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Joey Grostern

@joeygrostern.bsky.social
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Investigative Climate Journalist for @desmog.com in Berlin All my posts are very serious and important

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party.
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🔥 📰 From the start of the first heatwave in late May until the end of July, only 1 in 3 articles in UK national newspapers which referred to wildfires also mentioned climate change. New analysis by me for @eciu.net out today in @themedialeader.bsky.social 👇🧵 uk.themedialeader.com/two-thirds-o...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
About to go live with these great folks, not to late to join! DeSmog has been taking on climate disinformation for 20 years and it's a great time to support their work.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage has triggered a by-election in Clacton having only mentioned the constituency twice in the House of Commons in the past year
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Nigel Farage Has Mentioned Clacton Only Twice in Commons During Past Year
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has only mentioned his constituency twice in the House of Commons during the past year, DeSmog can reveal. In total, Farage has mentioned Clacton six times since being el...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Just another day in autodestruct mode.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Even as the racist riots in Belfast were ongoing, Talk TV aired dangerous dehumanising comments from a caller describing refugees as "vermin" who "invade" and likening them to "a cancerous cell". And this was not an isolated example... /1
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
NatWest pledged to phase out support for coal companies, but a new @desmog.com investigation has found it still channelled £17m into the UK’s biggest coal supplier by using loopholes in its own policy. www.desmog.com/2026/06/12/n...
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NatWest Accused of Using ‘Loopholes’ to Invest £17 Million in UK Coal Supplier
NatWest has been slammed for investing at least £17 million in the UK’s biggest supplier of coal to the cement industry, despite pressure on banks to stop financing fossil fuels. According to document...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 12/06/2026
🔴 NEW - NatWest Accused of Using ‘Loopholes’ to Invest £17 Million in UK Coal Supplier Campaigners say it’s “deeply concerning” that a major British bank and former COP sponsor is supporting UK coal. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
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NatWest Accused of Using ‘Loopholes’ to Invest £17 Million in UK Coal Supplier
NatWest has been slammed for investing at least £17 million in the UK’s biggest supplier of coal to the cement industry, despite pressure on banks to stop financing fossil fuels. According to document...
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Big Oil is buying up podcast ad space to greenwash its image, following Big Tobacco's playbook. “Just as Big Tobacco spent decades muddying the science about the harms of their products, fossil‑fuel interests now push the line that they’re part of the solution.” via @desmog.com buff.ly/kfbqH1u
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NYT, WSJ Podcasts Promote Pro-drilling Ads by Top US Oil Lobby API
The New York Times has included dozens of ads pushing looser permitting rules on America’s third-most popular podcast since September, analysis finds.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This, by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social, is a brilliant, fascinating and definitional article. If you want to understand what's happening around the world, you should read it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts
China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 20/05/2026
A small sample of Tice's approach to facts, evidence, reason, etc...
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Bloomberg’s Akshat Rathi interviewed the deputy leader of the UK‘s reform party about climate change and the energy transition. A shocking conversation. Every person allowed to vote in the UK should listen to this. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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How Reform Plans to Upend Decades of UK Climate Action
Richard Tice, Reform UK’s deputy leader, wants to revive Britain’s oil and gas industry and cut back on renewables.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is Reform UK "Tice threatened to walk out of the interview when presented with information from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Tice said he “fundamentally disagreed” with it, but declined to name advisers who said the science was wrong" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Reform Deputy Leader Tice ‘Fundamentally’ Rejects Climate Science
In an extensive interview about climate change and energy policy, Richard Tice dismissed the threat of global warming and doubled down on fossil fuels.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?
antisemitic banner at the United the Kingdom rally
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Where’s the fury about rightwing antisemitism? The newspapers that call out leftwing antisemitism publish antisemitic cartoons and champion politicians with a record of antisemitic statements. So who is holding *them* to account? This week’s column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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No one should get a free pass on antisemitism – so why does the right?
There is legitimate scrutiny of antisemitism on the left, but at the same time, rightwing media outlets offend with impunity. That makes no sense, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
📣 Berlin folks! I'll be speaking about tools and methods for doing online climate investigations at a one-day in-person event on 27 May in Publix organised by Tactical Tech 📅 Deadline to apply by 17 May 2026 ⚠️ Limited to 50 places 🎟️ Free to attend 👉 Sign up: lnkd.in/dAJ9WtMj
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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
SCOOP: A climate denial group with close ties to the Trump administration is asking whether all Americans 'should have the right to vote.' Read @rtakver.bsky.social in @desmog.com about a Heartland Institute podcast questioning 'universal suffrage.' www.desmog.com/2026/05/05/h...
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Heartland Institute Podcast Questions Whether All Americans ‘Should Have the Right to Vote’
A couple days later, the Trump-linked group hosted EPA chief — and potential attorney general — Lee Zeldin at a Washington, D.C. event.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/05/2026
A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Retraction Note: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis
Jin Wang & Wenxiang Fan 
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 13, Article number: 528 (2026) Cite this article

