Mob boss. Not a President.

Can't believe that @Guardian has published this promotional bollox by the CEO of an organisation pushing SRM Trying to cut the temperature while emitting 41 Bt of CO2 a year is like giving a poisoned patient an antidote while administering more poison Insane www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

From Washington to Europe, the same organisations keep appearing – Heritage, Heartland, Koch-linked groups – pushing identical anti-net zero scripts & climate change scepticism. It’s a coordinated, well-funded project of fossil fuel money, think tanks, tech giants & political operatives

Sami Abu Wardeh سامي ابو وردة— #Comedy #Venezuela #BBC [Thanks to @arthurnorman2.bsky.social]

Our economy, our medicine, and the air we breathe are all gifts from healthy ecosystems. Denying the crisis of ecocide means denying our fundamental dependence on the natural world. We can't build a future on a broken foundation. #Nature #Science #Biodiversity

George Carlin, 1937-2008. Sorely missed. #DownWithAmerica

Lewis Goodall grills Labour’s Darren Jones on the UK’s repsonse to the US capture of Nicolás Maduro.

Trump abolished USAID, tore down a third of the White House, is putting his own face on money, kidnapped the leader of a foreign country, and is erecting a monument to himself. But Chuck Schumer just wants to work across the aisle on kitchen table issues rather than impeaching the motherfucker.

From the author of the extremely insightful "Blind into Baghdad"

"We're going to be taking a lot of wealth out of the ground." The American president. Reporters are doing a good job here! Trump is lower than absolute-zero in sanity. Marco, Hegseth, even lower in dignity.

climate implications of what's happening now (US controlling venezuela's oil reserves) are unimaginably bad

ICYMI: Today, the United States of America, under the direction of a mentally unstable president, attacked Venezuela, a sovereign nation, kidnapped its leader and his wife, and declared they are now running the country. It’s exactly as insane as it sounds.

Not the point obv but the US already produces more oil and gas than any country in the history of the world

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

And there ya have it… Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”

ANTARCTICA HOLIDAYS RECORD WARM 25 Dec: Exceptional +8.1C at the Zucchelli Base at latitude 74S. -12.2C at Concordia at 3400m on the Plateau, a new monthly record and 2nd highest in history. ALL TIME RECORD +10.8C Mirnyj Record heat is in every Continent,like never before.

Breaking: 2025 confirmed as CHINA Hottest year on record, breaking the record of 2024. "So strange" China setting new records, it just happens all the time.

Funny how so many US 'interventions' in the name of 'restoring democracy' came after the democratic election of a left-wing government which campaigned to stop US companies stealing its natural resources especially oil ...

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

West Papua Indonesia Earth's oldest living eco system existing for at least 70 million years Look at the 292 square Kilometers of ancient forest cleared in just 21 months Now army brought in to fast track 5 million more acres www.ft.com/content/27a6...

'When you ask an AI model to write you a joke or generate a video of a puppy, that query comes with a small but measurable energy toll and an associated amount of emissions spewed into the atmosphere.' www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

It’s not just Gaza. Netanyahu’s extremist government is supporting the violent annexation of Palestinian land in the West Bank. This is illegal and immoral, and decades of American silence have enabled it. NO MORE MILITARY AID FOR NETANYAHU.

the vice president is a klansman

Never forget this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.

At 4 to 5 C we will see nothing We will no longer exist The basic laws of physics You cannot survive in a hot house Earth

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

The AI industry is deeply dependent on exponential growth to justify the colossal investments being made into it. To say AI is small now so it’s not a huge part of the story has about the wisdom of ignoring the family of mice that just moved into your grain cellar because there’s only a few of them.

Minns fails to understand that real democracy requires concerned citizens demonstrating against inhumanity, genocide, apartheid, colonialism and misuse of power. A Labor Premier must not sacrifice democratic rights on the altar of ill informed, short term, knee jerk reactions.

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Cannot emphasise enough how intensely fascist / violent it is to criminalise the act of being publicly opposed to civilian murder on false pretences It is not hyperbole at all to present these government actions as something that will cause serious harm in a bunch of different ways

I am shocked by Premier Minns- trashing democratic freedoms in NSW to appease authoritarian extremists who characterise the March for Humanity as violent. A violent lie to protect genocide.

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

And so it begins. Minns tries to distract from a security failure in the face of terrorist attack: by suppressing the right to protest. If he was really concerned about "community disharmony", he would stop sucking up to the Israel lobby. #nswpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Peaceful protest against a genocide - by a broad range of Australians - are a concern for Minns. Ok. Now we know. #nswpol #auspol

Minns moves to block peaceful protests in Sydney. Exporting weapons to Israel is still okay www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

Every wondered how many guns are in your suburb? We have built a tool that shows registered firearms by postcode across NSW. www.toomanyguns.org Having access to data can help us all understand how our gun laws are actually working (or failing to work!)

Russell Vought is a scourge, not only for federal workers, but for the country, and, indeed, the entire world. Here's a @us.theguardian.com story via @climatedesk.org on how he's now unapologetically killing the "crown jewel" of US climate research.

Data centres are being marketed as 'vital cogs in the energy transition', but the metaphor is wrong. They're black holes, sucking up time, light, matter and energy from the decarbonisation space and redeploying it to protecting big tech's profits. www.businessinsider.com/ford-data-ce...

The way in which these people are so transparently evil, and so transparent in their desire to enact violence and reinforce existing oppressions, will never cease to be astonishing. The only thing more astonishing than that is the average person’s willingness to tolerate it.

There has never been, and there will never be, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The reason for this is that—under Netanyahu—Israel is a genocidal rogue state whose signature on any document is meaningless. American media did Trump a solid by pretending that a wholly illusory ceasefire exists.

Contender for word of the year 2026 Enshitteducation www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

"we’re trapped in a nightmare in which even the act of hating AI-generated content only serves to fuel it" oof. @floreani.bsky.social on the money, as usual! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.” Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...

AI is a Performance of Progress, Not the Real Thing. Despite driving "growth", AI is failing to improve anyone's life, and its harms are piling up. substack.com/home/post/p-...

An excellent analysis of the seismic shift in geopolitics that has just occurred - US hegemony has just torn off the mask of legitimacy and soft power and reverted to naked coercion - an empire is terminal decline...!

AI and its massive energy needs is the latest iteration of creative self-destruction in a worsening climate crisis! “Ravenous big tech is here to feast on our resources — and its lobbying playbook is only just getting started” @crikey_news www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/b...

“I’ve been amazed by the groundswell of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to this....everyone is affected by this, the opposition has been across the political spectrum. A lot of people don’t see the benefits coming from AI and feel they will be paying for it"

Funny how that worked out: “Russia has welcomed US President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy, calling it ‘largely consistent’ with Moscow's vision.” bbc.com/news/article...

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