Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Congrats to Qanon:

#Rapture or #TheRapture?

The only Rapture I got this week was realising this track describes White House human relations especially that whole Musk-Miller thing

Just excluded (blocked) someone for not passing my left-taste purity test. I am announcing this to publicly proclaim my in group membership for some subset of left-snob taste. Hi I am the median bluesky user.

Worth a look indeed gwagner.com/electra gwagner.com/coproduction

Selling ID cards as the way to stop illegal immigration rather than as a tool to simplify everyone’s lives is yet another colossal and very obvious mistake.

Got to say the folks in Europe thinking the solution to Trump is jumping into Xi's arms are about the most cringe thing of the last year.

If you post, write and call enough people sometimes good things will happen. Kudos to @employamerica.bsky.social and especially @arnabdatta.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Nice to see @pkrugman.bsky.social making the same point -- if you act like losers, the public will think you are losers There is no "safety" in deference and cooperation In fact, the paradoxical truth is that the safest place to be is in the vocal, visible, popular and highly public opposition

Salavat refinery looks like it has been very consistently on fire the last 10 days or so. #Ukraine firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:2025-...

In case anyone was wondering I too find the bailout of the arch Ayn Rand libertarian government of #Argentina by the America First government doubly funny.

"An irredentist petrostate with a fossil heavy grid may be formidable, but it has a glass jaw and is getting repeatedly hit on the chin" "What resilient critical infrastructure looks like ... distributed power which can only be done with renewables and storage"

Plan for DB should be: IPO of DB Regio, dismantle DG Cargo, sell IC/EC operations to Flixtrain, sell ICE sprinters to Eurostar, keep ICE and invest in that.

I think there's something interesting in the combination of these two charts. The US is just barely a net exporter of fossil fuels, and also a relatively high cost oil producer. What happens to the politics of oil in the US if global demand & prices drop, but domestic demand doesn't? #EnergySky

The age of the natsec green left is coming #energysky syncretica.substack.com/p/guidance-s...

And a very good morning to Henry James O'Sullivan, who has been found guilty for his role forging documents in the Wirecard fraud!

Good on.ft.com/4nAvKtQ Executives found guilty of fraud in Singapore Wirecard case

"We can't compete with what they're willing to show us" is an extremely funny takeaway from any organised trip.

VCs at climateweek #ClimateWeek #EnergySky

I remember when Molycorp went down and look at where that got us. Bottom line is private capital alone is not up to this. The contrarian distressed guy in me wants to take the other side of this conga line of clowns who did one heavily staged managed trip to China and gave up. #EnergySky

They overreached and they know it.

Thanks, Biden!

Best political argument about race as a useful construct in politics is that is arguably less useful than Star Signs. Values / behaviour a whole other thing of course.

“Harvard geneticist David Reich said … increasingly sophisticated analysis of genetic material made possible by technological advances shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, and everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration that washed over the globe.”

Russian refinery system current status #Ukraine

Why can’t the rest of the Dems communicate with this type of clarity and moral certainty?

One thing that is going to be interesting is that if the US gets a new government at some point all the arguments to be made to defend corporations in media etc from higher taxes because they are a public utility are now moot. US is going to have a Zucman style tax at some point.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Hard agree

Pam Bondi is an unmitigated embarrassment to the rule of law. www.thedailybeast.com/murdoch-pape...

Sort of shocking it was ongoing

This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“The whole thing is screwed up,” said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.”

@podsaveamerica.crooked.com JFC guys… keep making fun of the only place that the other team doesn’t control the algorithm. How about think this through.

Ok anyone in consumer wanna do this?

Industrial policy everywhere will be recognizing the parts of Biden's stuff that worked and doing that

<laughs in Rupert Murdoch>

That's right

Bluesky posters today be like “Come and Take It”

Ngl latency on lechat makes me kinda bullish Cerebras?

More signs of very weak performance from China’s coal sector today — January-August thermal generation down 0.8% year-on-year, despite extremely weak hydro generation. August thermal electricity is up just 1.7%, during what should be the peak.

If the models are getting less differentiated then the existing funnel owners are better placed. Ditto sovereign AI players where the funnel is wider because of regulation.

That’s not the right conclusion — it’s because corporate clients are more sophisticated and have more options. Tech adjacent are using Anthropic and others are using open source etc OpenAI is only one vendor of the technology. Don’t confuse a share shift with decline or rejection.

there are many that still ignore the k shaped economy

Extremely bad news

Re American things murder is not the solution. Nor is violent speech which tends to beget the former. Cannot state seriously enough how much everyone needs to calm down and touch grass.

Correction @oetenergy.bsky.social

Germany appears to be making a case for way kore gas in this document due to reliability concerns. #EnergySky www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/DE...