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Andrew Ladbrook

@andrewladbrook.bsky.social
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A heady cocktail of renewables, politics and memes that make me laugh. Very occasionally I’ll post something myself

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21h
Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:
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Ukraine blindsided by Starlink restrictions and intelligence gaps
Moscow ignores Donald Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ while Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Shut up!
"GE warns its toaster may grow human arms and shoot you with a gun" Ok that sounds like their fault. They should do something about that
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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is a great story of almost forgotten history being rediscovered. NB those "Christian" founders of the United States had laws to stop their slaves from gathering to worship
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British Electricity Tracker @mygridgb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
British electricity mix at 11am on 13th Oct 2026 🔥 Gas 13.4% Biomass 5.8% 🍃 Wind 45.9% Solar 21.0% Hydro 1.9% ⚛️ Nuclear 12.0% 🪫 Storage 0.0% 🔌 Generation 34GW ⬅️ Exports 2.5 GW 🌍Carbon intensity 95 gCO2e/kWh Carbon intensity is below the 2030 target of 100 gCO2e/kWh
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Christian Wolmar @christianwolmar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is a very thorough analysis of why we should be more cautious about driverless cars from London assembly... www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...
london.gov.uk
Who’s driving the future of autonomous transport in London?
The London Assembly Transport Committee has published the report: 'Who’s driving the future of autonomous transport in London?'
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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The reason I mentioned Sberbank's datacenters as a critical point of failure for Russia's banking sector is because someone allowed them to have over 50% of the market. Yes on paper there is a Federal Antimonopoly Service but it's busy bankrupting small gas stations.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
1/ Restoring Yandex's damaged data centres will take at least six months and cost billions. Disruption is already severe; Russian manufacturers and distributors face imminent disaster due to Ukraine's strikes causing the collapse of the state-operated goods tracking system. ⬇️
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sure US $$ all been ploughed into public services, healthcare, education, disaster preparedness, etc tho
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Latest blogs are on how heat pump grants are an area where there is a strong case for universality, but if the government insists it wants a more progressive approach where is the mix of grant and finance schemes that was floated years ago? www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...
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In defence of heat pump grants
Government insiders are briefing they want to cut heat pump grants that disproportionately go to wealthier households, but there is a strong case for a universal roll out of a technology that cuts emi...
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
An interesting political economy problem: the outsized political influence of relatively niche sectors where large personal fortunes can be made.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Superb point. Where the Brexiters failed is in durable consent. Who benefits from it their project & wants to carry it forward? Who in the next generations are thanking them for Brexit and championing it? No-one. If we get the UK into EU membership, it must be underpinned by durable consent.
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Joining Europe again: first, we need durable consent
Britain is reopening the question of Europe. This time, we need an honest debate before choosing again
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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I adore the BBC - judge me hard for that, but I do and I think there is nothing else like it on earth and when it’s gone, we shall know what we have lost - but the JKR news after the announced cut-backs in LGBT+ programming really hurts …
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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm 🇨🇦🇬🇧☮️⚛️🇺🇦🌈🦋 @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Britain’s Bus Privatization Experiment Was Really About Who Designs the Network | by Michael Barnard | The Future is Electric | Oct, 2026 | Medium medium.com/the-future-i...
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Britain’s Bus Privatization Experiment Was Really About Who Designs the Network
Glasgow and London both use private bus companies. Forty years of different governance choices show why that distinction matters even more…
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelenskyy to Fox: “Everybody understands that the prices of diesel don't depend on our attacks on diesel in Russia. “Everybody understands that it depends on the blocking of Hormuz, the Strait of Hormuz.”
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh superb! Someone has got the glorious screenshot, of Russian Brexit bottery at its best. bsky.app/profile/marc...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“.. the repeated failure of Saudi air defences to protect airports risks doing longer-term damage to the kingdom’s image and its ability to attract foreign investors and tourists, both vital for the success of the crown prince’s economic plans.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bc73...
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Step by step, brick by brick. Will still take a while but all good things at worth waiting for
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Richard Barfield @richardbarfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Very useful summary
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Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
NEW REPORT: Under Keir Starmer, England and Wales’s failing criminal justice services made tentative steps towards improvement. But the new government has already put this fragile progress at risk and real improvement requires more difficult political choices. 🧵
instituteforgovernment.org.uk
Performance Tracker 2026: Criminal justice system | Institute for Government
The Starmer government made fragile progress on criminal justice, but sustaining this requires further action and difficult political choices.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall
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Dredgen Sale 🔜 GCX (2027) 🟪⬜️⬛️ @destinythememe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
a what on the moon
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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Number of times Nigel Farage lost Westminster elections before becoming an MP: 7 Number of times the BBC called for him to quit: zero.
Nigel Farage and Laura Kuenssberg
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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CEO of Beckett Mariner @kariizumi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Lest we forget... Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage both supported Donald Trump's war of choice against Iran. A war that is not only illegal but which has resulted in needless suffering and instability, as well as undermining the UK's economic recovery. #bbclaurak www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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'Farage and Badenoch back Trump after Labour MPs say Iran strikes illegal.'
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Suella Braverman selling 106 copies of her book after all that publicity is so delicious.
Crack 'em while you can, though, because Suella's star might just be on the skids. Despite plugging her book on Question Time, on Tim Shipman's Spectator podcast, in serialised excerpts in the Daily Mail, and in a fawning interview with Allison Pearson in the Telegraph, in its opening weekend, Patriot sold precisely 106 copies.

