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Mike Fourcher

@vouchey

Climate advisor to the British Counsel in Chicago, USA. Former journalist, politico, and red-blooded American.

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POLITICO Pro: Starmer’s answer to Iran energy shock: Go green faster The U.K. is doubling down on clean energy, not despite the Iran crisis ­— but because of it.

What this guy said.

“The events of recent days are yet another reminder that the only route to energy security and sovereignty for the U.K. is to get off our dependence on fossil fuel markets, whose prices we do not control, and onto clean homegrown power that we do."

06.03.2026 19:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I feel seen!

Telnet. VMS. Token ring networks. BBS. Gopher. Logo.

It all was wonderful and I made so many friends. Some of whom I still cherish today.

06.03.2026 04:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mmm. Hose water. It tastes like...victory.

06.03.2026 03:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cermak supposedly hated FDR, and some think he actually said “I wish it was me instead of you.”

One of Chicago’s best stories.

05.03.2026 19:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Motorcycles for the mind | Middling.Industries Were you ever a science fiction reader? As a kid I devoured sci-fi, rarely of the laser beams and alien sort, but usually the strange and societal challenging type, like Clarke, Bradbury, Gibson, Brin...

They are motorcycles for the mind!

04.03.2026 14:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Motorcycles for the mind | Middling.Industries Were you ever a science fiction reader? As a kid I devoured sci-fi, rarely of the laser beams and alien sort, but usually the strange and societal challenging type, like Clarke, Bradbury, Gibson, Brin...

"While search is a question answering machine, today's AI is a perspective changing machine."

28.02.2026 23:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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PageMaker pioneer Paul Brainerd, 1947-2026: Aldus founder devoted his second chapter to the planet Paul Brainerd, who coined the term "desktop publishing" and built Aldus Corporation's PageMaker into one of the defining programs of the personal computer era, died Sunday at his home on Bainbridge Is...

I can't think of a software package that changed my life more than Pagemaker. I spend endless college nights on it, prepping our tiny @clarkuniversity.bsky.social paper that encouraged me to dream of bigger things.
RIP Paul Brainerd. You changed the world for better.
www.geekwire.com/2026/pagemak...

24.02.2026 20:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

UAE is like this too. Something about rich developing countries.

24.02.2026 02:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I talk to policymakers around the US and most have been convinced behind the meter will work. Data center developers have been telling them it can. But nobody’s done it yet. Who will be left holding the bag when their plans don’t work out?

17.02.2026 01:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Duvall, Dustin Hoffman, and Gene Hackman hung out together in the 50's. WHAT WAS THAT LIKE???

16.02.2026 18:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've knocked >20K doors. The worst experiences were always in small, rural towns. Every. Time.

15.02.2026 03:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't know how I never saw this picture of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev before, but it is glorious.

15.02.2026 02:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.

11.02.2026 18:09 👍 336 🔁 107 💬 10 📌 30

What about Up With People? I mean...

09.02.2026 03:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ricky Martin has the most amazing genetics.

09.02.2026 03:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As a person obsessed with electricity grids, tonight's halftime show made me feel seen.

09.02.2026 01:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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UK greenhouse gas emissions fell 3% in 2024, latest figures show The biggest fall in emissions was from electricity supplies.

This is how you do it.

06.02.2026 16:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How The Great Migration — And Segregation — Built The South Side's Black-Owned Lounge Culture For more than a century, cocktail lounges — distinct from dive bars and nightclubs — have served as essential gathering places for Black Chicagoans.

This @blockclubchi.bsky.social story about Black Chicago cocktail lounges is FANTASTIC. Thank you for uplifting this culture for us. (Just for the pix alone!)

06.02.2026 01:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Phone first!

05.02.2026 13:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm enjoying a person younger than me reenact, "Old man yells at cloud."

05.02.2026 13:47 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Since upgrading iOS 26.2 my #iPhone 13 has been burning through battery like mad. Anyone else experiencing this?

04.02.2026 19:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Billionaires will not save journalism. They can only harm it.

04.02.2026 16:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

03.02.2026 17:27 👍 4397 🔁 2278 💬 81 📌 321
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Watch Finding Harmony: A King's Vision | Prime Video In an unprecedented portrait of King Charles III, Finding Harmony: A King's Vision provides intimate insight into His Majesty's passionate quest to reunite humanity with nature. Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet narrates this journey through The King's Foundation's vital work.

Legit looking forward to this.

03.02.2026 02:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Josh Safdie Says 'Marty Supreme' Originally Ended With Kevin O'Leary As A Vampire Who Bites Timothée Chalamet Josh Safdie reveals that an original ending to 'Marty Supreme' featured Kevin O'Learly as a vampire biting Marty at a concert in the 1980s.

I saw Marty Supreme this weekend and considering how bonkers the movie is, this possible ending makes a lotta sense.

02.02.2026 18:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is one of the best parts of living in Wisconsin.

02.02.2026 04:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For me the "news" is less interesting than the data. There's lots of "knowing" this, but without hard data it's hard to move policymakers. And hard data on this particular issue is hard to come by on a regular basis. But if you know an on-demand solution, I'd love to learn about it!

30.01.2026 17:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm betting the guy who built this was a real character.

30.01.2026 13:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Link, please. Would love to see this source - and tell people.

30.01.2026 13:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Intuit is literally the worst.

27.01.2026 19:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0