Reposted by Starling3232Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"accidentally" *sniff* what's that smell? 4255
Reposted by Starling3232Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Failures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.bbc.co.ukRoyal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobsThe postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027. 86862412
Reposted by Starling3232Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Reform marks it's own homework and gets 100%. Quell surprise. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukReform internal inquiry says party did not break law over donations stingOfficials were recorded by undercover journalists discussing a potential way to secure foreign donations to the party. 1236
Reposted by Starling3232Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Why must it always be about planting trees, when they managed just fine for 100s of millions of years before people came along? Just let them seed out. Yes, planting does have a role, but so often the underlying subtext is continued human domination of nature. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comHalf a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says governmentExclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather 3024852
Reposted by Starling3232Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Actually all cycles should be exempt from Vat. It would be an easy thing to do. Would help many get a bike and they make the user healthier with every trip. Especially when fuel for cars is expensive. If we can cut fuel duty then why not? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBlind Paralympian Lizzi Jordan wants VAT cut for tandem bikesCyclist Lizzi Jordan, from Guildford, campaigns for tandems to count as adapted for VAT purposes. 58219
Reposted by Starling3232Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It's a real shame tin foil hat wankers like this never believe about the crap in car exhaust fumes and the damage to health the pollution causes. It's only ever stuff that inconveniences driving that they don't like. See also vandalising parking meters.. 6478
Reposted by Starling3232Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 11/09/2026Here's the kicker with this, though... This fleet is costing £1bn over its lifetime. To electrify the 45km from the ECML to Saltburn would cost about £135-200M. How much did batteries *and charging infrastructure* add to the cost of this order? Was it less than this? 27614
Reposted by Starling3232Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 11/09/2026GOOD THINGS: 🦽 low floor train for full level boarding 🚲 4 horizontal bike spaces BAD THINGS: ⭕ TPE is a 125mph intercity service, these trains aren't 📏 200m platforms, 121m trains, we did it again 💰 GBR brand but trains owned privately at high cost 🔋 batteries instead of wiring measly 45km 1213629
Reposted by Starling3232Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'm expecting the national federation for the blind will be all over this. Given how hard they campaign against cycling at floating bus stops. 2468
Reposted by Starling3232G-Mann @thegeemann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We do all these post and articles - good as they are - always show photos of people/workers (possibly agency not even employed directly by the company) who have no control over what the company concerned does? Why not show the CEO, or the board, who made the decisions (and took the money!) 131
Reposted by Starling3232Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026South East Water aborted £200m bond issue after attracting insufficient demand. Expect more customer fleecing. England water companies are financially, environmentally and morally bankrupt. Up to one-third of your bill covers cost of debt. Public ownership is the only viable future.news.sky.comEmbattled South East Water abandons bond issue as investors flee sectorThe company, which has left thousands of customers in Kent without running water on several occasions, told investors this week that it would not proceed with the debt issuance, Sky News learns. 14349155
Reposted by Starling3232rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10/09/2026i forget who on here was recently like 'anytime the food at the place starts quietly sucking you can google it and trace the quality drop to whenever it was bought by private equity' but hooooowee you sure can 17983130
Reposted by Starling3232Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Neoliberalism has ravaged the UK Workers’ share of gross value added down from 71.9% in 1975, to 59.7%. 1.23m workers are on zero-hour contracts. 4.4m jobs pay less than the real living wage. Poorest 20% pay a higher proportion of income in direct/indirect taxes than the richest 20%.leftfootforward.orgHere’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millionsPrem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi... 16417222
Reposted by Starling3232Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We live in Rip Off Britain. The same corporations who are ripping us off are also destroying nature too. My speech to the Wild Summit 👇🏽 www.youtube.com/live/bbUxIM4...youtube.comGreens leader Zack Polanski gives speech at summitYouTube video by Sky News 20908304
