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Rowan Emslie

@rowanemslie.bsky.social
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CCO at the Centre for Future Generations. Previously Clean Air Task Force and Edelman BXL. Hertie School alum.

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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Indeed. I am planning to use telekinesis to reinvent brain surgery, please give me 1000 squillion dollars
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Centrists always present these takes as savvy "harsh truths" for the left, but they're the most pathetic kind of ignorant, cowardly self-soothing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ah right, the problem here is OBVIOUSLY school trips, not the lack of road safety measures, poor quality of the infrastructure or chronic corruption of traffic cops. I remember making this and many other trips in Uganda and learning to disassociate due to the frequent near misses.
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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Many young children will have suffered through this game. At least it will have exposed to them the true nature of the world.
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Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝 @seven.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026
Photo of a van with a text printed on its back: "We fix what ChatGPT said you should try!"
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
a lot of us said they were wrong during the defeat (and while you were up 1-0!) if that helps
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Well, I got scammed. Embarrassed to have fallen for it but sharing it on here in case others come across it - midea-germany.de is not a real website and not affiliated with Midea. Midea has confirmed they've reported the site two weeks ago but it's still up and presumably still scamming people.
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My kids are simply too small for a world cup to be held in this timezone. 1.30am, nerves about the match and the inevitable early morning wake up ahead of me are feeding each other
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Who’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? Taxpayers
To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re...
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Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If the England FA were cunning they would write to FIFA today asking whether Quansah can play in the next game or does the exception only apply to American players. And publish the letter.
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
What a day! Six independent bookstores and some treats for all the family. #brusselsbooktrail
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A very helpful reminder of why raising children in Brussels is so delightful. Europe's most diverse city ❤️
A graph showing all the languages spoken by kids at a local primary school in Brussels (27 in total)
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I dunno but maybe relegating any mention of climate change off your big homepage package, away from the heading and subhead, and after the eight-paragraph main story into a second bullet point — NOT the "why it's hot" one — is part of why it's hot.
NYT homepage package of extreme heat stories, including a map of the eastern US with "forecast risk of unhealthy heat for Thursday" and various colors demonstrating the risk, with three links to the left: 

New York Hits 100 Degrees as Heat Wave Stifles Eastern U.S.

The temperature reading in Central Park tied a record for July 2 set in 1966. Some 163 million people are likely to experience dangerous heat, forecasters said.
See more updates ›

New York’s Heat Wave Is Brutal. In This Neighborhood, It’s Even Worse.
4 min read

See How Europe’s Heat Waves Melted the Alps’ Glaciers
3 min readNYT headline and subheading: "Live Updates: New York Hits 100 Degrees as Heat Wave Stifles Eastern U.S.
The temperature reading in Central Park tied a record for July 2 set in 1966. Some 163 million people, from Missouri to Maine and south to Mississippi, live in areas that are likely to experience dangerous heat on Thursday, forecasters said."Zoomed out NYT article about extreme heat with a red arrow pointing down at the bottom to a secondary bullet point labeled "global warming"
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
When your brand is being pompous know-nothings pontificating on topics you're too lazy to even Google, well... I guess you might as well lean into it.
@JerusalemDemsas
Amazing things are happening on 
@TheArgumentMag
 podcast.

