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Yup definitely the fault of an unnecessary tea lady or two

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Enemies of freedom

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grok 2 vs grok 3

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If you know a woman starting out in sustainability, please do let them know about this event we're putting on - great chance to build confidence and contacts.

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A new opinion poll indicates surging support for the reintroduction of #LynxToScotland with 61% of Scots keen to see #lynx return 🐆 The First Minister’s recent refusal to consider lynx reintroduction is completely out of step with public opinion. Full story 👉 buff.ly/3QmJ32z

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend only works if you know who your enemy is.

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Elizabeth line.

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No-watergate day 2. trickle here today but mostly still off. Thames Water would like us to get the bus for 3 miles to go and get some bottled water from them. I hope there are water nationalisation protestors on site signing people up. It’s what reform would do!

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Thanks to this tomfoolery, today I made coffee with water from the dehumidifier. I stink. And am thirsty. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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statistic of the day: approving the expansion of Heathrow, Luton and Gatwick airports would wipe out ALL the benefits of the government’s 2030 "clean power" target within five years of expanded operation, according to analysis by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp....

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New episode of my Your Brain on Climate podcast: Getting Your Head Around) the End of the World, with @laurielaybourn.bsky.social. It’s very hard to imagine how bad climate change could get. So we don’t. Why? Here or all good podcast providers www.yourbrainonclimate.com/1817605/epis...

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This is a lovely piece that is half whimsy and half very important www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja... I think underneath lots of people my age’s unsettlement with AI is the idea of its inorganicness. Philip K Dick got that years ago. + is “intelligence” without a body ever that smart really?

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1. I know this will cause me trouble, but it dismays me to see fellow environmentalists dismissing Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) out of hand, in some cases clearly before they have understood the technologies involved or their potential uses. 🧵

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More on the epistemology of common sense…

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“gettifaq”

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As my brand new colleagues will already have found out, I don’t mind asking lots of very stupid questions

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This is excellent from the ace @febalata.bsky.social and @neweconomics.bsky.social

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I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

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Bee-killing pesticides have been banned for "emergency" use in the UK for the first time in five years - was something that apparently happened every year actually an "emergency"? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Super. (Not super) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A challenge for defenders of rules based norms - how to avoid it becoming perceived as the cause of stagnation and stasis - when a Trumpesque 'do whatever it takes, and do it now' seems to chime better with a big chunk of the public's unhappiness with status quo.

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map news

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This is worth your time.

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I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins

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The Stoics thought when the planets line up in the sky the world would end & a new one, identical to the last, would begin. Same old shit all over again. Well anyway they're at it on Trump's inauguration day (no really www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/planeta...) so don't say you weren't warned.

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My TED talk on how cheap solar is changing the world, or at least Pakistan, South Africa and California. And how difficult it is to get good solar data. www.ted.com/talks/jenny_...

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One of the main changes that Trump/Musk/Putin seem to demonstrate: if you have power, it's fine to unashamedly use it to bully others and try change the world to be how you want it.

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LA is burning & our implicit political baseline is still that climate policies are acceptable if and only if they require zero sacrifice or even mild lifestyle change on anyone's part.

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He too will wake up one day and find his bum has fallen off

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I recently finished this extraordinary work and you all need to read it. “In all of human history, there has never been a better time to be a fire.”

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It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...

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what in the name of bloody hell is this hot mess

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"I'm having a little trouble understanding the concept of a doom loop, can you help" www.ft.com/content/f0fb...

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Gotta be said when it comes to Musk "just ignore him" is about a good a strategy as is "pretend there aren't spiders in your bed" when there are massive spiders in your bed.

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We're hiring! Psychology lectureships - including in environmental psych - available at University of Bath. Join us - we're lovely! Apply here: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

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"how many earthworms you reckon this'll save"

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how the Traitors castle is with Kas = how the Sun is with Miliband. Playground bullying of the kind, earnest, slightly peculiar lad.

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My last day at Climate Outreach after best part of 5 years. I've loved it. Time for a new challenge over at the Local Storytelling Exchange - more on that anon. For now, a huge big up to CO colleagues past & present for all their large braininess & kindnesses.

