Steve, being a small business owner doesn't make you a capitalist — you can have a small business (maybe even a larger one) and even be anti-capitalist.

Just don't:
- Exploit your workers
- Have opaque wage structures
- Focus on private profit over community benefit

Yes, this is simplifying things

Is this not just blackmail?

Massive opportunity to fill the gap here.
Will it be a new community-owned scheme, or something for @london.gov.uk or TFL to take over?

I wonder if Steve Reed will attend the National Emergency Briefing on the 27th November... nebriefing.org

This comparison in the article stood out to me as slightly random:
"China generated 1,826 terawatt-hours of wind and solar electricity in 2024, five times more than the energy contained in all 600 of its nuclear weapons."

Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison

Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel

Johnson’s senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Thiel and Ellison

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...

“We've been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.”

Yikes.

But the messages also include invitations to join in a reactionary movement for a nostalgic past, against the *checks notes* evils of liberal democracies in Europe with their censoring online safety laws.

No mention of censorship in Russia or other states. No mention of misuse of tech platforms.

My Telegram account has this banner on it today.
I’ve never seen it before and it doesn’t explain itself.
I click on it.
I find myself in a broadcast channel from Pavel, the founder.
The thread mostly is him selling Telegram NFTs either apparent 100s of thousands of people reacting to each posts

Pardon my ignorance, but there is already the third National Adaptation Plan. (which is critiqued as lacking)

What are the specifics of a resilience plan in comparison?

Right to swim and wild camp in England should be enshrined in law, Labour MPs say Report from group of MPs calls for broader access to rivers, woodlands and fields to improve connection with nature

Labour MPs today call for new legislation to extend a right of responsible access to more English landscapes, and for the right to swim and wild camp to be enshrined in law

@righttoroam.bsky.social inputted to this new report from the APPG for access to nature:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just right?

Are you sure that some aren't bots too?
I am not sure whether I am being optimistic or pessimistic.

I always check with the Yuka app and avoid sunscreens with nasty chemicals for the environment (and me)

A newspaper article with the headline: “New grant to push sales of electric cars for net zero”. The strapline reads: “Government offers up to £3,750 off new vehicles”. The article, written by Ben Clatworthy and Will Dron, discusses a new UK government scheme offering up to £3,750 for motorists switching to electric vehicles (EVs). The grant applies to EVs with a list price under £37,000 and will be available until 2029. It is part of a £650 million initiative aimed at increasing EV adoption to meet net zero targets. Key points include: • Models made in Britain will get higher grants. • Chinese-made EVs like BYDs will be excluded. • The grant is applied at the point of sale. • About 80–90% of new cars are bought on finance. • The scheme is not means-tested. • Tesla, Polestar, and high-end BMW, Audi, and Mercedes models are ineligible. • Past grants offered up to £4,500 between 2016–2018. • Only 15,474 EVs were registered in 2018, compared to 381,970 last year. • Private buyers accounted for just under 20% of EV sales. • The policy supports Labour’s goal to ban new petrol and diesel cars by 2030 and may later include plug-in hybrids.

Yet again, the UK gov chooses to subsidise the least effective way of reaching net zero. Imagine if did this for cargo bikes instead, effectively halving the price of bikes that can replace the majority of these cars - especially 2nd cars - and funding car sharing schemes instead for longer journeys

bsky.app/profile/char...

Don't be naïve on the 3.5% thing, it doesn't magically do something.
Otherwise you will get there and be disappointed that [revolution/change/regime-change] hasn't happened yet!

From the article probably Lord Maurice Glasman:
'in London, Díaz had filmed Yarvin getting his portrait painted with Lord Maurice Glasman, a post-liberal political theorist who has been called “Labour’s MAGA Lord,” for his support of Brexit and his ongoing dialogue with figures like Steve Bannon.'

Explore this report with AI BETA Terms of use Bot said: Hello! I’m a virtual agent here to help you explore the key findings of the IEA’s special report on energy and AI. Remember, AI can make mistakes, and you should verify the answers independently with the original source materials. Bot said: Hello! I’m a virtual agent here to help you explore the key findings of the IEA’s special report on energy and AI. Remember, AI can make mistakes, and you should verify the answers independently with the original source materials. Sent at April 20 at 11:32 AM Just now You said: If this chatbot makes mistakes, wouldn't it make more sense for me to just read the actual report instead of having it filtered through a mistake-making machine? You said: If this chatbot makes mistakes, wouldn't it make more sense for me to just read the actual report instead of having it filtered through a mistake-making machine? Sent at April 20 at 11:32 AM Just now Bot said: The Special Report on Energy and AI provides neutral, fact-based analysis and data without endorsing any specific fuel, technology, or policy. Bot said: The Special Report on Energy and AI provides neutral, fact-based analysis and data without endorsing any specific fuel, technology, or policy. Sent at April 20 at 11:32 AM Bot said: Is there anything else I can help you with? Bot said: Is there anything else I can help you with?

In a direct protest against the @iea.org's plea to use the custom chatbot to explore this report, I am going to read the entire thing (all 304 pages) using my actual brain, and this thread will be where I dump reactions, thoughts, notes etc as I go through it

www.iea.org/reports/ener...

Thanks for the analysis, Simon.
Please can you share this with any energy-heads in London: a workshop drawing on the work of the IEA to understand and explore energy systems.
Friday morning, 16th May, Angel, from 9 am - 12 pm
climateclarity.co.uk/event/energy....

There is no ecological disaster more out of sight and out of mind.

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social I attended the Q&A screening of @asifkapadia.bsky.social 's 2073 film the other night.

I think you indicated that we need to stay on the platforms and fight even with the algorithmic odds stacked against us.
I was dismayed to hear you say that we could win on these terms

Is it obvious to the American people?
Someone saying this on CNN is very different to someone on Fox News saying it.
CNN listeners probably already know.

Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests Research looking at tissue from postmortems between 1997 and 2024 finds upward trend in contamination

Levels of #microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests

- Tiny plastic pollution also found in livers and kidneys, but the potentially worrying health impacts remain unknown

Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@terezacervenova.bsky.social

The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

Excerpt from technical report

Researchers say Twitter changed its algorithm to promote posts from Elon Musk and Republicans in the run-up to the election.

"The date at which (the spike) in engagement occurs coincides with Elon Musk's formal endorsement of Donald Trump on 13th July 2024."

eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/