UPDATE: We may see the first time English is displaced as the most popular language among Bluesky posters as soon as Americans head to sleep tonight. Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.

Wanted: A global euro? A multi-polar world needs a multi-polar currency said Mark Carney the central banker in 2019. @katemac.bsky.social & I asked @shahinvallee.bsky.social to look into Europe's moves against US & China NEW: @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...

Widely true from my experience: huge gulf between energy people & normal ppl - even informed ones - about the change in global energy, technology, economics, politics and geopolitics. @katemac.bsky.social & I will have something out soon... www.science.org/content/arti... bsky.app/profile/sean...

NEW: In this moment of profound uncertainty over the global monetary order, Europe needs to move swiftly on becoming a truly global currency issuer, writes @shahinvallee.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...

"The peasantry feels sick and low-energy because they eat seed oils and doomscroll. But do they know that vitamins are an Ancestral Vitality Stack? Leverage your elite vocabulary to write that TikTok script. Remember it’s not magnesium it’s Mineral of the Stoics. hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-mon...

It crops up every Xmas and I always post it, because I love it. Ian Curtis at his office Xmas party.

I didn't have high hopes for this piece as the standard of analysis on oil/gas transition issues has been so weak lately. But mostly it just tells a story of "BP went too fast and with too much McKinsey; while Shell just did it very half-heartedly". A pity we didn't hear more from investors...

Remember, way back in 2024, when we were hearing about “overcapacity” in Chinese solar manufacturing?

Eh, let them..?

Ukrainians hitting the shadow fleet vessels from the back so the rudder / propellor is busted without a breach of main fuel storage. Pretty neat Andreas Malm grade stuff.

Interesting summary over whether COP30 made much progress "on coalitions of the doing" on climate change. Modest, maybe? A new conversation on green industrialization was something I hadn't picked up on.

@katemac.bsky.social & I have been charting the shifting relationship between climate and geopolitics. 1 Mainstream recognition that action on climate means meaningful action on development. 2 Emerging understanding that climate is about industrialization. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cop...

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Australians: does anyone know why Roblox and Discord escaped the social media delay legislation?

How is it legal to program cars to break traffic laws

I've had a rough day, and I think I've earned this. GOAT PAJAMA PARTY. Goats are from @sunflowerfarm.bsky.social in Cumberland, Maine (via their YT). Bless their chaotic little hearts and tiny pink noses.

I’m still laughing about “the whole ‘expensive numbers’ scandal”

If you're looking to be a big LNG exporter you would not want to rely too much on Europe. But you also might not want to be fighting for price-sensitive Asian markets, especially if you're further away... www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

“The deranged idea—as Amitav Ghosh describes it—that we are safe, that things are under control, that bad things only happen to people who are far away, persists. Anticipating future ruin, we fail to act in the here and now.” - @katemac.bsky.social & I: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/global-boiling/

The Torment-Nexus-Industrial Complex just keeps attracting more money, warns @lararhiannon.bsky.social Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

absolutely excellent story about the *real* big energy of the decade/millennium unfolding before us www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

This is misinformation spread by Big Tricycle.

I am *not* sold on this take that interviews for lower-skilled jobs are a "low stakes" matter (and thus, AI is fine!). Like, lower stakes for who? www.ft.com/content/9998...

Pretty much everything interesting going on in the world is captured in the story of Simandou, the soon-to-be-operational gigantic iron ore mine in Guinea, West Africa. www.ft.com/content/9fe8...

relevant to the increasingly bizarre coverage of oil & gas that we’re seeing lately in some of the business news media.

There is no downside

"The future is triage on an uninsurable earth" - Read @katemac.bsky.social & I @thepolycrisis.bsky.social : www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

For energy nerds it’s the annual “explain how IEA scenarios work” day.. 1/ those are not *forecasts* about energy use 2/ comparing scenarios with different names is pointless 3/ Faith’s words should be parsed very carefully; be wary of short quotes

"Sir, a second Joyce Carol Oates post has hit—"

Ethiopia last year banned the import of new gasoline-powered cars. Nepal reduced import duties on EVs so much that they are now cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines. Brazil raised tariffs on car imports to compel Chinese automakers to set up plants inside Brazil. Etc

Unfortunately a lot of serious* news media behaving as though this is exactly the case

From the latest big Foreign Affairs energy piece, by Jason Bordoff & Megan O'Sullivan. They're comparing one scenario published in 2024 with a completely different type of scenario (to be) published in 2025 - to say oil demand will rise and therefore problems of supply crunch/concentration loom.

One architect warned of "the difficulty of suspending a 30-storey building upside down from a bridge hundreds of metres in the air. “You do realise the earth is spinning? And that tall towers sway?”" ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

I think he specifies it was all the *car* billboards but still very notable! Here in Sydney I reckon we’d have 50% non-EV billboards, and there are plenty of EVs around including Chinese ones

remember all those 'project 2025 isn't actually real, you fools, you naifs' media pieces.

A lot of people guessing this is about oil, but idk how they’re thinking that would work..

Ooh I missed this excellent thread, thanks Jigar

This is a good sign to tap

But the line is going down so …

[India] "This is something the western world is now beginning to realise. That we are not pushing coal, but using it only to meet the demand that renewables are currently unable to." www.ft.com/content/4d4f...

This paper w @katemac.bsky.social @sarahinscience.bsky.social and crew is a few years old now, but it predicted where we've gotten to, where the overwhelming pressure to "just get a number" out of a black box ecosystem of providers gets you essentially gibberish.

This thread + discussions should be mandatory reading for anyone who contemplates trying to assess climate impact/physical risk.

We up caravanseraiforum.substack.com/p/progressiv...

Next issue out tomorrow!!

Protests led by Gen Z are happening in a bunch of countries right now and over the past year or so; some have been quite effective. Here's a few links & I will explain the skull & crossbones if you need www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n...

“Imagine being marched by force through a desert with barely anything to drink while your captor repeatedly cools himself by dumping gallons of water on his head, and maybe you’ll start to get a sense of what it’s like to live in Texas these days,” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...