mastodon 4.7.3+todonSolar-powered punk media activist in Britain's Steel City – passionate about free, open source, decentralised technology for the dissemination of information towards a radical municipalist society. 
Longtime guerrilla documentarian/journalist (Indymedia, Freedom News, Organise Magazine, etc.) and nonprofits founder.
At the links below, you can subscribe to my blog, follow my photos on Pixelfed and videos on PeerTube. I'm planning a podcast/video series and zines too, so stay tuned!
I’m also a carer for my partner, a #pwME caused by Covid (remember to mask up when you can!)
Enthusiastic about #Solarpunk #SolarpunkSunday #Veganism #TransRights #FreePalestine #BlackLivesMatter #MutualAid #Municipalism #Decentralisation #Fediverse #FOSS #Linux #ComicBooks #LuchaLibre (which is real – but borders are fake!) #PolitenessIsPunk
Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source": https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/global-growth-in-solar-the-largest-ever-observed-for-any-source/
"People with compromised immune systems should be able to access healthcare without fear of leaving the facility with another infection. All healthcare facilities should require masking: It benefits everyone and protects both patients and healthcare workers from the continued risk of Long COVID." https://thesicktimes.org/2026/04/24/we-need-masks-in-healthcare-now/ #Covid19 #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid
Peter Mandelson - the man who proudly admitted that he woke up every day thinking of ways to undermine Jeremy Corbyn - is a part of the Blairite core of the Labour party that hand-picked Keir Starmer as an heir to Blair and purged leftists from the party. This "scandal" is what and who they are as a party, and Starmer's successor will be part of the Mandelson gang whether they portray themselves as that or not. Mandelson isn't just some scandal; he is Labour. And Labour are Mandelson.
Brazil’s cooperatives show how local communities can drive the climate transition: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-05-01/brazils-cooperatives-show-how-local-communities-can-drive-the-climate-transition/
RE: @sci_burst@mastodon.social
This episode was fantastic and as soon as they came on to a certain topic, I just knew they'd reference @susankayequinn@wandering.shop which was an absolute joy. Sci_Burst is probably my favourite podcast right now - the accessible language of sometimes complex subjects, the clear rapport of the co-hosts, and their warm conversational style just makes the interesting topics even better. And they're here on the Fediverse, how cool is that?
Electricity-powered heat pumps - which draw air from outside of homes and transfer it into heating - are a key part of Europe’s aims to reduce its reliance on volatile, planet-heating gas. Studies show that this low-carbon technology is up to three times more efficient than gas boilers, and can halve households’ heating bills. This investigation by DeSmog and Politico found Paris-based PR firm Digital Tellers is linked to a web of connected Facebook groups and accounts spreading false claims about the cost, noise and reliability of heat pumps: https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/french-pr-executive-behind-facebook-network-spreading-heat-pump-hate/
"On Christmas Eve, residents of Roxbury, New Jersey, a township 50 miles west of Manhattan, learned from a Washington Post article that the Department of Homeland Security had plans to purchase a vacant warehouse on the outskirts of town and convert it into an ICE detention facility. ...By mid-January, Roxbury’s Township Council, an elected body of seven people, all Republicans, passed a resolution affirming that it 'unequivocally opposes' modifying town warehouses for ICE use." https://boltsmag.org/ice-warehouse-detention-facility-roxbury-new-jersey/
"A photograph celebrated for its apparent spontaneity that was actually staged. An image honouring ordinary working men that was also a monument to the ambitions of America's richest family. And a picture recognised by virtually everyone on the planet whose maker remains, after 90 years, unknown." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/books/this-famous-photo-of-new-york-workers-eating-lunch-on-a-steel-girder-has-been-seen-by-billions-but-the-daredevil-story-of-how-it-was-photographed-can-only-now-be-told #photography #LunchOnABeam #LunchAtopASkyscraper
This World Press Freedom Day, American journalists are under attack: https://freedom.press/issues/this-world-press-freedom-day-american-journalists-are-under-attack/
" Nigel Farage is a multi-millionaire who is out for himself and working for the interests of his super-rich friends." DeSmog reveal how fascist Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has banked more than £2 million in earnings and gifts since becoming an MP: https://www.desmog.com/2026/05/06/nigel-farage-has-accepted-2-million-since-becoming-an-mp/
I always liked that scene in Amelie where it describes one of the favourite things of a character (struggling writer Hipolito I think?) as witnessing bullfighters getting gored by bulls on television - I think I've just developed a similar weird enjoyment in watching robots trip and fall; I don't know why, it just gets me every time. (I don't tend to laugh at the misfortune of humans, so maybe this is my healthy alternative?!)
