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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Alas the "something going round" is currently Going Round my body

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The world's strongest man is a forklift

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Word of advice folks, avoiding being a couple minutes late to a tag rugby match (thanks Piccadilly line) is not worth impaling your calf over. In case anyone was on the fence about it (ironically, like my calf)

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

No helicopters in space for a start, nothing to swing from

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'll allow the odd tossing of various items and villains into the sun, but from no further than the moon's orbit

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Spiderman in space is always a bad idea

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And a Bluesky Elder will do whatever it takes to re-tint the sky to blue, no matter the cost. "No blood spilled is as dark as the night we rage against" - Ox Johnley, Bluesky Elder 1733-1750

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A Bluesky Elder is the only one who can fight off the darkness and bring back the sun. It Is Known

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 08/08/2026

Climate denial is getting louder. Reality is getting harder to ignore. When parks are brown, rivers are shrinking and firefighters are battling blazes across the globe, governments must accelerate climate action, not slow it down.

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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan

Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

* The continued talk of Zeus' law * Agamemnon's design, not as the heroic leader of the war, but as an evil warlord (spinal column) * The question of why doesn't Odysseus want to go home

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I personally felt that he had actually done a good job of foreshadowing the twist, to the point where I wasn't particularly surprised when it was said: * The sacking of the coastal village * The imagery we see in the flashbacks to the sacking - beheading statue, soldiers like bats in the dark...

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Man, the Nazi warships seem to come round earlier every year

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This, in particular. Increasingly of the view that government policy towards universities is the test case of whether it really has a wider economic policy.

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Climate is THE test I use for assessing whether a party is serious about governing. Anti-NZ stances tell me that 1) you are willing to ignore warnings from scientists 2) you do not understand public sentiment 3) you lack vision and ambition in a field where the UK can genuinely excel

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Catching a cold so bad that I'm shivering in bed is certainly a novel approach for my body to make me feel cool in this heatwave

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In the altitude, no less 😉

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

What a night. Might go the whole day just running off the high

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Yeah I don't think my heart rate has dropped below 100bpm since the 5th minute

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A shocking number of journalists now see climate change as a political and economic issue rather than a scientific reality. It’s all those things but it starts with the third

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern.

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This explains my recent obsession with the Knicks

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Oh it's gorgeous right now, proper "finish work on the balcony with a drink" weather

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I fear as soon as we start talking the feasibility of "ah but they could never actually do this" kind of misses the point that this sort of policy should not even be entertained at all. It should be shamed, shunned, pushed to the fringes and called out for what it is.

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Why wasn't this one voted through in committee?

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

How does this compare to votes on previous carbon budgets?

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Alas, Italian class - next time!

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I suspect a lot of it comes back to the "there will be pain" speech. You can't essentially tell the public to expect austerity and then be shocked when they see you as an austerity government.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

possibly the most rotten failing of Keir Starmer is that this is true: he did come in and genuinely turn around the Labour Party on the issue of antisemitism - but leaves it more morally compromised than he found it, with trans rights being rolled back and the racist far right emboldened

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Can't wait for @tldrjack.bsky.social to rename the Starmergeddon podcast to Burnhamania

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I need you to know I spent 20mins post-midnight on this because of you

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

No. He has not shown interest in the decision making and tough calls that are required. The Government is currently functioning as individual departments, without a unifying decision maker. He is not governing.

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Starmer has also been uninterested in governance

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This is flat wrong from Unite. It’s just not true there’s been ‘almost no thought for jobs, skills and national security’. There’s been a huge amount of thought on all these issues and a decision has been made that jobs, skills, and security all benefit from a faster clean energy transition.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My against the grain of Bluesky opinion is that we should be campaigning for the - say - Belfast knife attack to have the same amount of coverage as the Edinburgh knife attacks, and not vice versa.

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

So exactly like the incoming Starmer government hurhurhur

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Not to say that there aren't other factors at play - Labour's gain isn't all from green/lib, and James is right, the differential turn it data will be really interesting - but there was a sizeable squeeze from the left, when the right block *grew* but remained splintered

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Not 100% sure on this 2024: Right block: 17k votes, 42% Labour: 18k, 45% Green/lib: 4k, 11% 2026 B-E: 59% turnout Right block: 19k, 43% Labour: 25k, 55% Green/lib: 500, 1% Change: Right block: +2k, +1pp Labour: +7k, +10pp Green/lib: - 3.5k, -10pp That looks pretty squeezy to me

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'd be curious to see how many of the 43 non-Burnham coop MPs get called up to Ministerial positions

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'm not suggesting that the coop manifesto is a usable blueprint for government - it's 47 pages long and, as mentioned, leaves gap. It was clearly written to signal what a coop bloc within the Labour party would push for in government, but it certainly gives an idea of direction in some policy areas

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

.. but it could be a template for a community-focused counter attack against reform. I'm personally curious and open to the idea that cooperativism could provide answers to the questions that a Reform-curious public are asking

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

So if people want to guess what Burnham might do in power, this might be a helpful place to look for a guess. Admitedly it's a little bit single-issue, focusing on cooperative movement priorities, so there are some big gaps not addressed (defence, proper tax policy).. party.coop/wp-content/b...

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Which does suggest an early core of ideological support in the PLP for him to build off of, and already we're seeing some of the priorities that Burnham has mentioned - localism, public ownership of utilities, align strongly with the Coop party's 2024 manifesto

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Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If Burnham goes on to claim the top spot, he would become the UK's first Cooperative party Prime Minister, surpassing their previous-highest achievement of *checks notes* Ed Balls

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