"Chickens for KFC".
That's what queer people who oppose slaughtering innocent people in Iran or Gaza are called.
Brilliant queer Iranian-Canadian journalist @smohyeddin.bsky.social takes that to pieces.
Periods of excess power are on of the big upsides of renewables, if we can adjust to use them.
We did some work on how we might adjust to a world of abundant-but-intermittent renewables by using a lot of extra electricity…
www.nesta.org.uk/feature/how-...
It was fairly well known that Orban was funding far-right "patriot" groups in Europe, and useful idiots like Rod Dreher, but there was also money going to CPAC. Perhaps it was Putin's money in the first place. Looking forward to further revelations.
As a veteran of the UK Cycling+ Forum from decades ago, this is very relatable.
NDP Leader Avi Lewis calls on the Liberal government to ban algorithmic pricing
More than *70* orgs are warning Meta that integrating facial recognition into smart glasses is a terrible, dangerous idea.
Five years from now, when the consequences are abundantly clear and prevalent, people will point at this warning (as has happened with Meta and Big Tech, time and time again):
He's a neoliberal finance bro who only won because he wasn't quite as much of an odious turd as Pierre Poilievre, on the one side, and because the NDP had all but disappeared as a political force, on the other.
NY Times headline: "U.S. says wiretap program thwarted attack on 2024 Taylor Swift Concert" Subhead: "But a court found problems with the program, know as Section 702, while reauthorizing it to keep operating until March 2027. Its underlying law is set to expire on April 20."
good morning, someone at the the CIA decided to target Swifties in a last-minute effort to keep Congress from reforming a warrantless government surveillance authority that's been used to spy on journalists, protestors, and judges
Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.
Jon Worth is going. Here's his thread... #BadLossBudapest
bsky.app/profile/jonw...
(intent, of course)
The war in Iran is sparking calls by int'l financial institutions for lower-income countries reeling from the conflict to curb fossil fuel dependence.
One of the biggest obstacles is Trump.
@saraschonhardt.bsky.social & I dig into IMF & World Bank spring meetings.
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
Mark #Carney got in to power by saying he would stand up to Trump. But in office, he seems intend on replicating Trump's anti-reality, anti-culture, anti-transparency, pro-AI, pro-military, pro-fossil fuels agenda. #Canada
“…the character is being trained on the billionaire’s mannerisms, tone and publicly available statements, as well as his own recent thinking on company strategies, so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it.”
Just as with Mars colonization and humanoid robots, Musk's vision seems to have been shaped more by his desire to make science fiction literal reality, which at once misunderstands both SF and reality...
'The theory behind augmentation has a major flaw: Evolution capped how much information can flow from the brain to the body, associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison Kip Ludwig told The Verge. “In reality, we’re limited by our own physiology...Evolution did a great job.”'
Reminder that in addition to Russia/Ukraine issues, Orbán was also vetoing more sanctions against violent West Bank settlers
www.eunews.it/en/2026/02/2...
Everyone in Europe now hoping for JD Vance campaign trail supporting Reform, AfD, RN etc 🙃
#NextStopMidterms
And in a most deliciously ironic coincidence, the failed British Reform Party candidate, Matt Goodwin, is due to speak today at the Scruton Café in the Mattias Corvinus Collegium, set up #Orban to fill the void left by his driving out of the Central European University.
bsky.app/profile/writ...
This extends from the international to the local level in Budapest -> check out the network of cafes designed to connect #Orban 's ideology to young people - named after the deeply uncool British conservative philosopher, Roger Scruton...
bsky.app/profile/benj...
The fall of #Orban is going to have far-reaching consequences on far-right networks throughout the world. Hungary provided vital institutional and financial support for the spread of European civilizational / white supremacist ideology, and that is likely to be the first thing to go...
Do it!
Trump has fired the entire Biden-era board that manages the #Presidio in San Francisco. The Presidio has been openly & persistently targeted by the tech-bro special zone / start-up city lot, so it will be very interesting to see who is appointed to run the site now...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place.
This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism.
Here's why.
Underrated Groundhog Day reference...
Trump TS post featuring an illustration of himself as a Christian faith healer
I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.
