Phil Sturgeon 🚴🌍🔥 @philsturgeon.bsky.social
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Co-founder @ProtectEarthUK . Creating and restorating woodlands and ecosystems, e-van nomad, boycotting fossil fuels. @philsturgeon @mastodon .green
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I am incredibly proud of the whole
@ProtectEarthUK
team and all of our supporters for planting over 100,000 trees in three short years, especially because the first year was only about 4,000!
We do a lot more than plant, but that’s a lovely big number.
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I know the world is going to hell incredibly quickly, but I want to take a minute out of our collective doomscrolling to tell you that the ancient woodland my charity manages just got approval from the Forestry Commission to be restored to a temporate rainforest. Before, After.
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If anyone in the entire U.K. wants to plant thousands of trees on their land for free, this winter, and doesn’t care about income just wants free trees, I will drive to you in my EV and we’ll get that going. Swear to god it’s free for you. Just don’t cut em down for 30 years. RT.
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Some developers tried to cut down an ancient hedgerow, in breeding season, with outdated permission that failed to mention a hedgerow, in an area that recently became an SNCI.
We just sent them packing. Brilliant job
@BristolTreeFora
@DanicaPriest
@Cathrinmachin
and everyone.
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The planet is sending us all a crystal clear message.
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I hear “is anyone a first aider” and start running down the canal to help. A cyclist is in the water, face down, not moving, Two guys are struggling to pull him out. We get him up on the bank, and his face is more blue than I’ve ever seen anyone. I thought he was dead.
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Just passed through a track I illegally cleared with a chainsaw after the council couldn’t be bothered and it’s happily reminded me that whilst the powers that be are entirely useless, I exist to help people and planet, and I will continue the fight every day in every way.
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I will never forgive
@WildlifeTrusts
for lying repeatedly that HS2 would be wider than motorways, and using that as an argument to fight electric trains over roads. Unacceptable ignorance from somebody we’re meant to trust.
If ever you want an illustration of the small amount of space taken by a high speed railway compared to a motorway, this pic of the Medway Viaduct crossing is it. Two wide bridges for the motorway, a single narrow one for the railway.
#HS2
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Look at this cargo bike clogging up the place.
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Open offer to any council in England or Wales: if you’ve got a car park or road you don’t need anymore,
@ProtectEarthUK
will rewild it.
This stuff normally costs ridiculous money. Our team love driving an excavator and we’ve got volunteers all over the country. Let’s do it.
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🚴🇬🇧 The only cyclists “not paying for the roads” are 1) children and 2) the unemployed homeless.
Every other cyclists pays for the roads, even roads that aren’t safe/legal for us to ride on.
Road funding comes from income tax and council tax. “Road tax” was abolished in 1937.
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France: Increase tax on planes. Improve trains. Emissions go down. Everyone happy.
U.K.: Reduce tax on planes. Jack prices on trains for no reason. Emissions go up. Everyone miserable.
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HS2 was never going to destroy 108 ancient woodlands, not even before the Tories slashed it to pieces.
I'd like to explain the history of this claim.
It started when
@WildlifeTrusts
wrote a report, which suggested 108 ancient woodlands would risk loss or significant impact.
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Let asylum seekers take the ferry or stop pretending it’s about safety.
This Christmas reinforces to me how vital it is that we bring the treacherous small boats crossings to an end once and for all.
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£3.6 billion - Annual investment in HS2.
£5 billion - Annual budget for new roads scheme RIS2.
£6 billion - Annual cost of freezing fuel duty at 2010 levels.
£6.5 billion - Annaul cost of Airline Passenger Duty cuts.
Which one of those repays the investment.
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Bike infrastructure in South Wales is perfectly accessible for people with mobility issues.
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The sound of people suddenly realizing HS2 was about capacity. It was about moving fast services to dedicated lines to free up more space for everything else, including freight, and local trains, which is good for everyone. Now we'll have 0.5 million more trucks.
Misery for motorists as Rishi Sunak’s HS2 cut set to add 500,000 lorries to traffic jams. The new line would have freed up capacity for more freight trains on the west coast mainline
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When roads are busy, people demand more roads.
