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Editor of Trans Britain. #Author of Pressing Matters. Lifetime Achievement Award PrideOfManchester 2021. Drove an 8 year old #EV called Peggy and now drives Olga who is one year old.
Posts about #climate mitigation, #trans moral panic, #books. Was #retired. Checked out but unable to leave. She/Her.

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The BBC analyses Count Binface’s £1.10 Croissant price cap…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=146nXRsBsB8&si=5nfg5PXeVZGW3qJv

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Seawater intrusion below glaciers may be reaching a tipping point (or have even passed it) suggesting we could be about to see a significant sea level rise.

Aha, say the sceptics, this is 'may' and 'could'... we want the facts.

The problem is that approach to the climate is what has got us where we are... climate scientists have been warning us for years, and their estimates/fears have been largely borne out, the sceptics claims, not so much!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/25/newly-identified-tipping-point-for-ice-sheets-could-mean-greater-sea-level-rise

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@ChrisMayLA6 @Npars01 The tipping point that leads to our collapse in numbers may in all probability be one that nobody noticed until it had tipped, and by then it will be too late to do anything about.

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I’ve been thinking back to the days when, as a consultant or as an activist, I was privy to things before they were announced. It never occurred to me to run off down the bookies or do whatever else might have enriched me with insider knowledge. And, for the people calling such a thing “a flutter”, it’s not a flutter. It’s cheating and planning to defraud the bookies. It’s grubby and even if you didn’t know it was illegal you’d know instinctively it was immoral.

christineburns , to random
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Attempt to cover up “explosion” of trans youth suicides on NHS waiting lists

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/attempt-cover-up-explosion-trans-youth-suicides-nhs-waiting-wareham-tskbc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

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If you arrange British coins this way you'll get a shield - It represents the Royal Coat of Arms! 🇬🇧

(All coinage below £1)

christineburns ,
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@archaeohistories Hardly seems worth 88p if you ask me.

christineburns , to random
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Peter Oborne: The Conservative Party is FINISHED for good.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TADeOmCVo_s&si=Xa_R9n-sd9NV4cDt

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Just… go.

You’re welcome.

Entire strip here: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/06/23

#Doonesbury #comics #Trump #Cannon

Trump is in a crowded room talking to wealthy donors, describing who he “owned” while president. Trump: There was my Kevin, my African American, my generals, my judges…Especially my Supreme Court judges! The did abortion because I told them to! I said, “Do the abortion” and they said, “Sir! That’s a perfect call!” And how about my Aileen? Judge Cannon is INCREDIBLE! She totally shut down one of Biden’s disgraceful witch hunts! As a few words, my Aileen! Aileen Cannon: Uh… hi everyone. Trump: That’s enough. Enjoy the cash bar, folks!
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    @GottaLaff I love the detail that Cannon is in his jacket pocket

    christineburns , to random
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    Jo Maugham presents the receipts for his assertions about a trans youth suicide explosion and NHS management attempts to cover it up. The gender criticals kidded themselves they were on the right side of history and shutting down a conspiracy in trans care. As anyone could have predicted, their ideology, snatching the prospect of timely care from young trans people, appears to have produced an actual tragedy.

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1803729360731406489.html

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    Supreme Court rules Surrey council should have considered climate impact of burning oil drilled from new wells in Horley, in landmark ruling which could end all future UK drilling -BBC

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    @Lazarou @GottaLaff Our papers call them ‘Enemies of the People’ though, which is tense.

    christineburns , to random
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    Erin Reed: In a major move, UN Women, the United Nations Entity tasked with women's equality and protection from violence, has called the gender critical movement an extremist "anti-rights" movement.

    https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/un-women-calls-gender-criticals-an

    christineburns , to random
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    Can’t believe I’m back with the central heating on in the evenings this week. I tried holding out but just felt cold.

    christineburns , to random
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    This is incredibly sad. Yesterday it was announced that my friend for 25 years, Professor Lynn Conway, passed away at the weekend. Love and condolences to her husband Charlie.

