Andy Scollick
@andyscollick.bsky.social
Dystopia isn't in the future. Dystopia is now.
PhD complex adaptive systems, resilience | interactions between defence, security, climate, energy, democracy | former strategic defence planner, adviser to Ukraine's military | anti-fascist
PhD complex adaptive systems, resilience | interactions between defence, security, climate, energy, democracy | former strategic defence planner, adviser to Ukraine's military | anti-fascist
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Occidental Petroleum beats quarterly profit estimates reut.rs/4nM9vkg
Occidental Petroleum beats quarterly profit estimates
Occidental Petroleum beat Wall Street expectations for third quarter profit on Monday, as the U.S. shale producer benefited from higher production.
reut.rs
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Occidental Petroleum beats quarterly profit estimates reut.rs/4nM9vkg
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[COMMENTARY]
A new op-ed warns that Bill Gates’ new essay, “Three Tough Truths About Climate,” risks undermining progress by framing development and climate action as a trade-off.
“The challenge is to ensure everyone thrives on a healthy planet,” she writes.
** Views are the author’s.
A new op-ed warns that Bill Gates’ new essay, “Three Tough Truths About Climate,” risks undermining progress by framing development and climate action as a trade-off.
“The challenge is to ensure everyone thrives on a healthy planet,” she writes.
** Views are the author’s.
No, Bill Gates, we don’t have to choose between people & planet (commentary)
Bill Gates has long been a leading voice in the global response to human health and climate change. His climate investments and advocacy have helped drive innovation, expand access to clean energy…
news.mongabay.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
[COMMENTARY]
A new op-ed warns that Bill Gates’ new essay, “Three Tough Truths About Climate,” risks undermining progress by framing development and climate action as a trade-off.
“The challenge is to ensure everyone thrives on a healthy planet,” she writes.
** Views are the author’s.
A new op-ed warns that Bill Gates’ new essay, “Three Tough Truths About Climate,” risks undermining progress by framing development and climate action as a trade-off.
“The challenge is to ensure everyone thrives on a healthy planet,” she writes.
** Views are the author’s.
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Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning
Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning
Who could have seen this coming?
gizmodo.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning
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“Unlikely”. Tremendous understatement, epic work.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“Unlikely”. Tremendous understatement, epic work.
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LBA Systems to Build TB2, TB3, Akinci and Kizilelma UCAVs in Italy
Leonardo identified three locations in Italy to build the Baykar aircraft, supported by R&D, innovation, engineering and certification centers.
Story: theaviationist.com/2025/11/09/l...
Leonardo identified three locations in Italy to build the Baykar aircraft, supported by R&D, innovation, engineering and certification centers.
Story: theaviationist.com/2025/11/09/l...
LBA Systems to Build TB2, TB3, Akinci and Kizilelma UCAVs in Italy
Leonardo identified three locations in Italy to build the Baykar aircraft, supported by R&D, innovation, engineering and certification centers.
theaviationist.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
LBA Systems to Build TB2, TB3, Akinci and Kizilelma UCAVs in Italy
Leonardo identified three locations in Italy to build the Baykar aircraft, supported by R&D, innovation, engineering and certification centers.
Story: theaviationist.com/2025/11/09/l...
Leonardo identified three locations in Italy to build the Baykar aircraft, supported by R&D, innovation, engineering and certification centers.
Story: theaviationist.com/2025/11/09/l...
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Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
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"NATO’s new Alliance Maritime Strategy ... re-centers maritime hard power within collective defense, integrates digital transformation and industrial strength, and reframes the oceans as the decisive arena of strategic competition." www.fpri.org/article/2025...
Collective Seapower: NATO’s New Maritime Strategy - Foreign Policy Research Institute
NATO has finally unveiled its new Alliance Maritime Strategy, refreshing a document that had not been publicly updated since 2011. While high-level strategy
www.fpri.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"NATO’s new Alliance Maritime Strategy ... re-centers maritime hard power within collective defense, integrates digital transformation and industrial strength, and reframes the oceans as the decisive arena of strategic competition." www.fpri.org/article/2025...
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As our director @harjeet11.bsky.social puts it: "This is not the transformation we demand but a dangerous evasion of wealthy countries' responsibility... We need a roadmap that dismantles this unjust system."
Read our analysis: www.satatsampadaclimate.org/post/baku-to...
#Climate #COP30
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Read our analysis: www.satatsampadaclimate.org/post/baku-to...
#Climate #COP30
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Reaction to the New Report on The Baku to Belém Roadmap to USD 1.3 Trillion Finance
The "Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3T" report provides a comprehensive diagnosis of the systemic challenges in the global climate finance architecture.
www.satatsampadaclimate.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
As our director @harjeet11.bsky.social puts it: "This is not the transformation we demand but a dangerous evasion of wealthy countries' responsibility... We need a roadmap that dismantles this unjust system."
Read our analysis: www.satatsampadaclimate.org/post/baku-to...
#Climate #COP30
ENDS
Read our analysis: www.satatsampadaclimate.org/post/baku-to...
