Jeff Baxter

Last year I asked the Foreign Office what meetings took place between some of our British embassies, and staff members for Shell and BP. I was told that information was not available. Thankfully, Adam found out through FOI. So why would the Govt want to conceal those meetings?

Corporate death penalty for these murderous companies.

Note to my colleagues in the media: Please ignore the quotidian horror of those who are struck by, maimed and killed by car drivers, but instead please bang on about cyclists on Oxford Street. That seems a way better story. Oh, and look what happens to children in America on Halloween.

Rosebank = 254 million tonnes of planet-warming gases. ❌❌The Government must say No To Rosebank ❌❌

It’s been a hard decision , but to hell with it - Josie and me are going ahead with the six dates of our tour - Birmingham and Cardiff are toughest to sell, then little old market town London www.seetickets.com/tour/josie-l...

Let me make it very clear if you're ever considering using my work in an "AI adaptation" -- DON'T.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

"this is OpenAI’s latest subscription model, Astra 6, prompted to fetch and plot the original data" jfc

Labour sure know how to curate a hostile environment! Someone's playing the guitar while our home starts to burn. Time to Join.greenparty.org.uk

Human greed plays a role in EVERY climate catastrophe. Not "natural disasters" - human choices. 🌍 #ClimateJustice

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Sign now to ramp up the pressure: weownit.org.uk/StopTheBailout

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Just 2 days after telling us they're committed to making the crisis worse by greenlighting more fossil fuel extraction, the government is now telling us it's our responsibility to prepare for the impacts of the climate breakdown that's already upon us A shameful abdication of responsibility

The planet doesn't need more data centres. It needs more forests, clean air and a future.

Britons should use money we haven't got to buy food the country doesn't grow, store it in homes that don't exist, in spare rooms that got taxed away, so we can survive when reservoirs nobody built run dry because of a climate the govt won't protect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The government didn’t just approve Jackdaw, they also reiterated their support for so-called tiebacks - a dodge to allow yet more new drilling without new licenses. This deserves almost as much scrutiny as Jackdaw and has got barely any of it, so I raised it in the Chamber.

"Instead of climate-wrecking new oil and gas, this government should be laser-focused on making life’s essentials affordable, taxing extreme wealth and profits, and investing in our long-term resilience." Carla Denyer writes in HuffPost about Andy Burnham’s "climate vandalism".

Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn

"We are not here to prevent or keep you safe from the consequences of uncontrolled climate change. This is now your own job. Better hope bottled water doesn't get expensive."

🔥🔥🔥🔥15,000 people have already signed. Add your name now: weownit.org.uk/stopthebailout We have until Thursday, 29th Oct, to get Andy Burnham to BLOCK THE THAMES WATER BAILOUT Now's the moment. Please sign and share widely.

A follow-up to our post about the recent proliferation of AI creations in our community content programs at @drivethrurpg.com and our efforts to combat it... 🧵

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‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

reminder that "A.i." is a gat damn pox

For Africa, climate change is not about the future. It's about now. Our crops failing, our lakes shrinking, our people displaced — while boardrooms thousands of miles away count record profits. We don't have a climate problem. We have a justice problem. #ClimateJustice

Fun fact, Laika movies very rarely make their budgets back at the box office, but they keep putting out bangers entirely because they have the one good rich boy in the entire ecosystem.

Note that this decision was pushed back to make sure it happened after the Holborn & St Pancras by-election. They're literally mocking the public here. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says UNEP report says window has closed on holding temperate rises to 1.5C, but swift cuts would enable overshoot to be limited Meanwhile, UK government approves a new gas field… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

BREAKING: Two of what are supposed to be the better water companies have syphoned out £700 million EACH in dividends in the last 2 years Enough is enough. Bring them into public ownership, starting with Thames Water. Demand Andy Burnham block the Thames Water bailout: vist.ly/5pbs8

“A company profiting from such grave human rights abuses should have no role in our health system or wider public sector.”

Burnham burns bridges and our children’s future for short term political benefit that helps nobody and exposes him as the hollow charlatan he really is. Zack Polanski warned us and he is proved right but not enough people are interested. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jackdaw is climate vandalism. Labour are putting Shell's profits before people and planet.

Reckless for the climate, useless for energy security this decision shows the UK is prepared to gamble with our future and it sends a message out globally that others can do the same 🔥🌍

If you gave a nickel to a crow that crow would have made more, by billions, than Anthropic

The Guardian's homepage right now... 1. "UK approves Jackdaw gasfield in North Sea" 2. World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says

Dreadful decision. The oil companies lied and lied about global warming. They knew what would happen but put profits first. This will not reduce your energy bills but will increase Shell’s profits. The plutocrats have won. Vote Green when you can like your life depends on it - because it does.

World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says

Today's decision by Labour to approve new drilling in the North Sea is climate vandalism. It's a betrayal of all of our futures, and Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change. This is a victory for Shell over the people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Jackdaw will not bring down bills or protect jobs. This is an irresponsible decision from a government that seems to care more about the profits of fossil fuel companies than the money in your pocket or the safety of our planet.

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

Labour have ruled out increasing capital gains tax ❌️ The Green Party would bring capital gains tax in line with income tax ✅️ It's time to tax wealth, not work ✅️✅️✅️

The climate crisis is a health crisis. That's why I have written to Yvette Cooper to ask her what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Energy Security & Net Zero about the potential health impacts of emissions from allowing drilling at Rosebank and Jackdaw.

My letter in this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: #FoodSecurity is a government responsibility, not one it can abdicate to households