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I feel like we need to form a League of Relatively Normal People, and our agenda should be things like:
--Canada's cool, leave them be
--Lot of smart people at universities, that's a plus
--We're scared of getting cancer, so let's research it
--Fewer floods and wildfires would be nice
--Canada's cool, leave them be
--Lot of smart people at universities, that's a plus
--We're scared of getting cancer, so let's research it
--Fewer floods and wildfires would be nice
Just Darned Ordinary would naturally join a League of Relatively Normal People
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Good morning on Day 1649 of Ukraine's defence.
Welcome along, though updates today may be somewhat limited for personal reasons... feel free to wish me happy birthday 🎉
Anyway work to do, let's start.
Welcome along, though updates today may be somewhat limited for personal reasons... feel free to wish me happy birthday 🎉
Anyway work to do, let's start.
August 30, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Good morning on Day 1649 of Ukraine's defence.
Welcome along, though updates today may be somewhat limited for personal reasons... feel free to wish me happy birthday 🎉
Anyway work to do, let's start.
Welcome along, though updates today may be somewhat limited for personal reasons... feel free to wish me happy birthday 🎉
Anyway work to do, let's start.
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During grad school, we’d say that climate change is happening, but we can’t definitively say it’s due to humans (even though we were pretty sure it was).
It might be technically correct to say that we can’t definitively say what happened in Nepal/Tibet is due to climate change, but really, we can.
It might be technically correct to say that we can’t definitively say what happened in Nepal/Tibet is due to climate change, but really, we can.
August 28, 2026 at 9:38 PM
During grad school, we’d say that climate change is happening, but we can’t definitively say it’s due to humans (even though we were pretty sure it was).
It might be technically correct to say that we can’t definitively say what happened in Nepal/Tibet is due to climate change, but really, we can.
It might be technically correct to say that we can’t definitively say what happened in Nepal/Tibet is due to climate change, but really, we can.
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The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️
August 26, 2026 at 10:40 AM
The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️
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"CANADA GOES TO (TRADE) WAR" !!!
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[SOUND ON 🔊]
"CANADA GOES TO (TRADE) WAR" !!!
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[SOUND ON 🔊]
August 26, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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"CANADA GOES TO (TRADE) WAR" !!!
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[SOUND ON 🔊]
"CANADA GOES TO (TRADE) WAR" !!!
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[SOUND ON 🔊]
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I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money.
That's Dolly.
That's Dolly.
August 25, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money.
That's Dolly.
That's Dolly.
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The beautiful soul of Jason Arday.
August 18, 2026 at 2:56 PM
The beautiful soul of Jason Arday.
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Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
July 19, 2023 at 8:48 AM
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change?
Here you go.
This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.
Here you go.
This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.
June 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change?
Here you go.
This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.
Here you go.
This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.
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The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009.
Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2026 at 6:21 AM
The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009.
Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
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The articles we publish are all written by specialist researchers.
As a charity, we're asking you to help us get expertise to even more people.
Retweet and donate now: tcnv.link/JIlEYLe
As a charity, we're asking you to help us get expertise to even more people.
Retweet and donate now: tcnv.link/JIlEYLe
May 25, 2026 at 6:00 AM
The articles we publish are all written by specialist researchers.
As a charity, we're asking you to help us get expertise to even more people.
Retweet and donate now: tcnv.link/JIlEYLe
As a charity, we're asking you to help us get expertise to even more people.
Retweet and donate now: tcnv.link/JIlEYLe
Not many days left of my #Scandinavian tour by rail. Happened upon this jaw dropping scene in #Malmö yesterday at sunset. #Øresund Bridge and #Copenhagen just visible on the horizon. Oh yes, #flyless
May 26, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Not many days left of my #Scandinavian tour by rail. Happened upon this jaw dropping scene in #Malmö yesterday at sunset. #Øresund Bridge and #Copenhagen just visible on the horizon. Oh yes, #flyless
On day 15 of my #Scandinavian tour by rail. I love it up here and I have to say the @interraileu.bsky.social pass is fantastic, brilliant, superlative. Its flexible and, so rare these days, excellent value
May 19, 2026 at 7:45 AM
On day 15 of my #Scandinavian tour by rail. I love it up here and I have to say the @interraileu.bsky.social pass is fantastic, brilliant, superlative. Its flexible and, so rare these days, excellent value
Travel. Without leaving the ground. Never bored. #flyless #Trondheim
May 17, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Travel. Without leaving the ground. Never bored. #flyless #Trondheim
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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
www.theguardian.com
May 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
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Europe's electricity: 29% fossil fuels in 2024, down from 53% in 2005. Progress.
