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theregister.com
AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics
AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics
Forrester principal analyst JP Gownder says jobs eaten by bots don't come back Interview  Analyst firm Forrester’s vice president and principal analyst J. P. Gownder remains unconvinced that AI will revolutionize productivity.…
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January 15, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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profbillmcguire.bsky.social
The latest evidence that we are going backwards as fossil fuel corporations continue to plan for expansion

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
BP to take hit of up to $5bn on green energy as it refocuses on fossil fuels
Energy company also under pressure from worse oil trading performance and weaker oil prices
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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sianberry.bsky.social
I will never stop until the Labour Govt’s toolkit for authoritarians has been dismantled piece by piece.

Today mandatory Digital ID, and next we stop police facial rec and preserve protest rights and trial by jury. Human rights matter more than ever right now.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID
Scheme intended to verify someone’s right to work in the UK will be optional, government admitted in 13th U-turn since taking power
www.thetimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:21 PM
pyroisbob.bsky.social
Unsurprised - Coutinho also rubber stamped permit for Europe's largest waste incinerator at #Wisbech in the last days of the Tory Govt which will emit in excess of 800,000 t Co2 annually...
January 13, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
It's always nice when they just it out loud. You can just read the lines rather than reading in between them 😍

www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
AI holds potential to extend shale era Market: Crude oil, Natural gas 23/09/24 Initially slow to embrace the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, the US shale sector is fast playing catch-up, looking to harness AI's power to cut costs and speed up drilling. While attention up until now has centred on the vast energy needs of data centres supporting AI, there is a growing buzz around the technology's potential to help producers keep the oil flowing by allowing for the monitoring of well sites remotely, and to save on maintenance by figuring out problems in advance. AI could also play a key role in detecting and curbing emissions, help companies do a better job of mapping out discoveries, and improve well and completion designs. Given forecasts for shale to peak in the coming years, more advanced drilling techniques backed by AI could help delay the inevitable. "There's definitely a lot of potential for generative AI to extend the shale era if you look at it both from the standpoint of what it brings to the table, as well as the incremental energy requirement of powering the AI revolution," consultancy Enverus' director of product innovation, Akash Sharma, says.
August 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
ID cards will now be optional and won't be rolled out until at least 2029.

The question is, why the hell are we still spending nearly £2bn on this garbage?
January 13, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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michaelspicer.bsky.social
If this got more views on YouTube than the actual show, it would make my year.

youtu.be/Y54OJC0FtCs
The Liz Truss Show - Behind the Scenes
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
Since Covid

Home Insurance up 70%.
Car Insurance up 80%.
Energy Bills up 60%.
Water Bills up more than 50%.

They are just ripping us off on things we have to buy.
December 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
My full page comic for the @prospectmagazine.co.uk Christmas issue. With sincere apologies.
This is a comic pate drawn in the soft pencil style of The Snowman by Raymond Briggs Basically the story is this: - Keir Starmer in dressing gown presses face up to window, excited that it is snowing - He runs outside, builds a snowman - It comes to life, taps on his window - He invites it in, gives it clothes (yellow trouser, green jacket, flat cap) and we realise (face close up) it looks like Nigel Farage - Snowman takes him outside, launches off the ground - They fly over the landscape, we see a town below - A man ziptying a St George’s Flag to a lamp post waves at them as they pass - As in the original, they head for the sea - we see a light by the coast - Instead of Brighton pier as in the original, it is an Asylum Detention Center - They land, we see people queuing behind a fence - Snowman Farage points excitedly at a large bin marked VALUABLES - Snowman Farage pulls a child's E-scooter out of the bin, he and Starmer look excited - They take off again and go back to Keir’s home - Farage resumes his place in the garden, Starmer walks back inside to go back to bed - The next day Snowman Farage has melted, leaving only his clothes and the scooter - now with a bow and label attached to show it is a Christmas gift. [ends]
December 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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bmj.com
We asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to respond to the opinion "Working with organised crime to improve health: a modest proposal" from our #BMJChristmas Issue 2025.

Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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rupertread.bsky.social
This petition is nearly there to 10000 signatures! Just 2000 to go, and then the Govt have to respond… please help us get over the line!
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS FOR YOU TO SIGN (and share)…
;)
>Thanks< so much…
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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goodlawproject.org
For the record 👇🏻
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jun 30
The 'free speech for those punching down / prison for those punching up' crowd are going to end up disappointed. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...
New York Times snip: "Not all British lawyers saw the police as having a strong case against the band. Jolyon Maugham, a founder of the Good Law Project, who has posted on social media about the furor around Bob Vylan’s concert, said in a telephone interview that the band’s singer directed his comments at the Israeli army, rather than the Jewish people. Some may have been offended, he added, but the statements were “a very different thing” to a crime."
December 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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excog.bsky.social
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"One in six British wild species are already at risk of extinction, yet this Labour government, who recently promised to ‘save nature’, has now given us a builders’ charter. It’s not only developers who cannot be trusted, neither can this government."
bylinesnetwork.co.uk Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 27d
Is “Biodiversity Net Gain” another greenwashing gimmick?

If you’re not familiar with it, this article is well worth reading to understand the concept. It will likely be a central pillar in Labour‘s new push to ease regulations for development.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Biodiversity Net Gain: can developers be trusted?
Developers seem rather too fickle concerning their obligations to protect the environment, and the situation may be about to get worse
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
this has been happening almost since the beginning of climate change as a fundamental piece of public knowledge

interactive.carbonbrief.org/carbon-offse...
Timeline: The 60-year history of carbon offsets
Carbon Brief’s timeline of carbon-offsetting traces the origins, ideas, arguments, milestones and controversies, from the 1960s through to today.
interactive.carbonbrief.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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democracynow.org
"Not only are they trying to dismantle climate science, they're trying to dismantle our ability to protect people from the devastating of climate change."

@michaelemann.bsky.social slams the Trump administration's dismantling of NCAR, a key climate research facility in Colorado.
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
Michael Mann and Bob Ward don't mince their words here, and unfortunately they are right about the Trump administration's "Soviet-style campaign to prevent Americans and the rest of the world from knowing the truth about climate change."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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slashdot.org

Airbus Moving Critical Systems Away From AWS, Google, and Microsoft Citing Data Sovereignty Concerns

https://slashdot.org/story/25/12/19/2252254/airbus-moving-critical-systems-away-from-aws-google-and-microsoft-citing-data-sovereignty-concerns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Airbus Moving Critical Systems Away From AWS, Google, and Microsoft Citing Data Sovereignty Concerns
Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to move mission-critical systems like ERP, manufacturing, and aircraft design data onto a digitally sovereign European cloud, citing national security concerns and fears around U.S. extraterritorial laws like the CLOUD Act. "I need a sovereign cloud bec...
slashdot.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Genius as always from This Cannot Possibly Get Worse Correspondent @mrhenrymorris.substack.com in #TheNewWorld , have a read of his year in review now . . .

www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
December 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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climateintegrity.org
Big Oil is selling the promise of “low-carbon data centers” using carbon capture, reports @emdashsanders.bsky.social.

But these plans could "easily transform into a sprawling build-out of high-polluting methane gas infrastructure" with lasting impacts to "the climate and communities nearby."
Exxon’s new greenwashing ploy
The oil giant claims it can eliminate more than 90 percent of emissions from gas-powered AI facilities. Critics say that’s nonsense.
www.exxonknews.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
If I wasn't a religious fanatic about data centres I'd spend 100% of my time working on waste incineration and how it links up with plastics and CCS greenwashing stuff. It is expanding in Aus just like so many other regions

By @richarddenniss.bsky.social -->>

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Waste incinerators: the latest bin fire in Australian climate policy
Something has gone terribly wrong with a society and an economy that sees a steady and inexhaustible flow of garbage as a reliable fuel for generating electricity. But here we are.
thepoint.com.au
December 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.

The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
We Went to Arkansas. The Farm Crisis Will Shock You
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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drpauldorfman.bsky.social
UK’s largest proposed datacentre is understating the scale of its planned water use.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’
Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimates
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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platform1983.bsky.social
The UK just committed £22bn to carbon capture and storage – a tech with an 80% failure rate that lets oil & gas greenwash their emissions.

At this CCS conference, most speakers repped fossil fuel companies.

Share if you think it's absurd we're funding tech that protects fossil fuel profits 🙃
December 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Reminder, we can't throw anything _away_ on this #PoisonedPlanet.

There is no such place
phys.org/news/2025-12...
Hidden threats in the dark: Alarming levels of human-made debris in Mediterranean sea caves
Just when we thought we had described all the possible marine environmental recipients of plastic pollution, new research comes in to overturn the picture.
phys.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM