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Left at Easter Road today by some Hearts fans. I do worry we're going to see the idea the far right have no support in Scotland horribly disproven at the next election. Loyalism is a fringe movement but there's enough of them to get Reform MSPs elected.

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Dear old @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social just very…bad. Too many guests, too little time, grave moments discussed in fevered tones and in rushed time. Just fund a longer news programme.

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“Hey hon, wow historic day, huh? Did you get a question?” “Yeah babe! I asked him why he wasn’t wearing a suit!”

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If you missed it, watch it on Iplayer….

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Hello Blueskyers, Would love it if you watched Loch Ness They Created a Monster tonight on BBC2 across UK Fakery, petrol bomb attacks, 3 somes in lochside caravans - it's a reminder of when Fake News was fun, when Monsters lived in Dark Lochs....

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New Cultures of Energy podcast! We welcome Jamie L. Jones to the podcast to talk about her new book Rendered Obsolete, whaling, imperialism and energy in the 19th century. Moby Dick fans, this one's for you! tinyurl.com/tpd8t6wn

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“workers there, digging, digging, digging, … taking the raw earth so that we can create a lot of great product in htis country.”

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“We have to find the right balance between craven-ness, timidity and obsequiousness.”

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Gonna start using this as email sign off......

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

More useful energy with less energy input: How the UK’s net zero pathway will significantly enhance efficiency. An amazing chart by @thecccuk.bsky.social. This is how the energy system could change in a net zero world.

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NEW: Official advisers CCC say UK shld cut emissions 87% by 2040 ⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought 💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP) 🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400 🔌Electrification is key THREAD + charts www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/10

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Capitalism can't solve climate change because publicly traded companies must satisfy their shareholders — typically institutional investors — resulting in a focus on maximizing short-term gains at the expense of long-term planning for both the company and the environment. www.bp.com/en/global/co...

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

Plea for guerrilla artists to put one of these in a public space in every city and document what happens to it….

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“‘Join us! Leave your sinful past behind and become one of us! Help us to Make America Great Again!’ He’s had notable success with this carrot and stick approach.” He = the presidential candidate in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents (1998) /

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They don't want a public sector. That's entirely the point. Resist.

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Why is it that we have to suffer through endless features, posts, images, headlines of goddamn “Conservative Action Conferences” or whatever? Like every month there seems to be a new one? How many of these are there and where is the actual left version? No wonder we lose.

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Why do people who claim to remember their past lives always seem to be reincarnations of Helen of Troy or an accused Salem witch or someone heroic on the Titanic, and never a random cabbage-selling wench from the 1500s who died in her sleep at the ripe auld age of 39 and never learned to read

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The 'controversial gesture' contortion seems unnecessary, no? Why dilute the truth with the 'echoes' of the gesture when the signification is crystal clear and intended to be by its perpetrator(s)? Even if that intent is, trollish and cowardly, to be deniable by same perpetrators and fanboys?

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vg time was had - listen to the podcast!

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Wondered why no shots of the Celtic support in Germany…? Ahhh, of course.

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Our little mini doc on North Sea energy is now available to listen. Official launch Thursday at University of Glasgow open.spotify.com/show/7hW74e1...

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Here are some quality sheep I met today at the end of the Taynish Peninsula. Remote. Jura over the water. It was a fierce, freezing blast out there today but these ladies just put their heads up and bodies right into it. Hardy. Tough. Self-sufficient. Sheep are cool.

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How many Extreme Right Internationals are there? Seems like there’s one every week. Hotels must love them. (Also, the leader of the opposition doesn’t believe in acting on climate change).

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Would be nice to see all parties currently represented in Holyrood come together to call out Vance's blatant lies www.heraldscotland.com/news/2493749...

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

Imagine the level of arrogant and deluded child energy required to pitch up to a multilateral conference on one of the gravest crises in European politics since WW2, ignore it, lecture the gathered reps on their domestic politics AND then say:”there’s a new Sheriff in town.” The cringe is tectonic.

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Check out the IEA's new electricity report out today - really highlights the extremely significant regional impact of uncontrolled data centre expansionism, which will account for the majority of power demand growth in all of the US through to 2028 iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/38a95...

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Public Enemy vintage Da here, who happens to think Kendrick is a genius, goes on website for Glasgow tickets for him and daughter….. whistles How Much $$s cost again? How has this become a thing? Why does everyone accept it?

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The scenario where renewables bloom to power data centres, so that edgelord675 can up his Roman Centurion meme game, while fossil fuel production re-ups is not ironic. It's the logic of energy 'transition' in capitalist modernity. Never been a progression, always a mix. And this cocktail is toxic.

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Exciting new podcast launch from @uofgsocsci.bsky.social colleagues, energy historian @ewangibbs.bsky.social and climate journalist and sociologist @dominicmhinde.bsky.social: 🎙️🎧The Energy That Made Modern Scotland Join the launch event on Thurs 20 Feb, 5pm (open to all!): tinyurl.com/4r7e6p2t

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Just to be clear “let hell break out” = “kill more innocent people, as many as you like…” News outlets can’t hide behind the Biden euphemisms now. (They will).

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This is excellent analysis and depressing all the way down, from the corrupt, skewed distribution regime to the ever-widening inequality in the smaller leagues (which we are very familiar with in Scotland). How to break this plutocracy? 👀 @ewangibbs.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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serious question: when does Musk’s “audit” get to the money received from the US government budget to his own companies? Or will this just be selectively highlighted dog whistles for political rage gain?

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Sportsound changes to digital but here on analogue it goes to the folk request show playing John Denver’s Country Road and that song is suddenly all about Queen’s Park’s mighty victory! HahaHA!

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We’ve got our own HE funding crisis in the UK but this is an order apart - even if some great scientists move to Europe it’s a real threat to scientific/economic progress generally. American retreat in every sphere, from global networks only now realising how reliant they are on US participation

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Why do so many core UK media outlets keep assaulting us with this thing called “Super bowl”? The audience for “American Football” is miniscule here and yet we keep getting tons of coverage. Have they been paid? Get it gone!

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Labour to universities: Drop dead www.timeshighereducation.com/news/no-majo...

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Labour do know that the more they acquiesce to the anti-regulatory fetish the more they widen the door to the Tufton St Farage-ists and their desires for a Musk-Milei world of perma-bonfires?

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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

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