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Mike Townsend

@mike-earthshine.bsky.social
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CEO Earthshine | Biz & Econ #Transformation | Consultant, Keynote, Teacher, Writer | The Quiet Revolution: We have more choices than we think | #Sustainability | #NetZero & BEYOND | #CircularEconomy | #ESG & BEYOND | #BCFC | earthshine-group.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
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Mike Townsend @mike-earthshine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Machine Stops by EM Forster. In real time...
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you’re going to be in New York for Climate Week, I hope to see you at our public events. drawdown.org/news/project...
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Project Drawdown shares action-packed agenda for Climate Week NYC
Don't miss some of the hottest events of this year's Climate Week NYC!
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"as the world changes our elites are changing, becoming more fascist, attracted to ideas justifying that only some people are going to make it. it’s the job of a credible left to put forward a vision of the future for how we live together well on this planet." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table (Gift Article)
In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan:
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Harborne calls his latest bung to Farage a “philanthropic gift to the country”. Philanthropy isn’t funding racists and climate deniers. Or funnelling cash into deregulation and removal of our rights so tax-avoiding billionaires can profiteer from the chaos. That’s just corruption. We don’t want it.
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 04/06/2026
All the necessary 21st century mobility and transport solutions such as the bus (stop), bikes in covered bike parking and the Intercity train fit in the same picture at Joensuu train station. A dedicated cycling lane adds to the mix. #PublicTransport #ActiveMobility
An Intercity train, covered bike parking and long distance bus stops.
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 12/09/2026
Stop faffing about and get this petition off to the moon, so we can get Palantir off into the sea. Its only got 50 signatues in 24 hours and I know there’s more than 50 Brits seeing this. 👋 www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...
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Tell the Health Secretary, Yvette Cooper: No Palantir in our NHS
Palantir’s contract with NHS England is up for renewal in February 2027, with discussions expected to begin this year. This is a critical moment for us to tell the new Health Secretary: No Palantir in...
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The Lever @levernews.com · 10/09/2026
Read what we uuncovered: www.levernews.com/the-big-tech...
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The Big Tech Alums Building Trump’s AI War Machine
A little-known Pentagon office staffed by Big Tech alums is dismantling safeguards and accelerating AI warfare as their former employers compete for lucrative military contracts.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The question that keeps occurring to me is this: If a group of people had taken office with the deliberate intention of destroying the global standing, democratic claims, credibility and power of the United States, what would they do differently? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump says every adult American will get $5,000 if Republicans win midterms
Speaking at a party convention, the US president gave no details on how the plan would work or where the money would come from.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 10/09/2026
France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'
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France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump lunges toward and growls at a reporter (a woman) who asked him about why he's offering money to voters if his economic policies are working (Andrew Harnik/Getty)
pic of an orange-faced Trump leaning forward with an angry look on his face as he snaps at a reporter
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians. Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.” Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.
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Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar
Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Guardian editorial: voters would reward greater ambition on UK-EU links Editorial draws on new @britishfuture.bsky.social study - showing scepticism about Brexit, support for closer links, "not to be confused with an appetite for a complete reversal" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on UK-EU relations: voters would reward greater ambition | Editorial
Editorial: The architects of Brexit know it has failed. That presents Andy Burnham with an opportunity to set a bolder new agenda
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Ian Christie @ianpchristie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Climate change images are getting scarier – could fear help drive action? theconversation.com/climate-chan...
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Climate change images are getting scarier – could fear help drive action?
New research suggests negative or anxiety-inducing images might be more useful than once thought.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nigel Farage’s pile of financing scandals www.ft.com/content/2774...
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
El Niño-Induced Drought Will Reduce Shipping Through Panama Canal truthout.org/articles/el-...
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El Niño-Induced Drought Will Reduce Shipping Through Panama Canal — Likely Raising Consumer Costs Even More
The El Niño weather phenomenon is becoming more disruptive due to the effects of climate change, a new study shows.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
2 months from TODAY is the beginning of the end of the Orange Embarrassment. Check out these Screenshots (as if you needed any more motivation to VOTE on 11/3/26!) Register- Iwillvote.com vote.org Get involved at- Rockthevote.org GoodParty.org DemCast.com Postcardstovoters.org movement.vote
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Mike Townsend @mike-earthshine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Highly relatable. Robust climate action, anyone?
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Reform CAUGHT ON CAMERA – the foreign money scandal www.channel4.com/news/reform-...
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Reform CAUGHT ON CAMERA – the foreign money scandal
Senior Reform officials have been caught on camera discussing ways to get thousands of pounds of foreign money into the party, potentially breaking electoral law.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Why is Farage’s Reform accused of violating the UK’s foreign funding rules? www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
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Why is Farage’s Reform accused of violating the UK’s foreign funding rules?
Undercover footage allegedly shows top Reform officials discussing ways to evade foreign funding laws.
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Tom Hayes @tomhayes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Interesting article. "We've lost our industrial jobs, so we are going to vote for Farage". Do they think Farage will get them their jobs back? The man whose life's work was to pull the UK out of the biggest market in the world, the EU. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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‘Capitalism is dying’: in Luton, these former car workers have a moral tale for our times | Aditya Chakrabortty
Abandoned by the company they worked for, let down by Labour and their unions – now they watch their friends turn to Reform for answers, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schools www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schools
Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/09/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Today’s students are trying to work out what it means to be decent humans in world growing more heated, hostile and, sometimes, heartless,” Michael S. Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, writes. “We should cheer them on, for their sake and ours.”
