What a ridiculous proposition. AI is so recent, even those who do use it regularly probably won't be too traumatised if it went away. This argument really doesn't work for everything, even fairly popular things...

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 14h ago

I have one answer.

The board of a Michigan township agreed to rezone a terrain to make way for a data center. Residents opposed to the data center forced a vote on the matter, and they blocked the rezoning tonight: www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

🐟️ The bream are back! Their lunar-pad nesting sites have been spotted by divers in vast numbers on the Sussex seabed - a great indication that nature is bouncing back thanks to the @sussexifca ban on bottom-trawling in our nearshore waters. Visit our blog to read more. 📹️ @drraymarine

This is utterly bonkers. And very much not in a good way...

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

One highways manager told the High Court she had been placed on medication after becoming “fearful of being followed home, tracked and exposed on social media”. Highways staff now wear unbranded PPE, work in unbranded vehicles, wear face coverings to hide their identity, and do not travel alone.

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

We're about to launch a massive get-out-the-vote campaign to make sure Palestinian citizens of Israel, who have historically voted in much lower numbers than Jewish Israelis partly due to suppression, intimidation, and racism, can also be heard at the ballot box. (1/9)

A shocking number of people believe, with zero evidence, that Israel is behind Moroccan migrants into Spain, which is just the Great Replacement conspiracy. Meanwhile, US Jewish orgs have declared war on Mamdani for accurately describing Netanyahu as a war criminal. www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...

Israel's fault? The conspiracy theory surrounding Spain's Ceuta border crossings

About 60,000 migrants crossing into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta triggered conspiracy theories from across the political spectrum: Israel and the United States unleashed them in a bid to pun...

haaretz.com

There is rising actual antisemitism and conspiracism surrounding the state of Israel and its place in global affairs. And the organizations that should exist to call that out are wasting all of their credibility refusing to distinguish conspiracies from accurate descriptions of Israeli war crimes.

We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.

The world is literally burning, and Burnham is talking about small boats... 😤 It's heartening to see Miliband using his role as Foreign Secretary to highlight the #ClimateCrisis, but if we really want to do something we need the PM to be on board as well, and stop this obsession with #immigration 😒

There used to be bollards on both sides of the tactile paving here. They got knocked over by cars and as a reward, the council never reinstalled them. Can we have pur bollards back please! Pavements are for people, not for cars!!

A few weeks ago, the world crossed a major solar milestone: 3 terawatt installed. Why did no one notice? 0.1 TW to 1 TW: 120 months 1 TW to 2 TW: 29 months 2 TW to 3 TW: 19 months Gift link to the story 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

bloomberg.com

The world is literally burning, and Burnham is talking about small boats... 😤 It's heartening to see Miliband using his role as Foreign Secretary to highlight the #ClimateCrisis, but if we really want to do something we need the PM to be on board as well, and stop this obsession with #immigration 😒

Very disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.

How about being relentless in upholding human rights, or fighting against racism?

Burnham pledges to be 'relentless' in curbing small boat crossings

The PM says enforcement is being increased but there also need to be more safe routes into the UK.

bbc.co.uk

We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.

Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 3d ago

And why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?

Genuinely don't think we're hearing nearly enough about the effective youth/GenZ protest movements in middle and lower-middle income countries in the past couple of years foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/30/c...

How Gen Z ‘Cockroaches’ Beat Modi at His Own Game

India’s prime minister is famous for his savvy use of social media. Now he’s getting a wake-up call.

foreignpolicy.com

Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

Utterly ridiculous take. Spain's economy is booming, partly thanks to immigration while little Britain is stagnant, impoverished and sad

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Times continues its descent with this utterly deranged racist rant from Camilla Long archive.ph/gqpNx

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

Terrible framing from You Gov. Despite 63% of people saying they hope there isn't another heatwave, You Gov leads with the 26% who do want one.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 6d ago

As Britain's fourth heatwave of the year dies down, 26% of Britons are already hoping for a fifth hot spell in 2026 Hoping there's another heatwave: 26% (no change from 29 June) Hoping there's not another heatwave: 63% (-1) yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends

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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...

pv-magazine.com

I really need everyone to remember that the fossil fuel industry knew-knows exactly the climate hell we now inhabit, and are determined to make it FAR worse. That's because they have decided our lives are worth far less than their profits. We are not angry -or organised- enough.

This sums up the uselessness of a lot of Conservative ginger groups. Half of all MPs are signed up members yet they keep in place a leader whose environmental policy is “you can’t be a parliamentary candidate if you have Boris Johnson’s climate policy”. Great work guys!

James Heale@jaheale.bsky.social · 5d ago

EXC: Sam Hall, the longest serving director of the Conservative Environment Network, is stepping down shortly after seven years. Nearly half of all Tory MPs now belong to the CEN caucus with 12% councillors belonging to its local gov network.

Tomorrow's front page 🗞️ Warning after PM promises 'pragmatic approach' to new North Sea drilling

"Renewable energy generated 52.1% of the UK’s electricity in 2025, exceeding half of total generation for the second consecutive year, according to government statistics." www.renews.biz/other-news/u....

I was not informed by the BBC that they would have a right wing political figure or lobbyist on after me to rebut what I said. The individual in question went on to spout lies about China, etc. to distract attention from the Trump administration's assault on climate action. This is unacceptable.

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'll be on BBC News television TODAY ~3:40pm ET (8:40pm London local time) to discuss--what else---the climate change-fueled weather extremes we're seeing around the world this summer. Please join me: www.bbc.com/live

Private water companies have the gall to tell us to fix leaky loos to save water when they leak **billions of litres** DAILY by not fixing leaky pipes, while extracting billions in dividends Time to end this madness, Andy Burnham: vist.ly/5czji