Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun
@eaterofsun.bsky.social
Author, Editor @ The Economist, Chair @ The Degrees Initiative. Climate change, planetarity, critical zones, tv, burdens of life, etc. Reposts are not endorsements
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There’s only 1 person in Congress who doesn’t trade stocks, doesn’t take corporate PAC money, and has a public schedule. That’s me. And it should be the standard.
February 17, 2026 at 4:48 PM
There’s only 1 person in Congress who doesn’t trade stocks, doesn’t take corporate PAC money, and has a public schedule. That’s me. And it should be the standard.
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The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
February 17, 2026 at 8:06 PM
The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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The first assistant Chris Rufo hired in 2021 was a Pepe the frog loving fan of “groyper mom” Michelle Malkin. That guy worked for him for 3+ years before going to work for Russell Vought in the Trump administration last year. So Rufo can miss me with the “I’m shocked by Fuentes’s popularity.”
February 17, 2026 at 11:07 PM
The first assistant Chris Rufo hired in 2021 was a Pepe the frog loving fan of “groyper mom” Michelle Malkin. That guy worked for him for 3+ years before going to work for Russell Vought in the Trump administration last year. So Rufo can miss me with the “I’m shocked by Fuentes’s popularity.”
I saw a conspiracy theory yesterday that the goal is to eliminate all local data storage and push everything into the corporate cloud where it will be scraped to train A.I. (and exploit us)
And I'm having a difficult time dismissing it
And I'm having a difficult time dismissing it
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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I don’t think it will win Best Picture or Best Actor, but I really loved “Train Dreams” and Joel Edgerton is absolutely amazing in it.
Also, love seeing Bryce Dessner, a member of one of my favorite bands (The National), getting a nomination for original song with Nick Cave.
Also, love seeing Bryce Dessner, a member of one of my favorite bands (The National), getting a nomination for original song with Nick Cave.
February 17, 2026 at 10:10 PM
I don’t think it will win Best Picture or Best Actor, but I really loved “Train Dreams” and Joel Edgerton is absolutely amazing in it.
Also, love seeing Bryce Dessner, a member of one of my favorite bands (The National), getting a nomination for original song with Nick Cave.
Also, love seeing Bryce Dessner, a member of one of my favorite bands (The National), getting a nomination for original song with Nick Cave.
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I saw a conspiracy theory yesterday that the goal is to eliminate all local data storage and push everything into the corporate cloud where it will be scraped to train A.I. (and exploit us)
And I'm having a difficult time dismissing it
And I'm having a difficult time dismissing it
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 5:52 PM
I saw a conspiracy theory yesterday that the goal is to eliminate all local data storage and push everything into the corporate cloud where it will be scraped to train A.I. (and exploit us)
And I'm having a difficult time dismissing it
And I'm having a difficult time dismissing it
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After yesterday's Galileo Day (see my previous posts). All 4 big moons of Jupiter are visible again this evening and in a direct line. Key in the post below 👇
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 10:09 PM
After yesterday's Galileo Day (see my previous posts). All 4 big moons of Jupiter are visible again this evening and in a direct line. Key in the post below 👇
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
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would you like something to ban before you ban social media for teenagers?
ban short-form video targetted at the under-5s. some pretty convincing stuff here.
www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-wa...
ban short-form video targetted at the under-5s. some pretty convincing stuff here.
www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-wa...
Today I am submitting evidence for the forthcoming Department for Education recommendations on screen time use in early years – including this figure.
20 years ago, close to half of UK preschool… | ...
Today I am submitting evidence for the forthcoming Department for Education recommendations on screen time use in early years – including this figure.
20 years ago, close to half of UK preschool chi...
www.linkedin.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:38 PM
would you like something to ban before you ban social media for teenagers?
ban short-form video targetted at the under-5s. some pretty convincing stuff here.
www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-wa...
ban short-form video targetted at the under-5s. some pretty convincing stuff here.
www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-wa...
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“The camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children”
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 9:05 PM
“The camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children”
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i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
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The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.
February 17, 2026 at 2:18 PM
The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
February 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
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One of my pastels from nearly 30 years ago showing a path across Jesus Green in Cambridge. I think this was late in the year with a few leaves hanging on to the trees with some autumn colour remaining. It was bought by a late friend and is now with his family.
