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It's the novel writing month that we dare not name!!

My typewriter is beribboned and I'm procrastinating over the first words. Let's fucking go

25 stories of progress and solutions from October 2025 - Squirrel News A new month is on the doorstep, so it's time for a look back at the stories that caught our editors' attention over the past four weeks! From concrete data that suggests people are feeling safer and m...

A new #month is on the doorstep, so it’s time for a look back at the stories that caught our editors’ attention over the past four #weeks 👇

This is how your email finds me

A black background decorated with gold illustrations of branches, stars, swords, ravens, and tiny ghost shapes. In the centre, bold text reads: “BIRDS BUT THEY GET SPOOKIER EACH TIME.” Two ravens perch on bare branches at the bottom, with candles glowing beside them.

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻

Enter if you dare...🚪

A really good one this week: summary of progress against the paris agreement (where we were vs. Where we are), global extinction slowdown, and a new waste cutting design for the common zipper!

twitter user @uckersket They need to invent the opposite of a gym. You go there and you just get more frail and sickly. Maybe instead of lifting you just sit in a cold dark room and starve

gamedev

A woman reading the Telegraph

🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About

You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks...
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...

The crowdfunding campaigns rebuilding Syria, stronger-than-steel superwood, "pay as you throw" waste disposal - Squirrel News We're kicking off the week talking about the enormous grassroots community effort gathering money to reconstruct Syria, a new type of wood that's stronger and more sustainable than steel, and a new ap...

Today in Squirrel News:

the #crowdfunding campaigns rebuilding Syria 🇸🇾
#superwood that's stronger than steel 🪓
#coral reef restoration with a 90% success rate 🪸

and much more 👇

First-ever greenwashing conviction in France, deforestation drops for third decade in a row, London's scream clubs - Squirrel News We're wrapping up the week at Squirrel News talking about the Paris activists taking a greenwashing oil giant to court and winning, the global drop in deforestation over the past thirty years, and the...

NGOs called the ruling historic: “This is the first time in the world that a major oil and gas firm was found liable for misleading the public by greening its image”.

A painting of a very large hog.

AWS is down, post hog

A riff on XKCD 303. Two stick figures having a sword fight on office chairs. Inside another office a voice shouts, 'Hey! Get back to work!' Fighter one responds, 'AWS down!' referencing the amazon web services outage on 20/10/25 (in the original joke he shouts 'Compiling!'). The office voice says 'Oh. Carry on.'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Good morning

Find the people who are actually doing suff about it all and listen to them instead

There's something very wrong with the big focus on speculative catastrophe present across many areas of the news. 'I think something terrible (whispers: might) happen so you should be AFRAID!!', blasted across your psyche 24/7, ruins your perspective

This write up is a solid example of what realistic optimism looks like in practice: a clear eyed look at big problems, centering those who are *doing* something about it

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

New data shows global optimism about the future, Scotland to criminalise ecocide, the OR that fits in a backpack - Squirrel News In today's edition, we're talking about new data that reveals most people expect their lives to improve, Scotland taking a step towards becoming the first UK country to criminalise ecocide, and the op...

In today’s edition, we’re talking about new data that reveals most people expect their lives to #improve 🙂 #Scotland taking a step towards becoming the first UK country to criminalise #ecocide 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and the operating room compact enough to fit in a backpack 🏥

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Using ChatGPT

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

November is somehow just around the corner

Time to pretend I might do some novel writing this year!!

Solar named world's cheapest power source, agrivoltaics triples farmers' income, first rewilded sharks thrive - Squirrel News We're kicking off the week talking about big wins in green power generation, as well as the resounding success of the first-ever shark rewilding programme.

#Solar energy becomes the world’s cheapest power source ☀️
Agrivoltaics triple farmers’ incomes in #India 🇮🇳
MPs across Latin America unite to end fossil fuels in the #Amazon 🌴

and more – in our new issue 👇

Personally '52 years an imbecile' rings true for me. I may not be 52 but the age feels arbitary

There are some Pratchett lines that stick with me becuase they're profound. And then there are ones like this that just short circuit my brain with how good n funny they are

One thing that’s funny about how we react to stuff like this is how earnest we are. Workers were as likely to think “census? I’m gonna fuck with this guy” then as now. Taking the piss was not invented in the 20th century

What

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Renewables overtake coal, Denmark bans social media for under-15s, number of smokers worldwide drops - Squirrel News In today's edition, we're looking at green energy outpacing coal as the world's leading source of power, the big drop in the number cigarette smokers over the past 15 years, and Denmark's mission to i...

#Renewables overtake coal as planet's biggest source of energy ☀️ 🌬️
#Cigarette smoking sees a global decrease 🚬
#hairdressers are being trained as "mental health ambassadors" in west Africa 🗨️

and more – in our new issue 👇