'fascisty or thuggish vibes emerge when capitalism is feeling insecure and anxious. That’s when the systemic forces within it will - through…degrees of interconnection - come to favour leaders who batten down the hatches and get people to lean into the more authoritarian parts of their personality.'

I've really come to think that many people recoil from climate politics, as they did from Covid politics, not *in spite* of the fact that the problem obviously calls for (can only be solved by) solidarity & cooperation, but *because* of it.

Monbiot- “The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Toimet alentavat hallituksen tuloja mutta lisäävät kuitenkin päästöjä" Otetaan siis lisää velkaa, jotta voidaan lisätä päästöjä?

Standard Operating Procedure: Privatise profits, socialise losses

'A banner depicting President Donald Trump is placed by protesters at the arrival terminal of the Incheon International Airport, in Incheon, South Korea, on September 12, 2025.'

'“I’ll ride the subway with you.” Is that a promise or a threat? Is there any difference, really, coming from the predatory surveillance-tech industry?'

Private consultants are taking control of how public universities are evaluated and run. My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... A thread

The 2025 Audubon Photography Awards - Winners and honorable mentions from the Audubon Society’s 16th-annual competition featuring amazing images of bird life from around the world. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

A report finds the Republican spending bill will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade. via @wired.com

On huomattava, että 1) Ei luotu freonipäästökauppaa 2) Ei luotettu yksilöiden toimiin 3) Ei tehty freonijalanjäljen laskureita 4) Ei kuunneltu freonijääkaappivalmistajia 5) Ei hassattu vuosikymeniä vähätellen ongelmaa Vaan kiellettiin otsonikerrosta tuhoavien freonien käyttö. yle.fi/a/74-20183077

How the New York Police Department tracks you, from "The N.Y.P.D. Is Teaching America How to Track Everyone Every Day Forever" - gift link below. Don't miss the note: "list is not exhaustive." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

- Summary of potential changes to climate hazards across Australia (p.12) - Summary of current and future climate risks (p.17) 'Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment: An Overview' (2025) www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...

'The problem today isn’t change. It’s the speed of change. Changes that used to take centuries or millennia are now unfolding in a matter of years.' yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/08/natu...

Suomen luonto köyhtyy yhä. Jotenkin haluaisin uskoa, että tämän suunnan kääntäminen voisi olla laajasti yhteinen asia, josta voisimme olla ylpeitä. Tosiasioiden tunnustaminen olisi siinä hyvä alku. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

Whoa

"The real-world data was gathered from fuel monitors on 127,000 plug-in hybrid vehicles registered in 2023."

Mikä on ilmastonmuutoksen hinta? Kuuntele ja selvitä uusimmassa @bios.fi podcastissa. Vieraana Markku Ollikainen, BIOS tyypit vetää keskustelua soundcloud.com/biosresearch...

Never trust pledges www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Never 👏 trust 👏 pledges 👏

This is a rather famous vintage map by the genius Charles Minard. It shows global emigration in 1858. We see which countries migrants left behind. HT @vintagemapstore

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

One of the most deranged quotes I have ever seen

I can't even

#Banksy has just paid a visit to the Royal Courts of Justice in London. 🎯

A little background to this story: earlier this year something kept cropping up in the reporting I was doing on renewable energy -- the spectacle of recently elected centre-right governments in Queensland and, to a lesser extent, the Northern Territory acting in ways to strand renewables assets. /1

I saw a thing the other day that basically said “no matter what prompt you give it, the question an LLM is answering is ‘what would a plausible response to this prompt look like?’”

Two decades since the Million Dollar Homepage www.scmp.com/lifestyle/ar...

"According to the paper, the high level of future impacts "may exceed the capacity of ecosystems to cope with environmental change," in turn posing challenges for human societies and institutions in a variety of ways."" phys.org/news/2025-09... 1/n

90% is on par with the previous 5 mass extinction (the big 5 from deep past). Researchers: "found that under the worst scenario, in which emissions lead to global atmospheric temperature increases of 3 to 5 degrees Celsius, approximately 90% of all marine life will disappear." 1/n

"Oilfield Witness gathered all exemption requests since 2021,which showed the agency repeatedly approving permits that failed to comply with its guidelines.In many cases,oil companies asked to flare indefinitely or didn’t justify why they needed to flare,leaving blank the section of the application"

'That middle class has so eroded in size and in purchasing power—and wealth of our top earners…exploded—that America’s most important market today is its affluent. As more companies tailor their offerings to the top,the experiences we once shared are increasingly differentiated by how much we have.'

‘But what if there is no crisis? What if the markets merely shrug? Some investors may cheer. But anyone attached to the before times will know that the game is really up. A crisis, after all, is a sign that the patient is not dead yet.‘ www.ft.com/content/8b41...

I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is. Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

Great short video by TransLink explaining “the empty bus lane myth”

An authoritarian regime can't do its evil without small acts of complicity like this.

Am I standing in front of the future, or the past? Given the amount of regressive climate and environmental policies, and pro fossil fuel incentives we’re seeing before us, I honestly don’t know.

Turns out that carbon capture is not the solution the, checks notes, fossil fuel industry told is it would be. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A metaphor no doubt 'This is how things used to look.'

Inadvertently, this is an incredible illustration of how (a) the infrastructure required for fossil fuel extraction is bonkers and (b) how we don't consider our oil and gas to be 'destroying nature' like wind turbines simply bc it's undersea

”Yhteiskunnan perimmäinen tavoite on yhteinen hyvä. Nykytoteutus keskittyy valuvikaisen matemaattisen mallin nimissä pitkälti päinvastaiseen. Elämä ei ole kilpailu, mutta meidät on huijattu häviämään.”

You know who wasn't included in the decision to put in the AI sparkle button? Customers. (nothing new, of course - see customersincluded.com )

Would be quite a seller nowadays...

2025 edition: Are you prompting AI or is AI prompting you? x.com/jopas/status...