Fiona Reeves

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

Over 12,000 people have added their name to keep Hampstead heath ladies' ponds inclusive.

With the consultation coming to an end in 2 weeks, we need to show the strength of our movement. Join us 👇
https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive

Great! Now for Westminster. Having 26 bishops with automatic voting rights as a special privilege because of the CofE's place in our constitution is a hangover from 14th century medieval England. In a modern democracy, no religious group should have reserved seats. humanists.uk/2025/11/05/b...

Advert outside theatre for Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, showing a picture of the cast in their costumes.

Photo of the stage before the show started. The set is of a backstage area of a theatre.

Spent the afternoon at The Lowry seeing Christmas Carol Goes Wrong. Family trip 😊
#mischieftheatre #mischiefcomedy #lowry #ChristmasCarolGoesWrong

P.S. It’s not just people with work on RedBubble, you only need an online presence. Plenty of people who sell on Etsy for example, their stuff turns up on Temu and AlliExpress where they’ve even copied their product photos and their customer’s review photos to appear on there! 😡

Yep. That is in fact how I feel in general now - there’s no point in me even creating anything new as I’ll just be making money for the people who steal it. 😞

And if you manage to get anything taken down it will just pop straight back up again re-listed. It can be a full time job in itself. Most artists selling online are in that position.

It’s probably all on Temu aswell.

A white wall of an underground car park. One space has an el;ectric car charger mounted on the wall. Just a plain white all. Next to that is a bay with a massive filthy black stain which is where someone parks their 'clean' diesel vehicle.

A very clear and easy to understand example. A diesel and electric car park side by side.
Photo credit: nextmove

The Forever Lobbying Project The Forever Lobbying Project exposes the real cost of PFAS pollution on the environment, science, and politics.

If you want to know which chemical firms are employing hundreds of lobbyists to prevent forever chemicals from being banned. All the info here: share.google/mSa8IeNiwcAR...

OpenAI’s Atlas browser promises ultimate convenience. But the glossy marketing masks safety risks If you want to try Atlas, the advice is straightforward: extreme caution.

Agentic Browsing feels like sleepwalking into an online security nightmare. The phrase "A perfect storm of security risks" is used in this article, and I can see why. 🙈
theconversation.com/openais-atla...

heard on a game podcast just now, that a 15 hour, single player game is maybe not long enough.

We have to get past this idea as developers and audiences.

A game will be, and should be, just as long as it needs to be for *what it is*.

Dystopian yellow toned industrial image with birds in the sky, a tower in the background, a girl with a red cloak in the foreground, green capital lettering saying SHARDLIGHT at the top.

Finished Shardlight yesterday, another great point & click adventure by @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social Took me a little while to get into this one, perhaps I wasn’t in the right mood to start with - maybe needed a gap after previous game, but the second half really grabbed me and I really enjoyed it!

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.

We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

A former Hampshire county council Tory leader who claimed more than £15,000 in allowances over six months – despite failing to attend meetings in that period – has won a ceremonial honour for “dedication and hard work”.

Large text reads: Greens polling second nationally. Screenshot of Tweet reads: RFM: 32% (=) GRN: 17% (+2) CON: 16% (-1) LAB: 16% (=) LDM: 12% (=) SNP: 2% (=) Via @FindoutnowUK, 29 Oct. Changes w/ 22 Oct. Picture of Zack Polanski with speech bubble saying: “It’ll go higher.”

The Green Party SECOND in a national poll for the first time ever!

There’s no way we’re stopping there.

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :

Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn

Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**

Don't believe the wind power haters

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A screenshot from a website called 'Winderfull' which tracks the amouont of electricity generated by the UKs off shore turbines. At present they are prodiucing 62% of our demand.

Of course it doesn't always produce this much, but imagine how much gas we are NOT burning right now. (Wind has been generating over 50% of all our electricity for the past 3 days

I understand this is about “parliamentary rules” but they are not fit for purpose

Join.greenparty.org.uk

With all the milestones, how extraordinary this is can get lost!

Last Sunday on the BBC I announced we overtook the Tories at 124k members.

That's +26,000 members in the last week.

Hope is feeling normal again....

Cardboard packaging

Yay for small things that make the world better! Every time I see something like this (swimming goggles today) that used to be sold covered in unnecessary plastic and now has paper/cardboard packaging, it makes me so happy. Manufacturers, I *will* choose this. Keep going! Make a better world real!

Uber driver refused to pick me and my son from hospital cos he is on crutches. A little taste of grotesque ableism there.

How Chronic Disappointment Rewires the Brain Chronic disappointment can train the brain to expect pain instead of reward. Restoring hope means reawakening dopamine through small actions, enriched environments, and new desire.

“Why are traumatized people so MISERABLE?”

“Too much disappointment teaches the system that ‘wanting leads to pain,’ and so it stops responding to potential rewards. … Biologically, it’s an adaptive silencing of the very circuits that make us feel alive.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/an-i...

Government awards Post Office £2m contract to search for its own Capture records | Computer Weekly Up to 1,500 claims expected from former users of the Post Office’s controversial Capture software.

The government is paying the Post Office up to £2m to seach its own archives for information about it Capture software use www.computerweekly.com/news/3666335...

I order books through my small local bookshop and then go in to collect them, so I’m not necessarily buying what they’ve chosen to put on their book shelves. I get that it’s nice to see your books there though and have the possibility of people discovering them that way.

One of the first things I loved about Fia’s sprite in Old Skies is that she is shaped like me (and a lot of other women). She’s a person with a body, rather than something for titillation- she’s still a sexual being, but it‘s there for her, not the player.

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The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour.

Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"

300 people tell BBC of police misogyny and racism after undercover investigation Following a BBC undercover investigation, many describe incidents of domestic violence and sexual abuse being dismissed by officers across England.

An undercover investigation uncovered shocking racism and misogyny, now more than 300 people have contacted the BBC with further allegations

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq0jx7ljn9o