Timlagor
@timlagor.bsky.social
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The ice has been melting for *decades*. Ice doesn't stop melting when you stop raising the thermostat. (he/him)
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1. If you're on Substack, get off of Substack.

2. If you want to start a Substack, DON'T.
A thread for getting off Substack 🧵:

1. First, migrate your archive and subscriber list to the new platform. I went to buttondown, which was the most affordable for me as a small letter, not a lot of paid subscribers. It's not as slick of an interface, but it does everything I need.
Well we could but they aren't on the left to it's more like they're trying to steal the left vote
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Can we officially start calling them out for splitting the left vote yet?
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The argument that a Green vote is a wasted vote is now null.

The argument that a Green vote helps Reform by hurting Labour is now void.

The Labour Party is finished.

It's now either Farage, Reform and hate.

Or Polanski, The Green Party, hope, and decency.

Which side are you on?

Vote Green!
When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them. I meant it.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Poll showing labour and greens neck and neck.
It would be lovely for this to work but I can't see any way in which SCOTUS doesn't shoot down any court-based effort and Congress/POTUS shoot down anything else.

(until they just outright cheat/cancel the elections altogether)
I also find it kinda weird that spending money works. How have USAns not learned to disbelieve the adverts?
The Crunch is coming by 2040. Everything will have changed radically by 2050
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Remember when Starmer came out to say Farage isn't a racist, and provided further cover for rising fascism in the UK?

Funny how quick they jump when they actually feel threatened, in this case as the Greens are posed to cruise past them in the polls.
The Labour Party have spent no time at all criticising Nigel Farage and Reform.

When I took Reform on - Labour sat their silently.

They're now spending their time attacking me and the Green Party.

Lower bills. Tax billionaires. (And rebuild European alliances.)

Join.greenparty.org.uk
UK labour. I definitely do not support NATO - quote from Zack.
No it's worse than that.
The propaganda and media disinformation is so extreme that you can reasonably come to believe that LLMs are capable of delivering this.

...you do need pretty poor critical thinking skills but that's most of the population.
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it is again insane to me that people think it’s better to shoot shit into the atmosphere- which has consequences we don’t know about- than stop using fossil fuels, something we already know how to do.
The thing about solar geoengineering is that once you start you cannot stop *ever* unless somehow you have already removed all the multi-billions of tons of carbon emitted since the day you started.

If you stop at the higher CO2 concentration you get virtually instantaneous catastrophic heating.
"If geoengineering works well initially & you see this temperature drop, the tempempation to keep going & extracting fossil fuels will be greater than ever, because it will seem that you have a technologically that can cut off the link between temperature rises & fossil fuel combustion."
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Autogeddon: Piles of dead cyclists and pedestrians acceptable to capitalism.
Road death and injury should not be baked in to Waymo’s operating model.

“Despite some alarming incidents, Waymo said the data showed that cars driven by humans were involved in incidents that injured pedestrians 12 times more often than its autonomous vehicles.”
Guardian article with photo of a white autonomous vehicle and headline “Driverless taxis from Waymo will be on London’s roads next year, US firm announces”

And subhead “cars with human safety drivers set to appear in..”
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Ten people stand in a circle. One person pulls $10 out of their pocket, and they pass that $10 note between themselves randomly 350 times.

They now have $3,500

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
an graphic showing money changing hands between openai, google etc
I also can't get my head around them being allowed to install gas pipes and being allowed to not install solar panels
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On the same day that a poll shows the Green Party in front of the Labour Party for the first time - it's time to take on Reform too.

My chat with @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social 👇🏼

youtu.be/XRNB5MD7Ijw?...
How to stop a right-wing takeover of the UK | Zak Polanski | UNAPOLOGETIC
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
youtu.be
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Is this some kind of sick twisted joke? 🤮
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There is a particular stabbing pain those of us familiar with the Hollywood blacklist feel about the phrase “prematurely anti-fascist”. Let’s just say this dynamic has been in play for a fucking century.
If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...
I sure hope so. 45 years of right-wing government is 46 too many
Deep Sea Mining plans are also terrifying.
It's beyond absurd: we only have about a decade before we run out of Arctic Sea Ice which gives Greenland Ice Melt a massive kick and AMOC is already breaking.
Horrific to learn that the "no longer low probability" threshold they were using on AMOC was 10%

They are as obscenely wrong as Nordhaus.
I was just poking at my perennial gripe of climate scientists misusing the word "anomaly" so badly* that they don't have it when it's actually needed.

* to mean 'divergence from a baseline' -which they almost invariably have to explain anyway
Well it's OK because everyone knows now! 😁