First visit to Coin Street today, always wanted to visit...
Jonathan Atkinson
@lowwintersun.bsky.social
Live near Manchester (UK), work on citizen-led/co-op approaches to the energy transition as a way to tackle climate change. Interested in politics, urban design, anarchism, co-ops and football (not necessarily in that order).
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Open letter to the Prime Minister on new North Sea drilling 📢 Prof. Kevin Anderson & other Tyndall Centre scientists at the University of Manchester have urged Andy Burnham to rule out further development of the Rosebank/Jackdaw fields: buff.ly/aGbyTqM
Badenoch's plan for tackling climate change very reminiscent of teh ERG's 'plan' for the Northern Ireland border. 🙄
James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 6d agoBut the words don’t constitute a plan beyond vague hand-waving about nuclear, nature, market forces and adaptation. They’ve had a year attacking net zero as a failing plan, but have nothing close to a coherent plan of their own.
Further evidence that the moment of AI singularity I've heard so much about has arrived!
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
I'm at this on Saturday. Come along if you want to here me rambling about participatory design and low impact building - or get involved in bread making and find out about community power: squashliverpool.co.uk/eco-open-day... And for more other great events in Liverpool check out liverboard.org
The impact of that thing you didn't ask for, don't use and don't want, that's your fault.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Husted: "We have created the demand for these data centers bc we use all these digital products, and if we don't want them, then don't use them. I mean, you can go back to the bunny ear antenna on your TV, you don't need a data center ... understand, when we look in the mirror, we are the problem."
Family BBQ at the weekend so conducted a straw poll on Burnham. Opinions ranged from "will give him a chance" to "unfair on Starmer" to "Ed Milliband came to see our Thorium reactor, was nice to my face then slagged it off in the press a week later, so no, I won't be supporting Burnham". 🙄
Sure, Fossil Fuels risk end of the world, but have you heard about Net Zero!! ?
🐝 Congratulations to Co-operative Party MP @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, our new Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero!
The slightly off syntax makes it sound like there were eight weddings between regional mayors and ministers - a significant commitment on behalf of those ministers to the devolution agenda!
Today, almost all new electricity is coming from clean energy Once clean-energy growth consistently exceeds demand, fossil-fuel power will start to decline Source: IEA
I mean wasn’t this also kind of Marx himself
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2w agoBeing a freeloading piece of shit, but wokely
Excellent appointment. Already knows the department well, committed to the agenda and has the trust of the new PM!
Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 2w ago🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has appointed Miatta Fahnbulleh as Energy and Net Zero Secretary
Glad the World Cup is over so my sleep patterns can return to something like normal.
Oh great. AI Minister sits at cabinet meetings and unprompted when discussing different issues, interjects with 'CEO said a thing' statements like "by 2035 all human minds will be uploaded to an iphone" or "in China they are breeding mice with human faces". 🙄 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
How Andy Burnham will start: digital ID axed, cabinet post for AI
Four decades after the rise of Thatcherism, Labour’s new leader has vowed to roll it back while governing in a T-shirt. But he also has his eye on tech
thetimes.com
I love it that we came up with the term Manchesterism before we worked out what it actually meant. Like Brexit, but more so.
Everyone knows Climate Change is responsible, they want to hear what we can all do to tackle it...
Luke Tryl@luketryl.bsky.social · 3w agoOver 85% Britons say that climate change is responsible - strikingly this extends even across more socially conservative segments more sceptical about things like net-zero. More broadly 66% of Brits are worried about climate change.
Calling it now. Kier Starmer Coup on pretext of preserving Falklands sovereignty precipitates 1984 style perpetual government. 🙄
Considering the performance, giving the Falklands to Argentina seems fair enough TBH.
Really we should dispense with the football altogether and just focus on the entertainment. Such an incredible line up of talent! 🙄 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
World Cup 2026: Half-time for final to last up to 25 minutes
The half-time break in Sunday's World Cup final is expected to last between 20 and 25 minutes.
bbc.co.uk
Haven't watched it for ages but jeez, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg is such a poor format. Questions of the day fielded to interviewees whilst they are harangued by other guests.
More believable / understandable than... 😬
Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 4w agoGood use of graphs 👍
JICYMI - hugely enjoyable interview with the Count himself on the Today Programme this morning: starts at 2hrs54min into the show.
20 years of DeSmog: A celebration of high-impact climate journalism luma.com/snaz4qbo?tk=...
20 years of DeSmog: A celebration of high-impact climate journalism · Zoom · Luma
The world is in the midst of a climate backlash. But DeSmog isn’t backing down. We are celebrating 20 years of high-impact journalism investigating the…
luma.com
Absolute joke. For years FIFA governance was based on the idea of political independence, countries were threatened with expulsion when governments interfered. This undermines the integrity of the whole competition.
Ben Jacobs@jacobsben.bsky.social · last mo.🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card. FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.
