Ben Abraham
@afterclimate.com.au
I research games + sustainability, currently working for the Sustainable Games Alliance to produce a methodological standard for measuring games emissions.
https://afterclimate.com.au/
https://sustainablegamesalliance.org/
Was @afterclimate on Twitter
https://afterclimate.com.au/
https://sustainablegamesalliance.org/
Was @afterclimate on Twitter
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Ben Abraham
@afterclimate.com.au
· Nov 11
European Gaming Emissions, and how we address them
I was asked earlier this week by Joost Raessens (Utrecht University Professor, and coordinator of STRATEGIES: Sustainable Transition for Europe’s Game Industries a major Horizon-funded research projec...
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I have done almost zero promo/sharing of the work I've done this year, so let's correct that with a thread of stuff I've written, worked on, helped with, etc.
I started the year with a post about European gaming emissions & what we can do about them.
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I started the year with a post about European gaming emissions & what we can do about them.
gtg.benabraham.net/european-gam...
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That time of year again!
December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
That time of year again!
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China's High Speed Rail network has now surpassed 50,000 KM in length after opening 4 new lines. The country plans to hit 60,000 KM by 2030.
Spain is the #2 country in HSR length, with approx 5,000 KM.
Map below is a year out of date but shows how the network has evolved since 2008.
Spain is the #2 country in HSR length, with approx 5,000 KM.
Map below is a year out of date but shows how the network has evolved since 2008.
December 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
China's High Speed Rail network has now surpassed 50,000 KM in length after opening 4 new lines. The country plans to hit 60,000 KM by 2030.
Spain is the #2 country in HSR length, with approx 5,000 KM.
Map below is a year out of date but shows how the network has evolved since 2008.
Spain is the #2 country in HSR length, with approx 5,000 KM.
Map below is a year out of date but shows how the network has evolved since 2008.
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That first Nazgûl who lost Frodo right outside the Shire fucking choked
December 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
That first Nazgûl who lost Frodo right outside the Shire fucking choked
@bonerman-inc.bsky.social found this spot on my ride 2day
December 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
@bonerman-inc.bsky.social found this spot on my ride 2day
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When decimalisation occurred in 1966, the Australian government compiled an 81 page file on dangers of using decimal coins in Christmas puddings. There was a media campaign warning people not to use the new coins in their cooking. The file is now digitised.
recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...
recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...
December 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
When decimalisation occurred in 1966, the Australian government compiled an 81 page file on dangers of using decimal coins in Christmas puddings. There was a media campaign warning people not to use the new coins in their cooking. The file is now digitised.
recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...
recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory explicitly names the Israeli President as responsible for inciting genocide — and yet Albanese is inviting him here. Shameful and scandalous!
December 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory explicitly names the Israeli President as responsible for inciting genocide — and yet Albanese is inviting him here. Shameful and scandalous!
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NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip reports that Israeli forces have committed 875 violations over 74 days of the ceasefire, killing 411 Palestinians and injuring 1,112 as they also arrested 45 people.
December 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip reports that Israeli forces have committed 875 violations over 74 days of the ceasefire, killing 411 Palestinians and injuring 1,112 as they also arrested 45 people.
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Warmest Christmas 🎄 on record?!
Watch as two smaller heat domes combine to form a Huge Christmas Heat Dome - the most intense on record in the Nation’s middle.
Half of US States will set heat records. 100s will fall!
The only escape will be the West Coast and Northeast. #weather #christmas #record
Watch as two smaller heat domes combine to form a Huge Christmas Heat Dome - the most intense on record in the Nation’s middle.
Half of US States will set heat records. 100s will fall!
The only escape will be the West Coast and Northeast. #weather #christmas #record
December 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Warmest Christmas 🎄 on record?!
Watch as two smaller heat domes combine to form a Huge Christmas Heat Dome - the most intense on record in the Nation’s middle.
Half of US States will set heat records. 100s will fall!
The only escape will be the West Coast and Northeast. #weather #christmas #record
Watch as two smaller heat domes combine to form a Huge Christmas Heat Dome - the most intense on record in the Nation’s middle.
Half of US States will set heat records. 100s will fall!
The only escape will be the West Coast and Northeast. #weather #christmas #record
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they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead
We have now entered the garbage time portion of 2025, please all make sure your posts are appropriate
December 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
We have now entered the garbage time portion of 2025, please all make sure your posts are appropriate
No worries if not!
Israeli military storms West Bank towns, carries out demolition https://aje.io/ybli3m
December 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
No worries if not!
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Just taking us for a ride
Israel announces establishment of 11 new settlements in the West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-announces-establishment-11-new-settlements-west-bank
Israel announces establishment of 11 new settlements in the West Bank
The move, seen as illegal under international law, risks undermining efforts to head towards the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal
www.middleeasteye.net
December 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Just taking us for a ride
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Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears.
“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears.
“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
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That may seem like a big jump until you remember all the AI features that you don’t want and can’t turn off
December 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
That may seem like a big jump until you remember all the AI features that you don’t want and can’t turn off
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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it'd be nice to wake up just one morning without politicians from "both sides" handing the worst people on the right everything they fucking want, constantly, all the fucking time, here you go boys, here's your bigotry and swill, you fucking pigs #auspol
December 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
it'd be nice to wake up just one morning without politicians from "both sides" handing the worst people on the right everything they fucking want, constantly, all the fucking time, here you go boys, here's your bigotry and swill, you fucking pigs #auspol
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Hanson is calling for tougher hate speech laws, while she is currently in court trying to appeal against her loss in a hate speech legal case. A fact not mentioned by a single outlet covering this story.
Hanson at the Bondi memorial calling for students to be "rounded up" and cuts to immigration. The crowd muttering in agreement, and giving her a huge round of applause once she finishes.
Everything is about to get so much worse in Australia
Everything is about to get so much worse in Australia
December 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Hanson is calling for tougher hate speech laws, while she is currently in court trying to appeal against her loss in a hate speech legal case. A fact not mentioned by a single outlet covering this story.
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I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
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Jeez. Nearly a full one third of new fossil gas expansion in the US is specifically for data centres. It's 12% in Germany. It should be 0% in both!!!!
www.urgewald.org/shop/fossile...
www.urgewald.org/shop/fossile...
December 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Jeez. Nearly a full one third of new fossil gas expansion in the US is specifically for data centres. It's 12% in Germany. It should be 0% in both!!!!
www.urgewald.org/shop/fossile...
www.urgewald.org/shop/fossile...
Do the survey folks!!!! Sweltering Cities is doing some of the best heat safety advocacy in Australia. Your experience matters, and SC know how to get decision makers to listen.
In #melbourne today it's reaching 38°C, but that number doesn't tell the full story of what it'll be like in the city. We took these temperature readings at a bus stop and an unshaded tram stop in #Brunswick. Today is a great day to do the #SummerSurvey swelteringcities.typeform.com/summersurvey26
December 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Do the survey folks!!!! Sweltering Cities is doing some of the best heat safety advocacy in Australia. Your experience matters, and SC know how to get decision makers to listen.