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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ah but we need AI data centres to solve the climate problem - they say. The ultimate paradox. We must f*ck the planet even more in order to stop f*cking the planet. Madness.

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

💡Could a rapid shift to clean energy trigger a "cascade of progress" towards repairing the damage to our seas caused by the climate crisis? Scientists at Exeter Uni & the Earthshot prize certainly think so 🔽 bit.ly/4yE7218

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Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists

Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AI clearly is on another level regarding resource use. But we need data centres. Where is blue sky running? Technophobia is not the answer. We need to find sustainable ways to achieve the goal. AI, like flying, is not going away.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It is imperative to stop super rich donors, but union influence in politics also skews democracy. There may be many members but it's a handful of individuals who wield the lobbying power. Not all are good actors.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🚨 Destructive bottom trawling is allowed in most of the UK's marine protected areas - places that are meant to be sanctuaries for wildlife. That's why I'm standing with @oceanauk.bsky.social in calling on government to ban bottom trawling in UK MPAs 🌊 Join me! act.oceana.org/page/195311/...

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Even if it had true independence, it is still a corporate behemoth that belongs in the past. I would rather my licence fee was divided up between small independent outfits like @thenerve.news , @bellingcat.com and @bylinetimes.bsky.social (the same could go for drama etc..)

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Same here. And Newsnight too. I think it's past time for Auntie B to be nudged into a retirement home. The beeb has joined the race to the bottom instead defending quality journalism. They can't even spell anymore FFS.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And leave nothing in the local economy. Locals will take all the pain without any of the gain. At least the goldrush brought hoards of small time prospectors who spent their money locally. Data centres are often lights out operations.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In the West, from our pensions to our polymers to our pork pies, we are inextricably dependant on fossil fuels. "The Empire chokes people so slowly that they do not notice, making them too comfortable and afraid of losing their daily lives to risk everything for a rebellion" Luthen, Andor

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Should we name and shame the printers of Reform's promo material, and indeed all their other suppliers? Or would that be classed as an incitement to harm, unlike the completely benign stoking up of hatred and anger against anybody who looks a bit "foreign"?

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

50 odd years ago I too was taught about the carbon cycle and greenhouse effect, and also the ozone hole and acid rain. The last two got fixed. Like giving up smoking it's never too late for cutting emissions. Keep writing to those MPs.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A man needs something big on his driveway when there's not a lot in his underpants, making this the perfect vehicle for ICE agents.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Every so often, the way we produce our food needs a revolution, not merely adaption. Precision fermentation offers that revolutionary path. Politics and vested interests prevent us from taking it.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

400K years later and it's all still happening in Clacton.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

They are brilliant but they are absolute gas guzzlers though, which is why they scrapped the one from Newhaven to Dieppe. Speed and convenience comes at the expense of the environment.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Calamari is squid, but we should stop eating both. All seafood in fact. Never understood pescatarians. Eating seafood is even worse than eating meat.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I agree with Kunikos. Both councils and contractors will pay minimum wage for minimum wage jobs. Well negotiated contracts would define service quality and levels at a given price. The profit motive and accountability does lead to efficiency. The state can't do everything, but it must get smarter.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

At least you didn't reach for the Tippex

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We need more journalists like Jeremy Bowen. Deep hard earned knowledge and contacts and a profound understanding of his subject. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

True. But please tell us one concrete thing you've done other than communicate. What are your real world actions? We need inspiration.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

But what you are doing is likely a lot more than the Liberal Bojack or any of the commenters on this post, and you should be proud of that.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The measures are good. But there'll be howls of anguish from those - particularly small businesses - who have to adjust their point of sale and accounting systems, but only for certain items, and only temporarily over the summer.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Legislation without enforcement = lots of pointless bureaucrats and wasted government time. Sadly it's the norm in so many areas. Thankfully we have people like @nicolacutcher.bsky.social and @friendsriverwye.bsky.social working hard to hold them all to account.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

