Quentin Brown

@actatumonline @ClimateBen I think we might have reached the end of the era where being President of the USA equates to being the “leader of the free world”.

BREAKING: horrified scientists discover plankton can't adapt to accelerating rate of global warming🧵

@GeorgeMonbiot In a desperate attempt to imagine silver linings I hope that this will drive the rest of the world to innovate and build alternative social media platforms that genuinely serve people, amplify truth, insight and positive contributions to society and that everybody flocks to them

Two things we've seen from Trump in the past week: - Appointing superspreaders of misinformation to high office. - Announcing that social media media platforms will no longer be allowed to act against misinformation. It's going to be quite the ride.

@AlexTurlais @PylonsEAnglia @ELPinchbeck @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband It’s one of the trickiest aspects of electrification. We desperately need the grid upgrades since they are a sticking point for de-carbonisation but where it hugely and disproportionately negatively impacts a few individuals we need sensible, sensitive and honest resolution.

@AlexTurlais @PylonsEAnglia @ELPinchbeck @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband There are genuine reasons why people are opposed to Pylons. Most common is that they go immediately past their rural homes, often very close and imposing. You might say get over it for the needs of the many but this has a huge impact on the value of their homes & = unfair burden

Apologies for the typos and odd sentence misconstruction that slipped in here and there. It’s late, I’m typing on my phone and had difficulty breaking the 🧵 up into single tweet lengths. 🤔 maybe not tweets anymore…what do you call them now? X’s ? 🤮

I don’t think vehicle manufacturers or auto industry reviewers have this on the agenda yet but it might be worth thinking about it. We may very well need it.

Today I stood in my daughter’s junior school playground at school pickup time in some of the heaviest torrential rain getting soaked along with all the other parents and wondering what the plans are for handover. Normally all the classes come out and assemble in rows

I've just signed this, and would urge everybody to do so. We don't need to spray poisons in our streets and parks. Pls RT pesticidecollaboration.org/go-pesticide-f… #GoPesticideFree @PAN_UK

@KateRaworth @YuanfenYang That’s a very exciting detail in amongst the broader stats being highlighted across the media. It speaks to some exciting potential and a continued building of the movement. 🙌👏

The book 'Doughnut Economics' opens with the story of Yuan Yang who, as a young economics student back in 2008, was challenging the outdated theory she was being taught. Last night she was elected as the first-ever MP for Earley & Woodley. Huge congratulations @YuanfenYang !

Is it just me projecting or did I just detect a much more relaxed and open atmosphere in the supermarket today after our U.K. election results? Not just a sense of relief but also a hint of a bit of faith in the rest of humanity restored.