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Tara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social · 21m

My fantastic colleague @julietphillips.bsky.social has co-written a briefing with @bramclaeys.bsky.social of @regassistproj.bsky.social on how to improve Europe's grid governance.

A quick summary with links below 👇

Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 34m

Electricity grid upgrades are central to Europe's future energy security and competitiveness.
To achieve this, it needs to:
1️⃣ Give national regulators a statutory mandate for the energy transition.
2️⃣ Create independent system operators and planners (ISOPs) to oversee grid planning in the public
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 8h

A whole bunch of us have grown up in the UK knowing to flee in the other direction if we spot this flag anywhere. We’re not going to pause to see if there are stickers stuck below them.

And if they’re stuck elsewhere, we will not get close enough to see the text - again, we’re just going to leg it.

Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 2d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 59m

Use your head. You cannot resurrect this symbol in this way. Among many communities of colour, it is associated with the Crusades, a campaign of quasi-religious ethnic genocide carried out by Europeans against communities in the Levant.

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 17h

A weird time to be a historian of multiculturalism, who grew up in Birmingham as one of a handful of white kids at school, who has also written a book on Handsworth. My thoughts on Robert Jenrick’s unabashed racism in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

www.thenewworld.co.uk/kieran-conne...

What Robert Jenrick doesn’t understand about Birmingham

I was one of a handful of white kids at my school in the city. It enriched my life and worldview

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12h

Journalism Fail: This implies there is a donut shop aflame in Portland, Oregon right now but the photo is
1) Not Portland
2) Not 2025

It's a 33 YEAR OLD FILE PHOTO. You have to open the story & read the fine print to find out it's Los Angeles in 1992.

Come on @cnn.com. Do better.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 13h

Brazil’s antitrust regulator, CADE, decided to suspend the Amazon soy moratorium from Jan. 1, 2026.

Depending on the probe’s course of action, this could dismantle one of the nation’s most important private sector pacts credited with slowing deforestation of the rainforest for soy plantations.

Brazil soy deal that curbs Amazon deforestation to be suspended in 2026

Brazil’s antitrust regulator, CADE, on Sept. 30 decided to suspend the Amazon soy moratorium from Jan. 1, 2026. Depending on the probe’s course of action, this could dismantle one of the nation’s…

news.mongabay.com

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 18h

FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21h

BYD sales in the UK up *880%* year on year.

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · 21h

This is what happens when you embrace the open market (used to be a thing, remember?). The UK chose not to impose tariffs on EV imports, unlike the EU and the US. And guess who benefits? The customers. Shocking! Scandalous! 😁

#evs #china #byd #usa #eu #cleantech #uk

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BYD: Chinese EV giant sees UK sales soar by 880%

The Shenzhen-based electric car maker says the UK is now its biggest market outside China.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 22h

🚨Renewables have now overtaken coal in the share of electricity generation globally.

Ember @ember-energy.org · 1d

NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️

Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.

https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 22h

"Stories sent out by this AI-powered PR writing and distribution tool have already landed coverage in outlets including the Daily Mail, Nottingham World, Lancs Live and GB News"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/automat...

Automated PR tool is bombarding UK media with AI-generated content

'Olivia Brown' reads websites, writes press releases then 'relentlessly' sends emails.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 22h

Please provide sources that analyse the scale and negative impacts of unauthorised migration.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23h

The @iea.org's guess at the variable renewable energy share in various countries by 2030 - Denmark will be around 78%.

None of this was meant to be even remotely possible!!

iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/48ecc...

a chart showing various VRE shares by region

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 23h

The fact that this person is taken seriously is nothing short of an emergency.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 1d

The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

buff.ly

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 23h

I'll extend the benefit of the doubt here and suggest you read the following on unauthorised migration.

Are there 1.2 million ‘illegal immigrants’ in the UK? – Full Fact

This widely-circulating figure appears to be based on a think tank estimate that is both out of date and based on flawed methodology. We don’t know with any degree of certainty how many unauthorised m...

fullfact.org

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Wait what crisis?

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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 1d

Chat Control is “like a malware on your device” – Signal slams the EU proposal to scan your private chats | TechRadar
https://alecmuffett.com/article/116368
#ChatControl #ClientSideScanning #EndToEndEncryption #censorship #signal #surveillance

Chat Control is “like a malware on your device” – Signal slams the EU proposal to scan your private chats | TechRadar

“Apart from the legal bit, that’s exactly how malware works. It compromises your device in order to gain access to information,” said Signal’s vice-president for global affairs, U…

alecmuffett.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Jenrick has never knowingly paused for thought.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Immigration is not just an overwhelming net positive for the UK, but desperately needed to keep the country running. Anyone claiming otherwise has nothing to offer but hatred and a race to the bottom.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Flailing Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s latest “idea” is a Trumpian immigration hit squad, vowing to deport 150,000 a year. There’s no credible plan for where the deported people would go, how treaties would be upheld, or how overstretched institutions would cope.

The Guardian view on the Tory conference: history’s revenge on Conservatism | Editorial

Editorial: Speeches from the conference floor reveal a party out of ideas. Its leadership team is mistaking slogans for policy and nostalgia for purpose

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Suffering from climate and energy confusion? Bookmark Aaron's ultra-valuable thread right now.

Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! Should see the surgeon in a few days and I'll find out what I'm in for.

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 1d

Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory

If the world didn’t win, has it lost?

We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next

Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...

PART 1: Uncharted Territory

open.spotify.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

To say nothing of a Reform govt.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

I would put a chest of gold doubloons on a Jenrick govt withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously! News orgs could choose to do this with any given issue - but most no longer regard it as their function (their function being attracting clicks for ad revenue).