Raechel Kelly
Climate action, regenerative thinking, doughnut economics, circular economy. Mum stuff & rollerskates. Solo project The Liminality & local project Planet Cheltenham.
- Reposted by Raechel KellyIf nothing is done & the existing trend prevails, there will be 106 road deaths on Birmingham’s streets under the next council administration’s four year tenure ☠️ Imagine there was a poison gas leak in Birmingham that was projected to kill that many people, & politicians had no real plans to fix it
- We hooked up our rainwater collection tank about 6 weeks ago on our new charity building and it’s already full! Glos and the rest of the south west can’t take much more rain.
- Reposted by Raechel KellyIt's the Ship of Theseus but all the original parts are being used to build a second, crappier ship.
- Truly the Mondayest of Mondays today.
- Reposted by Raechel KellyBREAKING NEWS: UK loses its #measles elimination status @benk-d.bsky.social highlights failure to reach 95% measles #vaccine coverage target in UK + need for secure funding for vaccine outreach efforts & joined-up #PublicHealth response Read more: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
- Reposted by Raechel Kelly“professional grade logistics” is literally just moms existing
- Reposted by Raechel KellyTwo things to learn from this. 1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors. 2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
- Reposted by Raechel Kelly"Single ship load of solar PV – which can ultimately deliver 170 terawatt hours of PV once installed, is now worth 120 coal carries, or 57 LNG tankers"
- I mean….
- Reposted by Raechel Kelly"Hans, are we on the board of peace?"
- Be more lichen.
- How to be a lichen – adaptive strategies from Earth's tiny titans of resilience www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/02/l...
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- Reposted by Raechel KellyLike there’s a ton of individual issues but the broader problem is that there’s an assault on giving a shit about anyone besides yourself, nihilism that tells people the only way to prevent getting hurt is to hurt enough other people and that sickness is filtering into the bones of everything.
- Reposted by Raechel KellyNicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
- This is also true about some climate folks, honestly the most frustrating thing about it is that it’s never the people doing loads IRL (organising, leveraging agency, building community and collectives) but just people hyper online arguing with bots mostly. Joy and humour are ok peeps, touch grass.
- I assume nothing noteworthy happened in the news today. I couldn’t keep up to date as I had to snuggle these kittens. Highly recommend as a strategy for getting through the day. I also looked at the big moon.
- Reposted by Raechel Kellybabe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes
- Reposted by Raechel KellyExpect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
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- I haven’t listened yet because I know I’ll cry 🍞 🌹
- Reposted by Raechel KellyRegular degular neighbors and coworkers throwing themselves directly at the fash and teaching their people to do the same. Not the most radical or the most Democrat, not the youngest or smartest or loudest, just people who give a shit discovering they were the ones they were waiting for.
- Reposted by Raechel KellyMeanwhile, writes Gardiner, ExxonMobil 'assured investors that its plans to increase petrochemical production by 80 percent by 2050 will help the industry to pump and sell even more oil at mid-century than it does today.' 4/5 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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- Reposted by Raechel KellyNew research found that Instacart is charging shoppers different prices — despite ordering the same items from the same store at the same time. The price differences could amount to an extra $1,200 a year for the average household of four. Corporate greed is out of control.
- Reposted by Raechel KellyThree-year temperature average set to exceed 1.5C for first time on.ft.com/3MnJ8nQ
- The importance of a pint being proved here. 🍺
- 1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- I’ve accidentally just watched FIFA give Trump a world peace prize and it was the most disgusting sycophantic fascism fest and I wish I didn’t own a tv or eyes.
- Reposted by Raechel KellyClean tech spending may hit record high in US this year—DESPITE the political climate. A structural shift: the transition is increasingly independent from temporary political will. Falling costs, long-term investment cycles & state-level momentum are driving growth. www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
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- Reposted by Raechel Kelly16,000 chemicals in plastic 4100 known to be hazardous 10,000 of these chemicals haven't been tested enough to know if they're harmful or not Rising plastic production, rising chemical production - a rising sea of harmful chemicals all around us all the time.
- Reposted by Raechel Kelly“Our greatest natural hazard is flooding, and we don’t prepare people for it”. We absolutely should. This is urgent. Another good reason to sign this petition calling for a National Climate Resilience plan - please do sign & share @climatemajority.bsky.social petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
- Reposted by Raechel Kelly'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' Important new paper from Farhana Sultana rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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- Every other train station in the UK: ‘Here is the platform your train will leave from, feel free to head there with plenty of time, perhaps get a tea or have a sit down.’ Paddington station: ‘We have no way of knowing where any trains are, here is your platform for the train leaving in 90 sec, RUN.’
