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Leo Murray

@crisortunity.bsky.social

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Trouble making. Problem solving. Doing my best to help. Climate action, Badvertising, bike lanes, frequent flyer levy, solar rail, Trump babysitting currently laser focused on www.ridingsunbeams.org

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · Oct 21

For everyone new to Blue Sky (like me!), by way of introduction: the first 40m of this video is my recent presentation to the Transport Planning Society of insights on what works - and what doesn’t - when it comes to implementing traffic reduction schemes www.youtube.com/watch?v=62dn...

Reducing Traffic – what is Possible?

YouTube video by Transport Planning Society

www.youtube.com

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

www.sureserve.co.uk

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 1d

Good afternoon to almost everyone

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 1d

That figure is 👌
A LOT is being conveyed with very little visual information, five stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning to almost everyone

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 2d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d

The fossil fuel industry is raiding the infrastructure of the US government.

Are we allowed to be opposed to fossil fuels yet, or is that not enough of a Pragmatic Realist Climate Reset Agenda

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

Trump Admin Has Hired 100+ ‘Fossil Fuel Insiders’ to Fill Top Energy, Environmental Agency Roles
One of them described her job as offering “concierge, white-glove service” to oil, gas, and coal companies seeking permits from regulators.
Stephen Prager
Oct 08, 2025

A top energy adviser to President Donald Trump admitted in an August interview that the administration is offering “concierge, white-glove service” to fossil fuel companies while blocking and defunding clean energy projects.

The comments, reported Tuesday by the Washington Post, came from Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC), which was established within the Department of the Interior in February.

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 3d

Oil companies are the Bad Guys, Exhibit 7382

Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 3d

Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy

Nature Sustainability - The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the...

www.nature.com

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, also objectively incorrect

Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 5d

Important new study by the @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social team in @nature.com finding that "the richest 20% of nations, with 15% of the global population, contribute more than 40% of annual ecological overshoot" doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 3d

Not to pile on to the deceased, but Goodall was one of many British celebrities I was disappointed but unsurprised to see bribed into promoting air travel despite ostensibly being against planetary overheating youtu.be/O2w2bCMhc9k

British Airways - Made by Britain Advert

YouTube video by British Airways

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 3d

Fossil Fuel executive says the quiet part out loud: "supply leads demand. You put more supply on the market and more demand gets created".

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

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Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

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BP’s new chair signals more asset sales and demands faster restructuring

“Supply leads demand — you put the supply on the market and demand gets created.,” he said. “Over the long term we’re very bullish.”

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 3d

Mark Bray — scholar of European history and radicalism, and the author of several books including ‘ANTIFA — the anti fascist handbook’ — on the rise of antifascist movements from the 1930s to today, and why Trump's terror designation recalls authoritarian crackdowns through history

What exactly is Antifa? | CBC Radio

In late September, Donald Trump designated Antifa a domestic terror organization. Today, we’re tracking the meaning and history of antifascist protest — from 1930’s Europe, to today — and asking: how ...

www.cbc.ca

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 4d

Stop burning stuff challenge

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 4d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 5d

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Laratheescapeartist @lescapeartist.bsky.social · 4d

'..the wealthiest 10% of Britons generate more emissions from aviation alone than do the poorest 20% from all their activities combined' #flightfree

Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 5d

I know nobody wants to hear this. But we cant meet climate goals (aka survive the century) without policies to reduce demand for flights

Flight from reality: sustainable aviation, Jet Zero, and the technofix

This paper argues that rising aviation emissions, which are disproportionally driven by the wealthy, pose a serious threat to climate goals. Using the UK’s Jet Zero strategy as a case study, it exp...

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 4d

“The government must publish any assessment of these risks and be straight with the public on the scale of the environmental challenges we face.” - Dr. Mike Barrett, @wwf.org.uk

Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 4d

Officials in Downing Street have blocked publication of a report warning that the collapse of tropical rainforests could push up food prices in British supermarkets.

Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 5d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 4d

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 4d

This creative editing of the interview left nothing but a decontextualised rhetorical question as to whether it’s funny any more to depict him as a baby. “TRUMP BABY CREATORS SAY THE JOKE DOESN’T LAND ANYMORE” - but without saying that all the FASCISM is the reason why!
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 4d

CNN managed to edit out *all mention of Trump’s fascism* - as well as the genocide in Palestine - from the interview.

This was quite the feat as this was not my first rodeo (!) so I mentioned one or the other thing in *every other sentence*.
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Trump Baby Blimp Creators Say the Joke Doesn’t Land Anymore | CNN

During President Donald Trump’s first state visit to the United Kingdom in 2019, protestors created alarge, bright orange balloon depicting the president as a baby. Co-creator of the so-called “Trump ...

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 4d

…. the US is visibly, unmistakably being rapidly dragged from a flawed but vaguely functional democracy to a violently oppressive fascist regime, and depicting the autocrat responsible as a big baby felt deeply inadequate to this moment and, bluntly, just not funny any more.

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 4d

During Trump’s (second) state visit, I agreed to do a pre-recorded interview with CNN about why we had decided not to fly any Trump Baby blimp again while he was here.

The answer was that…

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 4d

This also applies I think to environmental campaigning. People are always talking about the need to stop using 'challenged' words or phrases like rewilding, net zero, climate change - but ultimately it is the content of these things which threatens powerful interests, not the words.. ⬇️

Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 4d

“The changing of names in order to destigmatise these conditions has been done for a very long time... And in my opinion, it doesn't work... because history suggests that sanitising a name only works for as long as people don't know what that new name means.”

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 4d

See also Low Traffic Neighborhoods and all the many angsty alternative names dreamed up for these interventions in a doomed effort to ‘detoxify’ them