Nick Robinson on the Today programme this morning was quick to repeat a misleading line about why we should support new North Sea oil & gas extraction in the UK on the grounds that it's MUCH (4x) cleaner than importing LNG. It's incorrect on several grounds: 🧵
Groundbreaking AI-Generated Documentary on Science and God Opens to Rave Reviews - Dr. Michael Guillén is Available for Interviews
We get pitched all kinds of weird stuff for @themagnificast.bsky.social , but this one made me so mad.
No we don't want to talk to you about a documentary that you didn't make.
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Charity, one of the Dancing sisters on Gigha
The Dancing ladies on Gigha
Meet the Dancing Ladies on the Isle of Gigha!
The Dancing Ladies are made up of three community-owned turbines named Charity, Faith, and Hope.
The Dancing Ladies generate 675 kW of energy and make £150,000 a year for the community.
We need this everywhere across Scotland!
Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook.
Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking:
"Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"
Wow he's not a marcionite.
Jean-baptiste Fressoz More and More and More: an all-consumimg history
Fressoz argues there's never been an epochal energy transition (i.e. from coal to oil.) Energy systems are symbiotic.
Instead of fighting for a transition, we need to create a prohibition of fossil fuels.
This book is freaking my bean 🫘
St Francis preached to the birds, but no one considered what would happen if the birds preached back.
two small cygnets looking very cute
Imagine exploiting the planet and workers for profit when these little guys exist.
Community-owned energy projects with people names are my favourite thing right now.
Oh wild yeah I switched too. It's good.
There is no climate story more terrifying to me than AMOC collapse because it would mean Scotland would be even colder.
This sucks
posting to the forbidden timeline
This made me so mad when I learned it!
"The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran"
I don't think companies should be allowed to do this.
New research shows that communities across Scotland could benefit by £500 million per year.
How? Through a Scottish Community Wealth Fund paid into by commercial renewables developers.
Read all about it here 👇
communityenergy.scot/need-for-urg...
So... I am being sued for standing with vulnerable people in our community and to be honest I could really use some support.
gofund.me/06f0416b2
A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much.
Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment.
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wheeeeeew
I'm sure the response to this will be a lot of smug posts about this. But I think it takes a lot of bravery to break with established parties and try something different.
It also takes a lot of bravery to step away when it doesn't work!
We must be stopped.
You don't know the depths of your own depravity until you make yourself an agile board out of your own free will.
lmao
Privatisation has been a disaster
Our energy system isn't designed to heat our homes, it's designed to line the pockets of shareholders. #bbcdn
“Pope Leo is WEAK on crime” You bolt awake in the University of Wittenberg. You are not online. It is 1517. You are Professor Martin Luther and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The Church must remain.
*youth pastor voice*
You know who else was weak on crime....
Enough is enough: degrowth, capitalism, and liberation theology
Whoa, we have a book coming out next month.
www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...
@ewangibbs.bsky.social, a historian of energy and work at the University of Glasgow, joined us at our launch last week and reflected on our campaign demands around a public stake in wind.
It's time to demand a more fair energy system in Scotland that puts our communties and workers first!