    The last we spoke was last year by FaceTime from her home in Michigan. A big part was about how she, a trans woman, would escape to Canada if it all went utterly tits up in the US with a Trump return. All I can say is that Lynn has now beaten the bastards and is safely beyond their reach after a long life lived well.

    Lynn Ann Conway January 2, 1938 - June 9, 2024 Prepared by Dallas Denny June 10, 2024 Lynn Ann Conway was an electrical engineer, computer scientist, and an activist on behalf of transgender people. She died in Jackson, Michigan on Sunday, June 9, 2024 of heart trouble. Lynn was born in Mount Vernon, New York on January 2, 1938. She was a reserved but exceptionally bright student who attended MiT but did not graduate due a difficult and ultimately unsuccessful gender transition. She continuing her education at Columbia University, where she earned B.S. and M.S.E.E. degrees in 1962 and 1963, respectively. In 1994, she accepted a position as a researcher at IBM's facility in Yorktown Heights, New York. There, she worked with others on an advanced supercomputer project. She was fired in 1968 when it became known that she intended to transition. IBM later apologized for that action. That same year, Lynn consulted Dr. Harry Benjamin and became a patient. She completed her gender transition, also in 1968. In a divorce, she was denied the right to visit with her minor children. Using her new name, Lynn continued work as a computer research scientist, working at Computer Applications, Inc., Memorex, and, Xerox PARC, and DARPA. In 1985, she became a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan and, Simultaneously, Associate Dean of Engineering.
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    christineburns , to random
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    Viral disinformation: How 51 million watched a viral video featuring a bogus doctors’ group pushed by Elon Musk, against trans care that is approved by the real professional association they pass themselves off as. And, yes, of course the Cass review is now part of the weapons arsenal.

    The rank dishonesty of the movement targeting trans folk should be all you need to understand.

    https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/bogus-doctors-group-pushed-by-elon

    christineburns , to random
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    Dr Helen Webberley (GenderGP) summarises the state-led attack on trans people very well. Read and share widely.

    https://www.gendergp.com/trans-youth-in-the-uk/

    christineburns , to random
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    A new poll in the US reveals that 77% believe their politicians use transgender issues as a distraction.

    They’re treating YOU as fools.
    They’re treating US as disposable pawns.

    https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/norc-poll-77-say-elected-officials

    christineburns , to random
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    The hotel I’m staying in has three full floors and a partial fourth on the roof with (allegedly) better views. There are two lifts from the lobby. One goes only as far as the third floor, the other has a ‘4’ button. But if you summon a lift from the lobby and the ‘three floors’ lift arrives there is then no way to summon the other one. I asked the reception staff about this, thinking I’d maybe missed something, but it is what it is. They think it’s barmy too. 😂

    christineburns , to random
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    Notice you don’t see Kemi Badenoch campaigning on Britain’s trade — her principal ministerial bailiwick. It’s understandable. As Business and Trade Secretary she and her predecessors since Brexit have failed to deliver the trade deals we were promised. Exporting is now harder than ever and small businesses have given up trying. So she’s made up a problem that doesn’t exist and, whilst she thinks she’s found a form of words to pretend she’s not painting trans folk as predators, that’s the effect.

    christineburns , to random
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    Just recorded a short video of support to British trans kids to tell them that, however grim things look, they will get through, they will survive, they will have great lives and they will live to look back from better times on the terrible things that were done to them now.

    christineburns , to random
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    I can’t help feeling that it would be incredibly ironic if Victoria Atkins’ outrageous step of outlawing the prescription and possession of a narrow range of GnRH agonists (so-called ‘puberty blockers’) led to desperate families either obtaining old-style anti-androgens with actual documented risks or — shock — going straight to the cross-sex hormones which blockers were supposed to buy time from. Literally ‘unintended consequences on steroids’. Welcome to prohibition.

    christineburns , to random
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    Never in my lifetime have people on either side of the Atlantic faced such an imperative to beat dangerous right wing governments at the ballot but had such crappy oppositions to choose from. How did we get into this fix, whether in the US or UK?

    christineburns OP ,
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    @RolloTreadway And Rothermere and the Barclays. It’s not a long list to finger the whole crew who hollowed out the printed news media and turned it into a hard right propaganda machine.

