Pull up a seat America 🔆☕

Really interesting interview with TUC leader Paul Nowak, by @josiah.writes.news bsky.app/profile/byli...

Really interesting! Many echoes with what gen AI is doing to education [the business of producing the bits of paper that are the other input into hiring]. ie expensive refocusing on face to face tests which evaluate narrow set of skills you can demonstrate in that setting.

Give me 2 minutes to break down exactly where the Epstein scandal stands—and where it goes from here

Over 2/3 of primary energy is wasted as heat. The transition isn’t about matching that waste — it’s about outperforming it with efficient clean energy technology.

🌎 6 years of data from Cedar Creek Reserve show that warming consistently reduced plant diversity in grasslands, with stronger and more variable effects than drought—highlighting the need for long-term studies of climate impacts on biodiversity👇 buff.ly/3GQVxnN

Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"

Many congratulations to the United Kingdom for winning the prestigious 'Fossil of the Day' award at COP30 for screwing over workers. climatenetwork.org/resource/sol... h/t @amywestervelt.bsky.social

I am deliriously laughing at the image of Boebert facing dawning revelation that she's actually found the pedophile elite conspiracy ring and that she's standing right in the middle of it

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

WATCH: @raskin.house.gov explains the deal that would allow eight GOP senators lucrative lawsuits over phone record subpoenas: "It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."

If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.

The thing which is so often glossed over about hostile anti-immigration policies is that they affect the whole country and not just migrants. Labour's ill-concieved, and inhumane, anti-immigration policies will inevitably just make everything worse for everyone. #r4today www.itv.com/news/2025-11...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

The BBC is now in a fight for its life. It enemies will be happy www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit

Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

Also worth noting: In the first half of 2025, Chinese emissions fell by 2.7% while those in the US rose by 4.2%. Total emissions of the 1.4 billion people of China will likely never match those of the 340m in the US. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

If you were born after 1976 — which is two thirds of humanity — you've never experienced a colder-than-average year. That is, a year when the global mean surface temperature was below the 20th-century average (1901-2000 baseline).

Scorchingly articulate and not to be missed.

NEW: EXCLUSIVE: I spoke to sources at FBI and DOJ that reviewed the Epstein files. It’s worse than the photos. I’ll let you know what they said today at 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET on @meidastouch.com. Link to show: www.youtube.com/live/hEi77Ib...

268,000 Venezuelans living in the US lost their Temporary Protected Status yesterday. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-.... Many will be facing deportation to a homeland that is likely to come under US attacks in the near future. www.economist.com/the-americas...

In 2020 @wwf.panda.org identified the 100 global cities expected to suffer the greatest rise in water risk by 2050- home to at least 350 million people! We've already seen several megacities just days away from running dry. Here's a🧵 with eg's

By the end of October, England had only 61% of its expected annual rainfall, when we’d normally have about 80% at this time of the year. So reservoirs remain low, with a few even below 30%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here is an embarrassing graph I have just made for a report. Fun fact: in 2020/21 Indian Railways added the equivalent of the UK’s *entire electrified railway network* (over 6000 route kilometers!) to their own electrified network - and then did this again in 2021/22 …and AGAIN in 2022/23! 🤯

Social media views are not proof of 'demand'. They are proof of what the algorithm was programmed to show to users. And, obviously, some of the accounts which have 'viewed' or 'liked' this are not real.

It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄 Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆 1/15 🧵

Last year Drax was paid £869m in subsidies, and under a new contract is in line to earn £458m pa until 2031. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Not forgetting how US oil and gas companies are dodging decommissioning costs. E.g: kleanindustries.com/insights/mar... There are at least 2.6m unsealed wells onshore, with 2,700 offshore wells and 500 platforms delinquent for decommissioning. Those numbers are rising as fields reach end of life.

Twelve quick ripostes. Inoculate yourself against the usual moaning misinformation, or for the already enlightened slash jaded, consider it a booster shot.

Senators voted 51-49 against the resolution, dooming it even as a U.S. aircraft carrier sailed toward the Caribbean. interc.pt/47sCJzQ

EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040 E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours Pricing to compete with low cost flights Reduce emissions by 80% Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷‍♂️

An 85-apartment building opened in N Carolina in 2012. This study followed the group of homeless over 24 months before and after moving in. Hospital bills fell from $2.5m to $760,000. E.R. visits from 571 to 124. Arrests fell by 78% and jail stays by 84%. #HousingFirst is vindicated over and over.

Yet they are spending $1.4 trillion over the next eight years on data centre infrastructure and chips. It only makes sense if you believe that there is no 'second place' in the race to AGI. But if sheer scale doesn't actually cut it, might someone else develop the next transformative breakthrough?

We do not need to mine the deep sea.

Hmm. Does this enable Ukraine-style innovation through iteration, or profiteering through preferment? I suppose America is about to find out.

A look at Bari Weiss' first month at CBS News, as staffers express concern over unclear lines between the Free Press and CBS, disparate layoff impacts, and more (Washington Post) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation We spoke with 20 current and former military officials about the purge. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency." New analysis by @lgilbert.co ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

🔴 Tufton Street’s influence is epitomised by the Charity Commission’s total failure to regulate Tufton Street. 📝 A new rant about the regulator’s latest investigation into the IEA 👇

Very interesting. You won’t be surprised to hear that, for instance Rupert Lowe’s tweets “make up 24% of the posts our users were sent from the 33 accounts we compared. But his posts only make up 6% of their total posts.” He thinks it’s because he’s so engaging 🤪 but this experiment says NO

All schoolchildren in England to be taught financial literacy on.ft.com/47rsXOk

new york times hasn't done this yet, but their reporting shows mamdani absolutely slaughtering cuomo lmao

To be or not to be .. #Shakespearian

Trump administration officials warned of additional trade tariffs and made personal threats against negotiators from other countries to block a historic climate deal for shipping. on.ft.com/4p98Drd

For the full gross-out, sorry the full story, listen to this episode of Origin Stories with anthropologist Melanie Beasley: pca.st/episode/1519...

With social media, the difference between enough and too much is a fine line between sanity and bombardment.

Thank god it's Friday. Christ, what a week. And why do us atheists have such a limited vocabulary.