So he got to visit another star system after all .... and he certainly went there boldly judging by that outfit.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Brilliant! The bottleneck is power grid connection backlogs, for both technical and planning reasons. Solve those and projects like this will flood in.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Brilliant article by Cory Doctorow in the amazing @thenerve.news (which everyone should subscribe to). www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto... Trump has sown terror, death, hardship & suffering around the world but inadvertently he has created many opportunities for the world to become a better place.

thenerve.news

Cory Doctorow: Comrade Trump is the unwitting hero of a green revolution

In the first of a new monthly column for the Nerve, the author and cyber-activist argues that by dumping cheap solar panels on Asia and starting a catastrophic war in the Gulf, the president has start...

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I love song birds don't get me wrong, but for the last ten years I've had a chiffchaff start outside my office window in April and he doesn't stop till July or later. All day long every day. I never want to hear another chiffchaff ever again.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Definitely read this article. Regenesis left us with a sense of doom about soil management. Spawned directly from that book, Earth Rover restores hope in bucket loads. Conceived in a pub, lawyers working for free and even a load of cash from the Bezos foundation. A genuinely inspiring story.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

He's just talking about electricity, which delivers about 20% of point of use energy in the UK. Transport and central heating dwarf electricity use and are still mainly fossil fuel based. More EVs, more heat pumps and a hugely better distribution grid are needed.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Of course this is good news. We still have the problem of gas (central heating) and petrol/diesel (transport). These dwarf electricity consumption. Need loads more EVs and heat pumps - and a massively improved grid - in order to mitigate fossil fuel shocks.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Let battle commence. This government will allow the merging and monitoring of all our state held data to create a surveillance system Big Brother could only dream of.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Slowly the untouchable subject of the frankly horrific ecological impact of pets is being raised. UK cats, as Attenborough has pointed out, kill 55 million birds a year and as many small mammals. Pet medication including antibiotics is a huge problem. Pet feed has a huge environmental impact.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Banning this, however abhorrent it may be, would do nothing for the planet or for life in the oceans - it would simply make you feel better. The industrial scale destruction caused by purse seine netting and bottom trawling is what must be stopped. And we must enforce marine protection zones.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

There are those who confuse holding forth on social media with actual action. And then there are those who actually make a difference.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Fuck me! That's one of the scariest things I've ever seen.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Had an internet connected home heating controller for a while. Ripped it out when the heating stopped every time the server or internet connection was down. It's all a bunch of data grabbing snakeoil.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Five years ago, the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project was born, and with it began a radical rewilding of our Sussex seabed 🪸🐚🐟 Read our blog on how this pioneering project came to be ⬇️ f.mtr.cool/wccrnckhis 📷Starfish on kelp © Paul Naylor

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

This is such good news, especially coming the back of the recent news about lowland heath, and therefore Nightjar, recovery in the South Downs National Park.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Starmer instinctively does what he thinks is good for Starmer. Mistakenly, this has meant chasing Reform to the right. However in this case I think he sees that *not* joining the US/Israeli offensive is in his own best political interest. Principle doesn't enter into it.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal."

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Green Menaces - let’s go. 💚 Huge huge thanks to everyone who’s backed this campaign and shown it so much love. Now we leave nothing on the pitch. Let’s get this over the line. Vote Green. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This woman in Crowborough who took down flags is a hero and I hope she's ok.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I'm not against private involvement in public services, but we must choose our partners carefully. Choosing Palantir is catastrophic. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

you.38degrees.org.uk

Stop Palantir taking over our public services!

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Completely agree this is great news - but we need a lot more. Conflating this with abolishing juries (there is no question of that) diminishes your message. Finding a way to stop minor criminals intentionally clogging courts to avoid facing justice may be a good thing for justice overall.

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Lex Schlup @lexschlup.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

@gurdeep.ca ... what would we do without him. He is magic.

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