NEW ANALYSIS: What's going on in Spain? Spain's wholesale electricity price in early 2026: €44/MWh. Italy: €127. Germany: €96. UK: €103. Wind+solar now deliver 44% of generation. Gas sets the price in just 9% of hours, down from 55% in 2022. Full analysis: janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just...

Cannot overstate how much of it is some version of this. Remember when those podcast dudes got caught taking Russian money and it turned out they were getting like $250,000 *per month*? To *podcast*.

“Airports charge operating fees to airlines to cover their bottom lines, and the airlines in turn pass those fees on to passengers. Sims said the fees rose ‘massively’ after Australia privatized its airports.” Australia provides a cautionary tale on privatize airports, just as on private healthcare

You need to do yourself a favor and play this game right now. Not only is it some of the best mechanical design of the era, the narrative is uh, very applicable to the Present Times

Yksityisautojen ajaminen kielletään päärautatieaseman edustalta. Ja se on aivan helvetin hyvä asia Helsingin toimivuudelle ja viihtyisyydelle. Kaupunkien rakentaminen autoja varten oli vain usean vuosikymmenen mittainen, kolossaalinen virhe. yle.fi/a/74-20224616

Even if a $18,000 BYD car is sending data back to Shenzhen I don’t really care because by that point I’ll be in the Chinese Car Hackers Discord channel sharing PCBs that prevent it from doing that along with 3D printing STLs of cup holders in the shape of Luffy from One Piece.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

News! Christopher Franke has just released a ton of Babylon 5 soundtracks on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora and others: six large volumes and smaller, six episodic soundtracks. Available yea unto this very moment.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

Come on man, calling these things podcasts is such a scam to avoid paying people who would work as part of the crew for a talk show. It’s a way to squeeze out more middle class people and it sucks

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

most insane payment structure i've ever seen. the app is mean to you unless you pay them.

What a great choice for @avilewis.ca's first big policy intervention as @ndp.ca leader: ndp.ca/news/ndp-mov.... This issue epitomizes how avg people are exploited by the tech & market power of oligopolists, & their intrusion into every moment of our lives. I predict this'll be very popular! /2

People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god

Heat batteries are a game changer for decarbonising heat. Polar Night Energy and Lahti Energia Oy have partnered to construct what is expected to become the world’s largest sand-based thermal energy storage system, to be built in Vääksy, Finland. www.environmentenergyleader.com/stories/worl...

happy confederate surrender day! let us remember the sacrifice of those who suffered and died to end one of the most wretched institutions ever created, and also remember that next time we need to hang the fuckin’ traitors

Peterol and diesel carmakers today might as well be investing in typewriters and rotary telephones.

The electrical revolution is happening - across several domains - faster and further than almost anyone dared predict. And any country that does not embrace it will be left in the fossil age.

This image, which claims to show one of the airmen rescued by US special forces from Iran, has racked up millions of views after being shared by some major influencers, and even by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The image is AI-generated and features multiple errors.

The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people. Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.

Pretty crazy how Trump is violating US law when he violates international law that the US is a signatory to. Seems like there should be a procedural way to deal with stuff like that.

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

The White House has created an FBI-led "NPSM-7 Joint Mission Center" dedicated to “proactively” hunting Americans suspected of domestic terrorism www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbis-new-p...

It should be pointed out that it is not suggested but *required* for members of the US military to disobey illegal orders by regulation. The fact that nobody should tell you everything there is to know about that rotten organization

I think it’s fine to dislike overly didactic works of art and entertainment, actually.

Congratulations to @avilewis.ca

Even Marx agrees, people just fall for protectionism left & right

12.7M acres of solar is is about 82% of the solar required to decarbonize the US in the Net Zero America E+ scenario (there's wind and existing nuclear and stuff in there too, but that's the solar portion). Or we can have 5% of our gasoline displaced.

This piece by @kevinbaker.bsky.social is as good as everyone says it is. Makes me wish I still ran a magazine so I could have the privilege of publishing it! artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain

"A good GM can make any game work" - trite, thought terminating cliche, simplistic "A well designed game is fun even when you aren't very good at it" - actually useful design advice.

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

NEW: I've developed a new way of visualizing how much revenue you can get by raising taxes exclusively on the rich. And I don't see much evidence that the middle class needs to be paying any. www.peoplesline.org/p/revisualiz...

Say, that's a good title for a book.

The political commissars at work don't allow me to say what I want to say about this.

This headline should be—is it moral? Is it legal? Is it ethical? The answer to all three is no. “Israel Keeps Killing Key Iranian Leaders. Will It Work?” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/w...

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

I’d take this, even if I’d prefer a total unconditional surrender and handing our entire administration to Iran to stand trial for their crimes.

🙌Yes, it’s possible: there are pathways to well-being and a safe climate without growth.🌍 New reseach by ICTA-UAB, @unil.bsky.social and IIASA @aljosaslamersak.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

It’s really funny that all of these guys would tell you with a straight face that they have read Meditations 1000 times

Watching what's happening in Cuba, I say again -- Canada must support Cuba. noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus...

Know your class enemies by name: for those who don't know, Moody's is one of Wall Street's main credit-rating firms. When Moody's downgrades a city, it's Wall St's way of trying to discipline the mayor into submission by making the city's bonds less valuable. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

“The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.” — Pete Hegseth, war minister, speaking of CNN today. In public. Orbánization of the media is having a moment because of Hegseth's performance. Read Greg Sargent's interpretation. bsky.app/profile/greg...

Pete Hegseth wants to live in a world in which the US military can drop bombs on scores of children and face no serious media scrutiny for it. His vile claim that he can't wait for David Ellison to run CNN shows he pines for oligarchic control of media. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2077...

this is my favourite anticommunist cliche bc when you read Marx it's "as an economist, i believe people are greedy motherfuckers who will shiv one another for pocket change. and i'm pretty sure the masses will soon catch on that they're being shivved by 10 guys with huge fucking pockets these days"

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Sanchez is correct in refusing to allow the US to use joint military bases to carry out their war crimes against the people of Iran. He demonstrates real spine here, and models leadership to the rest of Europe.

The Iranian Red Crescent has sent a request to the International Criminal Court calling for a criminal investigation based on the US/Israel's systematic attacks against civilians and civilian objects including: 6,668 civilian structures 5,535 homes 14 hospitals 65 schools