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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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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
That itself needs police intervention
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is excellent!!👌
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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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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Stupid, so - expected, right?!
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Yep but my post was a way back in ‘24 so I’ve no idea if it’s still live
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Wouldn’t know, not been there myself for well over a year.
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Looking at that slogan it’s hard not to think back to the last fella in the 80’s & 90’s who used a similar slogan - clearly two different types but the optics surely arent good for Farage
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This is terrific news to the politic tired ears!
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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
livingstreets.org.uk
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...
theguardian.com
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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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
World wars have been catalysed by this sort of thing in the past…
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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
I’m absolutely sickened by this Labour govt - they seem to be making precisely the same mistakes the last sham govt made. And some new ones to boot.
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
He’s not wrong.
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I should amend that to ‘lots of bad company’!
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Just another dinosaur mind to slow down the progress toward a sustainability of world in the US - unfortunately he’s in lots of good company.
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Sadly true
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Current administration just doesn’t care. They appear not to be interested in scientific development at any real Level. Because fundamentally, TACO appears not to understand the most basic of scientific concepts
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I really hope they’re able to set up a parallel site elsewhere with some support and keep the work going, but difficult to see how that will work practically
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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.
theguardian.com
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...
carbonbrief.org
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...
bloomberg.com
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/...
theguardian.com
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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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
* just to add the source of the numbers I mentioned, came from BBC Cyclists who kill could face life sentence www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Cyclists who kill could face life sentence in proposed law change
The amendment would also see increased sentences for deaths and serious injury caused by cyclists.
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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
What’s fascinating is these new laws seem to try to be suggesting their existence will prevent deaths (4 a yr by cyclists - existing laws with jail term guidelines haven’t prevented the 1596 deaths a year caused by drivers-and exactly how many of those drivers went to jail for any length of time?
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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...
open.substack.com
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 · 28/03/2025
Completely agree. Why we can’t have an Edinburgh wide public travel integration like TfL in this modern day is a travesty.
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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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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Or the Heritage Foundation, or Cato, Hudson, or Hoover institutes. Indeed. No other species has a deliberate misinformation campaign misleading and misconstruing their whole race on basic scientific principles that were, in fact, established by the very enterprise concerns they seek to maintain. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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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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Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
When Trump/MAGA open their mouths, they’re lying.
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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...
theklaxon.com.au
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...
seattletimes.com
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...
bbc.co.uk
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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