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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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
@philsturgeon.com
· Oct 2
Today is hopefully the last day of two straight weeks spraying Japanese Knotweed on the River Roding. There’s more than twice as much as was originally mapped, but we’re going hard to rescue this tidal marsh from being swallowed whole by the invasive menace. Hot. Wet. Smelly. @protect.earth
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
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The ”upgrade” to junction 11 on the M5 is going to cost £363mn
(fuck knows where the money goes) and is going ahead
Reopening the Stonehouse station on the Birmingham / Bristol line would cost around £25mn but trying to get it funded is impossible
(fuck knows where the money goes) and is going ahead
Reopening the Stonehouse station on the Birmingham / Bristol line would cost around £25mn but trying to get it funded is impossible
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The ”upgrade” to junction 11 on the M5 is going to cost £363mn
(fuck knows where the money goes) and is going ahead
Reopening the Stonehouse station on the Birmingham / Bristol line would cost around £25mn but trying to get it funded is impossible
(fuck knows where the money goes) and is going ahead
Reopening the Stonehouse station on the Birmingham / Bristol line would cost around £25mn but trying to get it funded is impossible
Muppets who wasted loads of money inducing demand and making traffic worse consider doing exactly the same thing again.
We were told the interchange would cost €100 million and solve the congestion and tailbacks.
It cost €225 million, and it didn't.
The people who were 100% wrong about this – and blew 9 figures of public money on it – have a new suggestion.
More lanes.
www.independent.ie/regionals/co...
It cost €225 million, and it didn't.
The people who were 100% wrong about this – and blew 9 figures of public money on it – have a new suggestion.
More lanes.
www.independent.ie/regionals/co...
‘Jury still out’ on Cork city’s €225m junction as congestion continues
The head of the transport committee in Cork city says he is still not satisfied with a major junction that opened last year at a cost of over €200 million, and which still sees tailbacks on a regular ...
www.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Muppets who wasted loads of money inducing demand and making traffic worse consider doing exactly the same thing again.
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Looks like the "removal of statues etc is erasing history" folks are actually into doing those removals if the history being erased is the history of black people
Here are the two plaques that were removed. I am so ashamed of our racist current administration.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Looks like the "removal of statues etc is erasing history" folks are actually into doing those removals if the history being erased is the history of black people
Tories scrapped half of HS2, which without the other half would actually make many train times worse.
People said “why don’t you focus on electrification of existing lines then” so now Labour, eager to proven they’re different from Tories, have scrapped all of that too.
People said “why don’t you focus on electrification of existing lines then” so now Labour, eager to proven they’re different from Tories, have scrapped all of that too.
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Tories scrapped half of HS2, which without the other half would actually make many train times worse.
People said “why don’t you focus on electrification of existing lines then” so now Labour, eager to proven they’re different from Tories, have scrapped all of that too.
People said “why don’t you focus on electrification of existing lines then” so now Labour, eager to proven they’re different from Tories, have scrapped all of that too.
Fifteen minute queue at service station Greggs.
Wonder how many of these drivers say they don’t have time to charge an EV.
Wonder how many of these drivers say they don’t have time to charge an EV.
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Fifteen minute queue at service station Greggs.
Wonder how many of these drivers say they don’t have time to charge an EV.
Wonder how many of these drivers say they don’t have time to charge an EV.
Got a short film trying to be shot in an ancient woodland I manage. They’re all about trying to be respectful and low impact. It’s Cornish cultural stuff not big money shite (me/charity get nothing).
Tell me how to proceed.
Set boundaries, manage expectation, oversight, big stick in case, but yes?
Tell me how to proceed.
Set boundaries, manage expectation, oversight, big stick in case, but yes?
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Got a short film trying to be shot in an ancient woodland I manage. They’re all about trying to be respectful and low impact. It’s Cornish cultural stuff not big money shite (me/charity get nothing).
Tell me how to proceed.
Set boundaries, manage expectation, oversight, big stick in case, but yes?
