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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1h

Short answer: the pursuit of end-times accelerationism.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2h

Every news article about every Trump policy is the Stewart Lee bit in which he says "Now, that story about Richard Hammond isn't true. But it's what it tells us about Richard Hammond that's the main thing."

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2h

In case people aren't aware: Impact Counter: deaths caused by funding discontinuation in real time.

Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter

Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.

www.impactcounter.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2h

Ok so there's these little fellas. But they live in The Computer [cigar falls out of mouth]

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 5h

I like "malignant normality" that i first heard via Dave Vetter (Ben Franta used it in their discussion; think he said it came from a law prof)

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · May 29

Here's Ben, John and myself discussing climate litigation vs. "malignant normality"
@oxfordsmithschool.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Climate futures: Will fire be the beginning and the end of our story?

YouTube video by OxfordSmithSchool

www.youtube.com

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 2d

With the Trump Admin bashing renewables and boosting fossil fuels, most folks would assume that the smart money is going into oil and gas stocks. The investment returns tell a very different story, with green funds doubling the performance of fossil funds.

Green funds double performance of oil assets in Q3, defying Trump

Despite cuts, data center thirst for energy lifts renewables again

www.callawayclimateinsights.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Jane was severely compromised in terms of her worldview. I wish I had had the opportunity to challenge her on this.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

www.ft.com/content/5ba8...

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https://www.ft.com/content/5ba8caec-61d3-4aa9-a877-9b200ef4b5b0

Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

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Oil & Gas industry
BP’s new chair signals more asset sales and demands faster restructuring

“Supply leads demand — you put the supply on the market and demand gets created.,” he said. “Over the long term we’re very bullish.”

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

This is 🤌🤌 chef's kiss beautiful.

The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 2d

"The shadow justice secretary has railed against the lack of integration in parts of Britain. But it’s the ‘flag-bothering patriots’ who don’t want to mix", writes @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social.

Read their full piece now: https://bit.ly/4mWSYtp

Yes, Robert Jenrick, we have an integration problem: raci...

The shadow justice secretary has railed against the lack of integration in parts of Britain. But it’s the ‘flag-bothering patriots’ who don’t want to mix

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure to read this extremely insightful analysis by @zichen.bsky.social on China, geopolitics, electrotech manufacturing and more.

Wester van Gaal @westervangaal.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting commentary by @zichen.bsky.social on CATL's battery project in Zaragoza, and a kind of response to a recent FT piece which included the quote "They’ll take the technology and the money.”
open.substack.com/pub/pekingno...

On CATL’s Spain Project, A Few Modest Additions to the FT’s Reporting

Supplementary context on workforce composition in Germany and African precedents of Chinese investments.

open.substack.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

[Harvey Korman steepling fingers]Mmmm, too subtle

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 2d

Report from the front lines of the US nuclear renaissance, by @willwwade.bsky.social
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nano Nuclear Energy Inc. has no revenue, no license from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and no operating power plant. Yet investors have driven its valuation past $2.3 billion, a figure that may be built more on optimism than fundamentals.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

I lot of great NOAA scientists I know have left or are going to leave soon. This is bad news for all of us.

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

www.nytimes.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

Yep.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

BBC Radio 4's World at One is currently platforming far-right columnist and Reform member Tim Montgomerie, for his views - and his views alone - on the political conference season.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

🚨New report: how the fossil fuel industry duped successive UK governments into pumping money into costly CCS schemes to ensure continued reliance on oil and gas.

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 2d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

I spoke to Wawa last year about climate justice and de-fossilizing our politics.

'Everything Is Political': 'Black Girl Environmentalist' Wawa Gatheru On Social Media and Climate Justice

Kenyan-American activist Wawa Gatheru is a rising star of the climate justice movement. The Rhodes Scholar and Forbes 30/30 recipient spoke to me about taking the fight to both Big Tech and Big Oil

the-climate-laundry.ghost.io

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

Watch it here! Wawa was just getting out of Oxford when our cohort arrived. The first Black woman to achieve the Rhodes, Truman, and Udall scholarships.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 3d

TUNE INTO MY FRIEND'S WAWA'S INTERVIEW ON THE DAILY SHOW WITH JOSH JOHNSON!!!!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoB...

Wawa Gatheru - Closing the Climate Work Gap Through Black Girl Environmentalist | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

www.youtube.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

I am freaking out. Wawa on the Daily Show!!!

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 3d

MY DEAR FRIEND WAWA GATHERU IS ON THE DAILY SHOW TONIGHT TALKING ABOUT CLIMATE AND RACIAL JUSTICE with @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social and my heart is HAPPY.

I am so freaking proud of her. Wawa's an award winning founder of Black Girl Environmentalist. 😍 #blacksky

www.cc.com/fan-hub/the-...

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Tara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

My fantastic colleague @julietphillips.bsky.social has co-written a briefing with @bramclaeys.bsky.social of @regassistproj.bsky.social on how to improve Europe's grid governance.

A quick summary with links below 👇

Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 2d

Electricity grid upgrades are central to Europe's future energy security and competitiveness.
To achieve this, it needs to:
1️⃣ Give national regulators a statutory mandate for the energy transition.
2️⃣ Create independent system operators and planners (ISOPs) to oversee grid planning in the public
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 3d

A whole bunch of us have grown up in the UK knowing to flee in the other direction if we spot this flag anywhere. We’re not going to pause to see if there are stickers stuck below them.

And if they’re stuck elsewhere, we will not get close enough to see the text - again, we’re just going to leg it.

Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 5d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

Use your head. You cannot resurrect this symbol in this way. Among many communities of colour, it is associated with the Crusades, a campaign of quasi-religious ethnic genocide carried out by Europeans against communities in the Levant.

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 3d

A weird time to be a historian of multiculturalism, who grew up in Birmingham as one of a handful of white kids at school, who has also written a book on Handsworth. My thoughts on Robert Jenrick’s unabashed racism in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

www.thenewworld.co.uk/kieran-conne...

What Robert Jenrick doesn’t understand about Birmingham

I was one of a handful of white kids at my school in the city. It enriched my life and worldview

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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