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Chris Lavelle

@chrisplavelle.bsky.social
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Senior Project Manager at Uni of Glasgow | Chair of Glasgow Eco Trust | Drumchapel Ladies Coach | Green Party Socialist | Views own | I also ramble at horizonglasgow.uk

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Abolishing Natural England & Environment Agency? What do the Conservatives stand for any more? Destroying everything that makes this place bearable? "And that will be England gone, The shadows, the meadows, the lanes, The guildhalls, the carved choirs." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13h
The West is falling. So why has it been left to the Right to talk about it? My new book 'The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It' is out now: www.penguin.co.uk/books/468587
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Plant Based News @plantbasednews.bsky.social · 13h
microdosing misery as a vegan when people talk about climate change without mentioning meat.
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Tron Theatre @trontheatre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We're thrilled to welcome back Celtic Connections to the Tron in 2027! The full festival programme has been launched today so make sure to check out the brilliant range of artists and performances. Tickets go on sale on at 11am on Thursday 8 October ➡️ www.tron.co.uk/whats-on/
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 03/10/2026
This week in the U.S., - Trump aired more taxpayer-funded ads on TV - the U.S. Coast Guard announced it seized two ships carrying fuel to Cuba - ICE posted & deleted internal reviews on its website about deaths in the agency’s custody last year Read the dangerous actions: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...
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Chris Lavelle @chrisplavelle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A failure of the private sector .
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 02/10/2026
“[Netanyahu] will destroy the region and still claimed that he had no choice…” Francesca Albanese tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that the United Nations is becoming “less relevant” as it continues to host ICC-wanted Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly. Watch more: zeteo.com/p/albanese-t...
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Vegan Horizon @veganhorizon.substack.com · 01/10/2026
“On multiple levels, plant-based economies will improve the overall health and wellness of people around the world by reducing hunger in developing countries and reducing chronic diseases in the west.” — Vijay Eswaran
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Studies Show Plant-Based Diets Would Save Hundreds of Billions in Health Costs
And millions of lives every year
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve known many other defense secretaries, starting with Cap Weinberger, who served as defense secretary under Reagan. I can say without fear of contradiction that Pete Hegseth is the stupidest and least qualified of them all. He is a danger to the entire world. He must be impeached.
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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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Chris Lavelle @chrisplavelle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... BBC can't do reporting on anything - Greggs making year on year profits and still wanting to be greedy bastards and shaft its workers.
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Greggs to shut four factories and cut 740 jobs
The company says it needs to "keep evolving alongside changing customer expectations".
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Chris Lavelle @chrisplavelle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The private sector house builders are failing this country. Government must give local housing associations and councils the funding to design, build and run their own stock.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
parents talk to your sons about what is going on. It is your job to guide them and for them to hear from you and understand the importance of their presence to stand up for what is right especially in the face of everyone doing wrong.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Diesel generators at a planned 'green' Scottish data centre has sparked fumes fears for nearby homes👇
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Diesel generators at 'green' data centre spark fumes fears for nearby homes
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 28/09/2026
More than two-thirds of newly flooded coastlines worldwide could become suitable habitat for 122 non-native marine species by the middle and end of this century, according to a paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution. go.nature.com/3V7NIuT 🌊🌎🧪
This is figure 1, which shows three fundamental pathways for biological invasions.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers" by @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social, Lesley Clark and @corbinhiar.bsky.social for @politico.com: www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
Israel engaged in the demolition of a city with families still inside the buildings. Real life horror.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For all we know at the moment, the 5 men arrested near RAF Fairford might have been on a stag night. But the wild claims by Trump and Rubio suggest that, if they'd been apprehended in the US, they would have been denied due process. I hope our government tells them to butt out of our justice system.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That is a text book example of a "conspiracy theory" Mike!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The big lie peddled by developers about ‘Biodiversity Net Gain’ is that that they can destroy natural places & somehow make it good by habitat creation elsewhere Ecological restoration is about reversing historical damage to nature It is not about justifying further destruction
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They treat those who seek peace as a threat to the public realm, while throwing a defensive cordon around those engaged in genocide. They treat environmental protesters as if they were antisocial thugs, while the antisocial thugs of the fossil fuel industry get a free pass to trash our lives.
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Chris Lavelle @chrisplavelle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The least effective investment for towns and communities. I guarantee the high rises and the communities next to these yards will still be areas of deprivation in 10 years.
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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚲 "When we were doing Bikeability Level 2 we always went on the roads, and it was kind of hard, but also fun because I don't ride on the road often. It was fun to have an experience on the road." - Sophie, P6, on #BikeabilityScotland on-road cycle training
Two young girls ride their bikes on a road in a residential area, as part of a Level 2 Bikeability Scotland cycle training session.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Someone recently told me they know people who were leaving New York because of Mamdani and I was very tempted to say, "No you don't."
