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Tristan Strange

@tristanstrange.bsky.social
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Trying to hold it together whilst everyone ignores the impending collapse. Environmental campaigner, synth designing/noise-making programmer.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 31/08/2026
A climate crisis walked into a bar. So they set the bar higher. What's your "A climate crisis walked into a bar" joke?
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is such drivel that I have to post it again Spending on HS2 - a couple of hundred miles of railway between London to Birmingham - £100 BILLION + Spending to tackle wildfires and extreme weather - 'almost a £100 million' It just beggars belief www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A Britain of wildfires and flood risks: be sure, the climate crisis is real, and we will deal with it | Angela Eagle
Reform and the Conservatives are willing to mislead the public, but as environment secretary, I believe we must be honest – and act boldly, says Angela Eagle
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A direct line can be drawn from the fossil fuel corporation CEOs in their smart suits and swanky offices, to the brutal deaths of the terrified people you can see in these films Himalayan glaciers are collapsing, and meltwater lakes breaching, due to global heating www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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Hundreds missing, including 291 foreign tourists, after deadly flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border
In Tibet, CCTV captured a wall of mud and water hitting a border crossing. The missing in Nepal include more than 100 from India and 12 from the UK.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A Media Sovereignty Act to keep non-UK based billionaires out of British media control could be just what we need. 👇
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Could this be the beginning of the end for the billionaire-owned media propaganda blitz?
A campaign to free our national press from foreign billionaires like Rupert Murdoch is gaining momentum and attracting big-name support
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in which the world's richest man appears to endorse a post calling for "shooting migrants" and "sinking boats with refugees"
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
No, No, No, No, NO! Carbon capture and storage does NOT reduce emissions All it does is lock-in fossil fuel usage and infrastructure, and facilitate business as usual As far as tackling the climate emergency is concerned, it is a con trick www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael Jacobs
Carbon capture and storage could make the Rosebank site compatible with UK net zero commitments – if its owners are willing to pay the price, says economist Michael Jacobs
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Tristan Strange @tristanstrange.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Well. I just listened to Hannah Ritchie doing the rounds on AI and now I want to kick everyone's heads in.
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Tristan Strange @tristanstrange.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Ban AI tools in asylum decision making action.openrightsgroup.org/ban-ai-tools...
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Ban AI tools in asylum decision making
Take action! What’s the problem? The Home Office is using two AI tools: The Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS) tool uses ChatGPT-4 to summarise asylum interview transcripts. The Asylum Policy Search (APS...
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Tristan Strange @tristanstrange.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I've been utterly lost to Spec Driven Development for the last couple of weeks. Not reached a verdict yet but there are definitely spaces where code wins out over prose for comprehensibility for me. It's going to take me an absolute age to work when to use which...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Well done to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for calling out the fact he was being interviewed by a former Lab minister & husband of the current foreign secretary #GMB is now produced by @itvnews.bsky.social. How can they think this is tenable? Oh & Ed took it in good grace (not)
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Sentenced to 2 years in jail for putting tomato soup on glass, which took 10 seconds to wipe off. Not in Iran, in the UK.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The Gazafication of southern Lebanon The genocidal maniacs running Israel will not be happy until their country is surrounded by a wasteland of flattened buildings and body parts All facilitated by the US, UK and other western nations youtu.be/Jg7X-tUrn9o
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'Ghost town': Lebanon city deserted amid Israeli airstrikes
YouTube video by Guardian News
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is massive, and disgraceful. No organisation called “Tactical Choice” appears to exist.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is a massive scandal. Labour has invented a made-up tactical vote organisation to trick Gorton and Denton into voting for them. How can this even be legal?
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Let’s not pretend that Andrew’s activities are separate from his royal status. The whole concept of royalty is based on undeserved privilege, lack of accountability, luxury and hedonism, and the idea that others are beneath you, and can be used.
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Fight The Right… 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏿 @wtafc.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/02/2026
What $70 million in taxpayer money buys: a private luxury jet for Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski to jet-set around on. And we’re supposed to believe it’s used for deporting undocumented immigrants.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Nearly 100k people have joined our call to get dangerous US spy tech firm out of our NHS. Palantir's founder has called for the NHS to be ripped up. Now his company has access to millions of patient records. Tell the government to end the contract! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/02/2026
More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.
