Theo Frixou
@theofrixou.bsky.social
PhD candidate researching the legitimacy and power of the fossil fuel industry through the medium of sport sponsorship. Loughborough University. LFC fan.
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When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them. I meant it.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them. I meant it.
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Last month I did a little experiment.
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
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I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
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March 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Last month I did a little experiment.
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
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That must be one of the most Orwellian statements ever. It’s bad enough to cut people’s benefits. To pretend some kind of higher “moral” duty while you’re doing so is insulting and offensive
Ministers have 'moral' duty to cut benefits spending, Labour MPs say
Labour is anxious to reduce the rising welfare bill as it plans boosting defence spending at a time when the Chancellor is perilously short of extra cash
inews.co.uk
March 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
That must be one of the most Orwellian statements ever. It’s bad enough to cut people’s benefits. To pretend some kind of higher “moral” duty while you’re doing so is insulting and offensive
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Just FYI, this is the development—record temperatures despite La Niña conditions—is what scientists said might portend something quite bad getting underfoot.
I know it's all too much, but please don't look away. We're fighting for literally everything right now.
I know it's all too much, but please don't look away. We're fighting for literally everything right now.
January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024.
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
February 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Just FYI, this is the development—record temperatures despite La Niña conditions—is what scientists said might portend something quite bad getting underfoot.
I know it's all too much, but please don't look away. We're fighting for literally everything right now.
I know it's all too much, but please don't look away. We're fighting for literally everything right now.
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📢 Trump's top-line climate disinformation strategy combines 4 tactics—Sleight-of-Hand, Fossil Fuel as the Main Character, Gaslighting, and Flood the Zone with Shit—to construct the lie that Democrats (not climate disasters) are killing people.
Find out more👇
www.endclimatesilence.org/newsletter
Find out more👇
www.endclimatesilence.org/newsletter
January 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
📢 Trump's top-line climate disinformation strategy combines 4 tactics—Sleight-of-Hand, Fossil Fuel as the Main Character, Gaslighting, and Flood the Zone with Shit—to construct the lie that Democrats (not climate disasters) are killing people.
Find out more👇
www.endclimatesilence.org/newsletter
Find out more👇
www.endclimatesilence.org/newsletter
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1. Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the government says:
"On our current path, civilisation as we know it will disappear. If we meet current commitments only – net zero by 2050 – perhaps some form of humanity will survive ... " Guardian 27 May 2024.
"On our current path, civilisation as we know it will disappear. If we meet current commitments only – net zero by 2050 – perhaps some form of humanity will survive ... " Guardian 27 May 2024.
January 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
1. Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the government says:
"On our current path, civilisation as we know it will disappear. If we meet current commitments only – net zero by 2050 – perhaps some form of humanity will survive ... " Guardian 27 May 2024.
"On our current path, civilisation as we know it will disappear. If we meet current commitments only – net zero by 2050 – perhaps some form of humanity will survive ... " Guardian 27 May 2024.
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Meanwhile, the Arctic's carbon sink is flipping to a carbon source.
I constantly marvel* at industry and govts' assumption that Everything is Going to Go Perfectly to Plan, as if events and Nature won't overwhelm our efforts to pull back from the brink
*Shudder
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I constantly marvel* at industry and govts' assumption that Everything is Going to Go Perfectly to Plan, as if events and Nature won't overwhelm our efforts to pull back from the brink
*Shudder
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake - Nature Climate Change
How the carbon stocks of the Arctic–Boreal Zone change with warming is not well understood. Here the authors show that wildfires and large regional differences in net carbon fluxes offset the overall ...
www.nature.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Meanwhile, the Arctic's carbon sink is flipping to a carbon source.
I constantly marvel* at industry and govts' assumption that Everything is Going to Go Perfectly to Plan, as if events and Nature won't overwhelm our efforts to pull back from the brink
*Shudder
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I constantly marvel* at industry and govts' assumption that Everything is Going to Go Perfectly to Plan, as if events and Nature won't overwhelm our efforts to pull back from the brink
*Shudder
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Welcome to the party pal!
It beggars belief he is saying this now - given what he and his wing of the Democrats have done to funnel wealth & power to said oligarchs and the military-industrial complex.
Sleepy Joe indeed.
It beggars belief he is saying this now - given what he and his wing of the Democrats have done to funnel wealth & power to said oligarchs and the military-industrial complex.
Sleepy Joe indeed.
January 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Welcome to the party pal!
It beggars belief he is saying this now - given what he and his wing of the Democrats have done to funnel wealth & power to said oligarchs and the military-industrial complex.
Sleepy Joe indeed.
It beggars belief he is saying this now - given what he and his wing of the Democrats have done to funnel wealth & power to said oligarchs and the military-industrial complex.
Sleepy Joe indeed.
