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Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

Gullible, Cynical America The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

*I can understand blowing up the other guy's oil when you're a regime dominated by oil companies. But if you've got sun and wind and no oil reserves, how can you nail your economy to this

This is the best press ballet and opera has gotten in America in years

Itä-Suomen luonnosta halutaan Venäjää vastaan vihreä muuri – laajoja suunnitelmia vireillä Itärajan seudun luonnon ennallistamista edistetään ensimmäistä kertaa ministeriötasolla.

A Finnish government study, to be published in May, will outline a plan to “build” a “Verdant Wall” along #Finland’s Eastern border by #rewilding and restoring natural habitats, especially marshlands, as barriers to invasion. Win win win!

#biodiversity #defence

*Maybe you shouldn't HAVE oil wars next to frail tin barns with billions of dollars worth of silicon glass inside them

Btw regarding claims how new technology makes people dumb or lazy: while that may be true, I just learned that in places schools used to forbid erasers because teachers thought they’d make kids lazy.

I think humanity will usually muddle through somehow.

Happy international women’s day to all who celebrate

war ≠ tariffs

Tariffs imposed arbitrarily can be reversed arbitrarily, and removal acts similar to a stimulus. Most who adjusted economic activity can readjust.

People killed in war don't come back to life. Infrastructure destroyed in war doesn't start working again. You can't just take it back.

Diabetic woman arrested by ICE almost died after being refused insulin Hanne Daguman said she "genuinely feared for [her] health" after being denied insulin, causing her to lose vision and collapse.

Hanne Daguman is a Type 1 diabetic who was denied proper medical care in ICE custody.

She lost 10lbs in 9 days.

She experienced severe infections.

She was denied her continuous glucose monitor.

She was given too much insulin & another detainee gave her crackers and saved her life:

*Hmm. "Why"? Well, beehives solve the same problems over and over in complex processes we don't understand. We never bother with their details. We just build wooden barns for them and then rob them

*Also, the present is on fire. It's raining oil-smog in Teheran today

Because of dirty Russian money (and Russia’s capacity to wage disinformation warfare)

Happy woman's day to all my loyal ladies. I need you to make some babies for me to turn into corpses in the name of traditional values.

I remain a master strategist

Tired: “We have been at war with Iran since 1979.”

Wired: "We have been at war with Iran since 1947.”

Inspired: “We have always been at war with Iran.”

Party Total reported Donations accepted (excl. public funds) Public funds accepted Total accepted in this quarter Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland £65,140 £20,538 £44,602 £65,140 Conservative and Unionist Party £4,216,224 £2,401,452 £1,614,729 £4,016,181 Co-operative Party £131,180 £131,180 £0 £131,180 Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P. £104,320 £0 £104,320 £104,320 Green Party £294,069 £189,010 £98,764 £287,773 Labour Party £2,043,007 £1,943,824 £31,836 £1,975,660 Liberal Democrats £2,190,101 £1,314,139 £749,173 £2,063,312 Open Party £197,151 £155,067 £0 £155,067 People Before Profit £8,605 £0 £6,453 £6,453 Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales £63,967 £30,000 £33,967 £63,967 Reform UK £5,473,000 £5,456,000 £0

The funding gap between Reform UK and the Greens is astounding.

New Electoral Commission stats today reveal the reportable donations in Q4 2025:

🟢 Green Party: £189,010
🟣 Reform UK: £5,456,000

Greens are bringing in barely 3.5% of Reform UK's large donations - but still polling around 20%.

We are at a turning point in which "the question is whether states respond to disruption by doubling down on extraction, militarisation, and emergency centralisation - or whether they use the shock to accelerate the next life-cycle through new production systems and new forms of governance."

Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.

The only surprising thing here is that we haven't yet quite reached the point of weaponised drone swarms, each one carrying 50g of C4, programmed to dive on the head of the first person they see...

Anyone can become disabled at any time.

Your life can change in an instant, no matter how strong and healthy you think you are.

People will leave you. Funds will dry up. Life will get tougher.

It’s not a moral failing.

It’s a minority group you can join anytime.

Gulf countries rely heavily on desalination: Qatar nearly 100%, Kuwait and Bahrain 90%, Oman 86%, Saudi Arabia 70%.

Bahrain says an Iranian strike damaged a desalination plant overnight, following the US/Israeli attack on Iran’s desalination plant on Qeshm Island.

If water infrastructure is now considered a target it’s going to be disastrous for the people living there.

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Throw back to 2022 when @caitoz.bsky.social informed us that you were in a self-reinforcing echo chamber if you thought Ukraine had any chance of stopping Putin from taking Kyiv.

After first saying we would not invade, she later said we made no attempt to do what she said was certain to happen.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain.

This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region.

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I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.

I'm serious, read it all please

Elon Musk refuses to add LIDAR, in a cost-saving mood, falsely claiming that cameras alone can provide Tesla vehicles with enough information to avoid crashes. He is wrong. My $20k Corolla has LIDAR and is much safer.

And the ones that do have drivers are piloted like this: 👇