John Evans

Experts Recommend Families Have Plan For Ditching Weakest Member In Case Of Disaster https://theonion.com/experts-recommend-families-have-plan-for-ditching-weake-1838489011/

What happens if the budget ignores Britain's real debt crisis? If you listen to what he will say, you'd think the national debt is our problem. It isn't. Private sector debt is three times bigger - and that is where the debt crisis will happen. youtu.be/szmZZwwtAm8?...

Monstrous beyond all reckoning. The US is using remote sensing *designed for humanitarian purposes* for the opposite purpose, potentially drowning civilians en masse. Trump hates Somalis. His troops appear to be exploiting the weather to help slaughter them. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

David Graeber explained that one of the ways that Neoliberalism functions is through hopelessness. Our hope is killed until we think there is no point anymore and we just give up. Lula's amazing victory shows there still is hope. We should never give up!!!

Oh boy, are the Right excited by this graph recently published by The Economist! And of course none of them has bothered to read the article itself (TBF, it is behind a paywall!). So as always, let's add a little context and explain why these kinds of comparisons are so problematic 🧵1/25

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

Brazil and Serbia, defying rise the tide of autocracy. This is how we do it, everywhere. 🌈

This is horrific. And unsurprisingly the work of a "conservative" multimillionaire. Other adjectives might include creepy, prurient, dictatorial and abusive, not to mention, of course, transphobic. Once more with feeling: we need to get the money out of politics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"So who is the homicidal maniac in this story? It’s a scarcely examined abstraction we call “the economy”, a monster to whom anything and everything must be sacrificed without question or resistance: farmed animals, wild ones, even, unless we are fortunate, human beings in their millions."

British electricity mix at 10am on 25th Oct 2026 🔥 Gas 7.9% Biomass 3.8% 🍃 Wind 34.5% Solar 23.7% Hydro 1.6% ⚛️ Nuclear 16.2% 🪫 Storage 0.0% ➡️Imports 12.2% 🔌 Generation 31GW 🌍Carbon intensity 83 gCO2e/kWh Gas use very low

Why is the word violence used when a protester in France smashes a window, but not used when French police assault protesters? Is it somehow no longer violence if the action is committed by an employee of the state?

Your 'doom quote' for today: "The human species will survive somehow but we will destroy almost everything we have built up over the last two thousand years. I am pretty sure." theecologist.org/2019/jan/03/...

Who is the capitalist class? This new calculation shows that only about 1% of humanity has income from capital ownership greater than the median wage in their country. The rest of us - 99% of the world's population - live mostly on wage labour. Sources here: globalinequality.org/global-incom...

Muslims and immigrants, despite all the lies we're told about them, have never presented a systemic threat to Western security, let alone to "Western civilisation". Instead, the threats come from our governments, especially in the US, and their grim alliances with capital and overseas dictators.

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Please say no to plastic grass. This ugly stuff removes food & shelter for wildlife including bees, butterflies and birds; has a high carbon footprint; sheds micro-plastics which wash into our rivers and seas. Create a wildlife-friendly space instead. More littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/gra... 🐝

This is the same economic policy we've had since Thatcher. It's great if you want to increase wealth inequality and run down public services. If you want to people to have a decent standard of living, build good education, health, transport and other services and save the planet, it's shit.

If the electric vehicle sales mandate is weakened further, and heat pump grants are slashed (both strongly mooted)...this is going to be a pretty bad month for UK climate action

End the tax breaks for big tech. Use the money to fund warmer homes!

His big subject but no crossings for nearly two weeks His argument disappears so what will he find to bang on about now One subject won’t be his £5 million he was given

Your 'doom quote' for today: "A key indicator is the Earth's energy imbalance, which measures how fast heat is accumulating in the climate system... Without human influence, it should be close to zero, but it has been growing since the 1970s and is now at a record high, doubling in recent decades.”

Why do they do that all the time?

