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Bob D 🦋

@bobathon.bsky.social
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physicist interested in quantum theory, cosmology, climate change, stars, yorkshire, wildlife, birds, fell running, mindfulness, mindlessness, the world and stuff

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion
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Bob D 🦋 @bobathon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Extraordinary negligence
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Proportional Commons @propvoting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Similarly around the world 👇
List of countries with PR
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is no way to fairly or humanely administer the death penalty. Never has been, never will be.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Big Oil remains the most significant obstacle to reducing emissions and limiting climate harms. It’s important to understand the long history of that.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thousands of us are urging IKEA to pull their ads from toxic Talk Radio. Add your voice here: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...
Petition comment reading: "Creating warm, welcoming homes extends to people, not just sofas.

IKEA please withdraw your support from toxic broadcasting." - Gillian
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John Russell @johnrussell40.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Look where the UK is on this list. Brits who need to charge their EV away from home are being royally screwed.
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Múmer @mumermao.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 27/09/2026
There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. Specialists in education and cognition have useful tips on how to stay cognitively sharp in the age of AI, according to a feature in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪
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How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking
There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.
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Bob D 🦋 @bobathon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem with AI is not that it can "go rogue", it's the people who use it. It attracts, fascinates and amplifies people who want to dehumanise others. It shields them from consequence and reflection. It facilitates the evil they choose to inflict. Don't look at the thing. It's the people.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Rewilding Academy @rewilding.academy · 26/09/2026
How to Live on Earth 🌍📽️ The brand-new documentary exploring nature-based solutions, ecosystem restoration, and rewilding is now streaming free on YouTube! 🌿✨ Energising, uplifting, and actionable. 🎬 Watch full film: www.rfr.bz/bc04a1ae3 #Rewilding #NatureBasedSolutions #EcosystemR
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How to Live on Earth | Feature Documentary | Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch
What if the solutions to building a better future already exist?How to Live on Earth is an ambitious feature documentary that explores how humanity can build...
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Bob D 🦋 @bobathon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There are so many Chrises. A whole generation, or more, of Chrises.
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The Green Runners @thegreenrunners.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This week is Ealing Climate Week 💚🌍 Running doesn’t go hand-in-hand with promoting flying. It’s a huge contradiction. We hope Ealing Council can help convince the Ealing HM to drop Wizz Air. Large video adverts at Ealing HM during climate week. Make it make sense. @badvertising.bsky.social
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Have you seen that climate film yet?” Thank you to Libby Brooks for reporting on the growing phenomenon around the People’s Emergency Briefing film. #NationalEmergencyBriefing #PEBuk www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Friday briefing: How a ​grassroots ​film ​is ​turning ​climate anxiety ​into ​action
In today’s newsletter: The People’s Emergency Briefing delivers a stark warning about ​o​ur future in a warming world. ​B​ut sharing difficult truths collectively​ shows us that there is still hope to...
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW: Excellent Guardian explainer (from Fiona Harvey) on the meaning of the intelligence services’ suppressed National Security Assessment on ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE. Building of food resilience is a primary priority. Do read and share! Crucial… www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Climate change affects everything. "These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns."
What is the report?
In the first report of its kind, the UK’s spy chiefs set out stark warnings of the catastrophic risks to the UK from the collapse of vital ecosystems around the world, driven by the climate crisis and our failures to protect nature. The Guardian has seen part of the report and has spoken to a large number of people familiar with its contents, which warn of food shortages, conflicts, mass migration and other threats to the UK’s national security, including going as far as the risk of nuclear war or the breakdown of society. These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nearly 2,000 people are backing the call for Ikea to pull their ads from Murdoch's Talk Radio - you can add your voice here: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...
Text of comment from petition calling on Ikea to pull their ads from Talk: "Shocked that a company with a reputation for being ethical and people-focused should be advertising on a radio channel that is spreading toxic untruths and hatred. Please do the right thing, IKEA." - Catherine
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The Green Runners @thegreenrunners.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Big polluters have no place in our sport. They’re taking the Whizz. 🤬 Here’s what: Damian Hall @ultradamo.bsky.social Liam Killeen @badvertising.bsky.social Anna Hughes @flightfreeuk.bsky.social & Dan Tipney, Safe Landing have to say about Wizz Air sponsorship. Hint: They’re not impressed!
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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We invite everyone to endorse the Declaration of a Planetary Emergency, part of the upcoming World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Please add your name and share widely. Every endorsement helps show public concern about the future of our planet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Trying to contain myself this week but "the electrification of information" has sent me INFORMATION WAS ALREADY ELECTRIC. GenAI is taking existing info, making it wrong + 1,000,000x more energy intensive and then BUILDING HUMANITY'S BIGGEST GAS PLANTS that is the OPPOSITE OF ELECTRIFICATION
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Bob D 🦋 @bobathon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“The gender gap is impossible to miss: all five women candidates range from credible to genuinely compelling, while the men could be auditioning for a job description from the past century” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Fears mount that next UN chief will downgrade climate action
