"The global increase in income and wealth at the upper end of the scale is particularly worrying. The very richest people are amassing fortunes while ordinary people’s lives stagnate. For every dollar of wealth created since the year 2000, 41 cents have gone to the richest 1% of people, while just one cent has gone to the bottom 50%.

This wealth brings huge influence over economies and politics, threatening economic performance and the very foundations of democracy."

Global inequality is as urgent as climate change: the world needs a panel of experts to steer solutions https://theconversation.com/global-inequality-is-as-urgent-as-climate-change-the-world-needs-a-panel-of-experts-to-steer-solutions-270102

Hey everyone,

@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Dania (@danyarelkhodari)
• Heba & her husband Tareq and their family (@Tareqziad)
• Wafaa and her two adorable daughters, Sham and Aylul (@wafaagaza1499)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

It's a wet day in the City of York. The right-wing scum, gutter press, have unleashed the full pack of baying hounds on Angela Rayner, yet under the Tories, the likes of Hunt, Hancock, etc, got a free ride. We have a two-tier justice system AND a two-tier media.

#DeportFarage

Chris Packham in the Guardian.

"Britain’s uplands are dying. What should be some of the very best places for nature are the absolute worst. Across vast tracts of some of our most beautiful landscapes, life is rapidly ebbing away."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/15/sheep-destroying-british-habitats-taxpayers-dartmoor-farming

Deep in a New Zealand swamp, scientists discovered an ancient kauri tree that had been entombed for more than 40,000 years—its trunk preserved like a wooden time capsule. But this wasn’t just any prehistoric tree. Its rings revealed something extraordinary: it had lived through the Laschamp Excursion, a rare moment when Earth’s magnetic poles reversed. More alarming, however, was the period just before the flip—known as the Adams Event—when the planet’s magnetic field all but vanished, exposing the Earth to an onslaught of cosmic radiation.

With Earth’s magnetic shield weakened to as little as 0–6% of its normal strength, solar and cosmic radiation surged in, triggering global climate chaos. Ice sheets expanded dramatically, storm systems rerouted, and once-verdant lands like parts of Australia were swallowed by desert. Some researchers believe the event contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals and forced early humans into caves for protection—where they began creating the earliest known symbolic art. These dramatic shifts suggest the Adams Event wasn’t just a magnetic anomaly—it was a turning point in human history.

Now, the ancient kauri stands as both relic and warning. Its rings carry the silent testimony of a world on the edge, a reminder that our magnetic field is not permanent. If such a collapse were to happen today, the consequences could be dire—satellite failure, communication breakdowns, grid collapses, and rapid shifts in climate. This tree, long dead, still speaks—whispering across the ages about the fragility of the invisible forces that shield our modern world.

Six votes.

If there were ever an advert for the importance of your vote, this was it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6v02vv6wo