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Opinion | This Is the Real Point of College
It’s all about the practice of freedom.
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The mail-ballot rule is frozen, not finished. Ballots are already moving in some states. Tell your Representatives to lock in protections tonight.
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Tell Congress: Protect our use of voting by mail and voting machines
Contact Congress today!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film. Impermissible donor paid £30,000 for polling commissioned by Reform. That's another addition to the long list of investigation by the Police and the Electoral Commission for possible violations of UK electoral laws.
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Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film
Investigation broadcast by Channel 4 News shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped Reform
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BREAKING: Reform UK’s James Orr and Dan Jukes have ‘stepped down’ from their roles following last night’s undercover filming on Channel 4 News. Nigel Farage remains in post.
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 02/09/2026
It cannot be stated enough: whatever your view of technology & policy development over the rest of this century & beyond, the rapid ending of fossil fuels is the most resilient & robust way to secure a liveable climate.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In just few hours, we will have rare triplet hurricanes across the Pacific. El Niño is in full force. Colin McCarthy
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨 Another Farage disaster. Since 2020, England has lost 6,500 manufacturing businesses. The NE lost 10.3%; Leicester lost nearly 23%. Farage promised Brexit would revive industrial heartlands. Instead, Brexit added trade barriers, disrupted supply chains and made 🇬🇧manufacturing less competitive.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Earth will cross the 1.5 degrees warming limit that everyone agreed to in the Paris Accord. Thank all those politicians that delayed and weakened the vital climate policies, and still do. It’s not them who’ll pay the price, but you and your children. apnews.com/article/clim...
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Global warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone
In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 01/09/2026
Attacks on librarians, forced storytime cancellations and book bans are threatening the stability of public libraries
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Political Attacks Are Pushing Public Libraries To ‘Breaking Point,’ New Report Shows
Attacks on librarians, forced storytime cancellations and book bans are threatening the stability of public libraries
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Mike Townsend @mike-earthshine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Here we go...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's not often you can pinpoint real, positive change a journalist has caused. But as Turkmeni sources state, @dpcarrington.bsky.social's persistent and probing coverage of this issue has been critical to a change of policy, with massive implications. Big congrats www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks
Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas
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@holminjone 🇫🇮🇪🇺🌻🇺🇦🐸 @holminjone.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are all suffering because of the orange idiot. Worldwide.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Mike Townsend @mike-earthshine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
AI is getting dangerous - beyond our control. 🤖 The race to build ever more powerful AI is reckless. >> Tell the EU to put safety first! ✊ Signed. Please pass it on. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-08...
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AI should serve us, not tech billionaires!
Share the petition and you'll help multiply the impact of this campaign: AI should serve us, not tech billionaires!
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Ed Costello @edcos39.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It just got way easier to sue fossil fuel companies over climate change www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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It just got way easier to sue fossil fuel companies over climate change
For years, industry has argued you can't prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 30/08/2026
🚨 OCEAN HEAT: We are entering uncharted territory. Record-breaking ocean temperatures are pushing ecosystems closer to dangerous tipping points. Fossil fuel corporations and big polluters are gambling with a liveable planet for profit.
Global sea surface temperature graph
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Nigel Farage's Reform UK economic policies will bankrupt Britain quicker than you can say 'Liz Truss' Other quotes that look particularly bad with hindsight “We send £350 million a week to the EU. Let’s fund our NHS instead.” “Trump is the best ally in the world” meme via Ross Birchall
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 30/08/2026
According to the @wsj.com, the deal in Venezuela will "give the US a "stake in a private company that would be granted centurylong rights to some of the world’s largest proven oil reserves" and also tie the U.S. to the "unelected government that is granting those rights." www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Exclusive | Inside Trump’s Plan to Give the Pentagon a Stake in Venezuela’s Oil Riches
The deal capped months of secretive negotiations to give the U.S. rights to the some of the world’s largest proven oil reserves.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/08/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The president “has ripped an enormously damaging Trump-size hole in the constitutional order, and a future president with autocratic designs will have every tool he needs to push the envelope even further,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.
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Opinion | Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution
The mail-in voting fiasco is the latest proof that we have another reconstruction ahead of us.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Trump Tells Such Honking Lies......
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Mike Townsend @mike-earthshine.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
AI slop leads to brain rot: 47% reduction in neural connectivity after 4 months of regular use. The brain is like a muscle; use it or lose it!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“When the Brexit referendum happened, I didn’t believe any UK government would seek the deal we ended up with; I couldn’t imagine a govt would inflict this on its own nation” … or, worse, that they’d keep on inflicting it. FFS, just stop this Brexit madness. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
True cost of Brexit on UK trade revealed as calls to rejoin single market grow
• Britain is still counting the cost - and paying the price
- of BrexitHow have businesses reacted to Brexit?
A major survey of business leaders by the European Movement UK shows that the vast majority say Brexit has impacted their firms, and would support closer ties with the EU:
98.2% support accessing the European Single Market
96.4% Brexit has been bad for their communities
78.6% pessimistic about economic growth
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72.8% negatively impacted by
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