Reposted by Starling3232Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This government is still sitting on parts of a buried report laying bare catastrophic risks facing us from ecosystems collapse. My message to @andyburnham.bsky.social: tell the truth. Release the report in full. And prepare the country for what's coming. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comPolanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in fullGreen leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis 271322552
Reposted by Starling3232Christof Spieler @christofspieler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The 1990s still live on the Great Western. Both these trains were built for a nationalized British Rail. They have worked through the entire privatization era and will be handed over to a re-nationalized Great British Railways this December. 2283
Reposted by Starling3232Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026When you claim renewable energies aren’t workable—but you attach solar panels to all your dystopian Flock surveillance cameras. 564248446975
Reposted by Starling3232Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/08/2026UK households have the most expensive energy bill in Europe. In 2024 energy companies made £30bn profit. Profit margins, 23%-38%. £500 of average household bill is profit. Profiteering is a bigger factor in household bills than green levies. Nationalise energy to cut household/business costsunitetheunion.org 31610292
Reposted by Starling3232David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Saving for future use in case I ever make a joke on bluesky dot app. 332362291
Reposted by Starling3232Flock-o'-Lantern @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026pulled the video so you don't have to go to X we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men 284119729
Reposted by Starling3232How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 27/08/2026Every time someone tries to ban something like an e-scooter because of a serious accident, I want to scream out loud that automobiles kill over 1.5 million people every year. Here in Canada, automobiles kill five people *every day* 35697134
Reposted by Starling3232Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Presumably though one of those cheap horrid folding MTBs with a conversion kit would be allowed? 4124
Reposted by Starling3232Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It was lovely meeting up with Emily the Mastermind of Moquettes for a future favourite station feature. 251156115
Reposted by Starling3232Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/08/2026When you've seen with your own eyes the contrast between rewilded land and the desolation that's usually all around, you can't unsee it. And it becomes utterly crazy-making that discouraging the 1st, and encouraging the 2nd, remains gov't policy. (Only farming + comm. forestry are subsidised). 1171
Reposted by Starling3232Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/08/2026We KNOW that rewilding massively reduces flooding and the effects of drought, not to mention reversing nature loss, boosting rural communities and the wider economy, and aiding against climate collapse. Why is the government still ignoring the obvious? www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comRewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images showNational Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding 10416144
Reposted by Starling3232Mayor of Gastown @mayorofgastown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026When cars lose the war on cars, children's health wins. 011
Reposted by Starling3232Mr Sparkle @darwendashers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026 But please - tell me more about this “War on Cars”. 031
Reposted by Starling3232Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Still gobsmacking that Andy Burnhams response to the deaths from the climate crisis has been to pledge to try & stop the sale of single use barbeques. A monumental mistake. Time to do the right thing. Fund our firefighters & say no to new oil & gas. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comGreen groups urge Andy Burnham to break silence on climate crisisMore than 50 organisations say PM urgently needs to show leadership and prepare British people for scale of change needed as UK struggles through another heatwave 1151700505
Reposted by Starling3232Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Imagine when most of Ireland looked something like this. Now consider that only around 1% remains, almost all wrecked. Few – if any – other places on Earth are in such dire need of rewilding. 431727299
Reposted by Starling3232Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026What eliminated most of Ireland's forests *wasn't* the axe or saw, but livestock or too many deer preventing trees from regenerating by eating every seedling. Over 100s of years, the forests just faded away, and this process is still playing out with most of what very little is left. 613528
Reposted by Starling3232Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Well now we know what Burnham's stance on the climate emergency is. Clearly EVs aren't the sole solution, but they would be a large part as transport emissions are the UK's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Rowing back plans to reduce that is criminal. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comAndy Burnham moves to cut new EV sales targetsPossible cut from 80% down to as little as 50% could add millions of tonnes of CO2 to emissions and comes amid UK heatwaves 4242
Reposted by Starling3232Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Where are all the food system experts complaining 2 years ago that posts saying “we could face global food system collapse within 5 years” are unrealistic and simply scaring people with overly negative projections? Where are they? 5288156