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Retraction Note to: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04787-y, published online 06 May 2025

The Editor has decided to retract this paper owing to concerns regarding discrepancies in the meta-analysis. These issues ultimately undermine the confidence the Editor can place in the validity of the analysis and resulting conclusions. The authors have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
NEW: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that key actions Trump took to delay solar and wind projects across the U.S. were illegal (me for @heatmap.news)
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Federal Judge Breaks Trump’s Permitting Blockade
The opinion covered a host of actions the administration has taken to slow or halt renewables development.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 21/04/2026
🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage Attacks X as ‘Dangerous’ Despite His MPs Pocketing £55,000 From Elon Musk’s Platform The Reform leader said his candidates are being racially abused on X, yet his MPs have made big sums from the site. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
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Nigel Farage Attacks X as ‘Dangerous’ Despite His MPs Pocketing £55,000 From Elon Musk’s Platform
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said yesterday that “X is now becoming a very unpleasant and very dangerous place,” despite his MPs pocketing more than £55,000 from the site since the July 2024 general ...
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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage Attacks X as ‘Dangerous’ Despite His MPs Pocketing £55,000 From Elon Musk’s Platform The Reform leader said his candidates are being racially abused on X, yet his MPs have made big sums from the site. My latest for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/04/21/n...
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Nigel Farage Attacks X as ‘Dangerous’ Despite His MPs Pocketing £55,000 From Elon Musk’s Platform
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said yesterday that “X is now becoming a very unpleasant and very dangerous place,” despite his MPs pocketing more than £55,000 from the site since the July 2024 general ...
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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Have you ever found yourself quoted online for something you never said? We've seen a few examples of academics having their voice used for quotes they never said in fake news websites and in AI chatbots – but think there's a lot more If that's you shoot me a DM or comment here #journorequest
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!
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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Have you ever found yourself quoted online for something you never said? We've seen a few examples of academics having their voice used for quotes they never said in fake news websites and in AI chatbots – but think there's a lot more If that's you shoot me a DM or comment here #journorequest
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 18/04/2026
🔴 Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds Experts say mass-produced AI misinformation is the “new Cambridge Analytica scandal”. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
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Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds
Experts say mass-produced AI misinformation is the “new Cambridge Analytica scandal”.
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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds ▶️ Meta pays grifters to post AI slop Facebook, this Sri Lankan group cashed in by pushing UK-themed climate slop about UK 'fuel production' My latest for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/s...
An AI-generated image of a UK petrol station with cars queuing in the forecourt. In the background an image of a billboard that reads "Support UK Fuel Production." Text on top of the image reads "Should the UK produce its own fuel again?" above "yes" and "no" text with the 'like' and 'heart' symbols to encourage Facebook users to 'vote'
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/04/2026
UK folks what is going on with all this? The whole spectacle of blaming renewables for the crippling impacts of fossil gas is.......some pretty stunningly wild gymnastics. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Why cheap power could matter more than clean power in the push for net zero
The question of how important making our electricity clean is to going green is coming under increasing scrutiny
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Reform Essex activist who hosted Nigel Farage at his tanning salon is also a Nazi superfan who believes that "Hitler was right." Excellent work from @hopenothate.org.uk hopenothate.org.uk/2026/04/14/n...
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NEW: ‘Hitler was right’, says star Reform activist – HOPE not hate
By Harry Shukman and Sarah Hadley A well-known Reform activist who campaigned for the party in the forthcoming local elections has denied the Holocaust and...
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A Synagogue in North London was targeted by an arson attack overnight. I shouldn't have to say this, but after the ambulance attack, I clearly do. If you start talking about a "false flag", or blaming "Israel" for this, you're a despicable human being. www.jewishnews.co.uk/police-inves...
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Police investigating attempted arson attack at north London synagogue
Serious incident is being investigated at Finchley Reform synagogue
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
In case you missed it, @desmog.com produced a map last week tracking the ties – including funding relationships – between Reform and Viktor Orbán's regime, based on our years of following this network. Check it out 👇
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 15/04/2026
That Iran "coal comeback" in full
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 08/04/2026
