Karen Klomp
@kklomp.bsky.social
In no particular order: I'm a cricket loving south London based originally Dutch energy professional.
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On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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Folks; it costs absolutely nothing to be kind and believe people when they tell you who they are
My first coming out convo:
Me: I'm not okay.
J: What's wrong
Me: I think I'm trans
J: There's nothing wrong with that. What do you want me to call you?
Friends, I wish everyone had that.
Me: I'm not okay.
J: What's wrong
Me: I think I'm trans
J: There's nothing wrong with that. What do you want me to call you?
Friends, I wish everyone had that.
December 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Folks; it costs absolutely nothing to be kind and believe people when they tell you who they are
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"Just need to get net immigration down and these people will suddenly become well-adjusted and happy with their lot" - the home secretary, apparently.
Some highlights from the X reaction to Sofie Jenkinson's concept of "Silly Sausage Britain":
December 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"Just need to get net immigration down and these people will suddenly become well-adjusted and happy with their lot" - the home secretary, apparently.
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“It is the Brexit playbook:…
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”
Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”
Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all | Steve Valdez-Symonds
The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty, says Steve Valdez-Symonds, refugee and migrant rig...
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
“It is the Brexit playbook:…
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”
Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”
Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Chief Advocacy Officer at the American Clean Power Association was formerly the Senior Vice President of Policy, Economics, and Regulatory Affairs at the American Petroleum Institute, and Executive Vice President of Government Affairs at America’s Natural Gas Alliance.
No, really.
No, really.
December 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The Chief Advocacy Officer at the American Clean Power Association was formerly the Senior Vice President of Policy, Economics, and Regulatory Affairs at the American Petroleum Institute, and Executive Vice President of Government Affairs at America’s Natural Gas Alliance.
No, really.
No, really.
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So if you didn’t know this, many of the green paints used for western home decor (and elsewhere) in the 18th-mid 19th century were arsenic based, both because the colour was vibrant and because it had the added bonus of killing bedbugs, mosquitoes, etc.
It also explains a lot about society idk
It also explains a lot about society idk
that's wonderful... thought I hope the arsenical green is modern paing
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
So if you didn’t know this, many of the green paints used for western home decor (and elsewhere) in the 18th-mid 19th century were arsenic based, both because the colour was vibrant and because it had the added bonus of killing bedbugs, mosquitoes, etc.
It also explains a lot about society idk
It also explains a lot about society idk
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I'm in Mumbai and eating a lot of good food but nothing beats this restaurant's plate of just fried garlic.
And it's unlimited. They'll keep bringing you plates:
And it's unlimited. They'll keep bringing you plates:
December 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm in Mumbai and eating a lot of good food but nothing beats this restaurant's plate of just fried garlic.
And it's unlimited. They'll keep bringing you plates:
And it's unlimited. They'll keep bringing you plates:
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New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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Also when they explain which businesses are going to offer these apprenticeships and how they're going to improve the high drop-out rate and poor quality of many of them.
Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer “low value degrees” and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Also when they explain which businesses are going to offer these apprenticeships and how they're going to improve the high drop-out rate and poor quality of many of them.
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This sent me to Linda Fiorentino’s Wikipedia page. I was always intrigued by what happened to her career and remembered her reputation as being “difficult”. Reading it, I see where some of the “difficulties” may have stemmed from.
December 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This sent me to Linda Fiorentino’s Wikipedia page. I was always intrigued by what happened to her career and remembered her reputation as being “difficult”. Reading it, I see where some of the “difficulties” may have stemmed from.
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What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
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Young person who Rory Stewart thinks was responsible for their actions and should not be forgiven: 15yo Shamima Begum
Young person who Rory Stewart thinks was not responsible for their actions and should be forgiven: 18yo Nigel Farage.
Young person who Rory Stewart thinks was not responsible for their actions and should be forgiven: 18yo Nigel Farage.
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Young person who Rory Stewart thinks was responsible for their actions and should not be forgiven: 15yo Shamima Begum
Young person who Rory Stewart thinks was not responsible for their actions and should be forgiven: 18yo Nigel Farage.
Young person who Rory Stewart thinks was not responsible for their actions and should be forgiven: 18yo Nigel Farage.
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Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
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I've had to plan cross-border moves, getting into grad school, dealing with layoffs, 800-page immigration applications, reported features, international adventure trips, solo-backpacking nine countries, learning languages, and how to train my dog. I don't have time or energy for men who can't plan.
December 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I've had to plan cross-border moves, getting into grad school, dealing with layoffs, 800-page immigration applications, reported features, international adventure trips, solo-backpacking nine countries, learning languages, and how to train my dog. I don't have time or energy for men who can't plan.
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I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
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Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.
December 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.
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The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".
December 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".
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Apart from anything else, this really embodies the Playmobil approach to workforces that politicians often fall into — it’s all very well and good to laud “frontline” NHS workers but without backroom staff the entire service would actually collapse.
Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Apart from anything else, this really embodies the Playmobil approach to workforces that politicians often fall into — it’s all very well and good to laud “frontline” NHS workers but without backroom staff the entire service would actually collapse.
And this is why they're called sea dogs in Dutch
December 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
And this is why they're called sea dogs in Dutch
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I'm lost for words. All I can say is that if you're okay with this level of bigotry, you need to unfollow me.
December 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I'm lost for words. All I can say is that if you're okay with this level of bigotry, you need to unfollow me.
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Get a load of this. 😆
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Get a load of this. 😆
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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Playing the "Good/bad migrant line helps spread further division and racism.
As @migrantvoice.bsky.social points out in this piece "People do not check what job someone has, or how they arrived, before attacking them".
Labour knows this and just carries on.
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
As @migrantvoice.bsky.social points out in this piece "People do not check what job someone has, or how they arrived, before attacking them".
Labour knows this and just carries on.
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
December 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Playing the "Good/bad migrant line helps spread further division and racism.
As @migrantvoice.bsky.social points out in this piece "People do not check what job someone has, or how they arrived, before attacking them".
Labour knows this and just carries on.
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
As @migrantvoice.bsky.social points out in this piece "People do not check what job someone has, or how they arrived, before attacking them".
Labour knows this and just carries on.
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
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Casablanca 2: Couscous Drift
Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Casablanca 2: Couscous Drift
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Neal Couling was the guy who said that getting universal credit to correctly credit people who got their wages weekly was simply an impossible programming task.
shocking tale of peak British officialdom from @patrickjbutler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal
Neil Couling said failings by individual claimants ‘at the heart’ of crisis, despite a report finding DWP shortcomings ‘unacceptable’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Neal Couling was the guy who said that getting universal credit to correctly credit people who got their wages weekly was simply an impossible programming task.