Trump, by causing an escalation spiral that may well destroy most Middle East oil production, may allow the world to actually meet #climatechange emission targets. Not just through lowered production, but through higher oil costs pushing people to renewables. 1/2

Joyposting: as someone who has worked on climate activism and data since the mid 1990s, I was getting increasingly depressed about it, but recently various right wing regimes have started blowing up major world oil infrastructure. That's great! I do not mean that ironically. It's the best.

Khamenei: He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it Emperor: What? We have the real power, so much unbelievable power, we're going to destroy it first Guild Navigator: nooooooooo

The general quality of American morality: We support a genocide: you should have voted for the genocideur We kill >100 schoolgirls:who cares Gas goes up by 50 cents a gallon: OMG this is super important what happened

What in the fuck Proton do you know how many people I've referred to you???

putting out peanuts for the Holy Spirit

[in 1938] Well you can't just say bad things about German culture or the German people

i think the fact that i can say over and over again 'i am not being ironic, this is not a bit, my books are not a joke' and have people on the right AND left just say 'NO YOU ARE' to my face (or my mask) over and over again is very telling. culture just cannot deal with neurodivergent people yet

it is so funny to me that of all the things i have ever posted about art, the most controversial take WITHOUT QUESTION is when i say that the best thing you can do if you want a career as an artist is to be KIND to your peers. folks get SO upset by that one, which i think is unfortunately telling

My opinion on the Trump #EPA #climate change reversal of its scientific finding that permitted EPA to regulate: it doesn't matter much. EPA never did anything substantive: our fossil fuel mining and use kept going up. The idea that we were somehow protected by regulation was propaganda.

everyone on their way to the park takes it in stride

Dems don’t want to abolish ICE because they helped create it in the first place. This shouldn’t be a difficult concept for people to grasp. They’re not supporting it because they don’t want to do it! They are the enemy, just like Republicans!

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

Texas is truly one of the worst US states, with a population that exports fascism and gleefully imprisons children truthout.org/articles/imm...

Far too many center-left people on the TL are saying they agree with Bill Kristol. You don't have to do this. Kristol is a monster who occasionally says something obvious when it's in his interest. He has no power other than the power of "I can't believe it's Bill Kristol" which you give him.

Bluesky's "Trending" thing says nothing about ICE or Minneapolis. I don't trust the owners of this site to produce a fair Trending display.

Aware that he only had a few months left to live the great Mike Davis gave one of his final interviews to the Guardian in 202. "You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?" Lois Beckett asked.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

I have written more about this, over 3 decades, than can be summarized in a thread. archive.ph/pC0NV But a number of things can be true at once: 1) a cost/benefit analysis with no measure of benefits will always find that any regulation is too costly

If you’re struggling to understand the creep of fascism, just think about the fact that the “opposition party” is now telling people to hope the same police that brutally murdered a man five years ago and set off the largest protest ever will now save them from an even more murderous police.

I have never seen anything more impotent than the EU right now. The US just invaded a nation for its own financial benefit, murdered dozens, disappeared the de facto leader, claimed governance and the oil - and has openly said Greenland is next, and our leaders are here going "oh well yeah haha"

Any nuclear fusion company, investor or advocate is essentially just the greenwashing marketing arm of the fossil gas industries who need a hollow promise that's constantly 'just around the corner' to justify a massive, polluting build-out of gas today and tomorrow www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...

I'm the king of kings I'm not the king of kings but I'm the wreckage of a king but really I'm not actually a king but I am... Shattered visage in the desert by the stone legs wrinkles its lip at you. See my works, ye mighty, and despair!

"We win on the law. We win on the economics. But sometimes we lose on the politics." My war-on-coal update, a decade later. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Overheard at the servo just now Young cop hogging the night service window to whine about being assaulted . Without missing a beat the teenager behind the counter said, ' yes well, you are wearing provocative clothing' It's going to be a good day. Earliest sunrise I've ever seen.

