Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️

“As soon as it gets into a woodland, it just completely takes over," Phil said. "We have a lot of existing forests that are progressing towards having the biodiversity of a car park." 🤣 they ran the quote! 🤣 bsky.app/profile/prot...

Normally in storms like this I’m out clearing trees from roads and the towpath. Today I am just hunkering down on my busted boat, facing the wrong way (ass upriver), being tossed about like several tonnes of nurdles in the North Sea. Thankfully baby bring me snacks.

I have been having A Bit Of A Morning™️ Second time this week some scroat has untied my boat, on a river, in horrendous weather. The fire brigade are very good lads.

Nom nom nom, me love cherry laurel.

Remember we didn’t have any money to build the electric rail network that would negate short-haul flights but we can keep giving out endless taxpayer money to subsidise development of engines entirely used for short-haul flights.

Prepare for climate shock food shortages, says government sporting logo of Climate Shock Food Shortages PLC.

The wind has begun. I will not be doing client work today I will be having a panic for a few hours whilst Monitoring the Situation.

Maybe you should?

My dream car does about 1mph, runs on biodiesel, and turns invasive rhododendrons and cherry laurel into a fine mist.

My boat blew away in the storm last night but my amazing girlfriend found it and other boaters helped her reel it in. Anyway I’m in the woods 100mi away with a tracked woodchipper and an army of volunteers to kill rhododendrons and cherry laurel! 🥳

Horribly busy day packing up chainsaws, sharpening machetes, and rabidly deploying PHP security patches, but tomorrow I get to do two of my favourite things. 1. Lead a team of volunteers murdering rhododendron. 2. Bang on about it to the BBC. Friday got binned for weather but tomorrow we fight.

For fucks sake.

This Uplift briefing has everything you need to know about the Jackdaw decision (TL;DR? = wtaf)

"Nearly 1/3 of voters....would be less likely to vote Labour if it gives the go-ahead for more North Sea oil drilling" "includes...1/3 of those who voted Labour [in 2024] and around half of 18 to 24y olds" Environmentally ignorant AND politically inept www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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

Using less gas to produce electricity makes electricity cheaper.

Nationalising Thames Water wouldn’t cost £0 but it would be an investment that pays everyone back, unlike giving them another few £bn just to keep being useless extractive bastards.

Tesla Autodriving is so bad a driver recently crashed into a POLICE CAR whilst asleep at the wheel, sending everyone to hospital. The police’s main response was “don’t be asleep on self driving, you gotta constantly pay attention to avoid these things crashing.” Where’s the wheel in this shit.

Every study shows that decarbonising and *doing the things we legally agreed to do but needed Insulate Britain to remind us about* are cheaper for everyone and bring bills down. Cutting “The Green Crap” has only ever put bills *up* short term and long term. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reform UK’s ‘Small Boat Watch’ app is in flagrant violation of both Google Play and the Apple Store’s rules. Will you send an email to the Apple’s Head of the UK App Store and the General Manager of Games on Google Play to demand that this app is removed immediately?

We can’t get to digital sovrenity through AI. The goal is to move away from the giant US tech monopolies not give them more cash to stick a union flag on the British data centers they’re building all over your local nature reserve.

I’ve been looking to ditch Sendgrid for a while, and whilst Mailchimp seemed like the move (good delivery, already using it for campaigns) having first class Laravel Cloud integration and hopefully single billing means Resend might be the move for @protect.earth Is it? resend.com/laravel-cloud

I walk with the bats and the tawny owls. The buzzards have gone to bed. Now we hunt for beaver friends to say hello to, and invasive species to say goodbye to.

Time for a game of “What animal has shat on my bench?”

After a long day of meetings I love popping back to the land for a relaxing evening of upgrading camp then slashing my finger on some rusty metal left laying around by previous landowners and having to one-handed bandage my shit back together. Not a bad bleed out spot.

I don’t think people know just how shady UK tree sponsorship can be when there are organisations whose entire business model is double accounting.

Is It a Scam Yep: Biofuel.

New GBR plans are in fact Gareth Dennis Approved. Phew.

Housing developers constantly saying their developments will actually increase biodiversity because they’ll pop some trees in know for a fact those trees will be murdered for SUV parking within a few years.

I checked across other social media. He does much more lying about heat pumps on X and Facebook. He knows his disinformation will do well there.

Bath is getting a bunch of new bike lanes and most of them are actually going somewhere useful! Excited to see how they join up.