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John Reynolds

@johnreynlds.bsky.social
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Freelance business journalist, Sunday & Irish Independent / The Currency. Also cover climate and energy. Other writing, editing & comms work too.

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Arya Satheesh, an 18-year-old student from Letterkenny in County Donegal, Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...
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This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades
Eighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well.
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Latest BBC film on life in Gaza I previously worked with one of its senior producers. youtu.be/IZ7tQask-EM?...
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Gaza's Ceasefire Summer - BBC World Service Documentaries
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Based on current building patterns 115,000 new homes will be built in England’s flood zones in the next 10 years Many could become uninsurable in the future due to the risk of flooding, says Insurance company Aviva Which would make those houses essentially useless www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Aviva boss warns more homes will be uninsurable due to flood risk
Aviva boss Amanda Blanc said England was "for sure" building homes that might be uninsurable at some point in the future.
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 27/09/2026
Fergal Keane: Gavin Bazunu’s lone act of resistance will be remembered in the broken alleys of Gaza www.independent.ie/comment/ferg...
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Fergal Keane: Gavin Bazunu’s lone act of resistance will be remembered in the broken alleys of Gaza
You can be familiar with what war does — to people, to buildings — and believe you have seen the worst. Then one day you are on a helicopter with the Jordanian military and you land inside the Gaza…
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In Ireland it would be the Amazon-Bord na Mona-IDA-Micheal Martin-Darragh O’Brien data centre
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 24/09/2026
The names were handwritten by nearly 50 congregations and organizations across the U.S. and nine in Ireland, including churches, mosques, Buddhist centers, interfaith, and secular groups. sojo.net/articles/new...
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Interfaith Coalition Brings 20,000 Names of Children Killed in Gaza to the U.N.’s Doorstep
Drawing on the Islamic tradition of shrouding the dead, the memorial asks world leaders and the public to reckon with each young life lost.
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The new Metaverse 😭 Zuck off guys
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Diplomacy, statecraft and leadership Just have to publish those other reports in full back home now and the govt response Meanwhile in Ireland the last time I looked only one (Sinn Féin) TD mentioned these reports in the Oireachtas. Since then, silence…
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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The €1bn spent on fossil fuel sinces April would have put 8kw battery & solar on 100,000 homes buying them energy freedom for 20+ years. The €1bn+ that will be spent over the next few months would bring that to 250,000 homes. What we lack is will and vision
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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Steles are up.
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There are several world leaders whose CV would definitely ensure them a final interview for the post. Is the antichrist walking among us? www.ft.com/content/91b9...
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Is the Antichrist really walking among us?
JD Vance would not be shocked. But how to spot the tell-tale signs?
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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Net zero is a description of scientific fact: if we do not meet that target, we are doomed to repeat summers much worse than that just gone, with all of the accompanying damage to food supplies and infrastructure. So why are our politicians so weak on the climate? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’
Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Now it has data centres and FDI…
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Ditchley Foundation, which co-convened the AI themed meeting with the tech bosses alongside the King’s Foundation has Phil Hogan as an “executive adviser” according to its website - ditchley.com
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Buckingham Palace has declined to say if anyone else attended the private dinner with President Connolly and King Charles on Wednesday evening. No response from President’s office. I was curious given the tech bosses were with the King on Thurs.
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
On enshittification, consumerism and product quality - good use of humour by Norway’s Consumer Council Their approach may resonate in relation to other matters as well, from a comms point of view
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
US data centers will be use more natural gas than any country except China, Russia, Iran and the United States. It's like we're inventing a huge new nation, just when the climate needs it least billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-two-ho...
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The Two Horsemen, Riding in Formation
Is There Suddenly an Opening for AI and Climate Sense?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
PRO PUBLICA: “Don JR’s wedding secretly bankrolled by Russian oligarch close to Putin” 🤔 So weird how this keeps happening 🤷🏼 www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Gas power for data centres coming in the BnM energy parks (plural) in Ireland’s midlands
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Someone really needs to write in graffiti on this: Target the drones here
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Did any TV cameras manage to capture the moment when the Taoiseach’s or President Connolly’s souls left their bodies as they met Trump?
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Tom And Jerry: Soul Leaving Scene
ALT: Tom And Jerry: Soul Leaving Scene
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The microplastics, PFAS plus other shit people prefer to ignore is destroying fertility in men and women anyway - so there’s that 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Unusual remark for an orange man
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“The labs are saying to governments: ‘We’re quite likely to kill every human being on Earth; please stop us.’ Governments respond with ‘Can we give you a tax break? Build you a datacenter?.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Why the AI race has its creators fearing human extinction
Advances in autonomous agents and bitter rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed once-fringe fears into the mainstream
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Ben Delo who has just given Reform £36m is the same Ben Delo who US prosecutors said was the leader of a ‘criminal enterprise’ But hey ho, it’s fine for him- and any other crypto bro - to buy British democracy lock stock and barrel democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...
