📢 Workshop "𝗘𝗫𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲" 📅 𝟭𝟱-𝟭𝟲 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 '𝟮𝟲, 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗨𝗞 - Climate 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 and 𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 - 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘴 Funding from @uniofreading.bsky.social & @londmathsoc.bsky.social ✅ Free registration by 15 May research.reading.ac.uk/cmpe/exrec20...

Eleven hottest years on record. WMO climate report: 2025 at +1.43 °C, ocean heat record for the 9th year, CO₂ at 423.9 ppm. Earth's energy imbalance tracked for the first time. Belgium's Royal Meteorological Institute contributed. #Climate @meteobe.bsky.social 🔗 wmo.int/news/media-c...

My latest Substack piece considers the case for accounting for real value. wayouteconomics.substack.com/p/way-out-of... #valuebeyondmoney #wayouteconomics #countwhatmatters

A talk on Taler "GNU Taler: beyond digital money" by Iván Ávalos https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-84-gnu-taler-beyond-digital-money (2025-08-10) #gnutaler #taler #talerprotocol

Hmm - just testing Flare on Android. It looks really good for getting Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS feeds into one place. This might be a game-changer https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.dimension.flare

The 'Zack Polanski and the Greens don't talk about the environment anymore' commentators are out in force right now. Time to reshare this video 👇 #PeopleAndPlanet

💫 The May #localelections are your chance to influence policy! Accessibility to #cargobikes for all families is one of our key manifesto asks. Want to support this? 👉 Follow us! Share this post! Send it to a friend!

Cities around the world are starting to ban fossil fuel advertising - just like tobacco ads before them. It’s time more cities followed. #BanFossilAds @adfreecities.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A billion reasons why we urgently need transition from #FossilFuels to renewable energy. Here's another one! Pay of #Shell Chief Exec Wael Sawan rose 60% to £13.8m in 2025 despite 22% drop in annual profits & 4 workers died in workplace accidents. Now Shell Board wants to raise max CEO pay by 50%🤑🤯

I'd be very interested to see the numbers on this, but have no idea where to find the data. How many women athletes must now take this test x £185 = How much money drained from women's sport funding? In order to stigmatise and exclude how many on ideological grounds?

After years of glacial progress Reading Borough Council now plans to remove cycling and walking infrastructure in an attempt please car drivers. media.reading.gov.uk/news/road-la...

Last week’s successful challenge of Palestine Action’s proscription is a huge win - but is our right to protest still under threat? Watch new PSUK now to hear more from @amnestyuk.bsky.social UK Director of Law and Human Rights, Tom Southerden. #Politics #UK #News

Something the Government want you to forget...

I have friends being threatened by their workplaces over the use of toilets they've been using for years without problem.

Google, who is reported to merrily hand over data on ICE critics to DHS, wants to control what you can do on your device. Another reason for tech independence.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

Or, here's an idea, maybe we shouldn't let the "financial market investors" who have caused decades of austerity, dictate how we treat the most vulnerable in society?

💡 Ever heard of monopoly power? What sounds like a board game is Big Tech’s core strategy: lock-in. Companies like Microsoft make institutions depend on them - not because they’re ethical, but because ecosystems are hard to leave. Great long-read series by SOMO 👉 www.somo.nl/beyond-prices/

We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy! Our over-reliance on foreign tech giants is a huge risk to our security and resilience when faced with Donald Trump’s ever increasing belligerence. Companies like Palantir have no place in our critical digital infrastructure.

Ban on ads for carbon intensive products, including meat! This is progressive

📣 Parents. If cars make your walk or cycle to school feel unsafe, that's not okay. We need your photos of the school run! The more people can see how awful it is out there - and how unsafe it is for our children - the more power we have. DM pix or tag us in a post. #streetsforkids #schoolrun

2025 global climate highlights are out: 🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record, 1.47ºC above the preindustrial level 📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5) 🌍 The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record See: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima... ⚒️🧪🌊

Flanders sees a mobility shift: 51% of new bikes are electric & cycling risk dropped 30% since 2017. 🇧🇪 Investments hit €300m/year, aiming for 30% of all trips by bike by 2040. #ActiveTravel #Flanders 🔗 fietsberaad.be/documenten/f...

