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marianneh.bsky.social
Workingtonian in Liverpool (home)/Manchester (work), UK. Architect working on tools and processes for better building retrofit, mostly in houses, mostly for coops and community energy orgs.
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The Government is considering allowing AI companies to freely use your works, unless you opt-out. This is unfair and unworkable. Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

On the AI line in here, the big mistake is making future bets on (a) a single technology approach that (b) the government of an, at best, fast-follower technology producer cannot control esp when (c) those outcomes are unproven and (d) they are driven by corporate interests

It's only taken me about, ooh, five years to sort... but here we have it, a workshop for early career women in sustainability! Come along and/or tell your friends. Brilliant speakers, great chance to meet some amazing people. www.ticketsource.co.uk/she-is-susta...

Join Chris today for a lunchtime webinar on the findings of The Whole Tenement Retrofit Feasibility Study retr.fit/tenementreport

Are you kidding me? People can send voice notes on LinkedIn now!?! No, I will not be listening to messages people (men) I do not know have sent.

Have you undertaken training with us? 🙏 We have a free offer for our Alumni 🥇 1 CEPH/PHI point available for each live event 🏠 8 of our trainers will talk through 12 of the projects they have worked on #passivhaus #EnerPHit #deepretrofit 📆 We start on Thursday 27 Feb ✅ 45 min online webinars

My aunt just shared this with me. It's really cool! Arthur Dooley mosaic about life in Workington - that has been stored in a shed at Banklands since the 70s 🙄. It's going to the Dooley museum in Liverpool for restoration. m.facebook.com/photo.php?fb... www.christ-the-good-shepherd.co.uk

In this chapter, award-winning investigative journalist @amywestervelt.bsky.social examines some of the fossil fuel industry’s claims that obstructed climate action, and offers tips for investigating. She also explains how to debunk false claims without amplifying them: https://twp.ai/1RWeyM

Who invited the AI notetaker? The use of artificial intelligence in meetings raises etiquette and privacy concerns.

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

Aviation causes 8% of emissions in the UK (2019). This could increase to >35% by 2050. The bulk comes from frequent fliers. Aviation is emblematic of a techno-fix climate ethos that pushes unproven/unscalable technology to justify behaviour-as-usual commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

This. We had the whole tradwife vibe here for ages, even putting ‘wayward’ women away. No contraception, no reproductive rights. Didn’t work. Was shit. Back away from me with that apron, bitches.

"44% of the England team had, like George, been to fee-paying schools, with the same proportion in the state sector and the rest educated overseas." Great to see our Elitist Britain research from 2019 cited in a BBC News piece on rugby union 👇

Today's edition of "Women Are To Blame For All the Bad Shit Men Do"

I just wrote a quick bit about 'genuinely contributing.' (This time with a working link) mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/genuinely-...

THREAD: New UK govt contract with Drax biomass power plant * 4-yr contract 2027-2031 * £113/MWh (2012 prices – £155 in today's money) * Output cap of 6TWh (<2% of UK supplies, cf recent yrs 12-15TWh) * CfD cost ~£500m/yr * 100% of fuel must be "sustainable", up from 70% 1/5

‘“It was a comprehensive curriculum,” my father told me of the tent school my family set up. My aunt taught there too. There were drawing and painting classes as well as maths and science.’ Malaka Shwaikh on the preservation of education in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

The BBC has once again caught Drax burning wood from primary forest in Canada, previously untouched by man, a huge carbon store and obvs prime wildlife habitat. Drax seems to be reducing its use of such wood, but also hiding the extent to which it used it in previous years – contrary to regulations

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

“They do not care about or understand the state because they do not acknowledge that it is valid; they do not care about or understand public service or public servants because they refuse the premise that such things could even exist.”

I recently covered the sticky issue of car-dependent new homes for Cycling Industry News. If you're delivering affordable homes while ignoring one of households' biggest costs - transport, and in particular car dependency, arguably that housing is not affordable: cyclingindustry.news/cycle-infras...

‘You do not suddenly start needing philosophy on your eighteenth birthday: you have always needed it. Fantasy is philosophy’s more gorgeously painted cousin.’ Katherine Rundell on children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

If we are going to use EPCs to tackle shit housing, it makes NO SENSE AT ALL only to consider energy performance. A useful HPC ("Home Performance Certificate") would surely also rate on ventilation provision at least, given that we know so many* existing homes do NOT comply with Part F.

I took a day out from work today to travel to Parliament for a session on decarbonising our homes and tackling fuel poverty and the ginormous skills and labour gaps we face. Stories like this make me feel like I'm wasting my time. I think the govt might be suffering from Treasurybrainitis.

I'm currently wishing I'd spent more time asking my grandparents what the 1930s were like. In a 'do you have any hints and tips?' kind of way, rather than for strictly historical research purposes.

This is an excellent and much needed organisation. Please support them if you can!

Since I set up @artsemergency.bsky.social (not inc 2y piloting & discursively developing a project) FOUR people have signed up to our community EVERY DAY. That’s now 17,200 people over the past 12 years. 90% of our team & 100% of our trustee board would have been eligible for the project aged 16🧵

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Are you looking to - Build a Passivhaus home or small development in 2025? 🌟 Three of our trainers are speaking tomorrow at the kick off session. 📆 Wed 5 Feb at 13:00 GMT @sarahlewis.bsky.social @ecominimalnick.bsky.social Kirsty Maguire

This is (unsurprisingly) up to 134,000 signatures now. Time to end the influence of 'dark money' on UK politics.