Hans Royer
@hansroyer.com
Retired and currently residing in northern California.
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Let me be explicit. If you hear anyone say replacing fossil fuels with renewables is going to be expensive, they're either misinformed, uninformed, or lying to you.
Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewables are cheaper now.
Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewables are cheaper now.
December 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Let me be explicit. If you hear anyone say replacing fossil fuels with renewables is going to be expensive, they're either misinformed, uninformed, or lying to you.
Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewables are cheaper now.
Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewables are cheaper now.
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Powerful Guardian editorial on urgent need for #climate adaptation & for “real plans, real finance, real justice”. And good to see shout out to work of @climatemajority.bsky.social & GlacierTrust showing adaptation as both essential in itself & as a spur to greater decarbonisation👇
The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather | Editorial
Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look at how the struggle to adapt to a dangerously warming world has become a test of gl...
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Powerful Guardian editorial on urgent need for #climate adaptation & for “real plans, real finance, real justice”. And good to see shout out to work of @climatemajority.bsky.social & GlacierTrust showing adaptation as both essential in itself & as a spur to greater decarbonisation👇
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Collective #Liberation is the only freedom
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December 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Collective #Liberation is the only freedom
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The only Xmas tradition I still observe. To all those who celebrate, Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The only Xmas tradition I still observe. To all those who celebrate, Merry Christmas!
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Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
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Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.
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This is WILD.
Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!
We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!
We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is WILD.
Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!
We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!
We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
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Every act of refusal can help pave the way for others to refuse as well.
"We hope that other educators will join us in helping students and professors to pave an exit ramp off the alienating highway of automated education, and we aspire to achieve this in community, rather than as solitary prompt engineers."
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December 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Every act of refusal can help pave the way for others to refuse as well.
Blessed Yüle to all my Wiccan friends, here and in the Summerland.
December 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Blessed Yüle to all my Wiccan friends, here and in the Summerland.
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Stop burning fossil fuels.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
December 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Stop burning fossil fuels.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
Looks like al Jazeera has given up on real journalism. Time to unfollow.
Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI 'from passive tool to active partner in journalism'.
Al Jazeera launches new integrative AI model, ‘The Core'
Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI 'from passive tool to active partner in journalism'.
www.aljazeera.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Looks like al Jazeera has given up on real journalism. Time to unfollow.
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We do not have to offer and I believe indeed should not offer any benefit of the doubt: Anything sold as "AI" should be presumed ineffective, exploitative, environmentally ruinous, bigotry-amplifying and otherwise until proven otherwise.
/fin
/fin
December 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
We do not have to offer and I believe indeed should not offer any benefit of the doubt: Anything sold as "AI" should be presumed ineffective, exploitative, environmentally ruinous, bigotry-amplifying and otherwise until proven otherwise.
/fin
/fin
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No.
People are losing their minds on Twitter and becoming more trick lazy, sloppy and radicalised because the libs are not there to argue against and challenge. Come back.
December 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
No.
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When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
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I'd love a browser/general software extension that adds a "No, fuck off!" button to any pop-up suggesting "AI" "help" with something --- and the option to send exactly those words to the company producing the software.
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I'd love a browser/general software extension that adds a "No, fuck off!" button to any pop-up suggesting "AI" "help" with something --- and the option to send exactly those words to the company producing the software.
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AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.
A few important points here
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.
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On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
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We are glad to see @sanders.senate.gov pushing back against the tech broligarchy, but we wish he would base his arguments on reality rather than Hinton's fantasies.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We take apart the report he cites here:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We take apart the report he cites here:
December 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We are glad to see @sanders.senate.gov pushing back against the tech broligarchy, but we wish he would base his arguments on reality rather than Hinton's fantasies.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We take apart the report he cites here:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We take apart the report he cites here:
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Hillary Clinton's latest Israel comments are vile.
She thinks young Jewish Americans are turning on Israel because they're ignorant and brainwashed by TikTok.
Given her history of foreign policy catastrophes and crimes, she is shameless 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/clintons-s...
She thinks young Jewish Americans are turning on Israel because they're ignorant and brainwashed by TikTok.
Given her history of foreign policy catastrophes and crimes, she is shameless 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/clintons-s...
Clinton's smears young Jewish Americans over Gaza genocide
No, Jewish Americans aren't turning against Israel because of TikTok and ignorance
www.owenjones.news
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Hillary Clinton's latest Israel comments are vile.
She thinks young Jewish Americans are turning on Israel because they're ignorant and brainwashed by TikTok.
Given her history of foreign policy catastrophes and crimes, she is shameless 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/clintons-s...
She thinks young Jewish Americans are turning on Israel because they're ignorant and brainwashed by TikTok.
Given her history of foreign policy catastrophes and crimes, she is shameless 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/clintons-s...
Just made my annual GT donation to Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation). Mostly because I have supported them for many years (at least a decade), but also because the casual FU to EM gives me a warm fuzzy.
December 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Just made my annual GT donation to Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation). Mostly because I have supported them for many years (at least a decade), but also because the casual FU to EM gives me a warm fuzzy.
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Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
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The last coal plant delivering electricity to California has closed.
California's energy system is now coal free.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-...
California's energy system is now coal free.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-...
Ding dong, coal is dead
At least in California.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The last coal plant delivering electricity to California has closed.
California's energy system is now coal free.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-...
California's energy system is now coal free.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-...
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In times of uncertainty, independent bookstores are a constant — and we’re thankful for them today and every day. 🧡
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In times of uncertainty, independent bookstores are a constant — and we’re thankful for them today and every day. 🧡