Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
@philsturgeon.com
Co-founder of @protect.earth, a registered charity (England & Wales) creating/restoring woodlands and other knackered ecosystems to sequester carbon and fight the biodiversity crisis. Electric van life, bikepacking, and boycotting fossil fuels.
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Warleigh Wetlands Crowdfunder - Phil Sturgeon from Protect Earth talks about this exciting project
YouTube video by PocketfullOfAcorns -
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We have officially completed the purchase of Warleigh Nature Reserve!! 🎉
We’re getting stuck in immediately. First up is Willow propagation and cutting access to a few areas that need work in spring.
Loads more to come but for those not familiar: youtu.be/2raJT5RM6mE
@protect.earth #rewilding
We’re getting stuck in immediately. First up is Willow propagation and cutting access to a few areas that need work in spring.
Loads more to come but for those not familiar: youtu.be/2raJT5RM6mE
@protect.earth #rewilding
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February 10, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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Reposted by Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
Yeah & it’s really hard for men to strut & show off while doing hardly anything (& also harass young women) when working from home. So ofc his ilk want to be back in their office fiefdoms This has nothing to do with productivity & everything to do with male peacocking
February 10, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Yeah & it’s really hard for men to strut & show off while doing hardly anything (& also harass young women) when working from home. So ofc his ilk want to be back in their office fiefdoms This has nothing to do with productivity & everything to do with male peacocking
Yes yes yes you work far more effectively when you’re forced onto crowded roads/buses/trains for hours every single day with strangers coughing and spluttering all over you so you can get to work knackered, frustrated, wiping out half the work force with viruses. So good for business.
BREAKING: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
February 9, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Yes yes yes you work far more effectively when you’re forced onto crowded roads/buses/trains for hours every single day with strangers coughing and spluttering all over you so you can get to work knackered, frustrated, wiping out half the work force with viruses. So good for business.
After destroying the final rhododendrons the volunteers and I had a little fun. We made leaky dams and quickly made a mini-wetland, with multiple secondary channels and a few ponds to help water spread throughout the soil. Great crew, brilliant outcome.
February 9, 2026 at 11:42 AM
After destroying the final rhododendrons the volunteers and I had a little fun. We made leaky dams and quickly made a mini-wetland, with multiple secondary channels and a few ponds to help water spread throughout the soil. Great crew, brilliant outcome.
Enjoying a quiet cup of coffee in the woods. All I can hear is a cacophony of bird song, and distant cars. No volunteers making a ruckus which… is gonna be a long busy day for little old me. 🤣
February 8, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Enjoying a quiet cup of coffee in the woods. All I can hear is a cacophony of bird song, and distant cars. No volunteers making a ruckus which… is gonna be a long busy day for little old me. 🤣
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This is the man whose company Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm represents.
Keir Starmer visited its HQ last year, at the request of Mandelson, shortly before it was handed a £240m Government contract
Keir Starmer visited its HQ last year, at the request of Mandelson, shortly before it was handed a £240m Government contract
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example
fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...
*Not satire.
fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...
*Not satire.
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | Fortune
The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.
fortune.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:41 AM
This is the man whose company Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm represents.
Keir Starmer visited its HQ last year, at the request of Mandelson, shortly before it was handed a £240m Government contract
Keir Starmer visited its HQ last year, at the request of Mandelson, shortly before it was handed a £240m Government contract
I really enjoy the @zackpolanski.bsky.social is “a coward for not crowbarring himself into Gorton and Denton as MP” claims.
I overheard a call with Labour campaigners begging Keir Starmer not to come because he’s so wildly unpopular up there.
They’re crossing fingers Angela Rayner instead. 🤣
I overheard a call with Labour campaigners begging Keir Starmer not to come because he’s so wildly unpopular up there.
They’re crossing fingers Angela Rayner instead. 🤣
February 7, 2026 at 10:16 PM
I really enjoy the @zackpolanski.bsky.social is “a coward for not crowbarring himself into Gorton and Denton as MP” claims.
I overheard a call with Labour campaigners begging Keir Starmer not to come because he’s so wildly unpopular up there.
They’re crossing fingers Angela Rayner instead. 🤣
I overheard a call with Labour campaigners begging Keir Starmer not to come because he’s so wildly unpopular up there.
They’re crossing fingers Angela Rayner instead. 🤣
If I wasn’t out fighting invasive species like rhododendron I’d be out fighting invasive species like Matt Goodwin.
Keep crushing it in your communities by being good normal personable people.
I heard from a Labour campaigner Keir Starmer is not welcome because he’s so unpopular.
You got this.
Keep crushing it in your communities by being good normal personable people.
I heard from a Labour campaigner Keir Starmer is not welcome because he’s so unpopular.
You got this.
The thing no one tells you about fighting the far-right?
It can be really fun - and you meet proper lovely people. Looking at you @richiebryan.bsky.social 💚
Gave @greenpartyhan.bsky.social an energy boosting Kendal mint cake from the Kendal greens!