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Strikes me as about as true as the rich people who said they'd leave New York if they were forced to pay $9 to drive in Manhattan.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Lime’s average number of monthly users jumped 31% to approaching 700,000 as it added more than 4,500 ebikes and scooters to its fleet, taking the total to almost 38,000..."
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Lime bike profits double as rider numbers surge in England
US-owned firm says average monthly users at UK arm surged to nearly 700,000 with sales up by a third
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 26/09/2026
Here’s the ‘Pathetic’ Reason Trump Is Running His Corrupt ‘Love Me’ Ads In private, the president keeps whining about Republicans trying to ditch him. So his team made him a taxpayer-funded propaganda campaign. Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-love...
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Here’s the ‘Pathetic’ Reason Trump Is Running His Corrupt ‘Love Me’ Ads
In private, the president keeps whining about Republicans trying to ditch him. So his team made him a taxpayer-funded propaganda campaign.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A man has been arrested and charged in connection with attempted murder after a teenage cyclist was struck in Aberdeen
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Man charged in connection with attempted murder of cyclist in Aberdeen
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 22/09/2026
Racist thug livestreams knifing an inflatable containing an RNLI rescuer out at sea. Jesus wept. (Especially as the racist thug cosplays as a Christian.)
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 22/09/2026
Trump's speech at the U.N. checked all his usual boxes... ✅Warmongering ✅Islamophobia ✅Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric ✅Election lies We watched it so you don't have to. Here are some of the lowlights (we couldn't fit them all.)
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There is a lot of misinformation about the UK social security spending. The chart below shows Total UK social security spending as a percentage of GDP, 2013/14 to 2030/31 (spending & forecast) 55% goes to pensioners, the remainder covers everything else. lordslibrary.parliament.uk/welfare-refo...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Why Is a Labour Lord Now Paid by Palantir – and What Does it Mean For Our Democracy?" Ex-Labour deputy leader Tom Watson just got hired by a controversial US tech company seeking taxpayer-funded state contracts. @graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo UK on the corrupting of our politics:
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Why Is a Labour Lord Now Paid by Palantir – and What Does it Mean For Our Democracy?
Ex-Labour deputy leader Tom Watson just got hired by a controversial US tech company seeking taxpayer-funded state contracts. The intermingling of politicians and corporations corrupts our democracy.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension. Means-testing even though people have paid for it. Proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains tax; cut corporation tax. Enrich the wealthiest. No means-testing. Chaos and cruelty inevitable.
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Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension
‘Radical’ report likely to influence party’s platform also proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains taxes
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I must share with you this epic community note on Twitter 😂
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The European Union is tightening the regulatory backdoor through which US automakers have been quietly importing around 7k large SUVs and pickup trucks/year. “The revised rules, expected to launch in 2027, are designed to close loopholes that Brussels says allow unsafe vehicles onto European roads.”
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Too big for Europe: America's pickup trucks became a trade war flashpoint - EUROPE SAYS
America loves its pickup trucks. The Ford F-150, the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, the Ram 1500: these are not merely vehicles. They are cultural monuments on
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Martin D @unixmaisonette.com · 20/09/2026
I understand nearly £13 billion of tax was deemed uncollectable last year. Up from £4 billion in 2022/23. The majority of this is from insolvent companies. That money hasn’t just disappeared; it’s in someone’s pockets. If it were overpaid benefits, the press would be calling for people to swing.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
By coincidence, I was asked by our opinion desk to write about the current panic over e-bikes, and so I wrote this, pointing out that if we're going to discuss e-bikes we should at least know what we're talking about. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When is an ebike not an ebike? When it has a powerful illegal engine. Get this menace off our roads | Peter Walker
As a cyclist I want the authorities to act with clarity. Lime bikes and renters can be annoying, but the true threat is those who dangerously flout the law, says the Guardian’s senior political corres...
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Paul @endthecaste.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Blue States are the donor States for federal taxes, and Red States ride our wave as TAKER States THAT is the damn truth!
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 12/09/2026
UK rail infrastructure is expensive because we barely build any of it, not the other way around.
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Glenn Vowles @enviroman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So, @zackpolanski.bsky.social is doing a great job as the Greens leader, helping the party win its first parliamentary by-election, winning a record number of council seats, gaining much more media attention, sharpening party focus and purpose, gaining a record number of party members.
Politics UK Facebook post asking 'Do you think Zack Polanski is doing a good or bad job as the leader of the Green Party?'.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Labour has banned peaceful protest for Palestine. It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The far right are surging in Germany. Why? Because life is becoming like the hunger games. New column: zeteo.uk/p/the-afds-v...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Left: a terrorist. Right: protestors.
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Structural Biology @actacrystd.iucr.org · 07/09/2026
September issue is now available: journals.iucr.org/d/issues/202... The cover highlights the determination of the highest resolution structure in the PDB at 0.43 Å resolution. Electron-density maps reveal extensive deformation electron density. Read more at doi.org/10.1107/S205...
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