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
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.
The BBC should tell Donald Trump to
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The BBC should tell Donald Trump to
Trump welcomes BBC resignations
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Trump welcomes BBC resignations
Stephen Miller has doubts about retaining power indefinitely 🤔
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Stephen Miller has doubts about retaining power indefinitely 🤔
The White House claims a kill
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The White House claims a kill
So it pisses me off greatly when some snarky former senior civil servant whose war experience consisted of being embedded as a journalist with Royal Horse Artillery in Iraq takes a poop on the white poppy.
Just as anyone taking a poop on the red poppy would piss me off greatly.
Just as anyone taking a poop on the red poppy would piss me off greatly.
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
So it pisses me off greatly when some snarky former senior civil servant whose war experience consisted of being embedded as a journalist with Royal Horse Artillery in Iraq takes a poop on the white poppy.
Just as anyone taking a poop on the red poppy would piss me off greatly.
Just as anyone taking a poop on the red poppy would piss me off greatly.
My other grandfather said to me that the only thing worth fighting for is peace.
Royal Navy 1924-1945. Petty Officer, Director Layer (Gunlayer 1st Class) on light cruisers during WW2 in the Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean. He was invalided out in October 1945 from injuries sustained in 1942.
Royal Navy 1924-1945. Petty Officer, Director Layer (Gunlayer 1st Class) on light cruisers during WW2 in the Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean. He was invalided out in October 1945 from injuries sustained in 1942.
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My other grandfather said to me that the only thing worth fighting for is peace.
Royal Navy 1924-1945. Petty Officer, Director Layer (Gunlayer 1st Class) on light cruisers during WW2 in the Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean. He was invalided out in October 1945 from injuries sustained in 1942.
Royal Navy 1924-1945. Petty Officer, Director Layer (Gunlayer 1st Class) on light cruisers during WW2 in the Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean. He was invalided out in October 1945 from injuries sustained in 1942.
Furthermore, one of my grandfathers declined to receive his war medals because of the horrors of war.
He was a 2nd Lieutenant RFC then RAF pilot in WW1. Wounded in action. Returned.
He shot people down. He was shot down. He saw no glory in war.
He went on to help design landing craft for D-Day.
He was a 2nd Lieutenant RFC then RAF pilot in WW1. Wounded in action. Returned.
He shot people down. He was shot down. He saw no glory in war.
He went on to help design landing craft for D-Day.
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Furthermore, one of my grandfathers declined to receive his war medals because of the horrors of war.
He was a 2nd Lieutenant RFC then RAF pilot in WW1. Wounded in action. Returned.
He shot people down. He was shot down. He saw no glory in war.
He went on to help design landing craft for D-Day.
He was a 2nd Lieutenant RFC then RAF pilot in WW1. Wounded in action. Returned.
He shot people down. He was shot down. He saw no glory in war.
He went on to help design landing craft for D-Day.
Explainers often omit that social, economic, political and military/conflict subsystems of the Earth System also have tipping points, just like the climate and ecological subsystems do. They are all interwoven and interdependent. Human system thresholds may be breached at lower temperatures. #COP30
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Explainers often omit that social, economic, political and military/conflict subsystems of the Earth System also have tipping points, just like the climate and ecological subsystems do. They are all interwoven and interdependent. Human system thresholds may be breached at lower temperatures. #COP30
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
— Laurence Binyon, 1914
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
— Laurence Binyon, 1914
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
— Laurence Binyon, 1914
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
— Laurence Binyon, 1914
Doesn't matter if you're for or against the COP formula: if #COP30 doesn't immediately apply the breaks to all fossil fuel production and use and initiate a rapid decline in CO2 emissions we will pass 2.0°C in the 2040s and cross many ecological, social, political, economic and conflict thresholds.
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Doesn't matter if you're for or against the COP formula: if #COP30 doesn't immediately apply the breaks to all fossil fuel production and use and initiate a rapid decline in CO2 emissions we will pass 2.0°C in the 2040s and cross many ecological, social, political, economic and conflict thresholds.
Miller rejects judge's decision against Trump's federalisation of the Portland National Guard.
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Miller rejects judge's decision against Trump's federalisation of the Portland National Guard.
There is still hope for the US military. Look at the faces of these cadets at "The Citadel" Military College of South Carolina during Reichsminister Kristi Noem's visit yesterday.
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There is still hope for the US military. Look at the faces of these cadets at "The Citadel" Military College of South Carolina during Reichsminister Kristi Noem's visit yesterday.
Trump wines. 0% alcohol. 13.5% piss. 86.5% fascism.
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Trump wines. 0% alcohol. 13.5% piss. 86.5% fascism.
Biden might be a smaller piece of shit than Trump. But Biden is still a piece of shit.
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Biden might be a smaller piece of shit than Trump. But Biden is still a piece of shit.
ICE recruitment now targeting white, racist, homophobic disgruntled NYPD cops.
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
ICE recruitment now targeting white, racist, homophobic disgruntled NYPD cops.
Silly f*ckers won't be laughing when these robots are beefed up and armed with belt-fed assault rifles. Or, as is a more likely first step en route to that, lightweight 'crowd control' devices such as no-recoil sonic cannons and LED then laser eye-disabler weapons.
November 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Silly f*ckers won't be laughing when these robots are beefed up and armed with belt-fed assault rifles. Or, as is a more likely first step en route to that, lightweight 'crowd control' devices such as no-recoil sonic cannons and LED then laser eye-disabler weapons.
"This is sick."
Yes, Elon. Very sick indeed. And you are a very sick individual. Get help.
PS. You can only have "sustainable abundance" for a very small, privileged, heavily securitised and militarily defended, totalitarian elite. And he knows it.
Yes, Elon. Very sick indeed. And you are a very sick individual. Get help.
PS. You can only have "sustainable abundance" for a very small, privileged, heavily securitised and militarily defended, totalitarian elite. And he knows it.
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"This is sick."
Yes, Elon. Very sick indeed. And you are a very sick individual. Get help.
PS. You can only have "sustainable abundance" for a very small, privileged, heavily securitised and militarily defended, totalitarian elite. And he knows it.
Yes, Elon. Very sick indeed. And you are a very sick individual. Get help.
PS. You can only have "sustainable abundance" for a very small, privileged, heavily securitised and militarily defended, totalitarian elite. And he knows it.
He makes Dr Strangelove seem perfectly normal.
"Every human on Earth is gonna want to have their own personal R2D2, C3PO. I think there could be tens of billions of, of Optimus robots out there."
"Every human on Earth is gonna want to have their own personal R2D2, C3PO. I think there could be tens of billions of, of Optimus robots out there."
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
He makes Dr Strangelove seem perfectly normal.
"Every human on Earth is gonna want to have their own personal R2D2, C3PO. I think there could be tens of billions of, of Optimus robots out there."
"Every human on Earth is gonna want to have their own personal R2D2, C3PO. I think there could be tens of billions of, of Optimus robots out there."
"Man down! Man down!"
("Damn. It's the wrong man down.")
("Damn. It's the wrong man down.")
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Man down! Man down!"
("Damn. It's the wrong man down.")
("Damn. It's the wrong man down.")
Just a quick look at today's oil & gas industry news goes to show that fossil fuels exploration and production is NOT in decline. That should be the ONLY focus of #COP30. Until we cease ALL new oil & gas projects, discussion of everything else is horse shit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Just a quick look at today's oil & gas industry news goes to show that fossil fuels exploration and production is NOT in decline. That should be the ONLY focus of #COP30. Until we cease ALL new oil & gas projects, discussion of everything else is horse shit.