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stephencollins.bsky.social
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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theonion.com
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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dcrinyyc.bsky.social
show they knew demand would fall if people had real choices, so they worked to prevent those choices from developing. So the claim that they’re “only supplying a need” is backwards. They engineered the dependence, then used that dependence to excuse themselves.

It's still going on today.
November 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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dcrinyyc.bsky.social
and shaped regulations so that fossil fuels remained mandatory, not optional. They also ran huge PR campaigns to normalize fossil consumption and undermine alternatives like transit, EVs, and renewables. Their own internal documents
November 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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dcrinyyc.bsky.social
Fossil-fuel companies didn’t just respond to demand they spent decades creating it. They pushed governments to build highways, pipelines, gas systems, and car-dependent cities, locking society into fossil use. Through lobbying they secured subsidies, blocked clean-energy policies,
November 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
**RESPECT POST**

RESPECT RECIPIENT: ELECTRONIC DIGGERS

RESPECT REASON: not only electric infrastructure, but building a new tram line in Oslo

RESPECT QUANTITY: 8 respects

RESPECTED AT: 2025-11-29 12:24
November 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
"Renewable energy is the cheapest form of new electricity"

Doesn't seem like despots, dictators and crony capitalists really care

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m Critics say JH Campbell coal-fired plant in western Michigan is expensive and emits high levels of toxic pollution Tom Perkinsin Detroit, Michigan Fri 28 Nov 2025 13.00 GMT Trump administration orders to keep an ageing, unneeded Michigan coal-fired power plant online has cost ratepayers from across the US midwest about $113m so far, according to estimates from the plant’s operator and regulators. Still, the US energy department last week ordered the plant to remain open for another 90 days. The Trump administration in May ordered utility giant Consumers Energy to keep the 63-year-old JH Campbell coal plant in western Michigan, about 100 miles north-east of Chicago, online just as it was being retired.
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Update from EIA confirms a decline in natural gas use in California with 2025 data. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
Natural gas use for electricity in California falls as solar generation rises CAISO daily electricity generation by source
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Meanwhile Texas has also seen a reduction in gas.......because it was replaced with coal (and all the new renewables were diverted to meeting new demand instead of eliminating fossil fuels)

www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
texas' generation profile
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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theonion.com
Coast Guard Backtracks On Plan To Reclassify Swastikas As Mascot https://theonion.com/coast-guard-backtracks-on-plan-to-reclassify-swastikas-as-mascot/
Coast Guard Backtracks On Plan To Reclassify Swastikas As Mascot
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
As we’ve been saying for months, X’s new location feature is exposing what we’ve been warning about, many of the loudest MAGA accounts aren’t even in the USA. We’ve been tracking this behavior and helping people learn how to spot bot activity, and this update has made it easier than ever to see.
X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts
The function, which shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was create...
www.nbcnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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wendyxu.bsky.social
hewwo 🤪 banned for 3 days bc i called a tech bro afraid of public transit a pansy ass bitch. anyway they're on trains in my city trying to promote eugenics
an ad called pick your baby dot com that says "iq is 50% genetic"
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Just sometimes absolutely filled to the brim with despair about how much time we have to spend explaining to people, many within the climate movement, that something can be both literally true but also just as shockingly deceptive as fabricating a fact
Big Oil's favorite way to lie: paltering
This sneaky form of climate misinformation is everywhere. Here's how to identify it.
heated.world
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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grahamformaine.bsky.social
There is no ceasefire.
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
I know this is obvious but it's always worth repeating: fossil gas is not a climate solution. The worst, most deadly scenarios always feature the most gas, and the least-bad scenarios always feature the least gas.
Figure 3.36 ⊳ Global natural gas demand by sector and region in the CPS to 2050 IEA. CC BY 4.0. Natural gas demand increases by 20% to 2035 and by 30% to 2050, driven by expanding use in power generation and in industry, particularly in Asia Pacific and Middle East
November 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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theonion.com
Man Trying To Enter Conversation Spends Few Minutes Smiling And Nodding At Edge Of Circle https://theonion.com/man-trying-to-enter-conversation-spends-few-minutes-smi-1819577205/
Man Trying To Enter Conversation Spends Few Minutes Smiling And Nodding At Edge Of Circle
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
A huge win!!! Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms!
Federal court blocks new Texas congressional map for 2026
The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump.
www.texastribune.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
The type of person that checks chatbot outputs before using them in a critical function is also the type of person who's never going to be using a chatbot in the first place.

We have no idea how catastrophic the chatbot-driven info collapse is going to be

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings By Sara Merken October 23, 202510:29 PM GMT+2Updated October 23, 2025
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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xkcd.com
Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/
4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
The Epstein files being unsealed right now are controlled by the courts, not the DOJ meaning an investigation can’t actually stop a judge from releasing records. But it can shift the narrative, muddy the waters, and frame future revelations as “ tainted by politics” or “part of an ongoing probe.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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jocat.net
I like girls, but there's one I like the most. And last month we got married

Full album: www.jocat.net/echo-jo-wedd...
Echo in a red wedding dress, black shawl, and black witch hat, holding a bouquet of red roses Jo in a vest and fluffy white sleeves, yellow cape, and fancy feathered hat with a bouquet of various yellow flowers Jo and Echo share a kiss Echo and Jo's cake toppers
November 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
True story.

Via @xkcd.com
Cartoon showing how each time vehicles have gotten bigger, it’s led other people to think their vehicles need to be bigger too. The final panel shows people discussing that they’ll need to install whirling spike clubs, or else be destroyed by other drivers…
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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dimsie.bsky.social
Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
this is true for both the 'not enough babies' and 'too many babies' sides, btw
dimsie.bsky.social Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 20d
Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM