Dan o'thebaldyheid
@danothebaldyheid.bsky.social
Politics, left, direct democracy.
Renewable Energy, Carbon Capture, Greening the Deserts, thinking the unthinkable, kindly.
Renewable Energy, Carbon Capture, Greening the Deserts, thinking the unthinkable, kindly.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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This is so cool: Copper, which makes induction stoves with li-ion batteries integrated, is going to build *10,000* of these suckers for use in New York public housing.
Better cooking, easier cleaning, grid resiliency built in. Win win win.
Better cooking, easier cleaning, grid resiliency built in. Win win win.
$32 Million Commitment Announced to Electrify Cooking Appliances in NYCHA Buildings Through Induction Stove Challenge - NYSERDA
The New York Power Authority (NYPA), the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) today announced that the next phase of the ...
www.nyserda.ny.gov
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is so cool: Copper, which makes induction stoves with li-ion batteries integrated, is going to build *10,000* of these suckers for use in New York public housing.
Better cooking, easier cleaning, grid resiliency built in. Win win win.
Better cooking, easier cleaning, grid resiliency built in. Win win win.
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'Man who jumped out of an airplane without parachute and who has already hit the ground will overshoot goal not to die, UN said'
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
'Man who jumped out of an airplane without parachute and who has already hit the ground will overshoot goal not to die, UN said'
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As the Greens close in on Labour in the polls, the unprecedented Starmer experiment in dealing with the 'awkward Left' by outright banishment has been judged too dangerous to continue
Has the rethink come too late? Time will tell
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Has the rethink come too late? Time will tell
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whip restored to Labour MPs who rebelled over welfare reforms
Chris Hinchliff says his focus remains on contributing to
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
As the Greens close in on Labour in the polls, the unprecedented Starmer experiment in dealing with the 'awkward Left' by outright banishment has been judged too dangerous to continue
Has the rethink come too late? Time will tell
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Has the rethink come too late? Time will tell
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
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Would like to add some of these but it'll become a massive mural of quotes (which should be our new Mayor's First Public Work thank you! ❤️❤️)
bsky.app/profile/eliv...
bsky.app/profile/eliv...
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Would like to add some of these but it'll become a massive mural of quotes (which should be our new Mayor's First Public Work thank you! ❤️❤️)
bsky.app/profile/eliv...
bsky.app/profile/eliv...
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the meme that it's environmentalists blocking clean energy is an reality-spinning lie roughly on par with the idea that gas is a climate solution, in just how obscenely wrong it is, but how confidently it's stated, and how widely it's believed by dumb-smart-guys
Here’s an another example of what I posted about this morning.
Did Spanish environmentalists have an iron grip on power from 2012-18, before being rounded up and sent to the Canary Islands so solar PV could flourish?
[No, a right-wing govt effectively banned solar power.]
Did Spanish environmentalists have an iron grip on power from 2012-18, before being rounded up and sent to the Canary Islands so solar PV could flourish?
[No, a right-wing govt effectively banned solar power.]
November 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
the meme that it's environmentalists blocking clean energy is an reality-spinning lie roughly on par with the idea that gas is a climate solution, in just how obscenely wrong it is, but how confidently it's stated, and how widely it's believed by dumb-smart-guys
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Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Social media should be designed to deliver facts to the population, and allow decision making by them. The way to do this is to tie it directly to the scientific body of literature - pour the thoughts of your people upon the reality of the world, and they improve it through democratic decisions.
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Social media should be designed to deliver facts to the population, and allow decision making by them. The way to do this is to tie it directly to the scientific body of literature - pour the thoughts of your people upon the reality of the world, and they improve it through democratic decisions.
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Banff, Aberdeenshire.
Tomorrow afternoon.
Tomorrow afternoon.
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Banff, Aberdeenshire.
Tomorrow afternoon.
Tomorrow afternoon.
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This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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🧵 Awful awful massacre in Brazil
Gente, é o maior massacre no Brasil desde o Araguaia. Entendo quem quer puxar pra Canudos ou Contestado ou etc, mas não podemos livrar a ditadura de 64 só porque ela escondia melhor seus corpos.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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I’d like to see a cut of the Traitors where we don’t know who the Traitors are, so we could see if we could work it out.
#celebritytraitors
#celebritytraitors
October 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I’d like to see a cut of the Traitors where we don’t know who the Traitors are, so we could see if we could work it out.
#celebritytraitors
#celebritytraitors
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“The reason we’re protesting, the reason I was protesting, the reason I’ve been federally indicted, is because what’s going on behind the closed doors of that center is immeasurably worse… our latest eyewitness account from inside the Broadview Processing Center describes people coming out on...
October 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“The reason we’re protesting, the reason I was protesting, the reason I’ve been federally indicted, is because what’s going on behind the closed doors of that center is immeasurably worse… our latest eyewitness account from inside the Broadview Processing Center describes people coming out on...