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Tiny GDP changes offer little to the millions that continue to struggle to afford life's essentials. The govt's focus on growth is clearly at odds with the Bank of England's reluctance to cut interest rates. This is making life harder for people and slowing down the economy. 1/2
January 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Tiny GDP changes offer little to the millions that continue to struggle to afford life's essentials. The govt's focus on growth is clearly at odds with the Bank of England's reluctance to cut interest rates. This is making life harder for people and slowing down the economy. 1/2
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An illegal betting festival currently at the King Power, where Leicester City and Crystal Palace are respectively promoting BC.GAME (declared bankrupt, unlicensed in the UK) and Kaiyun (also unlicensed), a brand set up by Yabo, the criminal organisation which was dismantled in China in 2020-21.
January 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
An illegal betting festival currently at the King Power, where Leicester City and Crystal Palace are respectively promoting BC.GAME (declared bankrupt, unlicensed in the UK) and Kaiyun (also unlicensed), a brand set up by Yabo, the criminal organisation which was dismantled in China in 2020-21.
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UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts.
UK prices 8% higher, housing cost 44% higher.
Low income families - German families 21% or £2,300 a year better off; Dutch 39%.
Yet no curbs on profiteering, exploitation institutionalized.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK prices 8% higher, housing cost 44% higher.
Low income families - German families 21% or £2,300 a year better off; Dutch 39%.
Yet no curbs on profiteering, exploitation institutionalized.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study
Britons 39% worse off than Dutch equivalent due to housing costs 44% higher than western European average
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts.
UK prices 8% higher, housing cost 44% higher.
Low income families - German families 21% or £2,300 a year better off; Dutch 39%.
Yet no curbs on profiteering, exploitation institutionalized.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK prices 8% higher, housing cost 44% higher.
Low income families - German families 21% or £2,300 a year better off; Dutch 39%.
Yet no curbs on profiteering, exploitation institutionalized.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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They’re not doing it on video with $900k watches, like Zuckerberg, but the way corporate US is running away from its climate commitments now Trump is in office is really significant.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
BlackRock Leaves Major Climate Group Amid Wall Street Exodus
BlackRock Inc. is parting ways with one of the world’s biggest climate-investor groups after being targeted by Republican politicians for its efforts on global warming.
www.bloomberg.com
January 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
They’re not doing it on video with $900k watches, like Zuckerberg, but the way corporate US is running away from its climate commitments now Trump is in office is really significant.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Yes the super rich have horrendous emissions
But they also make unsustainable lifestyles look desirable, use their social and cultural power to perpetuate the idea that everything's fine, and wield their political and financial power to maintain and worsen the status quo
But they also make unsustainable lifestyles look desirable, use their social and cultural power to perpetuate the idea that everything's fine, and wield their political and financial power to maintain and worsen the status quo
World’s richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days
Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Yes the super rich have horrendous emissions
But they also make unsustainable lifestyles look desirable, use their social and cultural power to perpetuate the idea that everything's fine, and wield their political and financial power to maintain and worsen the status quo
But they also make unsustainable lifestyles look desirable, use their social and cultural power to perpetuate the idea that everything's fine, and wield their political and financial power to maintain and worsen the status quo
I have a ticket for Liverpool vs Accrington today in the Kop today that I’d like to give away for free to someone who doesn’t normally go (and because it’s last minute).
I don’t know how easy that is for people to see on Bluesky. Please can you help with a repost? @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
I don’t know how easy that is for people to see on Bluesky. Please can you help with a repost? @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
January 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I have a ticket for Liverpool vs Accrington today in the Kop today that I’d like to give away for free to someone who doesn’t normally go (and because it’s last minute).
I don’t know how easy that is for people to see on Bluesky. Please can you help with a repost? @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
I don’t know how easy that is for people to see on Bluesky. Please can you help with a repost? @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
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Quite the telling publication day for this study, which found a dramatic increase in the amount of "hydroclimate whiplash"—the vacillation between wet and dry that fuels wildfires as well as flash floods, landslides, and disease outbreaks—on our hotter planet
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Rapid transitions between extreme wet and extreme dry conditions — ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ — have marked environmental and societal impacts. This Review outlines observed and projected changes in hydr...
www.nature.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Quite the telling publication day for this study, which found a dramatic increase in the amount of "hydroclimate whiplash"—the vacillation between wet and dry that fuels wildfires as well as flash floods, landslides, and disease outbreaks—on our hotter planet
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Been meaning to pick this up for so long considering the topic of my PhD research. A walk into Stoke Newington Bookshop this afternoon and there it was. Can’t wait to start @doctorvive.bsky.social
January 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Been meaning to pick this up for so long considering the topic of my PhD research. A walk into Stoke Newington Bookshop this afternoon and there it was. Can’t wait to start @doctorvive.bsky.social
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Is Labour listening?
