Bomb our roofs
and make us out liars
and deny our feelings
Destroy our dreams
Objectify our bodies
and darken our skies
and kill our peace
We will keep standing still
and our love stands in us

I believe in epistemic democracy and everybody who disagrees can shut up

The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

"The old image of the Gulf monarchies as little more than oil and gas exporters no longer holds. Today, the region sits at the centre of modern agriculture, not only as a major producer of fertilisers... but also as a force shaping fertiliser industries across neighbouring countries." - Adam Hanieh

Screenshot from Bloomberg article: China, whose reliance on imports means energy security is always front of mind, has led the world when it comes to using renewable electricity sources - that includes expansive solar farms in western deserts but also rows of turbines built at sea, where they can access reliable and stronger air currents. This year, it will install nearly three out of every four of the world's new offshore turbines, according to BloombergNEF. Line chart showing: China's Offshore Wind Sector Becomes Dominant Nation has surpassed all other countries combined in total capacity Source: BloombergNEF Note: 2025 figures are forecasts

was it a wind turbine?
or was it…
a propeller
dragging us into the future?

- rupi dekaurbonisation

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

GB Renewables Map Live map showing realtime renewable energy generation in Great Britain

Once all three wind farms are complete they'll be outputting a combined 3.8GW on windy days, that's a hell of a lot of power being extracted from the wind.

See the Sofia generation for yourself on my live map:
renewables-map.robinhawkes.com

First power at Sofia wind farm!

That's now three of the four massive offshore wind farms at Dogger Bank generating electricity.

I have a lot of time for the prospects of energy democracy, but that must be embedded within a programme of industrial strategy.

What is the role of local government here? What are the ownership structures like? How are these things financed?

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Anyway.

I really like this piece on the dearth of political economy thinking in the Green Party compared to Labour under Corbyn and McDonnell.

Author argues chalking this up to an intellectual failure misses pressures on 2015-19 Labour to develop a framework.

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boy it sure would be nice if the most prominent group of left-wing environmentalist parties in the anglo-western-european sphere didn’t suck

By this I mean that the Iranians have realized that if Trump can make outlandish market-moving claims with no evidence, they can too. And given how savvy they are about evading sanctions, it would not surprise me if some regime insiders aren't getting in on the insider trading action.

Imagine being like:

“Wow there’s all these books in the world. I’m gonna read Heidegger.”

this massive big boy here used to be a legendary animal, but the godless human would eat them up for whatever reason.

there's a bit about colonisation and the joke was "the french came to colonise yet they lost the baguette to the vietnamese". the crowd clapped so hard i might coin the term "banh mi liberals".

i am getting a little tired of "tariffs werent that bad" when the truth of the matter is that the US pulled the most damaging ones (china, and then quietly exempting Canada/Mexico). Like really the US has 4 places it cares about: Canada, Mexico, EU, China + whoever makes chips

Obviously for molotov cocktails

Ah yes, that famous gesture of opposition: waving the white pocket square

…JavaScript?

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Some day the nations of Europe may be ready to merge their national identities and create a new European nation-the United States of Europe. If and when they do, a European Government will take over all the functions which the Federal government now provides in the U.S., or in Canada or Australia. This will involve the creation of a "full economic and monetary union". But it is a dangerous error to believe that monetary and economic union can precede a political union or that it will act (in the words of the Werner Report) "as a leaven for the evolvement of a political union which in the long run it will in any case be unable to do without". For if the creation of a monetary union and Community control over national budgets generates pressures which lead to a breakdown of the whole system it will prevent the development of a political union, not promote it.

pombo.free.fr/kaldor3essays.pdf

“It started out with a coal, how did it end up like this? It was only a coal, it was only a coal”

academia trying to regulate the use of ai

“The turbine is owned by local charity Ambition Lawrence Weston and all the profits from its electricity sales – around £100,000 a year – go to the community. In the UK’s local power plan, it was singled out by energy secretary Ed Miliband as a “pioneering” project.””

LET’S GO ENERGY DEMOCRACY ❤️

Anyone surprised at Greens campaigning against centralised mega-projects developed in a technocratic top-down manner from Whitehall with heavy involvement of transnational corporations needs to read a history of the English, Welsh and Scottish Green parties

It's criminal that the Rohingya genocide has been all but forgotten by the world while this is still happening

Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope* Abstract. As the Cape of Good Hope was integrated into early modern colonial world-making projects, it came to be regarded as ‘the western part of the East

On advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope"

by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

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Akademischer Boykott ist im Sinne der Wissenschaftsfreiheit Boykotte gegen Israels akademische Institutionen stehen in der Kritik, die Wissenschaftsfreiheit zu gefährden. Doch die Einwände erweisen sich als schwach und rücken durch die Zerstörung der Bildungsi...

Der Skandal liegt nicht im Aufruf zu einem akademischen Boykott, sondern in der fortgesetzten materiellen & ideologischen Unterstützung eines Staates, der offen gegen grundlegende Menschenrechte & Völkerrecht verstößt

@why-winter.bsky.social & ich haben dazu geschrieben:

jacobin.de/artikel/akad...

Latest death toll released by the Lebanese ministry of health includes the grim milestone that 100 medics/first responders have now been killed in Lebanon by Israeli attacks since March 2. I wrote about attacks on healthcare a few weeks ago, when it was 42 www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...