Richard Douglas
@maitrereynard.bsky.social
130 followers 440 following 300 posts
Research Fellow, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Surrey. Wombles. Yes, and armchair Spurs. Go Thorns. Commanders. Trying to see the positives. https://cusp.ac.uk/about/fellowship/r_douglas/
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Reposted by Richard Douglas
Jumpers for goalposts! Bananas on the pitch for John Barnes! A lump of concrete in the eye of a Luton fan! And get to smash the train up on the way home!
a man in a suit and tie is talking about something marvellous .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking about something marvellous .
media.tenor.com
Endless shame for the US Navy.
I mean, I could be wrong… and who can really say what things would be like in a few years…. but I really do remain convinced that if the PM ordered the Royal Navy to blow up some trawlers in the Channel, they’d at least tell him they weren’t able to aim straight.
That reminds me… Tony Harrison passed away recently, and I meant to post on here how much I loved his film, Prometheus. Watched it in the Notting Hill Coronet. Me and about two others there. A little golden moment.

share.google/wUGvG0KuGUyC...
share.google
“The importance of viewing climate denial as a defence of modernity is to understand that anti-environmentalists have got something right: there is something fundamentally incompatible between the idea of environmental limits and foundational aspects of the modern world-view.” My piece in Resilience
Climate denial and the defence of modernity www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
“The importance of viewing climate denial as a defence of modernity is to understand that anti-environmentalists have got something right: there is something fundamentally incompatible between the idea of environmental limits and foundational aspects of the modern world-view.” My piece in Resilience
Please give it a Grade-length slumber. It needs a very good rest, to be rebooted in 15 years with absolutely no one who had anything to do with New Who involved.
Jane Tranter reacted to Robert Shearman's recent DWM comments as “…really rude, actually, and really untrue.”

“Doctor will be back and everyone, including me, including all of us, just has to wait patiently to see when — and who.”
deadline.com/2025/10/doct...
‘Doctor Who’ Producer Jane Tranter Hits Back At “Rude” Writer Who Said Sci-Fi Series Is As “Dead As We’ve Ever Known It”
'Doctor Who' producer Jane Tranter said it was "rude" for witer Robert Shearman to say that sci-fi series is as "dead as we've ever known it."
deadline.com
So suffice it to say: Celebrity Traitors is so good it’s making a tangible difference to my quality of life.
Shame Big Al’s had to cancel on me tonight, otherwise I’d be able to follow up on our bevvies with a forensic take down of Alien: Earth and why it doesn’t deserve a second series. But this is going to have to wait, I need my Al for this.
Ok, I’m resolved to do a post a day on something that isn’t the state of the planet or the state of our politics.
Funny, because I thought the Devil was saving them for himself.
Oh. I missed this. They are saving God now.
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
"...‘morbid irrationalism’, a degeneration of neoliberal arguments for growth into alt-right crackpotism. This is what happens when the demands of denying the worsening reality of climate change, while maintaining faith in a failing economic orthodoxy, pass the point of rational self-respect"
I found that Jets-Broncos game strangely enjoyable. Baffling ineptitude can have its own beguiling quality. What will they do (or fail to do) next?
These are incredible pictures - utterly gorgeous. (Scrolling through references to the Jets-Broncos game at White Hart Lane to try to make sense of what I was watching - this is by far the best contribution!)
Reposted by Richard Douglas
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
But mostly: buy some tissues. For God’s sake.
Sitting opposite someone on a train who’s clearly going to spend the next two hours sniffing and snorting away in the most ignorable way, and I’m thinking two things. Are tissues so expensive? And I shouldn’t be so sniffy about Sartre. Hell *is* other people.
David! I keep hearing on your podcast that the UK is forging ahead on decarbonising its grid. And that’s not wrong! We have plenty of challenges and lots of irrational extremism in our politics, but it’s not all bad. (And Labour have been in power for just under half of the century so far.)
Reposted by Richard Douglas
For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.

When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.

Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
This is Sly Stallone playing “Secretary of War” isn’t it - “throw away all that Geneva and just go mano a mano”.
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."