People of Bath, today is the biggest balsam bash at Warleigh Nature Reserve of all, and it’s the last chance for us to hit first wave balsam before it seeds 3,000 seeds per plant. All we gotta do is rip it out, but it’s everywhere across our wetland. Walk/cycle here. maps.app.goo.gl/cjjo4U5F588J...

Reform tried to end climate action in West Norfolk on the basis that net zero places an impossible financial burden on the poorest households But guess how much King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council's decarbonisation efforts actually add to local council tax bills Go on, have a guess

I get a lot of questions about the boat, but “Why do you have useless solar panels, resting on dead trees.” was a funny start to a batshit conversation. Me: “These solar panels power my entire life. Fridge, computer, this speaker you can hear playing, and they’re 15 years old already.”

Self defence allows for proportionate response. Pretty sure “I had to flip it into the road, it was coming right at me.” counts.

Today's the day! The heat has relented and Reform finally have their chance to persuade King's Lynn and West Norfolk' Council to turn their back on climate action I'll be live-tweeting from the debate

The generative AI business model does not work. Anthropic and OpenAI encourage wasteful token spend with no way of measuring ROI, brazenly copy other companies' ideas, and their costs increase linearly with their revenues. They're antithetical to good software and good business.

One of the best things about being a boat is bumping into great people all the time. Yesterday @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social popped by for a natter, then a bunch of friends helped me move the boat down to the river. Today the boat gets a shower and washing machine! Knock on the hatch and say hi!

I’ve got absolutely no issues with a refugee being Lord Mayor of Bristol. I’ve got a lot of problems with MattGPT Goodwin banging on about who should or should not be or do anything in Bristol. Pop over here and spout that shit, we’ll put you in the harbour mate.

Time for the regular reminder that any time you calculate “how many years until solar pays itself off” you’ll always be wrong, because the price of energy is only ever going to keep going up. Free yourself. Free your family and friends. That’s the “payoff”. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...

“We can’t have @righttoroam.bsky.social without educating the public how to enjoy the countryside responsibly.” How we going to do that when austerity is wiping out outdoor education centres?

People are being really dumb about air conditioning. Get an air to air heat pump because it does both. Get solar and it’s zero emissions. If you can’t afford that and you get a smaller portable AC to not die then that’s ok, low income people have lower carbon footprints than middle class already.

Silicon Valley ran out of ideas after the iPhone and they generally need to be taken behind the woodshed.

This is a Refugee Tax. It was originally proposed by the Tories, and the only reason asylum seekers could be claimed to 'owe' any money is because they are banned from working. Another cruel Labour policy - that must be reversed on day one by Andy Burnham. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"People in the Philippines are flocking to install solar power on rooftops, making it the world's biggest spender on solar panels since the war in Iran started." "The rooftop solar rush has resulted in...a 145% increase from a year earlier." www.reuters.com/business/ene... #energysky

A brilliant person gave me £150 towards fixing up my boat. I spent it on spray foam, so I can get through the next heatwave without being completely delirious the whole time. Last time I was so hot I jumped (slipped) in the canal and broke a toe, so the next one is gonna be shit without preparation.

Grab yourself some batteries. Start small and use the savings to get more.

Labour once again trying to fix unworkable policies by deputising townsfolk. I’m sure this won’t attract the worst Nextdoor mobs and everyone will get a proper hearing.

1. Tories set up the right to buy, and banned councils from using income to build more council homes. 2. Right-wing rag does performative outrage that somebody made money selling a house they own.

Some of you saw this on BlueSky already, but I've written up the anarchy that befell myself and @juliancheal.dev last Monday. philsturgeon.com/the-tree-tha...

Ford replaced veteran staff with AI, their products went to shit, then they had to rehire them. “Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing AI and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.” www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

Before you go complaining about solar farms and suggesting we should be putting them on warehouses and carparks instead, please know that warehouses are rapidly deploying solar panels already but the government has said they won’t be requiring carpark solar.

Solar and wind power aren’t intermittent, they’re variable (we know when the sun shines and we know when the wind will blow). Nuclear is intermittent. It can be shut down by flooding (harder to predict) and have to power down in heatwaves when it’s needed most (as seen most recently in France).

South West UK heatwave has my boat hotter than the depths of Mordor. After my shade tree landed on me and (unrelated) I broke a toe, I’d like to be able to just get in bed without getting heat stroke. A plan has submerged! #boatlife #watercooling #solarpunk #solarpower #renewableenergy

So many cities, counties and districts have declared a climate emergency, so what is the point of Reforms rollback? Sunderland was on a Road to Zero, already reduced NO2 levels and trying to reduce PM2.5 to safe levels. www.sunderland.gov.uk/media/37391/... Fossil fuel companies don’t like that.

