I hope we will see the US mid-terms not only as the beginning of the end of MAGA but also as the beginning of the end of the Democratic old guard, as younger people who want to change the rotten system take seats.
A choice between red and blue genocide-denying corporate stooges is no choice at all.

Ghassan always talks about how planting the land is resistance, how flying kites is resistance. But resistance through joy didn't protect him from the violence of the Israeli occupation. He was arrested in the middle of the night Tuesday, and we don't know if or when he will be released. International pressure can make a difference. Please sign the petition and amplify.

https://www.change.org/p/release-ghassan-najjar-immediately

#Israel #Palestine #Westbank #FreeGhassan

Earth’s icy regions face such dangerous melting that global heating should be brought back below 1C after an inevitable period of overshooting global temperature targets, a UN report has found.

#Ice #Cryosphere #ClimateEmergency

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/nov/02/permanent-damage-crysophere-overshoots-15c-scientists-warn?CMP=GTUK_email

The Allerton Project is a working farm and research centre on the Leicestershire-Rutland border, where farmers and scientists have spent more than three decades testing how farming can produce food while supporting wildlife.

#Farming #Birds #Biodiversity #Agriculture

‘This is a robust recipe’: the experimental farm bucking the decline in UK birds | Birds | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/31/this-is-a-robust-recipe-the-experimental-farm-bucking-the-decline-in-uk-birds

@ChrisMayLA6

"Riots are the voice of the unheard"
- Martin Luther King.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com@bsky.brid.gy in @forbes.com@bsky.brid.gy. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Closing Central Madrid To Cars...

“I believe that saying something is human,” Macklemore told the crowd at Wembley. “And those children in Gaza are our children. There is no separation.”

"Macklemore finishes Free Palestine tour with sold-out London performance".

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/those-children-gaza-are-our-children-macklemore-ends-free-palestine-tour-london

#USPol #EUPol#UKPol #maclemore #democracy #palestine #gaza #gazaGenocide #news .

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/117535808723800144

1948 to 2026 and the #Nakba never stopped. Same playbook the whole way: take the land, take the harvest, cut off people's livelihoods, then threaten them for objecting. Nobody has to sign an expulsion order. Deny people their land, take away their livelihood, make their own homes unsafe, and the ethnic cleansing happens automagically.

#palestine @palestine

Once they started digging this hole, the only way they could go was down. And still the police and government are digging. They'll see kangaroos soon.

novaramedia.com/2026/10/30/p...

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization

Day 2 of the tech stock slaughter and after losing 12% of it's value yesterday, Alphabet (Google) dropped a further 2.2% overnight.

Intel is down 30% after their CFO admitted that "the firm did not expect to bring in more cash than it spent this year."

Even Reddit has lost 26%, mainly because Google has stolen most of their traffic.

What sounds does a bubble make when it's bursting in slow motion?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvwy72e0n72yo

@Niall

#Intel #Alphabet #AIBubble

The government should ban all private sales of fireworks and only allow a small number of public, noise regulated displays in a short time window each year. I have seen the results of a private fireworks display on a field of sheep in lamb. It was awful.

#Fireworks #BanFireworks

Is time up for backyard fireworks? UK ministers weigh partial ban over noise concerns | Bonfire Night | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/31/fireworks-uk-consultation-campaigners-noise-animal-welfare

#climateDiary (updated)

My grandparents were born in the era of 295ppm.

My parents were born at about 305ppm: +10.

My sister and I were born circa 320ppm: +15

My kids were born at roughly 369ppm: +49

Kids born today come into a world at 427ppm: +58.

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We said we’d start reducing emissions at approx 351ppm: 76ppm ago

In my latest update on next generation Covid vaccines, there are:

- 2 new clinical trials recruiting in the US and Europe, including Sanofi's push to phase 3 of a combined flu-Covid vax (based on Novavax & their own vaccines)

- T-cell immunity results from a phase 1 trial of an intranasal vaccine

As well as preclinical reports, and a discussion for paid subscribers on the flu-Covid vax race & a new publication on self-amplifying mRNA:

https://vaxtracker.wordpress.com/2026/10/30/new-nextgen-covid-vaccine-trials-in-europe-and-the-us/

#Vaccines #Covid #Covid19

That Patrick Stewart, though, what did he ever do for us?

A lot of great acting, sure, but that's just pretending to be somebody else.

And then, there's this...
https://youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA

"Theres no sugar coating the fact that our armed forces were under invested in for over a decade."

According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies the UK is the 5th highest military spender in the world after the US, China, Russia and Germany.

In the same interview, Streeting claimed that stationing the army and air force on Russia's border will reduce the risk of war.

https://www.iiss.org/publications/the-military-balance/2026/the-military-balance-2026/global-defence-spending/

#UKPolitics #WelfareNotWafare #Liebour

“A statement in response to Andreas Malm being denied entry into the Un | Verso Books”

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/a-statement-in-response-to-andreas-malm-being-denied-entry-into-the-united-kingdom

> We can only assume, since no reasons have been given for banning him, that it is Andreas’s positions on Palestine, no different from the ICC and UN commissions, is the cause.

…Some bullshit busters (as I understand things):

Tax deletes money. It doesn’t ‘raise revenue’.

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, is neither clean nor dirty, and is not at the core of what our economies are structurally obsessed with. They are obsessed with *power*. They crave huge amounts of energy put to work per unit of time to make the rich richer. Oil derivatives do that more readily than any other commodity known. Unfortunately for capitalists they will also end capitalism

My favourite* bit of this shittiest of timelines is listening to oil and gas boosters being uncritically interviewed about how investing in oil and gas is a way to generate tax ‘revenue’ with which to build out ‘clean energy’ that is made with oil and gas and coal.

* /s