cc: 
@mattyglesias

Screenshot of Matthew Yglesias and Jersualem Demsas having no clue what "melting pot" refers to.
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Absolutely my favourite new (to me) concept of the year
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/06/2026
Candace is the expert on kids and social media that politicians and the media pretend Jonathan Haidt is. And here she is debunking his whole schtick.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/06/2026
Jezus: UK's Reform Party has gotten two-thirds of its funding from fossil fuel interests.
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Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
He’s 100% right which is why we gotta start locking these freaks up and throwing away the keys
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"More than £100 billion in clean energy investment announcements has been secured since the government came to office, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has confirmed." Quite an impressive list of green projects at the bottom www.gov.uk/government/n...
gov.uk
Government has secured £100 billion of clean energy investment
Energy Secretary announces that government has secured £100 billion of private clean energy investment.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Irony is dead
An event flyer for London Climate Action Week, titled "Extreme heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world," features a background photograph of a dry, arid landscape with a road and mountains under a hazy blue sky. At the top, logos for the "Climate Resilience Alliance" and "London Climate Action Week" are visible next to a red "EVENT" tag, while the bottom of the flyer lists the event details—scheduled for 24 June from 09:30-12:00 BST at the Shaw Library, London School of Economics and online—alongside partner logos including LSE Grantham Research Institute, IFRC, Mercy Corps, and Practical Action. Stamped boldly across the center of the image in large, dark red, capitalized letters is the ironic overlay text: "CANCELLED DUE TO EXTREME HEAT."
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.
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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We are three decades into widespread internet access, two decades into ubiquitous social media, online news and smartphones. And yet this is still a ubiquitous sight in supermarkets and airports. A reminder not to get too breathlessly carried away when we talk about technological transformation.
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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
An important part of Trump’s legacy: the destruction of the transatlantic alliance and faith in NATO www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
theguardian.com
Only one in 10 Europeans now see US as an ally, survey suggests
Exclusive: poll across 15 countries finds ‘deep mistrust’, with majority doubting US would come to their aid in an attack
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This extremely ominous sign at Tesco really feels like THE zeitgeist of the UK right now
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Johnny Ive has a lot to answer for
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
it's fascinating that in the midst of a historically unpopular presidency driven almost entirely by voluntary choices made by a rapidly declining president with an adversarial relationship with the press, we see a complete dearth of "gop needs to change course" thinkpieces and coverage
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Wow, a famous quote from a minister 160 years before the founding of America *and* a random quote from a minister 50 years after the founding definitely prove that the founders wanted America to be a Christian nation.
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Seems bad?
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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
If Reform do as well as expected, I'll be reposting this on the hour all day tomorrow.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
this may be going into my slide deck.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/05/2026
Orban was pretty load-bearing for the global right wing media ecosystem huh
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh
theatlantic.com
Elon Musk Is Playing God
The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Mexico is officially launching universal healthcare this week, giving all 120 million citizens access to all public health institutions techfixated.com/mexico-is-of...
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Mexico is officially launching universal healthcare this week, giving all 120 million citizens access to all public health institutions
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has signed a presidential decree formally creating the country's Universal Health Service, launching a phased rollout that
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I write a monthly essay analysing the narratives driving EU policymaking - and what they miss. Subscribe here www.linkedin.com/newsletters/...
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Policy Narratives | LinkedIn
Monthly analysis of the stories European policymakers tell themselves, and what they're missing.
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Obviously many things have changed in the last seven years, but I suspect this headline formula is going to become very familiar to us all.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Mathias Corvinus Collegium -which Orban used to fund Christian Right across Europe - has endowment worth *1% of Hungary’s GDP* This money has gone to Matt Goodwin, Frank Furedi, a Roger Scruton foundation run by Michael Gove + James Orr Magyar needs 2/3rd of seats to unpick this. Be huge if he can
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orban is out but defeating him at the ballot box is not the same as dismantling Orbanism. The illiberal infrastructure, that is the captured judiciary, the loyalist media landscape, the Fidesz-aligned oligarchs, the constitutional hardball in Basic Law, doesn’t disappear with a concession call
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Begging the PM to get a job
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
2012: Clint Eastwood yells at an empty chair and everyone makes fun of it 2026: this speech is now official White House policy somehow
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The UK is not a serious country
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
feels like I have received this email with this headline roughly once a month for 8 years
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Domino meme
Small domino: Trump coming up with an excuse to invade Greenland

Big domino: A 2097 SCOTUS case accidentally decolonizing the United States
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Did we just hit peak FT?
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Rowan Emslie @rowanemslie.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Uh oh, are retail investors starting to get cold feet?
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