I reviewed MORE AND MORE AND MORE which argues that there’s no historical precedent for an “energy transition”; instead, we see symbiotic linkages between wood, coal, oil, and now renewables. I’m convinced. But the book’s analysis of capitalism falls short @thebaffler.com Link ⬇️

Zack Polanski has said that Britain should expel US forces from the UK if the country seizes Greenland - a proposal 55% of Britons support Support: 55% Oppose: 22% yougov.co.uk/topics/trave...

If you think gas power is cheap, meet Keadby 2, the last CCGT gas plant built in Great Britain It opened in 2023, after 5yrs of development, at a cost of £350m Owner SSE says it would now cost 3.5x to build the same plant (~£1.2bn) 1/6

"you shouldn't prepare for a hypothetical" I think that's it, that's the final straw for my fragile brain, I knew it wouldn't be something big, instead it would be something extremely stupid, ah well, it's freeing in a way.

Dreadful stuff from the Uni of Sheffield. Please do support the @sheffielducu.bsky.social crowdfunder if you can afford to do so.

You're right, being the aircraft carrier for a fascist country while having nuclear weapons that do not work clearly makes us more safe.

Turns out there’s all sorts of stuff you can just say out loud now when only a few years ago it would have had you dismissed as a swivel-eyed loon 🙃

Trident has FAILED TO FIRE TWICE IN A ROW. It literally doesn't work lmao.

No it's just different from what all the think tanks funded by arms companies tell you it should be. Use your own brain.

I love the 'Bazooka' that takes nearly a year to fire www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Aren't you a Labour councillor?

Every English town has a road called Millennium Way which is just a hellish half-dead industrial estate and every time you go through it you feel part of your soul abandon you

Oh damn really?

If this sounds like “the lesser races are a cancer that is eating away at the Reich, here’s how men of will will eradicate this disease” then that’s because that’s what it is. Chuck in a bit of encirclement, decadent art, historical grievance and Bolshevik intellectual menace, and it’s 1934.

“Time to withdraw from Trident”, now an immensely Sensible thing, a mere six years after every single one of the nation’s most raging blowhards was flailing and rolling gargling in mortal terror on the floor at the idea of not smashing the nuclear button.

When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided. When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid. The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe. It's time for a rethink.

This is excellent but for the love of God you gotta invest in regional authorities so they can bring bus services back under their control - the tickets aren't so hot if there's one bus every 3 hours.

Sure, so a lot of so-called “people” might die and we might turn a country of ninety million into an ungovernable nightmare ruled by local warlords, like everywhere else we have done this has. Who knows? Who gives a shit, what’s for breakfast

I'm still fuming these guys got legally designated 'Terrorists' for spraying paint on an aircraft

Say it with me: 90% of people alive today will be better off if we phase out fossil fuels. That’s what the economics actually shows.

It’s wild that there are still people defending Labour when they’re out here straight up saying “actually we’re to the right of the fucking Conservative Party when it comes to immigration”

Dependable help for six families & a camp of fifteen more. Every day is still tenuous—virtually no aid is entering Gaza (just a fifth of the minimal trucks entering), and the cold is dangerous to those in tents. Click "weekly"! Be a hand in the dark! chuffed.org/project/hope...

Another interesting thing is that Polanski's "Fame" is now higher than Caroline Lucas and other "old guard" Greens.

Can’t dominante in science if you’re run by climate deniers, the original anti-science meatheads.

Final 12 HOURS—AND we're matching you! Single mom Mai & her kids—including a newborn—need help NOW to stay housed! Kids & babies are dying from exposure yall. They can’t be back in a tent. Click "monthly" on spare change, and a donor will double you today. 1017/1680 chuffed.org/project/help...

Say it with me everyone, any other leader would have 20 seats

"If protestors are killed while demonstrating in Iran, should the US take military action against Iran?" No: 70% Yes: 18% Quinnipiac / Jan 12, 2026

16 HOURS LEFT ⚠️ KEEP A SINGLE MOM & BABY OUT OF THE COLD! Mai only has us! She doesn’t want that to be the case, but you’ve kept her housed for months. This has been life-preserving as dozens have died from exposure in tents. Anything helps—click "monthly"! 955/1680 chuffed.org/project/help...

Stupidest fucking bullshit www.theguardian.com/education/20...

It's simple, although not ideal. Six families & a camp depend on this link for essentials. Right now, that's especially emergency healthcare for EVERYONE as they cope with severe viral infections and hospital care. Click "weekly" to join and help: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Every time this paper gets up on its high horse about how The Hard Left Is Wrong About Country (x), you can be sure that Country (x) is now in the crosshairs to get fucked up, wrecked collapsed into chaos and then its citizens left to fend for themselves an a Mad Max warlord nightmare.

Hypothetically speaking, if I was a government agent who shot an unarmed civilian in the face while filming myself with my own phone in an action even police lawyers call open-and-shut murder, I would return to base and ask my buddies to beat me with blunt objects to fabricate exonerative injuries.

Israel's Channel 14 diplomatic correspondent Tamir Morag made the following statement on X.

The masses have the right to speak up and shout but no power to change things. This is free speech of bourgeois society

Not if you put them in jail

if you're quick enough with your phone you might catch a shiny agent before you pokemon go to your grave

Spark Space is STILL providing electricity & internet for families to connect to remote jobs, and countless kids connecting to school & university classes. This isn't a business, but a youth-run mutual aid project. Hit "weekly" to help with running costs! chuffed.org/project/spar...

A young protester was left permanently blinded after an ICE agent fired a 'nonlethal round into his face at close range. Doctors found shards of plastic, glass and metal embedded in his eyes and face, including a metal piece lodged 7mm from his carotid artery. www.aol.com/articles/pro...

I really hope Heba Muraisi ends her hunger strike - the point has been made that Keir Starmer and David Lammy don’t care if she dies . Just politicians doing what politicians do. www.newarab.com/news/heba-mu...

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Palestine Action trial: Jury retires to consider verdict in Elbit Systems case - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-action-trial-jury-retires-consider-verdict-elbit-systems-case

Guardian desperately trying to make Zionism a protected characteristic

Reading the Communist Manifesto the way Marx and Engels intended

Links to Geology-related Open GIS Data open.substack.com/pub/ikegami/...

Today's announcement is the opposite of what it says it is. It's the formal cancellation of the high speed line across the Pennines. What's left - additional TRU scope - is a good idea but should be delivered as a business as usual enhancement in 2027, not some far off fanfaron.