Simon Turkas πŸ“· Photography

Simon Turkas πŸ“· Photography

@simonturkas.bsky.social

Nature & Travel Photographer Instagram: www.instagram.com/simonturkas YT: www.youtube.com/@Simon-Turkas πŸ“§: simonturkasmedia@outlook.com

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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.

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β€œWe 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.” Ellie Chowns responds to reports that John Healey has ruled out equalising capital gains tax ahead of the Budget.

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β€œPeople 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.” Hannah Spencer on the government's approach to Wednesday's Budget, speaking at the Cost of Living rally.

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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.

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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 πŸ˜…

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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 COβ‚‚e by 2060. β˜€οΈβ™»οΈ Full story: buff.ly/fk7R0uq πŸ“ΈERod Photos on Pexels buff.ly/IJcEcHd #SolarEnergy #Recycling #CircularEconomy

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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? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

inews.co.ukMinimum wage rise for 18- to 20-year-olds to Β£12.71 could be shelvedLabour had promised to bring the payment into line with those aged over 21

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Since 2004, this community has helped make Firefox and the open internet possible. Our β€œCome Back to Firefox” campaign reunites a few early internet icons to remind people what made the internet special, and why it’s worth protecting.

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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 πŸ‘‡

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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!!!

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The Governmentβ„’ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

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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

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Not only did the far right propaganda, bullshit, billionaire pushed culture war fail in Brazil, they’ve failed in Serbia too. The tech oligarchs and right-wing populists thought they had things nicely locked down. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukSerbia's veteran ruler VučiΔ‡ concedes election to student-led protest movementThe populist right-wing leader of 12 years says it is "clear" his party has lost the vote billed as a referendum on the country's future.

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When you blink and it's Monday again. #MondayMotivation

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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"

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A strange political twist. While far-right parties gain ground in France πŸ‡«πŸ‡·, Germany πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ and the UK πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Voters in Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ, Hungary πŸ‡­πŸ‡Ί, Romania πŸ‡·πŸ‡΄ and Poland πŸ‡΅πŸ‡± have pushed back against nationalist forces, some with close ties to Putin. Thoughts?

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We don’t 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 – and only the Green Party can deliver it.

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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.

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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 haven’t acted β€” instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

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The Trussell Trust’s 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€’ That’s around 1 in 7 people in the UK What should Labour do in the Budget to make sure people can afford the essentials?

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Great news for nature! πŸŽ‰ Today’s 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.

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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"

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A really good bench #scape #dolomites #photography #benchesofbluesky #eastcoastkin #landscape #nature

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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"

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Goldeneyes make a splash in today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight. 🎩 As they arrive from Scandinavia and Russia, look for their striking golden eyes and crisp black-and-white plumage on winter lakes.

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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

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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?

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πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄ Norway, yay oil and gas! Let's nationalise returns and in 2026 we'll have a Β£1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ 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

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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

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"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

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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.