to democracy’ over Farage plan to remove thousands of migrants with leave to be in UK – politics live Nigel Farage says Reform UK would scrap the main route that migrants take to gain British citizenship Good morning. Last month Reform UK unveiled its “Operation Restoring Justice” plan for the mass deportation of people living in Britain without permission to be here. It was aimed at illegal immigrants, but Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, proposed deportation on an unprecedented scale , without being clear as to quite how many people would be affected. Today he is committing Reform (which is currently well ahead of other parties in national opinion polls) to an even more draconian approach. He says Reform would abolish indefinite leave to remain – the immigration status that allows people to remain in the UK for as long as they want, often the first step towards citizenship. Crucially, this would not just be for new applicants; it would be retrospective, applying to people who already have indefinite leave to remain. Instead, people would have to apply for a five-year visa, with tougher conditions. Today, I can announce that Reform will go even further. We will abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status, which grants migrants the right to live, work and study in the UK permanently with full access to Britain’s health and benefits system. These changes will lead to hundreds of thousands of people having to apply and ultimately losing their settled status in the UK, which will be done on a staggered and orderly basis to allow businesses to train British workers to replace them. Many of those who will lose their leave to remain are entirely dependent on the welfare state and will leave voluntarily upon losing access to benefits. Those that don’t will be subject to immigration enforcement as part of our mass deportation programme – Operation Restoring Justice. Continue reading...

Reform branded ‘threat to democracy’ over Farage plan to remove thousands of migrants with leave to be in UK – politics live

Is it possible to attend online? Thrutopia is a genre that fascinates me but I'm a little too far away to attend in person.

Publisher criticises Reform council’s ‘Trumpian’ boycott of Nottingham Post Reach’s chief content officer says issue is part of a national trend that goes wider than the party The publisher of the Nottingham Post has spoken of an “increasingly Trumpian approach” to the media creeping into British politics, amid a Reform-led council’s continuing ban against the title. The 150-year-old paper, as well as its website, Nottinghamshire Live, have been prevented from speaking to Reform’s Nottingham county council leader, Mick Barton, while he has also prevented the titles from receiving updates and press releases. Continue reading...

Publisher criticises Reform council’s ‘Trumpian’ boycott of Nottingham Post

With zero public consultation or discussion of the social and environmental consequences of embracing #generativeAI, #Labour signed multiBILLION deal with US that will have felt impacts on all our lives.

Excited to see this timely and much-needed #SaferParks project come to fruition!

It's been such a privilege to do some pro bono work translating the materials into Arabic for this excellent initiative to make parks safer spaces for women and girls 💚

Shocking statistics from @newhumanitarian.bsky.social on people killed while seeking aid in #Gaza.

Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate

What if the $3trn AI investment boom goes wrong? Even if the technology achieves its potential, plenty of people will lose their shirts

We sure are investing a lot of money on #AI, a technology that is proving to be, in some of its forms, quite unreliable. Is that wise?

"The bigger the boom gets, the bigger the knock-on consequences of an AI chill could be." #AIEthics

www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

If the UK government doesn’t respond strongly to this, then the consequences will be grave.

#cfp: "Ecofeminism Otherwise: Situated Knowledges in a Time of Planetary Crisis", edited volume by Marianna Tsionki & Paula Chambers (Leeds U)

DL for submissions: 30 September 2025

Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#envhum #envhist #ecocriticism #ecofeminism @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Heatwaves linked to carbon emissions from specific companies Nearly one-quarter of heatwaves would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without global warming — and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers.

Scientists are now able to link some heat waves to individual fossil fuel producers, providing fresh evidence to hold companies and countries accountable for their impact on the #climatecrisis. @nature.com @jeff-tollefson.bsky.social

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

Three lives lost last night in the Channel. No one should have to risk death to seek safety. Yet many are left with no other choice.

📣We need safe routes now

#saferoutes #refugeeswelcome

Hopeful to see so many influential women standing up to the far right in this open letter that calls out the lies and disinformation linking sexual abuse to immigration - a dangerous narrative & distraction from the real causes of abuse. @leannewood.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social #vawg