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David Rochester says PLEASE CHECK YOU HAVE VALID VOTING ID!

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We live under a 3km blanket - paper thin - that makes Planet Earth 🌍🌎 uniquely friendly to life and protects us from the unimaginable inhospitality of space.

So we would look after that blanket like our lives depend on it.

Wouldn't we?

💙💛 #GTTO


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Peter Stefanovic 's avatar Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social
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The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has appointed his cabinet. This new cabinet marks a historic moment in British politics, with a record number of state-educated Ministers and the lowest proportion of privately educated Ministers since 1945. CHANGE IS POSSIBLE🌹

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Robin Ince 's avatar Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social
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Because there is such focus on 5 seats for Reform and so little for Green winning 4 I thought I would just pop this up - I hope this is the beginning of increasing belief that Green is not a wasted vote

greenparty.org.uk/2024/07/05/f...

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The Washington Post's avatar The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com
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Breaking news: The United Kingdom’s center-left Labour Party appears to have defeated the center-right Conservative Party in a historic landslide, according to exit polls. Keir Starmer is expected to become the nation’s next prime minister.

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Charlotte Nichols's avatar Charlotte Nichols @charlotte2153.bsky.social
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I'm proud to have run a people-powered and positive campaign, with thousands of conversations with residents across Warrington North about your priorities. Today, the choice is in your hands. Vote Labour and let's finally start a new chapter for our community & the country! 🌹

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BrianinFrance's avatar BrianinFrance @brianinfrance.bsky.social
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This from Carol Vorderman:

British people are
Kind
Helpful
Fair-minded
Funny
Hard working

These Tories are
Liars
Corrupt
Divisive
Cruel
Entitled

Today we can tell them, quite rightly, it’s
THE END

#GTTO

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) 's avatar Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social
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Good morning campers. To my fellow British people, let's ruin the day of some Tories. You can even bring that passive-aggressive touch when you put the x in a box.

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Sarah Murphy's avatar Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
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Ok everyone. Let’s not fuck this up. After 14 years, 5 abysmal prime ministers, a shitload of contempt, lies, corruption and total steaming uselessness… we need to tell these Tories what we think. Our vote is our voice and we should use it. Or nothing will change. Get. Them. Out.

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David Rochester says PLEASE CHECK YOU HAVE VALID VOTING ID!'s avatar David Rochester says PLEASE CHECK YOU HAVE VALID VOTING ID! @dgr70.bsky.social
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Today's the day

It's finally here

Now's our chance

14 long years of nastiness & lies

Austerity

Brexit catastrophe

River sewage

Liz Truss economic disaster

Johnson liar

PPE corruption

From respected nation to global laughing stock

GET THEM OUT

Please Vote. Tactically. Take ID

#GE

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Bylines Network's avatar Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social
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The Conservatives took away your EU passport. Be sure to take your black one with you today when you vote them out.

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Paulette 's avatar Paulette @paulette7.bsky.social
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Well.. it is the day we have been waiting nearly 5 long years for..the day we vote out the Tories! Take ID! 🪪 A very good morning to you 😃

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Le Monde's avatar Le Monde @lemonde.fr
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Elections au Royaume-Uni : les bureaux de votes ont ouverts, le Parti travailliste grand favori du scrutin

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Paulette 's avatar Paulette @paulette7.bsky.social
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“vote Labour tomorrow, change will begin immediately. We’ll start work on day one to enact our first steps – downpayments, for a better, brighter future. These will be fully funded and fully costed, as you would expect, to deliver the groundwork of a mission-driven Labour government.” 🌹👏👏

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Europe Elects's avatar Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social
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UK (GB), JL Partners poll:

SRP seat projection

LAB-S&D: 450 (+248)
CON~ECR: 105 (-260)
LDEM-RE: 55 (+44)
SNP-G/EFA: 15 (-33)
PC-G/EFA: 3 (-1)
REFORM~NI: 2 (+2)
GREENS-G/EFA: 1

+/- vs. 2019 election

Fieldwork: 7-25 June 2024
Sample size: 13,584

europeelects.eu/uk

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Peter's avatar Peter @peterdutoit.com
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“We've made a Faustian bargain here and the first Faustian payment is now due, because the reduction in aerosols is accelerating global warming."—James Hansen

#ClimateLiteracy

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Sarah Murphy's avatar Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
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What utter bilge Rishi Sunak You’ve had your time. You Tories have had 14 years of our lives and it’s been nothing short of a catastrofucking disaster. No way we’re entrusting you with a single second of our future after that. We’re so voting you out and we cannot bloody wait.