#Cambridge #pastel #painting
#Cambridge #pastel #painting
February 17, 2026 at 6:45 AM
One of my pastels from nearly 30 years ago showing a path across Jesus Green in Cambridge. I think this was late in the year with a few leaves hanging on to the trees with some autumn colour remaining. It was bought by a late friend and is now with his family.
#Cambridge #pastel #painting
#Cambridge #pastel #painting
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Oh this is what it feels like to be a reactionary
Pancake Day reveals a new, highly divisive intergenerational split - while older generations are loyal to traditional lemon and sugar pancake topping, younger adults are more likely to say they prefer Nutella or chocolate spread on their pancakes.
February 17, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Oh this is what it feels like to be a reactionary
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the entire point of judicial warrants, as I understand it (ianal), are to prevent things that shouldn't happen from happening.
Rep. Mark Alford: "If you tie a judicial warrant to what ICE is doing, it will never happen"
February 16, 2026 at 7:55 PM
the entire point of judicial warrants, as I understand it (ianal), are to prevent things that shouldn't happen from happening.
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158 first-gen Starlinks have now relocated from the 547 km/53 deg shell to the 475 km/53 deg shell. About another 180 are on the way down still.
February 16, 2026 at 5:47 PM
158 first-gen Starlinks have now relocated from the 547 km/53 deg shell to the 475 km/53 deg shell. About another 180 are on the way down still.
Wish I'd said that
So far this is the best novel I've read this year. Deceptively straightforward in its telling, and in the understated but expert delineation of its cliate-change future, it slowly, surely builds a superb waking-dreaming narrative of the magnificent strangeness of existence.
Happy publication day to this little book
February 16, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Wish I'd said that
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So far this is the best novel I've read this year. Deceptively straightforward in its telling, and in the understated but expert delineation of its cliate-change future, it slowly, surely builds a superb waking-dreaming narrative of the magnificent strangeness of existence.
February 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM
So far this is the best novel I've read this year. Deceptively straightforward in its telling, and in the understated but expert delineation of its cliate-change future, it slowly, surely builds a superb waking-dreaming narrative of the magnificent strangeness of existence.
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@jonathangibbs.bsky.social 's A Personal Anthology project now features over 300 guest editors. I'm honoured to be the latest -- my selection of 12 stories that have taken up permanent residence in my head can be found here:
A Personal Anthology, by Paul McAuley
‘A Way Home’ by Theodore Sturgeon (First published in Amazing Stories, 1953.
apersonalanthology.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:11 PM
@jonathangibbs.bsky.social 's A Personal Anthology project now features over 300 guest editors. I'm honoured to be the latest -- my selection of 12 stories that have taken up permanent residence in my head can be found here:
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Trying to track down the first 'musical episode' of a TV series. Any advance on 'Santa Claus-trophobia' (Roberts Robots, 1974)?
February 15, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Trying to track down the first 'musical episode' of a TV series. Any advance on 'Santa Claus-trophobia' (Roberts Robots, 1974)?
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(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
February 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
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@unlikelyworlds.bsky.social just finish Loss Protocol. Definitely going to have this one living in my head for the next few days. Like an eco-thriller penned by M John Harrison, and I cant think of deeper praise than that.
February 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
@unlikelyworlds.bsky.social just finish Loss Protocol. Definitely going to have this one living in my head for the next few days. Like an eco-thriller penned by M John Harrison, and I cant think of deeper praise than that.
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Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge "thys technologye ys the future"
Ys an ideological move
Violettes are blue
Sayinge "thys technologye ys the future"
Ys an ideological move
February 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge "thys technologye ys the future"
Ys an ideological move
Violettes are blue
Sayinge "thys technologye ys the future"
Ys an ideological move
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Did you know that in 1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation had an episode featuring a deaf character played by a Deaf actor? The original draft script had the character learning to speak after his interpreters were killed but the actor convinced them to have him teach others to sign instead.
February 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Did you know that in 1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation had an episode featuring a deaf character played by a Deaf actor? The original draft script had the character learning to speak after his interpreters were killed but the actor convinced them to have him teach others to sign instead.