Marc Hudson
@marchudson.bsky.social
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Academic (socio-technical transitions), climate historian, writer, video maker. Most days I think we're toast. #envhist See also allouryesterdays.info @allouryesterdays.bsky.social
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In the run up to the centenary anniversary next year, here's my short introduction to the 1926 General Strike for @phm.org.uk #GeneralStrike100 phm.org.uk/blogposts/19...
Tank next to two children on a residential street
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It's Electric Wind publication day!💨

Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.

Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇

A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.

Electric Wind is out now💡
Promotional image for Electric Wind book launch events. Purple background with an image of rolling green hills and a blue sky with wind turbines dotting the hills. MUP logo in top left corner. Photograph of Marianna Dudley next to her book cover in top right corner. Event details read: 20th October, Book Talk Online; 29th October, Britain's Energy Transition with Dominic Hinde at Bookhaus Bristol. Promotional image for Electric wind. Purple background with an image of rolling hills and a blue sky, wind turbines dot the hills. Book cover sits in centre of image. Text reads: How has energy shaped a nation? Electric Wind Out Now.
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Sure. This is a social phenomenon, the backwash of the failure/defeat of the XR/greta spasm.

And passing 1.5
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A protester who was threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act for holding a Palestine flag and signs saying “free Gaza” and “Israel is committing genocide” has received an apology from police, including for “unlawful false imprisonment”.

And damages.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag
Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’
www.theguardian.com
marchudson.bsky.social
Could the XX chromosome folks mess it up more than the XYs? Not clear to me that they could...
marchudson.bsky.social
"A sex-linked disease kills potent men and engenders a world in which women are the masters and movers. The time: the 1970's. The place: the U.S.A virulent epidemic, Encephalitis 16, menaces the country"
archive.org/details/viri...
(cf The White Plague by Frank Herbert: 1970s male panic).
marchudson.bsky.social
"The ancient pulse of germs and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I...."

Thomas Hardy just before the Redemptive Power of Nature

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44325/...
The Darkling Thrush
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires.
www.poetryfoundation.org
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this is a nice rendering by @nickevershed.bsky.social but, er, it definitely shows coal power output remaining persistently high even as renewable energy grows, which feels like a problem

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
a hand-drawn chart showing renewable energy griwing but coal output remaining stagnat for the past three entire years because demand itself has been growing oddly fast
marchudson.bsky.social
I (pi)rate that pun highly!!
marchudson.bsky.social
And both that morning equally lay
Oh, links no click had rendered red.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how click leads on to click,
I doubted if I should ever come out of the damned wikipedia rabbit hole.

.(With no apologies to Robert Frost).
marchudson.bsky.social
Yeah, I came to him via the wikipedia page for the Silver Shirts.

Do you need me to pull you out of a wikipedia rabbit hole???
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Entertaining life.
As long as you're not on the receiving end of his hitmen, I am sure he was great fun...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B...
World War II
In 1936, Berman and his crew had violently disrupted meetings of the Silver Shirts, an American fascist and pro-Nazi organization, at a Minneapolis Elks Club and elsewhere.[11] Susan Berman later learned that the Nuremberg Laws and the Holocaust enraged her father so intensely that he enlisted in the Canadian Army. Berman had, in fact, previously been turned away by the United States military for being a convicted felon. In addition, the attack on Pearl Harbor had not yet brought the United States into World War II.

Berman and his Minnesota friend Nathan Gittlewich both fought in the European Theater as soldiers with the 18th Armoured Car Regiment, 12th Manitoba Dragoons, II Canadian Corps, which first experienced combat during the Normandy Landings. Berman was well-liked, and his fellow soldiers did not know that he was a major figure in Jewish-American organized crime. After being severely wounded by enemy fire, briefly presumed dead, and declared unfit for further active service, Berman returned to the Twin Cities.
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I don't think we can be dogmatix about the best platorms...
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Ask not how many cars you can power with solar power instead of biofuels, but how e-buses, trains, and e-bikes can move people affordably in a clean grid.

#Sufficiency
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marchudson.bsky.social
In Ira Levin’s first novel, A Kiss Before Dying, the protagonist does a version of this…