@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-19 16:00:52
"Zonal pricing is dead – here’s how the UK should change its electricity system instead"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-19 16:00:52
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-18 12:00:02
"The UK rivers where ‘forever chemicals’ are found – and why scientists are worried"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #PFAS #ForeverChemicals
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-06-15 09:00:32
“Are we the baddies?” is not a question anyone in the West has to ask themselves. There’s no question about it. You were. You are. Will you continue to be? That’s the only question that matters and the answer is entirely up to you.
Silence is complicity.
Inaction is complicity.
Apologism is complicity.
Do something!
#israel
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-17 19:39:08
Content warning: covid in the UK - stats & map
Useful thread from @… with latest UK covid positivity results (from last week). Going up a bit - more noticeably in certain areas.
For context, "positivity rate" isn't "how many people have covid overall": it's "when we bothered actually doing tests, how many of the tests came back positive".
So for example if you test 30 people, and 3 of the tests came back positive, that's a "10% positivity rate".
Sometimes there are blank places on the map where, if there _was_ any testing that week, they didn't bother sending it in.
#covid #UK #stats
@pre@boing.world2025-05-20 17:37:11
Content warning: Gaza/Israel, UK response
Finally, with a hundred thousand dead, two thirds of the buildings bombed, all the hospitals and infrastructure destroyed, more than a million people on the verge of starvation, and Israel's leadership even more openly bragging about their intent to ethnically cleanse the area, it's gone on "too long".
Well done Lammy and Starmer. You finally noticed eh?
So trade deal talks are off, and weapons export licenses are... Well. We'll see. "Always Under Review" they say.
And the main reason for the slight and tiny change in emphasis? Mostly Trump. They are following Trump. They feel easier criticizing Israel's genocide now Trump looks easier with it.
#ukpol #gaza #israel
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-17 17:00:52
"UK air quality is improving but pollution targets are still being breached – new study"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Pollution
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-07-09 12:53:13
#UkPol
"Starmer says UK ‘can’t just tax our way to growth’ as he brushes off call for wealth tax – UK politics live"
https://www.theguard…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-06-16 00:58:11
'Forever chemical' found in all but one of tested UK rivers #UnitedKingdom
@tobi@dz.social2025-05-17 22:53:29
@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk2025-06-01 15:08:51
@johnleonard@mastodon.social2025-07-09 11:27:55
UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle addressed his critics head-on at Google Cloud London today.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/peter-kyle-addresses-big-tech-criticisms
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-20 11:00:52
"Reform’s anti-renewables stance ‘putting jobs and energy bills at risk’"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-20 11:00:36
"Endangered rays, sharks and native oysters 'could thrive' despite climate change, report claims"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Animals
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-07-14 00:31:11
Extreme weather is the UK's new normal, says Met Office #UnitedKingdom
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-17 13:00:52
"Climate groups call for UK wealth tax to make super-rich fund sustainable economy"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-06-20 17:50:39
* Government complicit in committing genocide brands sabotaging genocide as terrorism
#uk #littleEngland #israel #genocide
@rachel@norfolk.social2025-06-16 08:52:04
I don’t. Not any longer.
#ukpolitics #iran #israel
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-18 14:00:52
"Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-19 13:00:37
"UK temperatures of 45C may be possible in current climate, Met Office says"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-17 07:56:31
Content warning: excellent clear explainer of unfairness in UK tax system
Stonking evidence-based piece from @…, available in either text or video -
"Why are the wealthy so wealthy?"
"The short answer? The UK tax system is stacked in their favour. From low capital gains rates to massive ISA and pension subsidies, we're handing the wealthy thousands each year while working people shoulder the load. I break down the numbers, show how tax reliefs pour money into the pockets of the top 20%, and reveal why your taxes are effectively funding luxury lifestyles."
#tax #UK #UKPol #TaxWealthNotWork
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-07-17 17:36:00
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social2025-05-25 07:15:08
As #UKLabour flounders and talk of u-turns and leadership challenges abounds, here's a reminder that there's a ready-made lifeline:
https://gettingreal.org.uk/full-report/
@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk2025-07-03 08:00:17
Is #ukpolitics going mad? Is the speculation about Reeves is all because the PM didn't launch straight into praise for his Chancellor when answering at PMQs? She certainly looked tired but so would I if I'd been pulling the hours she has had to over the last week.
