Meta pulls Facebook ads for social media addiction clients The Facebook owner recently lost a landmark social media addiction trial in California

Facebook apparently can't police for fraud, or child safety.

But it *can* find and block class action lawyer ads at will... 🤔 weird.

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How community energy projects are supporting local decarbonisation, resilience and public engagement. Our CEO and founder Giovanna Speciale will be speaking at Solar & Storage Live on 30 April, 1.50pm at Excel London.

How community energy projects are supporting local decarbonisation, resilience and public engagement 💡💙

Our CEO and founder Giovanna Speciale will be speaking at Solar & Storage Live on 30 April, 1.50pm at Excel London.

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March 2026 newsletter

this month: Selce’s 6th Share Offer has reached its target! Selce Founder Speaks at Westminster on Fuel Poverty Alleviation Selce at Telegraph Hill Festival (now past) Campaign for Community Energy to Be Able to Sell Energy Directly to Local Homes and Businesses

“In my view, energy advisors who provide: – in-person – locally connected – one-to-one energy advice are essential to any fully marketised energy retail system The Warm Home’s Plan envisages a national digital energy advice service. In my opinion, this would not meet the needs of the most vulnerable consumers: only locally embedded community groups can do that.” - Selce CEO & Founder Giovanna Speciale

Sweetness and (LED) light - in case you missed it, the latest Selce newsletter went out earlier this week - highlights below.

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I spoke this week at Department for Energy Security and Net Zero's Community Energy Day 2026 on on our fuel poverty alleviation work. Here are some of the key points I made: We have a fully… | Gi... I spoke this week at Department for Energy Security and Net Zero's Community Energy Day 2026 on on our fuel poverty alleviation work. Here are some of the key points I made: We have a fully marketise...

This week our founder Giovanna spoke at Department for Energy (DESNZ) Community Energy Day 2026 on fuel poverty alleviation - read a quick summary of what she said: www.linkedin.com/posts/giovan...

Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.

I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/

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Thanks 😀 Opening up Land Registry would have loads of benefits - environmentally, to scrutinise who’s responsible for habitat destruction; to investigate money laundering; to better understand who benefits from agricultural subsidies & tax breaks; to visualise inequality; to help community buyouts

222 energy efficent lightbulbs funded, 63 to go! (Or the equivalent of - our project goes beyond bulbs + installation, as you can read about on the site and share offer doc.)

If we hit our target before 27th then the work can be done over the Easter Holidays - meaning pupils and staff will enjoy all the benefits of improved lighting when they return to school.

Invest at selce.org.uk/shares. Please note that Selce is neither qualified nor authorised to offer investment advice. Those interested in participating should make their own assessment of the offer, should take note of any risk factors described in the documents, and may wish to take independent financial advice. Capital at risk.

We are close - Let's hit our target by 27/3, invest today!

222 💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡 funded, 63 💡💡 to go.

For SE London
For a cleaner fairer future, and
For Marvels Lane Primary in Lewisham.

💙💡 www.selce.org.uk/shares.

Energy-efficient and flicker-free - Selce's new share offer is all about LEDs Nadia Smith, co-chair at South East London Community Energy (Selce) introduces their latest project to install LED lighting at Marvels Lane Primary School, Lewisham.

@seloncommenergy.bsky.social co-chair Nadia Smith in @salamandernews.org -

"This is our second share offer to focus on installing energy efficient, flicker-free LED lighting instead.

"Here’s why it’s as important and effective - if not more so - than solar..."

Please note that Selce is neither qualified nor authorised to offer investment advice. Those interested in participating should make their own assessment of the offer, should take note of any risk factors described in the documents, and may wish to take independent financial advice. Capital at risk.

After 10 days @seloncommenergy.bsky.social reached 54% target for our 6th share offer! 🎉

Massive thanks to everyone who has invested so far 💙

Members - if you haven't yet, please do get your completed investment application form in soon, or risk missing out. (available on selce.org.uk/shares).

invest at selce.org.uk/shares

@seloncommenergy.bsky.social has reached 36% of its share offer target in one week 🎉

Or in 💡 terms, that's 103/285 - just the odd 182 💡 to go.

Please help us keep up the momentum by sharing the link with anyone you know who might want to invest in SE London & help Marvels Lane save £79,000.

Selce Feb newsletter

Selce’s 6th Share Offer is Live! Invest in a cleaner, fairer future for SE London Zack Polanski Highlights Funding Challenges in Fuel Poverty Support & Selce’s Service at GLA How a London Energy Co-op is Trying to Bring Power to the People Selce Co-Chair Kate Parker Comments on the Local Power Plan Understanding How Much Devices and Appliances in the Home Cost to Run Selce at the Telegraph Hill Festival

“The whole process starts with schools or other community organisations getting in touch with us to say they would like help... We do feasibility studies and technical surveys, looking at the business case, and once we know it is feasible we raise community shares. “For LEDs there is a similar business model. We retrofit the lighting to access lower energy costs and charge an annual fee less than half of the cost of incandescent lighting.” - Selce CEO & Founder Giovanna Speciale

Seeing the (LED) light - in case you missed it, the latest Selce newsletter went out last week - featuring our new share offer, @zackpolanski.bsky.social on fuel poverty funding, Telegraph Hill Festival & more.

