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Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · Nov 29

Maps like this suck. They imply climate change will flood vast swathes of the country very soon. Climate change will (and does) cause more flooding, but flooding is not about whether land is below high tide...

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 3h

FINAL HOUR of today’s ambitious drive—every day for the rest of October we’re chipping away at a big goal which covers food, shelter, winter clothes, and baby supplies for six families and a displacement camp.

They’re not rebuilding yet. They just need to survive this week. 🚨 802/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 9h

Not smearing anyone. It's no shame not to be able to arm a nuclear weapon without the authentification. They're literally designed so you can't do that.

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 9h

i didn't say that but fine make shit up whatever

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 9h

what else did i say?

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 9h

others have said they could have made a dirty bomb, and my response is "that's not a nuclear weapon".

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 9h

my post was simply saying that just because soviet nukes were left in Ukraine after 1990 doesn't mean ukraine had the means to use them, so they weren't really "giving up" very much. that's all. not saying ukrainian people are not suffering, ofc they are.

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 9h

how do you figure that?

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 9h

I'm not dumping on anyone. bsky.app/profile/benj...

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 16h

If Scotland became independent it wouldn't be able to use the nuclear weapons stored at Faslane. Similar idea.

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 9h

Yes and my point is that is an entirely different thing from a nuclear weapon and the two are not comparable.

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 9h

As others have pointed out, this is *entirely* because of the UK's insistence that "small businesses" are inherently good and the best people to deliver a national initiative, as opposed to state-run companies.

James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 18h

Utterly enraging this was allowed to happen. Beyond enraging that it will now be used to attack energy efficiency measures that remain the most effective route for tackling fuel poverty and emissions. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520312...

Spending watchdog exposes 'unacceptable, systemic failings' in government insulation scheme

Almost every home with external wall insulation installed under the government's ECO scheme will require remedial work, NAO report finds

www.businessgreen.com

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 10h

With support dropping for every survival fund, we have to ask: does Palestinian life matter without the visible bleeding?

What of wounds that can’t heal due to ongoing famine? What of our duty to the future, too?

Support ANY survival fund. Here’s one for six families.

9 hours left 🚨 755/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 10h

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Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 14h

Oh sorry i forgot dirty bombs were the same as nuclear weapons and not an entirely different thing.

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 14h

Because nuclear weapons have systems within them to prevent detonation in the case of theft by state or non state actors, or their operators going rogue. Even if you designed those systems, you may not be able to deactivate them.

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 15h

There’s not much to say about the solid wall insulation failures that hasn’t already been said. A diabolical policy failure that wasted money and harmed people.

But one thing I will add is: I think it highlights the need for more state delivery capacity on warm homes, not just regulation
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Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds

Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp

www.theguardian.com

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 16h

We should have an LVT, but that's to put the pressure against rentierism. We need to sever the conceptual link between "tax paid" and "service provided" entirely. Tax what you want less of, subsidise what you want more of.

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 14h

Oh sorry i forgot dirty bombs were the same as nuclear weapons and not an entirely different thing.

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 16h

If Scotland became independent it wouldn't be able to use the nuclear weapons stored at Faslane. Similar idea.

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 16h

There was never a world in which Ukraine had the ability to use or maintain the Soviet nuclear weapons within its borders. theconversation.com/thirty-years...

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RL Stine Action @anothersmd.bsky.social · 1d

on the point of language to describe palestinians vs israelis, this was one of the most formative clips for me. in 1996 albright was interviewed as the aftermath of the gulf war and sanctions were clear for all to see.
dehumanising doesn't describe it. arab lives are a 'price to pay', nothing more.

Madeleine Albright on 500,000 dead Iraqi Children - "The price is worth it"

YouTube video by Eduardo Corrochio

www.youtube.com

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone tells you the govt couldn't possibly seize and strand fossil fuel assets....

Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 1d

Check this out lmao

S.L. Kanthan @Kanthan2030
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Incredible violation of rule of law and free market economy in the EU.
Netherlands just seized a Chinese-owned semiconductor company - Nexperia.
Excuse: "National security" and to prevent "possibility" of IP being stolen.
It's like the Minority Report in geopolitics.
The shares of Wingtech were simply stolen by the Dutch government; and the Chairman fired.
In legal terms, the "Goods Availability Act" was invoked - for the first time ever. The alleged reason is to:
"prevent a situation in which the goods produced by Nexperia would become unavailable in an emergency."

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres.

All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing:

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

John McCarrick, the company’s new head of Global Energy Policy, was a senior energy policy advisor in the first Trump administration’s Bureau of Energy Resources in the Department of State while under former Secretaries of State Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo.

As deputy assistant secretary for Energy Transformation and the special envoy for International Energy Affairs, McCarrick promoted exports of American liquefied natural gas to Europe in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and advocated for Asian countries to invest in natural gas.

The choice to hire McCarrick matches the intentions of OpenAI’s Trump-donating CEO Sam Altman, who said in a U.S. Senate hearing in May that “in the short term, I think [the future of powering AI] probably looks like more natural gas.”

It also aligns with the company’s early moves toward powering new data centers, huge warehouses full of linked-up computers that require enormous quantities of water and electricity, to run with gas. OpenAI’s U.S. Stargate Project site in Texas, which is slated to become one of the largest data center sites in the world, is already installing off-grid gas turbines to power its operations.

“Big Tech’s collusion with the Trump administration’s fossil fuel agenda for artificial intelligence is evident in their massive investment in methane gas power infrastructure — as well as pro-gas political operatives like McCarrick,” Tyson Slocum, director of consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen’s Energy Program, said.

The “solution” of powering AI with gas is part of Trump’s AI energy policy platform. In a July speech to announce a $96 billion AI and energy funding package, Trump lauded fossil fuel and coal-powered data center development while flanked by oil and gas executives.

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Öykü Koç @oykukoc.bsky.social · 1d

Nowhere to return. This is what Israel did to Palestinians. There is no standing building. Winter is coming and I can't imagine how a tent can protect them from cold. Your help is Sama and Baha's hope.

@samaa0181.bsky.social @mommunism.bsky.social

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

chatty g is just a smal lil boy whom nibbles 0.0000000000001 seconds of microwave when you ask it a question

ALSO HERE'S A SECOND 10 GIGAWATT (THAT'S A SMALL CITY'S WORTH) DEAL IN ADDITION TO THE FIRST 10 GIGAWATT DEAL

openai.com/index/openai...

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OpenAI and Broadcom announce strategic collaboration to deploy 10 gigawatts of OpenAI-designed AI accelerators | OpenAI
October 13, 2025

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OpenAI and Broadcom announce strategic collaboration to deploy 10 gigawatts of OpenAI-designed AI accelerators
Multi-year partnership enables OpenAI and Broadcom to deliver accelerator and network systems for next-generation AI clusters.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1d

Final 3 hours ⚠️ Remember, mods would HATE if you shared and supported a campaign Link was sharing every day 😏

One link, six families & a displacement camp, still surviving brutal conditions, famine, fire, homelessness, and we still have an impact—now more than ever—on their survival.

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 1d

I am the least original poster