People seem to have forgotten that it rained *constantly* this year in Britain between Christmas and Easter, and again for much of May. There is no water shortage. We’ve drained and desecrated our landscapes to the extent that they are now simply incapable of storing all that rainfall for us. The water is sent barrelling down land drains, ditches, artificially straightened streams and rivers to the sea, causing mayhem as it goes, and leaving us with no water afterwards. It’s so easy to fix this. It’s called ‘natural flood management’. Put back the bogs and marshes, the ponds and wetlands, re-wiggle the streams, liberate and reconnect the rivers to their flood plains, and we’ll find we have way less flooding, fewer hosepipe bans and cleaner water. Yet all we get each winter are hysterical calls for *more* dredging and straightening of the rivers, more draining of the fields. We must be the very last country in the world to grasp this basic natural hydrology.
No, there is no "Benadryl challenge."
Your kids are either trying to get high or are trying to kill themselves. Stop blaming the internet and start thinking about ways you can help your teenager not feel like the only escape is to hurt themself.
The UK has been totally stripped of its biodiversity, almost all its natural megafauna is extinct and half the plants in these pics are invasive species.
But yeah, not a wasteland because muh green I guess.
Clueless.
“We’ll just adapt and use more fossil fuels to keep cool”.
No. We won’t. The fish won’t. The crops won’t. The trees won’t. The livestock won’t. The rivers won’t.
Nothing can adapt to a climate that gets continuously worse.
people saying stuff like “capitalism isn't perfect but it's the best system we've got” while we are literally in the middle of a man made extinction event lmao
This is what fossil-fueled capitalism is doing to our world as we approach 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures.
Scientists predict 3C & very possibly 4C this century.
We rapidly end this suicidal system or we lose absolutely everything.
UK telecoms just launched a kill switch for phones stolen from retail stores.
Good. Phone theft in London is down 20% this year. The first use case is always good.
But let's look at what the UK has built in 2026.
Every device in the country is scanned for nudity by law.
Signal: ordered to build a backdoor into encryption.
Apple: sharing IMEI data with police, remotely disabling stolen iPhones globally.
Telecoms: new kill switch for retail theft, activated before a device ever reaches a customer.
Adults: must verify identity with a face scan, a passport, or a government ID to use social media.
Children: banned from disappearing messages, VPNs, livestreaming, and romantic AI.
Police: 40 facial recognition vans rolling out nationwide under a £140M AI program.
now the telecom kill switch.
each one of these individually is defensible.
curbing phone theft: yes.
protecting children online: yes.
stop terrorists using encrypted apps: yes.
verify ages to keep minors off adult platforms: yes.
The UK now has:
— a remote off switch for every phone
— a real identity tied to every social media account
— a scanner on every device
— facial recognition on every high street
— A backdoor is requested into every encrypted message
built piece by piece. justified one news cycle at a time.
What do you call it when you put all of them together?
This is not a coincidence. This is a worldwide plan to enact mass surveillance
Everyone in the world should be working together to fight against Digital ID laws