Tech bro cultists believe that people earning an income is a "burden of employment red tape"

Thinking about AI and white collar jobs. Can AI replace all white collar jobs? Obviously not. That is just silly. Can it replace some jobs? Almost certainly. But that’s just normal. Word processing replaced a lot of jobs. Databases replaced a lot of jobs. Spreadsheets replaced a lot of jobs. 1/2

Attending the excellent @t0nyyates.bsky.social drinks, I was struck by the seminary vibe. So without further ado, an imagined list of some of the priestly types that might have been in residence at the pub that night.

Here @sammyroth.bsky.social summarises it well in the latest edition of Climate Colored Goggles: “The Washington Post editorial board is now cheerleading for President Trump's climate rollbacks.”

I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

Newyddion bendigedig! Dan ni angen llawer mwy o hwn traws Cymru!

Transporter is loaded for the Repaircafé . Bring it on.

Fresh from talking about thousands arrested for holding up signs, Phillips questions the idea we are on the way to authoritarianism & he lists places where repression/violence takes place He does refer to Saudi Arabia murdering a journalist. But guess where he doesn't mention?

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Support people and their livelihoods rather than fossil-fuel industries www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Yet another disgraceful episode in the history of Australian climate deniers seeking to shape policy & governance The stench was so bad attempts to foist Lomborg on Australian Catholic Uni, & then Uni of Western Australia failed (despite ACU having a supportive Greg Craven as VC)

“I support ICE” “I’m going to punch you” is the correct response. Loving Woke 2.0 so far

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

MISLEADING: A new academic paper by @qmul.bsky.social has attracted significant media attention by claiming that EVs & heat pumps deliver no proven carbon savings in UK ahead of 2030 clean power target - and should therefore be postponed. Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧵

If people were committing fraud when publishing this, then the increased global mass deaths caused by the increased fossil fuel use due to this paper are murders committed by the authors. They should face consequences.

THIS. And if Labour really want to keep out Reform they'll back tactical voting in the by-election for @greenparty.org.uk & @zackpolanski.bsky.social as Lab is a distant 4th in polling.

Some wild statistics (and accompanying visuals/graphics) in this excellent BBC Sport article about the Winter Olympics and climate change. Explores the impact of rising temperatures & lack of snow on elite athletes. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/...

E.g. "In the Alps, ice is melting at an alarming rate, with experts predicting that if warming continues on this trajectory, 90-95% of glaciers will be gone by the end of the century."

You cannot overstate the significance of this repeal. I also think it's wrong to say the 'free market' and cheap renewables pick up all of the lost momentum. Many good people will be fighting this and hopefully they have some wins earth.org/why-the-us-e...

Happy to be included in this article with MIT Technology Review about the QuitGPT campaign. www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/10/1...

Frightening new paper by leading planetary scientists warning of cascading risks in the #climate system 😱 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I previously explored the connectedness of key earth processes in this thread below 🧵

#ERA5 data show January 2026 was wetter than average across much of west/south/east #Europe. Heavy rainfall caused flooding and major disruption in #Spain and #Portugal because of the cyclones, #Italy, west. Balkans & #Ireland. The map highlights the monthly anomaly. #Copernicus

Large electric powered container ships are already a reality. When posting about this 2 years ago the so-called “experts” said it is impossible. Can people stop listening to oil and gas “experts” soon?

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

When you begin a statement with "I am sorry that my choice of language has offended some people..." you are absolutely NOT apologising. You are trying to excuse yourself.

Installed straw insulation boards in the exhibition today, easy.

The unhinged, institutional racism of the UK Home Office ought to be considered a national scandal - but the British media are united in making the case that it's *not unhinged enough*

"We need an alternative to Starlink so we're not dependent on an unstable billionaire Trump crony!" [gasp] "NOT LIKE THAT".

Peter Mandelson, close friend of Wes Streeting and Jeffrey Epstein, benefited from the network Les Wexner (billionaire owner of Abercrombie & Fitch) brought with him. Abercrombie CEO is accused of several incidents of sexual exploitation of boys in his employment. How much did Wes or Peter know?

Peter Mandelson's official role in Gordon Brown's government was actually not that far away from his unauthorised dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. This week's column digs up some inconvenient truths and suggests the problem is much deeper than we're told. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Some much needed insight on China's continued coal investment.

Ah yes, that age-old justification for crimes against humanity. My bingo card is filling up already.

Also at one level, #BullshitMeter is just lightly poking fun at people But at another level it's really depressing How supposedly serious people can - with a straight face! - put out this abject rubbish, and even put some budget behind it

loved every second of Bad Bunny. That message of inclusion and a celebration of cultures like Puerto Rico’s is just what America needs right now. Plus, his music just gets you in motion. 10/10

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

"We find that the principal drive for global warming acceleration began in about 2015, which implies that 2°C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury" - James Hansen et al. mailchi.mp/caa/another-...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Oh dear oh no... said absolutely no-one

Reminder: "Jump of global temperature [..] is a combination of aerosol-induced warming over a few years and a half-baked El Nino. There is no need for new climate physics to understand the warming. El Nino + next La Nina mean may approach 1.5°C." @drjamesehansen.bsky.social Links below

The 3-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly is now at 1.53°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline. Meanwhile, the Climate 8-ball is snookered again.

Last days of filming for An Irish Atlantic Rainforest!

In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.

The man who told reporters it’s time to move on from the Epstein files won’t shut up about the 2020 election.

This week's newsletter is out! jonworth.eu/five-innovat... In this edition - Ferromobile, Flexy, EcoTrain, Draisy & TELLi - France's efforts to save branch lines - Europapodcast-Folgen auf deutsch - Bullshit Meter: Thessaloniki-Sofia trains to return - Good week: Polish rail - Bad week: ÖBB's brand

The fall of the USSR offered gangster oligarchs an opportunity to carve up a nation for their own enrichment. Much the same is being done to the US, and nations in its orbit, such as the UK, risk falling to the same fate by the same men.

A federal judge struck down a Texas law that barred state agencies from doing business with companies alleged to be boycotting fossil fuels www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/c...

CATL is the largest battery producer in the world. Any move it makes is noteworthy. While CATL has been making sodium-ion batteries for some time, production commitment has increased dramatically in 2026. cleantechnica.com/2026/02/05/w...

Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.

I listened to Morrissey’s new single — a slice of 80s goth pop called Notre Dame — and it’s even worse than I expected. What’s worse: his pseudo French pronunciation of Notre Dame or the song’s underlying Islamophobia? Well, the latter obviously. But the former is inadvertently fucking hilarious.