Experts say some of António Guterres’s possible successors could be ‘disastrous’ for efforts to tackle crisis
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Bob D 🦋 @bobathon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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The Green Runners @thegreenrunners.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nine European races are sponsored by Wizz Air. Together with @badvertising.bsky.social & @flightfreeuk.bsky.social, we call on the races to drop the airline at the earliest opportunity. Big polluters have no place in our sport. They’re taking the Whizz 🤬 ✍️ Sign our petition. 🛑 Stop #sportswashing
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Sign the Petition
Drop Polluting Sponsors - Stop taking the Whizz
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026
People love lots of socially terrible things. SUVs, the convenience of single use plastic. People even love Bitcoin! It's not a great measuring stick for whether we should welcome something unopposed and uncritically.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 20/09/2026
Elite athletes, musicians, actors & more often use cultural importance as an excuse for why they're exempt from cutting their emissions. In this new analysis led by @manuelsuter.bsky.social, we argue the opposite: visibility and influence should raise the bar, not lower it! Read more:
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The climate responsibility of cultural influencers - npj Climate Action
In socially influential fields such as elite sport, music, and film, cultural relevance is often invoked as a special moral status that exempts them from genuine emissions reduction. We argue that vis...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A lot of people are asking whether regenerative grazing can solve beef's climate problem. 🐄 🌡️ 📈 In his latest Insights post, @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social, Drawdown Research Fellow, breaks down the peer-reviewed science behind the answer. Read more: bit.ly/3UDJbjB
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 10/09/2026
8 years ago, I tweeted side-by-side maps from NASA GISS showing global temperatures in 1976 and 2018 – both hot summers in the UK. It subsequently went viral and was printed in the Daily Mail! The 2026 version is stark. Two locally extreme summers separated by 50 years of global climate change.
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Lior Hamovitz @liorhamovitz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
UNEP is very clear that Carbon Dioxide Removal is not a silver bullet. “Even optimistic CDR scaling is unlikely to deliver a temperature reversal […] this century. This emphasizes the importance of focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions now.” ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/i-read-the...
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I read the new UN climate report so you don't have to.
TL;DR they are calling for radical transformation of our society.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here we go again: UK Chancellor John Healey says Heathrow expansion will go ahead after "years of delay" - a deceitful framing that implies this project that almost no one wants is somehow inevitable.
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Government has ‘given the go-ahead’ to Heathrow expansion, says Chancellor
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has previously expressed concerns over the plans to build a third runway at the west London airport.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 07/09/2026
2026 really was a fundamentally different summer to 1976 in terms of temperature across the UK and Europe Data: ERA5
Comparing 1976 and 2026 summers in NW Europe
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Or simply fly less or not at all... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Flyers might have to face more disruption with hotter skies
Are people going to have to increasingly accept more delays and diversions as the effects of climate change intensify?
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Bob D 🦋 @bobathon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I miss Chai www.youtube.com/watch?v=psHh...
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CHAI - ボーイズ・セコ・メン / BOYZ SECO MEN (subtitled) - Official Music Video
YouTube video by CHAI official
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 04/09/2026
It's rare to see a mainstream news broadcaster explicitly referencing loss-and-damage finance, climate justice and big-emitter responsibility in its reporting. So this moment on the BBC's News at Ten really caught my attention. Report by @azadehmoshiri.bsky.social in Nepal
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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The fuller climate context of the Nepal/Tibet flood catastrophe, with numbers.
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EssaysConcern @richarderskine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My latest essay. It's been bubbling away since Allister Heath, editor of The Sunday Telegraph, decided to write a It's Too Late (Stage 5) piece. We shouldn't be surprised but it was still shocking. This is my response. #ClimateChange #FiveStagesOfDenial essaysconcerning.com/2026/09/03/t...
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The Five Stages of Climate Denial – A ‘Telegraph’ Case Study
In a 2013 article, Dana Nuccitelli described the “five stages of climate denial”, which in brief are: Stage 1: Deny The Problem Exists Stage 2: Deny We Are The Cause Stage 2b: Consensus Denial Stag…
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/09/2026
With 8 months of the year now in, and greater certainty in El Nino forecasts for the remainder of the year, it is now looking like 2026 is likely (~75% chance) to be the warmest year on record in ERA5.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW: French researcher Stephanie Lamy exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey, and the media that fell into his trap. If you think the news cycle has “moved on” from this story, ask yourself why? broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...
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The killing of a black man
A French researcher exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey and the media who fell into their trap
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Whales are awesome! We should protect and restore them. 🐋🐋🐋 But they’re not likely to be a major climate solution. And that’s okay. Nothing everything needs to be :-)
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Bob D 🦋 @bobathon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/08/2026
The law won't save us from Meta's 'pervert glasses'. The only solution is mockery | Jonathan Liew
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The law won't save us from Meta's 'pervert glasses'. The only solution is mockery | Jonathan Liew
These things are undermining not just our public spaces but the very nature of being human. Let’s shame them off the streets, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/08/2026
Space junk punched a new hole in the moon. It’s not ours to abuse | Moriba Jah
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Space junk punched a new hole in the moon. It’s not ours to abuse | Moriba Jah
The space industry treats the sky as a place to dump what it no longer wants. We must develop a new model of accountability
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