Look, I'm a natural history guy so I don't want to get out over my skis here, but given the ongoing reproducibility crisis and stuff like this, I have to ask: is Social Psychology... real

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

In response to a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, the Israeli ambassador to the UN called her a witch: "“You are a witch, and this report is another page in your spellbook," [...] accusing her of trying to "curse Israel with lies and hatred"." www.middleeasteye.net/trending/isr...

The US is about to lose its large-facility source GHG database (EPA's GHGRP) which the Trump administration is shutting down. People tracking GHGs internationally think it's bad, but fundamentally they aren't that affected because the future action / change isn't happening in the US anyways.

49 members of the Thousand Madleens freedom flotilla remain in Israeli custody for trying to deliver much-needed aid to starving people in Gaza. Whatever Trump says about a "ceasefire," the lives and liberation of Palestinians still depend on international solidarity. crimethinc.com/SailingforGaza

There have been many attempts to save data that Trump's admin is taking down. But these don't help the core problem, which is that governmental databases are useful because they keep getting updated. If not, they become historical data. See e.g. GHGRP #climate www.epa.gov/ghgreporting...

When I try to get 2023 ACS data (or really any other recent data) from the US Census web site I get: " Due to the lapse of federal funding, portions of this website will not be updated. Any inquiries submitted will not be answered until appropriations are enacted." #census #ACS

Universities are not educational institutions. They're neoliberal entities that operate like corporations. Their goal isn't to enlighten or protect free speech, but to indoctrinate and produce competent systems managers. This has been a global phenomenon spearheaded by the US and Wall Street.

Rather ominous snipe from SecDef in response to a concerned observation by the former Commander General of the US Army Europe about the upcoming meeting of all the US military commanders ordered by SecDef:

In November 2022 I wrote an extended #climate #poem, also about art, aesthetics, and activism, called "The Case For Letting the Getty Center Burn", which in 2024 I posted on Mastodon with the poem as alt text. A link to it is here: mastodon.social/@richpuchals...

No more #EPA GHGRP (Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program) #climate archive.ph/p1tJO

No more #EPA GHGRP (Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program) #climate archive.ph/p1tJO

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Important report on world-wide power from #coal #climate www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-c...

I finally got it together to put a message on my site with pictures of a thousand #losangeles #mural s that I'd donated the permanent records of the collection to Cal State Fullerton. Feels like the end stage for this project. www.grconnect.com/murals/html/

Bill McKibben's latest #climate newsletter, since it has to be somewhat reality based, is now just all about China. Unfortunately it still has some kind of dreamscape embedded it about philanthropy and well-meaning Westerners buying people free solar panels. 1/2

A general phenomenon to watch out for is that #renewable power is going to decrease overall volume of trade everywhere -- very approximately half of shipping is carrying fossil fuels around. Look for economists to write many think pieces about how #climate measures destroy trade.

Since this is Smaugust I might as well mention that I looked for something by Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social‬ that I hadn't read and decided to pick up _The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo_, one of his since-ceased humorous satires of popular books. It was pretty good

tl/dr for US #EPA data-related products: anything that runs more or less continuously is still running on autopilot. Anything that has a once per year release has not been released.

So far, within the US #EPA #data that I work with (toxic releases, greenhouse gas #GHG releases) it seems as if the Trump administration does not plan to publish anything. 1/3

@katemac.bsky.social captures absurdity of Canada's "net zero" while drilling the dirtiest tar sands oil. Keystone XL maybe dead but At 3.2 million barrels per day, Oil production from the tar sands of Canada has never been higher. It's so crazy right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

I started on a #climate #GHG project using US GHGRP, Inventory data in Feb 2025. Dropped it due to pressure of other work, restarted it now. Grimly expected I'd be back to square 1. Nope! Nothing new has been released since then. The US Inventory was supposed to be final-released April 15.

Want some fresh mental oxygen? Read this from @billmckibben.bsky.social " Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world." www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...