Tell me how to proceed.
Set boundaries, manage expectation, oversight, big stick in case, but yes?
First time I took a bike onto a ferry I panicked and waited for the lovely seamen to help, but if you wanna have a say in how your bike gets tied up to survive stormy seas then here’s how I do it. Don’t forget to pat it and say “that’s not going anywhere” to ensure success.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
First time I took a bike onto a ferry I panicked and waited for the lovely seamen to help, but if you wanna have a say in how your bike gets tied up to survive stormy seas then here’s how I do it. Don’t forget to pat it and say “that’s not going anywhere” to ensure success.
Love the swoletariat. The right think they own being tough because they jump to violence the second they run out of steam in an argument, which is usually about one follow-up question in. Fighting fascism will require some actual fighting, so there’s no better time to get hench.
Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”.
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Love the swoletariat. The right think they own being tough because they jump to violence the second they run out of steam in an argument, which is usually about one follow-up question in. Fighting fascism will require some actual fighting, so there’s no better time to get hench.
I met somebody in Amsterdam who flew there from Germany.
What a fuckin baby. 🤣
It’s always the Americans, especially the libertarians. Big tough independent guy needs sky daddy captain to pamper him door to door in case he bumps into a POOR out in the real world, climate be damned.
What a fuckin baby. 🤣
It’s always the Americans, especially the libertarians. Big tough independent guy needs sky daddy captain to pamper him door to door in case he bumps into a POOR out in the real world, climate be damned.
a close up of a baby making a funny face with his hands .
ALT: a close up of a baby making a funny face with his hands .
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I met somebody in Amsterdam who flew there from Germany.
What a fuckin baby. 🤣
It’s always the Americans, especially the libertarians. Big tough independent guy needs sky daddy captain to pamper him door to door in case he bumps into a POOR out in the real world, climate be damned.
What a fuckin baby. 🤣
It’s always the Americans, especially the libertarians. Big tough independent guy needs sky daddy captain to pamper him door to door in case he bumps into a POOR out in the real world, climate be damned.
NY Times can’t even get “up” and “down” right.
The claim that “emissions have come down” in this @nytimes.com @sominisengupta.bsky.social article on where we are ten years post-Paris is FALSE.
Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024.
As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!
Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024.
As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
NY Times can’t even get “up” and “down” right.
I’ve been wondering about bramble translocation to speed up woodland succession on dense monoculture grassland. Great to see it’s already a thing.
If anyone is clearing bramble near Bath this winter I need a few tonnes please. 🤣
If anyone is clearing bramble near Bath this winter I need a few tonnes please. 🤣
Every Autumn we host a visit from the University of Cumbria Outdoor Adventure & Environment students. It's a highly experiental course, so as we tour the site, we include practical tasks such as bramble translocation & planting some wildflowers. @leedsleaf.bsky.social
@forestryengland.bsky.social
@forestryengland.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I’ve been wondering about bramble translocation to speed up woodland succession on dense monoculture grassland. Great to see it’s already a thing.
If anyone is clearing bramble near Bath this winter I need a few tonnes please. 🤣
If anyone is clearing bramble near Bath this winter I need a few tonnes please. 🤣
Progress made on buying this Bath land (which we completed the crowdfunder for A YEAR AGO)
Solicitors finally all have their money and agreed all their instructions but weeks and months are zipping by.
My lot have been on holiday for a month now doing four day week? No update til Monday. 😭
Solicitors finally all have their money and agreed all their instructions but weeks and months are zipping by.
My lot have been on holiday for a month now doing four day week? No update til Monday. 😭
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Progress made on buying this Bath land (which we completed the crowdfunder for A YEAR AGO)
Solicitors finally all have their money and agreed all their instructions but weeks and months are zipping by.
My lot have been on holiday for a month now doing four day week? No update til Monday. 😭
Solicitors finally all have their money and agreed all their instructions but weeks and months are zipping by.
My lot have been on holiday for a month now doing four day week? No update til Monday. 😭
I demand more likes this was funny.