Read in full: buff.ly/cD9j9Ga

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In case you missed it on Friday, our 6th share offer is now live! Thanks to our first two investors who joined us over the weekend 💙💡

With share offer VI, our mission is to: 💡 Raise £39,000 for lighting improvements at Marvels Lane Primary School. 💡 Save the school £79,000 over 10 years, and 71,000kg in CO2e emissions.

💡 Achieve this with no upfront cost to the school. 💡 Any project surplus also goes to supporting our fuel poverty alleviation programme.

Invest Today at: selce.org.uk/shares Please note that Selce is neither qualified nor authorised to offer investment advice. Those interested in participating should make their own assessment of the offer, should take note of any risk factors described in the documents, and may wish to take independent financial advice. Capital at risk.

In case you missed it, on Friday, our 6th share offer went live...

Thanks to our first two investors who joined us over the weekend 🎉🎉

Please share this message so we can reach more potential members & hit our target!

Our latest share offer is now live & we have our 1st 2 investors!

Our last reached its target in record time, so don't risk missing out:

1. Read the share offer doc
2. Complete the online application form
3. Enable one Lewisham school to save £79,000 over 10 years & 71k kg CO2e.

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The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

“I come from a long line of people making things shitty. My father was an enshittificator, his father before him… It’s a proud tradition in my family.” vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

(Norwegian Consumer Council / Forbrukarrådet)

Invest in a fairer future 💙.

Up the energy campaign

The Local Power Plan is a big step forward for community energy – but barriers remain. We support @community energy england’s Up the Energy campaign, which is calling on the Government to build on it, delivering the changes still required to make local power reach its potential, making sure that every community can share in the benefits of a cleaner, fairer energy future:

- Deliver on the Local Power Plan and Warm Homes Plan - Guarantee a fair export price for community-generated electricity - Prioritise community projects in grid connection queues - Support local supply models, public sector purchasing and shared ownership - Provide access to public land and rooftop for community energy Find out more about the campaign, get involved and sign up for updates here: uptheenergy.co.uk

The Local Power Plan is a big step forward for community energy – but barriers remain.

We support @commenergyengland.bsky.social Up the Energy campaign, calling on the Government to build on it, so every community can share in the benefits of a cleaner, fairer energy future:

uptheenergy.co.uk

@seloncommenergy.bsky.social co-chair @kateaparker.bsky.social with some thoughts on the Local Power Plan, announced by Dept of Energy/Desnz earlier this week

Our co-chair Kate was present at the launch of the Local Power Plan earlier this week - she said:

“The Local Power Plan recognises the multiple interconnected impacts that community energy projects have, and the potential for community wealth building that they offer. The £1bn investment demonstrates a commitment to supporting and growing this model, with a vision that ‘by 2030, every community in the UK will have the opportunity to own a local energy project’.

“The plan builds on the knowledge, experience and success of community energy groups across the UK and the ‘working with’ not ‘doing to’ approach is welcomed. “The intention to listen to what community groups are saying, and to act as a connector between various stakeholders, is positive. “In particular the recognition of Local Authorities as key partners in the Local Power Plan, with targeted support, has the potential to make a big difference at a practical level.“

“The longer-term ambitions to explore and support a wider range of local energy business models, for example through the Local Energy Platform and Smart Community Energy, is exciting and I look forward to seeing this develop.” As Department for Energy Secretary of State Ed Miliband MP put it: “it’s a glimpse of a different economy”.

“The plan builds on the knowledge, experience and success of community energy groups across the UK and the ‘working with’ not ‘doing to’ approach is welcomed."

Our co-chair @kateaparker.bsky.social was present at the launch of the government's Local Power Plan earlier this week - buff.ly/0czObIb

online radicalisation can hit anyone, regardless of their wealth, standing, or even owning a Premier League football team.

Or is it just me reading it like this? (sorry to get heavy)

We speak to Giovanna Speciale, CEO of South East London Community Energy, about its work towards an inclusive transition

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so a month ago I was reading @markpackuk.bsky.social’s speech on Twitter in the lords and there were obviously fake stats the government used to justify Twitter’s UK reach and its continued importance to British audiences

Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter

dominic cummings in perfume ad

only one man can sort this out

SE Water hosepipe ban lifted

SE Water HQ: We've had 4 rounds of flooding in your area, so I thiiiiiiiink it's okay to restart watering your (waterlogged) garden 🥴

will just add in the above video that Farage is effectively saying, "anyone who disagrees w me must be a bloody pauper"... mask drop. Is this what passes for the common touch?

Thanks to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for raising the issue of funding for fuel poverty support at City Hall...

This is a positive result from our recent Crowdfunder, as part of which we contacted as many local MPs, councillors & GLA members about this & asked for their support.

I'm sorry but chocolate will never be as addictive as heroin

The LEFTBible on Instagram: "Chick chick chick chick chickennnnn @nigel_farage" 2,262 likes, 254 comments - theleftbible on February 3, 2026: "Chick chick chick chick chickennnnn @nigel_farage".

‘He’s got a fan club… all the errr heroin smokers’ 🤔

WHO said it, Farage or Partridge? @accidentalp.bsky.social

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Thanks to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for highlighting current challenges in funding fuel poverty support + the value of Selce's in-person service at the GLA last week.

@greenparty.org.uk @greenwich.greenparty.org.uk @londongreenparty.bsky.social