Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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"We could take a lead from France’s grid operator. It has introduced an app called Ecowatt which sends text messages to encourage consumers to lower their electricity demand at times when the grid is forecast to come under strain. It works by showing a colour signal with hourly intervals "
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_"The Government’s consistent cheerleading for data centre expansion has reached a point of reckless disconnect from the economic reality of Irish citizens... Irish families are paying nearly double the electricity rates of these industrial facilities, effectively subsidizing the massive energy consumption of global tech giants while struggling with a punishing cost-of-living crisis." https://greenparty.ie/news/uncritical-expansion-data-centres-will-fuel-social-inequality-and-energy-crisis-cllr-hazel-chu
Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.
There was a moratorium on new data centre permissions while the Greens were in government
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NEW: Astronaut Reid Wiseman shares a video of ‘Earthset’ that was taken with his iPhone
“This is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye…” Wiseman said.
This has to be the greatest iPhone video of all time.
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They Shoot Heroes, Don't They?
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So much more beautiful and sustainable than fully glazed apartment buildings!
In particular, the strong vertical forms look elegant and block low-angled sun
Brick apartments in Tehran, Iran, designed by Mehrad Alimohammadi
“Not only is Reform taking large amounts of money from an industry with a big interest in changing UK Govt policy, but that industry is also one with major links to organised crime, terrorism and foreign dictatorships.”
The corrupt stink of Reform is overwhelming.
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"That should concern everyone. We can’t allow powerful men to use the law to shut down legitimate reporting or silence abused women and survivors who tell their stories."
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Where brick forms walls, and even ceilings!
Apartments in Qom, Iran.
Designed by Reza Jefari
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Christina Koch has travelled one Christina Koch from Earth.
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More than 65 leading UK scientists have warned against new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, urging the government instead to prioritise renewable energy as a more cost-effective response to the energy crisis.
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Number 8/10 is my favourite
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"In other words: stop using Jesus as an excuse to bomb schoolchildren, you sick fucks."
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Celtic forest magic
So Israel commits war crime after war crime…
Invades
Targets civilians/aid workers
Snipers children
Land grabs
Celebrates with champagne at hanging Palestinians
…and the international community can’t even muster the most flaccid of responses.
You have failed us all.
One of the simplest ways of making effective apartment plans.
3 apartments per core. A small studio in front (yellow) and larger dual aspect homes each side (red).
Competition design by Analogue Architecture
Scientists achieve ‘impossible’ #solar efficiency in #renewables breakthrough.
New material “spin-flip” emitter harvests energy that is typically lost as heat – opening up new possibilities for ultra-efficient solar panels.
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Daily Mail front page: Seventy Britons arrested in UAE simply for taking war photos
Screenshot from Isabelle Oakshot's Twitter account. “Our police and prosecutors should focus on hurtful deeds not hurtful words”
Funny old world, huh?
Free speech warrior, and Dubai resident, who constantly complains about Britain, doesn’t have a single thing to say about the 70 people locked up the UAE right now for taking pictures of bomb damage.
Because she KNOWS she’ll be locked up for doing so🤷🏼♀️
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THE NEW WORLD (front cover) ISSUE 476, MARCH 26, 2026 | UK: Photos of part of Reeves’s face and part of Starmer’s - side by side with text superimposed on their faces… BREXIT WAS It's only taken them 10 years... A DISASTER .. but FINALLY the government agrees with us OFFICIAL
10 years of cost, red tape, business closures, lost opportunities, emboldened prejudice, national insecurity and social division.
A total waste of our time, resources and patience.
But refusing to face up to that has been the most dismal part. Political cowardice and dishonesty on an epic scale.
Come on you boys in green
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"Russia is currently the only country that manufactures the High-Assay Low Enriched Uranium fuel needed for those reactor designs."
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Israel is evil
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...will not only bring Earth’s climate away from Holocene-like conditions, but also push it beyond climatic conditions experienced during the entire current geological period.
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"disturbing the natural ice age cycles for tens of thousands of years to come"
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The US is reportedly preparing to pay nearly $1bn to TotalEnergies for cancelling two offshore wind leases.
Not to build clean energy. To cancel it — with TotalEnergies committing to gas infrastructure in Texas instead.
As @laurentheisen.bsky.social put it: "Ideology is expensive."
In Westminster, every parliamentary session begins with Christian prayers. In Scotland, it starts with Time for Reflection. Today’s was delivered by @humanistsociety.bsky.social celebrant Ronit Quayle – a genuinely moving reflection on the many forms love can take. So beautiful.
