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Full Circle Fibres

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Textile Scientist. Circularity Champion, Churchill Fellow

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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 6h
Letter printed in The Times today
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 13h
Fifteen billion miles from home, the farthest machine humans have ever built is still doing science on less memory than a blank Word document and a data recorder that is, quite literally, an 8-track tape. Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is roughly 15.9 billion miles out—closing in on one light-day
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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Thaddeus is a girl's name 🏳️‍⚧️ @thaddeus.zone · 30/10/2025
tech bros keep promising self-aware ai when they haven't even cracked making self-aware tech bros
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥This is how it’s done. Imagine if every anti-immigrant fearmongering liar was grilled like this. #ShowMeTheStats #GetYourPhoneOut 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (h/t @ukcameraman.bsky.social )
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Barbara Dylla 🇨🇦 @walkbikebus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most ...
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Scientists warned for years: if we clear 20-25% of the Amazon, we cross the point of no return. We've already cleared 17%. We are right on the edge.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them.😒😒😒😪
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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/clim... #Oscillations #ENSO #ElNiño #OceanHeat #ExtremeHeat
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Dark Matter Zine @darkmatterzine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#auspol You don’t even need to read the subtitles to know what’s happening here. Australia’s medical system, public transport, hospitality industry, and more would also collapse without all our migrant neighbours. ALP, LNP and PHON are undermining our society with dangerous populist crap.
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Cazneaux Tree late yesterday - and a raven - can you see it? This tree was made famous by Harold Cazneaux who took a photo of it in 1937 that he titled 'The Spirit of Endurance'. It is a river red gum and is estimated to be 500 years old.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 07/09/2026
This is @mrjamesob.bsky.social's London.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026
"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, 'What would I do if I were a horse?'" -Ely Devons
A fake Harvard Business Review cover, dated September-October 2026. It features a large Roach Motel under the headline 'THE NEW CUSTOMER RETENTION' with the subhead 'Why acquire customers when you can take hostages?'A fake Harvard Business Review cover, dated September-October 2026. It features a large Roach Motel under the headline 'THE NEW CUSTOMER RETENTION' with the subhead 'Why acquire customers when you can take hostages?'
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/09/2026
The latest Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature (preliminary) is 2.78°C above the 1991-2020 baseline, marking the 99th consecutive daily record, a full 0.79°C higher than the previous daily record set in 1997. The Climate Casino is taking the OVER on 3.0°C by the end of September.
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Mamabird @jaybirdnest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Humans need water for survival NOT data centers!
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. — Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan sitting on a wooden garden bench, smiling at the camera with hands clasped, wearing a dark overcoat, light trousers and black shoes, against a stone wall with flowers.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage should attend a park run, a game of football, a Primary School in Clacton, a Prom concert before he goes all "Broken Britain" The country is NOT broken. It's millions of people, born without Farage's privilege, trying cheerfully trying their best for their families and communities.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A valediction. My @smh @theage cartoon.
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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On Saturday, the world’s oceans were hotter than ever previously recorded www.theguardian.com/... "The new ocean heat record being set in August is especially remarkable as global sea temperatures are typically highest in March and April"
Daily global sea surface temperature records broken.
Previous record: 1 Mar 2024 21.09C
22 Aug 2026  21.1C
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026
Any frank assessment of your achievements starts with an equally frank assessment of the world-historic forces that attended those achievements. For example, I often tell people who want to get into tech, "If you lack the foresight and work ethic to be born in 1971, I can't really help you." 1/
An old-timey baseball player sliding into base in a great dust-cloud. The background is a high-magnification multicore CPU.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026
AI is alarming for many reasons: it's a dangerous financial bubble, an environmental catastrophe, and a tool for eroding wages and labor power. But in addition to all that, AI is an epistemic disaster. 1/
The North Pole at night, hand-tinted in blues and purples so it looks more like a moonscape. Protruding from the ice is the cross-sectioned head and neck of a man, his brains on display. Stepping over the leftmost mountains is a killer pulp robot, about to crush the head. Leaning against the rightmost mountains is a sneering, princely toff in a red frock coat, holding a cane that has penetrated the decapitated skull and lodged in the brains.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Carl Sagan’s prediction about America, made 31 years ago.
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Full Circle Fibres @fullcirclefibres.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is so so sad, a lovely little part of the world normally boggy & wet even on a sunny day, dry to tinder after an extraordinary set of heat waves & now burning underground…. 🥲 #wales #wildfire this is climate change impact, today not in decades time.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The key difference between us and many other countries, I guess, is that our radio is really good. And the key reason for that is the BBC.
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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I do not want to download your app. I just want lunch. I do not want to create an account. I just want lunch. I do not want to setup 2FA. I just want lunch. I do not want to 'earn points'. I just want lunch. I do not want to add to my order. I just want lunch. I JUST WANT LUNCH!
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If only the quiet collapse of our universities got as much attention as Jason Arday has. Here’s @gsoh31.bsky.social’s recent piece for Arguably on the “slow, grim dribbling away of one of Britain’s great triumphs and economic advantages”. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
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The quiet collapse of British universities
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“A world that tiny cannot possibly be the center of a cosmos of all that is, let alone the sole focus of its creator. The pale blue dot is a silent rebuke to the fundamentalist, the nationalist, the militarist, the polluter—to anyone who does not put above all other things the protection of our little planet and the life that it sustains in the vast cold darkness.”

― Ann Druyan, Cosmos: Possible Worlds

Image: Pale Blue Dot
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Hart @hart-frentz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The difference--
eitachse, stripes, aufgeteilt in
these were hot summers
this is climatechange
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026
Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
A sepia-toned 1950s era boardroom in which men in suits sit around a circular table. The chair of the meeting has been replaced with a man in a straitjacket, making a funny face. The heads of the remaining board-members have been replaced with robots from 1930s pulp magazines. The image has been hand-tinted.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Please read..... #BookSky
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Spanish crochet teacher Eva Pacheco and her students created a street canopy in crochet and knitting, making welcome shade for the community of Alhaurín de la Torre, Malaga #WomensArt
Photo looking down on a narrow street with patterned crochet canopy
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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
File under "Really quite disturbing" If the preliminary data for the past few weeks are confirmed, we are now very close to a new world record, and seeing an alarming rate of change climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...
Plot of daily sea surface temperature between 60ºN and 60ºS. Day for day the temperature has been at a record height siince June 3rd. The as yet provisinal data for the past couple of weeks reaches 21.16ºC-- just a smidge below the all time record of 21.17ºC set in early 2024, when an El Nino event was at its peak.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 29/07/2026
This is a really beautiful website by @jdworkin.bsky.social on the everyday household items that were once only dreamt about – a music player, nightlight, family photos, clean water, ice, spices, and more. 10/10 would recommend exploring it! ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
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Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
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(Dr) Debbie Challis @poisonchallis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Absolutely loved discussing this with the Podyssey crew. We didn’t all agree on everything, but that is what made it so fascinating. Being a sort of classicist at the moment means people asking for recommendations and, honestly, Podyssey is a great place to start, not least for the storytelling.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026
AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/
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Pluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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