@kajak.bsky.social
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I buy the Cabaret theory of modern politics: current right wing politics was, once upon a time, a thing elites sold to rubes while merely pretending to believe themselves while they pursued wealth, but now the True Believers are actually in charge and acting on sincerely believed insane nonsense.
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I buy the Cabaret theory of modern politics: current right wing politics was, once upon a time, a thing elites sold to rubes while merely pretending to believe themselves while they pursued wealth, but now the True Believers are actually in charge and acting on sincerely believed insane nonsense.
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Useful reminder from @mtkonczal.bsky.social: What looks like people having a lot fewer children than they did 25 years ago, is really just people having children later. mikekonczal.substack.com/p/the-eldest...
(What if any policy or political significance this has, we will leave for another time.)
(What if any policy or political significance this has, we will leave for another time.)
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Useful reminder from @mtkonczal.bsky.social: What looks like people having a lot fewer children than they did 25 years ago, is really just people having children later. mikekonczal.substack.com/p/the-eldest...
(What if any policy or political significance this has, we will leave for another time.)
(What if any policy or political significance this has, we will leave for another time.)
Le piacevoli scoperte della corvè nella biblioteca della scuola
December 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Le piacevoli scoperte della corvè nella biblioteca della scuola
Trump vuole deportare tutti i somali perché, Ilhan Omar
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Trump vuole deportare tutti i somali perché, Ilhan Omar
the pedo force flows stronger than the white supremacy force
Federal authorities conducting immigration enforcement in Florida were seen pulling a woman wearing medical scrubs from her vehicle as she shouted that she was a U.S. citizen.
Feds forcibly yank woman in medical scrubs from car as she screams she's a US citizen
Federal authorities conducting immigration enforcement in Florida were seen pulling a woman wearing medical scrubs from her vehicle as she shouted that she was a U.S. citizen.In a video captured by David Goodhue of The Miami Herald on Wednesday, agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Custo...
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
the pedo force flows stronger than the white supremacy force
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The level of corruption to pardon a drug kingpin who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine while claiming you’re committing war crimes to fight Venezuelan cartels is worse than anything I ever saw in Nigeria.
This is so gross.
This is so gross.
Ex-Honduras president, convicted of drug trafficking, freed on Trump pardon
A former DEA agent called the release “devastating”: “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless.”
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The level of corruption to pardon a drug kingpin who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine while claiming you’re committing war crimes to fight Venezuelan cartels is worse than anything I ever saw in Nigeria.
This is so gross.
This is so gross.
embarassing FT piece on the EU common market, Ikea can sell a cheap toy to 30+ countries only adding a long label and this is the barrier to trade created by the common market? LOL of course it's be shorter label if you were forced to sell to single countries w/o the EU www.ft.com/content/35bb...
The EU single market’s elephant in the room
Small, often invisible barriers to trade affect products from businesses across Europe, including a fluffy Ikea pachyderm
www.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
embarassing FT piece on the EU common market, Ikea can sell a cheap toy to 30+ countries only adding a long label and this is the barrier to trade created by the common market? LOL of course it's be shorter label if you were forced to sell to single countries w/o the EU www.ft.com/content/35bb...
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Astonishingly, sea ice still hasn't started to reform over the Barents Sea area yet of the #Arctic. This includes record low conditions around Svalbard as well. It's been a very bad few months across the region.
Check out more graphics here: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Check out more graphics here: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Astonishingly, sea ice still hasn't started to reform over the Barents Sea area yet of the #Arctic. This includes record low conditions around Svalbard as well. It's been a very bad few months across the region.
Check out more graphics here: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Check out more graphics here: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
It feels cool, and that makes it seem as if we can adapt quickly, unless we happen to be the ones killed by a freak cyclone, like the one that hit the Malacca Strait. Oh, 3rd year above Paris 1,5 degree limit
November 2025 was the third warmest November on record in ERA5 at 1.54C above preindustrial levels – below only the records set in the prior two years (2023 and 2024):
December 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
It feels cool, and that makes it seem as if we can adapt quickly, unless we happen to be the ones killed by a freak cyclone, like the one that hit the Malacca Strait. Oh, 3rd year above Paris 1,5 degree limit
the grid is the bottleneck because of how permitting works, interstate gas pipeline can be built by asking a single federal agency, FERC, whereas HV lines requires permits from different state and local agencies so Hyperscalers build gas (and then face a supply crunch in gas turbines)
Close to 1 full goddamn gigawatt of gas (open-cycle, so the most inefficient kind) for the "Project Jupiter" site in New Mexico.
