Jane Rue, MCIL, #RejoinEU

Translator DE-EN, European, climate activist, flight free, allotment gardener, vegan, Green Party.

[Turn Left Media @TurnLeftMediaUK]

🟩 Green Party Co-Deputy Leader @MothinAli has a message for @SuellaBraverman: “I’m brown, I’m Muslim, but I’m as English as a Yorkshire cup of tea!”

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

These two workers from Luton want Suella Braverman to know they're both English.

#BBCQT

[Jane Rue, MCIL, #RejoinEU @janerue5]

@Heccles94 The expression on his face didn't say panic.

[Jane Rue, MCIL, #RejoinEU @janerue5]

@dontbrexitfixit @RNLI The @RNLI should invite a couple of those "patriots" to come out with them on a shout. I bet they'd be way too scared.

[lynda carter @lyndamcar10]

I see the RNLI are copping the blame for asylum seekers again . Fed up with the ignorance around this magnificent charity . They rescue ALL in trouble. They don’t request identification or process humans first . Let’s give their funds a boost ❤️❤️ https://t.co/eyBKtBmVGz

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

The government simultaneously telling people to stock up on food, and going ahead with extracting more fossil fuels from the North Sea

https://t.co/LfVh3JTZBy

The fact that they can't connect the two, shows they haven't a clue about what climate breakdown actually means

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Life in the 2020s comes with so much dissonance and dysphoria because everyone knows this civilization is doomed, but it’s not being acknowledged by any of our mainstream institutions.

We can all see everything getting worse and worse before our eyes in real time, but our government officials don’t talk about it. Our mass media outlets don’t report on it. Our education systems don’t recognize it. There’s a giant elephant in the room with us at all times, and normal people are acutely aware of it, but the talking heads keep speaking as though everything’s going to keep ticking along normally into the foreseeable future.

We can all see the summers heating up.

We can all see that there are fewer insects and less wildlife around than when we were young.

We can all see that the western empire is on borrowed time.

We can all see that younger generations are having much more difficulty affording housing and life expenses than their parents and grandparents.

We can all see that technology has stagnated as capitalism’s innovation-for-profit model hits the limit of how far it can carry us as a species.

We can all see the apps, search engines, social media platforms and tech services getting shittier and shittier year by year.

We can all see AI making everything worse and turning everyone into cognitive infants who can’t do anything for themselves while consistently failing to deliver what its proponents say it will deliver.

We can all see the people around us getting dumber, crazier and more miserable as we are pushed into dystopian conditions where everyone gets more and more alienated and must pay a monthly fee for the experience of connection.

We can all see that state authoritarianism is escalating in proportion to public discontent with the status quo.

We all know we’re in a completely unsustainable situation. We all know we are riding a bus with disintegrating wheels.

But it doesn’t get acknowledged by anyone at the top. The news reports are still about the latest celebrity gossip and whether the economy arrow is pointing up or down. The movies and shows are still about wacky and witty characters for whom capitalism is working perfectly fine. The politicians are still talking about culture war issues and the Evil Dictator of the Day.

It is taken as a given that our grandchildren will be living in more or less the same kind of world we are living in, when we all know there’s no way this is true.

The wheels on the bus are coming off, boys and girls. The ride is near its end.

I’m not saying we’re all going to die, I’m just saying this civilization as it presently exists cannot possibly be sustained. Immensely drastic changes are coming up around the bend whether we like it or not, either by a deliberate transformation or by some cataclysmic event occurring against our will.

Life in the 2020s feels so spiritually dissonant because we all know this is the case, but all the sources we’ve been trained to look to for information and context are acting like everything’s perfectly fine. They’re painting a cheery picture over reality while every normal person is staring at the giant black cracks that keep appearing in the paint job.

Which tells you all you need to know about the competency of the people who are steering the bus. The people in charge are just going to keep driving this thing into the ground until there’s nothing left to save. If there’s going to be a world-saving revolution, it’s going to come from we ordinary people who are willing to acknowledge reality, not from the oligarchs and empire managers presently steering things who have been blinded by the pursuit of profit and power.

We either find some way to get their hands off the steering wheel and take control, or we find ourselves confronting the future horrors they’ve been discouraging us from thinking about while they drive us to our doom.

[Jane Rue, MCIL, #RejoinEU @janerue5]

@SkyNews But let's blame disposable barbecues!

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The BBC increasingly just report on what is being said by the billionaire press.

They allow them to set the agenda which means our national conversation becomes about same trivial nonsense the Daily Mail are talking about.

And it's becoming deadly.

https://t.co/bX1JfD1DVd

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

The climate crisis is coming for our food.

As yet another heatwave approaches in the UK, environmental scientist @ProfPaulBehrens tells @MichaelJSWalker on Novara Live that our entire food system needs to be transformed. That means radically changing how we approach farming, but also everybody cutting down on animal products too.

[Georgina Hollifield 💚🏠 @sp4rkl3jumpr0p3]

The pattern I'm noticing with Andy Burnham thus far is lots of lower-scale policies that are good like this but when it comes to the big policies we all want like wealth taxes, arms embargo, nationalised water etc he is silent or skirts around the issue

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

You can't help but wonder if the BBC's politics and news coverage is in a increasingly dire place when they can give days and days over to nonsense and Reforms demands - but don't cover the biggest threat to our national security that we have faced in our lifetimes.

[Jane Rue, MCIL, #RejoinEU @janerue5]

@RhonddaBryant Good news!

[Jane Rue, MCIL, #RejoinEU @janerue5]

@ZackPolanski Could you make a comparison with some other countries? As far as I remember, Germany has rent controls, and it works perfectly well.

[Jane Rue, MCIL, #RejoinEU @janerue5]

@domdyer70 My cat had a bell and I also limit the amount of outside time he has. I pretty much always know where he is. No birds caught yet.

[Adrian Ramsay MP @AdrianRamsay]

Andy Burnham says he takes the climate and nature crises seriously, but words are no substitute for action. With heatwaves causing deaths, wildfires and extreme weather, approving new oil and gas drilling is exactly the wrong response and will do nothing to bring down bills.

[Jane Rue, MCIL, #RejoinEU @janerue5]

@CarlBovisNature A good moment to remind people that peacock butterflies lay their eggs on nettles so we need to leave some in our gardens (I only found this out very recently!).

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

I’ve just emailed my MP about the HUGE number of animals abused in UK medical labs

1,706 dogs. 1,845 monkeys. 1,284 rabbits. 1,775,356 mice. 100 horses

We urgently need #HerbiesLaw to end cruel, often ineffective, animal testing 

SIGN https://t.co/m5PGRsovkD
FOLLOW @AFR_UK

[Jane Rue, MCIL, #RejoinEU @janerue5]

@EnviroconJo @northumbriapol @WriterHannahBT

[Angie Hobbs @drangiehobbs]

Given our environmental challenges, the educational value of the Watch programmes (I still lament Autumnwatch) is invaluable; they also support the greenlit GCSE in Natural History. And the sheer beauty of Winterwatch offers respite. Please think again BBC @ChrisGPackham