Being a nemesis of something toxic isn't quite the insult they hoped it would be! Please give my petition a boost, if you think the premise is reasonable? I believe think-tank funding to sway media and policy needs to be debated and made transparent: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

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So many cities in Europe show want can be done. So many cities in the UK show they'd prefer not to.

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Brexit is a category error. It can’t be defined, except as a symbol that refers to itself. ‘Brexit means Brexit’ is literally the only definition that makes logical sense, but describes nothing at all. It can never be achieved.

1. Dresses with pockets. 2. World peace.

I'm going to start doing this. #climatecrisis

NEW: When it comes to climate foresight, the small stuff really adds up. alexsteffen.substack.com/p/things-fal...

We need licences for estates now. Any foul play -> loss of licence both for that land and that landowner. £800 fine is a joke.

NEW #carspreading danger: @cleancitiescampaign.org analysis reveals a 92% rise in number of US-style pick-up trucks on UK roads. We've now more than half a million pick-up trucks where young children can’t be seen over high bonnet ⚠️ 1/7

#Devon watch out

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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Bring it on

Nature is not some 'nice to have' for societies, it's not the cherry on top It's the baker

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Saturday Morning A great way to clean out your closet ! Send your old garbage awards to Piggy Pedo Potus Like here's mine My old 1st place wooden spoon from Our I'm Gonna Blow Your Pants Off Chili Cook Off An oldie but a goodie Send : 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC 20003

FIFA has announced they plan to give Donald Trump the Shooting an Innocent Woman In The Face and Lying That She Was A Terrorist award. I'm sure they are both SO proud.

Commenting as Govt launch a road safety strategy. Every death on our roads is unacceptable. We need a Vision Zero ethos: no deaths or serious injury. Change driving culture, reject speeding, use speed-limiting tech, strengthen sentences, end ‘accident’ language. Driving is a privilege, not a right.

Ridicously fiddly to sew - but have just added conductive thread to my winter #walking mitts & #cycling gloves, so now I can zoom in on maps without taking my gloves off in this cold weather. Progress.

Road casualties are utterly normalised in political debate, but in England and Wales alone, on average around 80 people are killed or suffer injuries which could change their lives forever *every single day*. More should be done.

This is very good. He even gets the language right that too many of our media outlets still fail on. People aren't randomly killed by "cars", but by people driving them. And people are men, women, children, not defined by whether they are "a pedestrian" or "a cyclist". 🙌🏻

Not this absolute rubbish again. He’s been pushing this same made-up pet theory for years based on simplistic assumptions that contradict the actual evidence of both pollution & vehicle miles around LTNs. Why does The Times repeatedly sanction his ignorant fag-packet nonsense?

BLACK ICE WARNING! We've had email re black ice, & falls on Rifford Rd path & etc Take care, get angry, campaign for more walking/cycling paths to be treated. Councils say aim = 50% journeys🚶🚲🧑‍🦽 Shouldn't the routes be treated? www.devon.gov.uk/news/highway... goo.gl/maps/p5J9oQh...

Porridge with chilli, cinnamon, cocoa and banana is delicious. I can't be the only one....?

Had a gentle walk for @bsbibotany.bsky.social #NewYearPlantHunt today, rewarded with buttercup, dandelion, Hazel, ragwort, gorse and an out of season hogwort. #Exeter #nature

If the sky only did this once a year, we'd travel thousands of miles to see the miracle. #Exeter #beauty #naturalworld #sunrise

A baby cargo bike. Love it.

Another campaign to go peat free, it only takes a second, please sign (link in comment below). Such an easy step we could take to address both climate and biodiversity crises.

The idea of “imported” violence against women and girls is a deeply comforting fiction - one that allows people to avoid looking at where it actually happens: within our homes and behind closed doors.

Interesting FYI @exetercycling.bsky.social, I couldn't get past here on my regular bike the other day. I can see how it would completely exclude someone on a mobility scooter or arriving with a pushchair.

Is it common for people to find it much easier to imagine that car travel can always be improved (parking provided, congestion reduced, cheaper fuel) while seeing problems with any other transport as inherent and unchangeable (delayed/costly buses, streets being unsafe to cycle or walk/wheel)?

UK govt war on bats and newts, part 328 Small building developments will no longer need to worry too much about the damage they cause to nature Or as London Wildlife Trusts say "We’ve got a flatlining economy, I know what’s to blame: hedgehogs" www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Good. Let’s not let it go away. This man wants to be Britain’s next PM. His denials and obfuscations around his long history of repulsive behaviour show that he is utterly unfit.

We went to Paris to launch a fake brand campaign for the bank Société Générale. Société Générale said they’d stop funding coal. But instead underwrote a $409 million a bond to the world’s largest private coal company (through one of their subsidiaries). Sign the petition at pollutiongenerale.fr

Advent #3 "As an activist, I realised, I must do more than just ring the fire alarm: I must also detail the way out of the building, and show people how to find it."

Advent #2 "People in the Global North live in bubbles. We surround ourselves with stuff, immerse ourselves in a human-made world, live without any connection to nature, and deny any need for it. For many people, nature can seem peripheral, optional or irrelevant.."

Advent #1 "You don't have to throw soup on anything. You don't have to glue yourself to things. But if you really do care about all this, please find your own way to act like the truth is real."

Britain didn’t get any more hilly between 1949 and 2024.

Opposing genocide is not terrorism. Make your choice. www.wedonotcomply.org

Three times in the last fortnight, while #cycling, I've had drivers pass me wide while overtaking - but doing so they've driven into the path of an oncoming cyclist. Is it too much to hope drivers show basic competency in driving? #roadsafety

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Help please. Does anyone know of an app that let's a smallish group (eg up to 50 members) arrange #liftshare to occasional events? We'll be pulling from a wideish area in Devon with different destinations on each meet. #sustainabletransport #climatecrisis #lichens