Dave Vetter

Short answer: the pursuit of end-times accelerationism.

Every news article about every Trump policy is the Stewart Lee bit in which he says "Now, that story about Richard Hammond isn't true. But it's what it tells us about Richard Hammond that's the main thing."

Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.

In case people aren't aware: Impact Counter: deaths caused by funding discontinuation in real time.

Ok so there's these little fellas. But they live in The Computer [cigar falls out of mouth]

I like "malignant normality" that i first heard via Dave Vetter (Ben Franta used it in their discussion; think he said it came from a law prof)

Green funds double performance of oil assets in Q3, defying Trump Despite cuts, data center thirst for energy lifts renewables again

With the Trump Admin bashing renewables and boosting fossil fuels, most folks would assume that the smart money is going into oil and gas stocks. The investment returns tell a very different story, with green funds doubling the performance of fossil funds.

Yes. Jane was severely compromised in terms of her worldview. I wish I had had the opportunity to challenge her on this.

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Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

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This is 🤌🤌 chef's kiss beautiful.

Make sure to read this extremely insightful analysis by @zichen.bsky.social on China, geopolitics, electrotech manufacturing and more.

[Harvey Korman steepling fingers]Mmmm, too subtle

Nano Nuclear Energy Inc. has no revenue, no license from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and no operating power plant. Yet investors have driven its valuation past $2.3 billion, a figure that may be built more on optimism than fundamentals.

Report from the front lines of the US nuclear renaissance, by @willwwade.bsky.social
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Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

I lot of great NOAA scientists I know have left or are going to leave soon. This is bad news for all of us.

Yep.

BBC Radio 4's World at One is currently platforming far-right columnist and Reform member Tim Montgomerie, for his views - and his views alone - on the political conference season.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

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🚨New report: how the fossil fuel industry duped successive UK governments into pumping money into costly CCS schemes to ensure continued reliance on oil and gas.

'Everything Is Political': 'Black Girl Environmentalist' Wawa Gatheru On Social Media and Climate Justice Kenyan-American activist Wawa Gatheru is a rising star of the climate justice movement. The Rhodes Scholar and Forbes 30/30 recipient spoke to me about taking the fight to both Big Tech and Big Oil

I spoke to Wawa last year about climate justice and de-fossilizing our politics.

Watch it here! Wawa was just getting out of Oxford when our cohort arrived. The first Black woman to achieve the Rhodes, Truman, and Udall scholarships.

I am freaking out. Wawa on the Daily Show!!!

My fantastic colleague @julietphillips.bsky.social has co-written a briefing with @bramclaeys.bsky.social of @regassistproj.bsky.social on how to improve Europe's grid governance.

A quick summary with links below 👇

A whole bunch of us have grown up in the UK knowing to flee in the other direction if we spot this flag anywhere. We’re not going to pause to see if there are stickers stuck below them.

And if they’re stuck elsewhere, we will not get close enough to see the text - again, we’re just going to leg it.

Use your head. You cannot resurrect this symbol in this way. Among many communities of colour, it is associated with the Crusades, a campaign of quasi-religious ethnic genocide carried out by Europeans against communities in the Levant.

What Robert Jenrick doesn’t understand about Birmingham I was one of a handful of white kids at my school in the city. It enriched my life and worldview

A weird time to be a historian of multiculturalism, who grew up in Birmingham as one of a handful of white kids at school, who has also written a book on Handsworth. My thoughts on Robert Jenrick’s unabashed racism in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

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Journalism Fail: This implies there is a donut shop aflame in Portland, Oregon right now but the photo is
1) Not Portland
2) Not 2025

It's a 33 YEAR OLD FILE PHOTO. You have to open the story & read the fine print to find out it's Los Angeles in 1992.

Come on @cnn.com. Do better.

Brazil soy deal that curbs Amazon deforestation to be suspended in 2026 Brazil’s antitrust regulator, CADE, on Sept. 30 decided to suspend the Amazon soy moratorium from Jan. 1, 2026. Depending on the probe’s course of action, this could dismantle one of the nation’s…

Brazil’s antitrust regulator, CADE, decided to suspend the Amazon soy moratorium from Jan. 1, 2026.

Depending on the probe’s course of action, this could dismantle one of the nation’s most important private sector pacts credited with slowing deforestation of the rainforest for soy plantations.

FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

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BYD sales in the UK up *880%* year on year.

🚨Renewables have now overtaken coal in the share of electricity generation globally.