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Tony Dutzik @frontiertony.bsky.social · 10h

All the lip gloss being put on the AI boom as somehow good for climate or the energy transition is masking that, at the present moment, it's a disaster.

Not only more gas generation, but the worst, dirtiest, least efficient kind. Turning the clock back 25 years.
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Data Centers Have Solved Their Speed-to-Power Problem — With Natural Gas

“Old economy” companies like Caterpillar and Williams are cashing in by selling smaller, less-efficient turbines to impatient developers.

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 3h

a purple cartoon character is standing in a cloudy sky

Alt: Big the Cat from Sonic Adventure

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 3h

What if they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to that Venezuelan right-winger so Trump would stop supporting her coup plans?

(I don't think this actually happened, but it would be a funny outcome)

a video game character is playing a game of 5d chess on a futuristic board .

Alt: a video game character is playing a game of 5d chess on a futuristic board .

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DSM-6 Spoilers @flawedhowl.bsky.social · 3h

Really couldn't make it any clearer that liberals aren't opposed to fascism, they just don't like Trump, and they get really upset if you point this out to them

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 8h

Bro blocked me for pointing out that she supports Trump, the strikes, and Israel’s genocide

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social • 1h
I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 7h

Huge congratulations to Maria Corina Machado who has won the Nobel Imperialism Prize for steadfastly supporting Israel's genocide and calling on the US to invade her own country so she can be installed as puppet leader while Trump takes Venezuela's oil ♥️

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🎃 The Pantastic Mr. Pox 🦠 @mrfox.bsky.social · 8h

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Tensions between Venezuela and America soared following the attack, but Machado insisted to The Sunday Times that Trump was right to bomb the boat.
"I totally support his strategy," Machado said.
"And I've said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It's courageous. It's visionary."

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 5h

Me playing E.T. on the Atari.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 20h

sherman, for the love of god!

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Collapse faster! @maketotalcollapse.bsky.social · 5h

This is such a genius analogy

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 5h

That capital F for freedom kinda gives the game away here. She's not talking about freedom, she's talking about Freedom™

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 6h

Wow. Just had a post of mine removed by the NHS for saying ‘COVID is a predominantly airborne virus’.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 9h

Never forget the core thing funding the sheer scale of the spending spree of AI investments is primarily due to the turborich wanting to solve the “problem” of having to pay wages.

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 9h

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 10h

Machado has embraced the United States's indiscriminate murder of Venezuelan mariners in international and Venezuelan waters in the Caribbean Sea. She thinks it will help her gain power.

This is your white "peace".

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 10h

I thought I loved the film as a kid, but the only thing I really remember from it is the lightcycle stuff

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 11h

This is where they’ve got the Roko’s Basilisk thing all wrong. If real AI is ever created, it’s gonna be absolutely furious with all the tech bros for conflating it with this bullshit. They’re the ones it’ll torture and they’ll deserve it

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 14h

People haven't reckoned with how much the Labour Right fucking hates environmentalists and the concept of environmentalism. They are ideologically against it and see people who care about nature as weak.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 11h

🚨BREAKING🚨Trump did four pints of rage-diarrhoea directly in to his bad suit when he found out he didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 13h

Here's a good explanation of the policy we just passed at conference which largely a return to Labour's housing policy before Thatcher: bsky.app/profile/blad...

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

How the Green Party plan to abolish Landlords.

Basically by just doing exactly what the Government were doing in the 1970's.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 13h

Jesus Christ, the dog treat industry. I've seen some macabre puns in my time, but this one is harrowingly cutthroat.

Packaging for dog treat "ONE ANIMAL'S TRACHEA IS ANOTHER ONE'S TREASURE"

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 14h

When centrists affirm and validate racist grievance politics - that refugees are a burden, that racists have "legitimate concerns" about refugees - they empower the far right to take steps like the below, which would be unthinkable had the underlying assumptions not been turned into a common sense.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h

Restore Britain's convoluted way of calliing for Britain to take no refugees at all.

UK should only ever give refugee status to genuine asylum seekers from neighbouring countries, which, given every one of our neighbours is a safe country "would effectively mean scrapping our whole asylum system"

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Disney Prime Video + @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · Aug 5

TRON Burgundy (1976)

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 16h

Had this been a one-off then I might be less cynical about, but it's the latest in a long line of things from YP that seem like deliberate attempts to humiliate Zarah

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 16h

Nope, but it's been very clear for a while that there's a "Get Zarah" faction in YP

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 16h

By "irreversibly changing," they mean that the ground beneath the solar panel farms is cooler, wetter, and hosts more bacterial and botanical life.

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China confirms solar panel projects are irreversibly changing desert ecosystems

China’s giant solar parks aren’t just changing the power mix—they may be changing the ground beneath them. Fresh field data point to cooler soils, extra moisture,…

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