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Barnet Post @barnetpost.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Our North Finchley raising funds to fight Deputy Mayor's approval of Great Northern Leisure Park development Leïla Davaud on the community group's fight a barnetpost.co.uk/2026/06/19/our-nor…
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Our North Finchley raising funds to fight Deputy Mayor's approval of Great Northern Leisure Park development
Leïla Davaud on the community group's fight against City Hall's controversial decision
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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 27/05/2026
Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.
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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 25/05/2026
34.8ºC at Kew Gardens breaks its May AND June records by OVER 4ºC for its May record set in 1922 and by 0.2ºC for its June record set in 1976. Unprecedented heat for the UK in late May, and likely to be bettered tomorrow. A rounded 35ºC temperature should not happen in May.
Spaghetti plot showing Kew and Kew Gardens temperatures since 1881 with May and June records highlighted at 30.3ºC in 1922 and 34.6ºC in 1976 respectively. 2026 is plotted as a thick red line that nearly exceeds 35ºC with a value of 34.8ºC.
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James Cracknell @jollyjourno.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We at Social Spider CIC (a tiny not-for-profit local news publisher) had journalists at *seven* different London election counts today/last night. Here's a little thread of our coverage. I think it shows why local journalism is still super important and should be better funded and supported 😜
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
this is one of the most complacent comments on climate change from a person in a serious political position in recent times
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🚨🚨 The 2015-2025 period was the warmest 11 years since observations started, with ocean heat and acidification at record levels, and continuing rises in sea levels and the retreat of glaciers www.ft.com/content/e839...
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Oceans take in a lot of heat as Earth’s energy imbalance hits record
Rate of solar radiation stored in the planet has accelerated over past two decades
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
“It’s an FT obsession and frankly….”
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
FT does Black Mirror! Would be interested in seeing more of these.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In case anyone thought that denying climate science and firing scientists would stop the climate crisis, think again. www.axios.com/2025/03/19/c...
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Climate change indicators blinking red as Earth continues to warm
A new report illustrates how fundamentally and quickly the planet is warming.
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Barnet Post @barnetpost.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Nearly a third of children have rotting teeth in Barnet 30.1% of five-year-olds in Barnet had dental decay in the 2023-24 academic year reports Sonja Tutty, Data Reporter barnetpost.co.uk/?p=39844
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Nearly a third of children have rotting teeth in Barnet
30.1% of five-year-olds in Barnet had dental decay in the 2023-24 academic year reports Sonja Tutty, Data Reporter
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
An aviation carbon tax makes sense to me. Global warming drives global insecurity and we need to funds for higher defence spending.
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I thought X was based in the USA and moderated in Texas.
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Barnet Post @barnetpost.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Barnet Council requests £59million bailout Leader Barry Rawlings said financial pressures were particularly bad in the outer London 'care home belt' barnetpost.co.uk/2025/01/27/b...
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Barnet Council requests £59million bailout
Leader Barry Rawlings said financial pressures were particularly bad in the outer London 'care home belt'
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
James appears to be saying that the training data is not retained as part of the AI’s weightings. That doesn’t sound right to me….
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 10/01/2025
World hits 1.5C warming Or to put it another way: The people who questioned climate science and emissions cuts were wrong then, are wrong now, and we will all pay a huge price if we listen to them. www.ft.com/content/fd91...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 02/12/2024
Breaking news! November, 2024, came in at the second warmest in recorded history, at 1.62°C above the pre-industrial baseline. Starting in June, 2023, there have now been 18 consecutive months above the pre-2023 record high, likely the hottest string of 18 months in the last 120,000+ years.
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Fair point. LoFi graphics too. Dullest scam?
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The Jenr and Kemi Bsky MP accounts are now active….. perhaps run centrally?
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The billionaire is the company she mentions, a U.K. company. While a billion pounds is a lot of money, it costs about £300m per year to run the Guardian, Observer, etc. and it is struggling to be profitable.
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A week on(!), do you have a contact who can confirm / deny whether the latest crop of Tory Bsky accounts that have recently appeared (most with MP suffixes and common banner pics) are genuine ones? Eg KB, Rob J, James C, Tom T, JRM…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/11/2024
Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal
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Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal
Exclusive: Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity * How do we know that the climate crisis is to blame for extreme weather? At least 24 previously…
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Thanks for explaining.
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Sounds like we might be at cross-purposes then. Although I don’t understand why anyone would block her - that is surely only necessary for harassment etc. You can simply not follow her and she is unlikely to comment on your posts.
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Strong disagree! You can create any feed / echo-chamber you want on Blue Sky whether left, right or whatever. You don’t have to read her posts. But the platform will be stronger if it can be home to the entire mainstream political spectrum.
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Try this one instead! bsky.app/profile/theo...
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Except there is a lot more on here! bsky.app/profile/theo...
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
MoS front page picking up all the Likes on X, yet Observer front page leading on BlueSky. Great straw poll! Give it another week though and it might all change.
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
People need to take a step back. It’s unrealistic to expect to expect privately owned media orgs to be politically neutral unless heavily regulated. We have to accept that social media monopolies are as problematic as newspaper/broadcast media monopolies. Blue Sky is simply the free market at work.
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Lime-house by any chance?
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Plus Alex Thomson and Paul McNamara!
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I don’t think it works like that.
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Yeah - how would this work in practice anyway? BBC journos required to keep quiet about all scoops and scandals that they uncover, or do they quietly pass them all on to Channel4, or ask private sector to bid for each story?
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Yes, please!
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
The number of daily active users on Bsky probably needs to go up a few notches for mainstream gov / commercial attention. But it’s heading in the right direction. There’s nearly a critical mass of U.K. lobby etc journos who are duplicating posts here already. That didn’t happen on threads/m-don.
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
£5bn doesn’t sound quite so much in comparison to the overall £1.3tn UK wage bill. Article could be a bit clearer on this.
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
I don’t know - the photo gives the impression it’s a puff piece, and I’m not sure the readers will pay much attention to the words.
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R Fawcett @rfawcett.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Is it unthinkable that a lot of Tugendhat supporters genuinely preferred Badenoch or Jenrick to Cleverly?
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