When trains are busy, people demand we stop building more railways.
3rd time in 5 months I’ve travelled to London by train. 3rd time I’ve had to do this. We don’t need HS2, we need proper investment in the current rail network. Thank you
@AvantiWestCost
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He was back to a normal colour and smiling when the stretcher took him away. I collected my sleeping bag and… the poor man had voided his bowels in there.
Everyone did an amazing thing, but now I need a bottle of wine… and a washing machine.
Good god.
Adrenaline is wild
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Cancelling HS2 to save money has let the government start building the UK’s most expensive road project, coming in at £100 million per mile. Well done to all the climate activists who worked so tirelessly on making this happen. Brum brum.
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This is all backed by my charity
@GrowingTheTrees
. Normally I’d cycle over but I’m injured… that’s not stopping us though. We’ve planted 1,000 trees in the last month and there’s about 20,000 more coming, but we’ve got essentially infinite funding for more. Let’s do it now.
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I don’t think Brits know how lucky we are to be having rainy bullshit July instead of vicious heat death July the rest of Europe is battling through.
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Literally not even the first cyclist we’ve pulled out of the canal today. If only there was more places cyclists could feel safe enough from cars that they wouldn’t get forced onto this completely unsafe “cycling infrastructure.”
Now I’ve got to cycle 8 miles and I’m in agony!
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I don’t think that went the way BMW expected.
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@JTTaransky
@_saracannon
8 years in New York and nobody ever said either of these things to me. If somebody said either of those things I would think they’re a poorly trained chat bot.
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This one quarry is about to cut down more ancient woodland than all of HS2 so I want to see full guns blazing on this from everyone who has spent years fighting against an electric railway. Go to town on this, with more (or at least equivalent) zeal.
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This is bloody horrendous.
@plymouthcc
have shoe horned this through, and massacred 100 heathy trees because “something something bike lanes.” How wide is this bike lane you’ve had to decimate all these healthy trees?
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🚴 Bike Shop 1: “Your bottom bracket is broken.”
Bike Shop 2: “The Q Factor is misaligned.”
Bike Shop 3: “Come back on Wednesday and we’ll try something out.”
@LLBroadwell
: *Fixes it in a few minutes on the floor of a McDonalds*
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There’s this weird part of the HS2 discussion that’s people who don’t know much about trains thinking they know more than rail experts, then when rail experts explain how trains work they say “Well of course you think that, you’re biased, you work in the rail industry!”
Andrew, we need people with vision, but you admitted to me that you were a train fanatic. You were not an appropriate person to make judgments on billions of public money.
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I had a long chat at GP conference with one of the Stop HS2 tree climbers, who said HS2 didn’t go to Scotland so it wouldn’t reduce busiest flights.
HS2 trains would have gone direct from London to Glasgow/Edinburgh on day 1.
Imagine living in a tree before doing any research.
Everyone's working from home, so we don't need to invest in rail infrastructure. Meanwhile there are still 28 flights from Glasgow Airport to London airports a day!
#NetworkNorth
completely fails Scotland and the
@theSNP
@ScottishLabour
should be furious.
#HS2
#SunaksFolly
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Building a guided busway is already idiotic - Get trams or light rail if you’re gonna do that - but doing it through farmland and ancient trees so you can run parallel to a dual carriage way that runs parallel to another road? Get in the bin.
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🚴 The concept of “it’s a bikeable distance” no longer means anything.
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I was turned down for a job because I didn’t have enough PyroCMS experience.
I wrote PyroCMS 🤣
#ShareYourRejections
I had a paper rejected once because I “didn’t seem to know the work of Jo Sharp well enough” - I am Jo Sharp!!!
#ShareYourRejections
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Clear felling has left huge chunks of the land scarred. This is how it looked back in April when I snuck ~50 oak saplings in, knowing we "weren't allowed", but wanting to do _something_ whilst we wait for the powers that be to decide what the future of the woodland would be.
