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Carl Tiivas

@carltiivas.bsky.social
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Climate action, Green Party, Retired NHS veteran, music, climbing, allotments, Energy Transition, EVs, Community Energy -Director Harborough Energy/Harborough Solar One Ltd

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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 6h
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do_5... AI is terrifying !
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The Toddlers Have Bazookas Now
YouTube video by exurb1a
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 10h
Labour seems poised to repeat the mistakes of the last energy price crisis if they cut funding that would help families choose fossil-free heating. We cannot afford to plunge the sector into uncertainty and risk stalling growth in heat pump installations when we need it most.
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“Labour seems poised to repeat the mistakes of the last energy price crisis if they cut the funding that would help families choose fossil free heating for their homes. 

We cannot afford to plunge the sector into uncertainty and risk stalling the growth in heat pump installations just when we need them most to meet our legally binding climate commitments.

Instead, Greens call for a local authority-led, street-by-street retrofit programme to insulate our homes and upgrade to cleaner heating that doesn't leave families exposed to volatile gas prices.”
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Crikey, that orange is bright.
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Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
The French firm is reinventing the classic model as carmakers come under pressure from Chinese rivals.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Fair enough. I have mixed feelings about Zack Polanski. He comes across as a bit too brash and anti-Labour to me sometimes. We need a strong Green Party and strong Labour Party and PR, so they aren't in direct competition so much. His bold politics podcast shows some depth I think.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... It's nice to hear Zack Polanski's view on this weeks events. I still believe he is a principled and able leader of the Green Party, that has grown so much under his leadership.
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Yes, it’s been a tough week for the Greens: but don’t lose sight of how we’re transforming British politics | Zack Polanski
We must now have unity and a discussion about party democracy. And let me be clear: as leader, I will never tolerate antisemitism, says Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party of England and Wales
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AI Climate Project @aiclimateproject.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The real problem can’t be heard youtube.com/shorts/UXJbL...
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Venture Capitalist Says the Rich Aren’t the Real Job Creators #Economy #Inequality #LamontTyson
YouTube video by Lamont Tyson
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 10/10/2026
Skip Netflix tonight, watch something that matters. 🎬 Two essential documentaries on Britain's healthcare: The Great NHS Heist: youtu.be/Www0cHLQulw?... The Dirty War on Britain’s NHS: youtu.be/BByqoBS7MEc?... Old, but 100% relevant today. Watch and tell us your thoughts! 💬
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#totp Appreciating Lena Martell's voice.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#totp Rainbow was the first band I saw live at the Granby Halls Leicester. They had a big illuminated computer controlled rainbow and Cozy Powell had a drum kit on a hydraulic platform. Happy days.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#totp Blimey - 1979 totp excelling itself tonight.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#totp Squeeze - another top band with a respectable back catalogue.. Glenn Tilbrook had a lovely voice, also Paul Carrack - the other members - not so much.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#totp Sad Cafe - very decent band. I used to play my big sisters Sad Cafe records.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#totp Classic trilby snake combo.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me too and I'm a 63 yr old geezer.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#totp XTC - yay !
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Since the Hormuz crisis, EU gas prices are up 132% and oil 52%. Electricity is up 44%, after falling through spring. Every boiler, car and furnace that switches to electricity is less exposed to the energy crisis. Electrification is increasingly energy security.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ash Sarkar, "Every time we've had these squeezes on welfare recipients, what we've actually seen, rather than dealing with issues like long-term unemployment, is an increase in child poverty, and in-work poverty as well"
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#totp How many times ore is she going to take that glove off ?
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/09/2026
"If a resurgent movement demands action, we finally have the tools to make that demand matter – a working planet that runs mostly on sun and wind is in tantalizing reach," writes @billmckibben.bsky.social. "At the last possible moment, with backs to the wall, we still have our face to the sun."
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The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly | Bill McKibben
There is hope in solar power. As the UN meets, we are urging leaders to pursue a clear goal: clean energy for all by 2030
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This year has been brutal, and like most people you probably want to do more about climate change. But what, and how? Great news – I’ve written just the book for you! It’s called What One Person Can Do and it’s a clear and simple how-to guide, a roadmap to help you make influential changes...
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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Philosopher and author Sarah Wilson explains how prepping alone doesn’t work, and that we should instead be working toward a radical simplification: an intentional shift toward a slower, more communal way of living.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Artificial Intelligence renamed to Super Intelligence by the Super Stupid.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did my first proper big belly laugh in a very long time to this. Magnificent.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Makes sense to me. EV's have many less moving parts.
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High-mileage electric cars are more reliable than petrol ones, study finds
EVs with 90,000 to 120,000 miles on the clock are more likely to pass MOTs than petrol models of the same age
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I love xtc. I would suggest listening to: Senses working overtime, Love on a farm boys wages, the disappointed, Mayor of Simpleton, All you pretty girls, but so many more. Their alter ego: Dukes of Stratosphere are also worth checking out.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#totp Legs n co dancing in a kelp forest.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Keeping on with the leather trowser theme. Subcategory: voluminous.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#totp Only exceeded by the leather budget.
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#totp. A band with a very large vest budget.
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Richard M @daysaregone.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The Commodores. #totp
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A fundamental tenet of MAGA and all the other "populist" parties (Reform UK, RN, AfD, etc) is that global warming is a hoax and we must not believe the climate scientists. But the evidence is unequivocal.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 16/09/2026
Cropped is Carbon Brief’s fortnightly newsletter that provides a digest of all the key developments from the fraught, yet fascinating intersection between food systems 🐄 , land use 🌽, nature 🌿 and climate change. Sign up here for free ⬇️ www.carbonbrief.org/newsletters
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just imagine how much disinformation and micro targeting £72m gets you… Shame on the leaders who did nothing to protect democracy from the assault coming its way …as if we learnt nothing from Brexit.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
At some point the Parties that put in all their effort to destroy socialism and destroy any hope of a more fair society need to look in the mirror and see their role in the rise of Fascism.
At some point the Parties that put in all their effort to destroy socialism and destroy any hope of a more fair society need to look in the mirror and see their role in the rise of Fascism.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fascism in Britain has not come from nothing. It is the result of decades of Thatcherism and then Austerity.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This seems like a useful policy to support.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In country after country we start to see EV sales up and ICE down. The lines cross in an X typical for transitions. Norway in 2019. Sweden and Nepal in 2023. Denmark and Singapore in 2024. Belgium and the Netherlands in 2025. Finland is crossing now. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-car-in...
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... Worth checking out.
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The trollers v the scrollers: Edith Pritchett’s Bayeux tapestry for the modern age
Didn’t manage to get tickets to the exhibition of the 11th-century artwork at the British Museum in London? Don’t worry, our cartoonist has got you covered, capturing the many battles of our times in ...
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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How many times does the BBC lead on a murder story with a large headline stating: Man accused of murder 'not guilty,' according to man* Oh, never, right? Because you can see the obvious problem with that style of reportage, right?
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What if climate change isn't the greatest threat to life on Earth? 🌡️ 🌎 The Earth has physical limits called planetary boundaries, these are 'the safe operating space for humanity', the guardrails keeping Earth stable. 🧵 1/6
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Councils are not taking the #climate threat seriously enough, as I explained on the BBC recently. Watch a longer version here: www.youtube.com/shorts/M1yWX...
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Carl Tiivas @carltiivas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Here's the link to the world food prize website: www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates...
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2025: Hungria - The World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So the ultra-rich will continue to own our politics, and our country. Disappointing to say the least. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️
Sheep grazing in fields, the one in the foreground with white smoke apparently coming out of its bottom
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