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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 12h

He's speaking on the same day as this warning from the WMO. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520467...

'Huge cause for concern': Atmospheric CO2 reaches new high after record spike in 2024

Wildfire emissions and reduced CO2 absorption by carbon sinks push atmospheric CO2 to record levels, UN agency reveals

www.businessgreen.com

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10h

"The explosion of mass media, in every form from the Victorian social novel to the Tiktoks sent from Gaza or Kyiv, have served to show that people unlike ourselves are first and foremost people: just us, in a different situation.

"Anyway, I worry social media might be f*cking this right up."

The Two Minutes Hate

Some thoughts on what pile-ons are doing to our brains, because ouch. Also: everything objectively insane about Kash Patel’s “challenge coin”; and meet “ratzilla”.

jonn.substack.com

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 1d

Cars account for just 4.3% of journeys in Paris. So motorists may be 'living in fear' (although that sounds unlikely) but the vast majority of Parisians, far from seeing red, are pretty happy with expanded space for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1d

Paris sees red as mayor drives cars off the road

Motorists in the French capital live in fear of the tow truck and sky-high parking fines

Paris sees red as mayor drives cars off the road

www.thetimes.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

hello consider this a reminder, in case people missed it last week, that I've launched a new quarterly night in London called the Outsiders Arts Club where people will be able to buy great affordable art and ask dumb questions to an art professional: outsidersartsclub.com

thanks, bye

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 23h

This is the loudest alarm bell imaginable. And yet it will still be ignored.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23h

The wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are now a carbon source because CO₂ emitted from trees dying and decaying outstripped the CO₂ taken up by trees growing. 😕

Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study

Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.

www.abc.net.au

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

"There is no doubt that the impact of Brexit has been severe and long-lasting", Rachel Reeves tells Sky News, as she suggests that taxes will now have to go up as a result to "make sure the numbers add up".

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Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 2d

But today I was struck by essentially a footnote number in Brueghel's Cleantech tracker. The EU spends €250billion per year (!) importing oil and fully half of that goes on road transport.
Crucially, these are not extrapolations or projections. They are receipts. And that is a very big number.

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 1d

RMT Union to ballot Eurostar staff to strike: “ballot comes as staff face worsening working conditions with unreliable trains, poor service recovery and operational safety concerns piling pressure on the workforce” www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-to-...

#CrossChannelRail

RMT to ballot Eurostar staff for strike action

Rail union RMT, will ballot Eurostar members for strike action in a row over safety and conditions at work.

www.rmt.org.uk

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

If things were going to plan stuff like this simply wouldn't exist. The goal here is the elimination of fossil fuels, not "lots of batteries" or "lots of solar panels"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

Dismissing this as irrelevant, meaningless and of 'no impact' to the energy transition is flat-out fucking climate denial.

Stop hyper-focusing on renewable energy percentage records and start worrying about Australia's already bloated coal fleet fighting for decades more life

reneweconomy.com.au

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Ian Fletcher @stupidityvortex.bsky.social · 2d

The Gruffalo said no Gruffalo should,
Take in a horse made of deep dark wood,
"Why not? Why not?"
Because if you do,
The big bad Greeks will be after you.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 2d

“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Steve Fawkes @drstevefawkes.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting image, I've written and spoken about the iconography of big centralised power which is similar wherever you go. Here's 3 examples: Romania, UK, USA. It reflects that 'big government bringing you power' 1930s-1960s vibe. Distributed power- 'Electricity 2.0-desparately needs some new icons

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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 3d

I write about this in Electric Wind. It was Blair’s govt who gave the Crown the right to licence offshore wind - (oil and gas and any other resources are licenced directly by govt).The Crown made more than £1billion last year alone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Greenpeace threatens to sue crown estate for driving up cost of offshore wind

Environmental group accuses king’s property management company of ‘milking for profit’ its monopoly ownership of seabed

www.theguardian.com

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 3d

Coal miners protest outside Labor Dept saying Trump failed to enforce limit on silica dust, a carcinogen that led to recent spike in black lung disease the incurable disease caused by inhaling coal & silica dust.

Mining industry is suing to block limit on silica

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c...

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 9d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 5d

Great news.....

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @carbonbrief.org

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Abigail Dombey @abigaildombey.bsky.social · 2d

I was initially going to say 12!
But thought I’d be kind and say 17 instead.

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Abigail Dombey @abigaildombey.bsky.social · 3d

I dunno who @dmk1793.bsky.social is, but he looks about 17….

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Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 3d

The last five years has seen a hurculean transformation of our electricity sector as renewables saved us from sky-rocketing fossil fuel costs.

Now is the next step. Getting our low carbon, low cost electricity into our industry, into our homes and into our transport.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 4d

This is very cool as a visual and also yes I agree that a whole lot of people have not/do not want to realise this. It will reduce traffic to the busiest area, thereby reducing traffic in the ‘thru’ zones, without reducing access TO the ‘thru’ zones

Stephen Gower @sjgower.bsky.social · 4d

I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.

A street map of Oxford.

Woodstock Road, Banbury Road and the streets in their immediate vicinity are coloured pink. Botley Road and streets off it are coloured green. Cowley Road, Iffley Road and Abingdon Road and streets off them are coloured blue. Streets in Marston and Headington are coloured orange. The ring road matches the colours at each junction and fades between colours as it goes around. A small area in the middle is coloured yellow, and labelled "Central Permit Area". THe Congestion Charge traffic filters are indicated by black circles circles with white segments, those white segments correspond on a 24 hour clock face with when the filter isn't operational (and the remaining black, when the filters are operational). Crosses mark other filters in the city that are enforced by ANPR but are not part of the Congestion Charge scheme.

Text at the top of the image reads "Temporary Congestion Charge for Cars in Oxford 2025-2026. Any road outside the Central Permit Area can be accessed without passing any traffic filers by using the Ring Road and selecting an approporiate exit junction (matching colours on this map)."

A key at the bottom matches the filter types, with text "Traffic Filters. Hollow Way & Marston Ferry Road 7-9am and 3-6pm. St Cross Road, Hythe Bridge Street, Thames Street and St Clements, 7am-7pm. £5 daily permit covers all Congestion Charge filters. Free Permits available. For example for residents, business use, health and car, SEND and disabilty. Congestion Charge permits do not apply for other filters, such as High Street or in East Oxford/Cowley."

Small print reads "Full details at https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-and-travel" and "©@sjgower Contains OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Locations of highway filters are approximate and for overview purposes only. v1.3"

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 4d

Israel used 3D scans developed by the Scottish Maritime Museum in propaganda animations, which were a key part of its attempts to justify attacks on hospitals and residential areas in Gaza, Syria and Iran. The 3D scans, developed for boatbuilding workshops, were used without the museum's knowledge.

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

www.972mag.com

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Abigail Dombey @abigaildombey.bsky.social · 4d

Paging @garius.bsky.social - thought you might be interested.

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Shivaji Shiva @shivajishivalaw.bsky.social · 4d

"“Too many people are locked out of opportunity because the transport system simply doesn’t work for them."

"Many families can't afford a car or would spend a huge proportion of their weekly budget running one."

#TransportJustice

@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org

www.ippr.org/media-office...

Revealed: Car ownership eats up a quarter of poorest households’ incomes | IPPR

Poorest households spend a quarter (25 per cent) of their income on their carTransport costs take up twice the share of income for the least well-offIPPR r

www.ippr.org

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