#Climate #COP30
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"I have been on two humanitarian-esque missions with the guard, which were awesome, doing the things you see on the commercial, helping these communities," says J. "And then you want me to go pick up trash and dissuade homeless people in D.C. at gunpoint. Like, no dude.“
In an encrypted group chat, National Guard members question Trump deployments
As President Trump's call for National Guard deployments rings out across the U.S., a small contingent of Ohio guard members is quietly expressing concern in an encrypted group chat.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"I have been on two humanitarian-esque missions with the guard, which were awesome, doing the things you see on the commercial, helping these communities," says J. "And then you want me to go pick up trash and dissuade homeless people in D.C. at gunpoint. Like, no dude.“
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: “Putin has tools that can destroy the European Union as an organization, but also Europe as a cultural phenomenon.
“These tools are Russia’s fifth columns, present in every country of Europe.”
“These tools are Russia’s fifth columns, present in every country of Europe.”
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: “Putin has tools that can destroy the European Union as an organization, but also Europe as a cultural phenomenon.
“These tools are Russia’s fifth columns, present in every country of Europe.”
“These tools are Russia’s fifth columns, present in every country of Europe.”
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While Trump murders people on boats for supposedly trafficking drugs, Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug trafficker serving a 10 year sentence he pardoned in 2021, will be sentenced in court today after he sexually assaulted a woman after Trump freed him from prison.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
While Trump murders people on boats for supposedly trafficking drugs, Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug trafficker serving a 10 year sentence he pardoned in 2021, will be sentenced in court today after he sexually assaulted a woman after Trump freed him from prison.
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We have put out some new NDC snapshots. Check them out: www.climate-resource.com/tools/ndcs?v.... The latest is the Chinese NDC that sets an emissions reduction of 7–10% below the peak by 2035, moving from a carbon intensity goal to an absolute target. This enhances transparency and accountability.
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
We have put out some new NDC snapshots. Check them out: www.climate-resource.com/tools/ndcs?v.... The latest is the Chinese NDC that sets an emissions reduction of 7–10% below the peak by 2035, moving from a carbon intensity goal to an absolute target. This enhances transparency and accountability.
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The US government's lawless killing spree at sea continues.
The "designated terrorist organizations" supposedly operating these vessel are of course unidentified.
As are the purported "narco-terrorists" killed.
Using the language of counterterrorism doesn't actually make this counterterrorism.
The "designated terrorist organizations" supposedly operating these vessel are of course unidentified.
As are the purported "narco-terrorists" killed.
Using the language of counterterrorism doesn't actually make this counterterrorism.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The US government's lawless killing spree at sea continues.
The "designated terrorist organizations" supposedly operating these vessel are of course unidentified.
As are the purported "narco-terrorists" killed.
Using the language of counterterrorism doesn't actually make this counterterrorism.
The "designated terrorist organizations" supposedly operating these vessel are of course unidentified.
As are the purported "narco-terrorists" killed.
Using the language of counterterrorism doesn't actually make this counterterrorism.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Reported and blocked.
Reported and blocked.
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Reported and blocked.
Reported and blocked.
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The UK Government should threaten nationalise his golf resorts in Scotland. Trump International Golf Links is worth £37 million; and Trump invested over £150 million in Trump Turnberry.
Trump's lawyer threatens BBC with $1bn lawsuit - read the letter in full
Trump's lawyer threatens BBC with $1bn lawsuit - read the letter in full
One of Donald Trump's lawyers has threatened to sue the BBC with a $1bn (£760m) lawsuit, accusing the corporation of broadcasting "false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements".
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The UK Government should threaten nationalise his golf resorts in Scotland. Trump International Golf Links is worth £37 million; and Trump invested over £150 million in Trump Turnberry.
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A Dutch province has asked the US ambassador in the Netherlands to return two panels about African American soldiers to the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery, located in Margraten (Limburg). The two panels were recently removed by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A Dutch province has asked the US ambassador in the Netherlands to return two panels about African American soldiers to the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery, located in Margraten (Limburg). The two panels were recently removed by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
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Here is a map view of the record high temperatures in October 2025 across the #Antarctic. Compare this blob of anomalies greater than 5°C with the Arctic from my earlier post. Yikes!
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds... using a 1981-2010 reference period.
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds... using a 1981-2010 reference period.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Here is a map view of the record high temperatures in October 2025 across the #Antarctic. Compare this blob of anomalies greater than 5°C with the Arctic from my earlier post. Yikes!
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds... using a 1981-2010 reference period.
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds... using a 1981-2010 reference period.
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Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
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Hegseth is now responsible for 75 murders in 19 attacks.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Hegseth is now responsible for 75 murders in 19 attacks.
The BBC should tell Donald Trump to
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The BBC should tell Donald Trump to
"Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere soared by a record amount to new highs in 2024, committing the planet to more long-term temperature increase" according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 15 Oct 2025.
So this 👇 undermines everything #COP30 does.
So this 👇 undermines everything #COP30 does.
Welcome to South America's new oil frontier. "It's really incredible how fast and how much it's expanding," said Nicole Figueiredo de Oliveira, the executive director at environmental non-profit Arayara.
https://cnn.it/4ozgKgJ
https://cnn.it/4ozgKgJ
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere soared by a record amount to new highs in 2024, committing the planet to more long-term temperature increase" according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 15 Oct 2025.
So this 👇 undermines everything #COP30 does.
So this 👇 undermines everything #COP30 does.