Gregory Norminton
@gregorynorminton.bsky.social
Yet another writer: THE GHOST WHO BLED (2017), THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY (2018), THE REPUBLIC OF BREATH and SWEENEY'S PROGRESS (forthcoming). Environmentalist. Lives in Sheffield.
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Vol. 1 of our graphic novel SWEENEY'S PROGRESS is finished. An ecological fable set in C7th Ireland, from one of the great medieval poems. Script by me, art by @zaraslattery.bsky.social.
To read the book online & help with the making of Volume 2, visit our Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/sweeneyspr...
To read the book online & help with the making of Volume 2, visit our Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/sweeneyspr...
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2025 comes to an end.
It’s been a strong year for deployment and innovation, but a worrying one for energy politics.
Moves like the US pause on offshore wind show how quickly progress can be undermined by polarised debate.
Here’s hoping 2026 brings calmer, more evidence-based energy policymaking.
It’s been a strong year for deployment and innovation, but a worrying one for energy politics.
Moves like the US pause on offshore wind show how quickly progress can be undermined by polarised debate.
Here’s hoping 2026 brings calmer, more evidence-based energy policymaking.
December 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
2025 comes to an end.
It’s been a strong year for deployment and innovation, but a worrying one for energy politics.
Moves like the US pause on offshore wind show how quickly progress can be undermined by polarised debate.
Here’s hoping 2026 brings calmer, more evidence-based energy policymaking.
It’s been a strong year for deployment and innovation, but a worrying one for energy politics.
Moves like the US pause on offshore wind show how quickly progress can be undermined by polarised debate.
Here’s hoping 2026 brings calmer, more evidence-based energy policymaking.
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Christmas has come early for me, thanks to my friend, the brilliant @zaraslattery.bsky.social. One of the v few self-printed copies of volume one of our graphic novel, SWEENEY'S PROGRESS. A labour of love for both of us.
One day a publisher may agree and publish it *prays to the comics gods*
One day a publisher may agree and publish it *prays to the comics gods*
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Christmas has come early for me, thanks to my friend, the brilliant @zaraslattery.bsky.social. One of the v few self-printed copies of volume one of our graphic novel, SWEENEY'S PROGRESS. A labour of love for both of us.
One day a publisher may agree and publish it *prays to the comics gods*
One day a publisher may agree and publish it *prays to the comics gods*
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the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now
December 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now
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📣OUT NOW! The latest @trilliontrees.bsky.social #ReForestFund report.
🌱 More than 712,000 trees restored across 27 initiatives.
🌳 1,170 hectares of critical forest habitat restored, benefiting 26,100 people.
Helping forests recover for people, nature & climate.
Read more➡️ bit.ly/44viFLc
🌱 More than 712,000 trees restored across 27 initiatives.
🌳 1,170 hectares of critical forest habitat restored, benefiting 26,100 people.
Helping forests recover for people, nature & climate.
Read more➡️ bit.ly/44viFLc
ReForest Fund Update - December 2025 - Trillion Trees
With continued support from the Trillion Trees ReForest Fund, 27 initiatives have now grown more than 712,000 trees, restoring over 1,170 hectares of critical forest habitat and positively impacting 2...
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December 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
📣OUT NOW! The latest @trilliontrees.bsky.social #ReForestFund report.
🌱 More than 712,000 trees restored across 27 initiatives.
🌳 1,170 hectares of critical forest habitat restored, benefiting 26,100 people.
Helping forests recover for people, nature & climate.
Read more➡️ bit.ly/44viFLc
🌱 More than 712,000 trees restored across 27 initiatives.
🌳 1,170 hectares of critical forest habitat restored, benefiting 26,100 people.
Helping forests recover for people, nature & climate.
Read more➡️ bit.ly/44viFLc
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I guess it's true, although the biggest problems WE face are computers vomiting up endless slop, intellectual property theft, electricity hogging and water draining uselessness that's fueling a potentially destructive economic bubble.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Finding the proper balance between helpfulness and codependency, between friendliness and flattery, is one of the biggest problems A.I. faces,” Stephen Witt writes.
“Finding the proper balance between helpfulness and codependency, between friendliness and flattery, is one of the biggest problems A.I. faces,” Stephen Witt writes.
Opinion | The A.I. Models Are Competing for Your Affection
Major A.I. companies are competing to give their models the most appealing personality.
nyti.ms
December 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I guess it's true, although the biggest problems WE face are computers vomiting up endless slop, intellectual property theft, electricity hogging and water draining uselessness that's fueling a potentially destructive economic bubble.
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Canada’s growing clean tech sector has created thousands of high-paying careers — many of those in methane reduction.
Our new measures to drive down those emissions will cut pollution and could create nearly 35,000 new careers in the field by 2040.
Our new measures to drive down those emissions will cut pollution and could create nearly 35,000 new careers in the field by 2040.
December 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Canada’s growing clean tech sector has created thousands of high-paying careers — many of those in methane reduction.
Our new measures to drive down those emissions will cut pollution and could create nearly 35,000 new careers in the field by 2040.
Our new measures to drive down those emissions will cut pollution and could create nearly 35,000 new careers in the field by 2040.
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China added 500+ TWh of electricity in the past 12 months. Coal fell ~66 TWh.
#Solar delivered ~75% of net growth in both China and the U.S. over the same period.
