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Photo of an architectural model of the new east wing of the whitehouse. The new wing is a big box mostly with some stuff on the sides. It has a flat roof and looks like a data center.

Ugh. These data center plans are getting out of control.

What?

That's for *people* ????

I cancelled my Spotify subscription, fed up with this fascist bs

To tackle these interlinked issues, we will introduce a new national digital ID. This is not a card but a new digital identity that will be available for free to all UK citizens and legal residents aged 16 and over (although we will consider through consultation if this should be age 13 and over). Over time, people will be able to use it to seamlessly access a range of public and private sector services, with the aim of making our everyday lives easier and more secure. It will not be compulsory to obtain a digital ID but it will be mandatory for some applications.

The government's response to the "no ID" petition. Make it make sense.

Not compulsory, but mandatory.
It's not a physical card. So how will people without phones have this "not compulsory, but mandatory" digital ID? #IDCard

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

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There's a shortwave pirate station on 6950 USB right now, 1226 UTC, looping some audio - sounds like Andrew Yoder and Art Bell?? Fair signal here in Westminster MD USA.

#keep43mweird

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It's much easier to do a genocide if nobody sees it happen

The fact that the President of the United States posts a fake video of a kneeling Barack Obama being handcuffed and we’re supposed to pretend it’s perfectly normal, everyday stuff shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:

there is enough.

there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.

once you accept that there's only one question:

why don't we?

MAGA Lawmaker Tries To Explain What 'Chemtrails' Are After Proposing Bonkers Ban—And It Doesn't Go Well Science isn't MAGA's strong suit.

The whole Chemtrails thing is tragic, they're half right. The chemicals that are released in aircraft exhaust, or any fossil fuel burning exhaust, is changing the weather. It's called climate change, and we're seeing the consequences of it. So yeah, ban them 😁
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Wasted Wind Britain wastes millions a day switching off wind turbines. See how much has been wasted today, and in 2025.

Octopus' new tool: Great Britain wastes £180,000 every hour switching off wind turbines and overpaying gas generators to switch on. That's £655,358,610 so far this year! wastedwind.energy

Letterboxd cast list excerpt from 28 WEEKS LATER, showing: Mackintosh Muggleton as Andy Harris Imogen Poots as Tammy Harris

I had forgotten that the kid leads of 28 WEEKS LATER have names that sound like someone doing a pretty good job making fun of British people

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince The evidence against the Drax power station is damning, yet the government wants to continue its massive public funding, says campaigner Dale Vince

Drax is an insane greenwashing joke

It has to be stopped

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I am honored you guys would mix me up with Stephen King!

Strange how any negative framing of auto culture is automatically anti-car & radical yet the billions of dollars spent on reckless car ads and auto first infrastructure isn't framed as anti-pedestrian, anti-bike, anti-transit, anti-person, anti-senior, anti-child or anti-planet.

In her 2018 paper on the subject, Daggett argues that traditional masculine identity is inherently tied to the fossil fuel economy. “The narrative of righteous fossil democracy is crucial not only to American identity writ large, but to its hegemonic white masculinities,” she writes. When the narrative of righteous fossil fuel democracy is challenged, it thus becomes interpreted as a challenge to those masculinities. “Through the rosy nostalgia afforded by petro-masculine identity,” Daggett writes, “the affront of global warming or environmental regulations appear as insurgents on par with the dangers posed by feminists and queer movements seeking to leach energy and power from the state/traditional family.”

The connection between fossil fuel money and anti-trans groups makes way more sense once you understand the concept of petromasculinity

Brexit shatters confidence in Britain. (Photo of shoppers in a high street) Brexit has shattered confidence in Britain's economy, slashing it almost in half between 2015 and last month. A Barclays 10 Years Of Spend report found confidence has fallen from 45 per cent before the referendum to 28 per cent in May. Things started deteriorating after the UK left the EU, but have been worsened by Covid and the cost of living crisis. But the additional shocks only highlight how Britain deciding to go it alone has left the country over-exposed in an increasingly volatile world. With Donald Trump's tariff policies descending into chaos, only a move to further rebuild ties with Europe can ensure Britain rides out any future economic storms.

“Brexit has shattered confidence in Britain’s economy”

And yet the politicians who championed Brexit still strut around like they’re owed power, rather than a heavy dose of proper scrutiny and public disgust for the damage they’ve collectively done.

For today's #foxoftheday @picklingirl.bsky.social‬ discovered a family of foxes under their shed . . .

Sunderland Green Party Save the Greenbelt. A post opposing a solar farm.

Deeply unimpressed by Green Party members campaigning against solar. Happily I think this is rare and but still dismayed to see it!

Don't they know solar farms can increase biodiversity? RSPB does : www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

I used to get excited about thunder storms. Now that I've strapped our electrical supply to the top of the roof I'm not soo keen anymore 🏠⛈️😬
#RenewableEnergy

Indeed, I guess it comes down to personal preference, fully covered seems very industrial and almost brutalist to me

I got intrigued if they were using part of that solar and a heat pump to heat the pool. Doesn't look like they are (yet?) as they've only mentioned boilers www.cheltenhamlido.co.uk/sustainabili...

I would still like to see the sky every now and then, with agrivoltaics partial shading is a good thing for example

Car parking spaces covered with horizontal solar panels.

Lovely to arrive at Cheltenham lido this morning (on foot) and discover that they’ve covered their car park in solar panels since I was last here. This should be standard for car parks everywhere. Same goes for any large roof.

GOP Senators Call for Preserving IRA Credits On Senate committees, a public lands selloff, and energy investment

Good morning! ICYMI, I'm running the (free!!!) morning newsletter at @heatmap.news these days. Here's a look at the biggest climate news heading into Thursday...

😕 pretty much

ukrainian social media today:

This whole debate about "having more" or "having less" is quite pointless. What matters is more of what. We definitely need more housing, more clean energy, more education, more plant-based food, more trains. But less cars, less highways, less fossil fuels, less jets.