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Richard Knott

@richardknott.eurosky.social
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Gwendolyn Corvid @gwendolyn-corvid.bsky.social · 15h
Democracies have been reluctant to deal with disinformation because these kinds of controls can be abused by fascists, and it certainly requires a limited approach, but as it stands the near complete lack of controls is destroying the world.
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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 1h
“For policymakers, the AMOC’s instability poses an unusual challenge: How do you prepare for a far-off disaster that may never happen — but that, if it does, would disrupt life in Europe on an unthinkable scale? But governments are increasingly concluding uncertainty itself is no excuse for waiting”
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Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 28m
Although if someone had told me previously Clarkson was a Tory party member I wouldn't have been surprised, I didn't know he was. Sadly, here he is outing himself in a terribly embarrassing way www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jeremy Clarkson makes surprise appearance at Tory conference
The former Top Gear presenter and star of Clarkson's Farm also said farmers were being "attacked" from every angle.
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Lukas Daubner @lukasdaubner.bsky.social · 10h
"This year, [the etrucks in China] will save the equivalent of 141 million barrels of oil, as much as China imports from Kuwait. Price caps are a temporary patch, but electric trucks are a permanent hedge"
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 9h
Don’t know who to credit this to, but it cheers me up!
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𝙾𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚊 @highnessophelia.bsky.social · 10h
Who needs men when you have women like Megyn Kelly to do the misogyny for them 🙄 The things I want to say about this woman would get me banned.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 11h
Please read my book “The New Climate War” where I discuss the role of both individual actions and systemic change/collective action.
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 11h
New polling on how Europeans view Trump % with a favorable | unfavorable opinion of Trump, Sep 2026 🇫🇷 France 12% | 79% (net -67) 🇪🇸 Spain 12% | 86% (-74) 🇬🇧 Britain 10% | 85% (-75) 🇩🇪 Germany 9% | 87% (-78) 🇮🇹 Italy 8% | 84% (-76) 🇩🇰 Denmark 4% | 95% (-91) yougov.com/en-us/articl...
A line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "How popular is Donald Trump in Western Europe? September 2026." The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you have a favourable or unfavourable opinion of Donald Trump? Net figures shown."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15h
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.”
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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 11h
EV charging enters the MEGAWATT ERA. ⚡ China’s Geely has deployed new chargers rated at an insane 2,250 kW. Current test vehicles are already pulling ~1,100 kW: 🔋 10–70%: 4.5 mins 🔋 10–97%: 8.7 mins “EVs take too long to charge” is rapidly becoming an obsolete argument.
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Geely has deployed 2,250 kW charging stations in five cities across China
Geely has deployed 12C fast-charging stations with a power output of 2,250 kW in five cities across China to counter BYD’s flash chargers.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 14h
So the next time someone tells you that clean energy is not reducing emissions, just meeting new demand, ask them what would have happened if we hadn't built it. Solar panels do not create demand, and without them we'd have been burning a lot more fossil fuels.
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Mark Philip Rennie @eslibrarian.bsky.social · 18h
@richardknott.eurosky.social @allshorts.bsky.social #danny #tommo #reform #posh youtube.com/shorts/VVCmN... via #YouTube no wonder is all over Portsmouth he is a local boy
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#danny #tommo #reform #posh
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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 19h
For the first 5 years of Fully Charged Show (Everything Electric) a common YouTube comment was 'Battery electric is dud, the future is hydrogen.' I never hear that now. To understand why, listen to Prof Helen Czerski in discussion with the amazing Michael Liebreich www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY2q...
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The 70% Problem: What Still Needs Electrifying with Michael Liebreich
YouTube video by Everything Electric TECH
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/10/2026
A very common modeling jujutsu move is to assign the US zero responsibility for pollution from oil and gas it exports. "Oil and gas exports don't heat the planet, people who burn oil and gas exports heat the planet." This is an ideological choice, a value judgment akin to "guns don't kill people,
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 19h
ICE has been dumping photos and licence plate numbers of protesters into a Palantir database. Reminder: this is the company running our NHS health records 👀 www.wired.com/story/ice-has-been-du…
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 19h
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 19h
But, the biggest single thing we can do to drive prices down and avoid these regular spikes due to global crises - is the Break the Link. Something Andy pledged to do in his Conf speech last week.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 19h
"Innovation agency Nesta is urging the Govt to keep the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) under national control, warning that devolving heat pump subsidies to local authorities could disrupt installations and create uncertainty in the heating industry." Especially where Reform mayors are involved...
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Labour urged to keep Boiler Upgrade Scheme under national control - Energy Live News
A report warns that devolving heat pump subsidies to local authorities could disrupt installations
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 19h
A quirk of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's use of the Central Criminal Court to challenge the search warrant is that the City of London owns the court, and the Lady Mayor of London may sit in the central chair. Conventionally they don't for trials, but must be tempting this time.
