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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 3h

This is why we need crypto, people shouldn't be afraid that their politics will mean they cannot live.

Authoritarian control is always used for abuse.

Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 4h

This is an extremely bad article written with clear bias. Crypto is a method to remove authoritarian control. It wasn't created to be fraud.

If used for political parties, it's very simple to verify from who the funds came from. Existing funding laws can be complied with easily.

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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 9h

Rather than "slowly undoing some of that damage" the government’s response should be to move ambitiously to rapidly undo ALL of the Brexit damage.

#Brexit has failed.

It's time to prepare and plan seriously to rejoin the EU.

#RejoinEU

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Rachel Reeves says tax rises and spending cuts on budget agenda, citing Brexit impact

Chancellor also blames austerity and ‘ongoing impact of Liz Truss mini-budget’ for growing shortfall in public finances

www.theguardian.com

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 8h

#brexit #faragetax

That's the message

Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 11h

From reporting is seems like the FY 2025 chart might be a different picture, with a plateau for coal generation.

Let's see.

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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 1d

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 1d

Great to speak at the @energy-uk.org.uk conference just now, about the tenuous relationship between many media headlines & reality

Here's a taster

#eukconf25

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 1d

Damn your facts and logic!

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 1d

I see the current commercial price for electricity is £125.61/MWh with nearly 2/3rds coming from gas.

But over the year with under 1/3rd from gas the price averaged £82.80.

Yet still the likes of the fossil-fuel-funded Refukkers lie to use that net zero will make us poorer.

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Charli Charging @charlicharging.bsky.social · 1d

Your car isn’t just a way to get from point A to B, but it’s also a power source.

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology is transforming parked EVs into energy assets that can power homes, businesses, and even entire communities.

#EVCharging #V2G #CleanEnergy

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't farmland already an industrial use? It's not natural, after all.

Also if a farmer can diversify income streams with solar, doesn't that help them survive through more extreme weather from climate change.

And isn't it better to do solar (that lets the land recover) than biofuels crops.

Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 1d

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 1d

Good news

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 1d

Gas is the primary reason for high electricity prices and the whole reason for high gas bills

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 1d

Liberal Democrat Ed Davey says the Conservatives and Reform have a message on energy bills that is "simple, beguiling and terribly, terribly wrong"

Calls for the sector to take on their "lies" and says "the Farage/Badenoch plan would fail".

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 1d

I was just holding the Rubles for a friend 😉

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 1d

These are not the Rubles you are looking for

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister's wife – HOPE not hate

IN BREACH OF PARLIAMENTARY RULES: REFORM UK’S RICHARD TICE Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register lavish hospitality...

hopenothate.org.uk

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile NIMBYs are blocking the solutions

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d

'UK Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk
Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable.'
#climate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 1d

Even brand new houses are built to poor standards, and so don't meet energy efficiency requirements in reality, or even fail completely as housing.

The building industry is the wild west, it's so bad the HMRC has the CIS to help prevent VAT fraud.

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 2d

If you bolted a server exhaust to the intake of your heat pump you could get 5-6x efficiency

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 2d

Saw a YouTube video today where Reform now say they won't reduce public spending, and almost every comment was about immigration.

Could be Reform bots or Reform voters, hard to tell the difference TBH. Point is they can do any nonsense so long as the bogeyman is kept alive and well.

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 2d

I live within a few miles of this and I think the route is probably the best it could be. At least near me very few people live in the vicinity so it has the least impact possible.

The alternative is much worse.

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Jon.B @jonbright.bsky.social · 3d

Burning food for land-hungry biofuels is fuelling the climate crisis.Europe is growing crops to be burned as fuel uses up 32m ha of land this is set to grow by 60% to 52m ha by 2030,this would make biofuels the 6th largest country in terms of arable land. www.transportenvironment.org/share/crop30...

Campaigning for cleaner transport in Europe

Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport & energy

www.transportenvironment.org

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