— from Ian Winwood’s New World piece.
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/10/2026
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 11/10/2026
Trump says Russia and Ukraine agree to 'energy ceasefire,' Zelensky says 'news for me'
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Trump says Russia and Ukraine agree to 'energy ceasefire,' Zelensky says 'news for me'
Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine had agreed to halt strikes on each other's energy infrastructure. Russia did not comment.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Non-zero chance Trump has begun to truly unravel as the reality of his impending ass whooping sinks in.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ukraine's new campaign of destroying Russia's data centers will prove devastating for Putin's economy and war machine if the White House is unable to prevent it. The chaos we're already seeing across Russia is only four days into the campaign and 3 facilities targeted.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia
• Source Network: AS13238 YANDEX – Yandex LLC (Russian Federation)
• Traffic Breakdown: Prior to the drop, bot traffic accounted for roughly 99.6% of requests compared to 0.4% human traffic.
• Event Cause: The sudden plunge to zero on October 11, 2026, corresponds to a reported military/drone attack on Yandex's data center facility in Vladimir, Russia—marking the third reported attack on Yandex data infrastructure since October 8.
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This Will Hold @thiswillhold.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🚨President Z is taking out “data centers” that run Putin’s bot farms just three weeks before the U.S. midterms. After the third strike on Yandex's data center, Russian bot activity dropped to zero. This is why Trump and Musk are calling for President Z’s removal. It has nothing to do with diesel.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Another meme ready for your anti-racist Poppy Day to use against Reform UKers who in 1939-45 would have been jailed for as traitors for peddling pro Nazis propaganda... meme via Mike against hate & racism
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Bernie Speaks Truth To Trump And AI Billionaires......
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’
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Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’
Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“.. Since the final F-150 Lightning rolled off the assembly line in December, it has become one of the most coveted cars in America ..” @bloomberg.com $F www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Reform are not interested in protecting women and girls... #StopReform #StopFarage #VAWG
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Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
there is minimal evidence that inheritors in their 50s and 60s are desperate to move into their parents' former home. My @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on why Kemi Badenoch's policies are for the world of Downton Abbey - not the one we live in now www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/kemi...
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Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax proposals are myth-based policy making at its worst | Institute for Government
The leader of the opposition’s conference announcement was not well thought through.
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Edward Walker @gnuggat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is v good on IMO strategically v important topic. NB: “[Putin] insisted… that RU is not ‘threatening anyone’ and does ‘not intend to attack anyone in 2029, in 2030, in 2050.’ The risk of a nuclear war would come if EURs attacked RU territory. Here he singled out the enclave of Kaliningrad.”
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11/10/2026
Note: Vance’s remarks, mentioned here, did *not* go over well w/Kansas Methodists. At the time, Hamilton’s own bishop issued a statement defending the pastor and condemning the VP’s comments. Then 120 UMC pastors in Kansas did the same in a letter. Read more here: religionnews.com/2026/09/23/h...
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How megapastor Adam Hamilton could break the GOP's hold on Kansas
LEAWOOD, Kansas (RNS) — While Democrats have long been considered a longshot for statewide races in Kansas, the Rev. Adam Hamilton's candidacy has proven unexpectedly competitive.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russia has been at war with Britain for years and the EU referendum was an open goal which they exploited. That doesn't mean that "Putin made Brexit happen" but his troll farms and media operations certainly played a part Brexiters may hate to hear it but to deny it is to deny a dangerous reality.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy knows how to troll. He amplified Loomer, one of Trump’s most loyal propagandists, who has broken with MAGA’s anti-Ukraine faction. Loomer represents the fiercely pro-Israel wing of MAGA, already divided over the Iran war. Another fracture in Trump’s base just weeks before the midterms.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський
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The Ukrainian people are simply just trying to survive.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 10/10/2026
This is outrageous. Donald Trump just announced a deal with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, and Treasury immediately lifted sanctions on Russian diesel exports through April. Those sanctions exist for one reason. They limit the money Putin can use to wage his brutal war on Ukraine.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A three-panel comic meme using characters from Batman Beyond. In panel 1, glowing green villain Blight labeled "TIME TRAVELLER" asks, "WHAT YEAR IS IT?" In panel 2, Terry McGinnis (Batman) labeled "RANDOM PASSERBY" replies, "Well, there's a Republican President in office, the economy is crashing, and were in an unwinnable war in the Middle East." In panel 3, Blight responds, "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Restore is such a weird mix of fascism and random mad boomer Facebook shit.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m not being hyperbolic when I say I’d genuinely rather be dead than raise a child with someone like this.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This... the attacks on research funding and foreign students in US universities... all opportunities for us, not being taken.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There's something really odd and worrying going on in the green quarters of the labour market. There's growing demand and good wages for key technical roles, yet numbers are static or even falling as people retire and are not being replaced. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...
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Under water: Will a shortage of plumbers derail the clean energy transition?
New JTL analysis warns the number of plumbers in England’s workforce could fall by 30 per cent by 2039, despite growing demand for skilled workers to deliver the net zero transition
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why would anyone fly from London to Manchester!?!?
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