#solar #solarpunk #solarpower

Go into that house, they said...
You'll get free food, they said...

Remove the cars, let loose the children. Good prescription.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jnmzekx0ro

🚨 NHS England apologises and admits that actually employees from Palantir can access indentifiable patient information via the Federated Data Platform (FDP). https://www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/health-and-social-care/nhs-apologises-and-admits-palantir-engineers-have-access-to-identifiable-patient-data/

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@robinadams/117024166817030983

Need a clear example of why billionaires should not exist? Here you go. There is no amount of money, and no amount of hypothetical merit that you might think is behind it, that should allow one rich person to hijack an entire political topic and terminate discussion. And that's not even mentioning the fact that the topic is fundamental human rights and self-determination. This application of money is not speech. It is pure and simple oppression.

When your business is destruction and misery:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2026/aug/04/revealed-major-oil-firms-make-93bn-profits-amid-war-and-climate-crisis

The Good Law Project are fighting back against the EHRC’s code of practice, which comes into force e today. See the web page for details https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/fight-back-against-the-code-of-practice/

@MelissaBearTrix I never felt threatened by a [known] trans person!

Cuz only cis people wanted to kill me…

Nothing could be more damaging to our climate and the future of the North East than offering up even more of our North Sea to oil and gas giants.

To create well-paid, long-term jobs in the North East and tackle the climate emergency, we must invest in renewables.

BBC Axed Report on British Army Killing Unarmed Child in Derry
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/05/bbc-axed-report-on-british-army-killing-unarmed-child-in-derry/

look there's a billion other reasons why people are against AI and all but fundamentally the core of my personal reason is that I've already spent 30 years learning how to teach computers how to do exactly what I tell them to, so I am exceptionally disinterested in having them do things less accurately by talking to them in a sloppier language

Burnham to scrap net zero and domestic abuse rules for public contracts

If you are serious about prioritising social value you don't exclude climate change and domestic abuse!

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26438084.andy-burnham-scrap-net-zero-rules-public-contracts/?ref=rss

‘What they’re doing qualifies as torture’: new details of ICE force-feeding revealed https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/05/ice-force-feeding-hunger-strike #UsImmigration #IceUsImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #UsNews #Texas #UsForeignPolicy #WorldNews #HumanRights #Law #Torture

Boycott #Uber.

In court filings, Uber's lawyers blamed sexual assault victims, suggesting that such things as what they were wearing, how much they drank, whether they had been unfaithful in relationships or whether they had childhood trauma were to blame for them being assaulted!

Uber faces over 4,000 lawsuits ~"from passengers accusing the company of failing to protect them from sexual violence they said they suffered during rides."

1/3🧵
#BoycottUber
#MyThoughts
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/business/uber-sexual-assault-lawsuits.html

@Su_G

The dodgy #Covid justified and #Mandelson influenced ‘direct non-competitive awards’ that #Palantir have benefited from under the #Tories and #Labour have been discussed in Parliament:

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-02-10/debates/FECED111-4FA8-4343-BFAF-18D6C13808D0/MinistryOfDefencePalantirContract

And yet Palantir retain their grip on the NHS and UK defence. There is zero expectation for them to be good corporate citizens’ by the UK government. Why is that?

@simon_brooke
Would I be correct to assume that as prices of the products derived from oil have risen, that government tax revenues will have risen too?

They really do save us.

#cats

Dear UKRI if you would like me to review grants for you please do not kick me out of the review website as I hit "Save" on my draft review after having written 1000 or so words of it. Or, at the very least, autosave my review before you kick me out, eh? How about that? That'd be nice???

I AM SO MAD

Billionaires are parasitic by nature.

#ElonMusk #GaslightNation #GangOfPredators #Zer0Billionaires

War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits

#War #FirstDogOnTheMoon #ClimeateChange #Guardian