If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

If you're angry about the idea of paying for oil company opex in Venezuela to produce petrocaca that the market doesn't need and the climate cannot take, you're going to be furious about the amount you already pay to keep fossil fuel companies even viable www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Useful reporting from Translucent. When we’ve suggested that trans women don’t pose a risk, people have argued that’s because of under reporting. These FOI requests suggest that might not be the case www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...

Has just occurred to me that if another globe-spanning mega-conflict does kick off, there'll be an entire cycle of discourse, even as the bombs are flying, bickering over whether or not it's appropriate to call it World War III.

It's so quaint how in the 90s we worried that kids were gonna get fucked up by tamagotchis and now they're just giving every kid a free robot that generates child porn and tells you how to commit suicide

The UK & other rich countries just gifted U.S. corporations’ a major exemption from int'l tax rules. The UK was already haemorrhaging an estimated $9 billion a year to tax-cheating US megacorps. 🧵Here’s what the latest capitulation to Trump’s bullying means... 1/9

There's also an assumption that solar must be built like coal fired power plants when it can be distributed. You can spread solar distribution over existing rooftops, carports, balcony's and combined them with grazing land to provide cover for livestock. You could do more of this if you regulate.

"[Cont'd] amount of energy. Some viable land is open and easy to purchase. Much of it isn't." Now. The issue here is that is false. The second chart Ketan shares here demonstrates:

"They have declared olive trees independent from their inconvenient roots. So many olive trees, inconvenient olive trees with inconvenient roots in an inconvenient land that was cared for by our inconvenient, non-existent grandparents. Why do they hurt olive trees?" Painfully beautiful 🖋️

He's really fine with burning the entire world down rather than face any consequences for his crimes

The justifications for the invasion of Venezuela from both US govt figures and pundits are a reminder that the US political establishment regards *all the world's resources* as belonging to America by divine right.

Another reason to end fossil fuel use.

You know when we said it was a bad idea to put these people in charge of all our NHS data?

I get asked all the time about data needed to make better climate risk decisions Usually not another gridded temp map (sorry) But better adaptation data would help! - Households behind non-accredited levees paid 2x for flood insurance vs accredited levee iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

The whole world should feel the genuine fear she expresses - and we must stand beside her and all who believe in democracy. America has foolishly unleashed a Hitlerian megalomaniac.

Feels to me like it would be good for organisations that want to remain trans inclusive to contribute to this survey. We will certainly be influenced by the results. open.substack.com/pub/joannelo...

It's honestly stunning just how ill prepared western leaders were for the US turning on them

This is a nice @unearthednews.bsky.social piece about how oil and gas extraction in Iraq is shockingly dirty, inefficient, economically absurd ->

"Oh don't be so pessimistic! We will do something about emissions!" Oh really. UNEP 2025: "To date, no [governments] have set targets to reduce oil and gas production or phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies” Now this👇🏻 We are *firmly* on track to pass 2ºC and more. #ClimateCrisis

Miguel Ángel de la Torre Loranca is a Mexican biologist who kidnapped on November 21 His family received a ransom demand but after an initial payment, communication stopped Since then, there has been no verified information about his whereabouts, please share this along toward finding/freeing him:

As we've been saying for a while: the "backlash" against climate policies has been wildly, absurdly overstated. This new survey shows how UK MPs badly understate support for climate policies www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oil markets suffer from the same blind spot electricity markets once did: they rarely treat efficiency as a competing resource. China is now taking their domestic success on peak oil demand to 50+ Emerging Markets.

What's that quiet?

Young women like Greta Thunberg are mostly focused on long term survival of our species while old men like Donald Trump are mostly focused on short term gains for themselves. Generalisations don’t apply to everyone - but there is a definite pattern.

Climate change intensifies the water cycle. A generalization: Rich get richer. Poor get poorer. Not always true, but a good rule of thumb.

TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force? MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO T: So force is on the table? M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland

How the mysterious absence of one train on Easter Saturday has led me to reconsider what (printed) train timetables are for A reliable train service needs a way to communicate what is normal to passengers jonworth.eu/ive-been-wro...

I have been saying this for some time to students seeking career advice: the energy sector is one of the most exciting places to work with a huge transformation taking place right now. Electrification is a game changer and means a redesign of our energy system as we know it.

Just learning from @supertanskiiii.bsky.social (on Insta) about the scale of image based abuse taking place on X.com (and elsewhere). We have been working with a leading specialist org to bring legal action for victims. But I also want all men who care about women to call this out as unacceptable.

you can put any gross caption here and it works. "i'm the reason porn sets have mandatory STI panels," "the urban legend about the guy hiding under your car is real and it's me," "you can get court-martialed for farting on a submarine," all of them true

Could my life not collapse so spectacularly all at once

That’s right!

it’s so important to approach an unpredictable situation with a chill attitude

It was a little over three years ago that Keir Starmer promised to do away with the House of Lords altogether as part of his plans to restore trust in politics. Now, he's nominating his own (less than stellar) allies, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social

Outrageous. Ministers should be listening to scientists, frontline communities and those working towards a green transition – not hosting the interests of oil giants in their own offices. ✍🏼 - @adamramsay.bsky.social abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/revealed-o...

Again, this is inevitable. This is the generative AI that you've been telling us for the last few years is going to make the world a better place. This is what it is.

in February 2023, the nation's first openly nonbinary state legislator described the death of 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict, and the policy and rhetorical attacks on trans life, as part of a "transgenocide." Mauree Turner stepped down from public office the following year.

Mark Carney did not join NATO allies in signing this joint statement reaffirming the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Denmark and Greenland:

All this analysis arguing that we should support more oil and gas development and just make clean energy cheap, because we don’t have the power to restrict fossil-fuel supply right now! May I remind the analysts that we don’t have the power to make clean energy cheap in the US either? 1/2

This is I think the fundamental point. If the argument is supporting further fossil fuel build-out is "politically pragmatic" you need to articulate either how this will enable *faster* reductions in future or how politics will be *easier* under additional warming. Otherwise it's just can-kicking

It's very easy right now to see the centrist tic of treating oil and gas companies like rational actors innocently trying to maximize their utility instead of authoritarian collaborators who do everything from lying about science to encouraging war in order to maintain their hegemony.

We can’t go on like this. In just two days, the average FTSE 100 CEO has made a median workers full time annual salary. The right calls this “wealth creation”. It’s wealth extraction. Time to tax the rich. @highpaycentre.bsky.social highpaycentre.org/fat-cat-day-...

We got a 'response' from the BBC, who couldn't be bothered to write more than 3 small paragraphs (153 words) to our letter, and avoided all the points raised. This is why your help is important.

Nearly three years ago, a coalition of 100+ organizations and leaders–including GLAAD–launched a campaign against the @nytimes.com’s biased, inaccurate coverage of transgender people. A former NYT editor shares her perspective about what's really going on:

Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.

‘As a permanent member of the UN Security Council the UK has a duty to protect international law.’

FTSE 100 CEOs earn more than average worker’s yearly pay by noon on 6 January

This almost certainly explains why journalists and politicians have remained on Elon's Porno Website. They're not especially interested in talking to the country. They're more interested in talking to their mates.

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