AlixB
@abnotfab.bsky.social
We are having the time of our lives.
Banner picture is of an installation by Superflex in the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia.
Banner picture is of an installation by Superflex in the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia.
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Most Brits want climate action but think their neighbours don't. Most Brits support renewable energy but think their neighbours don't.
This is the work of relentless misinformation by our right-wing press and the oiligarchy.
This is the work of relentless misinformation by our right-wing press and the oiligarchy.
Poll: Majority of Brits support renewables, but think their neighbours disagree with them
Major poll reveals 70 per cent of Brits would back a new solar farm in their local area, but only 27 per cent think that other people would support such a development
www.businessgreen.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Most Brits want climate action but think their neighbours don't. Most Brits support renewable energy but think their neighbours don't.
This is the work of relentless misinformation by our right-wing press and the oiligarchy.
This is the work of relentless misinformation by our right-wing press and the oiligarchy.
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What the hell do you have to do to get a lifetime driving ban in this country?
BREAKING: Liverpool FC parade crash driver Paul Doyle is sentenced to 21 years and six months in prison
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
Paul Doyle sentenced for 21 years over LFC parade crash
Paul Doyle has been jailed for 21 years and six months after admitting a total of 31 charges, having driven his car into crowds of Liverpool FC fans during a victory parade
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
What the hell do you have to do to get a lifetime driving ban in this country?
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You might think that a man who drove into 100 people, using his car as a weapon, would NEVER be allowed to drive again.
It turns out he will be able to, around three years after leaving prison by taking an extended retest.
Why should he ever be able to get behind the wheel again?
It turns out he will be able to, around three years after leaving prison by taking an extended retest.
Why should he ever be able to get behind the wheel again?
December 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
You might think that a man who drove into 100 people, using his car as a weapon, would NEVER be allowed to drive again.
It turns out he will be able to, around three years after leaving prison by taking an extended retest.
Why should he ever be able to get behind the wheel again?
It turns out he will be able to, around three years after leaving prison by taking an extended retest.
Why should he ever be able to get behind the wheel again?
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December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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I want every single solitary Republican in every elected office in every corner of this country to be asked about Donald Trump’s post about Rob Reiner.
They like to cloak themselves in religion…
Then read it to them.
Don’t let them say they “didn’t see it.”
Let them “defend” it.
They like to cloak themselves in religion…
Then read it to them.
Don’t let them say they “didn’t see it.”
Let them “defend” it.
December 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I want every single solitary Republican in every elected office in every corner of this country to be asked about Donald Trump’s post about Rob Reiner.
They like to cloak themselves in religion…
Then read it to them.
Don’t let them say they “didn’t see it.”
Let them “defend” it.
They like to cloak themselves in religion…
Then read it to them.
Don’t let them say they “didn’t see it.”
Let them “defend” it.
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The Scottish govt has dropped plans to lower the national speed limit on single carriageway roads to 50mph because it was unpopular.
It's a govt's job to do what's right, not what's popular. Reducing the limit would have reduced danger and KSIs in those roads.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's a govt's job to do what's right, not what's popular. Reducing the limit would have reduced danger and KSIs in those roads.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government drops plans to reduce speeds on single carriageways - BBC News
Plans to reduce the national speed limit on single carriageways from 60mph to 50mph were unpopular.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The Scottish govt has dropped plans to lower the national speed limit on single carriageway roads to 50mph because it was unpopular.
It's a govt's job to do what's right, not what's popular. Reducing the limit would have reduced danger and KSIs in those roads.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's a govt's job to do what's right, not what's popular. Reducing the limit would have reduced danger and KSIs in those roads.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Professor Tim Lenton of @exeter.ac.uk with an incredibly important warning about the dire consequences for the UK if we continue burning fossil fuels and cause the #AMOC ocean current to cross a tipping point—which could happen at 2°C.
Full talk: link below.
#NEB2025 #FoodShortages
Full talk: link below.
