Wondering why this platform hasn’t been swarmed by bot farms run by Russia-&-others.
Take a dip into any other media, incl news comments sections and you find swarms of them.
Isn’t it about time our governments introduced legislation to tackle it?
Or do what Thai gvt does … (Cambodia)
📌 ICYMI — How the US Christian Right and Anti-Abortion Lobbyists are Reshaping NHS Policy
A new investigation exposes a global network of anti-abortion groups and US Christian nationalists using UK courts to target bodily autonomy
🟨 Print Edition — Farage’s Staggering Side Hustles
Nigel Farage has spent more than 1,113 hours – or 140 working days – on his various other jobs since being elected to Parliament in July 2024.
subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/84/farages-stagg...
Opening new oil &gas fields in North Sea would encourage developing countries to exploit more fossil fuels
One senior African negotiator reacted furiously to the suggestion:
“new oil exploration by a historic emitter is as contradictory as it is regressive”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
brazen hypocrisy
🔴James Orr and the Messianic Transatlantic MAGA Alliance Trying to 'Save' Britain
@peterjukes.bsky.social and @nafeez.bsky.social reveal how Nigel Farage’s new head of policy is the key ideological linkman for Palantir’s Peter Thiel and Sir Paul Marshall’s GB News
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/07/j...
If only Americans knew a tiny bit of history. That Hitler was seen as a joke before he went on to murder millions.
Also, may John Roberts burn in hell.
😬
“The Earth cannot sustain the future human population, or even today’s, without a major overhaul of socio-cultural practices for using land, water, energy, biodiversity, and other resources.”
Miközben a magyarok nehézségekkel küzdenek, az állami és uniós pénzek Orbán belső köréhez áramlanak – egészen a saját falujáig.
While Hungarians struggle, wealth from state and EU funds flows to Orbán’s inner circle - right into his own personal village.
#Orbán #Hungary #elections
#választások
"The planet’s life support systems are already under strain and, without rapid shifts in how we use energy, land, and food, billions of people will face increasing instability. Our study shows these limits are unfolding right now.”
🚨Screenings up & down UK from April🚨
The People’s Emergency Briefing.
A new film building on last year’s National Emergency Briefing. A friendlier, watch-together version that pulls no punches and inspires action.
Learn more here;
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#PEBuk
😲 blimey!
and thank you
Background: Orbán is an entrenched but wildly unpopular oligarch and authoritarian. He is facing an election that he will decisively lose — unless he can manage some trick. This obvious false flag (which he will now blame on Ukraine) should not fool anyone. (1/2)
P.S. the author of the substack that Scott shares above is the co-founder and executive editor of Byline Times.
Your followers can find them here:
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
“You don’t try this hard to shut something down something peripheral. It’s a sign that they see a robust independent press as a real possibility, and a clear and present danger. They rely on defending and entrenching a monopolistic, unaccountable media environment.”
“Our work has been attacked – not on the facts, but for daring to report them.
Our social reach has been crushed by Zuckerberg on Facebook and Musk and ‘X’, and now by Google, which, by using AI to replace its search functions, has strangled traffic to news sites by 80%.
“Byline Times has been threatened repeatedly by tabloids, by cat-fishing pundits, by oligarchs, even by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Our journalists have been barred from Reform UK and Conservative party conferences.
“For the past seven years, powerful political interests have tried to paint independent journalism as marginal and easy to ignore.
But their actions speak louder than their words.
Good to see big names in the US are reading some of our best independent journalists here in the UK 🙂
I’m a big fan.
In their words:
Byline Times is building “the national media brand that the tabloids, the oligarchs, the billionaires and the populist right fear more than anything”
In the BlueSky tradition of 'here's a nice thing but here's how it's problematic':
Is Attenborough right to claim that gardens in England cover a greater area than all of our National Nature Reserves?
Technically, yes: but I think it’s a misleading comparison that lets government off the hook...1/
Screenshot of reply to question about this sent to climate scientist Andrew Dessler. My question was: “Just wondering why the photo of Earth today taken from Artemis II looks dull compared to 1972. Any reason? e.g. the window it was taken from tinted the view? or is it the obvious - Earth’s atmosphere has changed?” Answer from scientist in screenshot: “I seriously doubt the differences represent any change in the Earth. Likely it's due to differences in the cameras and film/image processing. I'm sure that, if you wanted to, you could adjust the color balance and make them look similar.”
silly me.
but hats off to the climate scientist who took the time to reply to my question (separate post).
fyi 👇
Thank you so much! 🙂
Screenshot of headline from BBC news website Saturday 4th April ‘26 “German males under 45 may need military approval for long stays abroad” Photo of soldiers “Compulsory military service in Germany was ended in 2011” By Jessica Rawnsley
this does not bode well
German males aged between 17 and 45 are required “to obtain approval for stays abroad lasting longer than three months”
(BBC)
on account of the threat that Russia poses
@andrewdessler.com
@kevinclimate.bsky.social
@esa.int
Hello Andrew, Kevin, ESA,
Just wondering why the photo of Earth today taken from Artemis II looks dull compared to 1972.
Any reason? e.g. the window it was taken from tinted the view?
or is it the obvious - Earth’s atmosphere has changed?
Photo of Earth on left from Orion spacecraft today (left), compared to photo taken from Apollo 17 in 1972 (right). Today’s photo of earth looks dull in comparison.
“Then and now”
is it me, or does Earth today (left) look a bit … polluted, compared to 1972 (right)?
or did they have better cameras back then 🤨
