Liz 💙🐋🐝🌿🍄🌻🦆💚

#FBPPR #FBPE #SaveTheNHS

Interconnectedness of all things

[Liz 💙🐋🐝🌿🍄🌻🦆💚 @boskybits]

Mossy #WallsOnWednesday

[Liz 💙🐋🐝🌿🍄🌻🦆💚 @boskybits]

@HB I liked that Emmely thought of who the spaces were for and how they'd be used.
Sophie put a piece of Ply on top of the fridge for a table. Impractical, but because she had flowery wallpaper on the ceiling her 'sophistication' got her through. 🤷‍♀️ #interiordesignmasters

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

Buy back Royal Mail, 76% want public ownership

It would cost around £3.6 billion

Put households on the board and raise the standards

This 500 year old institution worked well until it was privatised, it should not be owned by a Czech billionaire

https://t.co/c1zbbS73iM

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

My God…

Please see this man for what he is.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Should Nigel Farage be arrested for inciting riots?

Like - Yes
RT - Instantly

[Sarah @kokeshimum]

My little £6 B&M solar fountain is a hit with the Robin.

Seriously tho. How cute is this. Could watch them all day. 🥹

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

DO NOT TURN A BLIND EYE TO THIS. HOLY SHIT.

[Jen Wood - est optimum simpliciter @unojen_wood]

Wow:
A striking 84% of proposed UK data centres are being built in regions already officially classified by the Environment Agency as "seriously water-stressed.
These centres have to be stopped.

[Liz 💙🐋🐝🌿🍄🌻🦆💚 @boskybits]

Enjoyed the misty moistness yesterday. Slightly less keen about walk in the rain again today ☺️
Trees always looking good though and expect they are enjoying it!
Happy #thicktrunktuesday 💕 from Dartmoor, Devon

[British Dragonfly Society @BDSdragonflies]

Glyphosate has no place in our gardens and growing spaces 🛑- so sign and share Garden Organic’s petition today to ban this dangerous herbicide for amateur and urban use 👉 https://t.co/mHwbHgXOVT.
#GrowersAgainstGlyphosate #GardenOrganic

[Richard @ricwe123]

What most people already understand, even without the economic terminology, is that firms like BlackRock operate less like investors and more like modern feudal landlords.

They buy essential infrastructure,water networks, ports, energy grids, data centres, and other public necessities, often using vast amounts of borrowed money and paying prices that ordinary market participants cannot match.
Once the acquisition is complete, the debt is pushed onto the acquired company itself.

The result is simple: the public pays.

Consumers repay that debt through higher water bills, rising energy prices, increased fees, and declining service quality.
The infrastructure becomes a cash-extraction machine.
Profits flow upward to shareholders and executives, while the financial burden flows downward to households.

When the model inevitably breaks down, the consequences are socialised. Communities are left with crumbling infrastructure, polluted rivers, and failing services.
Thames Water's £14 billion debt mountain and repeated sewage scandals are a stark example of what happens when financial engineering takes precedence over public stewardship.

The executives who loaded the company with debt have already collected their bonuses.
The investors have already taken their returns.
And when the system finally reaches breaking point, taxpayers are expected to pick up the bill.

Privatise the gains.
Socialise the losses.
That is the business model.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I’m over here recycling toilet paper roll cores, using my own bags, not running the water when I brush my teeth, while billionaires are blowing up rockets and building water-polluting data centers. It’s hard not to be discouraged.

[Manus Carlisle @manus_carlisle]

Here is the map of data centres in Ireland - over 130 of them.

Data centres now consume 22% of Ireland’s electricity

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nearly 2 billion people live in the red area.

It is becoming completely uninhabitable.

What do the climate deniers, who also hate immigration, think is going to happen?

[Liz 💙🐋🐝🌿🍄🌻🦆💚 @boskybits]

@BBCPolitics You are not doing a good job for your licence fee payers.
Yes we can hear AI positives, but with so many queries about data safety, bias and environmental concerns 'Question Time' should have someone able to take on industry supporters other than a plucky audience.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

So you know what @bbcquestiontime did with Farage? They’re now doing it with AI.

This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice.

Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And for ‘balance’? A Tory MP.
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[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

The pace of climate change has doubled, just as political and business commitment to tackling it has crashed. Our children, grandchildren, and their descendants living in a much more hostile climate - will see this as history’s greatest betrayal.

https://t.co/26AoNlfDI3

[Liz 💙🐋🐝🌿🍄🌻🦆💚 @boskybits]

So sad that, while some councils are 'rewilding' parts of their cities Plymouth decided to cut down mature trees, concrete over the grass and replant with shadeless saplings and weedy looking stuff in gravel. 😡🥵 Thanks @STRAWPlymouth for trying to stop it!

[Jon Burke 🌍 @jonburkeUK]

What if I told you one study in Manchester found that shade from street trees reduced surface temperatures by an average of 12°C, and concrete surfaces shaded permanently by a bank of trees were cooled by up to 20°C during a heatwave?

You might not believe me. But it's true…👇

[P.G. Chodehouse @mynnoj]

sometimes stuff doesn't need a complicated explainer

[Dr Jill Belch @JillBelch]

Killing birds to allow other birds to grow & then be killed.
@rspb records 921 confirmed attacks between 2015 & 2024, with >50%, according to the RSPB, on or near land managed for #GameShooting.
RSPB want licensing in rest of UK as is done in Scotland.

[Raven Cozens-Hardy @RaveCozensHardy]

Political corruption.
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg party - the Conservatives @michaelgove and the unlawful VIP PPE lane.
The long-awaited independent report concluded that almost 90% of the staggering £10.8bn lost to Covid fraud, error, and botched contracts cannot be recovered.