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Abby Innes

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Assoc. Prof. at the European Institute, LSE. Research and teach the political economy of the state. Optimist. Alarmed by people who lack self-doubt...

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Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · Jun 9

Governments ignore the science and prefer to just focus on climate change as an energy transition: as a spur to kick start a still completely unsustainable capitalism. We’re in breach of multiple planetary boundaries and they - and we - are deeply interdependent. It’s one hell of a category error.

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Jun 9

‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study

- Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say

#climatecrisis
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‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study

Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding

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ECIU @eciu.net · 28m

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Estimated tonnes of C02 emissions from a planned new data centre on the outskirts of Edinburgh - roughly equivalent to the annual emissions of neighbouring Edinburgh Airport.
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Giant data centre could use as much power as every home in Glasgow and Edinburgh

Edinburgh Council has said the developer will not have to submit an environmental impact assessment, sparking concerns data centres are avoiding scrutiny from planners

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 18h

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 2h

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles.

By my count, that is now the ELEVENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 14 separate articles).

I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 2h

"We are happy to correct the record."

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Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 6h

Why an urgent path to net zero is not a socialist conspiracy…. number 3456328…
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Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 6h

If Starmer learned well the lessons from the Good Friday Agreement, the of decommissioning should be handed-over to either a neutral country or a Palestinian sympathetic country. Spain and Ireland, Chile or Japan are better positioned to perform that role than UK. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Trump takes centre stage as questions linger over UK’s role in Gaza ceasefire

While some question UK’s ‘key’ role in negotiations, others claim British influence was significant

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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 20h

This is truly an amazing opportunity.

Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Jun 27

Some news: In 2026-27, I'll be visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, leading the theme seminar on

‘𝘌𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺‘

There's no place quite like the IAS to think, together, about big questions. Please share—applications are open 𝚗̲̲𝚘̲̲𝚠̲.

Screenshot of this document: https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/SSS%20Call%20for%20Applications%202026-27%20.pdf

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 17h

this would be reprehensible self dealing & stealing from shareholders if SpaceX and xAI were public companies but it is only stealing from the VCs and Private Equity who are funding SpaceX and xAI with your pension money... wait, i will start again...

memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 18h

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks (Fred Lambert/Electrek)

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17h

Right on

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14d

Monopoly and totalitarianism go hand in hand.

The only way to stop the growing censorship of Trump's critics is to fight the consolidation of media outlets into the hands of a few families that do not care about the best interests of the country.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 19h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 19h

This is my base scenario for an AI bust.

Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 19h

I continue to think that while "LLMs aren't actually that world-changing" is a risk people have at least started paying attention to, "good-enough LLMs are going to be cheap and ubiquitous and those $1B data centers are going to become a liability rather than a moat" is an equally serious problem

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 20h

Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 1d

Daily Briefing: Coral tipping point ‘reached’ | NZ weakens methane target | Badenoch ‘betrayal’

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 1d

This is a perfect encapsulation of what is so maddening right now. We can all see reality, but the lies are painted as having legitimacy behind them when that’s so visibly not the case.

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“The piece also refers to “dueling versions of reality.” But this isn’t a case of one side genuinely seeing things one way (as “comparative calm”) and the other side genuinely seeing them differently (as a “hellscape”). It’s a case of one side (law enforcement, local journalists) trying to faithfully depict what’s really happening, and the other side (MAGA) concertedly lying about it to serve corrupt ends that are comprehensively, even intentionally disconnected from facts on the ground.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 1d

Increasingly, politics in West Europe is a mirror of East Europe, with a large radical right party against a rag-tag of centrist/liberal, centre-left, green and radical left parties and a rapidly declining centre right. The challenge is to coordinate the progressive opposition to the radical right.

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 1d

Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.

Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Next time they make up some thing about offshore wind and whales, ask about this.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 1d

The more you demand efficiency in complex and evolving systems the more brittle and ineffective they become, because you’re essentially trying to superimpose machine-like efficiency on a evolving system, and thus killing off its adaptive capabilities…

Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 1d

I love the emphasis in this on collective problem-solving globally, and scaling up solutions: focusing more on real, practical change rather than metrics! 🙌
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Trump calls climate science a ‘con job’. That could make tackling the crisis a whole lot easier | Francesco Grillo

Europe and Brazil have a rare opportunity, unimpeded by the US, to make a success of Cop30 – and reshape the world order, says Francesco Grillo of the European University Institute, Florence

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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 2d

With Farage’s former colleague Nathan Gill guilty of taking money from Russia to promote its propaganda Sam looks at the wider connections between the radical right and Russia. (£/free trial), samf.substack.com/p/russia-and...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 1d

The complexity of Trump's tariffs is what will kill exports to the US in the end. The requirements concerning steel are so burdensome, that you cannot export complex machinery. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

One of Europe’s biggest farm machinery firms halts US exports over ‘hidden’ tariffs

Krone says ‘alarming’ levies on about 400 goods including hair dryers and combine harvesters have forced pause

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Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Melly, being an absolute gent, waved right back at us with equal enthusiasm… 🙌❤️

Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 1d

Walking through London with my very affable Dad he once waved and shouted ‘Hello!’ at this behatted gent in a big striped suit on the other side of the road. ‘How do you know George Melly!?’ I asked, amazed. ‘Oh dear! is that who it is? I just knew I’d seen him somewhere before!’. Affable. Now 95 🌻

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Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 1d

But they’re going to have to look beyond first best and second best world neoclassical economic orthodoxies both to understand the terrible institutional and ecological dynamics in front of us and to develop new, far more adaptive and resilient solutions.…

Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 1d

It opens a space for a radically civic politics for progressive parties and their leaders (including new one nation parties of the centre right) not in hoc to corporate funding/lobbying…

Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 1d

If you tracked the Acts of Enclosure through the centuries you could get through a lot of tea and cake in the National Trust estates (a rather benign fate when you think about it…) 🫖🤔🍰

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Olly Benson @ollybenson.uk · 1d

"More than half of the young people involved said they would like to reduce screen time, but 46% felt “unable” to. And then came the kicker: “93% of young people who have attended a youth centre say it has made a positive difference to their lives.”"

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

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