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Co-founder of The Centre for Creative Conversation creativeconversation.org Co-author of 'The Talking Revolution', civilian lead MCDC’s ‘Understand to Prevent’. @samaritans.bsky.social #MMT
Erin is truly an extraordinary hurricane, one of the biggest and most powerful we've seen in this part of the Atlantic. Mercifully, it'll spare the U.S. an otherwise extensive and devastating blow, but we won't escape major coastal problems. My very latest ⬇️
Tropical storm conditions and coastal flooding will begin affecting North Carolina’s Outer Banks by this evening
Strong echoes of the Warsaw Ghetto, August 1944. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
Attacks come as Israeli-induced famine grips the besieged Strip amid calls for Israel to accept a mediated truce.
‘Climate change acts like a steroid, good network of early warning systems only way out’: experts as Mumbai records over 900 mm of rainfall in 4 days indianexpress.com/article/citi...
Mumbai's Santacruz observatory recorded 944 mm of rainfall, and the Colaba observatory witnessed 461.8 mm of rainfall until August 19.
We know TX is running out of water to drink and frack. Did you know PA is as well?
"Hydrologic Conditions Monitor shows low flow water conditions have triggered water withdrawal restrictions on 49 withdrawal points in Pennsylvania, including 47 water withdrawals related to shale gas development."
On August 20, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission Hydrologic Conditions Monitor shows low flow water conditions have triggered water wit...
This is going to be a growing problem.
(I’ll get my coat…)
The farming sector was already under pressure from cuts to government funding, proposed inheritance tax changes and higher production costs
The farming sector was already under pressure from cuts to government funding, proposed inheritance tax changes and higher production costs
The absence of any coherent response can only mean that, in some way that is incomprehensible, the government has decided that it benefits most from saying nothing.
I have not heard anything at all from government ministers nor the opposition nor many media outlets about the dangers of this epidemic of sweeping casual racism. It is sometimes seen as comical - as with Rupert Lowe and the rowers - but it is dangerous and dehumanising
🤬 At night, Russia massively attacked the Odesa region with Shaheds.
Alarge-scale fire broke out at a fuel and energy infrastructure facility.
❗️Also at night, Russian drones attacked Okhtyrka in Sumy region. The attack injured 12 people, including two children.
This is an urgent and important question from @adambienkov.bsky.social
Again this summer, British citizens are being terrorised by the organised far right and the silence of mainstream media and our political leaders is astounding and dangerous
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain's streets is a disgrace, argues Adam Bienkov
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today:
"ecologists are only just beginning to grasp the full threat that extreme heat poses to the world’s wildlife populations, and how quickly it can drive species towards extinction."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With the number of very hot days rising as well as average temperatures, more and more animals are vulnerable. But while some species can adapt, others are seeing huge population declines
Deranged. Has AFR seen the quality of the Russian armed forces?
