Patrick Galey
@patrickgaley.bsky.social
Anti-Fascist. Anthropocene Pepys. Gen AI Cassandra. Journalist taking names on the fossil fuel industry and its role in the climate, energy, and cost of greed crises.
Other than that, mainly dogs and cycling
Other than that, mainly dogs and cycling
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The Secret Lies of AI
I recently listened to an excellent podcast from the team at QAA, investigating a phenomenon that is both at once very new and extremely…
medium.com
With Forbes warning the Gen AI bubble bursting will wipe $40 trillion off global markets, I wrote about the foundational lies the industry tells about the usefulness, durability, accuracy and - yes - intelligence of its products
All of which are weapons-grade horseshit
medium.com/@patchgaley/...
All of which are weapons-grade horseshit
medium.com/@patchgaley/...
#BREAKING 🚨
Every 1 in 25 people registered for #COP30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out analysis
In a year of record emissions, of Hurricane Melissa and millions displaced by climate change
The call is coming from inside the house
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Every 1 in 25 people registered for #COP30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out analysis
In a year of record emissions, of Hurricane Melissa and millions displaced by climate change
The call is coming from inside the house
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
#BREAKING 🚨
Every 1 in 25 people registered for #COP30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out analysis
In a year of record emissions, of Hurricane Melissa and millions displaced by climate change
The call is coming from inside the house
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Every 1 in 25 people registered for #COP30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out analysis
In a year of record emissions, of Hurricane Melissa and millions displaced by climate change
The call is coming from inside the house
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I don't understand why people have to concoct wild conspiracy theories in order to critique the NYT. I say this as someone who writes for them: there is plenty to critique without making up wild scenarios and insisting they're true!
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Remember, Trump wanted Matt Gaetz as his Attorney General.
The GOP: Guardian of Pedophiles.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
The GOP: Guardian of Pedophiles.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Remember, Trump wanted Matt Gaetz as his Attorney General.
The GOP: Guardian of Pedophiles.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
The GOP: Guardian of Pedophiles.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Here's the thing they won't tell you:
Producers know no one is going to buy their oil. They don't care. They get paid by you to produce it
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Producers know no one is going to buy their oil. They don't care. They get paid by you to produce it
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Oversupply of oil could create glut of 4m barrels a day, says energy watchdog
Warning comes as scenario in which global demand continues to grow until 2050 is included in IEA outlook report
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Here's the thing they won't tell you:
Producers know no one is going to buy their oil. They don't care. They get paid by you to produce it
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Producers know no one is going to buy their oil. They don't care. They get paid by you to produce it
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Reposted by Patrick Galey
NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.
Hope that was worth it for the couple of thousand in cash and impressing your weird London mates @darrenpjones.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Hope that was worth it for the couple of thousand in cash and impressing your weird London mates @darrenpjones.bsky.social
Yet another example how checks and balances are steamrolled by obscene wealth.
Trump called for an insurrection. He did so in point of fact, and in the dog whistle substance. We're now going to pretend something empiric never happened to satisfy litiguous threat www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Trump called for an insurrection. He did so in point of fact, and in the dog whistle substance. We're now going to pretend something empiric never happened to satisfy litiguous threat www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC prepared to apologise to Trump to resolve billion-dollar legal threat
The US president has threatened the BBC with a lawsuit over the editing of a Trump speech in an edition of Panorama
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Yet another example how checks and balances are steamrolled by obscene wealth.
Trump called for an insurrection. He did so in point of fact, and in the dog whistle substance. We're now going to pretend something empiric never happened to satisfy litiguous threat www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Trump called for an insurrection. He did so in point of fact, and in the dog whistle substance. We're now going to pretend something empiric never happened to satisfy litiguous threat www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Basically, due to Trump 2025, the IEA determined that *only if all economies similarly dismantled the climate plans they have built over the last decade* would oil and gas demand grow post-2030
But that's not what's being communicated. And that's not the message the useful idiots are spreading
But that's not what's being communicated. And that's not the message the useful idiots are spreading
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Basically, due to Trump 2025, the IEA determined that *only if all economies similarly dismantled the climate plans they have built over the last decade* would oil and gas demand grow post-2030
But that's not what's being communicated. And that's not the message the useful idiots are spreading
But that's not what's being communicated. And that's not the message the useful idiots are spreading
I woke up, put on the news (I'm travelling for work) and saw reporting that the IEA World Energy Outlook predicted fossil fuel demand growth for the next 20 years.
This was reported as a "business as usual scenario", when in fact it's nothing of the sort www.iea.org/commentaries...
This was reported as a "business as usual scenario", when in fact it's nothing of the sort www.iea.org/commentaries...
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I woke up, put on the news (I'm travelling for work) and saw reporting that the IEA World Energy Outlook predicted fossil fuel demand growth for the next 20 years.
