LibLabGreen Barbara

We need a reality check, return to cash, face-to-face work & teaching, in-person voting, and bring trust back. The divide between tech knows and don't knows is too wide. #AI channel4news.substack.com/p/inside-the...

This is insane. One rich man has the power to decide the fate of the civilian population of an entire country?

Don’t forget to stay up until 2am to see the fireworks when ITV and ITV+1 smash into each other.

From the number of referrals to #IPOC it seems that they must be as busy as the #Metpolice itself. #Markle

Astoundingly obvious corruption in plain sight. Just like Trump is transparent.

This is just hard to read, in this day and age ….

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Not going to name the place other than it's close to the M20 in rainy Kent (which has few working streetlights and hardly any cats eyes) and the bar tap said #BirraMoretti, the beer is #Cruzcampo, staff say, and the glass? So much for branding... #Madri

Uk being compared to Malta shows how low and corrupt the media landscape is. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

I recently spoke on a fringe panel at TUC Congress about what comes next in the fight for trans rights. I was pleased that the congress passed a motion to oppose the EHRC Code of Practice, demonstrating that trade unionists understand that trans rights are a workers’ rights issue too.

Labour says it wants to reduce child poverty. So why is it pursuing immigration reforms projected to leave 90,000 more children in poverty? No concessions can save these reforms. Tell Burnham to bin them. act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnham...

FFS

Time for the bi-annual discussion about the winter / summer duvet, why do I always have empty bits of fabric at my end? Every year we try to recall which way round, what size, which set.of covers and it ends like this....

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Since 1973, in the US over 200 death row prisoners were exonerated and released due to evidence of innocence. This ratio means that for roughly every 8 people executed 1 person on death row has been exonerated. Via Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC)

This is fantastic, but a real shame that Wallingford seems to have dropped off the proposed county network. Probably something to do with LGR? @goringgapcycling.bsky.social

Tories confused about whether they want the #triplelock or not. Good thread!

Globalisation suddenly seems like a bad idea

I never know whether this is a threat .... #evri

Let's get #waronwalking the recognition it needs.

So, either I get a small shrub in tickets, or pay £1.40 more, or use GWR for more £. All because Trainline, when doing split tickets cannot persuade the authorities to let the few evaders go. Don't get me started on the ticket office, closed sadly, selling me the same journey for a lot less on 2 tix

Excellent journalism

Channel 4 is doing what the BBC should be doing, in its investigative journalism.

My partner just said, while I am reading out an article about where #PaulSimon now lives, whoch is clearly #AI written with photos of nice houses but not PSs houses: "AI has replaced teenagers".

UK man starts potential right wing terrorist group, amplified by Russian / Israeli networks, Home Office asleep at the wheel. In follow up posts the agitator states “we are not voting our way out of this” implying violent uprising.

Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

I’ve invented a term for what #Reform is currently experiencing. Things have got SHIT-SHAPED.

Listening to Too Many Zooz reminds me that AI is shit. The real thing is better and there are still actual musicians out there. youtu.be/jMe6Y8GDVEI?...

Great piece www.lbc.co.uk/article/midd...

You really have to ask how long it will be before AI is seen for what it is. Sadly we will have become a lot more stupid by then.

Day of #activetravel action ... letters done to Goring Gap News and parish council in support of @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social Quiet lane choice for our area, Battle Rd + pedestrian safety report for raised tables @narrow jncts: solves tricky dropped kerbs and alerts motorists @maggieflpv.bsky.social

Robin @stuntbutt.bsky.social is on the cover of Goring Gap News. He is not in Texas or Southern Africa...

This is so sad....

This puts a number on the £36bn cost of inaction on climate change in London but these and other long term costs are currently invisible in Treasury accounting so inaction is incentivised. HMT wiring needs to change, as I argue in my book #BadGovernment www.london.gov.uk/climate-chan...

Meta opens its new data centre

50 green groups write to Andy Burnham demanding he be clear that climate change is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and others say "the British public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces"

Shock, Paul Simon's Album Graceland came out 40 years ago ... I am surprisingly old... #BBCProms #PaulSimon #Graceland

I did once get caught up in a real wild fire emergency and got an alert (it was abroad). As I was out cycling close to the Russian border, and my friend had fallen off his bike, for some reason I thought it was related to that. Think Russians following you on a bike!

This ridiculous Mail story is based entirely on information provided by people whose business model is all about killing birds for sport and whose immensely damaging land management practices are, at last, being curtailed.

"but net zero is too expensive" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

When will we ever learn? (Accidental quote from #PeteSeeger). #Greenland #oil #drilling

Weird dreams full of wellies, leaves and rain. Is it #autumn today? #August #climatechange #heatwave

It is remarkable how weeds are still green when everything else is parched.... are we missing something? Should we replace grass with weeds? Should weeds be studied for their secret? #drought #weeds