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Reform's £4m donor "thumbed his nose at the law", US prosecutors said
Ben Delo has called his US conviction a "non-crime". Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”.
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Helped my friend, the founder of aid payments firm Amanacard, think through and edit this article. Edwina Thompson talks about where her work led after 9/11 and shares her insight on the direction AI is taking - with too few female voices heard or influencing it. trustisthecoin.com/essays-human/
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Being Original: I Am Human
An essay for the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11 — on detectors, ledgers, Frankenstein's female creature and who can still use the manual override.
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That’s probably a minimum…
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Do we think an AI giant run / founded by a woman would also be one that could wipe us all out? I tend to think not, but hey what do I know 🫠
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The cyberattacks on #water systems a month ago now appears to have been far more widespread than first reported, affecting utilities in a dozen states. www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
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Government admits water system cyberattacks were worse than first reported
A cyberattack that targeted water infrastructure nationwide was much larger than initially revealed.
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 09/09/2026
Chaser www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 09/09/2026
Shot www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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UK Food Inflation Will Hit 6% on El Niño and Drought, Firms Warn
A string of shocks from El Niño, summer droughts and war in Iran will push UK food inflation above 6% next year, according to forecasts by the country’s food producers.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
1.5C: 0.01 billion dead 1.6C: 0.02 billion dead 1.7C: 0.05 billion dead 1.8C: 0.10 billion dead 1.9C: 0.20 billion dead 2.0C: 0.30 billion dead 2.1C: 0.45 billion dead 2.2C: 0.60 billion dead 2.3C: 0.75 billion dead 2.4C: 0.90 billion dead 2.5C: 1.00 billion dead
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 06/09/2026
AfD media relations: 61-year-old journalist writing for Politico says she was physically assaulted and dragged to police by an AfD security guard after attempting to talk to the AfD’s lead candidate She was told “mainstream” press were not welcome at the AfD event www.politico.eu/article/ulri...
Beyond the conviviality of the sausage line, the mood can sour fast — as I discovered when I sought to speak with Siegmund in Lützen, only to be told "mainstream" press were not welcome. I was roughly jostled aside, my arm twisted by a musclebound heavy flanking Siegmund, who sported an earpiece and a lavishly tattooed neck.
"Move or I will take you to the police," he barked. We had a short, unproductive debate about the constitutionally guaranteed right to report freely in public places.
Another hard arm twist and shove ensued, ending with me stumbling over a curb and being dragged to a police car. No one seemed much bothered by this.
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My kind of humour 😭
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It took 5 minutes to figure out this bullshit, mainstream media is still pretending it’s an organic protest group — 0 work done by anyone. Where the fuck is MI5? Scotland Yard? This should have been shut down right out of the gate.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/09/2026
So in one week: 1) Reform get stung for dodgy finances, and the regulators play pass the parcel about enforcement 2) Farage announces plans to largely dismantle independent scrutiny of govt, and barely any press discussion of it 3) Masked thugs blockade a port, with narry a word from senior govt
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wonder if anyone at the FT Weekend Festival earlier asked Roula K why she agreed to join Patrick Collison’s (mostly white, mostly male) Rhine Group…
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As you watch the fun scenes at this Reform conference, remember: these are the people Morgan McSweeney thought he could win over with flags and performative cruelty, to secure Labour as the natural party of government. Nobody who matters said: But surely that is a disastrously stupid idea.
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 05/09/2026
Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest. What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'? "Fucking morons."
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Nepal wants money from the Loss and Damage Fund to recover from the disaster. But given it has very little, it is now seeking compensation from the biggest polluters: China, India and the US. Surprised not to see EU and UK not mentioned. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Nepal Seeks Climate Compensation From China, US and India
Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing.
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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Came up with this one just now. What do ppl think?
Simpsons meme. 
Top panel, Bart, upset "The 20th century, with industrialised slaughter and genocide, showed humans at their worst."
Bottom panel, Homer saying "No, it showed them at their worst *so far*"
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John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m old enough to remember when it was basically just journalists and a few nerds 😂
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LyndallTerrier @lyndallterrier.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Take heed of the science & evidence @albomp.bsky.social & @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social. Listen to the scientist @michaelemann.bsky.social. Stop being part of the problem and start acting decisively in the best interests of all humanity and a liveable planet. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nepal’s glacial collapse foreshadowed a future of climate disaster | Michael Mann
The deluge capped a summer of extreme climate events, from deadly heatwaves to wildfires. We must take action now
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