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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This by @will-davies.bsky.social is a treat - flowing between musical criticism, sociology, and politics - but above all I enjoyed the appreciation of creative genius that is beyond the conscious control or explicit views of those it runs through for a time.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/09/2026

When we stop talking about climate change like it’s a political issue and start talking about it as a shared challenge that we all need to work together to solve, that’s when we’ll finally be able to start talking about saving ourselves. That is our conclusion here!

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What, isn’t that the plot to Alien Earth?

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No, Nicholas Harris - you can’t describe a working class cockney as a “bounder”. They can be a geezer. They can be dodgy. They can be a bit whirr. They can be a bad’un. They can be a lad, a boy. They can be a bit much. They can be a wanker. But they can’t be a bounder. Might as well call him a cad.

A snippet of a New Statesman review of the 70Up programme, which contains the line: “The wise travelling vagrant, the adulterous East End cockney bounder and the prize posh shit - can the mess of life truly produce such clear, predictable, Thackerayan archetypes?”

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This looks like a great opportunity for those interested in researching ecological and heterodox economics. Some great people at Greenwich: "Applications for scholarships for our PhD in the Economics of Social and Ecological Sustainability are now open." www.gre.ac.uk/articles/bus...

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UBEL Economics of Social and Ecological Sustainability | Articles | University of Greenwich

A research pathway for those exploring the economics of social and ecological sustainability.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A great idea. About 15 years ago the NAO came up with a figure of about £15mn per organisational merger or renaming in the UK. They all come with a cost.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Listening to some fabulous music composed by Dobrinka Tabakova. Thinking: I tried to tell my old man about it after I discovered her, as I thought he would love it. But he wasn’t really able to grasp it by then.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Going through a file of old notes, I see that in the margins of a journal article I had printed out (on attempts to answer the question ‘why something rather than nothing?’), I had scribbled: ‘All this stuff about the Intellect, and the Good, and Love is all bollocks’. Oh dear! That’s a shame.

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes, it’s that simple. 1. Insulate buildings 2. electrify heating & cooling in one go with heat pumps (and HP-fed heat/cooling-networks) 3. Solar shading to avoid overheating “Fabric first” to reduce the need for supplemental heating/cooling “Electrify also” to decarbonise & for max efficiency

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A delight and a privilege yesterday to attend the birthday celebrations of @solaraid.bsky.social - some 20 years after its launch in the old City Hall. Lovely to meet some of the staff and hear from those who make it happen on the ground. It does great work. If you’re not familiar, do check it out.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What kind of chemist was he going to?

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An ashen faced Chris Mason on the 10 o’clock news there.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This evening, Chris Mason now looks even more utterly ridiculous than he did this morning. That is quite some achievement!

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just remembered I dreamt last night I was Gazza, and I tricked an ice cream van into giving everyone on a big estate a free diet coke. I was basically starring in my own Beano strip, as Gazza. More high jinks next time, I hope.

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This. Is. Not. Journalism. - It's letting Farage shine. I genuinely do not understand why the BBC does not seem to be able to competently challenge Reform and Farage.

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Reform up against 'complainants' society', Nigel Farage tells BBC

The Reform UK leader said a "whole ecosystem" didn't want "new kids on the block succeeding".

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thinking - there ought to be a classification of job roles by how much it matters and how quickly it would be noticed if you were crap at your job.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Watching a programme with Cat Croxford talking through how she constructs a painting - it’s compelling watching because she’s a great teacher. It’s the best kind of teaching, too, in that it’s not at all concerned with accreditation, but is all about the love of a subject or art in its own right.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m not usually surprised by the things @allouryesterdays.bsky.social digs out - depressed, yes; aghast, yes - but not surprised. But this surprised me - the *Daily Mail* reporting factually on climate change *in 1959*.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Focused AI aimed at addressing real problems does not require the massive data center build out that Big Tech is demanding to feed their LLMs. Interesting take from an innovater who is building efficient and targeted AI models. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social

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The AI we want without the data centers we don't: It's possible | Op-Ed

