"What has changed compared to previous oil crises and oil price scares - even the 2021-22 one - is how affordable the clean energy solutions needed to replace oil and gas imports are."
This is the KEY point made by @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
There are Alternatives now. bsky.app/profile/70sb...
Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.
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Fascinating to watch 🇫🇷, then 🇬🇧, then 🇮🇹, now 🇩🇪 start to acknowledge what 🇪🇸's government recognised from the very start: the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is a reckless intervention conducted without regard for rules of war and without a strategy for what comes next.
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There’s a good chance that photo was taken last month
Looking at the discourse and deciding everyone should read Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks plus any decent intro Epidemiology textbook
Sadistic gamblers galore www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Zelenskyy offers Saudi Arabia’s MBS help countering Iranian drones
Zelenskyy offers Saudi Arabia’s MBS help countering Iranian drones https://aje.news/mbu3t5
"If the severity of the illness cannot be ascertained — if it can't be determined — it can't be appropriately communicated to the public ... And the public might get the false impression that measles is milder than it really is."
One positive thing
The intensity of the Israeli bombardments in Beirut’s southern suburbs....
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
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Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
The keyword here is “Americans.” They were cool with developing the tech to surveil and target “Americans” because they thought it would only be invasive and lethal for non-“Americans”
Join the campaign to evict Trump's military from airports owned by the Scottish Government: greens.scot/TrumpsTroops...
Our pressure is working! The First Minister confirmed today that he is actively considering this proposal.
Likely powering local Claude use: bsky.app/profile/rich...
How I arrived on Bluesky:
Interesting hand signal from Pete Hegseth this morning
Cuba regrets the decision of Jamaica to cease medical cooperation, yielding to pressure from the US
Cuba’s MoFA reports that “on March 4 Foreign Ministry of Jamaica communicated to our Embassy the unilateral decision of its government to terminate health cooperation agreement we had for decades”.
Google is eating its seed corn
'An Iranian military spokesperson has warned that any US ships entering the Gulf will end up at the bottom of the sea.
It comes after Trump said earlier this week the US Navy would begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz “as soon as possible”.'
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saramohrhair: Where do I find a pediatrician that doesn't push vaccines? matt.keller.33: Look at your states medical boards. Find the pediatrician associated with the most childhood deaths. That's your doctor.
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Jamaica to end medical cooperation program with Cuba reut.rs/4ue07u0
Prevention is best. Leadership and trusted community level voices need to speak clearly that vaccination is in the best interest of our children.
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My friend Essam and his wife have been blessed with twins!! Life in Gaza is hard; let’s help build joy where we can. Please help them (if you can) to raise their babies in safety and comfort. Right now they are looking for $200 for milk, diapers, and clothes.
gofund.me/fc848a56
There’s an Indian journalist in Israel right now reporting in Hindi about how bomb shelters in Israel will allow even the pets of Jews in but will not open its doors to the Indian workers our shithole government sent in droves to make up for genocided Palestinian labor. Apartheid regime.
In southern Lebanon, the Israeli military is using drones to surveil and control civilians who they believe are associated with Hezbollah without occupying the territory; these drones also conduct lethal strikes. Some scholars have declared this effort a “digital occupation.” Justin Salhani reports.
the US & israel kicked this off unprovoked by attacking a school full of kids, i'm not sure why the fuck i'm supposed to see a headline about their murder infrastructure being destroyed and think "oh no, what a bad development"
NEW @katemac.bsky.social & I:
Conscious Uncoupling - Can America's allies bypass the hegemon?
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