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Fergal Byrne

@agendaearth.bsky.social
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Host of a number of environmental and social innovation themed podcasts.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.
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Fergal Byrne @agendaearth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"champions of free speech" latest
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Fergal Byrne @agendaearth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Particularly CIA-empathy
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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hellin Kay, writing in Beyond The Last Estate, really gets GREYHOUND. I’ll take ‘ethereal narrative’ and ‘dystopian ride through what America has become in a time of relentless tech and AI. You can order copies of this fantastic journal here: beyondthelastestate.com #litmags #beyondthelastestate
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir. The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm So we’re taking legal action. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...
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BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir
Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 23/03/2026
✨ Very worthwhile synthesis from.. @mkblyth.bsky.social #security #geopolitics #complexity #macroeconomics #climate #futurescapes
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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I’m very excited to attend public portions of this. In addition to Spain hosting the Global Progressive Mobilisation in Barcelona with many progressive heads of state participating, it’s also having bilaterals this week w/2 of 8 largest economies: China & Brazil. globalprogressivemobilisation.org/en
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Global Progressive Mobilisation
Uniting the World's Progressive Forces — April 17-18, 2026, Fira Barcelona
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
BIG, EXCITING NEWS! Dr. Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social -- world-leading climate scientist and author -- is coming to Project Drawdown after leaving NASA. She will be a Senior Scientist, leading an exciting new initiative on "Emergency Brake" climate solutions. drawdown.org/news/world-r...
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World-renowned climate scientist and author Kate Marvel, Ph.D., returns to Project Drawdown
Marvel to lead new initiative focused on advancing critical climate solutions. “I’m unbelievably excited to return to Project Drawdown."
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Some good news 🎉 Democracy for Sale now passed 50,000 subscribers To celebrate we’ve launched a fundraising drive Can you help us do even more hard hitting independent investigative journalism? 😊 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/weve-reach...
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We've reached an incredible milestone. Will you help us reach the next one?
50,000 readers! Now we need 350 of you so we can do even more.
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Worth adding here that the FBI waited *years* to declare open war on the Black Panther Party, assassinating & incarcerating its leaders en masse. The thing that tipped the balance wasn't the guns, but the free breakfasts, groceries, & clinics that represented a genuine threat to state power.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Haunted walks through springtime landscapes, techno-optimist manifestos, killer robots, and Pixar provocations of animal uprisings, in this week's Field Notes: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/the-birds-...
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The birds and the bees and the Bronson bots
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/03/2026
I'm out of words here
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
If you go straight back in my feed you'll find an entire string of posts about the deaths of those schoolchildren and military casualties as well. Post after fucking post. Cherry-picking a single entry so you can play artisan grudge-farmer on the internet is a cheap mug's game. So fuck off. Thanks.
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Fergal Byrne @agendaearth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Essential reading, always! Nonpariel.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying
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A Cuban dad did time for a marijuana bust 40 years ago. He died in ICE custody Thursday.
Isidro Pérez, 75, lived in Key Largo and had a conviction for marijuana possession in the 1980s. He was arrested on June 5 outside a community center.
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
‘Elect us, we’re the sort of people who struggle to get through the day without accidentally calling for our opponents to be murdered’ is the *best* case for Reform apparently.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The entire tone of this segment really is basically Fox News level analysis of Trump from BBC Radio 4
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/02/2026
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...
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actioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 10/02/2026
2020 twitter post from @actioncookbook: "Every article about a major retailer going bankrupt spends eight paragraphs musing “I guess millennials just don’t buy shirts?” before casually mentioning a private equity acquisition three years ago in one sentence at the end"
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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Stoked to share this news from yesterday’s Publishers Marketplace, and excited to spend the coming summer tracking robots and monsters across our increasingly dystopian landscape. With luck I will also find some hidden portals into greener futures: www.publishersmarketplace.com/deals/ss.cgi...
Deal announcement of new Christopher Brown narrative nonfiction book Field Notes from a Near Future.
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
NEW: Gareth Fearn lays out the stakes of "electro-capitalism". "The economic basis of this transition is not simply between technologies of energy production. Rather, it is between two different fractions of capital." www.break-down.org/electro-capi...
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Electro-Capitalism
Ours is the age of transition: from fossil capital to electricity capital. The future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.
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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Winter's end in the weird woods aided by a canine homunculus, urban heron rookeries behind the old warehouses, dystopian auspices in the airport flyover, and news about a new book, in this week's Field Notes: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/skull-season
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Skull season
And some book news (No. 191)
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Cabinet Office secretary Darren Jones now spent half an hour plus trying to defend government over Labour Together's hiring of a corporate intelligence firm to dig dirt on journalists who reported on the think tank's undeclared funding Democracy for Sale's journalism having real impact 😀
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Tom Nicholls @tomnicholls.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is massive. A credit to Democracy For Sale for their investigation.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 06/02/2026
“I graduated with £42,000 of debt and even though I’m paying it off, it’s now £72,000.” It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years! “Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question. www.ft.com/content/7bf5...
The UK student loan system — and its danger for Labour
Growing anger among millions of graduates who face decades of debt is causing unease in Westminster
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Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Queen
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Va. Senate honors Joan Mulholland, 81, a '60s Freedom Rider, for her Civil Rights work
Joan Mulholland, 81, of Arlington was a student at Duke University in the 1960s when she became a Freedom Rider in Mississippi.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Ladies and gentlemen, professional American law enforcement. We are the shithole nation. We are the country that needs regime change. We are the beshitted totalitarian state.
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West Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi  atomwaffen group
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Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The US has never gone to war with a country where its President owns a golf course.
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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Thank GOD for Andrew Fisher!! FINALLY we get to hear about Spain on #r4today The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how? Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian

