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Mel Carrington

@melcarrington

Activist, retired environmental consultant & economist, gardener, mum. Arrived at 313.83 ppm. Is it time for a cuppa?

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Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

25.02.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 312 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

25.02.2026 04:59 πŸ‘ 16542 πŸ” 3297 πŸ’¬ 422 πŸ“Œ 198
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Two mothers could be stoned to death. Sham trials. Coerced confessions. And a sentence of stoning! One million of us spoke up to help overturn a similar case – sign now to do it again.

Please sign and share if you can πŸ™πŸ»

Courts have condemned two mothers in Sudan to death by stoning. Without massive political pressure, these horrible sentences could be carried out soon. We can help, but we have to act fast!

secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

23.02.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜It was terrifying’: hundreds fall sick after swimming in bathing waters More than 1,200 people became ill last year, despite most waters being rated good or excellent. One mother said β€˜no family should have to go through this’

More than 1,200 people became sick after swimming in designated bathing waters across England last year, despite three quarters of those official swimming spots being rated β€œgood” or β€œexcellent”.

Comes as "Fountain of Filth" installed in London

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

23.02.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Guide to Things you can Post on X:

- A load of racist bile about people arriving in small boats
- Misinformation about vaccines, climate change, renewable energy etc
- Fake or sexualised images of just about anyone (including children)
- A call to arms to defend the UK from β€œmen of fighting age”

23.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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PALESTINE ACTION BAN RULED UNLAWFUL
Huge win for democracy and embarrassment for the government.
The gov is to appeal. Despite the High Court revealing their authoritarianism, they seem to want the Supreme Court to do so as well.
The court ruled that the ban remains in place until a future hearing.

13.02.2026 12:08 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate changeβ€”all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

12.02.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 27771 πŸ” 11817 πŸ’¬ 2079 πŸ“Œ 1021
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Von der Leyen and Merz clash over future of EU’s core climate law German chancellor joined industry in attacking the EU carbon market as the Commission president defended its β€œclear benefits.”

On behalf of heavy industry, German chancellor Merz attacks a core EU climate policy, the EU-ETS, which puts a price on CO2 emissions: "We should be very open to revising it, or at least to postpone it". EU's @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu defends its benefits.
www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

12.02.2026 08:13 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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BREAKING: Parliament Blocked as Take Back Power call on Starner to Resign.
Two young people have locked on to a giant papier mache head of Kier Starmer in front of Parliament.
Time to cut the corruption at the heart of our democracy. We need a House of the People.
Donate at takebackpower.net/donate

06.02.2026 11:52 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

9/ McCarthy praises β€œsubtle” #climate messaging in BBC Natural History programming

But subtlety is the opposite of what’s needed given the risks

Climate breakdown should be central to news & current affairs, not tucked in wildlife docs

Failing to grasp this distinction is incomprehensible!

04.02.2026 07:20 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

5/ McCarthy then argues fewer people watch TV, especially younger people, so national briefings wouldn’t land

But this is a false choice

A national briefing should be multi-platform: TV, online, social media clips, community screenings

You don’t abandon public information, you scale it!

04.02.2026 07:20 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Source: 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenn-vowles-a6b61a388_see-the-reply-from-my-mp-in-bristol-activity-7416987108285947904-_yYD/

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenn-vowles-a6b61a388_see-the-reply-from-my-mp-in-bristol-activity-7416987108285947904-_yYD/

A friend pointed me to a post on social media of a letter by Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour, Bristol East) about a request for a televised emergency briefing on the #ClimateEmergency

I was stunned by how casually the idea & its urgency were dismissed. Let’s unpack why this response is so wrong-headed 🧡

04.02.2026 07:20 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 13
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BREAKING: Major Insurers drop Elbit Systems

Following a sustained direct action campaign, initiated by Palestine Action before the group was proscribed, Allianz and Aviva no longer insure Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.

Direct Action gets results. 🧡1/4

23.12.2025 14:55 πŸ‘ 111 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4
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‼️ TAKE BACK POWER

The super rich are killing us. They pocket billions while the rest of us struggle to get by.

We demand a permanent House of the People with powers to tax the rich and fix Britain.

