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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 5h

Updating my LEGO White House

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Helen K Jeffrey @imhelenj.bsky.social · 1d

A metaphor for the destruction being visited on the US... in plain sight.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

christ almighty what is this guy doing

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Owen @oburbidge.bsky.social · 1d

The Delhi air really is something else. Not just the heat and humidity, but the air pollution hits you at the back of your throat, you feel your lungs crying out with every breath you take.

Driving around in a tuktuk you cross the river and the smell of sulphur hits you and just adds to the mix.

A screenshot of the weather and air quality in New Delhi. The air quality is 360 - very poor.

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Alexander L. Metcalf, PhD @metcalfhdlab.bsky.social · 1d

When I first read this quote years ago it made no sense to me. I wish that hadn’t changed.

Ben Edwards @bostonhistory.bsky.social · 1d

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

Suggest you jump in on this poll.

—> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...?

And share…

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Centre for Sustainable Energy @cse.org.uk · 2d

Come along to one of our FREE workshops to find out about:

• Energy saving retrofit in a community building. 🛠️
• Practical energy saving ‘quick wins’. ⚡
• Where to start or go to for help and support. 📞
• And much more!

Book now 👉 buff.ly/3uDPu85

#CommunityEnergy #EnergyEfficiency #Renewables

Free training to improve the energy efficiency of your community building
Join one of our interactive workshops as we explore how to cut your community building's renewable energy costs and look at retrofit and renewable solutions.
23 Oct: Hillfields park community centre
25 Nov: The Hub, Lockleaze
22 Jan: The Park Centre, Knowle West

Book your free space: www.voscur.org/events

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 3d

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

Of these four pairs of shoes, which two pairs do you think are the lowest in quality?

Make a choice before opening this thread. Then I'll tell you something about shoe quality. 🧵

Four pairs of brown loafers are sitting on top of a rug. The first pair is relatively matte; the second pair is also matte, but has uneven wrinkling; the third part is relatively matte; the fourth pair is very shiny.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 4d

Happening today outside SEA LIFE London from 10.30am – join us! 🐧

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🍂MtBotany @mtbotany.bsky.social · 4d

Three things to do to support Wikipedia:

1. Dump Google. Make DuckDuckGo with AI turned off your default search.

2. When the information you want is not in Wikipedia and you find it elsewhere leave a comment on an article talk page pointing to it.

3. If you have the means, donate time or money.

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Helen K Jeffrey @imhelenj.bsky.social · 4d

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/developing...

Developing community energy in the rural district of Forest of Dean

Key achievements, challenges and learnings from the AURORA project which aimed to drive forward community energy in the Forest of Dean.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Helen K Jeffrey @imhelenj.bsky.social · 5d

Turn off AI search results, or use Ecosia. Think about your digital carbon footprint... support Wikipedia.

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Helen K Jeffrey @imhelenj.bsky.social · 5d

A week to go... #communityenergy #forestofdean

Helen K Jeffrey @imhelenj.bsky.social · 6d

Free drop in afternoon #forestofdean - staying warm and saving energy! Plus tea and cake 👍

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Helen K Jeffrey @imhelenj.bsky.social · 5d

Please share and sign up 🙂 #communityenergy

Helen K Jeffrey @imhelenj.bsky.social · 6d

Online event invitation! #communityenergy in rural areas - a case study 🙂

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5d

One of the less understood beauties of a transition to a renewable economy is: you cannot invade a country and steal its sunshine and its wind, and you will not need to. The uneven distribution of fossil fuel, esp. oil, has corroded geopolitics for more than a century....

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 8d

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5d

Personally I think it would be hard to steal a wind farm.

Ginormous mother of all wind turbine blades on a truck: "due to the massive 58.7m length of the phase three blades, and the massive 63.35m overall loaded length, their teams had to undertake meticulous planning ahead of the project....."

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Helen K Jeffrey @imhelenj.bsky.social · 6d

Please share 🙏@refugeesathome.bsky.social x

Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 7d

Our local refugee charity, which does such important work welcoming people fleeing persecution, is facing an uncertain future. Over the next six months I’m walking the 112 mile Cotswold Way to try and raise money for them. I’d be thrilled if you’d sponsor me: www.stewardship.org.uk/pages/cotswo...

Owen, with brown hair and glasses, smiling, wearing a rucksack and a green jumper, and standing in a field

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Cumbria Wildlife Trust @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social · 7d

📢 We need to hear YOUR thoughts!

The public consultation on reintroducing white-tailed eagles to #Cumbria is open. 🦅

Share your views by responding to our online questionnaire by October 31st HERE ⬇️
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/CWTEquestionnaire/

Please share this post as widely as possible! 💚

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 6d

‘about 1/3 of AI-related capital expenditure is being sunk into shortlived assets such as graphics processing units. But GPUs [have] a useful life for frontier applications of about 3 years. That implies that AI companies’ investments must generate a return within a few years…’
on.ft.com/43cu0z6

AI’s double bubble trouble

There is a distinction between good investment and bad speculation — the likelihood is we are experiencing both

on.ft.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 6d

Great piece from @drodrik.bsky.social which echoes themes in our report about net zero (above) - there is a need to take action at local levels for national and global issues to engage communities and make a tangible difference to people’s lives
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We should seek local solutions to our global problems

Worn-out top-down approaches won’t help us build lasting shared prosperity

on.ft.com

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Helen K Jeffrey @imhelenj.bsky.social · 6d

Please share 🙏@refugeesathome.bsky.social x

Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social · 7d

Our local refugee charity, which does such important work welcoming people fleeing persecution, is facing an uncertain future. Over the next six months I’m walking the 112 mile Cotswold Way to try and raise money for them. I’d be thrilled if you’d sponsor me: www.stewardship.org.uk/pages/cotswo...

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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 8d

"I guess I grow our garden to catch the seasons, to celebrate the way that constant change makes me feel more myself." www.wildway.info/p/season-cat...

Season catchers

Each morning we wake and immediately look to our daily weather forecast through the three small stone windows.

www.wildway.info

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Helen K Jeffrey @imhelenj.bsky.social · 6d

Free drop in afternoon #forestofdean - staying warm and saving energy! Plus tea and cake 👍

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