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Chris Young

@christhetaurean.bsky.social
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Husband, Father, Gardener, climate and active&sustainable travel campaigner, artist, photographer #carisnotking #noplanetB born 326ppm #dyslexicthinker

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danabrahamsmusic.bsky.social @danabrahamsmusic.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🚲 Happy World Bicycle Day! 🚲 This is my ode to the cycling paradise that is AMSTERDAM! Let’s get more cities to make cycling easier and safer, just like they have. Enjoy! And please share with others who love cycling in their city! #cycling #worldbicycleday #amsterdam
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Living Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Five years on from the Government’s consultation on pavement parking in England and there is still no action. Meanwhile, Susanne and her son Joseph, a wheelchair user, found freedom in Scotland, where there pavement parking is restricted. Read about their story here 👇 bit.ly/4hicmQe
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Pavements are for people – not for parking
How the pavement parking ban in Scotland is transforming things for one family.
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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A different Scotland is possible. Be part of building it 👇 members.greens.scot/join
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Edinburgh Greens @edinburghgreens.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Give today to help re-elect Lorna Slater, so that she can continue to her transformative work as a Green MSP. Any contribution - big or small - will make a huge difference to our people-powered campaign to deliver a record 3 Green MSPS for Edinburgh! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/re-elect-l...
Campaign poster for Lorna Slater of the Scottish Greens, smiling outdoors in a grey blazer and blue top. Text reads: ‘Lorna Slater. Donate to support Lorna’s re-election campaign today! Scottish Parliament Election 2026.
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Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
So many people across the country are struggling. And they're rightly angry at a political system which has failed them. With a new generation of leadership across the UK only Greens will deliver the transformation that our country desperately needs. 💚 greens.scot/join
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
He’s not wrong.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.
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Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired
Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
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Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high - Carbon Brief
The UK’s high electricity prices have become intensely political, with competing claims over the cause of rocketing bills and how best to get them down.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Corporate America Owes the Rest of Us $87 Trillion
Switching to renewables is expensive, but it will cost Americans much more to stick with fossil fuels.
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
*The 89% project* A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority
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⋆˙⟡₊Mist⊹˚₊⟡˙ @meowstin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Happy Earth Day 🌎 🌹🦋
Tulips and pretty blossomed trees Monarch butterfly on flowers Orange Lillies with a castle behind them Rainbow made out of flowers
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is excellent news: open.substack.com/pub/greendis...
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Good news: renewables outpace fossil fuels the world over
And renewable energy leads to longer lives!
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
What an awful way to deal with a long term sitting tenant - 🤞 Martin Crawford can keep hold of this beautiful gem and groundbreaking work in sustainable forest culture.
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tickets now available!
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The Forth Act @theforthact.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Time to meet the last three actors rounding out our cast! 🗓️ June 25th - 28th 2025 🕖 7pm & 2pm (see ticket site for details) 🔗ticket link coming soon! 📍Saughton Park - Sunken Garden
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The Forth Act @theforthact.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
We are delighted to be returning to Saughton Park this summer with another of Shakespeare’s classic comedies! Stay tuned for casting announcements 🎭 🗓️ June 25th - 28th 2025 🕖 7pm & 2pm (see ticket site for details) 🔗ticket link coming soon! 📍Saughton Park - Sunken Garden
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Our national shame knows no bounds under the Trumperate of Trump/Musk/Vance.
Tweet by Pekka Kallioniemi (@PKall
) with the text: 'After 9/11, NATO’s Article 5 was invoked for the first (and only) time ever by the United States. Troops from the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, Spain, Poland, Norway, Romania, Turkey, New Zealand, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Finland, and many others joined the fight in Afghanistan. More than one thousand of these soldiers paid the ultimate price. JD Vance—Have you said 'thank you' once for their sacrifice?' The post includes a photo of the World Trade Center towers on fire and smoking during the 9/11 attacks, with a blue checkmark indicating a verified account.
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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Good on the STUC. Similar vein to (think I posted about this on here) Roz Foyer at Poverty Alliance conference at the end of last year explicitly warning against an anti-immigration turn. Glad Scotland's Unions collectively seem willing to stand up for *all* of their workers and not bow to bigotry.
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UK Butterflies @ukbutterflies.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Well, we've finally deactivated our Twitter account for good, thanks to the actions of its owner. On a lighter note, here's a real emperor 😀
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Saw this on Tw, it’s bang on.
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
💯% @ketanjoshi.co Did you perhaps see my #Auspol Senate Committee inquiry on Offshore Wind submission? @theklaxon.bsky.social gave it a write up: theklaxon.com.au/anti-voice-g... Full submission, 5 docs, some 50 pages & references is here (go to no. 297) www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
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Anti-Voice group spreading "whale death" lies - The Klaxon
The group that ran the "No" campaign against the Indigenous Voice in now at the heart of an anti-offshore wind disinformation network.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/12/2024
40% of the mass of everything transported by a ship in 2023 was a fossil fuel. That stat paired with this new study shines a pretty harsh spotlight on how obscenely bad-faith the right-wing concern trolling around offshore wind + whales is www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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UW study finds leading cause of whale deaths
New research shows that the top threat to whales around the globe has changed. But it wouldn't take much to reduce the risk, researchers say.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
My MP @elliereeves.bsky.social (the Chancellor's sister): I urge you to please listen to the clear scientific arguments below. The Conservative party has been voted out and we expect Labour policies to match the urgency of the climate & ecological crisis, not fudge the issues or make them worse!
