[Hint of staggeringly idiotic conspiracy theory] followed by "🤔"

Pour maintenir un niveau d'énergie stable sur de longues périodes, il est plus avantageux d'être une femme qu'un homme. La capacité d'alterner entre glucose et acides gras, procure un avantage en termes de survie et de santé [EN] www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

Victorian and South Australian authorities are bracing for "catastrophic" and "extreme" fire conditions as Australia continues to swelter through a heatwave. Follow live.

Worth reminding everyone everywhere that pathological oil addiction starts with every single choice to jump in the car out of convenience rather than necessity. Prices at the petrol pump are way too low to correct the externality. And they have been for decades. bsky.app/profile/juli...

Out of town centre cookie cutter housing estates and retail parks which embed car culture, Every school which normalises idling during the school drop off, Each local authority fawning over new suburban leisure facilities Continued subsidy promoting car before bus = further embedding car culture

The same question applies to the UK where people voted for an improved cost of living, harmonious relations with neighbouring nations and no war.

To the people who voted for slightly cheaper eggs and no war.. Are we there yet??

If a government doesn’t use its power to rein in the distortive effects of powerful vested interests aka ‘economic externalities’ then all of economic theory 101 is debunked. Growth without correcting the distortions isn’t sustainable, equitable growth. “And we ain’t growing!”

100 years Land owned by the nation Land owned by you Clip taken at Beachy Head, South Downs, UK South Coast The Eastbourne Downland Estate 4000 acres Bought by and for the public in 1926

Thinking of Venezuela: there’s an excellent documentary about the Andes on streaming services. It shows Venezuela and neighbouring countries in all their majesty, and remote areas where people are starting local food production initiatives in harmony with the land. Worth watching ‘Magical Andes’

Every time we jump in a car for a journey which can be covered on foot or on public transport, we are feeding the massive machine of oil addiction. Europe is really hardly less addicted to the car, including the UK.

Thinking of Venezuela: there’s an excellent documentary about the Andes on streaming services. It shows Venezuela and neighbouring countries in all their majesty, and remote areas where people are starting local food production initiatives in harmony with the land. Worth watching ‘Magical Andes’

100 years Land owned by the nation Land owned by you Clip taken at Beachy Head, South Downs, UK South Coast The Eastbourne Downland Estate 4000 acres Bought by and for the public in 1926

If a government doesn’t use its power to rein in the distortive effects of powerful vested interests aka ‘economic externalities’ then all of economic theory 101 is debunked. Growth without correcting the distortions isn’t sustainable, equitable growth. “And we ain’t growing!”

Livelihoods as a cash cow theory “6.5x lending is fine”: ppl just have to make mortgage payments for longer reality They’ll be working to make money for the bank Interest payments are like rent on top of mortgage They’ll likely work until death with a short retirement Expensive, don’t you think?

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English Channel views from Beachy Head South Coast UK 30 Dec 2025

If you’re in the middle of a major life crisis or any other event, and you want to channel the elegant confident coping Italian housewife vibe, the song for you is: Ornella Vanoni Ti Voglio, 1977 Doubles up as a NYE disco or a groovy dance track

If the UK was serious re: tackling climate change, actions to equalise taxes on carbon emissions from nations we import goods from would have been taken yrs ago. Building on UK land disturbs terrestrial carbon sinks, and to do so indicates a deep un-seriousness re: climate change. #energysky

English Channel views from Beachy Head South Coast UK 30 Dec 2025

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Time to call bullshit on the idea of a rural idyll and a rural lifestyle which requires special national protections. It’s all about the wildlife now.

Apparently “fox hunting divides rural Britain” is trending on the apps. pure misinformation, given that official pollsters’ findings indicate 80% support for the ban. The interests of an aristocratic minority still hold sway over UK laws and enforcement. Question why this is tolerated.

Time to call bullshit on the idea of a rural idyll and a rural lifestyle which requires special national protections. It’s all about the wildlife now.

Also has no one noticed that rural Britain is now actually just an extension of suburban Britain, made up of people who moved a little further away from cities for an attempt to increase quality of life. UK politics hasn’t caught up. Is the US moving in the same direction? My guess is it is.

