“In the short term, the war raises export income for US oil and gas producers. In the longer term, the ‘energy dominance’ strategy is self-defeating—creating profound volatility and repelling investors, consumers, and governments alike.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

"They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ” Exodus 32:8 ht @lumpyprol.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/70sb...

The most hilarious part of this is that the recall only affects 173 total vehicles, because that's all Tesla's sold of its rear wheel drive model.

I'm currently working on an AI safety review and the extent to which "tech bro makes car, the wheels fall off" is an extended metaphor for the last decade is not to be under-estimated

We tried to warn you about Anthropic. Now they're using xAI's ultra-polluting community-killing nightmare data centre to power your toxic claude relationship All the new paid subs from @rutgerbregman.com and @quitgpt.bsky.social's campaign, now powered by Musk 🫠 www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...

I don't want to move there, and there are all kinds of reasons not to want to live in a totalitarian state. But wow, in China, your boss doesn't get to fire you just because he's got hard-on for AI. From *Fortune magazine* of all places. fortune.com/2026/05/03/c...

Solar plus storage: $54 Coal: $70-85 Gas (methane): $100 The math gets pretty simple.

I find the analysis from this account really interesting and astute - frequently eye-opening but not sensational, so when I see this, it’s a serious case of 👀 I’ve really enjoyed this podcast so far and I’m gonna listen the he’ll out of it when it’s live.

Thinking a lot at the moment about what it is to create technology that treads lightly. My go to is always the idea of "just enough", which is really what I want EF Schumacher's "appropriate technology" to be - and how the obsession with end-to-end digitisation/automation gets in the way of that

Imagine if we called the people who work on farms "farmers" instead of "agricultural workers," and if we called the people who own the land "agricultural capitalists" instead of "farmers"

very funny that this guy is literally like “tax the rich? that is the n word to me, personally” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

Come share your innovative new uses of PyPSA, or just touch based with the community, at our next User Meeting in June. See you there!

Holy caw - nearly half of all cars sold in Australia are now EVs ? That was FAST - even China only hit this mark in July 2024, so this is less than two years later. (granted Oz, doesn't have a massive local car industry like Germany has, but still…)

I had to look this up to see if this was real. There's a 2 min video from @npr.org that has this exchange online. I'll post in the next one of this mini thread /1

Given how hard it is to find useful info about the community benefits or access to justice when it comes to datacentre build-out, this is a really welcome exploration of the problem, by applying lessons learned in an adjacent field. If you read one thing DC-related this week, make it this.

Happy International Workers’ Day! Together and Strong. x.com/solisolsoli/...

A rare albino humpback whale breaching, what a sight . 😍

Seems to me that Ukraine could probably find people who would pay *them* to do this.

I read somewhere but Mayday is not celebrated in the USA because if it was celebrated there too then it would become too easy for people to organise with groups in other countries that do celebrate it. Like us in Germany. Happy Mayday friends! May you get this day as a public holiday too someday.

You could use green ammonia as an alternative non-fossil source of fertiliser or you do this. It’s eye opening that this is what the economics or policy signals in the respective countries reward.

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Can I plug a thing today? Where I work, we believe the internet should serve everyone: openly, fairly, and without wrecking the planet in the process. The first of what will become an annual State of the Fossil Free Internet report went live today. What's in? fossilfree.greenweb.org/2026/ /1

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

Wow, this, coming less than 24 hours after hearing about UAE ditching OPEC, which can convincingly argued as a response to long term structural falls in oil and gas demand, is quite something.

"Electrifying industrial heat in India is now cheaper than producing heat from natural gas and oil across all temperatures, and cheaper than coal in three of five temperature bands, representing 55 percent of the country’s industrial heat needs."

Now is the time for bold fiscal, industrial, and policy action. Those who seize this moment will define the future, those who refuse it either due to pressure from deficit hawks and anti-tax advocates or thanks to the power of oil right now will be left in the past. 23/end

This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.

1/ So angry. First, this is what "elections have consequences" really looks like. In addition to big stuff like wars and Liberation Day tariffs, the whole vast US machinery of state is now working everywhere, on everything, to make the world worse in every way. Thanks guys.

this is quite the transcript

Indian solar made a big love heart shape on Valentine's day ♥️

This one project would pollute more than 13 US states.

These numbers are absolutely huge for this data centre project, but real talk - it seems so incredibly speculative. I don’t see any actual companies linked with it as offtakers, and it’s not clear they actually have the equipment either (thank chuff)

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

... Having principles, it transpires, is not cheap. By leaving Substack I've cut my income by more than a quarter. I've also made huge unforeseen amounts of admin and stress for myself. Additionally it almost certainly meant fewer people bought my latest book. I still think I did the right thing.

After reading this post and the linked account of what happened next after migrating away a list of users away from Substack, I understand why people might stay using it, even if they’re not not exactly being happy once they have a critical mass. Geez, roach hotel sounds *so* accurate. Yikes.

Excuse my French, but *holy fuck*, this piece from the heated.world newsletter from @emorwee.bsky.social... just wow. "Republicans introduce extreme bill to ban lawsuits against Big Oil forever" heated.world/p/republican... 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬

Three HUGE reports on the energy transition were launched this week, from @ember-energy.org , @iea.org and @gwec.bsky.social. They're all full of really fascinating insights, but let's be real - it's a LOT. So, I'm grateful for this post with key takeways: paczyzak.substack.com/p/the-global...

Testing a thing. Ignore. Does editing posts to bluesky work now with skeetsapp.com? I’m guessing it works with plain text but maybe it’s different if you include links or @mentions of other user accounts. (Edited 8:43)

Best to not wear this colour trousers when on TV.

[extremely long shot] Does anyone know of any south-ish London makerspaces that run facilitated sessions for teenagers who want to try things out? I have a young person desperate to do some 3D printing... (wondering if @jonty.bsky.social has thoughts?)

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

HERE COMES THE SUN BITCHES Maybe the fossil age end, my friends.

"Solar's growth from 2024 to 2025 was basically the highest growth of anything ever" Remember all of the articles telling us that the energy transition wasn't real and we should aim to do it slowly? We should compile a list of the authors of those as "people to never listen to again."

Oh my. When I first saw these figures from the latest IEA global energy review, they were so upbeat on clean energy that I had just assumed it had been published by *Ember* first time I saw the charts. The stories in the charts are worth a look, friends 👍

Imagine if Blackberry had successfully convinced the US government to forbid the sale of iPhones

Hi this joke is for me

Holy balls, wind is BACK. This is such good news as solar and batteries rightly get lots of attention, but wind still provides more clean energy in some very sunny countries. Spain is one example - sunny AF, but more power comes from wind, currently.