This was reported as a "business as usual scenario", when in fact it's nothing of the sort www.iea.org/commentaries...
This was reported as a "business as usual scenario", when in fact it's nothing of the sort www.iea.org/commentaries...
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Nigel Farage is already observing a boycott of the BBC that began in Aug 2013.
And another from May 2019.
And another from May 2024. And June 2024. And July 2024. Busy year for boycotts!
And one from July 2025.
But this time, I'm sure he's telling the truth.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And another from May 2019.
And another from May 2024. And June 2024. And July 2024. Busy year for boycotts!
And one from July 2025.
But this time, I'm sure he's telling the truth.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK pulls out of BBC film amid Trump speech edit row
Internal party memo says ‘trust has been lost’ as US president reiterates threat of legal action against corporation
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Nigel Farage is already observing a boycott of the BBC that began in Aug 2013.
And another from May 2019.
And another from May 2024. And June 2024. And July 2024. Busy year for boycotts!
And one from July 2025.
But this time, I'm sure he's telling the truth.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And another from May 2019.
And another from May 2024. And June 2024. And July 2024. Busy year for boycotts!
And one from July 2025.
But this time, I'm sure he's telling the truth.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
People who benefit from the status quo and who dismiss our demands for action as unrealistic, know this:
We’re not going to politely acquiesce in our own extinction forever
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We’re not going to politely acquiesce in our own extinction forever
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Tussles break out between protesters and security at Cop30 in Brazil
Dozens storm venue at climate conference that has encouraged NGOs and Indigenous groups to play unprecedented role in talks
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM
People who benefit from the status quo and who dismiss our demands for action as unrealistic, know this:
We’re not going to politely acquiesce in our own extinction forever
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We’re not going to politely acquiesce in our own extinction forever
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Amazing really considering you singled out proven violent racist hooligans for protected status and labelled anyone who peacefully protests against genocide as race haters www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Amazing really considering you singled out proven violent racist hooligans for protected status and labelled anyone who peacefully protests against genocide as race haters www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Like, these people are private shareholders. They profit when Booz Allen profits, and every 50 cents on the dollar that ends up in their pockets comes from the US taxpayer
I wonder why we put up with this
I wonder why we put up with this
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Like, these people are private shareholders. They profit when Booz Allen profits, and every 50 cents on the dollar that ends up in their pockets comes from the US taxpayer
I wonder why we put up with this
I wonder why we put up with this
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America, every nook and cranny, is essentially a scam.
Hi. Booz Allen (they of murder tanks and those idiot robot dogs, not to mention the $300m ballroom) gets all of its money from US taxpayers and spins half of it into profit and I’m asking again how capitalism rewards those who hustle on.ft.com/48draMb
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
America, every nook and cranny, is essentially a scam.
Hi. Booz Allen (they of murder tanks and those idiot robot dogs, not to mention the $300m ballroom) gets all of its money from US taxpayers and spins half of it into profit and I’m asking again how capitalism rewards those who hustle on.ft.com/48draMb
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Hi. Booz Allen (they of murder tanks and those idiot robot dogs, not to mention the $300m ballroom) gets all of its money from US taxpayers and spins half of it into profit and I’m asking again how capitalism rewards those who hustle on.ft.com/48draMb
Put another way:
Neoliberalism isn’t the thing to fight fascism and it never was.
(It’s Socialism, btw)
Neoliberalism isn’t the thing to fight fascism and it never was.
(It’s Socialism, btw)
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Put another way:
Neoliberalism isn’t the thing to fight fascism and it never was.
(It’s Socialism, btw)
Neoliberalism isn’t the thing to fight fascism and it never was.
