Now out, an Open Access article on Essex's 1973 "Design Guide", which fundamentally shaped the design of housing in England: doi.org/10.1080/0266.... Thank you to @rproctor.bsky.social @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social & others for encouragement & comments, and @britishacademy.bsky.social for funding

Woah boy. Record NS oil price. The last time it was nearly this high? The Global Financial Crisis www.ft.com/content/f04a...

For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

This article shows clearly how low the bar is when it comes to countering the mainstreaming of far-right politics Sure, Magyar is less worse than Orban but he's a former Fidesz loyalist, he is further right on immigration and he's in line on many other issues www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

It's not that helpful that #CriticalInfrastructure is a policy discourse used to legitimise #fossilfuel stockpiling in a similar manner to #CriticalMinerals does (though I have reservations with the degree to which material supply is solely a construction)

Let's stop referring to #AI as #infrastructure and start referring to it as #RealEstate - infrastructure for what? Public utilities provide common goods—such as water—through infrastructure, common goods that AI tends to erode.

ICYMI: “.. Almost half of the US data centers planned for this year are expected to be delayed or canceled. One big reason is the shortage of electrical equipment, such as transformers, switchgear and batteries.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I’ve known Lebanon for three decades. What’s happening now is an invasion. This is Gaza 2.0 – and the world is barely paying attention. @CaroleCadwalladr for the Nerve Link 🔽

Does @technologyreview.com not understand the data on #energy #supply and #demand? Staggeringly low editorial standards enabling #AI hubris. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/08/1...

With all the uncritical coverage of the Artemis 2 moon mission, thought it would be timely to post “Whitey on the moon” from Gil Scott Heron “A rat done bit my sister Nell. (with Whitey on the moon) I can't pay no doctor bills. (but Whitey's on the moon) youtu.be/3nzoPopQ7V0

"Transformative Design Frames: A transdisciplinary model to support designing for sustainability transitions" #TransitionDesign #SystemicDesign systemic-design.org/contexts/ann...

Of course AOC is the only one with the nuts to warn people in the chain of command that acting on Trump's illegal orders is a crime they can be tried for. Literally, she is the only person who has a moral claim to the Democratic nomination. I just hope voters see it. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

New on the podcast: Helen Thompson joins @piercepenniless.bsky.social to discuss Iran and the oil crisis, exploring how energy requirements helped Trump to secure the backing of major US corporations in the 2024 presidential election. Listen on our website: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Yeah this is literally the purpose of these products. I don't mean this in a "kids these days" kind of way. EdTech companies, and the feckless education bosses who team up with them, want education to be a credential-generating machine in which learners act like customers and teachers act like cops

Can we stop this? This is entirely irrelevant to IHL. This will be a war crime, and likely a crime against humanity. It's not a curiosity to be debated for clicks. It's heinous and we all need to start Calling Things What They Are.

I could appreciate this kind of humility if it didn't feel like a blatant attempt to avoid legal liability.

Read this: epic waste on consultants by uni VCs, superbly critiqued by @gsoh31.bsky.social. We need a positive substitute to this "hawking". There's a gaping gulf between uni practice + real research on the "Big Con" by @rosiecollington.bsky.social[email protected] www.ft.com/content/5032...

#LNG terminals make gas prices volatile because tankers can be diverted on route, on a whim. Imagine if whims were a driving force in politics? safetybeforelng.ie #SayNotoLNG #SafetyBeforeLNG #LNG

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

On this day, a declaration for the rights of the moon is timely www.centerforenvironmentalrights.org/declaration-... #RoN #LunarRights

Confessors in Harmony. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

Ecological Marxism doing rudimentary macro-economic #lifecyle #design www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Large-scale #decommissioning end-of-life of #copper is now a thing. www.ftthcouncil.eu/resources/al...

This is the situation we find ourselves in

"Largely" here = design enabled unequal exchange and this is also why a #lifecycle approach can recompose this obfuscations in #EUE theory.

A critique of #EcologicallyUnequalExchange theory: "a distinction between value production (by labour) and value capture (largely by capital), and the latter is what mainly gives rise to unequal exchange at numerous points along the chain" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

MIT AI Risk Database - airisk.mit.edu

Imperialist Designs and the Green Transition #SelfFunded #PhD #DoctoralResearch #GreenTransitions www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Capitalism as World Ecology jasonwmoore.com/wp-content/u...

Truly excellent analysis of the absurdity of US war on Iran. "The United States is purchasing, with Chinese currency, oil from the country it is currently bombing?!"

Oh my God. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

"Unlike during previous oil shocks, renewable power is now competitive with fossil fuels in many places. More than 90% of new renewable power projects worldwide in 2024 were cheaper than fossil-fuel alternatives, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency." apnews.com/article/midd...

"Unlike during previous oil shocks, renewable power is now competitive with fossil fuels. >90% of new renewable power projects in 2024 were cheaper than fossil-fuel alternatives. Nations w more renewable power are more insulated since renewables are not imported fuels.” apnews.com/article/midd...

I'm looking for recommendations for good critical papers on #ServiceDesign and #capitalism in relation to #Transitions.

The ENTSO-E final report on the 28 April 2025 #IberianBlackout was just published, discussing the causes of the blackout and providing recommendations. Here's a summary from Ember's Senior Analyst Dr Chris Rosslowe 🗣️👇

Trump is Strangling Cuba to Death defector.com/donald-trump...

Liberally peppered throughout this one book is ample evidence for the pre-enlightenment externalisation of #nature from #culture, a #binary explicitly attributed, in my field, to the advances of #Decartes. www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Book...

US abandons Syria's Kurds, risking regional turmoil and IS resurgence theconversation.com/us-abandons-...

Really enjoyed the @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social premiere today! A must-watch, as soon as you get the chance. www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

A social media ban for under-16s would be popular. But would it actually help? Our Big Tech editor James Clayton shares his thoughts 👇

more countries should do this, tbh.

The Board of Peace - Dallas mashup has apparently been taken down here and there. This video works for the time being at least:

A great way to realise sovereign renewable energy infrastructure and alleviate dependence on despots, East or West, is to not invest billions in new #LNG infrastructure for fracked US fossil gas imports, Ireland. www.thejournal.ie/ireland-nort...

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

If I was to write this article again, I would focus on how regions as distant and connected as the West of Ireland/Scotland, Newfoundland and Greenland have sisterly geomorphologies with research actively funded to observe this relation. fojournal.org/policy/when-...

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/

Remember that the UK has far, far weaker protections against state power than did the US. And the latter folded up like a pack of cards. The US is a warning from the British future.

'If the bubble bursts we will be fine'—'we' doing a lot of work there.

""It’s hard to script a clearer emblem of what I’ve called education’s auto-cannibalism: universities consuming their own purpose while cheerfully marketing the tools of their undoing."

Just discussing at what age kittens stop being kittens. Did a google search to find out and what on earth is going on here? I don't want to know the length "without tail" of an imaginary cat