Apparently “fox hunting divides rural Britain” is trending on the apps. pure misinformation, given that official pollsters’ findings indicate 80% support for the ban. The interests of an aristocratic minority still hold sway over UK laws and enforcement. Question why this is tolerated.

If the UK was serious re: tackling climate change, actions to equalise taxes on carbon emissions from nations we import goods from would have been taken yrs ago. Building on UK land disturbs terrestrial carbon sinks, and to do so indicates a deep un-seriousness re: climate change. #energysky

An analysis of U.S. water quality data reveals that most toxic chemicals remain poorly characterized or undetected in routine monitoring. The findings in Science suggest that the true scale of chemical risk to biodiversity and ecosystems may be significantly underestimated. https://scim.ag/4alqHdl

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

Having the tech/data skills also made me an outsider when I was working with social scientists at my last job. Nobody knows what to do with ppl who don’t fit into narrow boxes; they know they need them but they don’t know how to hire them and they don’t know what to do with them when they have them.

People keep talking about how we need more multidisciplinary, metacognitive, social science informed tech and data workers in the AI era, but as someone with those skills, they were the things that always made me an outsider in tech cultures, and the industry isn’t actually hiring for now either.

Creating new markets for Aus/NZ/Malaysian agri produce drives demand, agri commodity expansion and therefore new deforestation. If the UK imports palm oil and beef it’s akin to driving orang utan and koala to extinction. Slow handclap.

This is #Brexit

So a ban on hunting foxes with dogs has been in place since 2004. But people will go out hunting a fox scent with dogs today. I have often thought: (rich) men will always do to wild animals what they would do to you if torture and slaughter were not illegal. And it is mainly rich white men.

‪To state the obvious‬: ‪£104 billion agreed on water bills 2025-29 and ‪Southern Water plastic from Eastbourne to Folkestone and Wissant, France‬ ‪Windermere pumped with sewage‬ ‪Tunbridge Wells, Flintshire, Surrey, Swindon repeat 24hr water outages‬ ‪Major incident burst water mains‬ nationwide

Just a reminder that £104 billion in aggregate has been added to water bills, nationally. That’s aggregate revenue from bill payers. Not investment.

So a ban on hunting foxes with dogs has been in place since 2004. But people will go out hunting a fox scent with dogs today. I have often thought: (rich) men will always do to wild animals what they would do to you if torture and slaughter were not illegal. And it is mainly rich white men.

BREAKING: The mitochondria have released a statement they are ending their long running symbiotic relationship with humans, citing "increasingly poor use of the energy we provide".

Too many Christmas sweets, I need some black coffee ⏫️ ⏬️ Too much bitter coffee, I need some Christmas sweets

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

producer: what’s the new christmas song about? guy who wrote jingle bell rock: ok, so you know when you are riding your jingle horse to the jingle hop? producer: what the fuck

South Coast, UK Christmas Eve wildflowers

The thing is too, bots and AI don’t vote. Public opinion is only swayed where and while real people read and engage with the material. Hope for 2026? Happy Christmas! 🎄

I stay on X as the UK water industry commentary stays there. Don’t spend much time, but I noticed a lot of “support” for techno-fix, ecology-denying developer interests. Thing is, lots of the accounts are bots, AI, trolls or misinformation sponsored by billionaires. So “support” is overstated?

South Coast, UK Christmas Eve wildflowers

Why did no-one ensure that lawyers, IT specialists and other experts were all talking & understood each other? Because no-one with the brains to see that this was necessary was promoted into a high enough position to make it happen without getting sidelined for being a nuisance! Worst.joke.ever.

The cost of RAB for Sizewell C is now on bills, from 1 November 2025. Construction-cost overruns will be added to bills. AI data centres will have lower bills, paid for by adding costs to bills. lot of ppl on social media networks blaming net zero policy and renewables for high bills #energysky

Sizewell C gets money from UK consumer bills as of 1 Nov 2025. Construction cost overruns have a back-up of being added to future bills. A lot of money is available so a lot will be spent. Electricity-intensive biz will experience crippling costs, unless they too subsidised by bills. #energysky