@toothFAIRy@scholar.social2025-05-04 10:50:54
#UK people! I'm planning to take a taxi from Edinburgh airport (to Stirling, so bit longer distance); any companies to avoid and/or tips? I found some websites but they all look similar so I'm just looking for some advice!
@nitpicking@mstdn.party2025-06-09 17:31:20
Hey, #UK government: you should really send an aircraft carrier group to clear out that nest of pirates in the Eastern Mediterranean.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-06-06 02:48:16
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics90sForever
UK Apachi & Shy FX:
🎵 Original Nuttah
#UKApachi #ShyFX
https://shyfx.bandcamp.com/track/original-nuttah-25-benny-l-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/55K24vPjLgAX8yLAq8fErj
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-19 12:00:37
"UK startup looks to cut shipping's carbon emissions"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Emissions #Ships
@bibbleco@infosec.exchange2025-05-04 14:51:03
Why can't all refugees in the UK be welcomed and celebrated like this?
(Rhetorical question, of course.)
#Ukraine #PutinsWar #refugeesWelcome
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-20 12:00:38
"Ed Miliband says Labour will ‘win fight’ against UK net zero critics"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero #Climate
@rachel@norfolk.social2025-07-04 10:45:43
Uninstalled the NHS App. I dunno but there’s something about Wes Streeting getting his dirty little paws on it that makes me be a little wary.
If I need to use it, I’ll use it purely via the web, at https://www.nhsapp.service.nhs.uk/
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-05-18 17:56:46
Prof Anthony Costello on the UK's flawed covid policies
"UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions about medical and scientific advice"
"Early in the covid pandemic, evidence emerged from several East Asian countries that suppression could lead to successful control. Yet the UK did not adopt the approach. ... Why was suppression not recommended, and what can be done to improve advice in future?"
Currently looks like it'd go the same way in the next pandemic too:
"Five years on, many of the people who developed the UK’s flawed response are still in post; they have not changed their views on suppression, and little has been done to improve government pandemic advice committees or to introduce detailed governance rules for the UK’s future pandemic response and resilience."
#covid #history #UKPol #pandemics
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-06-01 06:04:30
So I wake up to hear the news. Yet more #warmongering by #UK and #German governments.
Russia and China do NOT threaten us.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-15 16:00:32
"‘An enormous scar’: the battle over solar farms and pylons as Reform UK takes aim at net zero"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-16 14:00:41
"Heatwaves, floods and sea level rise: UK weather extremes are increasing, Met Office confirms"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Heatwave
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-18 13:00:02
"Analysis: Reform-led councils threaten 6GW of solar and battery schemes across England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Solar #SolarPower
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-18 15:00:52
"‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-13 14:00:32
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-19 12:00:52
"Reform-led Durham county council scraps climate emergency declaration"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-19 08:48:43
Content warning: BiCon coming up, Fri 25 to Sun 27 July 2025, Nottingham and online
BiCon comes to Nottingham this Friday!
It's a masking-friendly, though not mask-required, event, in a venue which is said to be pretty good for air quality.
There's also an online-only option, which I went to myself last year when the in-person side wasn't in Nottingham. We had a nice little group being companionable on the Zoom, with some of the in-person sessions running as hybrid.
You don't have to be bi to go - just bi-friendly and trans-inclusive. Typically it does include some non-bi people who just like the vibes :-)
Sliding-scale admission prices:
- in-person weekend tickets £65 down to £20
- in-person day tickets £40 down to £10
- online weekend tickets £20 down to £4.
Venue this year is two of the buildings belonging to the girls' high school, in between the Forest and the Arboretum. Nearest tram stop is High School. Nearest bus lines are brown, green, yellow, and purple.
There's usually a variety of session options in the day: some talky and some not; some bi-themed, some unrelated. In the evenings there'll be social space. Some people will go and march as a group in Notts Pride on the Saturday. I'm going to host an online pre-meet on the Wednesday evening.
Myself I've booked for the weekend, but in reality I might only make it to the online-Wednesday-pre-meet and the Friday, esp if I do go to Notts Pride on the Saturday. I might be all used up by Saturday night. (Even pre-covid I might've run out of steam by then :-) ) But if I didn't come in on the Sunday, I probably would still join in at least a little bit online.
More below on what I'm planning to contribute!
Feel free to ping me if you have questions :-)
#bi #trans #Nottingham #EastMidlands #England #UK #BiCon #bisexual #bisexuality #queer #LGBT #LGBTQ
@pre@boing.world2025-07-10 17:06:56
Content warning: UKPol refugees one-in-one-out
Good news everyone! We may finally have actual legal safe passage for refugees into the UK. 🥳
But seems to be dependent upon so-called "illegal" entry still happening.