Reposted by Starling3232Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Governments responding to accelerating climate change and drought with - more licences for heatwave-hastening oil & gas - more water-guzzling data centres while advising - hosepipe bans - requests to stop use BBQs is beyond stupid, it's lethal criminal negligence 517187
Reposted by Starling3232Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 13/08/2026The goalpost moving on this has been a thing to watch. Until climate change takes on human form and lights a match these people will never be satisfied. 1152
Reposted by Starling3232Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026For those for whom driving really is a necessity, would give their heads a proper wobble long before they rack up 12 points and plead exceptional hardship. For everyone else, a genuine inconvenience rather than one that feels quite remote. 192
Reposted by Starling3232Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I get this feeling. Road crime including killing isnt treated as seriously as anything else because driving is special. We need to be free at banning bad drivers including banning for life. Bans instead of fines too and get dangerous drivers off the road. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/aug...theguardian.comVictims of road crime feel ‘forgotten by system’, official review findsMany of those affected in England and Wales think offences are not treated with the seriousness they deserve, says commissioner 56319
Reposted by Starling3232Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This is an outrageous failure from Andy Burnham and this Labour Government. He says they "don't know the remedy." It's obvious to almost anyone. Nationalise water companies. Tax fossil fuel companies. Invest in renewables. Labour selling us down the river to please their donors as country burns. 871479534
Reposted by Starling3232Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Climate breakdown isn't a political negotiation. It's a scientic reality borne out in lives lost and wildfires. Tax fossil fuel giants to pay for firefight helicopters, a cool space in every community and a maximum working temperature. 331264372
Reposted by Starling3232Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you. 75123763000
Reposted by Starling3232Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Labour Government thinks they can distract you tinkering around the edges. But refuse a wealth tax, rent controls, water nationalisation, an end to genocide & an end to oil & gas. They need to know the Green Party is growing & won't be distracted. Join.greenparty.org.ukjoin.greenparty.org.ukJoin the Green PartyJoin the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet. 15490130
Reposted by Starling3232Molly White @molly.wiki · 05/08/2026It's a year and a half after i highlighted the issue, but nice to see: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...arstechnica.comSenators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" betsFire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson. 740074
Reposted by Starling3232Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It’s time to act. And when we do we won’t just avoid the worst effects of climate breakdown - but we will lower bills permanently, help our communities thrive - and give a grounded sense of hope for generations to come. 19577157
Starling3232 @starling3232.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It’s Crazy how when we are forced to make good decisions in Belfast we are able to do so. This level of pedestrianisation and the city centre shuttle bus loop should be permanently implemented. 020
Reposted by Starling3232George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it. 992511586
Reposted by Starling3232Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This is terrible news. Such an important tool that keeps the UK on the front foot of astronomical science. Another example where short sighted beancounters see the cost but not the value of something. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukJodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understandsAstronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained. 33711
Reposted by Starling3232Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 21/07/2026yet still nothing to decouple the cost of electricity from the wholesale gas price. That would save consumers much more money, but of course would hit the profits of the energy companies. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comAndy Burnham to cut VAT on electricity bills as first cost of living moveNewly appointed chancellor John Healey says reduction will be funded by cancelling digital ID scheme 14820
Reposted by Starling3232Frenemy of the People @frenemyofthepeople.bsky.social · 19/07/2026If they can build a data center overnight, then they can install a solar farm overnight. 153103272100
Reposted by Starling3232Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 18/07/2026For those who don't know... Any alternative to full electrification will be more expensive (if it works at all) if you run any of the following on a given stretch of railway: ⚡ ⭕ fast services (120km/h+) ⏱️ frequent services (6tph+) 📦 freight services (any) 314329
Reposted by Starling3232Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The whole world needs uncaptured politicians like Mamdani. 117034