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Annie Leymarie's avatar Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social
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On solar geoengineering: "The paucity of controls means there is little to prevent individual countries, cities, companies or even wealthy individuals from trying to modify their local climates, even if it is to the detriment of people living elsewhere"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Doug Parr's avatar Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social
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Labour is pledging to ease planning restrictions on onshore wind farms in England “within weeks” if it wins the general election

Good👍👍

www.ft.com/content/947d...

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Sarah Murphy's avatar Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
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Good letters in the Times warning of the dangers of populists who promise simple solutions to the terminally gullible, but deliver jack shit, then blame everyone else. And that’s not just Farage. That’s the Tory party since 2016. Let’s get rid. Time for change… and competence.

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David Rochester says PLEASE CHECK YOU HAVE VALID VOTING ID!'s avatar David Rochester says PLEASE CHECK YOU HAVE VALID VOTING ID! @dgr70.bsky.social
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A rousing speech, sir. Let's make it happen

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Love #8. I'm sure I have heard of something similar before, I can't remember exactly what it was called The Northallerton level crossing one just made me LOL in public

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All public hand dryers to be given necessary power to actually dry hands?

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Ken Bardsley's avatar Ken Bardsley @kenbar.bsky.social
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Beware. The Tories have nothing left now except for disgusting smears against Starmer, and disgusting lies about Labour's plans. They will be using/doing both at full hysterical throttle for the next two and a half weeks. Don't fall for it.

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Jan Rosenow's avatar Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social
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Unthinkable just a few years ago: For the first time renewables (wind, solar, hydro) produced more EU electricity than fossil fuels in 2023. 2/3 of EU electricity is from non-fossil fuel generation. Source Ember

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David Rochester says PLEASE CHECK YOU HAVE VALID VOTING ID!'s avatar David Rochester says PLEASE CHECK YOU HAVE VALID VOTING ID! @dgr70.bsky.social
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This article is absolutely brilliant.

And very important.

Please take the time to read it.

Thank you, @iandunt.bsky.social

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Hi Ian, you write amazing articles, thank you But I think that this one might be the best - and most important - of all. Everyone in the UK with a brain should read it. Nice one. Thank you

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Paulette 's avatar Paulette @paulette7.bsky.social
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Labour will appoint a Covid corruption commissioner if they get elected into power on July 4th. The commissioner would have power to bring together agencies including HMRC, the Serious Fraud Office and the National Crime Agency to pursue at least £2.6 billion of “lost” public funds. Bravo! 👏👏👏

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Mike Galsworthy's avatar Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
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🔥Brutal - here's a collection of the 25 best memes about Rishi Sunak leaving D-Day early.

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My personal projection, based on high-level trend observation rather than detailed analysis, and definitely not peer-reviewed, is that we're passing 1.5 about now and we won't go back under it.

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Taniel 's avatar Taniel @taniel.bsky.social
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Shock news: French President Emmanuel Macron just announced he was dissolving the country's National Assembly. He's calling national elections, which'll decide who'll run the country. The elections were supposed to be in 2027. Instead, they'll be in early July (!!!).

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Reminder about heat pumps: ”Sweden, Norway and Finland also have the coldest climates in Europe. In all three countries, there are now more than 40 heat pumps per 100 households, more than in any other country in the world.” www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

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Will do! Oh. Erm, another time maybe. 🙁💙💛

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The very worst political strategy

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Kachelmannwetter's avatar Kachelmannwetter @kachelmannwetter.com
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Im Rückblick nochmal die Regenmengen der letzten 7 Tage, die zum #Hochwasser im Süden des Landes führten (zum Ablesen/für Details in die Kreise).
Zw. Isny und Kempten gab es teilweise 300 bis 340 l/m² (= doppelte durchschnittliche Juni-Regenmenge).
/PH
kachelmannwetter.com/de/regensumm...

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Good grief, how awful. It's not the 1%. That would be 80 million people. I'm guessing it's the 0.0001%? Or less?

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