Flanders, with a population about 1/10th of the UK, invests €485m/year in cycling or €71 per capita per year. For the UK this would mean a £4,265m per year (or £3,609m/y for England)! Consider this the next time the government tries to sell a few £100m as a significant investment.

It seems like €300m/year is the Flemish investment at regional level. The brochure in the link adds up the local and provincial numbers to around €485m/year. That's a whopping €71 per capita per year!

Labour Party friends: I cannot in good conscience vote for this agenda and nor should you

If you are thinking of following suit, here's a list of EU tech alternatives: european-alternatives.eu

Ghent is highlighted in @thewaroncars.bsky.social #LifeAfterCars as a City that used a thoughtful traffic circulation plan to boost cycling in the central city @bicycledutch.bsky.social described it here youtu.be/rf0chvYf5Yo?...

Reading Bike Hub is all about sustainability and is getting an exciting new mural to represent this. Recognise those stripes? @edhawkins.org @uniofreading.bsky.social

📣 The 2025/6 University League is here! We ranked 147 UK universities against ethics and sustainability criteria. 📈 🔍 Find out how your university scored! 👇 peopleandplanet.org/university-l...

'Life being stressful is not an illness' - technically speaking neither is breathing in coal dust for a 12 hour shift but we still recognise blacklung as an illness. Life in a harmful environment makes you ill and people who don't know that shouldn't be doctors.

So, uhm, first rejoin the carriageway and dismount there, or first dismount and rejoin the carriageway on foot??? 🤷‍♂️

A Labour government passed the Equality Act. A Labour government was in power when the Supreme Court interpreted it to not mean what ministers at the time were clear it was intended to mean. The Labour government response should have been to legislate to fix it. Not doing so was a cowardly betrayal.

Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society: Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.

"This is a really obvious thing the Government should do: tax wealth fairly." @elliechowns.bsky.social outlines what the Green Party would have done differently at the Budget to cut bills by taxing wealth fairly.

Profoundly infuriating. Every single barrel of oil pumped moves us deeper into dangerous climate change. The science is absolutely clear about this: the carbon budget to limit to 1.5°C is practically gone. Tipping points loom. We need rapid fossil fuel PHASE OUT. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It'd be cool if the "increasing the cost of motoring hurts poor people" people cared anything like as much about cost to people who rely on public transport - who are disproportionately likely to be poor and disabled, and who consistently face far greater increases in cost.

There's always money for more driving

Hugely disappointing, with world now on track to yet more heating & chaos, & poorest hit first & hardest. This process needs radically rethinking - meantime it’s vital that the Brazil-led coalition of the willing urgently delivers on plans to leave fossil fuels in the ground #COP30

The footway parking ban in England consultation closed 5 years ago tomorrow. The Tories' inaction is now Labour's inaction. www.gov.uk/government/c...

At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

At COP30 in Belém do Pará, more than 50,000 people made history with a clear, unified message: “It is time to bury fossil fuels and build a clean, just future.” Today, we symbolically laid fossil fuels to rest. ✊

Labour’s latest attack on asylum seekers is cruel & counterproductive. How does it help community cohesion to hold threat of deportation over vulnerable people? We don’t need an arms race with the hard right over asylum, we need safe routes & European cooperation #bbclaurak

Why was #CelebrityTraitors one big SUV ad?! SUVs like the Defender are three times more likely to kill a child under 10 in the event of a crash, compared to a small car. This form of advertising needs challenging. #AirPollution #RoadDanger

Airport expansion and the UK #NetZero target - @greenjennyjones.bsky.social asks why is government not making frequent fliers pay their way while cutting train fares? #ClimateEmergency www.parliamentlive.tv/Lords

Tech Won’t Save Us is celebrating 300 episodes! 🎉 This week @parismarx.com took over the show to discuss an issue that’s been motivating a lot of his work this year: the problem with our dependence on US tech and why we need digital sovereignty! Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/300_...

I was included in the @cyclinguk.bsky.social 2017 list of 100 women in cycling and am dismayed to see their transphobia. The Supreme Court ruling may have enabled organisations to be transphobic but it does not mandate that. Cycling UK can and should be as inclusive as they say they wish to be.

In the UK, SUVs accounted for 63% of new sales in 2024. The proliferation of SUVs is one aspect of “carspreading,” whereby cars are becoming steadily larger over time and with this comes potential harms to health 🧵 www.bmj.com/content/391/...