And in a country like Belgium, Tesla sales went down -50% in one year. Let this be a lesson to all that going far right is bad for business

True today as it was then. That is, if our rulers stop foisting surrender deals and submission on us as they did in 2025.

One thing 2025 made clear: Durable progress on climate in the US will require structural reform to our corrupted political systems. Otherwise, steps forward will always be vulnerable to the bloody clawbacks we saw this year. A political strategy that doesn't center system reform is not "pragmatic."

About ten years in between these pics in Piran and Genoa respectively, still rooting for the protein transition; and especially in the meantime have truly discovered the secrets (and delights) of #tofu 👌

American fascists taking the cue from European fascists of the past

Projects like @tournevie.bsky.social prefigure a joyful and hopeful future. When the bubble bursts, models such as ours stand ready to provide economic and democratic security in contrast to the problematic techbro capitalist AI fever dream that divides and crushes people's agency and creativity 💪

RT @mazmhussain.bsky.social "The U.S. crackdown on Latin America is largely about pushing China out of the neighborhood and pivoting to a strategy of hemispheric defense instead of trying to contain China on its own turf. The trends in the below map in Latin America are unacceptable to Washington:

People keep figuring this out. One by one we'll get there.

The rest of the west is our only bet ft.trib.al/OtOJKiP

On the Trump admin's new national security strategy: "an imperialist strategy of primitive accumulation masquerading as a culture-warrior grand strategy." www.un-diplomatic.com/p/primitive-...

Flagging #Brussels and #Rome. Your imagined problems with the reparation loan are putting in jeopardy the safety of Ukraine and Europe.

Steengoed artikel in DS. De geïnterviewde experts leggen de vinger op de wonde wat betreft de modernisering (en per definitie vergroening) van chemie: het blijvend subsidiëren van de fossiele status quo, ondanks de miljardendividenden die weglekken uit ons land. 1/3 www.standaard.be/economie/hee...

We zoeken een collega in ons team!

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Another 'peace deal' brokered by Trump that isn't worth the paper it's written on. Will media outlets finally start tearing down Trump's delusional claim of being a harbinger of peace? And can FIFA mobster G. Infantino reclaim his newly invented 'peace prize' please? www.reuters.com/world/africa...

The alliance between Putin and Trump to destroy the EU and liberal democracy should be our first priority in the coming years.

Let the good times roll! 🥳 The orange man's approval rating continues to tank. Given that people find the state of the economy the most important issue by far, his disastrous economic and trade policies will continue to weaken his approval rating even more 👌 www.economist.com/interactive/...

ANYWAY Buy from small businesses Buy from independent creators Buy passion projects Buy commissions Buy art In a society that's decided that money is final word, be aware of where yours goes and to support what Yes it sucks, I don't like it either, but pretending it's not a thing does not help!

Finally some fresh ideas in the talks about ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

EU 2035 latest: The oil lobby’s push for an EU biofuels loophole could create an unsustainable demand for animal fats and used cooking oil – the equivalent of 120 pigs per car. A 🧵 on what this loophole would mean for Europe’s limited supply of advanced biofuels 👇

Very good interview and important fact-checking.

Reminder for EU Commission not to touch its CO2 emissions targets for cars and vans (a foolish move that’s on the cards, unfortunately). Slowing down incentives to bring EVs on the market will only hurt EU industry making them lose out to Chinese manufacturers.

Hoping to see another wave of people moving from the cesspit to Bsky! www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Conservatives and the far right have just torpedoed legislation in the European Parliament that would hold businesses accountable for mismanagement and human and environmental right violations. Adults take their responsibility, but that’s not what the right does apparently 😒

"data centers already accounted for 22% of Ireland's total electricity consumption in 2024. In the Dublin/Meath area, where a third of Ireland's population lives, 48% of the electricity was used by data centers in 2023." @abeba.bsky.social & @krisshrishak.bsky.social ✍🏼 www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

[wild speculation voice] a significant portion of LA's hyper obsessive health, fitness, and hiking culture can likely be attributed to the primal subconscious compensating reaction of living in a car dependent wasteland that is antithetical to the existence of people or even life itself.

Troll level 👌

The Big Lebowski

Het nieuwste speeltuig voor de rijken zal volgens de CEO "de levensstijl van *veel mensen* veranderen.” Een recept uit het klassieke draaiboek: presenteer deze nachtmerrie alsof iedereen het zich kan aanschaffen om publiek protest te vermijden 👎 www.standaard.be/economie/de-...

It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.

Very predictable

There's an army of people out there telling us change is impossible. Only that it is not. 10 years ago electric vehicles plaid almost no role in global car sales. Today one in five cars sold worldwide is electric.

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Really? If there’s one political ‘leader’ who’s proactively dismantled the EU is Manfred Weber - from enabling Viktor Orban, flirting with far-right parties and now governing with them in the EP to scrapping the green deal and next I’ll be the digital rulebook He should act on what he preaches!

Meanwhile, CEOs make 280 times the typical worker today. The system is rigged.

As predicted, the EU is ready to dismantle its Digital Rulebook as it did with the Green Deal. It does so upon US administration’s demand and under Big Tech pressure. It’s a self-inflicted political decision putting the EU on a deregulatory turn on.ft.com/47vqFOl

Financial consultants Deloitte conclude: the environmental damage done by Dutch agriculture (€18.6 billion/year) exceeds its total economic added value (€13.3 billion/year). Emissions of greenhouse gases, nitrogen deposition, and biodiversity loss due to agricultural activities dominate the damage.

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

What if EU simplification agenda is exactly what Trump wants from Europe? A self defeating move depriving itself of its only super-power Listen to @euscream.bsky.social with @jameskanter.bsky.social

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to do wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables unless onsite. But what critics conveniently forget is huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Texas. 👇

Public understanding doesn't get to be this wrong just by accident ! Here's looking at you Tufton Street -Fleet street nexus 🤨

Wow. Bill Gates Foundation donates millions to long time climate disinformer Bjorn Lomborg and Lomborg advises Gates on climate.

Dit rapport van #Fairfin is een verfrissend geluid in het huidige industriedebat. Terwijl de export van chemische producten recordhoogtes bereikt, wil de sector niet alleen subsidies maar ook het kaltstellen van EU vergroeningsmaatregelen. Dat is een heilloos pad. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Powerful op-ed by @alemanno.bsky.social on the modus operandi of duplicitous rightwing MEPs not having any probles with dark money funded thinktanks and their ideas, while killing civil society in Europe that is supposed to hold policymakers to account. euobserver.com/eu-political...

This is how it’s done 👌

Excellent investigation in (direct) subsidy schemes mulled over in European capitals. It’s a bad idea. Pursuing dependence on the status quo is a losing strategy. @greens-efa.eu paper says we need strategic investments and choices, instead of blank check handouts. www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/p...

Interesting and influential position at the European Parliament 👇 Bonus: you will be working closely together with me and people from a few other offices 😊 groenlinkspvda.nl/beleidsmedew...

Great summary of the ongoing AI hype 👌

we need to get used to international politics without fixed US 'positions'. Until Trump II the key for US presidents (and other democratic leaders) was credibiity. If they shifted position, it *meant* something. Trump's modus operandi is to keep everyone guessing all of the time. This won't go away.