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Just paid a 10% deposit on 70 acres of land and confusingly it’s still not a done deal but MAYBE my charity is gonna make a huge new woodland that joins up some scraps of old woodland and THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME AGGGGH!!!
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People are concerned about cutting down 30 hectares (ha) of ancient woodland for HS2. We have 308,000 ha of ancient woodland, so that’s 0.01%.
We need to reforest 30,000 ha/year. In 2019 the target was 5,000 ha and we only did 1,420 ha.
This is a bigger problem than 30 ha.
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High Wood in Liskeard is an ancient woodland that's been repeatedly clearfelled since the 1960's, and doesn't have a single ancient tree. A lot of it looks like this thanks to these non-native conifers dumping acid into the soil and preventing anything else from growing there.
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64 acres of brand new temporate rainforest being produced with a level of dedication that would make
@guyshrubsole
blush. Read his amazing book Lost Rainforests of Britain to learn more about why these ecosystems are so imporant.
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Monoliths are bad at everything, and microservices solve all the problems with no downsides at all. Switch everything you have right now and everything is totally great. Your same team, with no experience, will manage the transition to distributed architecture easily.
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One day after
@avonwt
called for revised plans to protect doormice at Yew Tree the new lease holders are out flailing aggressively. They’re completely removing sections of hedgerow in a SNCI (illegal), not closed off this public footpath (illegal) and
@ASPolice
don’t care.
Where are you planning enforcement??? Why is no one helping?
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I honestly cannot count the number of times I heard “just because I’m against HS2 doesn’t mean I support road expansion” snorted indignantly by massive eNGOs and armchair experts alike.
What did you think was going to happen.
Rishi Sunak just announced he would widen the M6 using a bit of the money from scrapping HS2. That would require bridges to be widened. Has he no concept of the financial cost? Cancelling railways to spend money on roads is madness
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There’s more options in the world than:
1. “farmers need to be able to pump infinite slurry directly into rivers”
2. “starve”
Spinning this false dichotomy isn’t helping farmers or anyone else. It’s just more culture war nonsense.
“A sharp rise in the number of Environment Agency inspections has left hundreds of farmers facing enforcement action and left with a choice of either having to invest hundreds of thousands of pounds into their businesses, or sell up and retire.”
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The rail announcements in Network North come in three categories.
1. Projects that were already built a decade ago.
2. Projects that have been promised and cancelled for over a decade.
3. Projects that have already been cancelled since announcing Network North yesterday.
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Somebody indignantly told me its impossible to cycle in the snow.
Cars have winter tyres.
Cycles also have winter tires.
Sweden is even giving away free winter tyres to help keep people moving without wasting money or emissions on driving this winter. 🙌🏻
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@ProfKarolSikora
If you’ve been selecting male or female for 80 years you can probably cope with still selecting male or female without the world ending. What problem are you pretending to imagine here and why.
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There are lots of climate activists celebrating the reported cancellation of the eastern leg of HS2. Losing the ability to replace cars/trucks/planes with trains is not a victory for wildlife or the climate. You just broke a climate solution, instead of fighting against
#RIS2
. 🤦
Key things to remember about today's
#RailBetrayal
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1⃣ The most important element of HS2 is the East Midlands Hub station at Toton.
2⃣ You can't "water down" high speed segregation. Either you have it or you don't.
3⃣ I have yet to see evidence that any of this "£96bn" is new.
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ULEZ charges are tax deductible so this plumber shouldn’t be passing it onto customers, and the editor of the Sunday Times shouldn’t be blindly posting this suit without a quick google.
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Street trees are amazing. Mallorca has them everywhere. It’s baking hot in direct sun but parks, squares, markets, bike lanes, and parking spaces are shaded.
Get them planted now and in 20 years our kids/elders won’t get heat stroke just walking to the shops.
@TreesforStreets
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The outrage that HS2 *might* pollute a chalk aquifer was massive, despite it never happening, but now that
@thameswater
are pumping sewage right into one with approval from the
@EnvAgency
I hope you’ll all go off extra.
And another. Yes, you did read that right.