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sbarlster @sbarlster.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Hope we didn’t upset those psychopathic drivers… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Police catching motorists doing 90mph on 30mph roads
A total of 48% forces found drivers going more than three times the 30mph limit, the RAC says.
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
100k jobs doesnt seem to be that much when you compare to a similar investment in, say, renewables or the green economy, that surely, would be better value more sensible in the long term? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reeves’s Heathrow third runway report was commissioned by London airport
The chancellor is under fire after a study cited as evidence for expanding the terminal to boost the UK’s economic growth was ordered by Heathrow itself
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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"It's really fun" 🤩 "If you're a politician, come on the bike bus. It's great." Stella from Camden shouts out her #BikeBus + throws an invite to all politicians 🎉🥳🚍🚲 @camdencyclists.bsky.social All children should be able to cycle safely to school like Stella can.
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
1/ WE DID IT 🎉: Rosebank has been ruled unlawful and the oil field’s approval has been overturned. This is incredible news, and monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all. @stopcambo
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Stop the Rosebank oil field
Together, we can and will stop the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK and make this a turning point in the fight against climate change and for a sustainable future.
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The election of Donald Trump as president could be about to let Big Oil companies off the hook - but we mustn’t let that happen. Join me in signing the urgent petition calling on the government to make fossil fuel companies like Shell and BP pay for their climate damage. Sign now: act.gp/4frynda
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UK Government: Make Polluters pay!
Tell Keir Starmer to stand up to Trump by reigning in big polluters like Shell and BP.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Food for thought.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Remember this one? Before & after of a brain after a 20 minute walk — why walking to work, or school, or just to get the intellectual juices flowing, is linked to better creative & intellectual performance. Among MANY other benefits to you and to society. Design and build more walkable cities.
Graphic of brain centers lit up after a 20 minute walk
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Concerns aired by LTC regarding recent uptick in serious injuries and crashes caused by driver error in and around Corstorphine lately. Asking for CEC cllrs and police to address as matter of urgency lowtrafficcorstorphine.org.uk/low-traffic-...
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Low Traffic Corstorphine Statement on Road Safety Concerns - Low Traffic Corstorphine
Low Traffic Corstorphine (LTC) is deeply concerned about the recent spate of road traffic incidents in our area, including a death on St John’s Road and several other alarming  collisions involving dr...
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Decongestion charging uses the price mechanism to help drivers decide if they need a car for their journey, who then often conclude public transport, cycling, or walking is better. This leads to clearer streets, cleaner air, better public transport, and improved health. It’s boring and it works.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 10/01/2025
Mapping changes in temperature: 2024 edition
175 maps showing temperature change from 1850 to 2024
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It’s a bit chilly oot there!
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The root cause of road violence is not clothing.The root cause of road violence is not clothing.The root cause of road violence is not clothing.The root cause of road violence is not clothing.
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Been up in the wilds of Inverness-shire this weekend at a fabulous wedding and stumbled across this very rare fungal phenomenon which is a reaction to v specific cold conditions: “Hair Ice”
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Definitely worth propagating this into the next year. Maybe some folks in important jobs might be able to use is to support proper active travel projects that make arriving safe more likely however you get there, it’s not much to ask for really… is it?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
“It’s not that I am trying to do social engineering around people using bikes, walking & transit. I am trying to undo the 60+ years of social engineering around the complete reliance on the automobile.” — well said @gabeklein.bsky.social. #cardependency
Cartoon with road jammed with cars between rows and rows of detached homes in suburban sprawl.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Asthma emergency admissions plunged as lockdown improved air, Oxford study finds. “First study to tally asthma exacerbations with air pollution during pandemic finds numbers admitted to A&E fell 41% in 2020.” Via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Asthma emergency admissions plunged as lockdown improved air, Oxford study finds
First study to tally asthma exacerbations with air pollution during pandemic finds numbers admitted to A&E fell 41% in 2020
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
“People call [the antiscience movement] ‘misinformation’ or ‘the infodemic’ as tho it’s just random junk out there on the Internet or social media, and it’s not— it’s organized, it’s well-financed, and it’s politically motivated.” — Dr. Peter Hotez in @sciam.bsky.social
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Vaccine Scientist Warns Antiscience Conspiracies Have Become a Deadly, Organized Movement
Vaccinologist Peter Hotez explains how the movement to oppose science and scientists has gained power
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Never forget, car dependency isn’t freedom. Some might ask “what’s more free than cars?” Choices. Choices are more free than car dependency. It’s not a hard concept. I’m not pitting cars against any other single mode of transport. I’m rejecting design that creates dependency on just one mode.
Massive car-dependent freeway interchange
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I’m convinced that the only way to get rich countries to act on climate is to pose it as a competition with China.
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China’s EV sales set to overtake traditional cars years ahead of west
[FREE TO READ] Volumes forecast to rise 20% next year, smashing international projections and Beijing’s official targets
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