Bob Buhr 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 🇩🇰
@wufnik.bsky.social
Retired bond analyst now doing climate finance work. I spend lots of time listening to early music, and cross-stitching, often together. I also read books. Immigrant.
“Wherever something is wrong, something is too big.”--Leopold Kohr
“Wherever something is wrong, something is too big.”--Leopold Kohr
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“They won’t insure you,” Ms. Rojas said. “No one will buy from you. You’re kind of stuck where you are.” Our political leaders might not believe in climate change, but insurance companies know the score. And it's being felt disastrously, all over the country. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas (Gift Article)
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“They won’t insure you,” Ms. Rojas said. “No one will buy from you. You’re kind of stuck where you are.” Our political leaders might not believe in climate change, but insurance companies know the score. And it's being felt disastrously, all over the country. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Excellent idea. One of my coffee bean sources, Origin, has trialed shipping coffee beans to the UK from Brazil this way, starting this past year. Pretty good coffee too.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?
The Neoliner Origin set off on its inaugural two-week voyage from France to the US with the aim of revolutionising the notoriously dirty shipping industry
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Excellent idea. One of my coffee bean sources, Origin, has trialed shipping coffee beans to the UK from Brazil this way, starting this past year. Pretty good coffee too.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trouble ahead, trouble behind...
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Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris
Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Trouble ahead, trouble behind...
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I'm not even Catholic, but I really like this guy.
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I'm not even Catholic, but I really like this guy.
Jeez.
the company was “really sorry” for the spill and committed to paying for the cleanup, but confirmed some of the money for this would come from customer bills. Penicud said it would be paid for with a “mixture of funds”
Nationalise, now!
Enough of the fuck ups
Nationalise, now!
Enough of the fuck ups
Plastic beads spreading on Sussex coast after ‘catastrophic’ spill, meeting told
Local people describe devastating impact of millions of toxic beads from Southern Water site near Camber Sands
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Jeez.
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So Pakistan is *paying* Qatar to *not* deliver LNG because even including this penalty payment their solar PV and battery spending is much better value for money and saves them billions.
How fascinating!
How fascinating!
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
So Pakistan is *paying* Qatar to *not* deliver LNG because even including this penalty payment their solar PV and battery spending is much better value for money and saves them billions.
How fascinating!
How fascinating!
No one could have possibly predicted etc.
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www.reuters.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
No one could have possibly predicted etc.
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This lede will keep popping up like a bad …
I love this lede from NYT's Victor Mather on the death of the penny
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This lede will keep popping up like a bad …
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Beyond concerning,
The European Commission is reportedly considering delaying parts of its landmark AI Act following heavy lobbying from U.S. tech giants and pressure from Washington.
Thread
Please read!
substack.com/@europeanpow...
The European Commission is reportedly considering delaying parts of its landmark AI Act following heavy lobbying from U.S. tech giants and pressure from Washington.
Thread
Please read!
substack.com/@europeanpow...
Labour’s AI Growth Zones: The Corporate Land Grab Disguised as Innovation
How Starmer’s government is carving up Britain into deregulated fiefdoms for Big Tech, without asking a single community
substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Beyond concerning,
The European Commission is reportedly considering delaying parts of its landmark AI Act following heavy lobbying from U.S. tech giants and pressure from Washington.
Thread
Please read!
substack.com/@europeanpow...
The European Commission is reportedly considering delaying parts of its landmark AI Act following heavy lobbying from U.S. tech giants and pressure from Washington.
Thread
Please read!
substack.com/@europeanpow...
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Jamie Dimon redefines "insufferable."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/b...
Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Says He Has Reached Out to Zohran Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Jamie Dimon redefines "insufferable."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/b...
Please sign.
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Have you been gagged or had a D notice placed on reporting and investigating on free zones and ports impacts. the silence is unbelievable.
Have you been gagged or had a D notice placed on reporting and investigating on free zones and ports impacts. the silence is unbelievable.
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Please sign.
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Please could you spread this?
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Please could you spread this?
So how's that "Hispanics for Trump" thing working out?
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
So how's that "Hispanics for Trump" thing working out?
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
Everything Wes Jackson writes is worth reading.
November 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Everything Wes Jackson writes is worth reading.
This is important.
I'm absolutely baffled that European Powell has only reached over 9000 votes on this.
Do folk not understand what the IMPLICATIONS are.
Read her post again and sign,this is massive, trust me.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Do folk not understand what the IMPLICATIONS are.
Read her post again and sign,this is massive, trust me.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts
To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money
petition.parliament.uk
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This is important.
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These job losses across USA are not a temporary correction. It is structural. AI is now being used to justify the redundancy of knowledge workers in exactly the way globalisation was once used to justify the redundancy of factory workers
This will be happening in UK too very soon. A crash is coming
This will be happening in UK too very soon. A crash is coming
November 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
These job losses across USA are not a temporary correction. It is structural. AI is now being used to justify the redundancy of knowledge workers in exactly the way globalisation was once used to justify the redundancy of factory workers
This will be happening in UK too very soon. A crash is coming
This will be happening in UK too very soon. A crash is coming
Too bad he doesn't extend the same concern to Palestinian Christians.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Trump threatens to launch attacks in Nigeria over ‘killing of Christians’
Nigerian government denies US president's claim of not stemming 'horrible atrocities' against Christians.
www.aljazeera.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Too bad he doesn't extend the same concern to Palestinian Christians.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
I like the way Buttigieg looks like Saddam Hussein here.
Didn't have chance due to limited word count to talk it but I think an instructive way to think of these movements, however piecemeal they may be, is to take Mouin Rabbani's view that this is the first time ever that groundswell public anger has compelled change *for* Palestine.
Pete Buttigieg endorses aid restrictions to Israel, Seth Moulton is running away from AIPAC at full speed, Mallory McMorrow says it's a genocide, meanwhile Cory Booker says that asking if Netanyahu is a war criminal is unfair.
What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.
What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.
October 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I like the way Buttigieg looks like Saddam Hussein here.
This is a very big deal.
@greenparty.org.uk has voted to oppose the introduction of Freeports and Special Economic Zones across the United Kingdom at it’s annual party conference in Manchester.
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Greens vote to oppose introduction of Freeports in the UK - Green Party
The Green Party has voted to oppose the introduction of Freeports and Special Economic Zones across the United Kingdom at it’s annual party conference in Manchester. Commenting Green Party Co-Leader A...
greenparty.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This is a very big deal.
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Today I learned that animal agriculture mouthpieces who aim to delay climate action fear calls to individual action. Why? While individual action to burn less fossil fuel is fairly constrained by infrastructure - e.g. car-dependent cities - choosing to eat less meat and dairy is much more effective.
There's increasing awareness of the role the animal ag industry plays in climate obstruction, but this new book brings all the peer-reviewed research on the subject together in one place and it's 🤯.
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S14, Ep7 | How the Animal Ag Industry Obstructs Climate Policy
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
October 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Today I learned that animal agriculture mouthpieces who aim to delay climate action fear calls to individual action. Why? While individual action to burn less fossil fuel is fairly constrained by infrastructure - e.g. car-dependent cities - choosing to eat less meat and dairy is much more effective.
The man is a menace. Of course, we already knew that.
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The costs of Trump’s campaign to censor climate science
Datasets have been removed, federal websites scrubbed and thousands of Noaa staff purged. Experts warn disaster defences are at risk
www.ft.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The man is a menace. Of course, we already knew that.
www.ft.com/content/2df1...
www.ft.com/content/2df1...
To the surprise of absolutely no one:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
To the surprise of absolutely no one:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...