@thameswater
are dumping sewage into the chalk aquifer near Luton.
And if you think that's appalling here's the real kicker the
@EnvAgency
have granted them a permit to do it.
Check your drinking water, that's all I'm going to say.
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This was a HUGE effort. Our forestry consultant said it couldn't be done. The Forestry Commission at first said it couldn't be done, but Steve the Ecologist knew the Right Person to talk to, and started pulling strings.
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I’m so tired. I ache all over, but there’s more to do tomorrow. All over the world reforestation/rewilding volunteers feel the same, and I am blown away with how hard everyone is working in shit weather to put a dent in the climate/biodiversity crises. Support your local groups.
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HS2 already had the plan, the land, budget assigned, minimal feedback left from eNGOs for route modifications, phase 2a had the parliamentary assent, support from the people…
They binned that off for car-brained electioneering populism.
Now we’re doing the McDonalds version.
Needless to say I really dislike this plan. Just build was already flipping planned and stop wasting time, energy and money. HS2 phase 2 is the best way to connect Manchester and Birmingham and is the most likely way NPR would be delivered
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To be completely clear, guided busways are in every way imaginable a dumb choice, and should not exist.
Building a guided busway is already idiotic - Get trams or light rail if you’re gonna do that - but doing it through farmland and ancient trees so you can run parallel to a dual carriage way that runs parallel to another road? Get in the bin.
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@olaviottenson
@dsaezgil
@kristjanlepik
Why would having broadleaf trees like these have any effect on winter heating once they’ve dropped their leaves? It would only effect summer cooling.
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I’ve been fucking begging everyone to wake up and get angry about road building instead of moaning about a few miles of electric train, but maybe now that’s been binned off we can all join the fight? Cancel this road.
@StopRIS2
@RoadsXR
Outrageous! - nearly 5000 people objected.
#Democracy
? 🤔
Why not swing the road 30m to one side?
@ShropCouncil
planning democracy, 6 Conser for, 5 LD/Lab/Grn against 😥
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Right wing sociopaths and conspiracy nuts make shit up about the war on cars, and push the nonsense that the oppressive regime wants to ticket you for simply parking [illegally], and unsurprisingly this happens. You made the war up, and this is what’s happening.
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I was stung five times, but we kept going until the water was all out and he was breathing properly.
We moved him along the bank, got some cushions and made him comfortable.
Thankfully paramedics appeared and everyone gave them space to work, directing gawkers away.
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🌍 If you’re going to say the U.K. is too small for high-speed rail then you need to explain why we have a domestic aviation industry, and share what you plan to do about providing alternatives so we can slash emissions and not all burn to a crisp.
On the left, the most popular airports for domestic flights to London. On the right, the HS2 route. Looky at that they match. Ban 100% of _those_ domestic flights and HS2 would be carbon neutral in months.
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I’ll probably never own a house, but I’m guessing this is how it feels to close a purchase. As
@ProtectEarthUK
acquires more and more land to rewild and woodland to restore I hope I get to experience this amazing feeling over and over again.
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Since then we've been pulling out invasives that leaked out of nearby gardens, but it all felt like faffing around the edges since I saw this land 13 months ago, and got the keys in March. The looming threat of The Restocking Agreement hanging over us.
🌳👾 Another full day of cutting, sawing, digging, hauling, and burning. Absolutely knackering work, but we’ve got another two big and four small rhododendrons out.
Cameo from
@misterduncan
who found and mangled a beast entirely solo.
#BiodiversityCrisis
@ProtectEarthUK
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It’s finally done! The new bike build that’s everything I ever wanted in a gravel bike is here, and it’s fucking beautiful. It’s got a Dynamo lights/USB, thru axeL, mechanical disk, and it can be completely broken into two pieces to sneak past “no bikes” trains muppets. 😍🥹
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Fuck this and everyone involved.
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Now we have the ability to take these down. Woodchip them. Use them as mulch for the natural regeneration and species reintroduction we plan for January. Bringing in species that just are not in the area, but should be. Even found local Cornish saplings.
