Jon Owen
@anotherjon.bsky.social
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Pieces of a man, loitering at the intersection of art, cycling, and eco-socialism. Riding bikes, walking spaniels, growing fruit and veg. All badly. He/him. 🌳 🚴‍♀️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️👩‍🦽 🌳
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A survey by YouGov found 79% of voters overall are in favour of their pensions being invested in renewable energy, including 53% of Reform UK supporters.
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"Oil & gas advocacy on CCS in the UK uses narratives that contradict science-based guidance from the IPCC. Oil & gas interests exaggerate the scope, scale and climate contribution of CCS, promoting [it] for sectors that could be more effectively decarbonized by cleaner, more affordable alternatives"
influencemap.bsky.social
📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇
The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...
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IT IS WRITTEN:

BOLLARDS WILL RISE
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LIVE SCENES FROM WALES
#WorldBollardAssociation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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A by-election is being held in Redcar and Cleveland after a Conservative councillor, Andy Oliver, resigned, "to concentrate on other commitments."

Anyway, this is Reform's high-calibre candidate:
Photo of a man pissing against a brick wall, posted by Reform council candidate Craig Holmes with the comment 

Hahaha fkin weird cunts them lefty's. There was a bus full of us men and women passing. It's where the driver stopped and told us to piss. Fuck em. Daft cunts.
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lottelydia.bsky.social
This is depressing in and of itself — property developers are capitalists who only care about profit! Why are you helping them??? — but it’s also depressing because of the complete lack of curiosity it seems to betray. No sense of *why* these elements of the planning system might exist.
dsquareddigest.bsky.social
I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
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libbington.bsky.social
Always happy to be in good company as an E-bike poster child. Thanks for the awesome photo @ericpanzer.bsky.social
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Droughts and floods, which have been exacerbated by climate breakdown, have created a deficit in wheat production in the UK of over 7 million tonnes.

Folk at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) have calculated that this is enough wheat to bake more than 4 billion loaves of bread.
eciu.net
ECIU @eciu.net · 6h
One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020

Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports.
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samfr.bsky.social
If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.
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#WindowsOnWednesday
Kunst Haus Wien
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<WILD PINE MARTEN KLAXON>
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This is the official return of a native species lost for over a century.
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I'm in my cool, damp garden, doing jobs that mark the change of seasons: pruning back the blackberries; pulling canes that supported vegetables as they grew; harvesting the last bits and pieces.

Here's the last of the sweetcorn.

Autumn can be a melancholy time for a gardener, if that's what I am.
Two yellow cobs of sweetcorn sit on a wet wooden garden table.
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘October’
(From a 1958 calendar by the always fabulous Ronald Lampitt)
A scene on a busy, beautifully tended allotment. The star of the scene is the wonderfully delicate, slightly hazy October light.
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Almost 4,000 people have signed up to a lawsuit against major poultry producers and a water company over allegations of "extensive and widespread pollution" in three rivers - the Wye, Lugg and Usk.

Good luck to them, I say.
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kityates.bsky.social
Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.
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"It is unacceptable for the state to offer loan guarantees to luxury car maker JLR [Jaguar Land Rover] when it became stressed due to its own folly, when it will not do so for households in financial crisis, usually for reasons unrelated to any choice they have made."

- Spot on.
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Right-wing politicians are claiming that inequality is falling in the UK based on a tiny change in one national statistic. This is not the case in reality. Inequality is rising. In this post, I explain why and what we can and should do about it.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
Inequality is not falling
The background The claim that inequality is falling is a claim that is often trotted out by right-wing commentators, backed by selective income statistics. It happened in a comment on this blog in t...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
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The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

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