Extinction Rebellion London 🌍

Find us on BlueSky NOW: 🚨 COME TOGETHER: IMAGINE THE IMPOSSIBLE. Find your local group in link below:
#Xdissenter

[Extinction Rebellion London 🌍 @XRLondon]

For all of you joining us in making the move to #Bluesky, here's a #StarterPack of Extinction Rebellion accounts to follow, including @xrlondon.bsky.social 🐝🦋
#Twexit #Twexodus
https://t.co/YyFi8v5VtF

[XRUK_Actions @XRUK_Actions]

UNPREPARED ⚠️
The UK is not prepared for the impacts of climate change, say Fire Chiefs.

“…it is impossible not to be concerned about the very real and immediate threat climate change poses to our planet and what that will mean for our communities in the future”
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[XRUK_Actions @XRUK_Actions]

“Fire and rescue services are on the frontline of responding to extreme weather.. and without adequate investment and further action from government, our capacity to keep communities safe and protect infrastructure is at risk”.
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https://t.co/mMnE0mTvlb

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it. I’m now posting at https://t.co/0iVBaQEKGy.

Since Elon Musk bought this site, he has transformed it from one on which millions could converse as equals into his personal megaphone. Now the world’s richest man uses it to wage his class war, transferring blame for the ills of capitalism onto vulnerable minorities, boosting the grimmest and most antisocial accounts while suppressing the humane voices with whom he disagrees.

He has used X not only to subvert the election for the US presidency, but to create a role for himself in US politics which, though he has never stood for election and would not be eligible, grants him immense power over the citizens of that nation. This site has been used as a tool to help replace democracy with oligarchy.

Musk claimed, on purchasing the platform, to be a “free speech absolutist”. He is in fact a prolific censor, suspending dissenting accounts and using lawsuits to shut down free speech, while employing an algorithm to increase the reach of his own posts 1,000-fold. He cannot abide a level playing field.

He has permitted or encouraged the growth of a ghost army of bots and trolls to degrade the experience of all who disagree with him. Their task is not just to abuse opponents but, perhaps more importantly, to drown intelligent conversation with a tsunami of stupidity. They respond to data with denial, expertise with execration, insight with insult, humour with hatred and thinking with thuggery. They suck the meaning out of everything. The stupidity trends in one direction: in the service of economic power. It is a weapon used to suppress the possibility of a better world.

Many years ago, when I lived in Brazil, I learnt that the military dictatorship had actively sought to suppress educational levels in schools, as it saw a well-informed population as a political threat. A confused, distracted and ignorant population is easy to manipulate. Now this counter-educational model is being rolled out worldwide, and Elon Musk is its primary sponsor.

I stayed here long after I first considered leaving, as I believed it was wrong to cede the ground to an oligarch and his minions. But I came to see that those of us who do not subscribe to Musk’s grim project are being used as groundbait: stimulating the feeding frenzy of 15-minute, 24-hour hate that now powers this platform. We can no longer build anything of value here. Brute force – the unmediated power of money – has beaten humanity, intelligence, humour and democracy.

On Bluesky I can be the person I want to be, a better person than I am on X, where it is almost impossible not to get dragged into the mud. I feel I can be understood because I am not confronting a deliberate effort to misunderstand me. So I can speak more quietly.

There is no guarantee that Bluesky will not also one day be monetised by its owners or captured by self-serving billionaires. But for now it remains a place in which interesting and enjoyable conversations can be had, kindness can be shown to strangers and a better world can be imagined. I hope to see you there.

[Extinction Rebellion Rubavu @xrrubavu]

The Congo Basin peatlands store about 30% of the world's tropical peat carbon, holding 30 billion metric tons, and their preservation is crucial to preventing the release of carbon equivalent to 3 years of global fossil fuel emissions.

[Dr Andrew Boswell #CarbonReckoning @Andrew9Boswell]

Thanks @ChrisGPackham for highlighting this insane risk the Government are taking with public money

Whilst pensioners freeze with no fuel allowance, fossil fuels companies and their investors are proteected from any financial risk from these climate dangerous CCS projects

[Extinction Rebellion London 🌍 @XRLondon]

Pl join us Sun Jan 19, Finsbury Park, for afternoon of socialising, organising & sharing experiences. Workshop will focus on how we can build stronger networks, communities & care amongst XR & allies? Vegi & vegan food will be provided + time to socialise https://t.co/dVIFL6mG6x

[Extinction Rebellion Haringey @XRHaringey]

A rundown of impact felt by humans in this record breaking year of heating:

https://t.co/MxvWXZlify

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

PEACEMAKERS JAILED

Good people from Cambridge visited The Guildhall to ask @DanielZeichner for his support in the appeal of political prisoner, Louise Lancaster.

Lou was imprisoned in 2024 for peaceful protest and is part of #TheJust17 who were sentenced to a combined 41years.

[Animal Rising @AnimalRising]

‼️THE RSPCA IS ASSURING SLAUGHTER‼️
RSPCA scandal unfolds as we drop Part 2 of our RSPCA Assured investigations...

Determined to uncover the reality of “humane” slaughter, we placed covert cameras in four RSPCA Assured slaughterhouses. Despite their claims of “high welfare,” our cameras prove there’s nothing humane about what happens behind these RSPCA-approved abattoir doors.

The RSPCA cannot continue to defend the appalling conditions repeatedly discovered at its farms and slaughterhouses. While this harmful scheme continues to mislead the public about welfare in animal agriculture, this suffering will continue.

We approached several prominent animal rights campaigners to speak out regarding our new findings on Assured sites. And as Moby told us,“If an organisation’s goal is to prevent cruelty to animals, it seems like there’s nothing more cruel than leading them to slaughter.”

⚠️ Sign the petition asking the RSPCA to drop the Assured scheme: https://t.co/fymB3aZncf ⚠️

Visit https://t.co/1YmQwEH43r to view footage and our full report.

#EndRSPCAAssured #AnimalRising #ForAllLife #AnimalRights #AnimalLiberation #AnimalFreedom #AnimalLover #RSPCAAssured #RSPCA #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRescue

@thelittleidiot
@PeterTatchell
@PeterEgan6
@DaleVince

[Insure Our Future @InsOurFuture]

🚨 NEW REPORT:

For the first time, we reveal the staggering cost of climate change that the insurance industry has been passing on to policyholders and how insurers are digging their own (and our) graves.

#InsureOurFuture #WithinOurPower [1/8]

🔗https://t.co/ljBX3IhIYU

[Stop Silvertown Tunnel Traffic and Pollution @SilvertownTn]

As @BBCTomEdwards says: You build an HGV tunnel especially for the biggest HGVs and they will use it, coming into Newham, one of the most polluted areas in London, bringing a detrimental health impact.
@SebDance @MayorofLondon

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

How the Government is restricting your right to protest

Great interview with Tim Crosland of Defend Our Juries about protest, the law and juries

@DefendourJuries
@libertyhq
@BylineTimes
@TTTMediaXR
@XRLondon
@Pal_action

https://t.co/G7Az0auOcz via @YouTube

[Extinction Rebellion London 🌍 @XRLondon]

With thanks to designer LauraGreentree for our new logo

[Extinction Rebellion London 🌍 @XRLondon]

A NEW LOOK FOR LONDON!!
🔸The 'hourglass' - time has run out
🔸The Thames flows through our city, connecting us
🔸The Houses of Parliament represent one of the seats of power that we demand take action
🔸The City of London skyscrapers represent the world of corporate capitalism

[People & Planet @peopleandplanet]

🔥 This is MASSIVE news!

More than 75% of UK universities divest from the fossil fuel industry!

That's thanks to 10 years of tireless campaigning from students putting on the pressure. ✊

Campaigning works. This shows our power! 👇
https://t.co/CH2ECYMgEk

[Extinction Rebellion London 🌍 @XRLondon]

For all of you joining us in making the move to #Bluesky, here's a #StarterPack of Extinction Rebellion accounts to follow, including @xrlondon.bsky.social 🐝🦋
#Twexit #Twexodus
https://t.co/YyFi8v5nE7

[Extinction Rebellion London 🌍 @XRLondon]

120,000 signatures! Stop giving taxpaypayers' money to the biggest carbon emitter in the UK, that turns trees, often from old growth forests, into pellets to burn for energy. It's a no-brainer @Ed_Miliband
#StopBurningTrees #AxeDrax

[Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social @axe_drax]

This morning we delivered a Christmas present to Ed Miliband: a petition of over 120,000 signatures demanding he ended subsidies for Drax! We’ve had enough of our energy bills paying for the UKs biggest carbon emitter’s environmental racism.

[Extinction Rebellion London 🌍 @XRLondon]

We've flooded every inch of the world with plastic, we have no real idea what the health impacts of this are; we have a plastic pollution crisis, which richer countries have mostly exported to poorer countries; and we've done all this within a single human lifetime

[LawyersAreResponsible @LawyersAreResp]

Our message to lawyers at the 'Magic Circle' firms was loud & clear....

Lawyers representing oil & gas clients in 2024 is -

⚕️Harming Public Health

⚖️A Weaponisation of the Law

☠️Profiting From Ecocide and Genocide

Time to reflect and do the right thing!

[Extinction Rebellion London 🌍 @XRLondon]

Petrostates, like Russia and Saudi Arabia, are trying to derail a strong Global #PlasticsTreaty, and a cap on plastic production.

Plastic is already a health, climate and environmental crisis, and with production set to TRIPLE by 2050, we need to limit production NOW.

[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

🚨BREAKING: Greenpeace International activists are challenging a plastics industry tanker as final #PlasticsTreaty talks enter a critical stage.