Sick of hearing all my API-community mates go on about how AI isn’t actually bad for the environment but why would we have to chose between AI and Climate if it wasn’t? We’re dying here and some of you wanna keep pushing dangerous polluting mechanical turks for profit.

Broken toe really adds a dimension to this mad week. Trauma of first aiding. Muscle ache of getting a tree off my boat. Heat exhaustion of DIYing for days with breaks to balsam bash in a million degrees. Bashed my toe to bits. Was going to do client work but… I’m downloading Witcher 3. Peace.

“To avoid any future energy shortages we should get all of our fossil fuels from some other place which will be perfectly fine and last forever. Definitely no need to get free electricity from the sun with simple structures placed above car parks.” — NY Times www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/b...

Everyone priced out of housing in vans and boats is having a rough one in heatwaves. I tried mooring under a tree for shade and the sudden thunderstorm blew it down onto of the boat. Direct sunlight heats the metal to >40°C. Hurts to walk on it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I don’t need to hear Americans talk about anything these days (except you lovely lot) but especially not interested in hearing them piss on about how many thousand Fahrenheit it is every day where they are like it’s vaguely relevant or comparable.

Wherever you go today, take extra water with you, so you can throw it all over any disposable BBQs placed in or near long grass. I just shout “no fires” and throw it right over the lot, but if you want to give them a five count to get their food off that’s nice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s handy if you can see these charts, remember them, then practice explaining them to your right-wing conspiracy nut family: Sunlight go up and down but trend is flat. 👍 Temperature go up and down but trend is up. Up a lot is bad. 👎

Quick check on Zack vs Nigel. First let’s look at Nigel…

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

New rule for the apocalypse we’re now living in is to eat more regularly so I’m not doing all of this on a small to medium sized scotch egg.

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One of the reasons I fight the climate crisis is to save lives. Today in Bath we had a heatwave turn into a deadly thunder storm. A cyclist was hit by a falling tree and the only reason she’s alive is my boat caught the brunt of the weight and kept it off her. Bike parts penetrated her thigh.

Lost one of my mooring pins moving the boat yesterday so had to coppice a hazel stake. One of many reasons why everyone always needs an axe.

It’s tempting to berate Keir Starmer for supporting genocide, crushing trans rights and having absolutely zero vision ever, but he achieved so much. Under him, Labour lost 1,496 councillors across England, beating a record set by the Conservatives in 1981, and lost control of 38 councils.

Yes. If you're a bigot who wants to divide communities, a billionaire wanting to preserve your wealth or a "newspaper" that wants to preserve power: we're very sinister indeed. To everyone else: feels a lot like hope. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I’ve been battling Himalayan Balsam for years and I’ve never seen an outbreak like Warleigh Nature Reserve! Every time we cleared a patch we’d find a far bigger and considerably worse patch behind. Come help us! protect.earth/events #invasivespecies #biodiversity #riverrestoration #climateaction

We could build an entire HS2 for the amount we’d lose through a Heathrow Expansion

Lovely new bench installed at Warleigh Nature Reserve thanks to £150 of donation. Julian immediately put it to work doing carpentry obviously. Tidying up the solar / battery setup so we can electric strim. Next we get a tarp up, previously used to hide from rain storms, now to hide from heatwaves.

I just got my 25th tick of 2026 sat in a f**king Starbucks charging my van! Get me this paddleboard so I can fight invasive species from the river where the ticks probably can’t get me. Leeches are fine.

Yet more evidence heat pumps are much more efficient than boilers. www.businessgreen.com/news/4531407...

Looking for donations to get @protect.earth a paddleboard. I’ve been researching for hours. This will get the job done (stable, lots of cargo space) to carry gear and collect rubbish whilst slashing balsam from the Avon. wavesupboards.com/en-gb/produc... Please donate here: protect.earth/donate

Nature lovers of Bath, come to Warleigh Nature Reserve tomorrow (Saturday). Balsam bashing season began in May but now the balsam is about ready to seed we need to go HARD right now. Wander to this public footpath, all day from Anglefish Cafe, paid parking, or cycle. w3w.co/amber.pill.i...

Charity exists to solve the failures of government. The Environment Agency has been defunded and defanged, and now they’re using what little power and resource they have left to go after *checks notes* volunteers removing rubbish from rivers for them. 🙃 www.mylondon.news/news/east-lo...

Living on a canal boat, the first 18 months all wrapped up! I got the good and the bad all splained. Ask me questions, maybe I’ll expand it or follow up. philsturgeon.com/living-on-a-...