Only one legal safe passage per "illegal" entry returned.
🤔
#ukpol #refugees #oneInOneOut
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-11 13:00:43
"OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-19 16:00:37
"Torgerson Paper Exposes Deep Flaws in Pro-Culling Analysis"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers #Animals…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-20 14:00:52
"Why the UK’s butterflies are booming in 2025"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-09 14:00:12
"UK MPs call for ban on bottom trawling in protected marine areas"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Oceans
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-10 13:00:34
"Nature-friendly farming budget swells in UK – but cuts elsewhere make recovery fraught"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Farming #Nature
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-17 08:51:40
Content warning: UK police suppression of support for Palestine
UK police conflating "support for Palestine" with "support for proscribed group Palestine Action".
When they passed that law, I _thought_ things might slide this way at some point!
"In the encounter, which she filmed, one officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.”
"He went on to say that the phrase “Free Gaza” is “supportive of Palestine Action”, adding it was an offence “to express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, namely Palestine Action is an offence under section 12(1A) of the Terrorism Act”. The officer told her she had committed that offence."
Starmer & co really need to speak out if this _wasn't_ exactly what they wanted to have happen :-/
#FreedomOfSpeech #UK #law #PalestineAction #censorship #police #Palestine #Israel #UKPol
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-12 19:00:37
"Decathlon expands tent buyback scheme to tackle UK festival waste"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Festivals
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-08 14:00:29
"Businesses and charities call for UK to scrap VAT on refurbished electronics"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-06 10:00:35
"UK may be on verge of triggering a ‘positive tipping point’ for tackling climate change"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-19 09:37:38
Content warning: what I plan to contribute to BiCon (July 2025, Nottingham and online)
I have plans for a few different things...
• Wednesday evening, 23 July, I'm hosting a 1-hour online thing that'll be open to whoever's already booked by then. It'll be a somewhat structured talky session on a theme of "inventing the BiCon you want", and an opportunity to meet other people who are going. Newcomers especially welcome :-)
• On the Friday morning at in-person BiCon, I'm offering a session called "Curiosity Skills". It's about which kinds of questions are genuinely "open", versus which kinds of questions allow your own assumptions and biases to sneak in! It'll be partly me explaining, and partly the chance for some little conversational experiments, to notice how the different questions work in practice.
• Subject to finding a nice quiet airy place to do it, I plan to run a mask-decoration session at some point on the Friday. I'll bring a few different kinds of masks, plus lace, beads and sequins, and some past experience of how to decorate masks without compromising the seal or the breathability. I'll invite donations for the materials. Decorate your mask for Pride! or for BiCon partying! or just because you like to :-)
• Also I will bring my badges and zines, and have them on sale!
=
By the way, if you might come to the Wednesday evening online bit, let me know what time you'd like it to start, because that's a question I have open at the moment. Could be 19.00, 19.30, 20.00. For myself I don't really mind, but I'm aware that some people have teatimes or child-bedtimes that can't easily be moved.
#bi #trans #Nottingham #EastMidlands #England #UK #BiCon #bisexual #bisexuality #queer #LGBT #LGBTQ
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-19 18:00:37
"Waitrose allocates £500k to British farmers for environmental projects"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment #Waitrose
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-15 17:00:34
"Ed Miliband to tell MPs who reject net zero policies they are betraying future generations"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-17 08:10:41
Content warning: Keir Starmer suspending Labour rebels
"Brian Leishman, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Rachael Maskell and Chris Hinchcliffe will now sit as independent MPs."
“I firmly believe that it is not my duty as an MP to make people poorer, especially those that have suffered because of austerity and its dire consequences.”
- Brian Leishman, MP for Alloa and Grangemouth, one of many who voted against the government’s disability benefit cuts.
Respect to the rebels, for voting with their consciences even when it got them into trouble!
I wonder if any of them will join up with Corbyn & Sultana's new thing?
