Tom Sweeney
@tsweeney.bsky.social
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You can judge a person by the size of their moral circle. Trump, for instance, has the smallest possible moral circle, containing only him. Be the opposite: expand your circle. Include, for example, animals currently raised for food. We shut them out of our consciences. It's time to bring them in.
January 11, 2026 at 9:08 AM
You can judge a person by the size of their moral circle. Trump, for instance, has the smallest possible moral circle, containing only him. Be the opposite: expand your circle. Include, for example, animals currently raised for food. We shut them out of our consciences. It's time to bring them in.
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2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹
"In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global
ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming."
+ #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
+ Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn
"In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global
ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming."
+ #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
+ Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn
January 10, 2026 at 4:32 PM
2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹
"In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global
ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming."
+ #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
+ Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn
"In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global
ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming."
+ #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
+ Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn
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If a human was being paid to create this material, we’d rightly throw the book at them. So why should X get a free pass?
Fine them to the hilt and if they won’t comply, shut it down. We wouldn’t tolerate this offline. Why online?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 2/2
Fine them to the hilt and if they won’t comply, shut it down. We wouldn’t tolerate this offline. Why online?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 2/2
Elon Musk's Grok AI image editing limited to paid users after deepfakes
It comes after government urged Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 9:13 AM
If a human was being paid to create this material, we’d rightly throw the book at them. So why should X get a free pass?
Fine them to the hilt and if they won’t comply, shut it down. We wouldn’t tolerate this offline. Why online?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 2/2
Fine them to the hilt and if they won’t comply, shut it down. We wouldn’t tolerate this offline. Why online?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 2/2
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One reason I feel like I'm going mad is, even if Musk did immediately halt Grok and issue a grovelling apology - rather than PAYWALLING IT - he should *still* be prosecuted and his website banned. Very obviously! You don't get out of CSAM charges by just stopping. AND HE STILL HASN'T STOPPED.
Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:46 AM
One reason I feel like I'm going mad is, even if Musk did immediately halt Grok and issue a grovelling apology - rather than PAYWALLING IT - he should *still* be prosecuted and his website banned. Very obviously! You don't get out of CSAM charges by just stopping. AND HE STILL HASN'T STOPPED.
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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
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There speaks man who sees power thru property ownership lens.
asked why he needed to own Greenland: “that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success … ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do with … a lease or a treaty. “
Debases treaties too
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
asked why he needed to own Greenland: “that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success … ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do with … a lease or a treaty. “
Debases treaties too
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:59 PM
There speaks man who sees power thru property ownership lens.
asked why he needed to own Greenland: “that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success … ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do with … a lease or a treaty. “
Debases treaties too
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
asked why he needed to own Greenland: “that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success … ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do with … a lease or a treaty. “
Debases treaties too
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
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I'm sorry to keep posting about this but this should be a government-destroying scandal at this point. How the fuck are you not coming down like a ton of bricks on this? There could hardly be a less ambiguous situation, and yet...!!!
My word. (Again.)
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 PM
I'm sorry to keep posting about this but this should be a government-destroying scandal at this point. How the fuck are you not coming down like a ton of bricks on this? There could hardly be a less ambiguous situation, and yet...!!!
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Well-installed heat pumps installed in the UK today achieve on average a 64% higher efficiency than those during the early trials 15 years ago.
It is testament to the brilliant installers and to the technology getting better. More in our recent paper:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It is testament to the brilliant installers and to the technology getting better. More in our recent paper:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 5, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Well-installed heat pumps installed in the UK today achieve on average a 64% higher efficiency than those during the early trials 15 years ago.
It is testament to the brilliant installers and to the technology getting better. More in our recent paper:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It is testament to the brilliant installers and to the technology getting better. More in our recent paper:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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This Minister intervened personally to maintain the live animal crib in Dublin, so surely he'll intervene to stop the production of CSAM, right?
Would love someone to ask the Minister who wants to introduce mass online surveillance to "protect children" to justify the government's continued use of X.
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
January 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
This Minister intervened personally to maintain the live animal crib in Dublin, so surely he'll intervene to stop the production of CSAM, right?