This whole article is a stunning illustration of how data centres are incentivising new fossil infrastructure:
eastdaley.com/daley-note/p...
This whole article is a stunning illustration of how data centres are incentivising new fossil infrastructure:
eastdaley.com/daley-note/p...
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
the grid is the bottleneck because of how permitting works, interstate gas pipeline can be built by asking a single federal agency, FERC, whereas HV lines requires permits from different state and local agencies so Hyperscalers build gas (and then face a supply crunch in gas turbines)
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Most of us don't realize how many objects (payloads and debris) are in orbit around Earth.
orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protection/
orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protection/
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Most of us don't realize how many objects (payloads and debris) are in orbit around Earth.
orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protection/
orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protection/
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It was fun to do this interview in Barcelona with the wonderful Cristina Saez. A bit taken aback by the headline though - that statement is inevitably true, but doesn't take away from the fact that the current evidence points quite strongly to a natural origin.
en.ara.cat/science-tech...
en.ara.cat/science-tech...
Philip Ball: "We still cannot be 100% sure that the Covid virus was not a leak from a laboratory."
Writer and science communicator
en.ara.cat
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It was fun to do this interview in Barcelona with the wonderful Cristina Saez. A bit taken aback by the headline though - that statement is inevitably true, but doesn't take away from the fact that the current evidence points quite strongly to a natural origin.
en.ara.cat/science-tech...
en.ara.cat/science-tech...
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One of the creepier geology papers I've read was about how in the end-Permian mass extinction (which is characterized by extreme volcanic CO2 outgassing and warming) the actual kill mechanism might have been when pulses of sulfur aerosols masking the warming rained out and the temperature spiked
A lot of people are going to lose money on this. Solar radiation modification only makes sense if followed by large-scale carbon dioxide removal, and we ain't got that.
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
One of the creepier geology papers I've read was about how in the end-Permian mass extinction (which is characterized by extreme volcanic CO2 outgassing and warming) the actual kill mechanism might have been when pulses of sulfur aerosols masking the warming rained out and the temperature spiked
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This path leads to chaos.
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This path leads to chaos.
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Hard to go down with dignity when your society is defeated by something called “Nano Banana Pro.”
Nano Banana Pro also seems to be good at moving the camera when recreating images, which can add a false sense of authenticity to sets of images, for example:
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Hard to go down with dignity when your society is defeated by something called “Nano Banana Pro.”
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I’ll have what she’s having
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I’ll have what she’s having
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By the way, Jeff Bezos, you fucking pathetic coward: Zohran Mamdani got the pragmatic things he needed to get as a leader without ever submitting to the likes of MBS and disrespecting the memory of Khashoggi and every journalist in America.
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
By the way, Jeff Bezos, you fucking pathetic coward: Zohran Mamdani got the pragmatic things he needed to get as a leader without ever submitting to the likes of MBS and disrespecting the memory of Khashoggi and every journalist in America.
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Zohran Mamdani is a snake charmer.
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Zohran Mamdani is a snake charmer.
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Chiamami pure fascista se vuoi, figliolo
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Chiamami pure fascista se vuoi, figliolo
it started when the EU wanted to tax facebook, came handy to stop the Paris agreement
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
it started when the EU wanted to tax facebook, came handy to stop the Paris agreement
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
quiet, quiet, pig
Trump: "Coal needs a little help public relations wise, so we refer to it as 'clean beautiful coal'"
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
quiet, quiet, pig
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“COP30 in Belém may well be remembered as the moment that the world accepted the leading role of China in addressing humanity’s most important challenge.”
“China is helping enable the energy transition, while the U.S. tries to force countries to buy U.S. oil and gas. Global trends favor China.”
“China is helping enable the energy transition, while the U.S. tries to force countries to buy U.S. oil and gas. Global trends favor China.”
As U.S. and E.U. Retreat on Climate, China Takes the Leadership Role
As U.N. talks get underway, China is emerging as a key leader in international climate efforts. It is empowering the global energy transition, and along with India and Brazil, is becoming the driving ...
e360.yale.edu
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“COP30 in Belém may well be remembered as the moment that the world accepted the leading role of China in addressing humanity’s most important challenge.”
“China is helping enable the energy transition, while the U.S. tries to force countries to buy U.S. oil and gas. Global trends favor China.”
“China is helping enable the energy transition, while the U.S. tries to force countries to buy U.S. oil and gas. Global trends favor China.”
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If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers