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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just tax the compute. Datacentre? Cool. Fund your own power generation and water reservoirs, and then pay tax for every computational act your datacentre does. And we'll use the tax income to offset societal and job damage. Overnight, AI becomes something AI giants are desperate to restrict.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel

Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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South Downs National Park @southdownsnp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Misty morning along the River Ouse. In case you need an excuse to slow down and spend time in nature, the Big River Watch runs from 18-24 September. Spend 15 minutes enjoying your local river and help build a picture of river health. Find out more here: buff.ly/soXfaST 👋

Misty river bend at sunrise with a grassy bank in the foreground, a thin layer of mist drifting over fields and rolling hills, and a soft pastel sky with a lone cloud.

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 19/09/2026

Passenger EVs grew from less than 10% of China's new car sales in 2020 to over 50% in 2025 ⚡ The shift is now spreading past cars as electric truck sales MORE THAN DOUBLED in 2024 and again in 2025, reaching 26% of new truck sales. ember-energy.org/lat...

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan:

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"I was expecting to learn things. I was expecting to have fun. What I was not expecting, though, was that there’d be a moment that felt akin to how I imagine religious people experience faith, in which I stood looking at the magnitude of creation and felt genuinely overcome by emotion."

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Here’s how you dig a big tunnel under the ground

A flashback to September 2021.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/08/2026

And for a quick hit here’s one from my personal library of obscurely comforting TikToks.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My newsletter turns five years old this month. It's time to take stock of where the climate is, and where the fight is. billmckibben.substack.com/p/take-five-...

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Take Five

The Crucial Years at the halfway point

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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

welcome to britain, bangers are sausages but also second hand cars and also good songs, good luck out there

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ULEZ was never a crack down on people driving, always a push for better respiratory health. 🚗 💨 “Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) found a restoration of lung capacity […] stunted by exposure to pollution”.

Image of a bus speeding past and headline “Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children study finds”

“Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution was restored after introduction of ultra low emission zone.”

Red text: Damian Gayle Env correspondent.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I have absolutely no time for the argument that "we are tiny - our contribution/difference is only a tiny fraction of the total, so we might as well do nothing". That's not how this works. Someone goes first, and others follow. This is about leadership, and good leaders will bring others with them.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Burnham: "We have to face up to the changing climate. I think we need a different debate about that. There’s no point denying where we are. We need to face up to it. We need more clean energy. We need to see that transition accelerate." Climate silence broken 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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UK a ‘tinderbox’, says Burnham, as he calls in military and bans disposable barbecues – UK politics live

PM also says fire and rescue services will be given more cash

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the climate crisis? Good piece by Sandra Laville I hope the PM breaks his climate silence soon and levels with the country about how bad things are, & what his plan is to tackle climate impacts and fossil fuels www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Hot topic: why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the climate crisis?

Extreme heat is harming wellbeing of ordinary people the PM champions, yet little has been said on the topic

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Burnham’s failure to link the current heat, fires, drought (and maybe the Lewes train crash) to climate change very publicly does not inspire confidence. I doubt there’s anybody not feeling the affects it, by now, or doubt the causes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Hot topic: why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the climate crisis?

Extreme heat is harming wellbeing of ordinary people the PM champions, yet little has been said on the topic

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22

Express headline: The jaw-dropping list of everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'.

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.

Map showing the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa.

Screengrab from Politico piece that explains, citing Reuters, that 48,300 of the 50,000 recent crossings have already been expelled or voluntarily returned to Morocco.

BBC report on Friday, still echoing the RW disinformation - or at the very least not challengning it sufficiently.

"Spain's PM blames traffickers after 60,000 migrants reach Ceuta from Morocco
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What triggered the mass migrant crossings into Ceuta?
Sofia Ferreira Santos and Sarah Rainsford, Southern and Eastern Europe
correspondent
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Spain's prime minister has blamed trafficking gangs after about 60,000 migrants crossed into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. At least 57 people died during the surge, according to local media."

Daily Mail and Daily Express from this weekend, with front page headlines "Ministers MUST stop the Spanish border invaders reaching UK" and "SPANISH BORDER CRISIS IS 'WAKE-UP CALL' FOR UK", respectively.

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1

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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

People with asthma got better when they replaced their gas stove with electric. “Our improvement was about twice as much as you typically see with medical treatment of asthma,” www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Apparently the incoming Burnham government is looking for "big ideas". Here are 10 of them:

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The amount of human suffering, injury, and illness that has been avoided by the advent of hormonal contraception is staggering; the amount of human potential, talent, and innovation that it has unleashed should make you weep with gratitude.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/06/2026

I have an annual update on these projections vs actuals for CCS (didn't get around to it last Dec), including comparisons to fossil fuel industry and IPCC projections. This is from Dec 2024 - not just an IEA problem. Widespread across many scenarios ketanjoshi.co/2024/11/24/2...

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

There are huge good news stories in this area that aren't really cutting through in the public discussion. But these are better technologies, already proven, cheaper overall and most excitingly *already here*. We are well on the way to a better, cleaner, cheaper electrified world. Time to join in!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 08/06/2026

If I were stupid rich I would still not own a giant house.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21

Express Headline:

Twenty-seven young foreign workers hired for every one Brit as immigration fuels unemployment crisis.
Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s, according to a shocking new study.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A £300 tax on your UK summer holiday does sound like a lot... So let’s take a look at this tax, put it in a wider context, and find out where that £300 figure came from.👍🏻 1/26 🧵

Telegraph headline:
Labour's £300 tax on your summer staycation.
Families face 'overnight visitor levies' at popular UK tourist spots. Families visiting the nation's best-loved tourist spots face a holiday tax of as much as £300 under a Labour "cash grab" to prop up crumbling councils.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Congratulations ! You have reached the Woodpigeon of encouragement. Great job! Keep going! 📷️ @carlbovisnature.bsky.social

A delighted-looking Woodpigeon perches among frothy white blossom, its soft grey-blue head tilted and bright pale eye wide with excitement. Its beak is open mid-call, clutching a petal or piece of blossom, adding to the wonderfully animated expression. The bird’s warm pink chest and distinctive white neck patch stand out against the blurred spring branches, giving the impression of a pigeon caught in an enthusiastic, blossom-fuelled pep talk.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/05/2026

Just a rose appreciation post 🌹 Not only do they bring a burst of colour and their magical scent to gardens, they're also a sure sign that summer is on its way.

Splendid wooden arches hanging in light pink roses that create a path to an ornate iron gate at the end, with a green lawn visible beyond

A garden laden with roses in pink, orange and red, surrounding a white iron bench at their centre and the dark greenery of trees in the background

An old redbrick wall with leaded windows and pale yellow roses climbing across both

A close-up of pink roses with densely packed petals surrounded by dark green leaves

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 27/05/2026

Somewhat incredibly, Tony Blair has chosen the week that the UK's temperature record for May has been smashed by more than 2C to reiterate his hot take on net-zero Job done, though, as all the UK media is now leading with him saying "drill, baby, drill" rather than the exceptionally extreme weather

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 26/05/2026

Struggling to work in the heat? The government needs to listen to the Climate Change Committee and TUC who are calling for a maximum workplace temperature cap.

Say it with us: Time for a workplace temperature cap. A graphic with a warning sign with a thermometer in the red and a sun symbol

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Priorities 👀 £400m support for people who can afford to drive, but nothing for people who walk, ride a bike or catch the bus? “The cost of the package, including postponing the 5p rise and the discount on red diesel duty, is expected to be around £400m.”

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Paul Johnson @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Quite. We have lost more than 1% GDP in fuel duty over last 20 years. Every chancellor for 15 years has promised at least to maintain real value of duty. Not one has done so. And now this govt backs down at first sign of trouble. Expensive & poorly targeted

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Finding out I was considered "radical" for wanting kids to be able to get school safely and independently was shocking and what motivated me to try and help change that perspective. Culture Shift developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

culture shift

Normal
Accepting road violence
Accepting road fatalities
Accepting pedestrian fatalities
Accepting cyclist fatalities
Accepting excessive speeds
Accepting unsafe streets
Accepting pollution
Accepting gridlock
Accepting the loss of youth mobility
Accepting the loss of senior mobility

Radical
Wanting to prevent road violence
Wanting to prevent road fatalities
Wanting to prevent pedestrian fatalities
Wanting to prevent cyclist fatalities
Wanting slower speeds
Wanting safe streets
Wanting less pollution
Wanting less gridlock
Wanting youth mobility
Wanting senior mobility
It's time to rethink what's considered normal on our streets

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

A back to school campaign developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

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BACK TO SCHOOL TIPS, DRIVER EDITION
SLOW THE F
DOWN
so our kids can get to school safely

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South Downs National Park @southdownsnp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Milky Way over the Cuckmere meanders 🤩 Congratulations to Daniel Richards for winning the People's Choice award in our annual astrophotography competition with this impressive photo! #InternationalDarkSkiesWeek

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