But transport is still 92% fossil. Buildings: 71%. Industry: 61%.
And 95% of EU oil and 88% of gas imported.
Switching suppliers doesn't fix this. Electrification and efficiency do.
More here: rdcu.be/feOjc
But transport is still 92% fossil. Buildings: 71%. Industry: 61%.
And 95% of EU oil and 88% of gas imported.
Switching suppliers doesn't fix this. Electrification and efficiency do.
More here: rdcu.be/feOjc
April 23, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Europe's electricity: 29% fossil fuels in 2024, down from 53% in 2005. Progress.
But transport is still 92% fossil. Buildings: 71%. Industry: 61%.
And 95% of EU oil and 88% of gas imported.
Switching suppliers doesn't fix this. Electrification and efficiency do.
More here: rdcu.be/feOjc
But transport is still 92% fossil. Buildings: 71%. Industry: 61%.
And 95% of EU oil and 88% of gas imported.
Switching suppliers doesn't fix this. Electrification and efficiency do.
More here: rdcu.be/feOjc
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Individual action is vital, but systemic change requires a coalition. Today, I join people, NGOs and organisations around the world to deliver a direct message to world leaders: stop the tunnel vision and #SeeTheBigPicture.
#EarthDay2026
#EarthDay2026
April 22, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Individual action is vital, but systemic change requires a coalition. Today, I join people, NGOs and organisations around the world to deliver a direct message to world leaders: stop the tunnel vision and #SeeTheBigPicture.
#EarthDay2026
#EarthDay2026
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"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"
Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2026 at 8:57 PM
"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"
Hugely important, hugely influencial. AMOC gives us warmth in winter. It's a potential climate tipping point. And there are others. This. Is why we should not fly, or at the very least #flyless www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Hugely important, hugely influencial. AMOC gives us warmth in winter. It's a potential climate tipping point. And there are others. This. Is why we should not fly, or at the very least #flyless www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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1/ For those of us keeping an eye on systemic #climate risks, these aren’t difficult dots to connect.
I find it downright frightening. We need to brace for impacts and spring into preparedness now.
This thread outlines 6 key papers and what we can do in response. ⬇️🧵
I find it downright frightening. We need to brace for impacts and spring into preparedness now.
This thread outlines 6 key papers and what we can do in response. ⬇️🧵
March 26, 2026 at 7:18 AM
1/ For those of us keeping an eye on systemic #climate risks, these aren’t difficult dots to connect.
I find it downright frightening. We need to brace for impacts and spring into preparedness now.
This thread outlines 6 key papers and what we can do in response. ⬇️🧵
I find it downright frightening. We need to brace for impacts and spring into preparedness now.
This thread outlines 6 key papers and what we can do in response. ⬇️🧵
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A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
March 5, 2026 at 8:50 AM
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Active travel saves the NHS at least £54 million a year just in Liverpool alone.
Other regions especially the north east need to sit up, take note and ramp up their efforts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Other regions especially the north east need to sit up, take note and ramp up their efforts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Active travel' in Liverpool City Region 'saves NHS millions'
People walking, wheeling and cycling in the Liverpool City Region saves the NHS an estimated £53.8m a year.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Active travel saves the NHS at least £54 million a year just in Liverpool alone.
Other regions especially the north east need to sit up, take note and ramp up their efforts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Other regions especially the north east need to sit up, take note and ramp up their efforts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Yeah, an ID.7 GTX would work too, it manages 1,800kg. Quite a surprising uplift from the RWD 1,000kg
March 3, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Yeah, an ID.7 GTX would work too, it manages 1,800kg. Quite a surprising uplift from the RWD 1,000kg
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Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
www.nature.com
February 23, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In competence and venality of the old political elite is ushering in a class of oligarchic politicians that are backed by unprecedented levels of private wealth and driven by some batshit crazy ideas (that just happen to be good for their wealth…)
Thiel is a prime mover in this
Thiel is a prime mover in this
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example
fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...
*Not satire.
fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...
*Not satire.
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | Fortune
The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.
fortune.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:10 AM
In competence and venality of the old political elite is ushering in a class of oligarchic politicians that are backed by unprecedented levels of private wealth and driven by some batshit crazy ideas (that just happen to be good for their wealth…)
Thiel is a prime mover in this
Thiel is a prime mover in this