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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wow! Trump turbo boosts Clean Energy Transition in France! ICE car sales plunge to just 12%. EVs soar to 42%, up from 20% last Sept. Soaring cost of fossil fuels speeds up death of ICE cars. Slashes French oil addiction. bestsellingcarsblog.com/2026/10/fran
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France September 2026: Tesla Model Y, Renault 5, Twingo lift EV sales up 108.1% to record 41.7% share
The Twingo E-Tech is shaping up to be another neo-retro smash hit for Renault. It’s another satisfying month for new car sales in France, now up 11.6% year-on-year in September to 156,629 uni…
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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 05/10/2026
EVs bring less pollution, are safer, reduce reliance on imported oil protecting national productivity - and it is likely less taxes will be spent on EV fleets than on equivalent ICE fleets ...
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Richard Knott @richardknott.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
I did actually hid behind the sofa
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The Daleks from Doctor Who moving aimlessly
ALT: The Daleks from Doctor Who moving aimlessly
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The withdrawal was highly unusual: Such moves are rarely made so quickly from an allied air base in a peacetime country thousands of miles from a combat zone." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Members of the Patriotic Alliance are stopping cars with non-white people in them and harassing them like this. This is a hate crime, arrest these people.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026
Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.
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LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
EU behaves differently in PHEV adoption from the rest of the world. While in China, South America and Australia+NZ there are visible PHEV peaks, the EU trajectory stretches the PHEV curve out to oblivion.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
IPCC scenarios are projections, not predictions. "The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." We get to decide what the world will look like in 2100. gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The trolls interfering in your countries’ democracies have names and faces. Here are some of the public-facing ones. It’s not an endless network; there are few enough that investigative and judicial authorities could start an inquiry into each one and their networks.
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Springer Lover @ddavis4911.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Now do people still think Epstein killed himself www.rawstory.com/howard-lutni...
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Raised eyebrows as banker who outed Howard Lutnick’s Epstein ties dies by suicide
A British banker who exposed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s business ties to Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide, according to The Banker, a death that raised eyebrows and drew the attention of R...
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OH MY F'ING GOD #CPC26
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 04/10/2026
The strict criteria for this round, which prevented Volkswagen (Group) from taking part, may therefore turn out to be a blessing in disguise for VW & co. Apparently, in August, as much as 75 per cent of VW’s sales to private customers were EVs?
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
GOOD FREAKING MORNING! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials
The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Historians: What the fuck are you talking about, you insane clown?
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GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal. “We now know more ab…
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Old riot footage is being recycled in France by Israeli, Russian and US right-wing networks, amplifying chaos to influence upcoming elections. The objective is to inflame divisions, encourage destructive acts, discredit protesters & institutions and increase right ring support.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The protests in France may be organic but the amplification and severity online is for the most part foreign-state psyops. The goal is to weaken France and install a puppet government that will bend the knee to Israel, Russia and the US. Whether it's a far left or right wing gov.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A Canadian friend sent me this meme today. Looks like our country is getting quite a reputation. ====================================
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Richard Knott @richardknott.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Just back from seeing Digger with Tom Cruise, recommended, very Wes Anderson, very good, very powerful #digger
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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Finished my first week in the U.S. Senate, and in one of the many policy proposals I was asked to review, I had to point out how the billions of dollars being spent on AI safety research by effective altruism organizations poses a serious conflict of interest.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
The White House’s proposal to penalize nonprofits that help disabled people vote is just part of the Trump administration’s broader attempts to restrict voting access, especially among groups that have historically faced disenfranchisement.
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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
“FedEx believes $300M electric truck spend will save them $800M in diesel” #alwaysbecharging ⚡️⚡️⚡️ electrek.co/2026/10/03/f...
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FedEx believes $300M electric truck spend will save them $800M in diesel
In a record-setting commercial truck deal, international shipping giant FedEx has placed an order for 2,000 all-electric box trucks from...
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Old Man in Hat @marcram74.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“2,000 trucks x $20,000 in fuel savings per year x 20 years. That works out to $800 million in total savings, for a whopping ~166% ROI.”
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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Truly despicable!
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/10/2026
Renault to invest over 10 bln euros in France in EVs, affordable cars, CEO says reut.rs/4j7EfxD
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Renault to invest over 10 bln euros in France in EVs, affordable cars, CEO says
Renault Group will invest ​more than 10 ‌billion euros ($11 billion) in France over ​the coming ​years in electric vehicles ⁠and more ​affordable cars, its ​chief executive officer said on Saturday.
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Electric Nick @electric-nick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The share of Chinese car brands in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 car market rose above 25% for the first time in Q3 2026. The trend is rising sharply 📈🇨🇳 Note: Volvo is counted as Chinese (a bit over 3% of the market).
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Electric Nick @electric-nick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Battery-electric vehicle sales in the UK 🇬🇧 show a beautiful growth trend each year 📈⚡ The image shows cumulative monthly BEV registrations by year. This year is up +30.2% compared with January–September last year.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Speaking of Kushner… cc: 🇺🇸 media
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LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Who sells what in Spain? 🇪🇸 A thread on brands and models. BEV, last 12 months: BYD is number one as a brand, ahead of Tesla. But the Model 3 is the best selling model by far.
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