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Durand D'souza🍃
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Coffee, climbing, cocktails, cooking & climate. Astrophysics PhD dropout. Data Scientist @carbontracker.bsky.social
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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 1d
Such an excellent piece of data storytelling, mixing maps, charts and infographics. Nothing too flashy but well thought out
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Revisual Labs @revisual.co · 1d
🔗 Take a closer look at the map here: dtm.iom.int/data-stories...
🔗 Visit our website revisual.co/work

#dataviz #maps
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Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social · 2d
The case for renewables I hear all the time is something like "Ignore emissions, we can do this faster than gas" and that may be true about combined-cycle power plants, but it may be much less true with using cheap turbines behind the meter heatmap.news/energy/natur...
Data Centers Have Solved Their Speed-to-Power Problem — With Natural Gas
“Old economy” companies like Caterpillar and Williams are cashing in by selling smaller, less-efficient turbines to impatient developers.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d
Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

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Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 2d
NEW DATA | For the first time ever, wind and solar produced more than 50% of the UK's electricity ☀️🍃🇬🇧

🏆 In September, wind and solar generation reached a share of 50.4%

Both wind and solar generation also reached new absolute output records for the month of September:
Wind: 7.7 TWh
Solar: 1.7 TWh
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 3d
“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef … Ladies’ fingers are not made of actual ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism,” says Austrian MEP Anna Stürgkh

Ditto Shepherds pie

Feel free to add your own below 👇

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Veggie burgers’ could be off the menu as MEPs vote to ban plant-based food terms
Vote is victory for MEPs who want to strengthen position of farmers in food supply chain
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 3d
European Parliament votes to ban terms like ‘burger’ and ‘sausage’ for plant-based products

- Green MEP Anna Strolenberg: “The meat lobby is trying to weaken its innovative food competitors"

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EU Parliament Backs 'Veggie Burger' Labelling Ban on Plant-Based Meat
The EU Parliament today voted in favour of a ban on meat-like designations on plant-based meat product labels, paving the way for trilogue negotiations.
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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 3d
Just putting this out into the world. Come March next year I’ll be looking for #PostDoc research assistant work in Sydney (or remote). Please keep me in mind and send any ideas my way. Looking for projects in one or any of #EnergyTransitions #Decarbonisation #EnvironmentalPlanning #HumanGeography
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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 3d
Break up Ticketmaster. Make ticket reselling at higher prices illegal. It's not difficult. Let's not pretend that artists are suddenly making bank from these absurd prices.

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The best gig I ever saw cost £4. Spiralling concert prices are a cultural disaster | John Harris
Tickets for big tours have vastly outstripped inflation, while smaller artists and venues struggle. The magic is in danger of being snuffed out entirely, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 3d
We must be patriotically proud to be British but not to learn about or contribute to any of the culture that pride might be based on
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 3d
Utterly shameful and entirely preventable. Each one is evidence of war crimes that Netanyahu, Starmer and Lammy are guilty of

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 5d
Had so many bad experiences with bus drivers in London, both as a passenger and as a cyclist. But buses in London are privatised so the blame should be on private franchises and a lack of regulatory oversight.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 6d
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
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filmnathan @filmnathan.bsky.social · 6d
While being arrested for holding a placard, one protester recites a poem by 9-year-old Fatema Saidam who was killed, along with her entire family, by an Israeli airstrike on October 17, 2023.

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 6d
“They’re way better at capturing politicians than they are at capturing emissions." -Al Gore
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Al Gore: Fossil fuel industry exploiting Europe’s energy crisis
The former U.S. vice president warned that the EU risks locking into long-term dependence on dirty energy.
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 7d
BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x
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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 7d
Shame on the police for enforcing this draconian ban. They should be defending vulnerable communities instead of targeting them
Defend Our Juries supporter Zoe Cohen, who was arrested at the August action and is Jewish, said: “Those who have used the attack on the Jewish community in Manchester to call for today’s vigil to be cancelled, are wrongly conflating the actions of the Israeli state with all Jews. Jewish people around the world are not responsible for Israel’s crimes and there are many Jewish people who do not support the actions of the Israeli state. Cancelling today’s vigil would have perpetuated this dangerous narrative which fuels antisemitism.”
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 7d
Oh, is this the same Met Police that ignored mass Islamophobia at the flag shagger march?

Also this law is demented, and your officers could also ignore Palestine Action banners. Not doing so is a choice news.met.police.uk/news/met-urg...
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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 7d
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stance
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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 7d
Instead of protecting communities, the police are yet again wasting precious resources intimidating peaceful protestors.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d
Palestine Action protest: police begin making arrests at London demo
Palestine Action protest: police begin making arrests at London demo
Officers start arresting activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation Arrests have begun in Trafalgar Square at what may be the biggest demonstration so far against a ban on the proscribed organisation Palestine Action. Police began arresting demonstrators at the silent vigil in support of the group, which has been classed by the UK government as a terror organisation since July this year. Continue reading...
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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 9d
Every single day... And yet our governments still enable this.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
At least 53 Palestinians killed in fresh wave of Israeli attacks on Gaza
Military offensive stepped up as Hamas leaders consider Trump’s 20-point peace plan
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ClimateActionNetwork @canclimateaction.bsky.social · 9d
CAN condemns the illegal Israeli aggression against the #GlobalSumudFlotilla and its activists.

International law is clear. Israel is in violation.

We call for the immediate and safe release of those illegally abducted by Israel.

Full statement: climatenetwork.org/2025/10/02/c...

#FreePalestine
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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 9d
It makes no sense at all. One of the journalists is very much pro-LNG. Why are they writing for a supposed Green column?!
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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 9d
This is unbelievably biased bad reporting. Gas is not a viable transition fuel and LNG is especially not viable in South East Asia. It exposes nations to higher prices and volatile markets AND it doesn't even help decarbonise. LNG has incredibly high carbon emissions.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 9d
It's 2025. Why is Bloomberg writing this?

"However, the gas turbine crunch is revealing that without gas power plants, many cash-strapped nations—including Vietnam—have little ability to quit coal and keep the lights on."

No other options? In 2025? Really? Is that your final answer?
AI-Driven Demand for Gas Turbines Risks a New Energy Crunch
Orders for turbines to power natural gas plants are vastly outpacing supply, threatening the world’s ability to keep pace with rising electricity demand.
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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 10d
To call refugee resettlement a "golden ticket" shows just how out of touch you are with reality. Not surprising for a middle class lawyer born in one of the wealthiest countries in the world but still pretty pathetic nonetheless.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com