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The Bristol Park Row bike lane is completely pointless. There are signs that say no parking, no waiting, no loading, but everyone just ignores that and leaves their engine running and their hazards on.
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Integration tests pass. ✅
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I put him in the recovery position and he starts gargling. I was moving in to give CPR when a nurse appeared and takes charge.
We get his clothes off, I put my sleeping blanket over him, and I cut his backpack off.
At this point we notice he’s laying in a wasps nest?!!
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Can’t afford to build an electric railway for £70bn. 🤔
Can absolutely afford £66 billion for fuel cuts for the wealthy, who keep buying bigger and bigger cars then complain about fuel costs. 🤦
“Since 2010, repeated cuts & freezes in fuel duty have seen the Treasury give up more than £66 billion. The poorest 5th of households have seen just £8 billion of savings from that, while the richest fifth have gained more than twice as much, £17 billion”
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This silly embodiment of petromasculinity weighs a full tonne more than my electric van. I don’t want to hear a word about “the weight of EVs” until shit like this is regulated and/or taxed out of existence.
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Planting 800 trees tomorrow! Another landowner who’s been screwed about by gov and a Trust. After months of prep they refused to deliver trees to an incomplete rural address. Guess what: reforestation is often rural!
@ProtectEarthUK
got the trees there, and a volunteer crew. 🙌🏻
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There’s a lot of misconceptions around Ivy. It’s not a parasite, it has its own roots in the soil, and the tree adapts to the weight. You don’t need to cut ivy unless the tree is already dying and could fall on a track, but in that case fell the tree. This is just vandalism
Before and after photos.
Veteran Ivy destroyed at a nature reserve, by those tasked with 'managing' the site.
Ecological vandalism, perpetrated by the very people entrusted with protecting our precious countryside.
#ecology
#biodiversity
#ecocide
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The single biggest priority for climate activists in England should be pushing for an immediate pause and review of all RIS2 roads.
@StopRIS2
Not complaining about intercity electric trains improving rail capacity across the entire country.
@Greens4HS2
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@dolbyarun
@editingemily
Working remotely requires practice, with actual processes set up to make it possible. Randomly being thrust into it with no warning and no training isn’t the way to go about it, but most companies just blindly trapped along. It’s perfectly possible to do it well.
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JSX and GraphQL but 20 years ago and with less network latency. Smarty, PHP and MySQL.
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Splashed out £86 on the premium lounge for this 31 hour ferry Portsmouth > Santander and boy am I glad I did.
Not just free meals and infinite stinky cheeses but…
Red wine.
ON TAP.
I’m either gonna get loads of work done, or be absolutely blasted.
Possibly both.
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Every day I see people asking how much Stoplight Studio costs and I keep saying “It’s free”. The website says it’s free. You can download it for free. It doesn’t cost any money. It’s zilch. Nothing. Nada. It is yours for the price of air. Enjoy it!
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I’m on guard duty this evening, because god knows who’s trying to come through in the middle of the night and cut things down.
If you know where I’m talking about feel free to swing by with a cider.
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Now that HS2 has been axed to nothing, the anti-rail Tories have set their sights on East-West Rail. There will be no new rail anywhere if we let this continue, just infinite new roads.
I heard a rumour this weekend that the Government is determined to stop East West Rail from reaching Cambridge. This is a project already well advanced. It's a crushing disappointment for public transport pretty much every week nowadays
#ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern
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Oh no how will I get around this impassable barrier and avoid some bored builders with no authority.
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More trains = fewer planes.
More trains = fewer planes.
More trains = fewer planes.
England cancels trains and subsidises planes. 🤦
9 out of 10 travellers between Stuttgart & Paris now take the train not the plane. "Huge increase in cross-border traffic as Germany's national railway expands services". via
@cleanenergywire
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That’s not how you’d steal a motorbike but that’s exactly how you face up to criminals. Well done to the fearless vigilantes. Please care this much when thieves are angle grinding bicycles too please because I’ve been solo against them and it’s never fun.
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Somebody (or multiple people) should be going to prison over this. This has not been done by the book and I hope the legal challenges will make that clear.