Sign up now: takebackpower.net

02.12.2025 15:13 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ„ INEQUALITY IS SHIT

We have just delivered a πŸ’© gift for the Ritz, depositing it below their iconic Christmas tree.

Take Back Power demand the UK gov establish a permanent House of the People with the power to tax the rich and fix Britain.

Sign up: takebackpower.net

03.12.2025 13:07 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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"To be quite honest, this country's going to shit"

After delivering their πŸ’© gift to the Ritz Hotel this morning, the Take Back Power supporters sat outside to talk about why they took action today.

Sign up: takebackpower.net

03.12.2025 16:56 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Second Palestine Action Prisoner Hospitalised | Novara Media Exclusive: Teuta β€˜T’ Hoxha has been taken to hospital after 20 days on hunger strike, following the hospitalisation of Kamran Ahmed earlier this week. Harriet Williamson reports.

A second prisoner held on remand for alleged offences relating to Palestine Action has been hospitalised after refusing food for nearly three weeks.

Teuta β€˜T’ Hoxha was hospitalised on Thursday 27 November due to her rapidly deteriorating health

novaramedia.com/2025/11/28/s...

28.11.2025 21:01 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Headline on The World at One just now:

"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".

Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?

27.11.2025 13:11 πŸ‘ 1220 πŸ” 250 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 46
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BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with β€˜Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'

Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...

25.11.2025 20:14 πŸ‘ 258 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 8
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Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014.

21.11.2025 08:59 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3
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COP30 BREAKING NEWS

The presidency has just dropped a new package of texts including the "global mutirΓ£o" cover, which makes no mention of fossil fuels or roadmaps

Here's my snap analysis (pic)

unfccc.int/sites/def...

21.11.2025 07:59 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4

I did read this in a cab on the M4 at half five this morning so I was primed to be grumpy admittedly, but seriously - who the fuck cares what Richard Tice, Karol Sikora and Lord bleedin' Frost think of the covid inquiry? How are they relevant? The decline of the Telegraph is quite incredible

21.11.2025 09:09 πŸ‘ 142 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

The regulators are asleep at the wheel on the normalisation & disinhibition of unlawful racist abuse.

Ministers have yet to make the obvious link between their rhetorical disapproval of the slurs of the 70s/80s and their policy responsibility to do something about drivers

bsky.app/profile/sund...

21.11.2025 09:08 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Monkeywrench a Genocide Palestine Action, condemned as a terrorist group in the UK, has embraced property destruction as a means to undermine the arms pipeline to Israel.

You have to read this.
#cop30
#gaza
On the "terrorism" of Palestine Action and Just Stop Oil

15.11.2025 11:36 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
Screenshot showing last monthly report, on August, dated 5 September.

Screenshot showing last monthly report, on August, dated 5 September.

It's sad to see that the Trump regime has - for now - succeeded in bringing down the @noaa website reporting on atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa since 1958. Now via the government shutdown, but it was already under attack by selling its building and scrapping jobs too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...

09.11.2025 07:09 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.

The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.

But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

09.11.2025 02:00 πŸ‘ 17041 πŸ” 4735 πŸ’¬ 533 πŸ“Œ 187
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One year ago after the narcissist was elected Just Stop Oil supporters targeted the US Embassy in London. In January this year the two of us were found not guilty of committing criminal damage

05.11.2025 08:17 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sellafield awards Β£4.6bn hazard reduction mega-framework New deal brings together AtkinsRΓ©alis, Altrad, Amentum, and Westinghouse

Why do billionaire media constantly trumpet most toxic expensive energies?
Another Β£4.6b taxpayers money wasted trying to handle toxic waste on just one CLOSED nuclear power station.
Lab/Reform/Tory obsession with nuclear is attack on future generations
www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/10/31/s...

03.11.2025 06:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

Sheffield Hallam University appeased China Govt to protect its income from Chinese student enrollment.

It shut down research into forced labour and human rights abuses, intimidated academics, suppressed academic papers.

Outrageous. Universities functioning as corporations. Must be investigated.

03.11.2025 06:44 πŸ‘ 286 πŸ” 138 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5
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Timeline of a Genocide - Defend Our Juries

Timeline of a Genocide - @defendourjuries.bsky.social

defendourjuries.net/timeline-of-...

02.11.2025 22:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0