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    New restrictions on puberty blockers - GOV.UK

    How can a drug be withheld from one specific group of patients for reasons of ‘patient safety’ whilst continuing to provide it to those already receiving it and anyone who needs it prescribed for anything other than being trans? And how is that even managed on the ground? How are pharmacists supposed to deal with scripts? Government has gone full mask-off.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-restrictions-on-puberty-blockers

    christineburns , to random
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    Those of us with functioning memories will recall that this allegation was in wide circulation six years ago in 2018 but couldn’t be stood up because the owners of The Apprentice wouldn’t release the tapes. Now a former producer’s NDA has expired …

    Trump Said N-word On Set of Apprentice, Says Former Producer

    https://www.mediaite.com/trump/just-in-former-apprentice-producer-claims-trump-said-would-america-buy-a-n-winning-and-its-on-tape/

    christineburns , to random
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    This morning Britain is running on just 2.09 gigawatts of gas-fired electricity (6.9% of generation). We inch closer to the first time the country runs without fossil fuels for the first time. https://grid.iamkate.com

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    I received a mysterious aerospace computer from the early 1970s, probably for navigation. It is crammed full of flat-pack integrated circuits surrounding a core memory module. Let's take a look inside... 1/17

    christineburns ,
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    @kenshirriff I learned this week from Scott Manley that these packages are not ICs in the sense we know (though 7400 series TTL was around from the early 70s). These are packages of a small number of discrete transistors wired up inside. I.e. All the components weren’t fabricated together on a single silicon substrate. These type are attributed to IBM I think he said. It’s very much a product of the space programme.

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    @kenshirriff 👍

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    You might disagree with Michael Hesletine on many things but I'm guessing many of us will agree with him on this:

    'The state of our economy, defence & environment, the need to level up our society, control immigration & restore Britain’s standing in the world. None of these issues can be honestly addressed in isolation from our relationship with Europe. Yet Europe is the no-go area'!

    Ignoring brexit & its consequences marks this as (likely) a pretty dishonest election!

    christineburns ,
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    @ChrisMayLA6 Britain’s body politic as a whole looks and sounds for all the world as though it is desperately in need of therapy. Before we contemplate trying to rejoin the EU we need the whole country to come to terms with our real (reduced) place in the world, lose the swagger and sense of entitlement, and develop the maturity needed to be part of a collective body. It’ll help us come to terms with losing all the special terms we had before we flounced out. Before we can do the..

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    Happy twentieth birthday to the Gender Recognition Act — once groundbreaking, now overdue for an update to catch-up with legislation that overtook it, but hopefully at least safe from the unhinged extreme right of the Conservative Party. Read how we forced Labour to pass it on 25th May 2004. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00PB84AUM

    Foreword THE GENDER RECOGNITION Bill completed its Report Stage and Third Reading in the House of Commons at 7.11pm on Tuesday 25th May 2004. It was passed by 355 votes to 46. My colleague Claire McNab and I witnessed that historical moment from the Strangers Gallery, having sat through more than five hours of debate that afternoon, passing scribbled notes to each other. We had worked with civil servants and ministers on this legislation for nearly two years, helping them fend off determined attempts to derail it. To suddenly reach the finishing line was a confusing sensation, as we jostled with the rest of the public to exit the gallery. We stood shell-shocked in the Central Lobby for a few minutes as Members of Parliament came up to us with warm words of con- gratulation. Our opposition - organised by a small faction of Evangelical Christians - licked their wounds with their Parlia- mentary supporters a few yards away. I urged colleagues to be gracious, in a way that those men and women had never been to us. They had borne false witness on so many occasions in their efforts to prevent this legislation being passed, or to at least defeat its purpose by wrecking amendments. One had to wonder whether they consciously blanked out the most important mes- sages in the Bible about loving and accepting your neighbour. I also wondered whether the bulk of Evangelical Christians - good people - had ever realised what had been done in the name of their faith.
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    Apparently civil servants are discouraged from calling what’s about to start ‘Purdah’. Officially it’s the ‘Pre-Election Period’. And it starts at a minute after midnight tonight. This is the guidance for central and local government officials. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/664f56b74f29e1d07fadcdd3/GENERAL_ELECTION_GUIDANCE_2024.pdf

