Only the technocrats and centrists cant talk about climate in a way that people can understand. People are rising up against data centers in record numbers. that’s a climate issue. High gas prices? Climate. Unfettered capitalism? Climate. Attack on democracy? Climate. It’s all related, if you care

🧵 A postcard from the country that already crashed the car, sent with love and a small amount of nausea, to the cousins who are about to crash a bigger one. — @therickwilson.bsky.social's warning from America 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧 bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/r... 1/12

So feel this!

Was today year’s old when I discovered that The Small Faces reunited for a couple of albums during the punk era. Shame there was no Ronnie Lane in the line-up, but good to hear them having another go later on in their careers, after their heyday. (1/3)

When Fraser Nelson says that Starmer’s best route to defeating Farage is to govern better (and he’s not wrong). 😮‍💨

‘…the only form of sovereignty available at this moment in history is decarbonized sovereignty.’ A conclusion that would have far-reaching and transformative implications far beyond this particular moment in history. Once a state is off fossil fuels, it’s off fossil fuels. #transitionism

The Trump slump?

Just finished watching #ForAllMankind Series 5, Episode 6. This series has bit a bit of a slow burner in the early stages, but boy oh boy is the drama getting watched up by now!

Brilliant from @carolinelucas.bsky.social on Farage’s failed Brexit experiment 👏 bylinetimes.com/2026/05/01/n...

Thanks @iandunt.bsky.social for this brilliant write-up of the global food crisis that nobody seems to be paying attention to. There are now 3-4 week delays getting critical World Food Programme aid into Sudan. More people facing acute hunger, more cost. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Hope is contagious and science is king: 10 big lessons on ending the fossil fuel era

V excited to be heading over to Oxford University tomorrow to tell two overlapping stories - of TTNS & #ALTcRadio. You can hear the whole thing live on ttns.uk from 14:00 - 15:00 (Apr 29th). The talk is titled ‘No Music Policy: What Running an Internet Radio Station Taught Me About Online Community’

Fascinating and broad-ranging piece on the potential impact on both cities and parking spaces if self-driving cars become widely adopted. The one thing the article didn’t seem to consider is entrenched opposition from petrol-based car makers (thinking fossil fuel cos vs renewables). #transitionism

A piece frankly quite remarkable in its implications for the impact of AI on democratic agency, by @kkomaitis.bsky.social. ‘The public itself is slowly disarmed, not by violence, but by optimization.’ Can see myself coming back to this one again and again. #transitionism

It’s taken years in the thinking and weeks in the doing. But have finally completed the first draft of the talk I’m giving at Oxford University next week. ‘No Music Policy: What Running an Internet Radio Station Taught Me About Online Community’, about TTNS & ALTc Radio. Now to cut it back down!

Renewable energy: 98% of days in Britain are either windy, sunny, or both: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/04/25/renewable-energy-of-days-in.html

Solar panels don’t damage the countryside you just don’t like the way they look. Skylarks. Linnets. Yellowhammers. www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan...

Fascinating perspective on the growth of the ‘relational sector’ in effectively a post-AGI world. #transitionism

One of the first convos i had with a renowned climate scientist 1:1 was with Terry Root, whose work is on the potential for mass extinction of birds and other plants and animals, and i think all the time about the birdsong we are losing because of people who block addressing this directly.

Back on the radio again tomorrow, this time for 2hrs. It’s going to be an interesting (if eclectic) show. The 1st half is called ‘Dreaming Spires’ and is about music from Oxford (where I’m giving a talk about TTNS next week. 2nd half is a tribute to #AshaBhosle. ttns.uk on Apr 23, from 22:00 (UK).

Trust your common sense: yes, a series of massive fossil fuel supply shocks is, in fact, going to radically accelerate the process of electrification & decarbonization.

Almost an entire weekend spent writing, as I work on my talk at Oxford University in a couple of weeks about The Thursday Night Show and #ALTcRadio. It’s been interesting digging back into the history of #TTNS and the weather has been good enough to write outside on a number of occasions.

Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future iandunt.substack.com/p/rejoin-is-...

"Christ-splaining to the [checks notes] pope"

Holy sh*t indeed… #MassiveAttack #TomWaits

Today, my daughter became a teenager - a milestone for the whole family. My radio show tonight - starting at 23:00 UK time - is a set of songs by well known artists about their own kids. See you in the chatroom. ttns.uk #InternetRadio

Happy Tax Day, New York ☺️

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Oh yeah, all this and Mexico’s about to introduce an NHS too! More good news.

Holy sh*t, this is extremely excellent news. Almost #MoonJoy levels about an Eastern European election! May this begin to rupture the edifice…

Finally completed a book I’ve been looking to read for several years, de Sousa Santos’s ‘From the Pandemic to Utopia’. Though a pretty dense read, it has helped to extend my thinking around what I have been calling #transitionism (essentially, pathways towards better futures). Will revisit this.

ITS BEAUTIFUL.

The maddest thing to be waiting for the first splashdown from a manned lunar mission in over 50 years… #ArtemisII

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you - the American Pope…

Hmm, wonder why that might be? 🤔

Got an Easter treat this weekend with the publication of the episode of the ‘Talking HE’ podcast where I discuss the thinking, design and practice of putting together an interdisciplinary undergraduate module on sustainability and #ClimateChange with @santanuvasant.bsky.social - listen below 👇🏼

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuel has meant Freedom, Power. Now, thanks to DJT, those meanings are shifting fast--it means Scarcity, Peril. You want to feel safe now, you turn to the sun And that psychological shift is enormous! billmckibben.substack.com/p/oil-and-ga...

Waking up to the awe-inspiring images from NASA at the same time the US President is implying that he will commit genocide, I can't think of a better quote for the times than this one from Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell. I added it to today's Earthset image:

This is something I only came to understand about the United States by living there.

The United States needs to become a pariah state sanctioned into oblivion even for threatening this, let alone if it’s carried out.

all the beautiful things in the world spinning on this beautiful world, all worth so much love and so much peace

First look at the Moon and Earth together! 4 people on the left, 8.3 billion people on the right 🌎

This is a ridiculously stunning image, in its implications. Orion > Moon > Earth.