Rupert Suckling FRSA born @323.04 ppm

Former Director of Public Health Doncaster Council. Trustee Well North Enterprises, personal views

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Palantir’s UK mouthpiece has been uncritically platformed the BBC (multiple times), the Sun, the Times, the Observer & now the Evening Standard.

It’s a really instructive lesson for everyone on how power works & the role the media plays

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Apparently climate change is a myth.

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

A huge heat dome is sitting over France, with temperatures that might hit 40°C. It’s still spring. It’s still May. What was once considered “extreme” is increasingly becoming normal across Europe. Heatwaves are earlier, longer, & pushing ecosystems and health beyond limits.

[Alan Doran @AlJefDor]

Having once worked with @KateRaworth, I’ve seen first-hand how powerfully she challenges conventional thinking. Her words still resonate:

“For over 70 years economics has been fixated on GDP… a far bigger goal is needed.”

#BetterEconomics

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Finnish libraries have evolved far beyond traditional book lending, becoming vibrant community hubs that offer a wide range of practical services.

Many public libraries across Finland now lend sewing machines, 3D printers, and other tools to the public at no cost. Helsinki’s iconic Central Library Oodi, for example, provides access to over 100,000 books alongside sewing machines, recording studios, and digital fabrication equipment.

These services are fully funded by municipalities and protected by law, ensuring everyone, regardless of income, can use them. The initiative reflects Finland’s strong values of equality and sustainability. By lending sewing machines, libraries encourage people to repair their clothes instead of throwing them away, helping to reduce waste and promote a circular economy.

This innovative model highlights how Finnish libraries are redefining themselves as modern centers of community support, creativity, and lifelong learning.

[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

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I'm happy to share this new paper led by @morenahanbury, which explores the drain of resources from Latin America through ecologically unequal exchange. Available open access in Ecological Economics: https://t.co/VMeZFHlfu5

[Carissa Véliz @CarissaVeliz]

Being on the @TEDTalks stage has been one of the biggest thrills of my life. My TED talk is live! Please share widely! Predictions can be weapons of power, and we are being much too naive about them, from prediction markets to AI. #Prophecy

https://t.co/HWQf4iO0dR

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door.

A new investigation by @thenerve_news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption.
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Link ⬇️

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer.

Why? Or, more to the point, how?

Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt.

But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR
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[Dr Tony O’Sullivan @DrTonyOSullivan]

Palantir now have access to all NHS emails of staff, no permission from staff needed. This will ramp up calls to end the £330m contract with Palantir and its Foundry asap
https://t.co/gpLGcvFjCO

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

@ZackPolanski stood outside Palantir HQ to demand that the spy-tech firm - which has supported deadly ICE raids and enabled genocide in Gaza - gets out of our NHS

Say no to Palantir in the NHS ❌👇
https://t.co/JGcobrFyzb

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

BREAKING!: Huge news: The Government has quietly published [link below] on its website, without any fanfare, the Joint Intelligence Committee / Defra report on
'GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY LOSS, ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY'
that it suppressed last October. It has presumably done this at this point (in the middle of an international crisis) to try to bury the story. <DON'T LET IT BE BURIED> ...this is a huge story. Just consider the report's title, for starters... the report warns of multiple likely ecosystem >collapses< that will have dire implications for our national security, and that require serious strategic adaptation at minimum. The report also sets out how these collapses if they are allowed to occur will significantly increase migration-pressure: "as development gains begin to reverse", a phrase that should make any human shudder in anguish. There is much more... But it doesn't end there: what they have published very much appears to be >only part of a larger piece of work<: there is no detail at all in what they have published on the geo-regional analyses; the connections from those regional analyses to the national security threats consequently facing Britain are not detailed; the "Key Judgements" of the report are not properly explained. It is fairly obvious what has happened here: in response to FOIs, they are trying to slip this report out, presumably because they feared it would otherwise get out anyway; but they have done so in a form that holds back much of the most disturbing content - the content that WE as citizens need to know if we are to know how to protect ourselves, what we are potentially going to have to adapt TO.
We must continue to press for the full report to be released...
But in the meantime there is much here to digest and reflect on, to put it mildly. Kudos to those who commissioned the report; do READ this version of it (it's only short!), and let's take it from there... Kudos too to those who pursued an (at least partly) successful battle to get the report released, via Freedom of Information requests...
>>Please share widely!
https://t.co/lMI3Nr5mPL

[Rupert Suckling FRSA born @323.04 ppm @RupertSuckling]

Best thing I’ve heard in a while. 'The Old Order is Not Coming Back': Mark Carney's Speech to the World Economic Forum - Policy Magazine https://t.co/K4toi5dn5n

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Denmark’s real defence mechanism is its pharmaceutical trade https://t.co/54RT1nFSsx

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

The @ProgIntl calls on movements, parties and unions to organize not just in defence of this Flotilla but in defence of humanity itself. It is our collective responsibility to break the siege and liberate Palestine from colonial occupation.

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

BREAKING 🇵🇸 Moments ago, the Global Sumud Flotilla (@gbsumudflotilla) was violently intercepted by Israeli Occupation Forces.

Hundreds of participants — including @davidrkadler, Co-General Coordinator of the @ProgIntl — are being abducted.

[Rupert Suckling FRSA born @323.04 ppm @RupertSuckling]

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[Rupert Suckling FRSA born @323.04 ppm @RupertSuckling]

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[Rupert Suckling FRSA born @323.04 ppm @RupertSuckling]

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