🧵/1️⃣ Is the UK's next climate target actually legal? On Wednesday Parliament votes on the Seventh Carbon Budget. Our evidence shows the Govt hasn't met its legal & scientific duties. Help us challenge it in court. #CarbonReckoning www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law

Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.

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Chinese emissions are falling due to reducing their oil use. Part of this was a 7% drop in aviation, with high-speed rail replacing domestic flights. The very clever environmental campaigners in the UK said that would never happen here based on made up numbers. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

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🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...

Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool

Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.

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Peers longingly through the window in British.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d ago

The European Union opened the door for Canada to become its first "associate member" amid a historic breakdown in U.S.-Canada relations

SOMEONE DONATED US A SOLAR GENERATOR!! That’s so good. It comes Tuesday. I’ll show you how it helps us rewild. Now, I need five of you to set up a monthly subscription, even if it’s only for a single tree. Please. shop.protect.earth/products/mon...

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️@philsturgeon.com · last wk.

Protect Earth could really do with one of these so volunteers can charge stuff and I can power my laptop when I’m stuck there between meetings + volunteerings with work to do. Our solar panels will keep it charged and it can charge more chainsaw batteries too. www.vinted.co.uk/items/889169...

💯Darren Paffey MP. Public Control of water does not fix the fundamental problem: overseas investors who always put profit before people should be nowhere near our water supply. We depend on it, we pay for it - we have a right to say who owns it.

A UK mining company is suing Morocco for £880 million after it rejected plans for a mine on environmental grounds. Corporations shouldn’t be able to bully governments for implementing policies that protect the climate. Take action with @waronwant.bsky.social: secure.waronwant.org/page/199506/...

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GOOD NEWS: Bristol has become the first British city to impose a ban on the advertising of fossil fuels, airlines, cruises, fast fashion, and SUVs, on council-owned advertising space, including billboards, bus stop shelters, print and online. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Bristol becomes first British city to ban advertisements for fast fashion

Green-run council also curbing ads for airlines, cruises, fossil fuels and SUVs on its billboards and bus shelters

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Car dependency isn’t cheap.

Peter Flax@pflax1.bsky.social · 7d ago

This story buries the lede, but if you pull out a calculator and do the math, AAA found that the average American spends $15,031 a year for a single car! www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/c...

Consistently glad I quit my day job in tech because the dumbest possible scumbags were taking over, and I have no time for them or their nonsense. Sure I’d have made literally over $1,000,000 in those last few years and I now make fuck all, but I am saving the world instead of making it shitter.

This one wasn’t on Project 2025 Tracker explicitly, so it’s either not one of his paymasters’ long planned goals and he’s doing it for the lols, or the Heritage Foundation & Co are coming up with extra now they’ve got so much of the plan done already. www.project2025.observer/en?agencies=...

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · last wk.

“The United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...

Protect Earth could really do with one of these so volunteers can charge stuff and I can power my laptop when I’m stuck there between meetings + volunteerings with work to do. Our solar panels will keep it charged and it can charge more chainsaw batteries too. www.vinted.co.uk/items/889169...

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If you’re not made out of sugar get on down to Warleigh Nature Reserve and learn some handy skills like coppicing or hedge laying, get a workout, and listen to some absolutely bezerk life updates from myself in the process. 👍

Protect Earth UK@protect.earth · last wk.

We’ve been out coppicng in Warleigh Nature Reserve. Just the four of us after the other three discovered they were made out of sugar? Wet, but we got a good start on the second compartment of Hazel, for the benefit of flora and fauna, plus made loads of handy stakes and binders for hedgelaying!

It’s nice to see Farage owned by somebody other than fossil fuel companies for once. It’s the closest thing to diversity he can offer.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · last wk.

A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now

Stop faffing about and get this petition off to the moon, so we can get Palantir off into the sea. Its only got 50 signatues in 24 hours and I know there’s more than 50 Brits seeing this. 👋 www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...

Tell the Health Secretary, Yvette Cooper: No Palantir in our NHS

Palantir’s contract with NHS England is up for renewal in February 2027, with discussions expected to begin this year. This is a critical moment for us to tell the new Health Secretary: No Palantir in...