Sure, we should, if we can (many cannot). But as I keep pointing out, the government itself is making no provision at all. No stockpiles, no back-up, no alternative sources. It's individuating the response to a collective problem, and that never ends well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ranvir Singh this morning: "9 million people in the UK, I find it obscene, in 2026 are on the verge of or already using foodbanks" Meanwhile the richest 50 families have more wealth than half the population. The levels of inequality in this country are staggering.

Will John Healey's budget be a disaster? I believe it will be. That's because he is talking as if we are living in normal times, and we are not. Events outside his control will overtake Healey's budget, and he's not ready for them. youtu.be/URAPq5We8rA?...

According to international law people living under occupation have the right to resist their occupiers (& that includes armed resistance). If Britain was under brutal occupation would we be condemning attacks on occupying soldiers or supporting those fighting back?

The George Inn Portsmouth, my kind of pub, a variety of ales on (including HSB!) and a strict no fascists policy. Come on people, get down there and buy these people a pint! We need more folk of this superb ilk. Much love @cocofoto.bsky.social

They smashed the globe. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

@daliagebrial.bsky.social "We are captured by the interests of oil/gas who want to maintain the status quo & structure of our economy, we are being prevented from pursuing a path that would not only help prevent the excesses of climate breakdown but make us more energy & financially secure"

🗣 "There's nothing pragmatic about selling our children's and our grandchildren's future down the river" @zackpolanski.bsky.social reacts to Andy Burn 'em's 'disastrous' decision to drill for more fossil fuels.

"The English state never went looking for money first. It provisioned itself, from feorm to fiat, and called the paperwork a treasury." Sixteen centuries of rulers spending first, then collecting. The household budget story is the newer myth. #MMT

Jackdaw offers just 27 jobs, 35 million tonnes of carbon, and no change to energy security or bills. Greens offer a different vision. Our own homegrown, renewable energy, creating thousands of British jobs and investing in our children's futures. join.greenparty.org.uk

"Israel has killed scores of Palestinian journalists with impunity... But a more likely and honest accounting goes further: Israel has deliberately created systems that killed many of these journalists in order to cover up what they would have documented." — @azmatzahra.bsky.social and Aseel Mousa

Mass deforestation and the sudden ecosystem collapse likely to result offers a finality to their politics: there’s no coming back from this. You Indigenous people, you greens, anyone stupid enough to care: you’ll have nowhere left to hide. The world will be ours, even if it is a world of ashes.

Won’t lower energy bills. Won’t boost energy security And creates just 27 jobs. Compared to all the benefits of investing in renewables and insulating our homes. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zac...

“If Putin gets his way, the great dictators will carve up Ukraine, with America – once Europe’s ally – a willing handmaiden to European borders being redrawn to suit Moscow” Analyst and former diplomat @snellarthur.bsky.social on Maga’s masterplan to stoke unrest in Europe

Borrowing figures are not a wall. They are the private sector's savings, seen from the other side. The real limit is resources, and inflation is the gauge. The Budget challenge is political, not arithmetic. Scorecard mistaken for a wall. #MMT #UKGreenParty #Economics #UKPolitics #UKEconomics

'Time poverty' is one of modern capitalism’s least discussed forms of deprivation. When a person has no hours in a day to see friends, to recover, and to relax, life becomes something squeezed around work.

My colleague @sianberry.bsky.social is spot on. I know many Labour MPs know the Home Secretary's plans on indefinite leave to remain are cruel and unfair. Now is the time for decent MPs to stand up.

Why have the media erased Palestinians from this conversation - and why can’t they see how racist that is?

"Almost 9m people.. are at risk of needing a food bank.. that includes 2.9m children.. 1 in 5 people saying there household has run out of food & couldn't afford to buy more.." As one food bank user explains: "The gap between what we earn & what we need is ever increasing" #GMB

Today's decision by Labour to approve new drilling in the North Sea is climate vandalism. It's a betrayal of all of our futures, and Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change. This is a victory for Shell over the people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Dreadful decision. The oil companies lied and lied about global warming. They knew what would happen but put profits first. This will not reduce your energy bills but will increase Shell’s profits. The plutocrats have won. Vote Green when you can like your life depends on it - because it does.

ah well