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History teaches us that utopias of today are realities of tomorrow

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

"To compensate for their small numbers, the Gestapo relied heavily on denunciations, tips and reports sent in by ordinary citizens."

These people are truly evil pieces of shit. You can't change my mind.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

"By 2030 England will face a 5 billion litre shortage everyday"

"Also, water companies lose 3 billion litres of water a day through leaks"

Great to see privatisation paying dividends for the water company and our water supply 🤷‍♂️

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

They were talking on the news about how we’re going to have to adapt for a radically hotter country.
They said it like it’s normal, like we are meant to just accept that all our lives have been degraded forever just so that the fossil fuel industry can earn more billions. There really should’ve been a revolution by now.

[Evie ♡ @EFCevie]

“it’s nothing new”

goes on to prove it is something new

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Trumpian censorship in the UK

Teacher, librarians under pressure to remove books on race, identity, social justice from libraries.

200 titles pulled from one Greater Manchester school library, including books by Black authors.

What are we becoming?
https://t.co/0cC47wV7Lj

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Yesterday someone tried to tell me we're better off without literacy because writing is a means of control. My friend, those who seek your oppression don't want you literate. The ability to read & communicate is our best defense against tyranny. And they're taking it from us.

[GB 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🍉 @gbaracetti]

@AlchemistsWorks Hello team! At what time will we be able to put an order through on Saturday?

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline.

“Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet.*

Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming.**

Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”***

* in 1937, Guy Callendar published a paper showing that the world had already warmed over the last 50 years due to human emissions what he called “carbonic acid“ – what we now call CO2 – from burning fossil fuels

** If you are wondering, “how could humans be causing more than 100% of the warming?”

— it’s because, according to natural factors, the earth should be cooling right now.

So our emissions are offsetting that cooling AND causing all of the observed warming.

*** For more on the well funded disinformation campaign, read or watch Merchants of Doubt and The Petroleum Papers

[MetJam @MetJam_]

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.

As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.

First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.

And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.

In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.

Here's the bottom line:

Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!

But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.

That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.

https://t.co/vYfPDKcWWf

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up.

[TheBossRoss 🇪🇺 🧶 ❄ 📷 6x💉 @BettinaSRoss1]

So what happens when Reform take over your local council?

This.

#KentCountyCouncil

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

NHS campaigner reveals how spy-tech giant Palantir tried to secretly hire influencers to smear Good Law Project.

Listen to The Shadow Contract now: https://t.co/YoCZoUP7E9

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

I left school when I was 17 (got 'asked to leave', is the more accurate term I guess). This was 1997.

My unqualified, entry-level salary was more than the average salary now.

My Dad - hopping mad - had sent me to three months of secretarial college and I came out into an £18k job in the local Glaxo factory as an admin assistant.

To give a sense of how long ago this was - my boss would hand-write messages onto sheets of paper and I would touch-type them into this new-fangled 'email' thing she couldn't fathom.

Nearly 30 years later, the equivalent - in purchasing power at least - would be £36k.

A year later, I parlayed that up to a £21k job in the R&D side - still as a PA, 18 years old.

I saved up and went to Taiwan to teach English for a bit. When I got back, I went to London and got a job earning £24k designing presentations and documents in a marketing agency.

I was 20yo.

The equivalent in 2026 would be £46k.

With zero qualifications beyond the ability to touch-type and a certificate saying I could use Word, Excel and PowerPoint, I was on 1.35x the average salary now.

I made a lot of mistakes as a kid. Most of my mates did.

But the economy I lived in allowed the messiness of life to roll out. We could learn, take risks and still be able to live and breathe.

We are failing future generations.

And we have a generation that's already been failed.

Our politicians are addicted to cheap slogans. They want power, not service. The failure of their reality-denying ideologies continues to spiral outwards.

Yes, immigration plays a role. Yes, housing, technology and deindustrialisation play a role. But the state has morphed into a deeply incompetent, self-indulgent boondoggle machine, that spends more time bribing voters than it does serving - or investing in - the country.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

We’ve been doggedly reporting on Palantir’s contracts with UK state…& this latest one with Met police is both creepy & opaque.

Met has used Palantir to spy on its own officers. If it can do this to its own employees…what about the rest of us?

By Max Colbert & @LuciaOC_

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve_news. We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

BREAKING: First Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉

Zoë Garbett has been elected Mayor of Hackney – huge congratulations!

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Samsung family in South Korea pays off record $8bn inheritance tax bill. IHT rate is 50%.

The family said that "paying taxes is a natural duty of citizens".

It establishes a benchmark for others.

Can you imagine the super-rich doing the same in the UK?
https://t.co/CdxHIhbKer

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough.

Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for?
[link below]