Super important experimental study by @lcjacobs89.bsky.social and @jbpilet.bsky.social showing that mainstream parties signaling willingness to govern with radical right legitimize these parties with higher propensity to vote for radical right as a result
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
To rule or not to rule? An experimental study of the electoral ramifications of claims to (not) rule with radical right populist parties - Laura Jacobs, Jean-Benoit Pilet, 2024
In a between-subjects experiment (n = 3270) conducted in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), we examine the electoral ramifications of claims by a ri...
journals.sagepub.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Is Labour listening?
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I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
December 26, 2024 at 8:30 PM
I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
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Starting Wednesday, all forms of advertisement promoting fossil fuel products and services will be banned in The Hague. The Dutch city is the first in the world to enforce such ban, acting as a potential catalyst for similar actions worldwide.
earth.org/the-hague-be...
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The Hague First in the World to Outlaw Fossil Fuel Advertising
The move comes months after UN chief Guterres called on countries to ban fossil fuel advertising in the same way they restricted tobacco.
earth.org
December 26, 2024 at 5:30 AM
Starting Wednesday, all forms of advertisement promoting fossil fuel products and services will be banned in The Hague. The Dutch city is the first in the world to enforce such ban, acting as a potential catalyst for similar actions worldwide.
earth.org/the-hague-be...
earth.org/the-hague-be...
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So it looks like a result. But it's only a start. A month ago, we exposed another illegal(*) operator, BC.GAME, who then deactivated their UK operation. Yet Leicester City players still wear shirts bearing that name. The PL remains an enabler of illegal entities. josimarfootball.com/2024/11/28/l...
License revoked - josimarfootball.com
Declared bankrupt by a court in Curaçao, Leicester City FC sponsor BC.GAME is about to lose its licence. Josimar has discovered that the operator is running one of the largest illegal betting networks...
josimarfootball.com
December 24, 2024 at 9:18 AM
So it looks like a result. But it's only a start. A month ago, we exposed another illegal(*) operator, BC.GAME, who then deactivated their UK operation. Yet Leicester City players still wear shirts bearing that name. The PL remains an enabler of illegal entities. josimarfootball.com/2024/11/28/l...
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Company makes climate pledge, spends lots on PR to tout its environmental commitment. Co. reneges on climate commitment. Rinse and repeat. www.ft.com/content/6e73...
Walmart pushes back climate change targets
World’s largest company by sales acknowledges progress is delayed and it expects to miss its 2030 goals
www.ft.com
December 19, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Company makes climate pledge, spends lots on PR to tout its environmental commitment. Co. reneges on climate commitment. Rinse and repeat. www.ft.com/content/6e73...
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The inevitable has happened - Saudi Arabia has been announced as the 2034 World Cup host to widespread condemnation.
Here's our take on FIFA's bid blunder with thoughts on the announcement from climate leaders and athletes, @djwheeler7.bsky.social and @tesselmiddag.bsky.social. 🌏⚽️
Here's our take on FIFA's bid blunder with thoughts on the announcement from climate leaders and athletes, @djwheeler7.bsky.social and @tesselmiddag.bsky.social. 🌏⚽️
“A slap in the face” FIFA Saudi World Cup choice — Cool Down
FIFA’s decision to host 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia “is a slap in the face to fans, players and anyone who puts this sport at the centre of their life”
www.cooldownclimate.org
December 11, 2024 at 4:05 PM
The inevitable has happened - Saudi Arabia has been announced as the 2034 World Cup host to widespread condemnation.
Here's our take on FIFA's bid blunder with thoughts on the announcement from climate leaders and athletes, @djwheeler7.bsky.social and @tesselmiddag.bsky.social. 🌏⚽️
Here's our take on FIFA's bid blunder with thoughts on the announcement from climate leaders and athletes, @djwheeler7.bsky.social and @tesselmiddag.bsky.social. 🌏⚽️
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December 10, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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"By 2033, you could spend your retirement on Pangeos, a giant turtle-shaped floating city featuring shopping malls, an airport, and hotels. Sound excessive? Don't worry, it'll be entirely powered by solar panels."
Read @vijaykol.bsky.social and me in @newsweek.com
www.newsweek.com/rise-sustain...
Read @vijaykol.bsky.social and me in @newsweek.com
www.newsweek.com/rise-sustain...
The Rise of the Sustainability Class | Opinion
Sustainability might not be cheap, but it certainly is pleasant to consume.
www.newsweek.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:51 PM
"By 2033, you could spend your retirement on Pangeos, a giant turtle-shaped floating city featuring shopping malls, an airport, and hotels. Sound excessive? Don't worry, it'll be entirely powered by solar panels."
Read @vijaykol.bsky.social and me in @newsweek.com
www.newsweek.com/rise-sustain...
Read @vijaykol.bsky.social and me in @newsweek.com
www.newsweek.com/rise-sustain...