- Reposted by Raechel KellyPollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’ Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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- Not Alan being both the worst and best Traitor ever #traitors
- Alan in Traitors is Tom in Four Weddings and a Funeral: ‘I think I fooled them so far. The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you.’
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- Reposted by Raechel KellyUtterly scandalous that climate activists are prevented from mentioning climate change in their defence Even worse when one group is and another isn't, yet they're accused of the same offence Our legal system is being turned into a joke
- And in the UK? We’re switching off wind turbines. 🤦♀️
- Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
- Reposted by Raechel KellyZohran Mamdani focused on childcare costs to win the race for New York Mayor, and the UK needs to have the same conversation about how no-cost childcare could help more than just parents. Me for @glamouruk.bsky.social: www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/zohr...
- Reposted by Raechel KellyACTUAL GOOD NEWS WARNING 65% of the planned coal capacity from 2015 ended up not existing, thanks almost entirely to climate policy and renewable energy construction China is an outlier - but maybe not for long @e3g.bsky.social www.e3g.org/publications...
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- Reposted by Raechel KellyTesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit. British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit. Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit. It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.
- Reposted by Raechel KellyClimate scientists don't need to legitimise Gates by giving his statement further attention, he's being deeply unhelpful and he's had enough publicity...
- Reposted by Raechel KellyExclusive: mercury from fillings, belched out of crematoria, is getting into our rivers and fish. More than 98% of fish & mussels tested in English waters contain mercury above proposed EU limits. 43 countries have banned it. Why not here you might ask... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- This was such a joy to be part of, with thanks to @lornaprescott.bsky.social Jo Orchard Webb and everyone at Co Lab Dudley, especially the Dudley People’s School of Climate Justice crew! And especially @bridgetmck.bsky.social ‘s insight and ways of drawing connections 🌍 ❤️ 🌱
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- A reminder from the smallest one today. Some excellent activities at The Wilson in Cheltenham for littlies.
- Half term and the kids are alright. I’m fine with the brain rot if it results in baked goods.
- Reposted by Raechel KellyThat this exquisite chalk stream should be polluted with e-coli, pesticides, cleaning products, industrial chemicals, medicines + toiletries is a tragedy beyond words that could be prevented by improving sewage systems so wastewater is treated 3 times - enough to remove most chemicals + pathogens
- Reposted by Raechel KellyI think we should aim for something better than "not extinct" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
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- I’m almost there with my Stride for Gaza challenge, raising money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social please donate if you are able medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/raechel-k...
- We missed out on funding from a big foundation which would have been perfect for what we need as a charity right now- they said they had hundreds of great applications that were fundable that totalled £30m but only had £2m to give. Surely £28m is pocket change to lots of other funders/foundations?!
- But instead all those amazing orgs will just go without, and have to repeat the whole process again. The system is so broken.
- Was this written… by a car? Lolz to use a photo of miserable traffic.
- Let’s fall in love with cars again on.ft.com/47nn6IG
- Bubble about to pop?
- Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports reut.rs/4opgmAI
- BRB just got to send this to everyone who has ever said ‘feminism has gone too far’. 50% of the population will now be asked about one of the biggest physical changes in their lives, in the year of our lord 2025! FFS.
- Reposted by Raechel Kelly"they fail to link climate action with things that matter to people: food poverty, fuel poverty, air pollution, inequality, job insecurity, lack of housing, unfordable or non-existent healthcare... they are constrained by only being able to offer pragmatic, ‘politically feasible’ centrism?"
- Reposted by Raechel Kelly34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
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- Reposted by Raechel KellyThe U.S. isn't the only place where a right-wing government is trying desperately to turn back the clock on multiple things, including coal. Shanti Mathias on what that looks like in New Zealand, for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/nz-coal
- Reposted by Raechel KellySky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.
- Reposted by Raechel KellyPersonally I think it would be hard to steal a wind farm.
- Now on my 10th attempt to contact my grandmother’s GP to ask for a repeat prescription. Pretty sure the ‘you are number 3 in the q’ phone recording never changes. They have hung up on me twice. Main phone no. doesn’t connect, requested a call back,got a text saying they tried to call but they didn’t
- Reposted by Raechel Kellyafter the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
- Reposted by Raechel Kelly🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published! www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... 1/11
- Reposted by Raechel Kelly🚨New report: how the fossil fuel industry duped successive UK governments into pumping money into costly CCS schemes to ensure continued reliance on oil and gas.
- Reposted by Raechel KellyHow is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
