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Gravity Batteries: Storing Renewable Energy Underground?! YouTube video by Everything Electric TECH

Interesting new energy storage system. Bags of potential. youtu.be/nDfBayfTWy0?...

Of course. 😡 bsky.app/profile/ldw1...

Can we afford jury trials? Swifter justice for victims is being weighed against “centuries of English liberty”

“MoJ lost over a quarter of its funding... A third of courtrooms were sold off, and those that remain… often stand empty due to staffing shortages. The existing backlog is the result of… Conservatives choosing to underfund the justice system.”
Not juries!
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The unthinking authoritarianism of Labour’s jury-trial reforms Keir Starmer is spearheading one of the most shocking attacks on civil liberties in modern times.

The unthinking authoritarianism of Labour’s jury-trial reforms

Keir Starmer is spearheading one of the most shocking attacks on civil liberties in modern times.

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Our tiny independent business just had a £400 water bill for a *quarter* and the town we live in that relies on tourism has sewage in the sea. Do I care what Zack Polanski did 10 years ago or do I care that he wants to nationalise an actual shit show?

Can we just skip to the part where we make @monkemma.bsky.social‬ the arbiter of everything?

Because she is so good at this stuff.

Another absolute classic.

The reason the media are going after Zack Polanski:

His opposition to Israel's genocide & Iran war

The media is not your friend

Daily Mail Headline: Pupils' drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, Labour councils tell schools - while music and dance classes may go against the teachings of Islam

Oh boy! What a headline...

Ask yourself:

"What am I being asked to believe?"

"Who am I being told to blame?"

Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.

Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵

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Oh, she is brilliant! Go on... get comfortable, settle down with a mug of cocoa and read her excellent and clear explanation!

Report and block.

Nice. Thanks for your positive contribution. Keep taking the roubles.

The Political Slot - The Green Party Mothin Ali MP on the Green Party's plans for more investment in community projects

If you missed it
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An article “More than one million foreign nationals are receiving benefits” (March 17, 2025) referred to the number of “foreign nationals” receiving benefits, and gave the rate of benefit claims for various nationalities. In fact, the particular DWP data on which the article was based recorded the nationality of claimants when registering for a National Insurance number, rather than the nationality at the time they were claiming benefits, so that some claimants might have since acquired UK citizenship, and would not be foreign nationals at the time they were claiming benefits. This correction has been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press Standards Organisation. Advertisement

Fully *one year later*, the Telegraph has been forced (by @ipso.co.uk) to admit that it was lying about foreign nationals claiming benefits.

“Rainwater harvesting.”

True. ☹️

Electric police car. ✅✅✅

Well done by my union. Good call.
👏👏👏

There’s something in the air in South Portland, Maine (and it’s not good) - The Boston Globe Residents of South Portland, Maine, are concerned about high levels of benzene, a carcinogen, measured near petroleum storage tanks in close proximity to their homes.

One more reason to phase out fossil fuels. Benzene.

"Now the first answers are in, thanks to a year of emissions monitoring along the fence lines of the city’s tank farms. At two of those locations, the results showed levels of benzene — a known carcinogen — well above the state’s limit."

Imagine for a moment that an Iranian missile strike had butchered 160 Israeli or US schoolgirls.

It’s be front page news worldwide, we’d see pics of the kids, interviews with their distraught parents etc.

But when innocent victims of US mass murder are “only” Iranian, whoopsies, accidents happen!

No wonder… bsky.app/profile/ldw1...

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

What Nigel Farage and Reform UK ignore about net zero ⬇️

🚨 Reaching the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock.

💰 And it will bring health, economic and security benefits.

I only managed 500 litres of waterbutts. If I had my time again, I’d have a proper system. ☹️

Scientists have identified several ominous 'red flags' about key ocean current

Study author stresses that this doesn't necessarily mean that AMOC is about to collapse, but it's an indicator that human activity may already be pushing the weakening AMOC closer to collapse

Main companies involved in the UK carbon capture and storage (CCS):

• BP
• Equinor
• Eni
• National Grid
• Shell
• Essar Energy
• Progressive Energy
• Cadent

These firms are involved in the HyNet and East Coast Cluster CCS projects, which are expected to receive most of the UK’s £20bn+ support.

Of course, the guards *could* all go to sleep at exactly the same moment all the CCTV fails so that he could - checks notes; ah, yes - throw himself off the top bunk to certain death. Nothing fishy about that.

Can’t fool me.
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Ah, yes. The cost of NOT doing net zero. Looking forward to reading a Daily Telegraph article about that…

“The UK's official climate adviser said the cost of meeting net zero is less than A SINGLE (my CAPS) fossil fuel price shock. £4 billion of additional spending per year to 2050 is required to stay on track for net zero, according to the Climate Change Committee.

No no no, the EU is dependent on the UK for its security. As proven just now when Cyprus, under attack because it has a UK military base, had to rely on the * checks notes * "opportunistic" French sending their frigate Languedoc to help defend it, and a whole taskforce on top.

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US soldiers loading bombs onto their aircraft at bases in England.

The UK is at war with Iran helping commit more War Crimes.

We need a Government like Spain that is strong enough to say no to Donald Trump.