Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Climate activists march through Newcastle against Rosebank oilfield approval

Campaigners marched against the approval of Rosebank which will produce up to 350 million barrels of oil

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/climate-activists-march-through-newcastle-27864282

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #ClimateStrike #Newcastle #UK

BBC News: World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66857354

🚨 Scotland's new buffer zones will offer the strongest protections in the UK.

Gillian Mackay MSP's bill, which has been published today, will end the intimidation and harassment of patients and staff outside medical facilities.

🔎 Get the details: https://greens.scot/news/buffer-zone-bill-will-deliver-strongest-protections-in-the-uk

#TIL: "If you see an unaccompanied service dog in a vest, follow it."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/service-dog-owner-help/

I am heartbroken today by the story of the 14-year-old boy who was hit by two cars in the town next to mine and is in critical condition.

I am sure that the victim-blaming is already happening - because the idiotic public discourse almost never considers infrastructure choices as factors.

*Every town* needs safe places for children and youth to ride #bikes. New England white flight suburbs included.

#bicycle #kidsonbikes #transportation

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/west-bay/boy-riding-bike-hit-by-2-cars-critically-injured-in-cranston/

So much misinformation is going to spread regarding Israel and Palestine. Be careful and fact check before you add to that spread .

"Nothing like this has happened in the modern history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; even the bloody Second Intifada in the early 2000s never saw this kind of mass incursion into Israeli territory. Now an outright war between Israel and Hamas has begun, one whose consequences for the conflict and the broader Middle East we can only dimly anticipate. The only thing we can be certain about the future is that many, many people are about to die."

https://www.vox.com/2023/10/7/23907323/israel-war-hamas-attack-explained-southern-israel-gaza

BREAKING NEWS

Israel has shut down the electricity in Gaza.

Israeli ground troops have entered Gaza.

Already hundreds of dead Palestinians

The death and destruction brought from both sides these past 12 hours is horrific.

Who will stop this madness?

#AureFreePress #News #Israel #gaza #Palestine

The US public consistently expresses majority support for policies like Medicare for All, higher taxes on the rich, free university education, debt erasure, rent control, legal abortion, and statehood for DC.

The US lacks these because the US political system does not exist to implement the public’s preferences.

FTC: Please stop falling for social media scams, you've given crooks at least $650M so far this year - Internet considered harmful Social media posts hyping products and investment opportuniti... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/07/ftc_social_media_scams/

Horrified and heartbroken at the barrage of attacks by Hamas upon civilians in Israel. Innocent people suffer the consequences of violent extremism, and this kind of terrorism only produces deeper, more intractable problems. My thoughts and hopes are for peace, and for democracy for all people in the region, but such a future is proving ever more elusive, I fear.

If you’re British, you might want to sign this.

If you’re not, please boost.

The current Prime Minister was not voted in, and he’s making a lot of decisions that will harm most of the UK; everyone will be affected. Time to call a general election and let the public decide for better or worse (harder to imagine the latter tbh)

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/641904

@afewbugs I really don't understand what the problem is with sharing #sheep grazing and #solar panels.
Take a look at sheep in a field on a hot day and you'll understand why it's a really good idea to install solar panels there.
https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/how-solar-panel-diversification-is-working-for-a-sheep-enterprise

Last monthly easily set the new record for the hottest global sea surface temperatures during the month of September...

Data available from NOAA ERSSTv5 (https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.ersst.v5.html). Methods detailed in https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0836.1.

Shell is using Fortnite, TikTok, etc. to convince Kids fossil fuels are cool

https://kotaku.com/shell-big-oil-roadtrips-fortnite-map-collab-tiktok-ign-1850907435

A 40-ton Mercedes-Benz e-truck just drove 1,000 km with only one stop to charge #ev with all the press Tesla is getting with the Semi, there’s a quieter revolution happening with the European Cab over trucks https://electrek.co/2023/10/05/a-40-ton-mercedes-benz-e-truck-just-drove-1000-km-with-only-one-stop-to-charge/

People conspiring to pervert the course of justice, and jail and ruin the innocent, aren’t usually stupid enough to put it in writing.

The Post Office did:

People need to understand: Both X and Meta are trying to be an all-in-one social app similar to WeChat in China. Monopolies are dangerous and we are already seeing information-restricting moves like X removing headlines and Threads prohibiting searches on public health words like Covid and vaccines.

🤦🏻‍♀️“Amazon’s Alexa has been claiming the 2020 election was stolen

The voice assistant says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the tool as a reliable election news source -- foreshadowing a new information battleground”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/07/amazon-alexa-news-2020-election-misinformation/

The Nobel Prize in Medicine this week was not for Covid vaccines. It was about the messenger RNA platform discovery that “fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with the immune system.”

Reviewed in a new Ground Truths

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/a-nobel-prize-and-the-future-of-vaccines