Susi Batstone💙🌻

Still convinced tiny things can solve big problems. Keen on soil, food, fungi, recycling, ecology, mending. Co-invented 'Soilet' - makes waste productive.

[Susi Batstone💙🌻 @SusiB348]

Using Soilets in temporary settlements ( refugees or people displaced by events) would allow for recovery of enough nutrients to establish trees for food, shelter, fodder or fuel.

[Landscape Alliance @TheLandAlliance]

An innovative project anchored on the reuse of greywater from kitchens, bathrooms, and community watering points, is changing the lives of #refugees & host communities in settlements.

Find out how↪️ https://t.co/Gbo8mwloCd

@IWMI_ @DRC_ngo @agsciences @BiovIntCIAT_eng @marynjeng

[Susi Batstone💙🌻 @SusiB348]

@Forest2Furnitur It is - about half the price! Thank you.

[Susi Batstone💙🌻 @SusiB348]

@Forest2Furnitur please could I seek wisdom? If you were needing a 3.7m, 150x150 beam to replace a seesaw, (public use) and could choose between larch, Douglas fir, cedar or oak, (it will be planed and preserved) which would you recommend? A bit of spring but no splinters?

[ABDELAZIZ | عبدالعزيز @azizkh___]

For those who don't know:

Gaza now has the highest rate of amputee children in modern history.

Something that leaves you with profound sadness and shock.

This is not just another news item.

[GBX @GBX_Press]

🚨 JUST IN:

An Israeli news channel just exposed a massive pedophile ring of jewish israeli settlers (from Gush Etzion)

They have been raping and eating hundreds young children over the course of 25 years.

A short clip from this 1-hour report…

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine.

A village that has stood for thousands of years.

A place where Jesus once walked.

Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world.

And not a peep from Western mainstream media.

[Susi Batstone💙🌻 @SusiB348]

Delightful! Our barn owls are out hunting in the day time, so guessing they have a brood hatched.

[Tony Ward @TonyWard867811]

Count up everything you gave up this year.

The holiday you did not book. The boiler you nursed along instead of replacing.

The school trip you found a reason to say no to.

The nights out that quietly stopped. The savings that never started.

You told yourself it was just a tight year.

It was not. It was every year now.

You earn a decent wage.

You work hard.

And somehow there is never anything left, and you cannot work out where it goes.

Here is where it goes.

Every year they create more money out of nothing, and every year the pound you earned buys less of your own life. You are not falling behind because you are failing.

You are falling behind because they are quietly draining the thing you are paid in.

And nobody ever asked you.

[Nick Clarke @Mr_NickClarke]

District heating is the next leasehold scandal. A ticking time bomb. ⏰💣
After the warranty expires, you own a share of an ageing pipe network you didn't choose, can't leave, and can't fix yourself.
One monopoly supplier. One managing agent.
Zero control.
The bill is coming. And it's going to be enormous.
#LeaseholdReform #ServiceCharge

[Susi Batstone💙🌻 @SusiB348]

@mike56200 Auto correct thought you’d found unwanted mistresses!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I promise you Digital ID will cause you far more trouble than it will solve, between having your identity easily stolen by hackers and being unable to access things you used to use with no hassle without it.

You will curse it, no one wants or needs this trash.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

We stopped hearing about hostage crisis in Israel & Palestine because 100% of the remaining hostages are Palestinian .... being tortured, raped & starved to death.

[Susi Batstone💙🌻 @SusiB348]

@PJennings88 Anyone upstream doing a tracing test?

[Adele Shoko @AdeleShoko]

A new separation barrier is being built in the Jordan Valley.

If completed, it will cut the region off from the rest of the West Bank, isolate Palestinian communities, and sever thousands of acres of Palestinian-owned land.

Families are being forcibly displaced. Homes face demolition.

The goal is clear: to erase Palestinian life from the region and pave the way for annexation of the Jordan Valley.

[Pam Ayres MBE @PamAyres]

Look what’s been built in Cardiff for swifts. My niece sent me these photos and said the structure was alive with birds. Heartening to see. It’s shaped like a swift in flight I think. Other towns have created similar swift nest sites including Exeter. Thank you for caring.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

African leaders are scared to speak truth to power.

I am not.

All African teams, players, and officials must WITHDRAW from the 2026 World Cup unless FIFA and the United States immediately apologize to our brother and referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan — denied entry despite valid visa and diplomatic passport.

1966 African boycott reminder — Africa has withdrawn before for dignity. Time to do it again?

FIFA turned this into their own show of shame: Infantino’s empty “everyone is welcome” promises in Nairobi while they play politics, shrug their shoulders, and abandon African talent at the border. Selective rules. Hypocrisy on full display. Rigged games for the Global South.

This humiliation of African excellence cannot stand. No respect for our people? No participation.