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    I sometimes thought my father thought he could't die while he still had books on his pending pile (a stab at immortality I seem to be replicating)... so, it was strangely touching to see Tom Gauld has had similar thoughts.

    @bookstodon

    Cartoon: man talking to ghost - frame one: Man, 'I thought you'd died' Ghost (reading a book), 'My life has ended but I cannot pass over to the spirit realm when so much remains undone' frame two: Man, 'you mean all these books you bought and never got round to reading?' Ghost (floating next to a full/overflowing bookshelf), 'It won't take long, there are fewer distractions when you're dead'. frame three, A few months later: Man, 'Is it me or are these piles getting bigger?' Ghost (now surrounded by books), 'My library card still works, but once I I've read these I'll start on the ones in the attic'.
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    @jrbee @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon Just remember that some books you lay down for the future may ultimately turn out to be the literary equivalent of corked!

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    A climate denial rant is that the deaths from extreme weather do not (yet) show up in a graph of global deaths!

    Are you kidding me! Is that what you really want to see?

    Science is trying to prevent extreme weather deaths from showing up in such graphs. Why don't they get that?

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    @GeraldKutney As the first mass deaths would be likely to occur in the hottest and most humid equatorial band I suspect that there are some sociopath billionaires who’ll think that the right kind of people are dying so it still doesn’t matter. Allowing mass death through deliberate climate neglect is the kind of racist wet dream that is bound to appeal to some.

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    Another day, another 1520 Russians eliminated along with their 30 armored vehicles and 19 tanks.

    That is an entire month of new Russian tank production gone — in 24 hours.

    Unsustainable.

    christineburns ,
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    @randahl If eliminated means dead then how many live casualties are the Russians dealing with? In a country of about 130 million people, half a million dead have got to be noticeable to those left behind.

    christineburns , to random
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    J K Rowling calls trans soccer official a crossdressing straight man for no reason.

    Look, even Elon Musk has advised her to get some other interests. It’s quite the journey she’s been on but she’s not alone and one day I’m sure psychiatrists will write books about this and other phenomena of our time.

    https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/05/cruel-jk-rowling-calls-trans-soccer-official-a-crossdressing-straight-man-for-no-reason/

    christineburns , to random
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    Just a tip: If NHS England succeeds in shutting down alternative routes for trans people to buy cross sex hormones that are legal to buy over the counter in other countries then they will have completed a proof of concept of the means to shut down unofficial ways of buying oral contraceptives and morning after pills. They’ve already tested how to shut down a crucial one of its kind clinic by painting it as scary…

    christineburns OP ,
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    …You may think a British government wouldn’t do that to things cisgender people have had for sixty years but the right’s politics have shifted so dramatically that the possibility is now there. As we’ve told folks many times, they practice first on the trans people in the belief that nobody cares enough about us to step in.

    christineburns , to random
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    Stonewall’s intro to Trans History Week, which started today…

    WHAT IS IT? Founded by QueerAF, Trans+ History Week is a week to learn and celebrate the rich and long history of trans, non-binary, gender diverse and intersex people. In the face of rising anti-trans rhetoric, we must uplift the trans community and send a clear message: trans people have always been here. Decades of stigmatisation has denied many trans people the chance to learn about themselves and their history - let's reclaim it.
    Trans people have always been here. Today, there's a narrative in some circles that trans and gender non-confirming identities are a new 'trend' - this is not true. Trans identities are not a modern invention. Although the term 'transgender' wasn't coined until the 1960s, people have been subverting the gender binary since ancient times.

