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Ed King @ed-king.bsky.social · 1d

This column by Stephen Bush in @FT is worth a read... this sentence stood out to me as deeply depressing:

'There is nowhere in the United Kingdom where large gatherings of Jewish people can now take place without some form of security.'

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews

Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

www.ft.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 8d

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts

Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 12d

“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com:
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
#ScienceUnderSiege

I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation

OPINION: “What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so,” Michael E. Mann writes.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13d

Do yourself a favour and make time to watch this 👇

Simon Clark @simonoxfphys.com · 14d

This year we've been really swinging for the fences.

Our latest video is our biggest one yet, nearly an hour long and involving half a dozen experts.

Asking "Should lying about climate change be illegal?" and, if so, how do we make it so?

youtu.be/FKtCuwfUCJg

Should lying about climate change be illegal?

YouTube video by Simon Clark

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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 13d

Pay no attention to the 580 diesel generators that can produce enough energy for 3 million homes behind the curtain...

Oh, and did I mention this data centre is part-owned by a Trump-loving billionaire who sat by Starmer at the royal banquet?

My 📝 for
@desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/09/25/c...

Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre

Blackstone, a U.S. private equity firm run by a Trump-donating billionaire, is building a gargantuan £10 billion AI-ready data centre in the UK with a fleet of backup diesel generators so big that it ...

www.desmog.com

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 13d

🔴 NEW - Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre

It is “outrageous” that the richest companies in the world are being allowed to use fossil fuels to power AI, campaigners say.

📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre

Blackstone, a U.S. private equity firm run by a Trump-donating billionaire, is building a gargantuan £10 billion AI-ready data centre in the UK with a fleet of backup diesel generators so big that it ...

www.desmog.com

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Simon Clark @simonoxfphys.com · 14d

This year we've been really swinging for the fences.

Our latest video is our biggest one yet, nearly an hour long and involving half a dozen experts.

Asking "Should lying about climate change be illegal?" and, if so, how do we make it so?

youtu.be/FKtCuwfUCJg

Should lying about climate change be illegal?

YouTube video by Simon Clark

youtu.be

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 14d

This is actually scandalous. The Telegraph today reports that Ofgen itself attributes next week's price cap rise to wind farms.

Only, it's not Ofgen saying that at all, it's a... *checks notes*... renowned "CLIMATE SCEPTIC" crank who says that.

I think this is complaint-level stuff...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15d

This is part of a massive generative slop / plagiarism operation seemingly being run by one dude operating a bunch of similarly designed websites - "Krishna Pathak" (not sure if actual real dude)

Also being syndicated on MSN. Registered at 'paper mill' address in Wyoming

GenAI is the WORST

Regtechtimes
22.1K Followers
🌍 Climate collapse ahead? Norway’s $1.6 trillion fund warns of 19% U.S. portfolio loss
Story by Krishna Pathak • 2mo • 4 min read
In this article

MSCI INC.
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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · 15d

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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · 15d

⁉️ How are polluting industries using digital tools to block climate action?

I had a stab at an answer in Tactical Tech's latest publication "The RePlaybook"
– a toolkit to decode disinfo challenge tech's divisive hold over climate comms, with contributions from 30+ authors in this space

The RePlaybook: A Field Guide to the Climate and Information Crisis

The Replaybook is the first-of-its-kind practical toolkit designed to equip communicators, campaigners, journalists, and researchers with fresh tools for navigating complexity and strengthening climat...

tacticaltech.org

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info-activism.bsky.social @info-activism.bsky.social · 15d

⭐ We are thrilled to announce “The RePlaybook: A Field Guide to the Climate and Information Crisis”, a first-of-its-kind toolkit by 30+ experts, journalists & NGOs to decode disinfo, challenge tech & counter division in climate comms.⬇️Must-have! Download: tacticaltech.org/replaybook/

Cover of the Replaybook a fieldguide to the climate and information crisis

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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hey Robert, DeSmog is looking to verify the bit about Heartland – give me a follow here so I can shoot you a DM. Thanks!

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings

Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

www.theguardian.com

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Sep 4

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.

The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.

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Silhouettes of three people in front of a weathered British flag, with the headline: Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Sep 4

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

Sam Altman

@sama
i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 3

@jamesrball.com and @writesbright.bsky.social have confirmed they're also banned from this year's Reform UK national conference.

They were informed today.

So Farage explicitly told Congress that he doesn't ban journalists from Reform events on the exact day that he banned journalists from events.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 3

Farage is lying to Congress. He has banned journalists from his events.

@bylinetimes.bsky.social, @desmog.com, @thenewworldmag.bsky.social and others were banned from Reform UK’s conference in Sept 2024 - even after buying tickets.

@femi-oluwole.bsky.social was also removed from a Reform UK event.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 3

Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:

"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · Sep 2

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

DOEresponseSite

On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...

sites.google.com

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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · Sep 2

ICYMI

AI 'Slop' Websites publishing climate denial

MSN hosted articles citing fake experts and institutions, posted by group linked to AI-based animal media outlet

This slop used as 'evidence' by climate deniers incl. Heartland institute

(Published while I was away)

My latest for @desmog.com

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial

At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...

www.desmog.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yet another capitulation to Reform, when all the evidence shows that following the far right agenda is a disaster for centrist parties. Politics 101, which Starmer has once again entirely failed to grasp.

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · Sep 1

Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities

From BBC news website:

I 'completely get' concern over asylum hotels - Starmer

Starmer is asked how he would feel if a hotel housing asylum seekers was at the end of his street.
"I completely get it," Starmer says, adding: "Local people by and large do not want these hotels in their towns, in their place, and nor do I. I'm completely at one with them on that."
Starmer says he understands why people want the hotels closed and he wants that too "as quickly as possible".
Asked to put a date on it, Starmer reiterates his commitment to do so by the end of this Parliament.
When it's put to him that is four years away, he says he would like to bring that date forward, but does not commit to another date.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Aug 28

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial

- MSN hosted AI-generated conten citing non-existent climate experts and institutions.

- “AI has brought the cost of #disinformation down to nothing. It has automated bullshit”

By @joeygrostern.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial

At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...

www.desmog.com

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DeSmog @desmog.com · Aug 27

🔴 NEW - AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial

MSN hosted AI-generated content that cited non-existent climate experts and institutions.

📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial

At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...

www.desmog.com

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