#NEB2025 #FoodShortages
December 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Professor Tim Lenton of @exeter.ac.uk with an incredibly important warning about the dire consequences for the UK if we continue burning fossil fuels and cause the #AMOC ocean current to cross a tipping point—which could happen at 2°C.
Full talk: link below.
#NEB2025 #FoodShortages
Full talk: link below.
#NEB2025 #FoodShortages
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Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases. (Hank Van Ess)
December 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases. (Hank Van Ess)
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Since 2019, the NHS has spent more money on maternity negligence claims than the entire NHS maternity budget for same period.
Investment now in maternity services will reap rewards very quickly.
The Government does not need to wait for the Amos review to start making a change.
Investment now in maternity services will reap rewards very quickly.
The Government does not need to wait for the Amos review to start making a change.
December 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Since 2019, the NHS has spent more money on maternity negligence claims than the entire NHS maternity budget for same period.
Investment now in maternity services will reap rewards very quickly.
The Government does not need to wait for the Amos review to start making a change.
Investment now in maternity services will reap rewards very quickly.
The Government does not need to wait for the Amos review to start making a change.
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"Trains will be given a union flag inspired paint job as part of the govts nationalisation plan"
Meanwhile the trains themselves are still owned by private rolling stock leasing companies which extract huge amounts of £ from the industry (& shovel it into offshore tax havens)
Meanwhile the trains themselves are still owned by private rolling stock leasing companies which extract huge amounts of £ from the industry (& shovel it into offshore tax havens)
December 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
"Trains will be given a union flag inspired paint job as part of the govts nationalisation plan"
Meanwhile the trains themselves are still owned by private rolling stock leasing companies which extract huge amounts of £ from the industry (& shovel it into offshore tax havens)
Meanwhile the trains themselves are still owned by private rolling stock leasing companies which extract huge amounts of £ from the industry (& shovel it into offshore tax havens)
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Amazing wording on this glacier memorial
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Amazing wording on this glacier memorial
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If EU auto-manufacturers succeed in delaying the planned 2035 phase-out of internal combustion engines, they'll fall even further behind.
They must look to the future, not cling to the past!
They must look to the future, not cling to the past!
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If EU auto-manufacturers succeed in delaying the planned 2035 phase-out of internal combustion engines, they'll fall even further behind.
They must look to the future, not cling to the past!
They must look to the future, not cling to the past!
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Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇
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If this driver hadn't managed to plead hardship when facing a ban for phone use, then he may not have later killed someone when using phone whilst driving.
Clearly a habit.
I hope the magistrate/judge who gave him leniency thinks long & hard about their decision
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Clearly a habit.
I hope the magistrate/judge who gave him leniency thinks long & hard about their decision
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Family mourns Farnham cyclist after man jailed over his death
Cyclist Aran Potkin's wife pays tribute to her husband, after a motorist is jailed for causing his death by dangerous driving.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If this driver hadn't managed to plead hardship when facing a ban for phone use, then he may not have later killed someone when using phone whilst driving.
Clearly a habit.
I hope the magistrate/judge who gave him leniency thinks long & hard about their decision
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Clearly a habit.
I hope the magistrate/judge who gave him leniency thinks long & hard about their decision
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Lots of news coverage this morning about £28 billion investment approved to upgrade the UK's energy network.
BUT: The majority of the spending – £17.8 billion - announced today is to maintain Britain’s gas networks rather than build new transmission lines.
BUT: The majority of the spending – £17.8 billion - announced today is to maintain Britain’s gas networks rather than build new transmission lines.
December 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Lots of news coverage this morning about £28 billion investment approved to upgrade the UK's energy network.
BUT: The majority of the spending – £17.8 billion - announced today is to maintain Britain’s gas networks rather than build new transmission lines.
BUT: The majority of the spending – £17.8 billion - announced today is to maintain Britain’s gas networks rather than build new transmission lines.
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Part of a grim 🧵and a Politico article on the US-UK "deal".