@DevonWildlife
@BBCDevon
Overnight Plymouth’s Conservative council chopped down nearly 100 trees in the city centre. It’s a scene of environmental devastation and utter council vandalism. I’m appalled at the actions of the Tory Council. Sad day for our city.
#plymouth
#ArmadaWay
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I feel like I’m politically going mad. Tories are objectively criminals. Labour are trying to copy them and take over the criminal empire. Lib Dem are pointless. Green Party are rejecting climate solutions and losing their base. We don’t have time for this.
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I was told everyone needs big cars and vans to move fridges all the time. I've had a van for a year now but I've not moved any fridges. When do the fridges start coming?
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@LizzieOutside
Can you not lie about woodlands being destroyed? It was never 108 ancient woodlands destroyed, that was always nonsense.
It went vaguely near 108 ancient woodlands, and the route was refined to get the actual impact down from 25ha to 20ha on phase 1. A brilliant achievement.
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@paullewismoney
That vehicle can do 286 miles and if he’s ignored every charger along the way he’s a clown. I’ve got less than half his battery on my camper van and I’ve never had an issue. You get multiple warnings, slow mode, emergency “get off the motorway” mode, etc. and he ignored them all.
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A forester once told me “Planting a tree is step 42 of forestry.”
Step 1 is I take a look at your land, either in-person or on the computer.
Step 2-41 is ecologists visits, woodland creation plan, EIA if required, we cover all that tedious stuff. 🙌🏻
I fucking love announcing tree planting events, because it means 95% of the work has already been done. The paperwork, ecologists, government, nurseries, have all been dealt with. Now I just get to shout about it online and turn up with a spade! Come join!
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Some folks will just buy land, cut however many trees they're allowed to cut to maximise profit, then sell it knowing whoever buys the land will have to replant what was cut. Lazy move, and we were hopeful we could say "Yeah but... we're gonna do broadleaf instead." Not quite.
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Journalists: when somebody on the street makes some large claim about how bad public transport is, google it. Don’t just publish whatever nonsense they say.
Londoners: you are far luckier than the rest of the country for public transport, so wind your neck in and use it. 🙌🏻
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Birthday present from mum arrived. She is an excellent troll.
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I'm giving Guy a lot of shoutouts because not only is he an absolutely excellent campaigner for restoring our wild spaces, but High Wood would not be restored without him hooking it all up in the first place.
And his mum providing us cake in the woods.
Wanted: a buyer to restore a lost rainforest to its former glory.
High Wood in Cornwall is up for sale - a former ancient woodland in the temperate rainforest zone, converted to conifers in the 20th century.
But sales deadline is 8th Oct!
Brochure:
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Some real napkin maths here but in order for HS2 to take 120 years to become carbon neutral, it would have to reduce road use by 0.08% and domestic air travel by 0.06%. If it reduced air and driving by just 5% it would be carbon neutral in 1-2 years. Time to make some policy.
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When the Forestry Commision decides if you should be allowed to cut down trees, there is a Felling License. That comes with a Restocking Agreement. You gotta replace what you cut down, most of the time, unless you know somebody, or you're a rich arse who can just pay the fines...
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@Effiedeans
@OwainAlty
Follow the cyclists at a reasonable distance until it’s safe to pass, just like you would with:
- agricultural machinery
- rubbish trucks
- confused delivery vans
- funeral processions
- livestock in the road
- slow drivers
Cars don’t own the road. We’re all welcome to use it.
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I strongly recommend Bristol try building a useful bike lane and unfucking the buses before attempting to build a full blown underground system for £18bn. Don’t get me wrong I’d love one, but we literally can’t even get that basic stuff right.
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On the left, the most popular airports for domestic flights to London. On the right, the HS2 route. Looky at that they match. Ban 100% of _those_ domestic flights and HS2 would be carbon neutral in months.
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There is a huge amount of beauty in this woodland, as shown perfectly by the amazing
@greg_a
's photographs back in July, but we can do infinitely better. Wildlife, carbon sequestration, and community involvement, are all about to go through the roof.
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