Iain Soutar
@isoutar.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Energy Policy at the University of Exeter, UK. Researching change, inertia and public engagement in energy transitions.
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/19656-iain-soutar
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Iain Soutar
@isoutar.bsky.social
· Feb 23
There's a really healthy community of sustainable energy posters on here now. If you're still on the hunt for new posters to follow, here are some starter packs...🧵
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Starmer's tweet couldn't be clearer but a bit awkward when one of the main government comms platforms literally does this as a feature now
January 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Starmer's tweet couldn't be clearer but a bit awkward when one of the main government comms platforms literally does this as a feature now
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Not even the prompts. If you are a Twitter user in the UK and Twitter sticks a Grok CSAM image in your feed for WHATEVER reason, well congrats your device just downloaded child porn. And you are legally responsible for that.
Even if nobody wants to take action against Musk for building a CSAM generator, there are people using it who are based in the UK and those prompts are absolutely something that would get you on the sex offender's register. Absolutely no justification not to try to identify and prosecute users.
January 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Not even the prompts. If you are a Twitter user in the UK and Twitter sticks a Grok CSAM image in your feed for WHATEVER reason, well congrats your device just downloaded child porn. And you are legally responsible for that.
A miscommunication means that I now have 3 cups of tea to drink, and I'm absolutely here for it.
January 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
A miscommunication means that I now have 3 cups of tea to drink, and I'm absolutely here for it.
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Ørsted challenges US government over windfarm freeze ⚖️🌊
Europe’s largest offshore wind developer is taking the White House to court after a $5bn project on the US north-east coast was suspended.
The fight over Revolution Wind highlights the tension between climate ambition and policy roadblocks.
Europe’s largest offshore wind developer is taking the White House to court after a $5bn project on the US north-east coast was suspended.
The fight over Revolution Wind highlights the tension between climate ambition and policy roadblocks.
Ørsted files legal challenge against US government over windfarm lease freeze
Europe’s biggest offshore wind developer seeking to overturn White House decision to suspend work on a $5bn wind farm project
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Ørsted challenges US government over windfarm freeze ⚖️🌊
Europe’s largest offshore wind developer is taking the White House to court after a $5bn project on the US north-east coast was suspended.
The fight over Revolution Wind highlights the tension between climate ambition and policy roadblocks.
Europe’s largest offshore wind developer is taking the White House to court after a $5bn project on the US north-east coast was suspended.
The fight over Revolution Wind highlights the tension between climate ambition and policy roadblocks.
ChatGPT: writing essays and encouraging murders since 2022.
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
trib.al
January 4, 2026 at 4:43 PM
ChatGPT: writing essays and encouraging murders since 2022.
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It will cost billions of dollars to overhaul PDVSA's creaking infrastructure in order to secure low quality crude that will be hard to sell. I am happy to predict now that any invasion will be a net cost to the US.
Trump on the US running Venezuela: It will not cost us anything because the money coming out of the ground is substantial. We’re going to take back the oil.
January 3, 2026 at 6:17 PM
It will cost billions of dollars to overhaul PDVSA's creaking infrastructure in order to secure low quality crude that will be hard to sell. I am happy to predict now that any invasion will be a net cost to the US.
What happened to New Year New You, Donald?!
January 3, 2026 at 4:57 PM
What happened to New Year New You, Donald?!
Apart from everything else, today's events have truly threatened the legitimacy of the Fifa Peace Prize.
So the the FIFA Peace Prize truly was meaningless after all?
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Apart from everything else, today's events have truly threatened the legitimacy of the Fifa Peace Prize.
Trump is now saying he's going to step in to save Venezuela's failing oil sector. His generosity shows no bounds.
January 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Trump is now saying he's going to step in to save Venezuela's failing oil sector. His generosity shows no bounds.
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The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.
January 3, 2026 at 11:12 AM
The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.
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UK renewables enjoy record year in 2025 – but gas power still rises
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk...
January 3, 2026 at 1:02 PM
UK renewables enjoy record year in 2025 – but gas power still rises
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk...
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Government may drop battery storage requirements from Future Homes Standard
www.businessgreen.com/news/452370...
www.businessgreen.com/news/452370...
Reports: Government may drop battery storage requirements from Future Homes Standard
Ministers are considering plans to water down mandatory clean tech requirements for new homes in England, reports claim
www.businessgreen.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Government may drop battery storage requirements from Future Homes Standard
www.businessgreen.com/news/452370...
www.businessgreen.com/news/452370...
Conventional aviation fuel watch out, SAF is coming for you!
January 3, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Conventional aviation fuel watch out, SAF is coming for you!
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Cold 🥶 but sunny 🌞 day, useful solar gains keeping our house at comfy 21 degrees C without any additional heating. The same glazing will be fully shaded in summer, preventing overheating.
Passivhaus and good design works in all seasons 👌
Passivhaus and good design works in all seasons 👌
January 2, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Cold 🥶 but sunny 🌞 day, useful solar gains keeping our house at comfy 21 degrees C without any additional heating. The same glazing will be fully shaded in summer, preventing overheating.
Passivhaus and good design works in all seasons 👌
Passivhaus and good design works in all seasons 👌
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Great article cutting through the noise and showing the progress we’re making in the transition. Particularly love the below chart showing just how rapidly renewables are becoming an integral part of our electricity generation.
Full article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Full article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 2, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Great article cutting through the noise and showing the progress we’re making in the transition. Particularly love the below chart showing just how rapidly renewables are becoming an integral part of our electricity generation.
Full article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Full article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Important distinction.
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Important distinction.
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What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
January 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
Cool data viz...
A picture is worth 1000 words...
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
January 2, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Cool data viz...
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Metaphor for 2025
An American beast. Tamed.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
January 1, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Metaphor for 2025
Shopping for a second-hand chest of drawers but feel limited to those sellers who spell it "drawers" rather than "draws". Am I a bad person?
December 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Shopping for a second-hand chest of drawers but feel limited to those sellers who spell it "drawers" rather than "draws". Am I a bad person?
I'm a handmaiden.
A sickly gentleman living in a sanatorium in Görbersdorf (now Sokołowsko, Poland).
I'll take it, on balance.
I'll take it, on balance.
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I'm a handmaiden.
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for example, in switching their browsers from Google’s Chrome to Firefox or from Elon Musk’s X to Mastodon
www.euractiv.com/news/german-...
www.euractiv.com/news/german-...
German hackers call for ‘digital independence days’ to reduce US tech grip | Euractiv
Public figures and European firms push users to leave US platforms they warn are damaging democracy
www.euractiv.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
for example, in switching their browsers from Google’s Chrome to Firefox or from Elon Musk’s X to Mastodon
www.euractiv.com/news/german-...
www.euractiv.com/news/german-...
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It's not a daunting job. We could all make the list of potential harms right now, because they are all *completely predictable*. Altman and his leadership team need to give this person the authority to cease development; accepting that is the daunting part
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘This will be a stressful job’: Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI
New head of preparedness at OpenAI will face unnerving in-tray amid fears from some experts that AI could ‘turn on us’
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
It's not a daunting job. We could all make the list of potential harms right now, because they are all *completely predictable*. Altman and his leadership team need to give this person the authority to cease development; accepting that is the daunting part
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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This is how I would end the news if I was reading the news.
December 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This is how I would end the news if I was reading the news.