@greenparty.org.uk @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social
It can be really fun - and you meet proper lovely people. Looking at you @richiebryan.bsky.social 💚
Gave @greenpartyhan.bsky.social an energy boosting Kendal mint cake from the Kendal greens!
@greenparty.org.uk @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 9:54 PM
If I wasn’t out fighting invasive species like rhododendron I’d be out fighting invasive species like Matt Goodwin.
Keep crushing it in your communities by being good normal personable people.
I heard from a Labour campaigner Keir Starmer is not welcome because he’s so unpopular.
You got this.
Keep crushing it in your communities by being good normal personable people.
I heard from a Labour campaigner Keir Starmer is not welcome because he’s so unpopular.
You got this.
I’m calling this a juxtaposcast and I’m gonna do it more.
- Me having a rough ass time
- Me having a good as time
You get the two together because I am constantly having both a shit time and trying to do what I love. In this case: murder Rhododenrons (on no sleep).
- Me having a rough ass time
- Me having a good as time
You get the two together because I am constantly having both a shit time and trying to do what I love. In this case: murder Rhododenrons (on no sleep).
“Aww no baby we don’t ever go to Halifax” says northern girlfriend after this Shire-ass country southerner ended up in the shadiest hotel in Yorkshire and got fuck all sleep before a big day of rhododendron bashing.
February 7, 2026 at 9:16 PM
I’m calling this a juxtaposcast and I’m gonna do it more.
- Me having a rough ass time
- Me having a good as time
You get the two together because I am constantly having both a shit time and trying to do what I love. In this case: murder Rhododenrons (on no sleep).
- Me having a rough ass time
- Me having a good as time
You get the two together because I am constantly having both a shit time and trying to do what I love. In this case: murder Rhododenrons (on no sleep).
The amazing people of Ilkley, Otley, Harrogate, and slightly further afield all rocked up to smash the destructive invasive Rhododendron out of West Wood. Tomorrow’s crew are gonna have light work because this lot exceeded expectations drastically and left us with one or two out of 80!!
February 7, 2026 at 7:44 PM
The amazing people of Ilkley, Otley, Harrogate, and slightly further afield all rocked up to smash the destructive invasive Rhododendron out of West Wood. Tomorrow’s crew are gonna have light work because this lot exceeded expectations drastically and left us with one or two out of 80!!
“Aww no baby we don’t ever go to Halifax” says northern girlfriend after this Shire-ass country southerner ended up in the shadiest hotel in Yorkshire and got fuck all sleep before a big day of rhododendron bashing.
February 7, 2026 at 6:50 PM
“Aww no baby we don’t ever go to Halifax” says northern girlfriend after this Shire-ass country southerner ended up in the shadiest hotel in Yorkshire and got fuck all sleep before a big day of rhododendron bashing.
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@apisyouwonthate.com, latest newsletter is out. A jam-packed issue covering a terrible train API, how sustainable APIs lead to performant APIs, the Express 5 migration, and more.
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Sustainable APIs
A well designed system can provide utility while reducing overall energy use. Also in this newsletter: Clerk's API Keys product, Express 5.0, Ktor, and an illustrative HTTP code cheat sheet.
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February 7, 2026 at 7:47 AM
@apisyouwonthate.com, latest newsletter is out. A jam-packed issue covering a terrible train API, how sustainable APIs lead to performant APIs, the Express 5 migration, and more.
apisyouwonthate.com/newsletter/b...
apisyouwonthate.com/newsletter/b...
If you didn’t want to boycott Barclays because of all the investing in fossil fuels and Israeli government bond auctions you can boycott them for their CEO being a scheming racist probable-pedophile. 🫡
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 7, 2026 at 8:33 AM
If you didn’t want to boycott Barclays because of all the investing in fossil fuels and Israeli government bond auctions you can boycott them for their CEO being a scheming racist probable-pedophile. 🫡
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A federal court cleared way for us @democracydefendersfund.org to depose Elon Musk over the unconstitutional shutdown of USAID
Our case now moves into discovery
As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN
Our case now moves into discovery
As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN
Elon Musk Will Be Deposed Over What He Did With DOGE
The former DOGE head will have to answer for what happened at USAID.
newrepublic.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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“We shouldn’t kick somebody out of the Lords for being a sex offender because they don’t ever actually do anything anyway.”
What better case could be made for abolishing the House of Lords.
What better case could be made for abolishing the House of Lords.
really wild commentary from Andrew Sparrow in the guardian live blog
February 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
“We shouldn’t kick somebody out of the Lords for being a sex offender because they don’t ever actually do anything anyway.”
What better case could be made for abolishing the House of Lords.
What better case could be made for abolishing the House of Lords.
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"Just one more fascism, that'll surely save our deposit in Gorton & Denton."
Genius! Blackmail countries which have significant human rights concerns to take back people who often should not be being sent back and then celebrate it by threatening more countries with similar blackmail. Labour really is digging down with its xenophobic policies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Three African countries agree to UK migrant returns after sanctions threat
The Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia and Angola have said they will cooperate on migrant returns.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 6:51 AM
"Just one more fascism, that'll surely save our deposit in Gorton & Denton."