Hedgerow vs Canal for holding fluffy suicidal escape artist idiots?
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I demand more likes this was funny.
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
Deploy more solar, get more electricity. 🫡
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Deploy more solar, get more electricity. 🫡
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This is absolutely appalling.
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This is absolutely appalling.
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This is deeply disappointing from Starmer.
The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯
How embarrassing for the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯
How embarrassing for the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is deeply disappointing from Starmer.
The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯
How embarrassing for the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯
How embarrassing for the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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European countries want Brazil to increase forest conservation (it certainly can). But some of the world's best opportunities to spare & restore carbon in native forests—while displacing the least food production—actually lie in Europe. Our analysis shows this: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
European countries want Brazil to increase forest conservation (it certainly can). But some of the world's best opportunities to spare & restore carbon in native forests—while displacing the least food production—actually lie in Europe. Our analysis shows this: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The fact that a Reform-led county council have told a village they can’t have Christmas lights unless they take all the random England flags down because of health and safety has just made my day.
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Me: “this is the heaviest I’ve ever been in my life. I need to diet even on this cycling trip.”
Also me: “Pannenkoeken!!!!!!!”
Also me: “Pannenkoeken!!!!!!!”
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Me: “this is the heaviest I’ve ever been in my life. I need to diet even on this cycling trip.”
Also me: “Pannenkoeken!!!!!!!”
Also me: “Pannenkoeken!!!!!!!”
Hedgerow vs Canal for holding fluffy suicidal escape artist idiots?
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Hedgerow vs Canal for holding fluffy suicidal escape artist idiots?
Reposted by Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
tempted to put googley eyes on my toenail clipper and give it a social media presence just to prove it's actually got more charisma than Kier Starmer.
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
tempted to put googley eyes on my toenail clipper and give it a social media presence just to prove it's actually got more charisma than Kier Starmer.
Cycling to API Days Amsterdam (GenAI Edition) to see if anyone is doing anything useful with AI.
Is it mostly corps selling shovels in a gold rush, or scammers hyping up a gold rush out of whole cloth, burning customer cash as they melt the planet for useless slop.
Find out on @apisyouwonthate.com
Is it mostly corps selling shovels in a gold rush, or scammers hyping up a gold rush out of whole cloth, burning customer cash as they melt the planet for useless slop.
Find out on @apisyouwonthate.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Cycling to API Days Amsterdam (GenAI Edition) to see if anyone is doing anything useful with AI.
Is it mostly corps selling shovels in a gold rush, or scammers hyping up a gold rush out of whole cloth, burning customer cash as they melt the planet for useless slop.
Find out on @apisyouwonthate.com
Is it mostly corps selling shovels in a gold rush, or scammers hyping up a gold rush out of whole cloth, burning customer cash as they melt the planet for useless slop.
Find out on @apisyouwonthate.com
Cracking idea for a man with the natural charisma of a toenail clipper.
These weird nerds are still confusing the Mamdani effect with “get some slick videos and people will like you” instead of understanding it’s about being authentic _and_ having policies PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT, YOU MELT. 🤣
These weird nerds are still confusing the Mamdani effect with “get some slick videos and people will like you” instead of understanding it’s about being authentic _and_ having policies PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT, YOU MELT. 🤣
A former adviser to Keir Starmer and Tony Blair has urged the Prime Minister to reinvent himself as a 'social media star', warning that his cautious communication style is leaving voters cold
Keir Starmer told to ‘be a social media star’ in bid to win back voters
www.thenational.scot
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Cracking idea for a man with the natural charisma of a toenail clipper.
These weird nerds are still confusing the Mamdani effect with “get some slick videos and people will like you” instead of understanding it’s about being authentic _and_ having policies PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT, YOU MELT. 🤣
These weird nerds are still confusing the Mamdani effect with “get some slick videos and people will like you” instead of understanding it’s about being authentic _and_ having policies PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT, YOU MELT. 🤣