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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If the first round of the Brazilian Presidential Election is anything to go by, Brazilians are about look over the border at the 32% poverty rate delivered by Libertarianism in Argentina and gift themselves a big dose of it. Some people never learn.

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oxford-based activists, Steve and Hazel Dawe, will be discussing airport expansion in our event 'Travel, Flying and the Climate Crisis' next week ✈️ Come and join us at East Oxford Community Centre or watch online! Thurs 15th Oct, 6:30pm. Free tickets: tickettailor.com/events/fligh...

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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...

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'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

If you genuinely believe that the 4% of every educational cohort who are privately-educated go on to dominate the upper echelons of every profession because of the inadequacies of the state education system, then you're deluded beyond all help.

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

How would you describe buying somebody an unfair educational advantage of 96% of other people, thereby undermining liberal democracy's commitment to equality of opportunity?

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

Why are American liberals so very weird and self-centred?

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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

Root directors; better investment in mains and wastewater infrastructure.

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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

Why does it matter where it is? Wherever there is currently curtailment, these batteries are likely to be viable, no?

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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

With the U.K’s electricity balancing costs (curtailment of renewables & use of gas to cover gaps) costing £1 billion in 2025, iron-air batteries could drastically reduce the price of transforming the energy system, boost energy security, reduce emissions, and generate jobs.

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

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

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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