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@mikerrobo.bsky.social
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Media production, with a passion for all things community, environmental, Donut economics and citizen assemblies. Lead in building community fibre broadband in our rural uplands.

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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 17h
Unfortunately others will step in to the collapse which is inevitable. Too much money chasing the ai goal
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 22h
I can hear the lawyers rubbing their hands if that ever gets anywhere near parliament.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22h
No waiting. This is if we get moving now, now, NOW. If you want to read why these timings - here's the full report: assets.nationbuilder.com/euromove/pag...
Cover page of the 20-page EMUK report "Targeting 2036"
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 22h
Unfortunately the tech companies can throw money at these and push them through, cost is not an issue.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 22h
At last some honesty.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 22h
And not to forget Cambridge Analytics.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No data centre should be built in the UK unless we have full sovereignty of the data stored and they use a closed loop cooling system and they generate their own power as a minimum requirement of providing planning. Otherwise it will not be the UK benefiting.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Israel has demanded that Palestinians in Gaza evacuate from the last surviving Medical Centres. So they can blow them to bits. It's a Genocide, there is no Ceasefire.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shell’s refineries expected to make record profits. Profit margins of $42 a barrel, up from $24 a barrel. Cashing in on global conflicts. Bumper payouts for execs and shareholders. Misery for households and businesses. Millions plunged into poverty. Must levy 100% windfall tax.
theguardian.com
Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made
Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia
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silverbeet-gd.bsky.social @silverbeet-gd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Britain's contracts with Palantir hit £1bn Newly surfaced disclosures reveal the government has spent or agreed to spend at least £992m with Peter Thiel’s controversial AI company – as pressure mounts on Andy Burnham to block them. Max Colbert reports for the Nerve www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-1...
thenerve.news
Revealed: Britain's contracts with Palantir hit £1bn
Newly surfaced disclosures reveal the government has spent or agreed to spend at least £992m with Peter Thiel’s controversial AI company – as pressure mounts on Andy Burnham to block them. Max Colbert...
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Again people are faced with life threatening situations due to failing water authorities
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos details why Zionism is racism and completely unacceptable.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 08/10/2026
👉REVEALED -- The BP-linked oil spill leaving Angolans sick and hungry by Stéffie Banatvala & Giorgio Michalopoulos Satellite imagery shows how oil has been leaking off Angola’s coast for 13 years, sickening locals and polluting their environment www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-the...
declassifieduk.org
Revealed: The BP-linked oil spill leaving Angolans sick and hungry
Satellite imagery uncovered by Declassified shows how oil has been leaking off Angola’s coast for 13 years, sickening locals and polluting their environment
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#BigTech's data centres if they build all planned they will use 1.5 times of power generated at the present and guzzle our water. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Zero water waste 🗣️ Local community consent Sign petition to stop data centres harming our communities and environment now.
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Ban data centres that harm our communities and climate
Big Tech’s giant data centres swallow as much power as millions of homes, guzzle our water, and risk driving up our energy bills - all with zero limits. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Ze...
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That is democracy. Something that other parties are not familiar with.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Panorama editor who oversaw entirely discredited episode stitching up Jeremy Corbyn with antisemitism smears wins top job at BBC News. Rachel Jupp is feted as a "trusted troubleshooter". In other words: a safe pair of hands, ready to do the British establishment's dirty work.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why would you put this man in charge of anything?
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Certainly it will not be green and pleasant land under Badenough's Tories.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's a feudal land tax even if 88% goes back to the exchequer it increases the cost of green energy.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No sea! How am I going to judge the weather at the coast!
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Many would die for a triple of their wage to that level
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Overcrowding in UK A&E depts and treating patients in corridors linked to hundreds of deaths. Neoliberals urge cuts in public spending, silence on human consequences. Delayed care leads to premature deaths People sacrificed to gods of fiscal policies.
news.sky.com
Overcrowding in A&E linked to 'hundreds of deaths a week', study finds
A review of more than 19,000 adult patients found that for every 10% increase in emergency department occupancy, the chance of dying in the following 28 days increased by 1%.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Energy suppliers urge UK govt to help households struggling with energy bills. Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits. Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty. We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.
bbc.co.uk
Suppliers pile pressure on government over energy bills
Immediate action is needed to help households struggling with bills this winter, says trade body Energy UK.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 05/10/2026
With the Tory conference proposing abolition of Natural England, the Environment Agency & many regulations what would be the impact on the health of our environment & river pollution?
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
80% of oil landed in the UK is exported for refining. Unfortunately it is not economical to build refineries to process this oil when it has an estimated life of 5 to 10 years.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
UK refineries were designed around light sweet crudes like Brent and those shipped in from Libya and optimized for gasoline production. The sour oils, high in sulphur, now coming out of the North Sea are shipped abroad for processing.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The government’s response was swift but complex. Glencore, the refinery’s main supplier, initially agreed to provide crude oil for free as a gesture of goodwill while officials searched for a buyer. A deal has since been reached that will see Glencore paid from taxpayer funds to maintain supplies.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Prax Group who owned Lindsey ran up losses of about £75 million while the duo owners extracted approximately £11.5 million in pay and dividends since the Lindsey acquisition alone.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
 Grangemouth owned by China’s PetroChina and Ineos closed after claims it was uneconomic. Lindsey refinery collapsed into insolvency.leaving the UK with just 4 major refinery plants.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
80% of oil landed in the UK is exported for refining. Unfortunately it is not economical to build refineries to process this oil when it has an estimated life of 5 to 10 years.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
UK refineries were designed around light sweet crudes like Brent and those shipped in from Libya and optimized for gasoline production. The sour oils, high in sulphur, now coming out of the North Sea are shipped abroad for processing.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The government’s response was swift but complex. Glencore, the refinery’s main supplier, initially agreed to provide crude oil for free as a gesture of goodwill while officials searched for a buyer. A deal has since been reached that will see Glencore paid from taxpayer funds to maintain supplies.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Prax Group who owned Lindsey ran up losses of about £75 million while the duo owners extracted approximately £11.5 million in pay and dividends since the Lindsey acquisition alone.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Where have all the refineries gone. Grangemouth owned by China’s PetroChina and Ineos closed after claims it was uneconomic. Lindsey refinery collapsed into insolvency. Leaving the UK with just 4 major refinery plants.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No mention of corporate manslaughter a child died. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
The death of Heather Preen: how an eight-year-old lost her life amid sewage crisis
In 1999, Heather Preen contracted E coli on a Devon beach. Two weeks later she died. Now, as a new Channel 4 show dramatises the scandal, her mother, Julie Maughan, explains why she is still looking f...
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Brizo75 @brizo75.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Will we "all be in it together" again like last time? The UK’s wealth gap has grown by 50% in eight years – and poses a strategic risk to the nation - LSE Inequalities share.google/fuhu2zdJgh48...
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The UK’s wealth gap has grown by 50% in eight years – and poses a strategic risk to the nation - LSE Inequalities
The size of the UK's wealth gap is not only unfair. It poses major risks to our economy, society, democracy and environment. How should policymakers respond?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"It's Immigrants robbing you."
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Won't happen unless talked about.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At least he is talking about water, Social care, youth employment, energy, unlike like other parties. Nothing will happen if it's not talked about.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Refreshing stuff laying the ground work for water back in public ownership, reforming the electoral system, improving social care for the old, controlling rip off landlords , improved support for young people Ok replacing triple lock on pension for 2.5 version. Sounds like what the country needs.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All those countries pay higher taxes.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You can hardly say it's slashed it's double lock with earnings over time as a control and inflation or 2.5% annually. With savings going into improving social care for the elderly. This will mean most will be on the new state pension.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ai can be developed one of two ways 1 to automate many tasks at the expense of many jobs with it benefiting the corporations and the tech billionaires or 2 as a knowledge basis to enhance people's abilities and improve productive for all. Which way is the push to develop it being directed?
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026
Pope Leo says concerns about AI doom are not 'fake news' reut.rs/47pZvY4
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Pope Leo says concerns about AI doom are not 'fake news'
Pope Leo on Monday said concerns that artificial intelligence could ​destroy the world are not "fake news" and should be taken ‌seriously, in an apparent rebuke of US President Donald Trump.
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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Most families and definitely single parent families get no where near those figures
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...
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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson
A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now
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opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net · 28/09/2026
Who really pays for the surveillance state? (It's you.)⁠ Listen to or watch the latest episode of the In Solidarity podcast ⤵️ www.opendemocracy.net/exposing-pala…
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Houses can be built on floodplains despite failing safety test, says UK high court. Profitable for developers, misery for buyers/residents. Problems with insurance, reselling, quality of life. Too many defective homes built. Get a private survey before buying a new home. Must change laws.
theguardian.com
Houses can be built on floodplains despite failing safety test, says high court
Decision to allow 190 controversial new homes in north Somerset sparks campaign for change in the law
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
bylinetimes.com
Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s hard to believe it’s been six months. From firefighters and teachers to politicians, trade unionists, and families — chanting, dancing and filling the streets with hope. The biggest anti-racist march in UK history. We must keep marching on.
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