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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 10h

This says everything that needs saying. What a mess this would be. And that is before we've thought about the noise, the pollution, the harm. There is a better choice, and it's not this.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 10h

Supremely bleak report on coal financing out this morning. Banks, including UK banks, are still pumping billions of pounds into coal projects that will almost certainly breach global climate goals. www.businessgreen.com/news/4536521...

businessgreen.com

'Fuelling the financial shocks of tomorrow': UK banks branded Europe's biggest backers of coal projects

UK banks provided $8.3bn in loans and underwriting to coal companies between 2022 and 2025, according to new data

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Unimpeachable tilework of the Imperial Inn, Gloucester.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why has it taken U.K MPs until now to start raising the alarm about the existential risks of artificial intelligence? The threat was abundantly clear to anybody who considered the logical implications of AI almost a decade ago. These people aren't leaders, they're followers.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.” - Heinrich Heine

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you had nothing to say about football fans assaulting young environmentalists in the street. Or nothing to say about drivers running over & beating up Just Stop Oil activists. Then keep quiet about Reform bullies savagely attacking young women protestors. This is on you, too.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

More than three years before ChatGPT launched, I was posting about the dangers of automation. Six years later - while 'the Godfather of AI' Sir Geoffrey Hinton warns AI will deliver mass unemployment and existential risk - the gov't is still ploughing ahead with this madness.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Global warming adaptation will increasingly be about addressing the psychological effects of a rapidly changing climate and its impact on every aspect of life. Great to see Midlothian Council thinking deeply about how to improve its services by integrating trauma awareness into its work.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Call me old fashioned, but it should matter enormously to Labour members, voters, and the wider public that the Parliamentary Labour Party harbours and promotes MPs who believes it's absolutely fine to game the system for their kids at the expense of ours. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Delighted to have just discovered that this article I wrote on urban green infrastructure for the Big Issue was used by AQA in its GCSE Geography paper in 2024...👇 Maybe we aren't doomed, after all? 😜 www.bigissue.com/opinion/21st...

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We're being dragged into a future we didn't ask for and don't want, and the response of the Westminster political class is a mixture of cowardice, indifference, and outright support for the Silicon Valley technofascists who want to steal our jobs and destroy our democracies.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I’ve created a handful of them, but this might still be my most unusual STARTER PACK! A team-up with world famous climate scientist @katharinehayhoe.com, these are folks connecting the dots on climate action via better cities! Please follow these great folks and share the pack! go.bsky.app/7Wh2uvp

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) believed shame, curiosity, and the need to work built civilisation. In my lifetime, shame has ceased to be a constraint; educational curiosity has collapsed with the rise of AI; and corruption has become the number one method for obtaining power and wealth.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The same street in Levenshulme, Manchester, one hundred years apart. The private motor vehicle is an invasive species, which gradually crowds out and suffocates the rich social life of our cities. When cars don’t dominate the streets, life flourishes.

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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

For the 5th consecutive year child casualties have flat-lined at around 13,000 road casualties of age 16 and under. In what other area of life would the death or injury of 13,000 children be "acceptable"? The government has a Road Safety Strategy that aims to reduce child KSIs by 70%.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“Do not think that he who loves his own country must hate and despise other nations, or wish for war, which is a remnant of barbarism.” - Socialist Commandment IX

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I don't think I've ever seen a group of people take a joke quite as badly to heart as this lot have this week

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The next generation of iron-air batteries can do *at least* 6,000 cycles - equivalent to more than 16 years of daily operation - with zero storage capacity loss. This will destroy the fossil fuel industry. That’s why the campaign to ‘kill net zero’ has dramatically ramped up.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🚨 Huge energy news! 🚨 Ore Energy has just signed a deal with Dutch energy firm Budget Thuis to deploy 1GWh of energy storage from iron-air batteries that: 🔋 Store electricity for days, not just hours. 🔋 Don’t require critical minerals. 🔋 Can be built entirely in Europe.

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Thank you to the MPs who have joined the Parliamentary Call for a government-led televised emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis in the last week. The public deserves to know. Enter postcode to see if your MP has joined: nebriefing.org/parliamentary-call #NationalEmergencyBriefing

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What is “moronic” and “terrible” about the Labour Party representing the interests and living standards of human labour? What is progressive about driverless taxis allowing tech companies to accrue money that currently feeds taxi drivers’ families?