Yup definitely the fault of an unnecessary tea lady or two

Enemies of freedom

grok 2 vs grok 3

If you know a woman starting out in sustainability, please do let them know about this event we're putting on - great chance to build confidence and contacts.

A new opinion poll indicates surging support for the reintroduction of #LynxToScotland with 61% of Scots keen to see #lynx return 🐆 The First Minister’s recent refusal to consider lynx reintroduction is completely out of step with public opinion. Full story 👉 buff.ly/3QmJ32z

The enemy of my enemy is my friend only works if you know who your enemy is.

Elizabeth line.

No-watergate day 2. trickle here today but mostly still off. Thames Water would like us to get the bus for 3 miles to go and get some bottled water from them. I hope there are water nationalisation protestors on site signing people up. It’s what reform would do!

Thanks to this tomfoolery, today I made coffee with water from the dehumidifier. I stink. And am thirsty. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

statistic of the day: approving the expansion of Heathrow, Luton and Gatwick airports would wipe out ALL the benefits of the government’s 2030 "clean power" target within five years of expanded operation, according to analysis by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp....

New episode of my Your Brain on Climate podcast: Getting Your Head Around) the End of the World, with @laurielaybourn.bsky.social. It’s very hard to imagine how bad climate change could get. So we don’t. Why? Here or all good podcast providers www.yourbrainonclimate.com/1817605/epis...

This is a lovely piece that is half whimsy and half very important www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja... I think underneath lots of people my age’s unsettlement with AI is the idea of its inorganicness. Philip K Dick got that years ago. + is “intelligence” without a body ever that smart really?

1. I know this will cause me trouble, but it dismays me to see fellow environmentalists dismissing Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) out of hand, in some cases clearly before they have understood the technologies involved or their potential uses. 🧵

More on the epistemology of common sense…

“gettifaq”

As my brand new colleagues will already have found out, I don’t mind asking lots of very stupid questions

This is excellent from the ace @febalata.bsky.social and @neweconomics.bsky.social

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

Bee-killing pesticides have been banned for "emergency" use in the UK for the first time in five years - was something that apparently happened every year actually an "emergency"? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Super. (Not super) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A challenge for defenders of rules based norms - how to avoid it becoming perceived as the cause of stagnation and stasis - when a Trumpesque 'do whatever it takes, and do it now' seems to chime better with a big chunk of the public's unhappiness with status quo.

map news

This is worth your time.

The Stoics thought when the planets line up in the sky the world would end & a new one, identical to the last, would begin. Same old shit all over again. Well anyway they're at it on Trump's inauguration day (no really www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/planeta...) so don't say you weren't warned.

My TED talk on how cheap solar is changing the world, or at least Pakistan, South Africa and California. And how difficult it is to get good solar data. www.ted.com/talks/jenny_...

One of the main changes that Trump/Musk/Putin seem to demonstrate: if you have power, it's fine to unashamedly use it to bully others and try change the world to be how you want it.

LA is burning & our implicit political baseline is still that climate policies are acceptable if and only if they require zero sacrifice or even mild lifestyle change on anyone's part.

He too will wake up one day and find his bum has fallen off

I recently finished this extraordinary work and you all need to read it. “In all of human history, there has never been a better time to be a fire.”

It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...

what in the name of bloody hell is this hot mess

"I'm having a little trouble understanding the concept of a doom loop, can you help" www.ft.com/content/f0fb...

Gotta be said when it comes to Musk "just ignore him" is about a good a strategy as is "pretend there aren't spiders in your bed" when there are massive spiders in your bed.

We're hiring! Psychology lectureships - including in environmental psych - available at University of Bath. Join us - we're lovely! Apply here: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

"how many earthworms you reckon this'll save"

how the Traitors castle is with Kas = how the Sun is with Miliband. Playground bullying of the kind, earnest, slightly peculiar lad.

My last day at Climate Outreach after best part of 5 years. I've loved it. Time for a new challenge over at the Local Storytelling Exchange - more on that anon. For now, a huge big up to CO colleagues past & present for all their large braininess & kindnesses.

🦫

I strongly suspect Dyche is going to consider that a blessed relief.