We don’t need to burn our climate commitments or pave over fields and ranches to realize the benefits of artificial intelligence.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

like do you know how rare it is for someone to pass who’s so wildly professionally successful but that ISN’T what most people are talking about? what they’re talking about is what a good human she was. there is truly no greater legacy than that.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This shows what this Cofnas character is about. It’s not just disgusting prejudice, it’s intellectually utter trash. Anyone who signed a letter defending his work, and saying his empirical claims deserve to be treated with academic respect, has tainted themselves. The shit’s rubbed off onto them.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

All I ask is that Thomas Frank isn’t on Match of the Day tonight, that’s all I ask

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 20/08/2026

The toxic air our children were breathing was stunting their lungs. For too many young Londoners, that was the reality before the ULEZ. New independent findings show their lung health has improved significantly in Central London. That’s the difference cleaner air can make.

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Introducing Ulez was my hardest decision as mayor of London – but now we know its astonishing impact | Sadiq Khan

Critics said I was attacking motorists. It’s more important for me that the city’s children are no longer breathing dangerous levels of pollution, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This crazy cool study made up look up London's long-term air pollution problem. People used to put up with so much crap. What we're seeing now is small improvements, but even those have great benefits!

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Just coming back from a fleeting visit to the Edinburgh fringe, feeling quite uplifted. It’s not just that the shows we’ve seen have been funny and entertaining…

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I like these new intercity trains where they’ve fitted more seats than they were designed for, so all anyone’s got is a tiny sliver of window to look out of. For those of us who take the train but really miss the vacuum packed coffin tube experience of flying.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In Edinburgh. Just overheard, a woman with the most mellifluous, Home Counties voice saying: ‘But I just don’t consider myself middle class.’ Hoping to see this in the Guardian’s round up of funniest one liners from Edinburgh this year.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/08/2026

Opinion: Political thinking on net zero needs to shift, writes Pilita Clark. The cost of climate action cannot be ignored, but nor can the cost of inaction. Reasonable people can debate the best way forward. Blinkered, ideological zealots will never get us anywhere ft.trib.al/jKrWY9y

An illustration showing part of a woman using a fire extinguisher to put out flames on a burning Earth, with green leaves representing net zero policies.

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ELTON CHIJIRI @eltonchijiri.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

" THINKER "

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A great article - about two great men - and a popular culture and public life of another age.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I see I need to go to Italy and look through a kebab shop window to catch some test cricket in August. Thanks ECB.

A badly shot picture of a tv screen with a test batter in whites, on a drab wall in a kebab shop in Italy

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

BP had a chance to lead the transition to renewables *and make a profit at the same time* 20 years ago, and it turned out its Beyond Petroleum slogan was just a load of horseshit. No vision, no leadership, no moral authority. No sympathy.

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

No, not Baresi. What sad news. He will forever remain for me the Platonic ideal of defenders. For me, the greatest ever.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026

And here is some of that "Mediterranean lifestyle", as reported by today's Telegraph website...

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

An emotional day. Hiring a van to take away dinner sets, pictures, and books from our Folks’ house. The things that two people build up over a lifetime together.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Me- Oh you know the new Prime Minister went to my old Cambridge college. Daughter- Oh really? That’s just typical. Me- Oh well, actually there’s not been a Cambridge-educated PM for a century. Her- No not that. You! You went there and you haven’t achieved *anything*! Me- Oh. Thanks Daughter!

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Jesus Christ, BBC - stop pestering Ben Duckett with these asinine questions, he’s trying to play a game of cricket.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's time the UK Government ditched the term 'Net Zero'. It was always a bad faith idea - both in intention (moving on from talking about climate change) and in reality (there's devil in a lot of detail as to what 'net' means). It was always framed as a way of disguising radical climate policy.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Serial heatwaves, unprecedented leaps between old and new temperature extremes, mass evacuations - and speechless governments. Because the words they would have to say in their second sentences are “fossil fuels”. And they mostly just cannot. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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France and Spain race to control wildfires as more than 250,000 evacuated – live

Meanwhile, in the UK, a blaze in the Cairngorms national park has been described as ‘very serious’ by Scotland’s first minister

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