Having done enough special consideration applications in my time to know, these systems are always *outrageously* lenient (and for good reason!) that there is absolutely no way this was anything but anti-Palestinian prejudice. This is beyond fucked.

For no particular reason I keep telling people to check out notime.now

Not that anyone cares but yes this is illegal

The world’s largest meatpacker, JBS, has dropped its zero deforestation and "Net Zero by 2040" goals in its latest review. Environmental groups noted that indirect emissions from cattle and supplier farms make up the vast majority of the company's footprint. @shannahl.bsky.social reports.

On a day when Michigan was suffocated by smoke from fossil fuel charged wildfires, Governor Whitmer approved construction of a new oil pipeline project under the Great Lakes. www.jsonline.com/story/news/e...

There's no fossil fuel based energy security in the age of ubiquitous cheap long-range attack drones.

One of the best hard cuts I’ve ever seen

NEW: I spoke to multiple people impacted by the job cuts at Xbox to understand how the latest round of mass layoffs played out and what it means for the embattled video game division moving forward. This is their story.

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Oh cool, I got a text about this yesterday

What

Coldest summer of the rest of your life

The extreme weather we have now is not the new normal. It’s going to keep getting worse as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels.

A 15mw turbine burns the equivalent of 450 gallons of gasoline/hr. 40 of them at a single site is like having 10 thousand cars idling in one spot. You can talk unit level efficiency all you want but some of these data centers, like xAI are almost incomprehensible in terms of stuff combusted

Lately I keep finding myself returning to this sentiment from an old Alexander Cockburn piece... and finding it still resonates all these years later. "Alex, is your hate pure?" "Yes, Jim, my hate is pure."

President Xi, please save us from the evil space overlords of perpetual daylight!!!!!!!!!!

China's crude oil imports fell by no less than 41% on year in June and 11% in the first half of the year. Fossil gas imports were down 3% in H1 while coal imports were up 2% but still down 10% compared with 2024.

Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

Fave: .PDF – but with the caveat that it has only been since Apple finally fixed the bug in preview that made highlighting an absolute nightmare Least fave: .R01, .R02, etc... – nothing needs to be split into multiple rar files! Please stop! The world has moved beyond this.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

“With the July runs now in… it looks like this year’s El Niño is not only very likely to be the strongest event since reliable records began – it may end up the strongest by a truly mind-blowing margin.” open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

These deaths are on the hands of politicians who failed to act over years. Putting profit over our safety refusing to take action - now failing to protect us from its impact. We need maximum working temperatures. Insulated homes. Cooling in schools, hospitals and care homes.

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

The only sane and rational response (esp. from other parts of the world looking on in utter disgust) to the entire strategic affair is to make the Middle East largely irrelevant, by getting the fuck off fossil fuels via electrotech, + making the most of free & abundant sunshine w/ battery storage.

The genocide continues after a brief pause

Pro-Palestine activists unfurled a giant Palestinian flag and a banner on London's Tower Bridge, calling for the release of gravely ill Gaza hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safia from Israeli detention, where he has been held for more than 500 days.

very important piece about swift parrots and logging in tasmania by adam holmes today www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Really good Lindsay Graham obit from No01 open.substack.com/pub/no01/p/m...

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

20/ CHEAP COLD AIR should not be a luxury when world is heating dangerously China has expanded very FAST to become worlds largest AC country. No longer a luxury item for city households. Lots of rural Chinese homes have ACs now. ~80% of Chinese homes have ACs (IEA) www.iea.org/commentaries...

Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (2002) how the did they get the water to look like that, this is incredible I don't mean the reflections, look at the shape of the wave as it moves, the lighting, the glow.. This and the game loop are **amazing** and needs to be studied This is lost technology oh my god

We counted, so you don’t have to. Insane is the number of things Jillian Segal actually HERSELF conceded she had no evidence for, or backflipped on, but went completely unreported. www.lamestream.com.au/we-counted-a...

Oh in Africa. Okay

imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out

need you all to see this deeply indescribable cooking video

Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: Last week: 97.4% RE Last 254 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/5)

The following article contains many more details, assumptions & FAQs about my simulation, including what is ‘Other’, estimates of cost ($126/MWh), emissions, required capacity, scale factors, analysis of the most challenging days & much more (end) reneweconomy.com.au/near-100-pct...

There’s a scene in the dystopian sci-fi movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is riding in an autonomous vehicle that gets remotely commandeered by the police to bring him into custody. The audience is supposed to see this as flagrant disregard for privacy and due process.

more information on how layoffs have impacted microsoft studios continues to trickle out. today I've confirmed that blizzard china suffered layoffs, and id software lost around half its staff just as it released dlc that required "significant" crunch

“I’ve worked in roofing, construction, insulation, house building, glass factories... group homes for disabled and violent adults, gas stations, food service, customer service... Out of every industry I’ve worked in, I have never struggled financially or mentally as hard as I have working here.”

Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Oh god. They're going to try to Roblox-ify Xbox, aren't they. Lean into UGC and the free labor that comes with. Sheezus.

‼️ DOUBLED 1000-YR THRESHOLD There was a remarkable record shattered today near Sandusky, Ohio. 17” of rain in one day! The old state record is 10.75” The 1-in-1000 year threshold is only 8.41” in this spot. So this wasn’t just a 1-in-1000 year type event. It was basically impossible, until now!

**Every politician in Ireland should be forced to read this.** Excellent reporting; a bit of digging reveals how makey-uppy AI/tech industry & govt figures are re: job creation, use of renewables, drain on the grid & community funding. NB Ireland!! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The insanity of the world summarised in two headlines "US fossil fuel power spending to beat China for the first time in decades" "Heat dome over eastern US sends electricity prices soaring"

Good Evening, “video games” was a 45 year sociological study conducted by hardware development industries. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.