Cathie Wood
@cathiew.bsky.social
Trying to escape twitter & re-build on Blue Sky. Pro-European 🇪🇺 #fbpe hate Brexit. Labour 🌹. Owner of 2 beautiful black rescue cats Mojo & Coco 🐈⬛🐈⬛. #AdoptDon'tShop. Love wildlife gardening, bees & house martins & swifts. #NoMowMay.
& yet fossil fuel money is working hard to block this progress 😔 helped by Trump
David Roberts@volts.wtf · yesterdayDon't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
Fossil fuel mega profits from war are funding hostile campaigns against renewables. It's probably too late for our planet 🌎 🔥 but we and our governments need to wake up to this scandal and tax these obscene profits. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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In between all the mayhem, there are two guys, who talk, laugh, read and excude the second world war. With its obvious parallels to trump USA, tales of leadership, courage and sang froid, I'm stoked! WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk | 1000th Episode ! www.podbean.com/ea/dir-8h6yp...
1000th Episode Special
Why did James Holland and Al Murray start a WW2 Podcast? How did bats build a media empire? What are some of the most memorable bits of WW2 Pod: We Have Ways Of Making You Talk? Join Jim and Al - and...
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Anyone who refuses care from a non-white member of NHS staff should be told to pay to go private.
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · 2d agonews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
🔴 NEW 🔴 Campaigners are now demanding a parliamentary investigation into Reform MP Sarah Pochin following a donation to her office by food industry millionaires. 📝 @desmog.com & @goodlawproject.org report 👇🏻
Investigate Reform MP Over Donation, Campaigners Demand
Sarah Pochin, Reform UK MP for Runcorn and Helsby, is facing pressure over a £5,000 donation from food industry millionaires that stand to benefit from her campaigning. According to an investigation ...
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Thames Water: there’s a hosepipe ban because our reservoir levels are getting low. Cut to scenes of the road next to Farmoor reservoir where a Thames Water pipe has leaked hundreds of thousands of litres of water on to the road such that it looks like a canal!!
From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
Pledge to never ride an elephant 🐘 please sign the petition action.wildlifesos.org/page/189590/...
MAKE A PLEDGE FOR ELEPHANTS
I promise to never, ever ride an elephant — not at a tourist attraction, not at a resort, not at a festival, and not anywhere else in the world. No elephant should be forced to give tourists rides.
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When Uber Eats and DoorDash hid the tip button, delivery workers paid the price. Tips fell by 79%. In January, we changed that. Since then, more than $104 million has gone back into the pockets of the delivery workers who keep New York City fed.
This is SO pathetic & frustrating. Really can't see EWR in my lifetime at this rate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No start date for Oxford to Milton Keynes East West Rail trains
The infrastructure between Oxford and Milton Keynes has been available to use since October 2024.
bbc.co.uk
Depressing for the backwards looking UK obsessed with immigration. We need more Lizzie lines & HS2, 3 & 4 plus share.google/PAhmPlBgrUs0...
The most dynamic countries are surging ahead with high-speed rail. Others, like Britain, are stuck in the station | Christian Wolmar
Around the world, these trains have boosted economies, development and prestige. The costs of missing out are high, says transport writer and author Christian Wolmar
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Depressing. Don't the people of Clacton care about corruption?
Europe Elects@europeelects.bsky.social · 2d agoUK, Clacton national parliament by-election, Survation poll: Farage (REFORM~NI): 73% (+27) Count Binface (CBP-*): 20% (new) Fox (RECLAIM-*): 2% (new) +/- vs. 2024 election Fieldwork: 16-24 July 2026 Sample size: 502 ➤ europeelects.eu/uk
A very positive idea 💚 we all need to take more care of the places we love. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Exmoor rewards tourists for litter picks and wildlife spotting
Eco-friendly tourists can earn discounts in Exmoor by travelling green or posting on social media.
bbc.co.uk
Bet nothing will happen though even if he is found guilty.
Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d agoBREAKING: Parliamentary standards commissioner is now investigating Reform UK’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice (as well as its paused investigation into Nigel Farage). Tice is being investigated for allegedly failing to declare a financial interest.
This is the abuser’s playbook. Present a bunch of times your victim appeared “happy” and “normal” as evidence you couldn’t be abusive, even though it does nothing to disprove the claims and is in fact the textbook response to abuse, especially when a child is involved.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
This is terrible but sadly not surprising. Shame on the #NationalGallery www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims
Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from minority ethnic backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees
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I'm screaming inside reading this. The implications are beyond comprehension.
Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 6d agoBordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Manchester mayoral results, first round Bev Craig - Labour 47% (+24 vs local elections) Reform 21% (-10) Green 12% (-7) Restore 9% (new) Conservative 8% (-3) Lib Dem 3% (-7)
There were 27,391 new UK solar installations in June 2026, the second highest monthly installations volume on record, adding 132 MW of capacity And we've got plug-in solar coming at the end of August! www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/31/u...
UK solar capacity hits 22.8 GW as market prepares for plug-in launch - pv magazine Global
The UK added over 2 GW of solar capacity in the 12 months to the end of June 2026. With new plug-in solar regulations soon to take effect, a UK wholesaler boss tells pv magazine plug-in solar is a gre...
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Near Glastonbury in a land of religious importance in pre-Christian times & near an Iron Age hill-fort, lives a 1,700 year old yew The tree, as a likely site of pagan worship & like many ancient yews, has a 14th century church deliberately built next to it Hallowed ground
Pileated Woodpecker S Canada eastern US Pacific coast  Their nest is inside a tree cavity both adults share incubation’s and later feeding their chicks shifts are roughly every 30 to 50 minutes. They use aloud, resident call and signal readiness to coordinate their shift as seen here