If you think some politicians have contempt for adults who want to stand in pubs, wait til you hear about their policies towards children who want to walk and cycle on our streets.

This is the conversation we’re not having, even in terms of normal streets and neighbourhoods. If we are to properly tackle climate change, our existing built environment will change appearance. The NIMBYs cannot be allowed to frustrate the transition.

Juraj Mikurcik@jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · 2d ago

A machine for living in may soon become a machine for dying in. "At what point do we respect architecture and history over people’s living conditions?"

Amazing turnout for tonight’s National Emergency Briefing at @gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk There’s clearly a huge appetite for more information and leadership on climate change! Thank you to @space4gosforth.bsky.social, @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social, Frances Hinton and @alistaircford.bsky.social

A very sobering watch of the National Emergency Briefing this evening. We have to go harder and faster at tackling climate change. Thank you for @iamnicksimpson.bsky.social, @alistaircford.bsky.social and @space4gosforth.bsky.social for organising and hosting.

What time does the rioting start? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Man in court after Hayes woman killed while asleep with her baby

Daniel Sean James, 46, is accused of killing Kirandeep Kaur in her home and stabbing another man.

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🤓 Agar Grove - Camden's Passivhaus Living Lab Camden Council's Agar Grove development is building 345 affordable Passivhaus homes, in phases, with each phase building on lessons from the previous one. Phase 1C is now completed & certified. https://www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/?nId=1587

UK has ‘no future’ if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse threatening national security

UK has ‘no future’ if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse threatening national security

MPs demand publication of full report that outlines catastrophic consequences amid concerns for food security Members of parliament have demanded full publication of an explosive report by the UK’s spy leaders that found the collapse of ecosystems overseas would have catastrophic consequences for the UK’s national security, warning that the UK has “no future” if the findings are not urgently acted on. Despite growing concerns for the UK’s food security, likely to be worsened by the third heatwave this summer currently afflicting the UK and swathes of the northern hemisphere, the government has refused to publish the full report, which has circulated among defence officials for more than a year. Continue reading...

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Turns out that Binface is actually quite a bright and talented guy. Clacton could do (and historically has) much worse.

Irritated Llama@irritatedllama.bsky.social · last mo.

Fuckinell! They're literally smearing Count Binface already. The joke candidate. My god these people are pathetic humourless worms 😀 @countbinface.bsky.social

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

Time to hold this malignant sh*t accountable for all he’s done and bury him once and for all. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns

Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection

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Hear me out: get the government to fund segregated "robot lanes", but let cyclists use them. That way, we'll get a functional cycle network this side of 2100.

Adam Tranter@adamtranter.bsky.social · last mo.

Tech companies: Our pavement robots are safe for pedestrians and don't get in their way! The robots:

37% of new heavy trucks sold in China: now fully electric. Not delivery vans — 49-tonne heavy-duty rigs. This one swapped ~550 kWh in just 5 mins. Competitive, proven & inevitable. China's heavy EV truck sales surged 182% YoY in 2025, rising from single digits just two years ago.

Solutions to all the world's problems #cartoon

This doesn't make the UK's £22 billion investment in carbon capture look a particularly good bet Also, weird that every solar modeller assumed linear growth

Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social · last mo.

I especially love this diagram.

UK Fire Brigades Union: “We see first-hand the need for urgent climate action and that must include restrictions on drilling in the North Sea." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Polanski and unions warn Burnham against backsliding on climate action

Debate in Labour and union movement over climate commitments as many call for Burnham not to allow drilling in North Sea

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It is important for people to understand the facts of climate change so that they can understand the choices of local politicians & other decision-makers. That’s why we’re supporting the #Gosforth showing of @nebriefing.bsky.social (July 23). Would be great if anyone from your party can attend.

National Emergency Briefing | Gosforth - SPACE for Gosforth

Sign up on Eventbrite for this free screening of the National Emergency Briefing, a film presented by Chris Packham setting out the implications of climate and nature breakdown for health, food system...

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Seems like a relevant time to flag the National Emergency Briefing screenings, talking about the climate emergency. If you’re in or near Gosforth, it’d be great to see you there. Tickets are free.

Nick Simpson@iamnicksimpson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We’re bringing the National Emergency Briefing to Gosforth. Tickets are free, but please book early. Time: 6pm (for a 6:30pm start) until 8:30pm Venue: @gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk (Please share.) @nebriefing.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-e...

We’re calling on government to stage a prime-time televised emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis. Introduced by the Prime Minister to signal utmost seriousness, and delivered by independent experts. It’s time for a moonshot-scale mission to protect the public & improve lives. #PEBUK

National Emergency Briefing

Core principles that a government-led briefing should follow to ensure maximum effect

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Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

And my personal favourite.

Don't forget these clowns here.

Next up Brexit Paddington Dan Hannan and his promise of the great glory that would follow 2/5 www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

Here's the CCC's @elpinchbeck.bsky.social speaking today in front of the Met Office's new "future forecast" for a... ..."plausible 2056 heatwave". Yes, that's showing 45C (113F) in the Bristol area! With exquisite timing, the UK's all-time June temp record is due to be broken this week.

If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: https://forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6

In fairness, they did promise to drain the swamp.

Phil Yabut@philliefan99.bsky.social · 2mo ago

They're dumping slimy, green peroxide water from the Reflecting Pool back into the Potomac. #dc @popville.bsky.social

A graph that very neatly encapsulates Starmer's big strategic mistake. English politics right now is about uniting your bloc.

I increasingly think the chance of widespread rioting this summer is underpriced: - Spiralling youth unemployment - A sense of politics not working - Two far right parties getting unjustified levels of coverage - El Ninõ potentially causing a long hot summer - Cost of living about to explode (again)

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Far Right riot in Belfast last night was nothing less than “a race-based pogrom”, Belfast MP and leader of the SDLP Claire Hanna said. The mob hunted down non-whites and set fire to their homes. Carl Whyte, a local councillor, called it “a hard Far Right element”.

£4.5bn to be invested into 5,000 new walking, wheeling and cycling routes and 10,000 safer crossings over the next 5 years. Fingers crossed that we get some of this here in Newcastle! www.gov.uk/government/n...

Cycling and walking boom with £4.5 billion for thousands of new routes and safer crossings

Strategy aims to deliver 5,000 new walking, wheeling and cycling routes and 10,000 safer crossings over the next 5 years.

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Net migration could fall to zero and Reform and the Telegraph and all that lot would still bang on about it and the BBC would still cover them banging on about it and the government would still bow to “legitimate concerns” because it’s not numbers, it’s the industry of racism

Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is quite strange to listen to political coverage currently, even from mainstream sources, and remember that net migration has quartered since its peak, and is likely to fall to Cameron's tens of thousands target next year and this has made no difference to the discourse.

Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%