Isabel

Isabel

@catandq.bsky.social

Grandmother. Ret'd NHS Nurse. Quilter. Owned by 2 cats Pro EU. Proportional Representation NO DMs!!! I don't read them No pleas for funds, I have no money to spare I'm not American

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The reckless expansion of mega data centers has gone unchecked for too long. An immediate halt on approvals for new mega data centres is the circuit breaker we urgently need. Sign the petition to protect our water and energy, and force Big Tech to put people before profits: act.gp/3We3MLO

act.gpBreak Free from Big Tech - Greenpeace InternationalBig Tech’s unchecked data centre expansion is draining local power grids, wasting precious water, and threatening our climate. Stand up to corporate greed. Sign the petition to demand a freeze on new ...

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Britons should use money we haven't got to buy food the country doesn't grow, store it in homes that don't exist, in spare rooms that got taxed away, so we can survive when reservoirs nobody built run dry because of a climate the govt won't protect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comEvery Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advisesBe Ready campaign aims to prepare UK for impact of climate crisis, technological dependency and threats by hostile state

When govt says AI/Data Centres will increase jobs is this an early indication of just how big the lies are? Barclays cutting 5,000 jobs as it increases reliance on AI

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We saw you then for what you did for politics in England (reminder: #TomWatson helped destroy project #Corbyn whilst #NickClegg laid the foundations for years of #Tory rule) AND we see you now! Thanks for this @privateeyenews.bsky.social #PrivateEye.

Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social

“When I look round the boardroom at the other board members Palantir has recently also recruited from the House of Lords – notably Lord Vader and Lord Voldemort – I don’t have any sense that these people are evil,” said Watson. From the new Private Eye, out now.

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King Charles does not pay income tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax Duchy of Lancaster trades, doesn't pay corporation tax, capital gains tax. Its competitors do. The King voluntarily paid £30m since Accession. No way of knowing what it could/should be. Would you like to pay tax voluntarily?

leftfootforward.orgRoyal financial privileges show that we are not in it togetherThis week, after perfunctory scrutiny, the UK parliament approved a core Sovereign Grant of £99.9m (from 2027/28) for the King, a 93% increase from the £51.8m for 2024/25 and 65% higher in real terms ...

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9.6m Britons go without toiletries, hygiene or cleaning products, can’t afford them. Poverty forces hard choices, incubates health problems. Govt fiscal rules not accompanied by poverty reduction targets. No party aims for redistribution. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

bigissue.comHygiene poverty is the hidden cost of living trap. We can fix itHygiene poverty can be fixed by removing VAT on essentials and axing shelf life regulations. It could help millions with the cost of living

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Labour's Chancellor John Healy thinks you're stupid, "Now is the time to make the most of our own homegrown energy through production from Jackdraw" My view: John Healey is dressing up a small boost to gas supply as a solution to the energy crisis.

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JD Vance: "There is no person who hates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulent over access to the government than Donald J Trump"

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Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum in exchange for security assurances from the U.S., UK and Russia—not a NATO-style defense guarantee. Russia broke its commitments. Vance says Ukraine isn’t our ally. Apparently, assurances expire when inconvenient.

Burnham defends Jackdaw Anyone who thinks that's a good decision, given how much coverage, science there is on the subject of climate change, is possibly not the right person to be in charge

Expectation: Govts will make policies to protect the country and the world What we get: Govts with with greed, aligned to policies made in Israel and the US, helping big money increase profit with drilling and data centres which emit heat, use water, create noise. Both damage climate, kill the world

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World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says UNEP report says window has closed on holding temperate rises to 1.5C, but swift cuts would enable overshoot to be limited Meanwhile, UK government approves a new gas field… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comWorld must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN saysAction needed to avoid disastrous overshoot of climate targets, according to organisation’s environment body

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Damn, that was a quick Iranian response about Traitor Trump threatening Los Angeles and San Diego. I love these. They beat the shit out of Pedolf Shitler's fake, laughable AI posts where he pretends to be a hero.😅

Schools and colleges in England will be required to recognise antisemitism as a distinct category of harm and take explicit action against it following a major review........but no mention of Islamophobia 🤷‍♀️

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Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water. Here are some suggestions. Enforce laws. Prosecute execs for harming health, environment. Cancel licence to operate. Put TW into special administration. Nationalise at knockdown price. Apply to all water companies.

theguardian.comBurnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames WaterExclusive: Utility seen as ‘litmus test’ of PM’s promise to bring ‘essentials of life’ under public control

Chancellor rejects calls to raise Capital Gains Tax in Budget because he's worried wealthy people will leave the country if they're taxed at a similar rate to the rest of us It's really hard to believe this govt calls itself Labour

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In 2025, a majority of S&P 500 CEOs made more in 1 day than the median US worker made the entire year. Meanwhile, the median US worker would need to work 43,154 years to earn what Trump made in 2025 thanks to his crypto scams & various grifts. When I say the system is broken, this is what I mean.

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FYI: McGill's, owned by the Easdale brothers - among the top Scots on the Sunday Times Rich List - who gave a “substantial” six-figure donation to Labour's election fund and explicitly say they want to help Scottish Labour “remove the SNP from power.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukMcGill's accuse Swinney of behaving like a dictator over bus plansThe first minister outlined plans to bring buses under public control during his speech at the SNP conference.

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The Sovereign Grant to the King doesn’t count as taxable income. Payments by the state to Britons, such as the state pension, carer’s allowance, contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance, and contribution-based employment and support allowance are taxable. That's the law.

leftfootforward.orgRoyal financial privileges show that we are not in it togetherThis week, after perfunctory scrutiny, the UK parliament approved a core Sovereign Grant of £99.9m (from 2027/28) for the King, a 93% increase from the £51.8m for 2024/25 and 65% higher in real terms ...

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It’s now a tsunami of racist, sex-pesting horror from Reform. Nonsense about “unfair targeting”, “disgruntled former employees”, “being provoked”, “vetting issues”, “banter” and being “on medication”… just make it worse. Bye bye Farage. It’s been shit knowing you. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/483...

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Farage & Johnson are calling 'betrayal' but this is the Brexit they sold to the country. Only when it got over the line did they switch to the Putin approved version.

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Mike Johnson offers a conspiracy theory to explain away his party's dire polling: "I believe there's a concerted effort between Democrats and the mainstream media that's openly biased in their favor to discourage the Republican side"