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My piece from 2021 that I think has held up well, and wasn’t wrong about the fossil fuel industry
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Joseph K Bennett
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Joseph K Bennett
@JosephKBennett
Climate, land reform, infrastructure, GND. Command economy enjoyer. Likes rum & minimising avoidable catastrophe
- Katılım Mart 2019
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@VancouverSun @DouglasTodd Three indigenous bands are going after the Heppell Farm in Surrey BC. Ty Heppell is a fifth generation farmer and within the year they may no longer have their farm if this land claim goes through. One of the bands claiming is in the US.
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Sen̓áḵw Towers set to open 113 years after Squamish people forced from site vancouversun.com/news/local-new…
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Really ugly buildings snuggled up against the Burrard Street Bridge in an already very high density population and ohhhhh the traffic! The balconies have no overhangs above them, and the buildings themselves are all glass. Floor to ceiling glass buildings more often than not, leak. And btw, 1/2 of 1.5billion was loaned to the band out of the Ontario pension fund.
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The Green electoral model depends on three overlapping demographics, which I would crudely summarise as: young graduates, Muslim voters angry about Gaza, and Remainers in high-density urban areas. These demographics cluster in roughly 30–50 seats in England and Wales. In the other 550+ seats, the math ain’t mathing. The Greens will drag down or even push past Labour but can’t pull enough to win 89 post-industrial Northern England seats where Reform came second to Labour in 2024. Or the formerly Conservative strongholds of suburban and rural England, where Reform is now at the very least second.
Stella Tsantekidou@Stsantek
Gather up fellow up Pathetic Losers, the most Evil Sociopath of your tribe has a message to share in my @LabourList column:
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@TobyManning @anon_opin A lot of renowned dubstep records sound pretty whiffy tbf
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Trip hop has aged incredibly well. Portishead, Tricky and Massive Attack sound great today. Name any other niche time specific genre that doesn't sound embarrassing and clunky 20 or 30 years after its heyday.
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I like the graphite suppliers but my favourite is definitely the woman with the warehouse of engines who likes to sing.
Joe@JoePostingg
If you get deep enough into TikTok your feed becomes mostly Chinese commodity wholesalers
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@MatthewWielicki You don’t need sunshine you just need sunlight
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These folks are building solar where the sun doesn't shine. 🤷♂️
Kevin Holland@TheSolarShed
Covering 80% of commercial rooftops would generate 50% of UK electricity demand.
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@Wut_the_Hecht I’ve been nebulously “restricted” lately and so has Mosab, so any help with reach is super welcome. Congratulations on the new job!
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@JosephKBennett Dude of course it’s the absolute least I can, I got a better job recently so will have more money to actually donate too
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Please share and donate for Mosab’s family, and other Gaza families who have not gone away 🙏 @linkshund @DarkDementus @snackvampire @ByYourLogic @eyuplovely @sarcsausageroll @Sain4847 @NateB_Panic @DaveNumber7 @iwasnvrhere_ @Wut_the_Hecht @ireallyhateyou @mikerecine 🙏
Help MOSAB🇵🇸@moatasimGaza
Every time I write to you about my child Jameel, his illness and suffering, my heart breaks. He is suffering from a heart condition and chest infections. 💔 I spend every donation I receive entirely on him. He urgently needs heart medication 💊 (Lasix), food 🍞, diapers, a nebulizer device, in addition to repeated medical consultations and X-rays. I need $400 to cover the treatment costs. He is only asking for mercy and humanity. Every contribution from you can help save my child’s life. You are our hope. 🙏🥺 chuffed.org/project/mosab
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So I might be misreading the case, I’m just an idiot on the Internet, but it seems like my local council are blocking the construction of a new housing estate because they think the land (a former golf course) may be bought by ‘a lifestyle purchaser’ to run at a loss one day.
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Particularly a defensive army on home soil
Joseph K Bennett@JosephKBennett
So frustrating to have nods and agreement right through “Hezbollah are the only thing stopping Israel taking south Lebanon” to “but they’re nutters, they want to blow themselves up” FFS. An army in which nobody will risk death will not last long
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So frustrating to have nods and agreement right through “Hezbollah are the only thing stopping Israel taking south Lebanon” to “but they’re nutters, they want to blow themselves up” FFS. An army in which nobody will risk death will not last long
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Similarly I have talked through a boomer from first principles about armed resistance in the levant, at each step getting him to agree the history, how we’d feel if it was us, every detail. The next day he’s back saying it’s intractable, nutters on both sides, 72 virgins lol
Leigh Beadon@leighbeadon
If you trap a boomer in a one-on-one argument for an entire afternoon you can eventually get them to acknowledge how crazy the cost of housing is now. However the effects only last for ~12 hours and the next morning they will text you "why don't you just find a cheap apartment?"
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@Zarya03631822 @mag87vn @MarcoFoster_ @dylanotes @SenSanders @BernieSanders Yes only because it’s done now and his party isn’t in power
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@mag87vn @MarcoFoster_ @dylanotes @SenSanders @BernieSanders He said genocide and he blamed Israel, not Netenyahu. He's finally done with them.
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Bernie Sanders: “To give another 20K bombs to a country which committed genocide in Gaza happens to be among many other things, forget the moral issue, happens to be in violation of American law. You don’t sell arms to countries that violate international law and human rights. Clearly Israel has done that. Why anybody in their right minds would want to continue funding Israel is beyond me”
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Nahhhhhh cos is it just me that'd love to see these two absolutely going at it raw??
Justintime@tykestakeonit
Sky news thought that they'd invite two Zionists onto their program to give a balanced view on the war with Iran. 🤪🤮🤮
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"In the past hour we've heard Irans foreign minister has told the UK that providing military bases for the US will be considered participation in aggression"
Of course it is. Despite what our govt & complicit media are telling us, we've been dragged into this war.
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@b_northerner @cjsnowdon Exactly, each one of those projects has been pulled by a senior politician for political reasons (garden bridge was never going to happen out of those). I don’t think you can blame consultants for the promotor pulling the plug on things.
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@cjsnowdon It wasn't wasted in the sense that it couldn't happen. Reeves pulled the plug on it, like the A1 upgrade, to run cover for the 22bn black hole lie.
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It’s easy to laugh this off with British gallows humour, but learning the lessons of how we spent £179 million to build nothing is crucial if we are to avoid existential decline.
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Stonehenge tunnel officially scrapped - after more than £179,000,000 spent on plan lbc.co.uk/article/stoneh…
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But it’s a regular feature Chris
Nothing happens - HS2, Thames tunnel - just carry on as normal
There is no political will to do
We need out of the Aarhus Convention at a bare minimum
Labour & Tories won’t do that because they’re all in thrall to the fake climate change bollocks
In the meantime the lawyers love it
The money doesn’t just disappear
The legal industry has been filling their boots for decades, likely buying up second homes in the Med
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