🔴 MAPPED: The Reform-Orbán Network Ahead of elections in both countries, DeSmog has catalogued the connections between Hungary’s autocratic government and Farage’s operation. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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Mapped: The Reform-Orbán Network
“Viktor Orbán is the strongest leader in Europe and the EU’s biggest nightmare.” These were the words posted on Twitter by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage about the prime minister of Hungary in April 20...
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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
NEW: A major supplier of ‘green’ airline fuel to the UK has sourced beef fat linked to illegal Amazon deforestation Our new investigation 🐄 🌳 ✈️: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/04/10/u...
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UK ‘green’ jet fuel imports linked to illegal Amazon deforestation
A major supplier of ‘green’ airline fuel to the UK has sourced beef fat linked to illegal Amazon deforestation.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
NEW US electricity data ⚡️🇺🇸 In March, renewables produced more than a third of US electricity for the first time ever, even overtaking gas generation! Wind and solar combined reached over a quarter (26%) for the first time.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/04/2026
Alarm in health service over Palantir staff being given NHS email accounts
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Alarm in health service over Palantir staff being given NHS email accounts
Exclusive: Sources believe AI tech company’s engineers have been granted access to directory of up to 1.5m staff * UK politics live – latest updates Health service staff have expressed alarm that engineers working for controversial tech company Palantir have been given NHS email accounts. Employees using NHS.net email accounts have access to a directory with the contact details of up 1.5 million staff. Sources believe Palantir staff were granted the same access. Continue reading...
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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
@prospectmagazine.co.uk why invite the UK's main fossil fuel lobby group (OEUK) to sponsor "sensible" coverage of net zero? It's not journalistic balance, it's being in the pockets of vested interests. It undermines your climate reporting Does a "sensible discussion" mean pro-fossil fuels?
Screengrab of Prospect's article titled "Are we ready to have a sensible discussion about the UK's energy transition?," which was sponsored by Offshore Energies UK, the country's most prominent fossil fuel lobby group
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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
@prospectmagazine.co.uk why invite the UK's main fossil fuel lobby group (OEUK) to sponsor "sensible" coverage of net zero? It's not journalistic balance, it's being in the pockets of vested interests. It undermines your climate reporting Does a "sensible discussion" mean pro-fossil fuels?
Screengrab of Prospect's article titled "Are we ready to have a sensible discussion about the UK's energy transition?," which was sponsored by Offshore Energies UK, the country's most prominent fossil fuel lobby group
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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Tory MP Mims Davies put out a 1386-word press release on her opposition to solar and wind farms in the UK She didn't mention climate change once Beyond energy security, why else might we be building solar and wind farms Mims? www.mimsdavies.org.uk/news/mims-da...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Those lentil-weaving hippies at the... checks notes... European Central Bank now say Europe's fossil fuel dependancy is a systemic economic risk www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...
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Europe’s fossil fuel dependence poses risks to price stability
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Japan just switched on Asia’s first osmotic power plant. It runs 24/7 on nothing but fresh water and sea water.
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Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater
A renewable energy source that runs day and night, powered by salt and fresh water.
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404 Media @404media.co · 06/04/2026
Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used by ICE. www.404media.co/how-thomson-...
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How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir
Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used by ICE.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/04/2026
Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A different perspective. Always helpful.
Christopher Penn wrote:

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching. Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher. That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Honestly I've let dozens of these go but this endless stream of antisemitism just proves everything I was saying in the post. (For the hard of thinking the ambulances were used for the whole community regardless of religion, and even if they weren't racist arson would still be unacceptable.)
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Did BBC radio 4 #Today programme really just do a whole package about drilling in the N Sea without once even mentioning #climate change? And not having anyone challenging the one-sided claims of former BP boss? So irresponsible #bbcr4today
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Sam Alvis @samalvis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Mad - this was previously years away www.hydrogeninsight.com/analysis/exc...
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EXCLUSIVE | Green ammonia is now cheaper than grey ammonia in Asia due to impact of Iran conflict
But this short-term problem could have long-term consequences, analysts tell Hydrogen Insight
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