    christineburns OP ,
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    Celebrating the diversity of the trans community. This week is a chance to spotlight the diversity of the trans community and learn about trans identities from different cultures. After all, trans communities and gender diversity aren't unique to only one culture, time or demographic. E.g. The Hijra community 'Hijra' is used as an umbrella term to encompass a range of gender non-conforming identities. In South Asia, the Hijra have been historically categorised as a third gender, distinct from the male/female binary.
    Trans people have always been at the heart of LGBTQ+ liberation. Trans people are and have always been integral to LGBTQ+ movements. In fact, trans people led the movement at Stonewall which prompted LGBTQ+ rights movements around the world and led to the existence of Pride as we know it. Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were on the frontline at the Stonewall uprising, risking their lives to fight for LGBTQ+ liberation and equality.

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    Having never had a smartphone (although, to be fully transparent, my wife does have one), I'm deriving a certain amount of amusement from the continuing rise in commentary on the health & wellbeing benefits of the 'dumb phone'.... which directly parallel my reasons for not wanting one in the first place.

    christineburns ,
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    @ChrisMayLA6 I can’t help feeling people would have a more balanced view of what a smart phone can be were it not for social media which (contrary to impressions given) is not the only use case. The device isn’t the evil, it’s what foolish easily obsessed people do with it.

    christineburns ,
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    @ChrisMayLA6 If the smart phone had never been built then people would ascribe all the bad stuff stemming from internet access to the evil laptop or desktop. And before the public had access to the internet it was common to blame television or pop music. When I was a teenager discotheques and mopeds got the blame. Go back further and the root of social evil was the distribution of pamphlets. I blame coming down from the trees.

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    If you use Ivory for Mastodon, could you check if you are seeing a 🎬 icon next to my profile picture, or if it is only shown as part of my name?

    For other accounts I see, Ivory moves any icon placed in the profile name up to the profile picture as a badge, which I think is a nice feature.

    But for some reason, it does not work for my own icon, at least not when I view myself.

    Perhaps @ivory has a bug?

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    christineburns ,
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    @ivory @randahl Only showing against your name on Metatext

    christineburns , to random
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    Today is St George’s Day. Don’t be fooled by the very British name though. If Gammons met St George today they’d immediately say he was a forriner. That story about slaying a dragon is well-suspect. Dragons don’t exist. The rest of his backstory is confused and he’s either a Greek or an Italian depending on your point of view. Spent time in Syria and Palestine which makes him even more suspect. I suspect if he turned up today with those credentials he’d be straight off to Rwanda.

    christineburns , to random
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    An ordinary British woman is in jail for holding a placard informing British jurors that they don’t have to convict climate protestors if it goes against their morality. Meanwhile a former US president is repeatedly making statements on social media which can be interpreted as intimidating jurors, witnesses and court officers in his criminal trial whilst it is in progress. Go figure.

    christineburns , to random
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    Today I learned something I’d never previously known about the relationship between the UK and Republic of Ireland. The Common Travel Area arrangements pre date either country’s membership of the EU and have renewed significance post Brexit. In a nutshell, if you’re a Brit there’s nothing to stop you going and living in Ireland — apart from the cost of living!

    Common Travel Area: rights of UK and Irish citizens - GOV.UK

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/common-travel-area-guidance

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    the UK brexiting itself right off the planet

    christineburns ,
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    @ElleGray Wales appears to be falling off!

    christineburns , to random
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    European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68768598

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    Scotland is to become the first part of the UK to require the registration of any use of AI within public services.

    https://www.gov.scot/news/increasing-ai-transparency/

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    Scotland is currently running on almost 100% carbon-free electricity — something it is able to do because of a less deranged form of political governance than we have in England. The North, in particular, often sees zero or very low carbon and the country as a whole props up England by exporting the excess to the south. Regional data from https://www.carbonintensity.org.uk

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    Sunday caption contest: Gallery https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-gallery?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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    @rbreich We’re gonna need a bigger wall

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