Read more books and magazines.
Listen to more CDs or vinyl.
Watch more films at the cinema or on DVD.
Take more photos with a camera.
Go on more nature walks without your phone.
Spend more time with your family and friends in person.
Reject big tech, AI and smartphone addiction.
βWe should be making sure that people who make a living by going out to work aren't paying effectively a higher rate of tax than people who get their income from sitting on assets.β
Ellie Chowns responds to reports that John Healey has ruled out equalising capital gains tax ahead of the Budget.
βPeople are demanding action on rents, the cost of the climate emergency and about how we can bring people's bills down and yet what we're about to see is just the same old.β
Hannah Spencer on the government's approach to Wednesday's Budget, speaking at the Cost of Living rally.
For the next week. We have to learn from Brazil.
When the right wingers were flooding social media with election rigging nonsense.
Brazilians absolutely flooded social media with pro-Lula posts.
Everyone was sharing, constantly throughout the day.
Do it with your local candidate.
Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country
Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram π
Millions of solar panels will retire in the coming decades. A new global study finds recycling them could unlock up to nearly $1 trillion and cut up to 3.3 billion tonnes of COβe by 2060. βοΈβ»οΈ Full story: buff.ly/fk7R0uq πΈERod Photos on Pexels buff.ly/IJcEcHd#SolarEnergy#Recycling#CircularEconomy
Labour now briefing young people won't get the same minimum wage uplift.
Even Starmer didn't break this pledge. Workers rights mean same rights, pay & conditions, same rate for the same job.
What does this Labour government have against young people?
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Since 2004, this community has helped make Firefox and the open internet possible.
Our βCome Back to Firefoxβ campaign reunites a few early internet icons to remind people what made the internet special, and why itβs worth protecting.
You think we'd launch a new game without a giveaway to go with it?! You know us better than that.
So does ASUS because they're letting us give away a *brand new laptop* to celebrate the launch of Tenebris Somnia!
RT + Follow + Enter to win a ROG Zephyrus G14 NOW π
GOOD CLIMATE NEWS: Luiz InΓ‘cio Lula da Silva beat far right FlΓ‘vio Bolsonaro in a tight runoff election to stay in office as President of Brazil which will continue to help limit damage across the Amazon Rainforest!!!
A moment of silence for the international far-right propaganda machine, which spent millions trying to export American-style election denial to Brazil, only for the working class to look at the Bolsonaro family and say, "Nah, we're good." The US propaganda machine and tech
Not only did the far right propaganda, bullshit, billionaire pushed culture war fail in Brazil, theyβve failed in Serbia too. The tech oligarchs and right-wing populists thought they had things nicely locked down.
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Susanna Reid, "Why have you brought up rejoining the European Union?"
Andy Burnham, "We have a decade of experience now looking back at Brexit, and I don't think it has played out as people said at the time"
We donβt need a business-as-usual Budget.
We need a Budget to tax extreme wealth and make the UK affordable.
This is the scale of change Britain desperately needs β and only the Green Party can deliver it.
This one's a tough one. On the one hand, I don't want lots of people dying from a preventable virus, but on the other, what are we even doing still skinning minks? Wait, what's hard about this?? Oh capitalism and your hijinx.
NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months.
Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic.
But officials havenβt acted β instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.
The Trussell Trustβs latest report makes for grim reading:
β’ 9 million people are projected to experience severe hardship in 2026/27
β’ 3 million of them are children
β’ Thatβs around 1 in 7 people in the UK
What should Labour do in the Budget to make sure people can afford the essentials?
Great news for nature! π
Todayβs announcements by the Prime Minister at the first Wildfire Resilience Summit announcing Β£25m for peatland restoration is a positive step forward.
This investment will mean that the critical & vital work restoring these natural landscapes can continue.
Beth Rigby, "All of the people in the Makerfield focus group voted to Leave the EU. When Burnham said it at conference I thought: Brexit betrayal. Those Leave voting parts of the country won't like this."
"But you ask those people and they don't seem to mind (closer ties with the EU"
Ellie Chowns addresses domestic gas e.g. from Jackdraw vs imported gas #BBCQT
"Jackdraw has created more gas circulating in the world's economy that will be burned, so it will increase climate change"
"On the emissions of British gas being lower, that's not true"
Brexit voter in Makerfield tells Beth Rigby,
"Everything seemed better when we were in the European Union. Boris Johnson just convinced everyone that we would be so much better off, didn't he"
Another says he didn't make the right choice to vote for Brexit because Brexit ended FOM
Miatta can clearly see right from wrong but she's rowed into line twice with a Labour government siding with Shell and Donald Trump on climate vandalism, and into line now on cruel immigration reforms.
What is the point of Labour if they can't even do the basics to protect people and the planet?
Runaway AI poses a threat to us all. How humanity stays in control should be a priority for everyone
Projection location: Slough, UK
Narrated by @gavinesler.bsky.social
π³π΄ Norway, yay oil and gas! Let's nationalise returns and in 2026 we'll have a Β£1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund
π¬π§ United Kingdom, yay oil and gas! Let's sell it off, and with it's scraps in 2026, add Β£100 million a year by 2030 (OBR) to an Energy Wealth Fund
Left: Keir Starmer campaigned with WASPI women, and then rejected the recommendation to compensate them when PM
Right: Andy Burnham supported an end to fossil fuels with @fossiltreaty.bsky.social but then opened up Jackdraw for gas extraction when he became PM
Hi @andyburnham.bsky.social even Irvine Welsh is calling out Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper's policy which has now seen over 3,600 arrested for non violent protest
"AI may substantially accelerate structural imbalances that long predate AI itself and deserve serious, pragmatic, and non-ideological discussion. 'The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.'" β Thomas Jefferson
GOOD NEWS: New York City has planted over 18,000 street trees this year as part of their goal of covering a third of the metropolitan area with trees by 2040, and these plantings were congregated in lower income neighborhoods that currently lack adequate shade cover.