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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
"Actually, we'd prefer if we didn't have to make him face any consequences at all" is a helluva tell about the Labour Party mindset
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Just the latest devastating news on the climate breakdown front And make no mistake, we WILL see 2C by 2050 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Number of people living in extreme heat to double by 2050 if 2C rise occurs, study finds
Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Good luck with that UK developers believe in a pile 'em high, sell them dear approach. The worst quality housing stock in Europe Any green space, or even decent sized gardens, translates into less profit Starmer even refused to make a £30 swift box compulsory www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Green spaces should be the norm for all new housing developments in England, guidelines say
Experts say big flaw is the lack of mandatory requirements, meaning developers could ignore the guidance
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"The overuse and pollution of water must be tackled urgently, the report’s lead author said, because no one knew when the whole system could collapse, with implications for peace and social cohesion" But we won't tackle it urgently will we.....? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ is here, UN report says
Overuse and pollution must end urgently as no one knows when whole system might collapse, says expert
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Grok is so much worse than you think.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/01/2026
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Can't believe that @Guardian has published this promotional bollox by the CEO of an organisation pushing SRM Trying to cut the temperature while emitting 41 Bt of CO2 a year is like giving a poisoned patient an antidote while administering more poison Insane www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We can safely experiment on reflecting sunlight away from Earth. Here’s how | Dakota Gruener and Daniele Visioni
Reflecting a small fraction of incoming sunlight to reduce global heating is not a new idea. It is time to safely experiment
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
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slunnon.bsky.social @slunnon.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
What to know what’s happening in the trial of the six Palestine Action supporters? Read this - the evidence is showing the the police and the security guards are unreliable at best - and as they have in other PA trials, it’s possible that a Jury will deliver a not guilty verdict.
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Tristan Strange @tristanstrange.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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Has the British public been tricked about what the Filton trial videos really show?
Starmer desperately needs the trial of six peace activists who targeted Israeli arms firm Elbit to go his way, and bolster his government's claim that Palestine Action is a terrorist organisation
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
Tweet from Homeland Security with ICE agents wearing Christmas gear. The caption says "YOU'RE GOING HO HO HOME."
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Tristan Strange @tristanstrange.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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CO2 accelerating, corals gone forever, is it time to start geoengineering? | NFAWIF | XRUK
YouTube video by Extinction Rebellion (XR) UK
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI” when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Scientists are primed to see society's challenges as technical problems - if we can just get more information, we can fix it But climate & nature are political problems not technical ones, and a technocentric mindset seems to hold scientists back from engaging politically or changing behaviour
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The point of all these COPs is to stimulate action on climate change Action on climate change means ending the burning of fossil fuels Why give the biggest seat at the negotiating table to the people trying to stop the negotiations from being successful?
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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 13/11/2025
I love this! 💚💚💚 Imagine the leaders of any of the other parties attempting this without making you cringe so hard you break your toes.
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Revolution in The 21st Century @revolution21c.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Join Gully Bujak, James Schneider, and Chris Chudley at the Rev21 Festival on 15th November at 13:00 GMT to discuss ‘Building a Revolution from the Ground Up’. Join the conversation on how we can remake a world that’s falling apart. Register: tinyurl.com/rev21festival #Rev21Festival
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
In 2020 @wwf.panda.org identified the 100 global cities expected to suffer the greatest rise in water risk by 2050- home to at least 350 million people! We've already seen several megacities just days away from running dry. Here's a🧵 with eg's
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
#Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say - www.theguardian.com/business/202... stop these obscene subsidies
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Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Drax still doing what Drax does: burning old-growth forests in order to be Britain's no. 1 producer of CO2.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Our idiotic and incompetent government has just agreed to pay more than a million £ a day in support of the continued destruction of ancient forests to feed the Drax power plant Pure insanity www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Wow. The Greens are not just SECOND in this poll. They're now 3 points ahead of Labour - who are fourth. Time for Labour to stand down to stop splitting the anti-Reform vote!
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
In the 10 years since Paris, we failed to take the actions necessary to hold to 1.5C. We now face the same challenge in the next decade, but for 2C. But now we also have to also contend with far worse #climate impacts as we try to decarbonise. The longer we wait, the harder it gets! #Overshoot
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