Hilary Jennings
@hilaryjennings.bsky.social
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I really know we've never been at global lower levels of Holding Two Ideas In Your Head At Once but please: consider it skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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It's funny to have to make this case but tbqh we don't make it enough: human efforts to counter fossil fuel use have had *at least some* effect on total greenhouse gas emissions since the signing of t...
skywriter.blue
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I really know we've never been at global lower levels of Holding Two Ideas In Your Head At Once but please: consider it skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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We need your help to get the Government to respond to our petition calling for a National Resilience Plan to protect communities from climate change impacts. Sign now (and share with your family, friends and colleagues).
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that…
petition.parliament.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
We need your help to get the Government to respond to our petition calling for a National Resilience Plan to protect communities from climate change impacts. Sign now (and share with your family, friends and colleagues).
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Today’s fun tax tip…
(It’s a similarly daft situation that railways pay tax on fuel/energy but airlines don’t pay any tax on their aviation fuel, a huge hidden subsidy)
youtu.be/dr9MH0NuUtg?...
(It’s a similarly daft situation that railways pay tax on fuel/energy but airlines don’t pay any tax on their aviation fuel, a huge hidden subsidy)
youtu.be/dr9MH0NuUtg?...
Private jets don't pay fuel tax. Now I don't either.
YouTube video by Oli Frost
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Today’s fun tax tip…
(It’s a similarly daft situation that railways pay tax on fuel/energy but airlines don’t pay any tax on their aviation fuel, a huge hidden subsidy)
youtu.be/dr9MH0NuUtg?...
(It’s a similarly daft situation that railways pay tax on fuel/energy but airlines don’t pay any tax on their aviation fuel, a huge hidden subsidy)
youtu.be/dr9MH0NuUtg?...
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In 2021, the Gov warned we “could lose control of our climate for good” beyond 1.5°C.
Now, the CCC says “prepare for 2°C by 2050”
This huge shift in just 4 years calls for a new plan.
MPs can only make sound decisions to protect us if they’re briefed.
Is your MP attending?
www.nebriefing.org
Now, the CCC says “prepare for 2°C by 2050”
This huge shift in just 4 years calls for a new plan.
MPs can only make sound decisions to protect us if they’re briefed.
Is your MP attending?
www.nebriefing.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
In 2021, the Gov warned we “could lose control of our climate for good” beyond 1.5°C.
Now, the CCC says “prepare for 2°C by 2050”
This huge shift in just 4 years calls for a new plan.
MPs can only make sound decisions to protect us if they’re briefed.
Is your MP attending?
www.nebriefing.org
Now, the CCC says “prepare for 2°C by 2050”
This huge shift in just 4 years calls for a new plan.
MPs can only make sound decisions to protect us if they’re briefed.
Is your MP attending?
www.nebriefing.org
Fantastic resource from @thierryaaron.bsky.social
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
November 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Fantastic resource from @thierryaaron.bsky.social
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Every MP now has a personal video invitation to the National Emergency Briefing.
This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed.
Find and send your MP’s invite:
#neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed.
Find and send your MP’s invite:
#neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
October 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Every MP now has a personal video invitation to the National Emergency Briefing.
This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed.
Find and send your MP’s invite:
#neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed.
Find and send your MP’s invite:
#neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Are you, or your museum, struggling with something you need to bring to a close, give up or pass on?
What is getting in the way, what support might enable you to move forward?
Join us to explore endings in our museum settings.
Online - Tuesday 26th September 12.30 – 14.00
shorturl.at/HsLRL
What is getting in the way, what support might enable you to move forward?
Join us to explore endings in our museum settings.
Online - Tuesday 26th September 12.30 – 14.00
shorturl.at/HsLRL
August 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Are you, or your museum, struggling with something you need to bring to a close, give up or pass on?
What is getting in the way, what support might enable you to move forward?
Join us to explore endings in our museum settings.
Online - Tuesday 26th September 12.30 – 14.00
shorturl.at/HsLRL
What is getting in the way, what support might enable you to move forward?
Join us to explore endings in our museum settings.
Online - Tuesday 26th September 12.30 – 14.00
shorturl.at/HsLRL
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🧵Excellent piece "They appear to have inverted the promise of the internet as an endless archive of information one can navigate for themselves. Do your own research has, in short order, become Get one canonical answer."
This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...
This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
🧵Excellent piece "They appear to have inverted the promise of the internet as an endless archive of information one can navigate for themselves. Do your own research has, in short order, become Get one canonical answer."
This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...
This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...
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Including Erin today, there have been 42 hurricanes that have reached Category 5 in the Atlantic since records began in 1851.
11 of those have happened in the past 10 years.
Climate change is increasing the maximum strength of hurricanes — so stronger storms now happen more often.
11 of those have happened in the past 10 years.
Climate change is increasing the maximum strength of hurricanes — so stronger storms now happen more often.
August 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Including Erin today, there have been 42 hurricanes that have reached Category 5 in the Atlantic since records began in 1851.
11 of those have happened in the past 10 years.
Climate change is increasing the maximum strength of hurricanes — so stronger storms now happen more often.
11 of those have happened in the past 10 years.
Climate change is increasing the maximum strength of hurricanes — so stronger storms now happen more often.
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
August 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
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How popular are post-capitalist/socialist ideas and policies?
Here's a list of studies and surveys with some striking results...
Here's a list of studies and surveys with some striking results...
August 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
How popular are post-capitalist/socialist ideas and policies?
Here's a list of studies and surveys with some striking results...
Here's a list of studies and surveys with some striking results...
Well worth a read.
We need to fight for genuine democratic structures at scale, wealth taxes - and, I'd argue, a revolution in media to support narratives which reflect our true egalitarian nature back at us.
We need to fight for genuine democratic structures at scale, wealth taxes - and, I'd argue, a revolution in media to support narratives which reflect our true egalitarian nature back at us.
For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Well worth a read.
We need to fight for genuine democratic structures at scale, wealth taxes - and, I'd argue, a revolution in media to support narratives which reflect our true egalitarian nature back at us.
We need to fight for genuine democratic structures at scale, wealth taxes - and, I'd argue, a revolution in media to support narratives which reflect our true egalitarian nature back at us.
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The media is broken and it’s breaking us.
Owned by billionaires, wired for division, built to distract.
But around the world, rebels & reformers are rising.
This is the #MediaRevolution
🌀 Join the countdown to 5 Nov: Media Liberation Day.
🔗 mediarevolution.org
Owned by billionaires, wired for division, built to distract.
But around the world, rebels & reformers are rising.
This is the #MediaRevolution
🌀 Join the countdown to 5 Nov: Media Liberation Day.
🔗 mediarevolution.org
July 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The media is broken and it’s breaking us.
Owned by billionaires, wired for division, built to distract.
But around the world, rebels & reformers are rising.
This is the #MediaRevolution
🌀 Join the countdown to 5 Nov: Media Liberation Day.
🔗 mediarevolution.org
Owned by billionaires, wired for division, built to distract.
But around the world, rebels & reformers are rising.
This is the #MediaRevolution
🌀 Join the countdown to 5 Nov: Media Liberation Day.
🔗 mediarevolution.org
There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
you.38degrees.org.uk
July 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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"The Media Revolution movement launches on 28 July with a 100-day countdown to a Media Liberation Day on 5 November 2025 – a global moment of collective action to reclaim our attention and promote movement media."
mediarevolution.org
mediarevolution.org
My piece on the urgent need to collectively confront a malign media which distorts through disinformation and denial the conversation around any issue that threatens the interests of its owners. #memo #mediarevolution #tellthetruth
'Why We Need a Coordinated Media Revolution'
Alternative media platforms cannot thrive in a vacuum and policy reforms will not succeed without grassroots pressure, argues Tom Hardy
bylinetimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"The Media Revolution movement launches on 28 July with a 100-day countdown to a Media Liberation Day on 5 November 2025 – a global moment of collective action to reclaim our attention and promote movement media."
mediarevolution.org
mediarevolution.org
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"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing" - Raymond Williams
"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality" - Bell Hooks
"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality" - Bell Hooks
July 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing" - Raymond Williams
"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality" - Bell Hooks
"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality" - Bell Hooks
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"The principles of The Care Economy are already known to us. But they’re disturbingly absent from this 10 year vision." cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
Fit for whose future? The Mary Poppins moment is over | Blog by Tim Jackson
"Ask not what we can do for our health. Ask only what our healthcare can do for growth." In this searing critique, Tim Jackson exposes how the UK ...
cusp.ac.uk
July 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
"The principles of The Care Economy are already known to us. But they’re disturbingly absent from this 10 year vision." cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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A bit of a slowdown today - need another 250 signatures by 8am tomorrow to hit our daily #parkypetition100K target. If you’ve already signed grab a friend….or three! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
June 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
A bit of a slowdown today - need another 250 signatures by 8am tomorrow to hit our daily #parkypetition100K target. If you’ve already signed grab a friend….or three! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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“I tend to be an optimistic person. But things are not only moving in the wrong direction, we’re seeing some unprecedented changes and acceleration of the heating of the Earth & sea level rise.” - @piersforster.bsky.social, @priestleycentre.bsky.social
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateCrisis
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“I tend to be an optimistic person. But things are not only moving in the wrong direction, we’re seeing some unprecedented changes and acceleration of the heating of the Earth & sea level rise.” - @piersforster.bsky.social, @priestleycentre.bsky.social
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateCrisis
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Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
The planet’s remaining carbon budget to meet the international target of 1.5C has just two years left at the current rate of emissions, scientists have warned, showing how deep into the climate crisis the world has fallen.
Breaching the target would ramp up the extreme weather already devastating communities around the world. It would also require carbon dioxide to be sucked from the atmosphere in future to restore the stable climate in which the whole of civilisation developed over the past 10,000 years. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Fascinating. Particularly stark is the gap between people's perception that climate change won't impact them - but it will impact future generations.
I hear this anecdotally - people are worried but see impact as 'not in my lifetime'.
I hear this anecdotally - people are worried but see impact as 'not in my lifetime'.
NEW TOOL FOR THE UK: Our Yale Climate Opinion Maps for the UK are now live!
UK Climate Opinion Maps 2024 - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
Explore climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy support at every geographic level in the United States.
climatecommunication.yale.edu
June 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Fascinating. Particularly stark is the gap between people's perception that climate change won't impact them - but it will impact future generations.
I hear this anecdotally - people are worried but see impact as 'not in my lifetime'.
I hear this anecdotally - people are worried but see impact as 'not in my lifetime'.
Some good news.
Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%
etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%
etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds
A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…
etsc.eu
June 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Some good news.
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This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.
June 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.
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So…about AI’s energy use…
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour
That's a long time in the microwave.
mashable.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
So…about AI’s energy use…
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”