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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

05.03.2026 20:24 👍 7330 🔁 2121 💬 28 📌 64
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The war propaganda from The Guardian is unabashed. What this article does not say is that each of the two missiles fired cost £200,000. The F35 planes cost Britain £11billion so far. Money that could have been spent on schools rather than helping Israel bomb schools in an illegal and unethical war.

06.03.2026 06:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

thanks so much my friend!

05.03.2026 02:09 👍 58 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
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How an underground fungal map of the world's oldest, slowest-growing rainforest trees can boost Earth's resilience The temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range are home to a spectacular array of life: iridescent blue lizards, tiny wild cats called kodkods, and curly vines of waxy red bellflowers. Towering ...

Globally, mycorrhizal fungal communities move roughly a billion tons of carbon per year into Earth's soils, above all in old-growth forests.

Wild, natural ecosystems are the bedrock of a healthy planet. It's time we started recognising and acting on that.
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05.03.2026 07:06 👍 202 🔁 68 💬 2 📌 1
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Tesla US Sales Fall for Third Month in a Row Despite Updated Lineup | EV Tesla’s US vehicle sales fell year over year for the fifth straight month in February, according to data released Tuesday by Motor Intelligence.

Tesla’s US vehicle sales fell year over year for the fifth straight month in February, according to data released Tuesday by Motor Intelligence.

The company sold 38,500 vehicles during the month, down 11.8% from 43,650 units a year earlier.

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05.03.2026 06:30 👍 2491 🔁 535 💬 324 📌 93
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Binge drinking rises sharply among gen Z in their early 20s Research challenges idea of ‘generation sensible’ as alcohol and drug use increase after teenage years

Wait. 23 year olds drink more than 17 year olds. No way.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

05.03.2026 09:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

04.03.2026 22:05 👍 9192 🔁 4496 💬 1045 📌 1610

Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage are hardly the go to guys of global politics.
Rational nuanced analysis is needed not easy quotes from compromised rentagobs.

04.03.2026 11:35 👍 441 🔁 93 💬 16 📌 2

“Coming under scrutiny.” If they had found anything that thing would be the headline.

04.03.2026 19:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?

Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy.

Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists?

Noem: My condolences to their families

Raskin: You lied about them.

04.03.2026 16:15 👍 21450 🔁 6382 💬 1067 📌 473
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04.03.2026 19:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Rising anti-trans hatred’ in the UK creating ‘hostile environment’, report suggests 99 per cent of trans people say media coverage of issue has harmed their mental health

The story has been picked up by mainstream press.

Great work by @transactualuk.bsky.social

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

04.03.2026 12:13 👍 307 🔁 109 💬 4 📌 7

I visited Carrifran Wildwood myself last summer, and the scale of what has been achieved there truly has to be seen to be believed.

At least 400,000 acres is now being rewilded in Scotland: an incredible 2.1% of the whole country, and rapidly increasing all the time.

Come ON, Ireland!!

04.03.2026 07:59 👍 261 🔁 71 💬 6 📌 1

"One should not give a poisoner medicine,
A conjurer fine apparatus, nor
A rifle to a melancholic bore."
WH Auden

Not to mention the biggest arsenal in the world to a narcissistic attention-seeker.

04.03.2026 07:18 👍 1252 🔁 272 💬 21 📌 7

That’s £1billion that should have been sent on schools, on solar.

03.03.2026 17:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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UK sends Royal Navy destroyer HMS Duncan to Cyprus Keir Starmer says vessel, which will arrive in about a week, will help defend bases on island after RAF Akrotiri was targeted by drones

Well, that’s getting sunk. Thought they’d learn from the Ukraine war.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

03.03.2026 17:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

The Irish Green Party is, unfortunately, a *very* different thing to the UK Greens under Polanski.

Hopefully that will change.

03.03.2026 11:26 👍 81 🔁 11 💬 10 📌 0

The ruling class hate you. The working class hate you. I guess that makes you a centrist. It certainly doesn’t mean you must be getting something right.

03.03.2026 12:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The corporate media don't want you to know this, but offer people genuine social and ecological justice combined with ambition, and most of us will rally behind it.

We're seeing examples of this all over the world, and it's what hope looks like.

03.03.2026 10:13 👍 182 🔁 45 💬 6 📌 1
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Wow.

The Green Party aren't just in second place on 21%.

They are FIVE points ahead of Labour.

The Gorton and Denton by-election is convincing Labour voters the Greens aren't a wasted vote.

And they're just 2 points behind Reform!

03.03.2026 10:36 👍 1130 🔁 286 💬 69 📌 28

I’m starting to concede ground to the argument that there is still some hope.

03.03.2026 08:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cycling in Dublin for commuting rises 50% as most residents back more bike lanes Residents of Ireland’s five main cities want more space for cyclists, even at the expense of cars

WE CAN HAVE NICE THINGS!

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

03.03.2026 06:33 👍 805 🔁 146 💬 15 📌 4
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Israel Exploits Attack on Iran to Reinstate Gaza 'Starvation Policy' "All the NGOs in Gaza need more food, medicine, medical equipment, fuel, tents, personal care every day. We cannot wait," said chef José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen.

"A new chokehold on Gaza. Once again, Israel is renewing its ban on supplies entering Gaza," said UNRWA's Philippe Lazzarini as the Israeli government closed crossings to the Palestinian territory while attacking Iran with the United States.

02.03.2026 18:51 👍 12 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1

It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

02.03.2026 15:24 👍 4679 🔁 799 💬 65 📌 44
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One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

02.03.2026 10:20 👍 13387 🔁 4255 💬 131 📌 173

He's thrilled to death that more than a hundred children (and several American servicemen) have been killed to death.

02.03.2026 15:24 👍 133 🔁 47 💬 14 📌 2

Keir Starmer’s decision to allow the US to use UK military bases has no public mandate! He is pushing the country toward involvement in a reckless conflict against the will of the people!

02.03.2026 12:48 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed."

02.03.2026 12:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When they say the quite part out loud.

02.03.2026 12:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Imagine accidentally destroying $300m. Like $300m in US military hardware. How many teachers could that pay? How many live saving operations? How many homes for the homeless? Opps.

02.03.2026 12:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0