Opinion
Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders' cowardice - but there is another way
Genevieve Guenther

The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope
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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Thank you to NPR @npr for choosing GREYHOUND in its favourite books of 2025. Very grateful to Bridget Bentz for selecting my strange hybrid road trip of a book! “"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses." #greyhound #npr #bookreviews
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Fergal Byrne @agendaearth.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Fiduciary responsibility, innit.
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a cartoon of grinch with a very angry look on his face
ALT: a cartoon of grinch with a very angry look on his face
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 22/11/2025
‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’ @brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A new piece for @thenation.com on everyone's favourite industry -- private equity; in conversation with one of the many new books on PE, by Megan Greenwell. Here:
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Can We Blame Private Equity for Everything?
Did PE firms make the world worse? Or was it something else?
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Bookwormlit @bookwormlit.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Still reading Greyhound by Joanna Pocock. I’m on page 239. Reading slowly…I don’t want to get to the end of the book. I love Greyhound. In 1981, at the age of 17, I rode on a Greyhound bus from Detroit to Los Angeles. It was an experience of a lifetime.
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Fergal Byrne @agendaearth.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Oh!
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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
You heard it here, folks: 'Do not pass GO'. I am so very grateful for the readers who get in touch with their responses to reading GREYHOUND and their reminiscences of the road.... It's a book about the Greyhound bus, while also being about so many other things...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2025
this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025 "my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists" "your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs" solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/10/2025
ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2025
they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work see you all there
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Fergal Byrne @agendaearth.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Great stuff! But a bird never flew on one wing. Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda -with sound accompaniement by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024. www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...
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Episode 200: Exploring the Austin edgelands: Christopher Brown discusses his latest book, A Natural History of Empty Lots. - The Sustainability Agenda
In this thought-provoking episode, Christopher Brown—lawyer, novelist, and urban naturalist— takes us on a journey through the landscape around his home in Austin, Texas, the edgelands where the city ...
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Fergal Byrne @agendaearth.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Yess!! But a bird never flew on one wing. 🙂 Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda with sound by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024. www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...
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