Enough of the double standards and fake inclusion.

RT if you stand with Artan and African dignity. Comment your support below. Follow for unfiltered resistance. Turn on notifications 🔔

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Today I received a response to my FOI request to the Cabinet Office about a £735,000 contract awarded to Palantir Technologies in 2015, with no competitive tender, for what was described as an "enterprise analytical platform and intelligence service" for Brexit preparations.
They refused to provide any information.
Not on exemption grounds.
On cost grounds — Section 12 of the FOI Act: too expensive to retrieve. They added, remarkably, that the records are so old that even refining the request wouldn't bring it under the £600 limit.
Make of that what you will.
This contract predates the NHS deal. It predates the MoD deal. It predates all of it. It is Palantir's quiet entry point into the British state, through the Government Digital Service, during the most politically turbulent period in postwar UK history.
And we can't see it.
Meanwhile, here is where Palantir now sits inside the UK public sector in 2026:
NHS England — £330m Federated Data Platform contract (up for renewal 2027)
Ministry of Defence — £240m direct contract + £1.5bn strategic partnership, explicitly to "transform lethality on the battlefield" and develop a "kill chain"
Police forces across England
Cabinet Office
DLUHC
Two serving MoD systems engineers have now gone on record calling Palantir "a national security threat to the UK."
Their concern: Palantir doesn't need to own the data. The mosaic effect, cross-referencing defence, health, policing, infrastructure, means the company likely has, in their words, "a complete profile on the whole UK population."
This is the same company whose software was used by the Israeli military in Gaza and Lebanon.
Whose CEO Alex Karp says he is "exceedingly proud" of Palantir's role in what he calls "operationally crucial operations in Israel." Whose platforms are now powering ICE deportation operations under Trump — including a tool that generates "confidence scores" on the current addresses of deportation targets.
The UN Special Rapporteur identified Palantir as complicit in war crimes and "profiting from genocide."
Amnesty International, Medact, the British Medical Association, and the Green Party are all now calling for the NHS contract to be cancelled.
Hospitals in Manchester and Leeds are already prioritising local, publicly owned alternatives.
And Keir Starmer? He toured Palantir's Washington headquarters with CEO Alex Karp in February 2025.
His Health Secretary Wes Streeting — who privately admitted Israel was "committing war crimes before our eyes" — told journalists that criticism of Palantir's NHS access didn't "wash with me." He then told Palantir that plans to review NHS data governance represented "opportunities."
The Information Commissioner is currently investigating the government's refusal to release documents about Palantir's NHS contract and Peter Mandelson's role in facilitating it. Mandelson — now UK Ambassador to the US, recently named in Epstein files — ran Global Counsel, which had Palantir as a client, hosted NHS data chief Ming Tang at a dinner in 2023, nine months before Palantir won the NHS contract.
Democracy or Corporate Sovereignty?
Palantir has 34 contracts with key UK public institutions. The head of the UK branch is Louis Mosley, grandson of British fascist Oswald Mosley.
What I don't see reported in the MSM is that US CEO Peter Thiel is a proponent of free zones and free cities. Palantir is hollowing out UK and US democracy under a right-wing corporate political template.
None of this is conspiracy. It's public record.
Most of it is just very hard to see because FOI requests keep getting refused.
The 2015 Brexit contract is where this story starts. I intend to keep pulling on it.
https://t.co/tlY9Fof81E

[JewishVoiceForLiberation @JVoiceLiberatio]

This is a significant ruling. A Swiss court has acquitted five Palestine solidarity activists, annulled their fines, recognised the reality of genocide in Palestine, and affirmed that peaceful civil disobedience is protected by freedom of expression. At a time when support for Palestinian rights is increasingly criminalised across parts of Europe, this judgment is a reminder that defending human rights and demanding compliance with international law are not crimes. Democracy is measured not by how it treats conformity, but by how it treats dissent.
https://t.co/U3afvZwE9M

[Aldo Sterone @AldoSterone111]

Il faut interdire les voitures à Paris et faire payer plus de taxes carbone pour compenser cela.

[Susi Batstone💙🌻 @SusiB348]

Agree with this. No sunburn with no seed oils in diet.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Hours in the midday sun, weeks on end. Tanned like a conker. Not one peel.

Six years ago, before I cut seed oils, the sun would barely touch me and I'd be peeling within days.

Correlation isn't causation, sure. Until you learn seed oils get stored in your skin and oxidise under UV. That reaction is the burn.

Cut the oils. Give it two years. Your skin stops flinching at the sun it was built for.

[Tribune @tribunemagazine]

In County Waterford, sheep farmers face eviction as the Duke of Devonshire’s estate imposes rent hikes of up to 900% — a stark reminder that British imperialism still exploits rural Ireland. https://t.co/kLtLyW66pR