Basically, the orange wants a "special relationship" to ride roughshod over UK pharma standards and adopt the new, slipshod, unscientific, FDA standards pushed by his incompetent administration.
That's just for starters
Basically, the orange wants a "special relationship" to ride roughshod over UK pharma standards and adopt the new, slipshod, unscientific, FDA standards pushed by his incompetent administration.
That's just for starters
Politico literally spells it out: this locks the UK into “a U.S.-centric life sciences model.”
3️⃣ The US wants the UK 🇬🇧 to open procurement and the NHS supply chain to American 🇺🇸 companies.
3️⃣ The US wants the UK 🇬🇧 to open procurement and the NHS supply chain to American 🇺🇸 companies.
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Part of a grim 🧵and a Politico article on the US-UK "deal".
Basically, the orange wants a "special relationship" to ride roughshod over UK pharma standards and adopt the new, slipshod, unscientific, FDA standards pushed by his incompetent administration.
That's just for starters
Basically, the orange wants a "special relationship" to ride roughshod over UK pharma standards and adopt the new, slipshod, unscientific, FDA standards pushed by his incompetent administration.
That's just for starters
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This is extremely dangerous. It means:
🔹 no fixed boundaries
🔹 no scrutiny
🔹 no guarantee of EU compatibility
🔹 unlimited scope creep into NHS, food, chemicals, digital, data, services
The U.S. has negotiating leverage.
The UK is desperate and this ends one way.
🔹 no fixed boundaries
🔹 no scrutiny
🔹 no guarantee of EU compatibility
🔹 unlimited scope creep into NHS, food, chemicals, digital, data, services
The U.S. has negotiating leverage.
The UK is desperate and this ends one way.
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is extremely dangerous. It means:
🔹 no fixed boundaries
🔹 no scrutiny
🔹 no guarantee of EU compatibility
🔹 unlimited scope creep into NHS, food, chemicals, digital, data, services
The U.S. has negotiating leverage.
The UK is desperate and this ends one way.
🔹 no fixed boundaries
🔹 no scrutiny
🔹 no guarantee of EU compatibility
🔹 unlimited scope creep into NHS, food, chemicals, digital, data, services
The U.S. has negotiating leverage.
The UK is desperate and this ends one way.
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If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
Every sympathy for University of Essex (and pressures facing them) but this is very bad news for Southend.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Roles to be lost are part of wave of redundancy programmes across UK’s higher education sector
giftarticle.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
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🤣🤣Trump fell asleep during Rubio's story about the war in Ukraine
December 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
🤣🤣Trump fell asleep during Rubio's story about the war in Ukraine
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The EV share of new car sales in 🇩🇰 Denmark was 73.7% in November. Of private individuals buying a new car, 91% opted for an EV.
Ny rekord: 91 % af alle private, der fik leveret en ny bil i november, valgte en elbil 🚗🔌
Den samlede elbilandel nåede samtidig 73,7 % – også det en klar rekord.
9 ud af de 10 mest solgte biler i november var rene elbiler (BMW X1 tæller både fossile- og elvarianter).
Den samlede elbilandel nåede samtidig 73,7 % – også det en klar rekord.
9 ud af de 10 mest solgte biler i november var rene elbiler (BMW X1 tæller både fossile- og elvarianter).
December 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The EV share of new car sales in 🇩🇰 Denmark was 73.7% in November. Of private individuals buying a new car, 91% opted for an EV.
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"No matter that the overwhelming majority of deaths and incidents on our roads are caused by drivers in ever bigger cars, the single biggest issue seems to always be cyclists running red lights, or how awful it is that money might be spent on making cycling easier, safer, and nicer."
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
"No matter that the overwhelming majority of deaths and incidents on our roads are caused by drivers in ever bigger cars, the single biggest issue seems to always be cyclists running red lights, or how awful it is that money might be spent on making cycling easier, safer, and nicer."
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Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.