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Paul Crampin @crampino.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Or Utrecht - the home of the elevated cycle path.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

There’s always one guy on holiday taking photos of cycle lanes, street trees, and drinking fountains for design ideas to bring back to Britain. I am that guy.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

OBB Nightjet from Amsterdam to Salzburg. Europe by sleeper train is the best. That’s why I’m 11 years #flightfree.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Welcome to Amsterdam. Home of the People Carrier.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Silicon Valley tax-dodgers own the U.S Government.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Another satisfied customer…😊

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S'Pammy Cassandra 🦩💥 @nafoffs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

@jonburkeuk.bsky.social Planted lots of trees in Hackneyland. We're forever grateful. 💚

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

When England win a game at the World Cup and you’re walking down the road the next morning.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"All things are ready, if our minds be so." Come on, England!!! 🦁🦁🦁

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, told the Commons this week: "Did I...treat...Mandelson differently because I perceived him to have influence and power in the Labour Party?...yes, I did. Have I benefited...yes." In a normal democracy, this would be a resigning matter.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Your periodic reminder net zero is a scientific term referring to the balance of anthropogenic emissions and carbon sinks required to stop temperatures spiralling out of control, bringing with them drastically increased risk of food insecurity, catastrophic weather, and civilisation-level disaster.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In Bloomberg Land, they think we’re all awaiting the world’s first trillionaire with giddy anticipation.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/06/2026

If only there were alternatives that *hadn't* risen in price by 66%! Alternatives whose price had gone steadily down for decades now & were projected to continue declining for decades to come! Ah well.

bloomberg.com

Cost to Build a Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant Surges 66%, BNEF Says

Costs to build natural gas-fired power plants in the US increased 66% between 2023 and 2025 as developers propose building more projects nationwide to meet rising electricity demand, adding to custome...

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Panic over, my birthday wish has solved global warming…🥳

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

i dunno, but maybe it's time the government recognised a foreign white supremacist is using his global social media app to bolster the far-right, bury other voices, and hopefully radicalise users to disrupt the political landscape of other nations

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It means your children will be servants of the ruling techno elite, working menial 'jobs' for food and and health credits. If you weren't willing to prevent your kids being exposed to social media - if, indeed, you facilitated it - you aren't doing anything about this, either.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

What if I told you one study in Manchester found that shade from street trees reduced surface temperatures by an average of 12°C, and concrete surfaces shaded permanently by a bank of trees were cooled by up to 20°C during a heatwave? You might not believe me. But it's true…👇

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It's nice to see the political class finally waking up, but the fact that I - and others - were talking about the harm social media is doing to our children more than half a decade ago shows why a country led by ditherers instead of doers keeps lurching from crisis to crisis.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Every 1 million of London's residents add ~1C to local temperatures and its 2.6m passenger vehicles add another 1C. Despite global warming, we can still act to reduce the frequency, intensity, & duration of heatwaves. I've written all about about it for Big Issue. www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...

bigissue.com

40C heatwaves are now reality. It's time to transform our cities

What can we do to reduce the frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme heatwaves? Quite a lot actually, writes Jon Burke

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

bigissue.com

40C heatwaves are now reality. It's time to transform our cities

What can we do to reduce the frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme heatwaves? Quite a lot actually, writes Jon Burke

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 25/05/2026

Rows of townhouses torn down in hours, roads ripped up by bulldozers and city blocks reduced to rubble in the name of progress -- giant construction sites litter Hanoi as it races ahead with urban renewal. u.afp.com/SRv3

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

“In wildness is the preservation of the world” - Thoreau

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Top tip for getting the most out of world class British asparagus as we head towards the end of the season: instead of throwing away the woody halves, remove the dry ends, slice finely, blanch for a couple of minutes, rinse in cold water, then make pesto from them…👌

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In 1900, there were up to 4 General Post Office deliveries in urban areas. In major metropolitan centres like London, there were between 6 and 12. It’s now 2026 and I’ve just been told that Royal Mail’s customer service wait time is 50 minutes. That’s privatisation, folks!

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