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Ernesto

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Struggling gardener. Nerve wracked thespian. Frog throated singer. Untrained historic building enthusiast. Dreamer of dreams.

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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Politics dominated by big money has worked so well for the US….
theguardian.com
UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge
Exclusive: A total £179m has been donated by wealthy individuals since 2019, research reveals
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
People like to forget that when the coalition government came to power there was a real risk that the banking system would collapse. If that had happened then I think coalition leaders would rightly be condemned. Having got through the first few months, the Lib Dem’s should have then… 1/2
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chris Mason (BBC) reports on his “interview” with Nigel Farage. It’s not an interview. It’s an idiotic, moany rant from Farage about how he’s being picked on cos he reckons he’s a threat to the establishment. And Mason just folds like a wet cardboard box in the face of this delusional bollox.
Farage pictured with his innocent face on… (it’s hideous - my opinion) 

Nigel Farage insists he's 'broken no rules'He added: "The point is, we live in a complainants' society. If you complain about me, automatically that triggers an investigation."
He said that political parties were "constantly writing to all the authorities", meaning Reform was "under investigation every day for virtually everything we do".
"There's a big picture here. The old two-party system that has dominated since the end of the First World War feels for the first time it faces an existential threat.
"There is a whole ecosystem with a century of development around this. And we come along from virtually nowhere and threaten the whole thing.”
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
FUN FACT If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are JUST carrying coal, oil and gas. ~ Bill McKibben SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES!
Fun Fact: If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are just carrying coal, oil and gas.
- Bill McKibben, Climate Activist
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You would think that the arguments were strong enough that there would be no need to gloss over the climate, topography and population densities of Scotland vs England www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar
Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense, says chair of global public health at the Universit...
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Founding Fathers anticipated a Trump like figure - and loaded the constitution with measures to stop them What they didn't anticipate was that individuals would just chose not to fufil their functions I'm not sure this is recognised enough or we've thought about how to prevent this in future
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#Leveson2
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ... Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This clip is well worth 4 minutes of your time. #ClimateAction
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Why all the focus of privatisation in this article? The DfT already micromanage these rail lines. The operators just do what they are told.
theguardian.com
A rail nightmare: what it’s like on England’s busiest commuter-only train
This evening service from London to Crewe is hot, sweaty and heaving with people, many having to stand or sit in the gangways
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Why is it that nobody, literally not one single media source or commentator or influencer actually asks WHY 60,000 people are so unhappy with their life that they want to risk everything and leave home?? Surely if that problem could be tackled this would be the most effective remedy?
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Sandra. @sandratofriends.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The press, the Government, BBC, never tell the facts.
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Could it be that the reason their community has gone to the dogs has something to do with their naivety? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
I’ve seen what can confound Farage on his home turf: optimism. People need a politics that offers them that | Owen Jones
You can’t blame his constituents in Clacton for their pessimism – because they have been let down for years, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Newspaper? or Comic for adults?
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I don’t often completely agree with George Monbiot but here he is absolutely right. Complete waste of money.
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
All too close to the truth…
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The difference between normal people and the super rich
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Air conditioning has become the latest front in the energy culture war. Depending on who you ask, it is either wasteful excess we must resist or the only sensible response and anyone urging caution is a zealot. A few thoughts in this 🧵
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Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info · 28/06/2026
We often hear the Government hemmed itself in. But a combination of devolution and property tax reform could solve both the nation's economic problems and the Government's political problems. Here's how, in a note to Andy Burnham that I actually hope he reads. www.freewheeling.info/blog/a-note-...
freewheeling.info
A Note To Andy Burnham — Freewheeling
A letter to the next Prime Minister about how he can use devolution to both serve the country and his own political ends. Power to the people!
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In countries with high summer temperatures it has long been the practice to paint every building white
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Like many of us I have fought political battles over the years but I never thought that the UK would degenerate into a country where politicians, lawmakers and the press would judge the severity or news worthiness of a crime on the ethnicity or cultural background of the perpetrator.
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
So I just got lambasted for reposting the work of someone who (allegedly) is not a nice individual. What am I expected to conclude? How am I supposed to react?
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Europe has already cut its energy bill by 29% but nobody talks about it. EU energy use in 2024: 854 Mtoe. Without efficiency gains since 2000 it would have been ~1,103 Mtoe. That's energy nobody had to generate, import or pay for. New policy brief out today 👇 www.janrosenow.com/uploads/4/7/...
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.
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Colbobs.bsky.social "Col" he/him/his @colbobs.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The two-tier selection process.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 10/06/2026
“Last night we had really racist pogroms, or attempted pogroms, on the streets of Belfast.” Matthew O'Toole tells @lewisgoodall.com of having to drive children, whose homes were set on fire during the Belfast protests, to places of shelter. “I’m not sure that experience will leave me for a while.”
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 06/06/2026
"I really hope the British public learns the lesson of Donald Trump, when it comes to Nigel Farage." Congressman Brendan Boyle says the Reform leader is a "fraud", but is it too late for the UK? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/i-ho...
thenewsagents.co.uk
'I hope Brits realise Farage is a fraud before it's too late' | The News Agents
Congressman Brendan Boyle claims Donald Trump is corrupt on an "unbelievable" scale, and warns that the UK could face the same under a Nigel Farage leadership.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“Reform has the most extreme policy on energy and climate the UK has seen since modern science on the subject began. The party opposes solar; it opposes wind; it opposes batteries… Once again: Reform is largely funded by fossil fuels” Private Eye on the anti-thought, pro-corruption threat of Reform
MELTING TICE

RICHARD TICE, Reform
UK's deputy leader and spokesman on energy and climate, made an extraordinary appearance on Bloomberg's Zero podcast last week. A few things soon became clear: firstly, he hasn't read the science.

Tice claims the UK. is "almost
unilaterally" beggaring itself by choosing low-carbon power (tell that to China, building hundreds of gigawatts of solar and wind each year). He hasn't read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) summary for policymakers. He says "thousands" of scientists disagree with accepted climate science but wouldn't - couldn't? - name any scientists who'd advised him.

He thinks net zero will bankrupt Britain (jobs in clean energy are growing faster than much of the rest of the economy). He threatened to walk out twice - once when presented with the IPCC's summary. When asked about batteries, which store solar and wind power safely and cheaply until the evening peak, he said: "We don't need batteries. It's ridiculous."

Reform UK has the most extreme policy on energy and climate the UK has seen since modern science on the subject began. The party opposes solar; it opposes wind; it opposes batteries, for God's sake. Its policy is "drill, drill, frack Lincolnshire".
Once again: Reform
is largely funded by fossil fuels.

The main defence Tice wielded was that the IPC recently abandoned its always implausible
"RCP8.5" scenario - the worst-case, which predicted coal use doubling or tripling this century.
İronically, Tice himself is the British politician who would do more than anything else to bring about that polluted world.

'Young Windy'
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Reducing the top rate of tax was predicted to unleash innovation and make everyone better off. Well the first bit happened. youtube.com/shorts/V2M0_...
youtube.com
Either tax the rich more or have extreme poverty
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Unless it’s to warn of imminent danger, the motorist who sounds their horn is simply admitting their poor driving ability.
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Don’t you think when people start insulting you it’s a sure sign you won the argument??
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Would be great if we applied the same level of design, testing and scrutiny used for our children's car seats to the bike lanes they ride to school in.
White poster with an image of car seat on one side and kid and parent biking in painted lane on the other.

black text bike lane testing: 
Dynamic coating cure assessment
This test measures if the painted line is dry

Black text Car Seat Testing:

Dynamic Testing
This test measures the safety of the infant or child seat during a full-frontal collision at 48 km/h. It is carried out on an acceleration sled that is equipped with a standard bench seat. A crash test dummy is buckled into the infant or child seat, which is then secured to the bench seat using a seat belt or universal anchorages, and a tether strap, where required. The acceleration sled simulates a full-frontal collision at 48 km/h into a wall. High-speed cameras and other sensing devices installed on the sled and on the
dummy allow us to check the structural integrity of the infant or child seat as well as measuring:
How far forward the dummy's head moves;
How fast the dummy's chest moves; and
How much a rear-facing child seat rotates.
Buckle Release Testing
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Simple
Child biking beside a truck in a painted bike lane - next image child’s removed

It’s a simple choice
We can either design out the conflict or we can design out our kids
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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Anyone still questioning why Farage's Reform did so well? The majority of the British public have no idea how politics work in this country, they listen to our press and its lies and believe every word. If there is to be real change we have to take on our media.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
- July 2016: Theresa May replaces David Cameron, no election called - July 2019: Boris Johnson replaces Theresa May, no election called - September 2022: Liz Truss replaces Boris Johnson, no election called - October 2022: Rishi Sunak replaces Liz Truss, no election called
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Good from Caroline Lucas on what the UK has lost from Brexit and what type of country it could be (she can be said to have had a good Brexit) Identity is the missing piece still for me in this new British national Brexit debate
bylinetimes.com
'Nigel Farage Is the Architect of the UK’s Decline and It’s Time for the Rest of Us to Rebuild Our Home in Europe'
The damaging Brexit experiment imposed on us must now be reversed, argues former Green MP Caroline Lucas
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Should be normal practice in a world with a climate emergency. Or even a legal obligation!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Johnson has nine children and not an ounce of integrity
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Yuriy Akopov @yakopov.me · 29/04/2026
Helmets mainly protect from non-life threatening injuries like when you go over handlebars. In a collision that carries a risk of death helmet or no helmet makes no difference. So it is a choice, although for me personally that choice is clear.
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Could we see similar moves from the Trump family as he loses control?? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Orbán associates rush to move wealth out of Hungary after election defeat
Incoming PM Péter Magyar accuses Fidesz-linked figures of trying to shield their wealth from accountability
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Politicians just seem to have given up trying to explain the world as it is to people. It's a huge problem.
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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The inefficiency of our existing power systems is truly staggering.
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Steve @catmantoo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Do you know what the difference between Donald Trump and God is? God never thinks he’s Donald Trump.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Mamdani delivers a master class every time in how to communicate politically.
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