The difference isn’t direction — it’s speed. China is growing ~4× faster.
Now #BESS is scaling, turning capacity into firm power.
#Solar delivered ~75% of net growth in both China and the U.S. over the same period.
The difference isn’t direction — it’s speed. China is growing ~4× faster.
Now #BESS is scaling, turning capacity into firm power.
December 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Colour and Light. New #SweeneysProgress Winter Solstice Patreon post. @gregorynorminton.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Colour and Light. New #SweeneysProgress Winter Solstice Patreon post. @gregorynorminton.bsky.social
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Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.
December 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.
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Hype.
No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
Hope or hype? Deep Sky says unique carbon-capture facility eyed for southwestern Manitoba will help ‘save our planet’; critics call technology high-risk and under-researched
Since early October, the rural municipalities of Pipestone and Two Borders — agriculture and oil-dominant communities about three hours southwest of Winnipeg — have found themselves at the heart of a ...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hype.
No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
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“.. Not since the U.S. allied with Joseph Stalin during the Lend Lease Act has a White House official enjoyed such frequent, personal access to a Russian or Soviet leader.
“Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
“Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
December 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“.. Not since the U.S. allied with Joseph Stalin during the Lend Lease Act has a White House official enjoyed such frequent, personal access to a Russian or Soviet leader.
“Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
“Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
Few things more full of life than a dead tree. Here's (I think) some crimped gill fungus on a bed of moss fruiting from a fallen oak. Sounds almost yummy, doesn't it?
December 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Few things more full of life than a dead tree. Here's (I think) some crimped gill fungus on a bed of moss fruiting from a fallen oak. Sounds almost yummy, doesn't it?
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This development could by itself take out most of the remaining gas generation in California, and on sunny days a good chunk of electricity imports as well.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This development could by itself take out most of the remaining gas generation in California, and on sunny days a good chunk of electricity imports as well.
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Never thought I'd hope to see a Cheney run again for public office, yet here we are.
JUST IN: Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming will NOT run for reelection in 2026
December 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Never thought I'd hope to see a Cheney run again for public office, yet here we are.
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Man it's awesome to have a research paper sum up everything we've been saying about lazy automakers delaying EV adoption for the last quarter century.
Very interesting-looking new study on how carmakers in the US, Germany and Japan have fought the transition to electric vehicles through the decades doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…
December 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Man it's awesome to have a research paper sum up everything we've been saying about lazy automakers delaying EV adoption for the last quarter century.
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" Instead, internal reports suggest that the White House’s violent boat-smashing operation in the Caribbean was merely a backup plan when a potential war on Mexico fell through." A reckless, criminal administration. newrepublic.com/post/204619/...
Trump Is Bombing Boats Because Stephen Miller Wanted to Bomb Mexico
The White House insisted Donald Trump isn’t influenced by anyone when he sets policy.
newrepublic.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
" Instead, internal reports suggest that the White House’s violent boat-smashing operation in the Caribbean was merely a backup plan when a potential war on Mexico fell through." A reckless, criminal administration. newrepublic.com/post/204619/...
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Solar power is expected to become the world's largest source of electricity by 2033. ☀️🔌💡
December 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Solar power is expected to become the world's largest source of electricity by 2033. ☀️🔌💡
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Anyone even on the periphery of the publishing world has known this festering open secret. I expect Walliams will make up for lost income as another Free Speech Martyr on the GB News circuit.
December 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Anyone even on the periphery of the publishing world has known this festering open secret. I expect Walliams will make up for lost income as another Free Speech Martyr on the GB News circuit.
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anyways that’s enough brain damage for me but main takeaways here:
-Gen Z conservatives are Hitler Youth 2.0
-Basically all of them support JD Vance as the next president
-They hate Muslims, Latinos, and women (not surprising)
-All of them complain about affordability and healthcare lol
-Gen Z conservatives are Hitler Youth 2.0
-Basically all of them support JD Vance as the next president
-They hate Muslims, Latinos, and women (not surprising)
-All of them complain about affordability and healthcare lol
December 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
anyways that’s enough brain damage for me but main takeaways here:
-Gen Z conservatives are Hitler Youth 2.0
-Basically all of them support JD Vance as the next president
-They hate Muslims, Latinos, and women (not surprising)
-All of them complain about affordability and healthcare lol
-Gen Z conservatives are Hitler Youth 2.0
-Basically all of them support JD Vance as the next president
-They hate Muslims, Latinos, and women (not surprising)
-All of them complain about affordability and healthcare lol
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“That is the most insidious corruption…Trumpism gets its defenders to insist terrible things could never happen…Until Trump does the thing. At which point these same people insist the thing which could never happen must happen. That it is right, good and necessary.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump, Hunger Games, and the Kennedy Center
The dystopia everyone said was impossible is already here.
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“That is the most insidious corruption…Trumpism gets its defenders to insist terrible things could never happen…Until Trump does the thing. At which point these same people insist the thing which could never happen must happen. That it is right, good and necessary.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Illuminating reporting and analysis in @science.org breakthrough of the year package. Don't miss the photo essay. www.science.org/content/arti...
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
www.science.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Illuminating reporting and analysis in @science.org breakthrough of the year package. Don't miss the photo essay. www.science.org/content/arti...
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The Trump Doctrine is, essentially: “Who’s gonna stop you?”
December 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Trump Doctrine is, essentially: “Who’s gonna stop you?”