(It’s Socialism, btw)
I see the world’s most advanced AIs score zeros on any ARC-AGI intelligence test (the type the LLM hasn’t already learned the answers for) and I am certainly not thinking:
I sure trust these things with several tonnes of metal travelling at high speeds
on.ft.com/3Lkh04n
I sure trust these things with several tonnes of metal travelling at high speeds
on.ft.com/3Lkh04n
Renewed drive for autonomous cars as tech giants muscle in
Legacy manufacturers seek to keep pace with advances in self-driving technology as the next competitive front
on.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I see the world’s most advanced AIs score zeros on any ARC-AGI intelligence test (the type the LLM hasn’t already learned the answers for) and I am certainly not thinking:
I sure trust these things with several tonnes of metal travelling at high speeds
on.ft.com/3Lkh04n
I sure trust these things with several tonnes of metal travelling at high speeds
on.ft.com/3Lkh04n
Not all of the UK's woes link back to Brexit, but *all of our exceptional economic woes* do
It's time politicians stopped ignoring the elephant in the room (and use Farage's larcenous support of it as a way of reining Reform's neck in)
It's time politicians stopped ignoring the elephant in the room (and use Farage's larcenous support of it as a way of reining Reform's neck in)
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Not all of the UK's woes link back to Brexit, but *all of our exceptional economic woes* do
It's time politicians stopped ignoring the elephant in the room (and use Farage's larcenous support of it as a way of reining Reform's neck in)
It's time politicians stopped ignoring the elephant in the room (and use Farage's larcenous support of it as a way of reining Reform's neck in)
Is this not also a colossal self-own from the Tories, defining things like "accurate reporting public figures' words" and "death tolls from a genocide" as implicitly left wing
In so doing they are equating fake news, bias, imbalance and agenda-led coverage as defining right wing sensibilities
In so doing they are equating fake news, bias, imbalance and agenda-led coverage as defining right wing sensibilities
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Is this not also a colossal self-own from the Tories, defining things like "accurate reporting public figures' words" and "death tolls from a genocide" as implicitly left wing
In so doing they are equating fake news, bias, imbalance and agenda-led coverage as defining right wing sensibilities
In so doing they are equating fake news, bias, imbalance and agenda-led coverage as defining right wing sensibilities
I am struggling with this, because... Trump did call for an insurrection? The fact that he did this in a rambling, unhinged way doesn't make his words unsaid.
We are at a point when reporting populists' own words is too hurtful for their supporters.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
We are at a point when reporting populists' own words is too hurtful for their supporters.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC resignations are result of internal ‘coup’, says former Sun editor
David Yelland says Tim Davie and Deborah Turness were undermined by people close to BBC board
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I am struggling with this, because... Trump did call for an insurrection? The fact that he did this in a rambling, unhinged way doesn't make his words unsaid.
We are at a point when reporting populists' own words is too hurtful for their supporters.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
We are at a point when reporting populists' own words is too hurtful for their supporters.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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The remaining democracies (a shrinking and threatened group) should band together, creating a 'values aligned common market'. It should rank everyone (including its members) by human rights compliance and give preferred market access on that basis.
I Used Chat-GPT to Write a Better Tariff Policy than Trump’s.
www.writeinstone.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The remaining democracies (a shrinking and threatened group) should band together, creating a 'values aligned common market'. It should rank everyone (including its members) by human rights compliance and give preferred market access on that basis.
Hi British patriots.
If you support Reform, you don’t get to wear a poppy or say “lest we forget” today.
Because, clearly, you forgot. You forgot our grandfathers chased people like you back to Berlin
standuptoracism.org.uk/exclusive-re...
If you support Reform, you don’t get to wear a poppy or say “lest we forget” today.
Because, clearly, you forgot. You forgot our grandfathers chased people like you back to Berlin
standuptoracism.org.uk/exclusive-re...
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK vice-chair in Epping shares stage with member of neo-Nazi group
EXCLUSIVE Footage obtained by Stand Up to Racism can exclusively reveal that Orla Minihane, vice-chair of Epping Forest Reform UK and Reform UK election
standuptoracism.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Hi British patriots.
If you support Reform, you don’t get to wear a poppy or say “lest we forget” today.
Because, clearly, you forgot. You forgot our grandfathers chased people like you back to Berlin
standuptoracism.org.uk/exclusive-re...
If you support Reform, you don’t get to wear a poppy or say “lest we forget” today.
Because, clearly, you forgot. You forgot our grandfathers chased people like you back to Berlin
standuptoracism.org.uk/exclusive-re...
And yeah, he’s trying to frame western solidarity with Palestine as selective or performative - had he ever been to a protest he’d have seen the Sudan flags only slightly less numerous than the Palestinian ones
But it’s easier to sneer from the sidelines
(Also MTA fans are violent hooligans)
But it’s easier to sneer from the sidelines
(Also MTA fans are violent hooligans)
I agree with @barneyronay.bsky.social we should boycott Man City for their owners’ complicity in the genocide in Sudan
Just as we should boycott Israel for its genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Just as we should boycott Israel for its genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
And yeah, he’s trying to frame western solidarity with Palestine as selective or performative - had he ever been to a protest he’d have seen the Sudan flags only slightly less numerous than the Palestinian ones
But it’s easier to sneer from the sidelines
(Also MTA fans are violent hooligans)
But it’s easier to sneer from the sidelines
(Also MTA fans are violent hooligans)
I agree with @barneyronay.bsky.social we should boycott Man City for their owners’ complicity in the genocide in Sudan
Just as we should boycott Israel for its genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Just as we should boycott Israel for its genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I agree with @barneyronay.bsky.social we should boycott Man City for their owners’ complicity in the genocide in Sudan
Just as we should boycott Israel for its genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Just as we should boycott Israel for its genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
