Patrick Galey

Compromises, voluntary measures and no mention of fossil fuels: key points from Cop30 deal A deal is welcome after talks nearly collapsed but the final agreement contains small steps rather than leaps

We need a full economic, information and cultural boycott of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Russia

These countries refused to even allow mention of fossil fuels in the world’s road map to mitigate climate catastrophe

They are killing us all, themselves included
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I am irredeemably furious about these people sacrificing all our futures, with no consent, so they can make a couple billy more before the world collapses.

And you are acting like we don’t have their names and addresses

It’s not hard, it’s greenwashing. And we’ve had enough of it

(And they are threatening to sue if we call it out)

Origin Energy, platinum partner to #TheAshes owns one of Australia's largest coal fired power stations, has purchased land for offsets, and bought out Walcha Energy, so renewables in our largest renewable energy zone.
Reminder that world solar fits into a Tasmania. Australia's offsets? 6 Tassies.

“Bringing business along with us”, a story in 2 acts:

No, we can’t “let the market decide”. FFs have *increased* O+G production and since Paris

We cannot “bring oil and gas with us” because they just made historic high profits exactly where they are

You can’t use them to “unlock capital” because the make up 1% of global low-carbon investment

COP30: UN climate summit drops mention of fossil fuels from draft deal A row over fossil fuels has broken out at COP30 but this is also likely to be a negotiating tactic.

All week. All damn week I’ve been threatened and berated by people who say they don’t advocate for fossil fuels but were happy to take fossil fuel delegations up on the offer of attending #COP30 on their badge

This is a direct result of normalising fossil fuels at COP

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COP30: UN climate summit drops mention of fossil fuels from draft deal A row over fossil fuels has broken out at COP30 but this is also likely to be a negotiating tactic.

UN malaria summit drops mentions of mosquitos from draft deal www.bbc.com/news/article...

How does this happen?

Here’s how this happens

#KickBigPollutersOut

COP30: UN climate summit drops mention of fossil fuels from draft deal A row over fossil fuels has broken out at COP30 but this is also likely to be a negotiating tactic.

The surest way of making a situation worse is to deny there is even a problem www.bbc.com/news/article...

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Nathan Gill: How WhatsApp messages revealed ex-Reform politician's pro-Russian bribes The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has admitted bribery and will be sentenced on Friday.

There is enough evidence now to investigate and, if necessary, dismantle Reform as a front for Russian anti-democratic sabotage

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Also a company that has engaged in a massive investment strike on renewable energy so they can get paid big $$ to keep their ultra-polluting coal plants running for another decade

But because they're making vaguely correct-sounding noises on "net zero" they're spared attacks :) :)

I’ve spent the week fielding demands veering from entitled to condescending on why #KickBigPolluters out classified groups such as Octopus and GWEC as fossil fuels.

Simple: if you make money or take instruction from fossil fuel investors or leadership, you’re still facilitating fossil fuels

For everyone watching #TheAshes a shout out to Australia’s “platinum partner Origin Energy, which is the largest institutional investor in everyone’s favourite “renewables company” Octopus Energy, and one of Australia’s most aggressively expanding fossil gas producers

The Brazilian network Globo is broadcasting now live from there, they said two minutes ago two volunteers had to go to the hospital due to smoke, and it seems the fire is now controlled.

My god

Looks like a big fire at #COP30 venue on the eve of the close of talks. Hope everyone is ok

This is the 2025 equivalent of Clippy offering to author a suicide note on your behalf

i've said it before and i'll say it again, if you can't be bothered to read what i wrote and you'd rather let a machine tell you what it said, i'd rather you didn't read it at all

Reform's newness and non-comformity is relentlessly treated as an asset when it is in fact its largest deficiency:

The party, being essentially made up by dimwit millionaires, lacks the infrastructure to ensure any sort of quality control among candidates, which is why so many of them are racists

Send this round social media.

“It’s just a few bad apples”

Turkiye to host COP31 climate summit after Australia concedes bid Australia's PM says it reaches agreement to host pre-meetings with Pacific nations while Turkiye will host main summit.

Looks like #COP31 will be hosted by Australia and a small-island state but will be physically held in Antalya, Turkiye

The tourist resort has lots of expo and hotel space and excellent flight connections. Civil society space remains to be seen www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

Markets rally after Nvidia’s strong results calm AI bubble fears, and investors await US jobs report – business live Investors cheer forecast-beating results from chipmaker, as attention turns to delayed US employment report

If you ever need further proof that the markets are operated by geared up idiot bros for whom nothing but short-term greed even registers:

"Good results from a market-distorting, bubble-sustaining whale calms fear of bubble"

These people... not smart
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Why are flights in the UK so often cheaper than taking the train? The environmental costs of flying are much higher, and the government subsidises rail travel, so what explains the baffling price difference when travelling domestically?

Fossil fuel subsidies, next www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations

Yes, he’s a Nazi. But Reform supporters knew that, right?

Admit it.

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I mean you were voted in for literally being *any animate carbon-based life form other than a Tory*, and now you've entirely outdone even them in incompetence, cruelty and depravity, so consider your mandate over

Literally:

Epstein Gave NY Times Journalist Tips About Trump. Why Did They Never Get Reported? Exchanges about Trump between reporter Landon Thomas Jr. and Jeffrey Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.

The NY Times literally had evidence from a highly trusted confidante that Trump was a sexual deviant and sat on it while hounding Clinton about her emails

Where is the outrage about this? Where are the Telegraph and the talking heads harping on about BBC bias? theintercept.com/2025/11/14/e...

Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

This isn’t just stupid or cruel or stolen. It is morally disgusting. It actively repels decent people.

Labour is finished. Its lasting legacy will be to have paved the way for the far right by trailing some of the most repugnant laws conceivable

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