From a Surrey oil well to the supreme court: how @sarahfinch.bsky.social changed UK climate law.

"On a sunny morning in June 2024, almost five years after Finch began her legal challenge, the decision came. The climate impact of burning coal, oil and gas must be taken into account when deciding whether to approve projects, wherever that burning takes place, the court ruled.

It was a small change in interpretation of the Town and Country Planning Act, but the effect was momentous. Permission for the Cumbria coalmine was quashed by the high court. The government spent a year rewriting guidance for the offshore oil and gas industry, pulling support from #Jackdaw and #Rosebank, which were then ruled unlawful.

The Finch ruling has been one of the most groundbreaking environmental cases of the century. But it is already under threat."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/20/from-a-surrey-oil-well-to-the-supreme-court-how-an-activist-changed-uk-climate-law

some days i eat nothing, other days i end up having several meals

that's right, i have food poissoning

People are allowed to use the Fediverse differently than you do.

No, your preferences are not norms or mores.

Not every post is about you. (Almost none of them are, in fact.)

Not every piece of advice has to be relevant to you to be valuable.

Nobody owes you a hashtag.

People can post pictures of things you find uninteresting or distasteful. (Yes, they should use alt text.)

People are allowed to post their work.

People are allowed to *promote* their work.

People are allowed to ask for help, including monetary help.

There is more than one thing going on in the world right now.

There is more than one way to help.

That joke is not about politics and doesn't benefit from your reply trying to make it about Trump.

That woman wasn't asking a question.

And yes, she gets her own joke without you explaining it to her.

Linux is *sometimes* the answer.

A new report by Investigate Europe details how US tech giants (incl. Google, Amazon and Meta) aggressively and successfully lobbied EU regulators and politicians to keep the environmental harm caused by their euro-zone datacenters secret from the public.

https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/big-tech-data-centres-secrecy-eu-law-environment-footprint

#bigtech #environment #climate #digitalimperialism

Do you like strange electronic instruments, algorave, and modular synthesisers?

Would you like to play at EMF or help us run a tiny new music stage?

Say hello! Or email [email protected]

In today's episode of #museum tales:

We have a Trip Advisor review berating us for being woke and it's such an endorsement of every
single point we were trying to make when we did the refurb that I might try to get it out on a marketing poster.