Laz is on BlueSky

Specialist Paramedic in Primary care, loving husband, father and photographer.

[Laz is on BlueSky @Ellis_Good]

I’m going to give #Bluesky a go

Never really got on with #BreakingNews Threads

#X / #Twitter appears to be broken

I’m sick of all right wing crap

https://t.co/LOzHu81M0a

I’ll look out for people I know and please give me a follow ❤️🥰❤️

[Laz is on BlueSky @Ellis_Good]

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[Suneel Dhand MD @DrSuneelDhand]

LIFE SAVING: Please Do This EARLY If You're Ever Hospitalized

[Noventas Revival @RevivalNoventas]

MTV 1993 - A short report on a history of Acid House

#oldskool #rave #80s #90s

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[Loud Outside @LoudOutside]

18-year-old Millie Taplin became seriously ill after accepting a drink from a man at a UK nightclub. After just a few sips, she lost control of her body and was rushed to the hospital

Doctors suspected her drink had been spiked with two unknown substances. She later recovered, and her mother shared the footage as a warning to others

[Alfie Ramshaw @33JustBrowsing]

The UK borrowed almost as much in May 2026 alone (£23.3bn), as it did during the entire 2018/19 fiscal year (£23.5bn).

This is a slow motion disaster and almost no one is talking about it.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In England, you're allowed to clear about 20 metres of silt and rubbish out of a river on your own. Anything past that needs a permit from the Environment Agency. Paul Powlesland's volunteers cleared a 250-metre stretch of the River Roding with a hired digger, which is why a barrister who hauled out 200 bags of trash is now under criminal investigation.

The Roding runs through east London. Powlesland lives on a boat moored on it, and for years he and a group of volunteers have pulled out shopping trolleys, needles, old appliances, even weapons. Kingfishers, herons and dragonflies came back to water that used to be buried under junk. This one job took 10 days and a digger that cost £1,000 to hire.

The rule that caught him is oddly specific. Under England's water rules, scooping silt off the bottom of a river the agency officially manages counts as a "flood risk activity", and the law treats that the same as building a structure in the water. Do it without a permit and the offence carries up to two years in prison. The agency says it is also looking at waste the volunteers left on the floodplain. Powlesland is an environmental lawyer who has used these exact laws to protect rivers and trees, and a conviction could cost him his licence to practise.

The agency's reasoning isn't unreasonable. Dredging done badly can push flooding onto people downstream and wreck the habitat that protected animals need, which is what the permit is meant to prevent. The 20-metre allowance is there for small jobs. And no decision to prosecute has actually been made.

While investigators were knocking on a volunteer's door within a week of his cleanup, water companies discharged raw sewage into England's rivers and seas for a combined 3.6 million hours in 2024, more than 400 years of spilling packed into a single year. Only 14% of English rivers are in good health. Between 2015 and 2025, the Environment Agency investigated water companies for pollution 11,474 times. Fifty-eight of those ended in a prosecution. For serious pollution over the last five years, the number of water companies actually taken to court and convicted is zero.

So the message comes out backwards. Spend ten days and a thousand pounds making a river cleaner and an officer turns up within the week. Pump sewage into that same river for years and the chance of seeing a courtroom is close to zero.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

It's not "just summer".

It's not "just weather".

It's not just a few hot days to complain about and then forget.

France, Spain, Portugal, the UK and other parts of Europe are facing extreme heat, with temperatures pushing well beyond what used to be considered normal for this time of year.

This is heat putting pressure on people, wildlife, water supplies, agriculture, energy systems and emergency services. It increases the risk of wildfires, heat illness and dangerous conditions for the most vulnerable.

The climate has always changed, but the speed, intensity and frequency of these extreme events are becoming a terrifying new reality.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Private equity has devoured UK town centres.

It controls airports, seaports, hospitals, care homes, football teams, housing, GP surgeries, vets, dentistry, pubs, restaurants, energy, water and more.

Everything financialised.

What future for the UK?
https://t.co/I0XaUBp0QC

[Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 @KarluskaP]

They came and drank all the beer and then put cones on all the statues🤣

[Laz is on BlueSky @Ellis_Good]

Jeez

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

Humanity queuing up for a pointless selfie

Lake Como Edition

Italy 🇮🇹

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

I’m sorry, this is total bollocks. I have been looking after my river for a decade and you have done absolutely nothing to support me and the other hundreds of volunteers who give up their free time to do your job for you and to stop the river we love from dying.

