I think what is going to happen is that lab-grown meat will gradually catch up with real animals and when that happens we will all quietly admit that the vegans were right about factory farming

If you feel overwhelmed, remember that you can still make a difference doing little things. A compliment or word of encouragement, a tip to a favorite takeout place, a donation to a local charity, an email to your favorite author, time with a pet, a walk outside, or a phone call to a loved one.

Every senator let through the unanimous consent to make the whole thing take 5 minutes. Every one of them is lying to you about their opposition

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...

Live your life in such a way that literally every single day’s readings doesn’t seem like the universe is personally telling you off for being a shit.

“Climate-related disasters displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 people every day. Floods, storms, drought & extreme heat are driving displacement, alongside slow-onset disasters threatening food & water security.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when

The fact that rich people are buying up the media and politicians, and using up the remaining carbon budget is very bad for everyone.

Today would be a good day for @aoc.bsky.social to announce she is primarying this jamoke.

Had same thought yesterday. I grew up Catholic & recently started going back, in Tun Wells of all places. Remembrance Sunday was usual crowd - Filipino, West African, Indian, Polish, Afro-Caribbean, SE Asian, Latin American, maybe 35% white British + Irish. Plus Scout troop w kids of these people.

Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%. policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK. And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there. THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.

Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions

Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.

America has a substantial white Christian Evangelical population and activating them politically was a 40+ year project. These guys think they’re gonna make Christian Nationalism work here when the population is secularising and most devout Christians are among the immigrant groups they despise.

It's 10 yrs since Laudato Sì, Pope Francis' letter that influenced climate talks from Paris Agreement to ICJ AO. Dr. Lorna Gold (exec director, Laudato Sì Movement) is organising a pre-COP30 event in Oct hosted by Pope Leo in Rome and online. She carved out an hour to talk to Wicked Problems!

Spoke to a lot of great people while there, so am putting it into a new series, ClimatePilgrim.com. With chats like this w @kuminaidoo.bsky.social - on whether Pope Leo should endorse the @fossiltreaty.bsky.social at #COP30 in Belém. aclimatepilgrim.substack.com/p/should-pop...

"It's not the hope that kills you, it's knowing it's the hope that kills you, that kills you." - Jackson Lamb, on COP30*.

Happy COP-mas Eve! To celebrate, on 1st day of COP-mas morn, under the tree you may find a sparkly chat with our friend @ben-cooke.bsky.social to set the expectations for the season. Check out wickedproblems.earth and/or your favourite media platform and Inshallah we will be there.

The point - the ENTIRE POINT - is of course to prevent the BBC from performing any function of accountability on anyone to the left of Reinhard Heydrich. [Yes I'm aware James knows this]

We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.

What I'd like to know is how tf someone from the Beegees was put in charge of the BBC.

Will any of Catholics in the Trump-Vance Administration speak out against the government banning Masses in the parking lot outside the ICE facility in Chicago? www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/new-ignori...

My brother in Christ, I do not think you've completely thought through your ad strategy here.

Crikey @zackpolanski.bsky.social is good at this. And say what you will about Trevor Phillips, he (correctly - intentionally or not) referred to the Greens as a "major party", which they now are, as far as polling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTTP...

"Nostalgia for a time that never existed" is the insatiable ravening self-destructive core appeal of fascism.

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all . @nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

“Do not put it in my face through Gate’s notes.” Jigger Shaw activating Atticus Finch level powers

Much has already been written about Pope Leo’s high-profile roles. But far less is known about the earlier chapter in northern Peru, when a young Fr. Bob lived and worked in Trujillo during the 1990s turmoil. Now, a new book by one of Leo’s closest friends finally illuminate those formative years.

NGL I read this bit after a glass of wine and did read it as describing VPOTUS as a 'former man'

CAN CONFIRM.

Always learning, and when I learn something new and relevant to how we STAY UNDER 1.5⁰ .. it goes in. And it may not all make sense, yet it's all connected, and I blame @glenpeters.bsky.social for telling me last year that 1.5⁰ is still physically possible "but people and politics" so revolution!

This deserves a lot wider reach...

I mean, when a particular one of my dogs cracks it can clear a room, the house, and have a kilometre radius declared a biohazard zone. So maybe [gulp] he has a point?

It was inevitable my infatuation with Mamdani would come to an end. Just didn't predict it would happen because an old tweet...revealing is Premiership club preference. Sad day.

This thread warms my heart and refreshes my streaming queue.

Star Wars (1977), a Kurosawa movie bit also Star Wars

"Bill Gates can get f*cked and we should stop listening to him on climate." True - and no billionaire can try to dictate form any longer. A reckoning of centralised versus decentralised power is coming.

This is an absolute banger of a takedown of Bill Gates' latest memo from an apoplectic @jigarshahdc.bsky.social, who brought a box full of receipts. [tl;dl version - 'Bill Gates can get f*cked and we should stop listening to him on climate'] It's my fave so far of a lot of excellent reax. 1/n

Listen to @bloodwork.show

'Man who jumped out of an airplane without parachute and who has already hit the ground will overshoot goal not to die, UN said'

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty. “They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

'You wanna hear something crazy?' Joe Rogan learned about our research. I have some notes:

Void is different from darkness. 40+ years thinking about this, and just hit me.

A gift to headline writers. Requiring several orders of magnitude less creativity than "Super Cali Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious".

The note is pretty good evidence that the sandwich guy jurors carefully evaluated the legal merits of the DOJ’s case and weren’t collectively engaged in a nullification exercise.

Something the techno-right shares with the Luddite-left: an almost naive belief that people will embrace the benefits their genius insights would yield; and when that belief runs up against reality they can justify unlimited repression in the belief it's for utilitarian best interest of the public.

The Wilkes, "Tech founders are crippling nerds who don't understand people," theory of innovation failure.