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I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
January 7, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
www.forbes.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
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Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.
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Geez I'm starting to get worried about our pals the library protestors. No word from them about X running a child porn suicide machine. Have they been silenced in Irish children's hour of need?
January 6, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Geez I'm starting to get worried about our pals the library protestors. No word from them about X running a child porn suicide machine. Have they been silenced in Irish children's hour of need?
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Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
January 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
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The justifications for the invasion of Venezuela from both US govt figures and pundits are a reminder that the US political establishment regards *all the world's resources* as belonging to America by divine right.
January 6, 2026 at 10:40 AM
The justifications for the invasion of Venezuela from both US govt figures and pundits are a reminder that the US political establishment regards *all the world's resources* as belonging to America by divine right.
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He's just a blatant liar, pure and simple.
The US president used to loudly oppose regime change and nation-building but now he loves it - and we have the receipts in this video.
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January 6, 2026 at 9:51 AM
He's just a blatant liar, pure and simple.
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Tánaiste Simon Harris this evening asked if he'd delete his X account in light of the creation and sharing of non-consensual sexualised images of children and women on Grok, says he'll have to reflect on it.
January 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Tánaiste Simon Harris this evening asked if he'd delete his X account in light of the creation and sharing of non-consensual sexualised images of children and women on Grok, says he'll have to reflect on it.
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Simon Harris to continue posting on the child sexual abuse image generating site but shaking his head so people know he disagrees
January 6, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Simon Harris to continue posting on the child sexual abuse image generating site but shaking his head so people know he disagrees
Good article, on a great book:
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...
Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser
The long read: Twenty-five years after I revealed the practices of the industrial food giants, the profits – and dangers – of mass producing meat and milk have only grown
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Good article, on a great book:
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...
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The same goes for people who express a new-found concern for the poor when an energy transition beckons. They attempt this gambit even today, when renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels.
In reality, such people couldn't give a damn about the planet, or poverty. They are concern trolls.
In reality, such people couldn't give a damn about the planet, or poverty. They are concern trolls.
January 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
The same goes for people who express a new-found concern for the poor when an energy transition beckons. They attempt this gambit even today, when renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels.
In reality, such people couldn't give a damn about the planet, or poverty. They are concern trolls.
In reality, such people couldn't give a damn about the planet, or poverty. They are concern trolls.
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Many of those who complain about mining for batteries / solar / wind power have curiously never raised a squeak about the far greater extraction required for fossil energy. Funny how they become concerned about the planet only when fossil fuel interests are threatened.
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Many of those who complain about mining for batteries / solar / wind power have curiously never raised a squeak about the far greater extraction required for fossil energy. Funny how they become concerned about the planet only when fossil fuel interests are threatened.
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Five years ago today.
January 6, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Five years ago today.
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OMG, RTÉ is copy-n-pasting the yellow journalism that sane-washes this crime straight onto its website.
January 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
OMG, RTÉ is copy-n-pasting the yellow journalism that sane-washes this crime straight onto its website.
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Which is more dangerous: fascist thugs like Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin behaving as if they're above international law, or democratic governments blatantly appeasing them and their gross violations?
Without change, there's good reason to be very scared of what all this portends for the future.
Without change, there's good reason to be very scared of what all this portends for the future.
OMG, RTÉ is copy-n-pasting the yellow journalism that sane-washes this crime straight onto its website.
January 5, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Which is more dangerous: fascist thugs like Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin behaving as if they're above international law, or democratic governments blatantly appeasing them and their gross violations?
Without change, there's good reason to be very scared of what all this portends for the future.
Without change, there's good reason to be very scared of what all this portends for the future.
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“Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Fiona Hill testified to Congress in 2019 that Russia was “signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap agreement between Venezuela & Ukraine.” In other words… U.S. could have #Venezuela if we let Russia have #Ukraine.”
#spéirghorm
#spéirghorm
January 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
“Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Fiona Hill testified to Congress in 2019 that Russia was “signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap agreement between Venezuela & Ukraine.” In other words… U.S. could have #Venezuela if we let Russia have #Ukraine.”
#spéirghorm
#spéirghorm