Mark Norman

Mark Norman

@mark07929.bsky.social

Life, the universe & everything. Place of birth Earth, race human, religion tolerance, age old age (which is better than the alternative), Interests, humour, people, science, environment, climate, archery. Trying to be a better human- WIP

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Prem Sikka
@premnsikka.bsky.social

HSBC quarterly pre-tax profits surge 32% to $9.6bn (£7.14bn). Banks receive bailouts, subsidies, pay measly return to savers, hike charges, rely on the state as lender of the last resort but threaten retaliation if taxed. Must levy windfall tax.

news.sky.comMajor lender HSBC's profits up 32% as higher bank tax expected in budgetHSBC has seen a boost to its profits as the gap has risen between the interest it took in from loans and mortgages and paid out on deposits.

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Guy Shrubsole
@guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Big day today for ending centuries of secrecy about who owns our land! A new government consultation will propose revealing who owns the vast majority of England and Wales. To get this over the line, I’ll need your help to send in supportive evidence! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comLandowners could scupper free Land Registry access plans, campaigners warnProposed lifting of paywall would reveal who owns vast majority of land in England and Wales

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TRG Movies & Entertainment
@trg-commentary.bsky.social

And Bruce Campbell (Ash from "Evil Dead") has cancer. He says it's treatable but "incurable". He has five years "give or take". And he delivered this news with his signature coolness. Nothing can shake this man. Oh and: Fuck cancer!

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BladeoftheSun
@bladeofthes.bsky.social

Lula "We cannot have monstrously huge corporations earning millions & billions, paying no taxes to this country & trying to steer this country's election results." So many countries have this problem and need to slay this beast.

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Dr. Annie Andrews
@drannieandrews.com

This is what putting South Carolina first looks like. I’m honored to have the support of two former governors — Republican David Beasley and Democrat Jim Hodges. We may not agree on everything, but we share a belief that matters most: S.C. deserves leaders who will always put its people first.

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CNN
@cnn.com

Walter Koenig, who played exuberant Russian navigator Pavel Chekov on the original “Star Trek” series and many of the franchise’s ensuing films, has died at the age of 90. https://cnn.it/48iDfQk

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

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Liberal Democrats
@libdems.org.uk

Ten years on, we have the worst of both worlds on immigration and asylum. Without freedom of movement, businesses face red tape while losing skilled workers. Restoring it cuts business costs, creates quality jobs for Young people, and helps us tackle the crisis together.

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Farrukh
@implausibleblog.bsky.social

Angela Rayner, "We're 10 years on from Brexit, we now need to look at what the next 10 years will look like" "We've seen a 20% reduction in exports with the EU" "That's 16,000 businesses no longer exporting to the EU because of Brexit red tape"

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That guy
@stuartbayens.bsky.social

The planet’s widest glacier is melting “more aggressively” than previously projected, meaning its impacts on global sea level rise could be double current estimates, according to new research by a team of glaciologists.

ctvnews.caScientists find Doomsday Glacier is melting ‘more aggressively’ than thought, with big impacts for sea level riseThe planet’s widest glacier is melting “more aggressively” than previously projected, meaning its impacts on global sea level rise could be double current estimates, according to new research by a tea...

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Rob Duncan
@robduncan.bsky.social

The average person has no idea what's coming. #heatwave #heat #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #Klima #ClimateSolutions #ClimateAction #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #Climate #cdnpoli #auspol #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #FalseConsciousness

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Lindsay Clark
@datadictum.bsky.social

Replying to @profbillmcguire.bsky.social

It's nearly 20 years since the Stern report. It would be interesting to figure out how much the fossil fuel industry has spent on lobbying in that time and how many deaths -- like the ones in this report -- may be linked in some way to climate change.

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Prof Bill McGuire
@profbillmcguire.bsky.social

If this death toll was the result of a terrorist attack, the world would be up in arms And remember, this is not the new normal From the perspective of 2100, or even 2050, the summer of 2026 will be one of the coolest www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comHeat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warnPeople succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll

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Luke Turner
@luketurner.bsky.social

Interested that there is pushback and so on about this advice - what with the levels of Russian sabotage going on across Europe and the speed the weather is become more severe due to climate change, it seems eminently sensible. In-laws in Sweden have been getting this advice for a few years now.

John Harris@johnharris1969.bsky.social

1. This is getting very 'We know something you don't', rarely a good look 2. Why 3 days? Cos it matches the crucifixion/resurrection interregnum?

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Prem Sikka
@premnsikka.bsky.social

Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feeder. He wants to prosecute anyone who saves lives of people that he doesn't like. Desperate Farage diverts attention from investigations by pledging laws that can't work. archive.ph/5UYnG/

thenewworld.co.ukNigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feederReform’s leader told US far right influencer Benny Johnson that NGOs who work with asylum seekers have ‘aided and abetted criminality in absolutely every way’

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

kyivpost.comIs the Kremlin Preparing a Propaganda Spectacle in Oleshky?A possible ceasefire in occupied Oleshky risks becoming a Kremlin propaganda stage, masking blocked aid and once again recasting Russia as the rescuer before foreign audiences.

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Adam Schwarz
@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

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Go Green
@ecowarriorss.bsky.social

Billionaires are destroying the life force of the planet and killing the future of all young people alive today Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied 815 acres of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone.

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social

Google illegally cleared an estimated 250,000 trees across 330 hectares of forest in Muhos, northern Finland, to prepare for a new AI data center before completing mandatory environmental impact assessments And another 150,000 trees felled at Otanmäki www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentreCompany ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
@ketanjoshi.co

I think someone needs to get in touch with the atmosphere. I was told that if we stopped talking about climate change then it would stop happening

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social

“Severe heat killed more than 50,000 people in European cities and towns this summer, according to peer-reviewed estimates released by scientists in London on Friday.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/c...

nytimes.comHeat Waves Killed an Estimated 50,000 in European Cities, a Likely Record (Gift Article)This summer’s heat was the continent’s deadliest by far this century, according to new peer-reviewed estimates.

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Seth Abramson
@sethabramson.bsky.social

This is impossible Trump assured us that no one has ever died from climate change, I believe it came up in the context of him discussing changing the name of the Atlantic Ocean to "Trump Ocean" Or he might have been talking about famous golfers' penises, I can't remember Something policy-related

The Associated Press@apnews.com

More than 50,000 people in Europe died this summer from heat, a record high amount, a new study finds.

bit.lyEurope's killer heat this summer claims 50,000 lives. Climate change blamed for two-thirds of deathsMore than 50,000 people in Europe died this summer from heat, a record high amount, a new study finds.