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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 28m

When I was thinking about this divide the thing that popped into my head was Meryl Streep's cerulean sweater monologue from The Devil Wears Prada. It's a speech about the importance of design but raises some questions in the age of AI.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 21h

Anyone wondering how the Man City thing is going to go needs to look back at the quotes in the original leak that lead to this: "rather spend 30 million on the 50 best lawyers in the world to sue [Uefa] for the next 10 years” and “the destruction of their rules and organisation”

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The Manchester City case shows us how the global mega-rich now expect to operate with impunity | Jonathan Liew

When transnational alliances have scarcely been weaker, the way the club was allegedly run offers a bleak vision of a world driven by brute power and wealth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The police have foiled the start of a stereotypical British film, but is it a zombie movie, an organised crime heist, a rural murder mystery or a porno? Comedy or drama?

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The men's race also demonstrated this. McNulty owes Jorgenson and Simmons all the pints after that one.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just catching up on the end of the cycling world championship road race and I don't think there's any event in sport other than marathon which demonstrates so visually how close to the edge of human ability athletes are.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Going to dive into the important issue here - what the hell is going on with this graph?!

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wow, this is so sad. Should be a reminder to anyone who hasn't been for a while to go and get checked out by your GP.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Interesting intersection between Spurs and politics. I was a bit worried when I saw the headline but 0.1% of revenue (£565k last year) seems fine. As long as it doesn't become "nice stadium you've got there, be a shame if it becomes totally unprofitable."

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Tottenham Hotspur facing demands from Greens for percentage of revenue

Tottenham Hotspur have been asked by Green-led Haringey Council to sacrifice a fixed percentage of revenue for Northumberland Park residents.

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Ryan C. Smith @rcsmitheco.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That's 100% incorrect. Solar & wind are cheaper, more reliable, and have faster build times by a whole factor of time (weeks & months vs months & years) than all fossil fuels. If anything, sticking with oil, coal, & gas is a recipe for volatility & poverty, while renewables ensure prosperity.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Guys it's officially Autumn I packed my bike lights in my panniers.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am going to die on the hill that it's impossible that a 0-7 score has a 3.99% of ending in a Scorigami because if it did there wouldn't be any feasible Scorigamis left. I point this out once a season then go back to quietly fuming about the statistics abuse.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A century of the ridiculous whining of motorists!

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Loads of people on my timeline talking about whether Jesus as a lion could be a woman without considering that a far better Jesus is Gerald the dancing giraffe who definitely could be any gender.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This would be very good news for the government (and consumers) if it goes like this. Up to 19 GW of clean power would be a big step towards the 95% clean energy target as well.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

If we’re serious about reindustrialisation we should actually reindustrialise.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I rather unwisely took a mouthful of beer before watching this and nearly drowned.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I did have a look at recent pedestrian deaths last night and it is shocking. It is almost invisible - many of the deaths don't even get reported in the local news. Here are a few of the recent ones:

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Many such cases. My OH is working much closer to home these last couple of weeks and I've noticed has been getting a Lime bike virtually every day. Might need to have a conversation about buying an e-bike soon.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is an interesting project - green hydrogen from onshore wind, CO2 from crop waste, for around a 75% reduction in carbon emissions. Be interesting to see the cost. Europe really needs to get a move on with green fuels and chemicals or China will boss them like it did with batteries and EVs.

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China's Goldwind produces RED III-compliant biomethanol | Latest Market News

Chinese green methanol producer Goldwind Green Energy achieved a successful trial run at its 250,000 t/yr biomethanol unit in Xing'an League, Inner Mongolia, this week, producing biomethanol that meet...

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Missed this aspect of it 1st time round - Delo - who just gave the far right Reform party an unprecedented amount of money - was breaking sanctions on Iran and was convicted for it in the US. Trump pardoned him. The international crypto fascist alliance at work.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Love that my family are like Memento with the heating and thermostat. It's been set at 5C the entire summer (we don't have AC) but I can see it's now been inched up to 15C (current temperature at 22:30 is 22C). In a month or so they might successfully manage to activate the heating.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Had missed this fire from Emily T, also possibly the only politician who formats ellipses correctly.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Obviously lots about Reform in the news so a lot is going under the radar but it is worth remembering that not only are they grifting criminals they are also vile racists who increasingly aren't even bothering to try and hide that fact behind weasel words.

Goodwin added that the Tories have “completely betrayed” the British people by replacing the best and brightest in the country with “drug dealing goat herders”.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Judging by the state of everyone out and about in London (including me) we have forgotten (a) it can rain quite a lot here and (b) the weather forecast is sometimes very badly wrong.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Probably not many people following me who don't already know about Material World but it's a really excellent and eye-opening book and I expect its "sequel" to be equally good. I'll definitely be reading this at some point.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Matthew Brennan seems to be sneaking under the radar in the UK sports media - 3 stage wins in the Vuelta so far which is pretty impressive for a 21 year old. I wonder if he needs to win some stages in the TdF (possibly unlikely with his current team) to really take off.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 01/09/2026

A liberal is a conservative who just got mugged by the police

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Beth Cooper 🏏 @bethcooper.fyi · 29/08/2026

3hr15min run done in various degrees of rain. I feel that is good prep for Loch Ness and certainly beats the heat! Please sponsor me, and a big thank you to those who already have www.justgiving.com/page/bethcoo...

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Beth's fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support

Help Beth Cooper raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is so terrifying. Will this finally motivate us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My thoughts on this are prob too deep for the local press - & hard to explain unless you've experienced it, but: there's something about cycling for transport that teaches respect for the world. For geography. The hills & river valleys, some of them lost. For the seasons, and how they've changed.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Incredible levels of success by this government considering the state the asylum system was left in by the previous government which had essentially given up on it in favour of the Rwanda fantasy.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is an interesting poll but why on earth would you not ask about climate change?

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think Americans need to think a bit about what people outside the US think because this kind of article comes across that Americans don't care about alliances or even rule of law and their own constitution, the only thing they care about is tractor sales and grain prices.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Strong advice to anyone living in a basement flat - check any drains near your doors *before* 3am...

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's crazy how bad I am at doing corrections. My eyes stop focusing, my brain feels like it's rolling down a hill, a spot of dust becomes the most obscene pornography. Is it possible to avoid doing corrections by instead putting in a disclaimer that "this article is deficient in the following ways"?

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Was thinking about this this morning when cycling to work. Could smell the rain but there wasn't any. I assume there must have been some somewhere around.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I don't see support for "net zero" slipping to be too concerning - it's quite abstract and far in the future. I'd be more concerned if support for "electorate-facing" solutions like renewables, EVs and heat pumps was going down.

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Liam Duffy @liamduffy.dev · 16/08/2026

Bit sad this. A post on the London subreddit asking what people are doing now Zipcar has left. Many in the replies say they just bought a car. reddit.com/r/london/comments/1vowijv/what_alternatives_to_zipcar_have_people_been/

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Funny that every bus station in Spain, even the new ones, persist in this fantasy that people are going to go on some weird roundabout route to leave the bus station rather than walking out the same way the buses come in.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is well worth 20 minutes of your time if you're a Sugar fan (or any kind of early 90s rock fan tbh):

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Another epic stage in the TDFF today!

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

1/ New research @lut.fi explores inter-annual electricity balancing in #100RE systems doi.org/10.1016/j.en.... An 85-year weather dataset compares e-H2 vs e-CH4 as storage carriers and introduces a multi-objective policy framework.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This was a personal interaction, not in a professional context but: "I've done a medical degree, I'm sure I could pass a quantum mechanics exam with a couple of days' studying" while I was revising for my finals was a good one. Had a "You're not a real doctor" at a party once as well.

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New piece from me: Getting over the 2030 energy bill bump On how we're in a period of unusually high energy bills that we should be able to escape from - but only if we start making serious progress on electrification www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-ene...

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The energy edit: getting over the 2030 energy bill bump

Every six weeks Andrew Sissons assesses the most important signals and trends underpinning the UK’s energy transition.

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Mary Creagh MP @marycreagh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Jess- I spent 90 minutes in the House of Commons on 13th July doing exactly that in the annual Nature and Climaye statement. Perhaps the lobby was distracted….. Here’s what we debated - wildfires, heatwaves, excess deaths, it’s all there hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026...

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State of Climate and Nature - Hansard - UK Parliament

Hansard record of the item : ' State of Climate and Nature' on Monday 13 July 2026.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Depressing how much reach total rubbish gets on here sometimes. A screenshot of a meme with numbers that even half a second thought would tell you must be complete nonsense and no source, yet dozens of people are blindly reposting it.

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