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E369 - In Arnolds' Field *reupload*
🕑 Added 2025-09-18 06:59:13 +0000 UTCoops, this is fixed now, sorry everyone
Come with us to a small, derelict field just outside London where - thanks to a truly horrific combination of incompetence, malevolence, and greed - local citizens suffer what they must while everyone with power and money passes the buck or pretends the underground cancer fires aren't anything to worry about. In any normal country, there would be public hearings, major reforms, and a well-funded cleanup job. But this is Britain.
If you are able to, please donate some money to the community campaign: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-the-fires-launders-lane/
The two longread pieces used as sources (good journalism is good!):
Sophie Smith in The Londoner: https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-endless-fire-poisoning-a-community/
William Ralston in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/04/the-rainham-volcano-arnolds-field-toxic-fires-waste-dump
Cast:
Jamie - https://bsky.app/profile/wizardcubes.bsky.social
David - https://bsky.app/profile/sanitarynaptime.bsky.social
Rob - https://bsky.app/profile/trufflehog.bsky.social
Alasdair - https://bsky.app/profile/ballistari.bsky.social
Comments
Cat Mara
The weed that kills you instantly
Inconspicuous old man and mime
I won't apologize for fantasizing a bit about throwing the council into the hell hole. But seriously, I don't know what we're supposed to do with petty evil like that. Like, I get It if you're removed from the situation so you ignore it. But supposedly they are in that region