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In the U.K. some of the most coherent political points are being made by a bin whilst our PM still seems to have his microphone muted.

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · last wk.

Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.

Every time a boomer moans about “youngsters being wimps” for having their heaters on instead of letting their houses go mouldy sitting below 15°C in a jumper, send them some Four Yorkshiremen quotes until they stop being ridiculous. youtu.be/Xe1a1wHxTyo?...

Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen

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Today I accidentally loaned out the van and left my wellies in the back, meaning I had to spend a few hours heaving through stingers and paddleboarding the Fishy McFishface camera into place in Birkenstocks. 🤣 Eventually picked up the beautiful boots @benwillbond.bsky.social donated me. Gorgeous.

AI isn’t capable of destroying humanity itself, but the rush to concrete over countless ecosystems and squeeze every last drop of fresh water out of them will absolutely speed up the existing existential climate and biodiversity crises that WILL. Not to mention the wars that will start. 👇🏼

James Bullock@jmbecologist.bsky.social · last wk.

Will AI destroy civilisation? - Unlikely Will nature degradation & climate heating destroy civilisation? - Likely

If anyone is going to get their hands on an entire country’s private medical data it should be because they’ve got long astounding track record of being fucking revolutionary at handling medical data, not simply a painfully close proximity to the worlds most powerful pedophiles.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Green's Baroness Bennett points out that Palantir did not have any experience in health data and only got NHS contracts after being introduced by the now disgraced Peter Mandelson Making the case that data ownership should be with the NHS, not with external parties

✅ Reduce space for cars. ✅ Increase space for people and nature. Don’t let the “only carrots, no sticks” delayers confuse you on this one. You gotta do both.

Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 2w ago

It appears that the Champs Elysées of Paris 🇫🇷 is about to undergo a transformation.

Today I got the wetsuit on and went paddling on the Avon looking for a good spot for a Fishy McFishface camera. A *not-AI* camera that can spot not only the species of any fish passing, but RECOGNISE SPECIFIC FISH. “That’s Gary 36635 back again.” Very excited for this and what it means. Guess why.

These clowns have been doxxing everyone but a reporter asks his mum some questions and they’ve got to cry to the police for a new house? Everyone at RNLI getting a new house too?

Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · 2w ago

Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas

“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians. Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.” Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.

Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar

Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar

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AI data centers have been pushing electricity bills up for the people stuck with those noisy polluting monstrosities going up near their homes. This simple law will not only save those people from the cost and the pollution, but *it will curtail the number of data centers being built.*

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Interesting: Massachusetts has ordered all new data centers above 25MW to procure clean power.

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

Sure the Heathrow Expansion will destroy our carbon budget and ruin people’s lives with noise pollution, but at least it will vanish another £23.4- £62.5 billion off the economy. Brilliant work from @andyburnham.bsky.social and his assemblage of gorms. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Government has ‘given the go-ahead’ to Heathrow expansion, says Chancellor

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has previously expressed concerns over the plans to build a third runway at the west London airport.

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Stop what you’re doing and get involved with this. Cutting half a billion pounds off of RIS3 would be huge. We are wasting so much money on always more and bigger roads, and we should cut as many of these as possible to refocus spending on active/public transport. actionnetwork.org/letters/lets...

Let’s get damaging road schemes cancelled and save active travel!

The Department for Transport (DfT) is consulting on cutting its road investment strategy (RIS3), to fund defence. They are currently consulting a small number of stakeholders but we want to make sure ...

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Like subprime loans from the GFC where borrowers had a "teaser rate" before their payments shot up, OpenAI and Anthropic have signed massive commitments with low upfront payments. The "teaser rate" period ends in 2027 with an estimated $200bn+ in payments due. www.wheresyoured.at/concentratio...

"Oh, you're criticising data centres? But you USED A DATA CENTRE to publish your post??? Hypocritical much????" Time to put this fossil fuel PR inspired talking point to bed forever. Why the 'Mr Gotcha' gambit is wrong in two very important ways: