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Raechel Kelly

@raechelkelly.bsky.social
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Climate action, regenerative thinking, doughnut economics, circular economy. Mum stuff & rollerskates. Liminality, Neighbourhood connection in St Paul’s & local project Planet Chelt and The Greenhouse with Vision 21.

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Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 2h
Reminder re the discussion on whether parents on over £100,000 should be able to access funded childcare hours that this is the income split for who can access the 30 hour policy for 3 and 4 year olds - low income families are the main ones currently missing out.
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We tested people living near a chemical plant in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire. 70% of people tested had levels of PFAS in their blood that, in the US, would be classed as 'high-risk' for adverse health effects. 1 person had the highest levels of PFAS ever recorded in anyone's blood in the UK.
Our PFAS pollution story on the front page of the Times today
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s official, the 2026 El Niño has broken a record for the highest ocean anomaly in 170+ years… Incredibly reaching that threshold a full 2 months ahead of 2015’s record of +3.02C set on Nov 18th. See that red line? That’s 2026. Every other bold line are the strongest El Niño’s on record. 1/
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
THIS is why the COP process has long been completely unfit for purpose, and why IPCC report findings must be considered very carefully indeed www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 18/09/2026
We could already face 2.5-3°C of global warming by 2050!
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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean, one in four also isn’t good is it?!
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John Marsham @johnmarsham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One of the challenges of communicating the seriousness ClimateCrisis, is the fact that is affects far far more than people realise, "11% of UK homes could be at risk" from resultant subsidence, thene there's floods, sea-level rise ... www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘We can see into the other room’: insurers face surge in subsidence claims
Stressed UK homeowners tell of cracks opening up in the walls around them after two record-hot summers
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Will save you a click here - it’s disappointingly not a job where you get to host the weddings of swans, water voles or otters.
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Illegal dumping is easy money for organised criminals who can run rings round underfunded, fragmented enforcement teams. To tackle it, you need a single, enforcement body, with multi-year funding + powers to investigate + prosecute, writes Ian Williams: share.google/TeKZyr3YZzy5...
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Fly-tipping: here’s what is missing from Andy Burnham’s plan to tackle waste dumpers
Burnham’s plan to tackle criminal fly-tipping gangs needs to go further.
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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s the time of year again where I get unfathomably angry about people doing ‘sleep outs’ to end homelessness.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A stylish man pointing to the words "At or near 2C warming agriculture collapses."
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Do we have a ministry for climate adaptation yet? Why not?
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
[Open access] Through a patchwork ethnography of India’s diverse used electronics industries, Julia Corwin examines the often invisible yet vital labor of electronics repair, remanufacturing, and informal trade that makes electronics economies work mitpress.mit.edu/978026205307...
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Analog Labor in a Digital World
Analog Labor in a Digital World explores an alternative way to live with the things in our world, by tracing the skilled repair labor that repurposes and rei...
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 05/09/2026
Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest. What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'? "Fucking morons."
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In our new essay for the @financialtimes.com (you read that right), @astra.bsky.social and I link the extreme weather events we have all been living through to the rise of a new iteration of futureless fascism, wherein the rich and powerful plan for their bunkered survival behind fortressed borders.
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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns
A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police. A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#OpportunityCosts #ResourceCosts the world cannot afford. "It took 661 people to invent Dyson CameraJet™ Electric Toothbrush. Was there nothing else these brilliant & highly trained minds could have done?" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.ft.com/content/3c2b...
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What would Socrates have done with the new Dyson toothbrush?
No one needs two and a half million photographs of their back molars
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"hey everyone - this is the undercover journalist who is helping us do those crimes I told you about"
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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My family have no appreciation for my lore. Dropped some great stuff tonight, I’ve stood in a river of human shit with Ed Davey, I broke my coccyx dropping into a skate bowl on roller skates, my mate has been in Mr Binstagram’s naked advent calendar. Not even any follow up questions.
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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Maybe someone should put the details of the story on a small boat
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
0.0C above 1850 temperatures: nice 1.5C above 1850 temperatures: current chaos 3.0C above 1850 temperatures: 4 billion dead 4.5C above 1850 temperatures: 8 billion dead
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/09/2026
fun fact! Musk's fossil fuelled data centres almost certainly emit more climate pollution than is saved by all Tesla vehicles ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m...
Grok's fossil-fuelled data centres wipe out either a large chunk or more than all of Tesla's global avoided emissions
Fossil fuelled chatbot emissions
Avoided emissions from Tesla products
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...from its EVs, solar panels and batteries (depending on which year and calculation you use). All numbers in megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year
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We're Right Here @right-here.org · 03/09/2026
One year of touring the Museum of Broken Dreams around the UK! The exhibition tells the story of community-led projects that could have transformed Britain – but failed because the power to decide whether their vision materialised lay elsewhere. 💔 See it here: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3659...
Museum of Broken Dreams in Parliament. Credit: Alex Brenner
Museum of Broken Dreams at Stretford Public Hall.
Two people sit outside next to a banner from the Museum of Broken Dreams exhibition. Photo credit: Jørn Tomter / UCL Policy Lab
People chat around a table at the Britain Renewed Conference, where the Museum of Broken Dreams was exhibited. Photo credit: Jørn Tomter / UCL Policy Lab
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thread: The enormous unprecedented SCALE of the American AI investment boom is "crowding out" investment going into any other sector of the economy. At this point in mid 2026, it is literally sucking away all factors of production -capital, land, labour, knowledge, ecology. @katemac.bsky.social
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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 03/09/2026
I say this all the time. Ignore all the blah blah blah We are FIRMLY on a trajectory to cross 2°C which we need to urgently prepare for How do we know? Well since 2024 we had to reduce emissions by 5.5% EVERY YEAR until 2030 to stay below 2°C Meanwhile 2025👇🏻 Data: www.ametsoc.org/ams/publicat...
State of the Climate in 2025: All 3 dominant greenhouse gases hit new record highs
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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The average single mum budgeting for her household has more real world economics experience than most economics graduates still being taught that rational economic man and trickle down economics are real.
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 26/08/2026
Sorry for shouting but... THE ENTIRE POINT OF CCS IS TO ENABLE MORE FOSSIL FUEL USE. That it captures jack shit doesn't matter. All fossil fuel interests need to do is claim that the emissions their extraction produces will be removed from the atmosphere. At some point. Somehow.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/08/2026
After 17 years of teaching science at West Point, a professor says he was suddenly ordered last year to cut from his curriculum information about the human causes of climate change, according to a new lawsuit filed against the U.S. Military Academy.
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West Point Climate Professor Says He Was Fired for Refusing to ‘Defy Science’
Dr. Adam Kalkstein is suing the U. S. Military Academy, where he was a professor of geography and the only climate scientist, after being fired.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 26/08/2026
Glaciers in the Himalayas are rapidly retreating under climate change, leading to widespread formation and expansion of glacial lakes and increasing the risk of glacial lake outburst floods. To date, more than 388 GLOF events have been documented in the region 😰 Source ⬇️
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Glacial lakes and GLOFs in a warming Himalaya-Karakoram region: current understanding, challenges, and the way forward - npj Natural Hazards
npj Natural Hazards - Glacial lakes and GLOFs in a warming Himalaya-Karakoram region: current understanding, challenges, and the way forward
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 26/08/2026
Reminder that Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 is a film about three women taking over an office and introducing free childcare, paid vacation, and flexible hours, resulting in a 20% increase in productivity.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Climate change: a tornado has destroyed a third of a castle that has stood for over 1000 years. "There's a huge castle and a third of it is has collapsed - even though these are stones that have stood for 1,000 years," Pierre told Ici Occitanie. l
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France tornado: dozens injured and hundreds of homes damaged
The south-western village of Pomas was hardest hit, with hundreds of homes damaged and fifteen people taken to hospital.
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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Yeah I’m not ready to be back at work. Take me back.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Actually felt proud to see that line at the top and realise it was this stupid little island We are very good at some things
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026
AI is alarming for many reasons: it's a dangerous financial bubble, an environmental catastrophe, and a tool for eroding wages and labor power. But in addition to all that, AI is an epistemic disaster. 1/
The North Pole at night, hand-tinted in blues and purples so it looks more like a moonscape. Protruding from the ice is the cross-sectioned head and neck of a man, his brains on display. Stepping over the leftmost mountains is a killer pulp robot, about to crush the head. Leaning against the rightmost mountains is a sneering, princely toff in a red frock coat, holding a cane that has penetrated the decapitated skull and lodged in the brains.
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Global warming is one thing, but the Earth is now poised to add in the strongest El Niño event since human measurements began. The next 12 months could be a real stress test: record heat, extreme weather, crop losses, and cascading impacts. In part, a preview of our future.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires
Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
reuters: 

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org
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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Jamorobo @jamorobo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Had a wonderful evening at Deya with the other @chelt-hackspace.bsky.social directors + special guest star @raechelkelly.bsky.social. Talking about charity status, funding, patch gloucester, starting a community land trust, @civicsquare.bsky.social, repair cafes, branding & @wecanmake.bsky.social! ❤️
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Fixed it for you, @thetimes.com!
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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Made a friend yesterday.
Butterfly on denim shirt
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Breathtaking

euobserver.com

On the same dav that the UN human
rights office called out genocide in Gaza
the European Commission told me there
was no public interest in releasing 17
locuments on funding reports it wants ta
keep secret on the enclave

The refusal was signed on Tuesday (2:
June) by Michael Karnitschnig, the acting
head of the commission's branch dealing
with the Middle East

We have examined whether there could
be an overriding public interest in
disclosure, but we have not been able to
dentify such an interest,' he said
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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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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Also now on @ucl.ac.uk @uclpolicylab.bsky.social webpage with links to the report and the website :-) www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
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New guide maps the hidden vulnerabilities of 44 UK scientific watchdogs and advisors
Over 80% of the UK's scientific public bodies that safeguard food safety, medicines, climate policy and official statistics are vulnerable to potential political interference, a new UCL reference guid...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
In the last month Nigel Farage has spent around eight times longer promoting gold bars for money (4 hours) than he has spent doing his supposed main job of being an MP voting in the House of Commons (just two votes, taking approximately 30 minutes)
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