Inspired by this + fossil giant Eni's fusion investments to update my 'greenwashing habitable zone' conceptualisation of what techs seem to lend themselves to being the most useful for bullshitty climate delay Welcome to the zone, fusion, you finally made the cut Top right = The Altman Expanse

The bust when this bubble goes will still be spoken of in epic poetry 5000 years from now.

Every major company is MAKING you use AI, cramming it down your throat whether it works or not, your boss is yelling at you because you're not slobbering co-pilot enough, but sure now it's YOUR fault

In the UK Harriet Harman simply increased the legal "safe" residue of glyphosate by 10x to accommodate the new "Roundup Ready" crops. Yum yum.

Hope they get a good payout.

Mamdani will be Trump's biggest political target, and anyone who wants to run in 2028 needs to back Mamdanis plays in that fight. Or Democratic Party primary voters will tell them to fuck off.

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

The destructive nature of the current feudalized version of capitalism needs to be talked about more on social media.

this is heartbreaking reading the shit we make these people put up with and the square root of fuck all we give them and at no point will the BBC reflect on how their own reporting helped create the unbelievably hostile environment they have to endure

There has never been a reckoning over a small group of analytic philosophers constantly publishing slop dressed up in neutral-sounding academese to push their right-wing political projects. They circumvent peer review, ride off of the prestige of their job titles, and act way outside their AOE

The basic story, if you missed it: after the 2017 election, Labour’s billionaire donations officer realised progressive liberal politics funded by small donations meant the end of his phoney-baloney job extracting huge bribes from rich wingnuts. It had to be stopped, at any cost to the public.

Currently, people pay NO TAX on plane fuel. This makes it cheaper than trains. There are consequences to flying, mainly the air/noise pollution for people living around airports & those who are flooded, burnt, starve, or forced to flee from climate change. Labour are shit @zackpolanski.bsky.social

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

The UK suffers from a finance curse. Far from being our economic jewel, the City of London has drained trillions from the economy. That’s lost jobs, lost investment, and a weaker democracy. In this video, I explain why finance is making Britain poorer, and what must change. youtu.be/Ssa_4TqpxVg?...

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

researching a way to cure allistics

What's the betting they completely neuter even Kimmel's limp banter?

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

Can I just say something, without everyone getting mad?

Wow. Actual journalism.

the guardian cut this from a piece judith butler wrote for them. the guardian targeted butler long before the american right did.

Govt minister Hamish Falconer explains that the Palestinian state should have no army or air force. So it can't defend itself. The Labour govt is fond of saying the first duty of any govt is to defend its own people. Why doesn't that apply to Palestinians?

'Another driver paid almost £17,000 to clear 46 warrants' £575 or £17000? The driver chose the latter. Stupid does as stupid is

There is still a group of Nimbys and taxi drivers who prefer this to the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street, thinking retail will close & crowds disappear. If only Oxford St had at least 6 Tube lines and several stations within walking distance, connecting all of London, then maybe, this might work

Nature does not do binaries. Anyone who tells you biology is simple is wrong phys.org/news/2025-09...

You know how I keep talking about “cancel culture” as basically the enraged response of rich sex abusers who were *furious* that women might use social media to talk about their crimes

Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

If you want to know why the legal profession is so ill equipped for this moment...shit like this is why news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

X has restored the account of Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys.

By @jasonhickel.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jasonhic...

No one could’ve seen this coming

If Trump does have Newsom arrested we all have a duty to make a podcast where we talk to people who support locking Newsom up. Really find some common ground.

Christian Zionist travels to Israel to show support, and realizes they fucking hate her. She still didn't realize they will assault anyone who isnt white or a jewish ethnosupremacist. 😂

it's so interesting to me that cis men from every single demographic, ethnicity, class relation, and political machine are coming together in a temporary fraternity to collectively destroy the political power and public presence of women & trans people by any means necessary

LibDem Lisa Smart, "We're calling on the Labour government to declare the asylum backlog a national emergency" "And set up Nightingale processing centres, just like the Nightingale hospitals during the pandemic" "We need Labour to clear the asylum backlog within six months"

Is a global bank collapse coming soon? youtu.be/DaM3c5ybj-w?... A banking collapse is coming, and the cause isn’t speculation. It’s climate change. Uninsurable homes mean worthless mortgages, and worthless mortgages mean broken banks. Unless governments act now society itself is at risk.

Turns out it was a bad idea to fund little armies that hate you in every locality

I wish people understood how much damage landlords and commodified housing did to society at every level

So, short term at least it really does look like Marvel fans/Disney Adults have higher moral standards than Harry Potter fans. Useful to know.

Been brewing for a while, but if confirmed this is amazing and very relevant to other persistent viral infections.

It's not just to our eternal shame that we murder our forest gods, but to add insult and indignity, a lot of this old growth forest is broken down to pellets, called biomass, shipped off the the Drax power station in the UK, who claim it's better than burning coal.

really sad to see corbyn go out like this tbh. i honestly think he could have done more good for the country just being a talking head on TV and stuff

Starmer Labour is a zombie party, no one in it.

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

"Northern Ireland faces a “permacrisis” from recurring race riots and may need to use military bases to shelter people burnt out of their homes, government documents reveal." (The Guardian) #collapse