The right love nothing more than erasing history to push their fascist agenda and we should expect exactly the same from Reform.
Anti-woke, worse—a lot worse, tbh—than woke.
“The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a ‘racist.’”
mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
“The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a ‘racist.’”
mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 8:47 PM
The right love nothing more than erasing history to push their fascist agenda and we should expect exactly the same from Reform.
Privacy experts have been fighting for safeguards around data, tracking, and sharing, and it’s not because they’re nerds. Normies have been saying “I’m not doing anything illegal so who cares” and now you get to be on a list of people who will receive “special attention” for your political views.
Corporatist fascism, plain and simple.
DHS is trying to get tech companies to hand over data on Trump critics.
This is unconstitutional, and Congress must shut it down, before we turn into East Germany.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/h...
DHS is trying to get tech companies to hand over data on Trump critics.
This is unconstitutional, and Congress must shut it down, before we turn into East Germany.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/h...
Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch
The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts docu...
techcrunch.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Privacy experts have been fighting for safeguards around data, tracking, and sharing, and it’s not because they’re nerds. Normies have been saying “I’m not doing anything illegal so who cares” and now you get to be on a list of people who will receive “special attention” for your political views.
48v, 10kW AC output, and two broken backs worth of getting it on the wall, but the new inverter is in place. Javid is working his magic rebuilding my entire boat electronic setup and I’m mostly just sharpening machetes and making bad jokes.
February 5, 2026 at 7:09 PM
48v, 10kW AC output, and two broken backs worth of getting it on the wall, but the new inverter is in place. Javid is working his magic rebuilding my entire boat electronic setup and I’m mostly just sharpening machetes and making bad jokes.
When was the left running the country Keir. 🙃
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 5, 2026 at 11:43 AM
When was the left running the country Keir. 🙃
Why do people think the only choice is between “drive a car everywhere” or “never drive any car anywhere for any reason”.
There’s a plethora and the whole goal of active / public transport is to help _everyone_ use their cars less, if not make them entirely redundant so you can save money.
🫡 Rob
There’s a plethora and the whole goal of active / public transport is to help _everyone_ use their cars less, if not make them entirely redundant so you can save money.
🫡 Rob
I don't know whether Helen reads my posts here, but here goes:
> I do not regularly drive a car
> I sometimes hire or borrow a car for trips outside of Bristol
> I walk, cycle, scoot, take buses and take trains for every single journey I make in Bristol
But that's not really the point, is it?
> I do not regularly drive a car
> I sometimes hire or borrow a car for trips outside of Bristol
> I walk, cycle, scoot, take buses and take trains for every single journey I make in Bristol
But that's not really the point, is it?
February 5, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Why do people think the only choice is between “drive a car everywhere” or “never drive any car anywhere for any reason”.
There’s a plethora and the whole goal of active / public transport is to help _everyone_ use their cars less, if not make them entirely redundant so you can save money.
🫡 Rob
There’s a plethora and the whole goal of active / public transport is to help _everyone_ use their cars less, if not make them entirely redundant so you can save money.
🫡 Rob
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Labour keeps talking about saving the high street without naming the real problem. Car dependency. You cannot fix town centres while planning everything around driving. The internet is permanent. Retail only survives where footfall is dense, local, frequent, and cheap to access.
Labour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain’s high streets, study finds
Decay of town centres a top issue among voters especially Reform UK supporters and is fuelling resentment against Westminster
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Labour keeps talking about saving the high street without naming the real problem. Car dependency. You cannot fix town centres while planning everything around driving. The internet is permanent. Retail only survives where footfall is dense, local, frequent, and cheap to access.
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After 15 years of tech companies buying and gutting media outlets, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the only way forward is for journalists to rebuild their own profession from the ground up.
With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week.
February 5, 2026 at 12:46 AM
After 15 years of tech companies buying and gutting media outlets, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the only way forward is for journalists to rebuild their own profession from the ground up.
Communism = helping folks pay their taxes without getting scammed by TurboTax.
Yesterday we kicked off NYC’s Free Tax Prep season. That means filing your taxes at zero cost, keeping every dollar of your refund, and not getting ripped off by for-profit companies.
Nearly half of all New Yorkers qualify. Get help—virtually or in person—at nyc.gov/TaxPrep
Nearly half of all New Yorkers qualify. Get help—virtually or in person—at nyc.gov/TaxPrep
February 5, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Communism = helping folks pay their taxes without getting scammed by TurboTax.
There was a lot of concern about HS2 knackering 0.003% of our ancient woodlands but now HS2 has been binned off and won’t go near Leeds (pffft) let’s put a dent in the real threats to our ancient woodland and mangle a bunch of invasive species with machetes and fire then probably cider.
February 4, 2026 at 10:12 PM
There was a lot of concern about HS2 knackering 0.003% of our ancient woodlands but now HS2 has been binned off and won’t go near Leeds (pffft) let’s put a dent in the real threats to our ancient woodland and mangle a bunch of invasive species with machetes and fire then probably cider.