#UKPol #KeirStarmer #LabourParty #LabourRebels
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-17 14:00:30
"Chart: The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power over eight decades"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NuclearPower #Energy
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-28 13:00:09
"UK carbon emissions cut by half since 1990: experts"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Emissions
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-30 11:00:08
"Suspend UK from oil oversight body over protests crackdown, say campaign groups"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-18 12:00:52
"Mansion House: Chancellor Rachel Reeves axes plans for UK Green Taxonomy"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Finance #Money
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-13 17:00:32
"Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-05 15:00:12
"Fossil Fuels and Fake LTNs: Reform’s Five Biggest Climate Clangers Since Local Elections"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-09 14:00:34
"MP Cites DeSmog Reporting to Bolster Call for Ban on Fossil Fuel Advertising"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-04 13:00:35
"More than 80% of UK farmers worried about climate crisis harming livelihood, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Farming
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-02 15:00:05
"UK must consider food and climate part of national security, say top ex-military figures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-03 19:00:01
"Ban on disposable vapes enters force in the UK"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Vapes
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-22 14:00:55
"UK ministers reopen door to drilling at two North Sea oilfields as new guidance released"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NorthSea
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-11 10:00:25
"Campaigners hail plan to ban bottom trawling in half of England’s protected seas"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-05-28 13:00:19
"Arctic warming 3.5 times faster than rest of world - as security threats to UK 'fundamentally changing'"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Arctic
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-05-27 11:00:15
"Climate change could bring insect-borne tropical diseases to UK, scientists warn"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-15 11:00:37
"UK spending review 2025: Key climate and energy announcements"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-14 16:00:37
"Over Half of UK Badger Population Killed: 247,880 Culled Since 2013"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers #Animals
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-17 12:00:49
"How drought, food shortages and wildfires could plague this summer"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Drought #Environment
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-24 14:00:09
"Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now - Dale Vince"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Trees
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-15 15:00:32
"‘Profound concern’ as scientists say extreme heat ‘now the norm’ in UK"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-17 18:00:52
"UK launches new ‘Electric Car Grant’ scheme with up to £3,750 discount per vehicle"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #EV #ElectricVehicles
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-04 11:00:01
"2025 was the hottest spring on record and driest in over 50 years, Met Office says"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-03 16:00:04
"Natural England Silent as 10,769 Badgers Killed Under Faulty 2024 Cull Licences and 2025 Culls Loom"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-09 19:00:33
"Weetabix’s wheat growers cut on-farm emissions with lower-nitrogen approach"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Farming
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-09 17:00:34
"‘A Trojan horse’: how toxic sewage sludge became a threat to the future of British farming"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sewage
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-03 14:00:04
"Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-05-27 19:00:19
"'Holy grail' of limitless clean energy could be here by 2040"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-08 18:00:28
"Rare butterfly hits purple patch at Sussex rewilding project"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-08 12:00:58
"How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-16 13:00:37
"‘Net Zero is a Killer’: Meet Reform UK’s New Chair David Bull"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero #Climate
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-16 12:00:41
"Ed Miliband says Tories are ‘anti-science’ for abandoning net zero consensus"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero #Climate
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-06 18:00:11
"Premier Foods pilots low carbon fertiliser in wheat production"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Food
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-14 11:00:32
"HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #HSBC #Banks
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-06 10:00:12
"New law to tackle 'nature emergency' in Wales - where 'one in six species at risk of extinction'"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-12 12:00:42
"Reform UK backs plan to put swift bricks in every new home in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Birds #Animals
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-26 19:00:09
"UK hailed as a global leader in electric fleets, as AutoTrader previews green car ratings"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #EV
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-15 17:00:37
"Reefs made from human ashes could revive British seabeds, says startup"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Oceans #Environment
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-02 13:00:37
"'Vapocalypse': Is the disposable vape ban a game changer or a total flop?"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Vapes
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-14 17:00:37
"Fight to clean up rivers under threat from Defra cuts"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment #Rivers
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-01 16:00:04
"Pesticides, antibiotics, animal medicines: the chemical cocktail seeping into our rivers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Rivers
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-16 14:00:38
"Yorkshire enters drought after driest spring in 132 years"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Yorkshire #Drought
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-16 19:00:37
"Golden eagle spotted in England for first time in more than a decade"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Birds #BirdsOfPrey
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-16 16:00:41
"UK’s clean electricity growing too slowly to meet climate targets, report says"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy #Renewables
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-09 15:00:12
"UK funds controversial climate-cooling research"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-29 19:00:09
"Rare heath fritillary butterflies surge in number on Exmoor after sunny spring"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-29 18:00:08
"‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Trees
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-11 14:00:26
"New UK AI datacentre could cause five times emissions of Birmingham airport"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Emissions #AI
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-06 18:00:34
"Largest UK solar plant goes online"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Energy