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Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
Bill Gates has a new memo out calling for a “strategic pivot” on climate change, downplaying “doomsday” talk to focus on filling enormous post-USAID budget gaps in global health and vaccine funding. I got an early glimpse of his thinking last week:
7 New Takes From Bill Gates on Climate ‘Doomsday’ Talk and Global Health
“I mean, God bless the Europeans for caring about climate.”
heatmap.news
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
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a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes
a day in an american life
a day in an american life
October 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes
a day in an american life
a day in an american life
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Shout it from the rooftops
NEWS OUTLETS COVERING CLIMATE CHANGE SHOULD NOT BE TAKING MONEY FROM FOSSIL FUEL CORPORATIONS END OF STORY
October 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Shout it from the rooftops
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when all this is over we need to have a pretty serious conversation about the utter moral failure of the elite of this country
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
when all this is over we need to have a pretty serious conversation about the utter moral failure of the elite of this country
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🍔NEWS: Automated kiosks at fast food restaurants are forcing you to approve fine print that waives your legal rights when you order food.
What stage of capitalism is this?
What stage of capitalism is this?
Shake Shackled
Ordering your next ShackBurger could now lock you into corporations’ favorite private justice system.
www.levernews.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
🍔NEWS: Automated kiosks at fast food restaurants are forcing you to approve fine print that waives your legal rights when you order food.
What stage of capitalism is this?
What stage of capitalism is this?
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What we have wrought:
Heat Has Essentially Wiped Out 2 Key Coral Species on Florida Reefs
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
What we have wrought:
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lol remember when Michelle Obama got them all frothing at the mouth for saying "every morning I wake up in a house built by slaves" because it was apparently so disrespectful to speak in negative tones about the WH that way and now some guy literally tears the east wing down and they're super chill
October 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
lol remember when Michelle Obama got them all frothing at the mouth for saying "every morning I wake up in a house built by slaves" because it was apparently so disrespectful to speak in negative tones about the WH that way and now some guy literally tears the east wing down and they're super chill
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Welcome to Act II of the energy transition.
In Act I we spent 20 years transforming the electricity sector. Developing the technologies, implementing the policies and building the European champions that have delivered a power sector that is 73% clean and growing.
Sept 2025 mix here.
In Act I we spent 20 years transforming the electricity sector. Developing the technologies, implementing the policies and building the European champions that have delivered a power sector that is 73% clean and growing.
Sept 2025 mix here.
October 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Welcome to Act II of the energy transition.
In Act I we spent 20 years transforming the electricity sector. Developing the technologies, implementing the policies and building the European champions that have delivered a power sector that is 73% clean and growing.
Sept 2025 mix here.
In Act I we spent 20 years transforming the electricity sector. Developing the technologies, implementing the policies and building the European champions that have delivered a power sector that is 73% clean and growing.
Sept 2025 mix here.
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Deeply mysterious to me why they keep this guy around. He's an out and proud nazi. His Doge bullshit is responsible for killing thousands of children. He's a PR nightmare every time he opens his mouth.
What exactly is the managerial genius that compensates for all that? I'm really asking.
What exactly is the managerial genius that compensates for all that? I'm really asking.
Musk ended Tesla’s earnings call with a fiery outburst over his proposed $1 trillion pay package, blasting advisers who tried to block it and warning his future at Tesla is on the line. He suggested he may leave if the deal doesn’t pass the Nov. 6 vote.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
October 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Deeply mysterious to me why they keep this guy around. He's an out and proud nazi. His Doge bullshit is responsible for killing thousands of children. He's a PR nightmare every time he opens his mouth.
What exactly is the managerial genius that compensates for all that? I'm really asking.
What exactly is the managerial genius that compensates for all that? I'm really asking.
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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It’s is critically important to understand that the fossil fuel lobby have limitless money, time and resources to sway any government. They really are in power until we massively reduce how much of their products we all buy.
Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows
The analysis found that fossil fuel lobbyists were present at 48% more ministerial meetings during Labour’s first year in power than under the Conservatives in 2023.
The analysis found that fossil fuel lobbyists were present at 48% more ministerial meetings during Labour’s first year in power than under the Conservatives in 2023.
Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows
Lobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’
buff.ly
October 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It’s is critically important to understand that the fossil fuel lobby have limitless money, time and resources to sway any government. They really are in power until we massively reduce how much of their products we all buy.
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Human-induced nature collapse is arguably THE greatest catastrophe of our time, worse even than intrinsically linked climate breakdown.
Ireland is a *total* disgrace in this sphere, yet the overwhelming majority of us want the exact opposite.
Time to make ourselves heard.
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Ireland is a *total* disgrace in this sphere, yet the overwhelming majority of us want the exact opposite.
Time to make ourselves heard.
💪🏽
The biggest global gathering of nature organisations, scientists and governments, which takes place every 4 years, has just concluded. Once again, there was no representative from the Irish government - why have we opted out of participating in these events?
iucn.org/press-releas...
iucn.org/press-releas...
IUCN World Conservation Congress concludes in Abu Dhabi with ambitious vision for nature conservation
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 15 October 2025 (IUCN) – The IUCN World Conservation Congress closed today in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, setting the vision for nature conservation for the next ...
iucn.org
October 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Human-induced nature collapse is arguably THE greatest catastrophe of our time, worse even than intrinsically linked climate breakdown.
Ireland is a *total* disgrace in this sphere, yet the overwhelming majority of us want the exact opposite.
Time to make ourselves heard.
💪🏽
Ireland is a *total* disgrace in this sphere, yet the overwhelming majority of us want the exact opposite.
Time to make ourselves heard.
💪🏽