This picture is the part of the Aldersbrook that we haven’t yet restored. Do you agree that allowing one of the ancient rivers of London to disappear beneath a layer of sewage, silt, rubbish & knotweed is a disgrace? If so, when can we expect EA teams down in the river to sort it out?

[Handre @Handre]

Two small island economies blew up in 2008. Iceland and Ireland. Their names differ by one letter, and their handling of the crisis differed by everything that matters.

Iceland's three big banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, had grown assets to roughly ten times the country's GDP by 2008. Pure credit-fueled madness. When the music stopped, the Icelandic government did the unthinkable: it let them fail. Bondholders ate the losses. The state refused to socialize private bank debt onto 320,000 citizens who never signed up for it. Capital controls went up, the króna collapsed, and the politicians actually prosecuted bankers. Twenty-six of them went to prison. Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the men who ran Kaupthing, served real sentences.

Ireland took the opposite road. In September 2008, the Irish government issued a blanket guarantee covering the liabilities of its major banks, including Anglo Irish Bank, a property-lending casino that should have been allowed to die in peace. The taxpayer absorbed the bill. By the time the rescue ended, Ireland had poured around 64 billion euros into its banks, roughly 40 percent of GDP. The state took on private gambling debts, then went to the Troika in 2010 hat in hand for an 85 billion euro bailout, and accepted years of austerity to pay for losses it had no business owning.

Both economies recovered. Both eventually grew again. The difference is who paid and who learned. Iceland made creditors and reckless bankers bear the consequences of their own decisions, which is the entire point of capitalism: profit and loss, not profit and bailout. Ireland protected the people who made the bad bets and handed the invoice to schoolteachers and shopkeepers.

You will hear economists call Ireland's GDP rebound a triumph (much of that "growth" is multinational accounting fiction, Leprechaun economics, but that's another lesson). What they skip is the moral architecture. When you guarantee bank liabilities, you abolish the discipline that makes markets work. You tell every banker in the country that downside is optional.

Iceland jailed its bankers. Ireland reimbursed theirs.

[Euan MacDonald @Euan_MacDonald]

French President Emmanuel Macron pulls off what could be the greatest diplomatic troll of all time by getting Trump to sign the "$300 Billion US Surrender to Iran" deal in... Versailles. The ignoramus Trump will have been clueless as to the historical significance of the location

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

“What’re you in for mate?”

“Cleaning a river without a permit. What about you?”

@EnvAgency is really plumbing new depths of malevolent uselessness here.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil."

April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil. We have tremendous oil and gas, much more than we need."

June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks...we would really run out, and there'll be a time when you wouldn't be able to get it."

[Cats with aura @Catsworldtweet]

I guess we’ll never know who ate the soup. It’s a complete mystery

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation linked to the strikes on oil depots in Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Gulf states, and beyond.

This is a picture of Moscow now. Covered in thick black toxic clouds of smoke, raining oil on 14 million people with cancerous polluted air entering every lung. People breathing this. Animals breathing this. Trees breathing this. A humanitarian and environmental catastrophe.

Bombing oil depots has serious environmental and humanitarian consequences. Hazardous "black rain" and "acidic rain" could pose serious health risks as toxic pollutants spread in the air, and contaminated the water—raise concerns of "wider regional pollution exposure", with the long-term effects of pollutants, affect respiratory health and contaminate water, that will affect people for years.

Every bomb dropped on an oil depots is a time bomb for the people and the planet.

This has moved beyond geopolitics. It's a crime against humanity.

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

Social media trends have turned the world’s most beautiful places into endless bathroom lines at a concert, where everyone waits for hours just to take the same photo to show to people who couldn’t care less 🌎📸

Nothing captures the shallow decay of our time better than this

[Laz is on BlueSky @Ellis_Good]

wtf 😬

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

President Trump admits he's manipulating the stock market with fake news... Incredible

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The most interesting thing about this chart is every single one of them has received billions in tax payers money while paying almost no tax, 0-2%, while you pay 20-45%.

But Americans are so brainwashed they can only hate the guy from Iran that they are told to hate.

[Mark Todd @MarkTodd_pol]

Since privatisation not one major reservoir has been built by the English water companies

While more than 35 have been sold

In the 35 years before privatisation almost 100 reservoirs were built