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Richard Delevan
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Climate tech in the streets, crime fiction in the sheets. Around since 327 ppm. Writer, podcaster, strategist. GreenSky, EnergySky. MAGA delenda est.
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Live your life in such a way that literally every single day’s readings doesn’t seem like the universe is personally telling you off for being a shit.
Gospel Matthew 25:31-40 ‘As you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.” Then the righteous will answer him, saying, “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?” And the King will answer them, “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did it to me.” ’ VP’s office responds to PA gov who said Vance betrayed Appalachian roots with 'bull---- politics' over SNAP The spat could preview future events, as Vance and Shapiro are both top potential contenders for the 2028 presidential sweeps JD Vance’s immigration comments are an insult to our Catholic faith by Simcha Fisher November 3, 2025
November 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Happy COP-mas Eve!

To celebrate, on 1st day of COP-mas morn, under the tree you may find a sparkly chat with our friend @ben-cooke.bsky.social to set the expectations for the season.

Check out wickedproblems.earth and/or your favourite media platform and Inshallah we will be there.
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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My brother in Christ, I do not think you've completely thought through your ad strategy here.
screenshot of an ad on LinkedIn with competing pictures. On the left, a man in a suit with a bottle of champagne in hand and tie wrapped around his head, surrounded by a raucous party; on the right, a middle aged man with no tie but in business attire, meditating with eyes closed on a yoga mat in a field. Headline - 'Which Boss Are You This Christmas?' Copy: WiseUp Events 7 followers Promoted There are two types of leaders in December: ❌ The ones who throw another forgettable Christmas party. ✅ And the ones who recharge their team for the year ahead. The Festive Recharge Experience is a CPD-accredited wellness and performance event designed to boost morale, connection, and productivity - without the hangover. Because leadership isn’t about parties. It’s about people.
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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NGL I read this bit after a glass of wine and did read it as describing VPOTUS as a 'former man'
J. D. Vance and the National Association of Scholars (NAS), the former a man whose fervid anti-intellectualism needs no introduction,
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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A gift to headline writers. Requiring several orders of magnitude less creativity than "Super Cali Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious".
November 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Centrist Dads for AI.

Could have just cut out the middleman and got Gemini to do the video featuring Rory and Alist- wait a minute. Is that what actually happened here? Because if so...it's pretty fucking convincing.
Centrist Dad Rory Stewart doing an ad for Google promoting a techno-economic pathway that will undermine all of the other things Rory Stewart purports to care about such as climate and inequality.
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Someone let me know when the climate movement produces something on this level - organically, for sheer "GFYS" energy.
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"How Should Democrats Moderate in 2026?"
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Hell to the yah.
November 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Shot. Chaser.
Screenshot of a post detailing that for the first time in a decade the majority of British adults believe the generosity of the welfare system stops people from supporting themselves. Screenshot of a post with a picture of a cheesy kitsch "British Heritage" shop, with the comment: "When the state abandons the project of building a positive and onwardly evolving image of national culture, and denies regular people any and all means to build it, the gap will be filled by chintzy, reactionary nostalgia laden with symbols and signs seeking g to make the old new again, aka fascism.
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Not preparing for catastrophic outcomes simply because they're not certain, or even the most likely, is like driving 90 mph late at night with your lights off after drinking a bottle of gin and thinking it'd be bad luck to wear a seatbelt. Or staying home on election day in 2016 or 2024.
A Facebook post from 9 years ago, right before the US election, with a screenshot of the FiveThirtyEight model showing a roughly 30% chance of Trump winning. Screenshot of Bill Gates' "climate reset" memo. The quoted section reads: "Unfortunately, the doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals, and it’s diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world. It’s not too late to adopt a different view and adjust our strategies for dealing with climate change. Next month’s global climate summit in Brazil, known as COP30, is an excellent place to begin..."
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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TFW your beard breaks the frame
November 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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What the actual ever living fuck?
A DHS social media post quoting Lord of the Rings and suggesting their ethnic cleansing strategy is some sort of mystically required race war.
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Beannachtaí na Samhna
Moon over silhouettes of trees, torchlit dog in foreground
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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In a year of depressing graphics, this one is close to the worst.
Map showing that concern about the climate is falling rapidly in Europe, Australia, China, North America, South Africa, Chile, and Argentina.
October 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Listen to @bloodwork.show
Kill Bill y’all
October 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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For all the evil it has done, is doing, and will do until they are ended, we can thank the Trump team for this photo - a sort of bizarro-world Last Supper take.
Screenshot of an NPR post about Jeff Bezos' corrupting The Washington Post into no longer critically covering him as owner, using a photo from the Trump inauguration of 2025 that features (r to l) Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos...and then Mark Zuckerberg with his wife looking elsewhere, staring at the camera guiltily after in previous frames caught staring at the cleavage of Mrs. Bezos.
October 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Cuddle puddle.
Three dogs cuddling in a soft basket on a kitchen floor in the mid morning with sun rays just out of shot
October 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Oh don't worry. There's more coming. Meet the Arc de Trump.
Donald Trump has unveiled his latest grandiose project to reshape the nation's capital. The president announced he would be overseeing the construction of a grand arch to celebrate America's 250th birthday. Its striking resemblance to the Arc de Triumph in Paris has led to it being nicknamed the 'Arc de Trump.'
October 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Scans.
With that history in mind, it doesn’t seem so outlandish to think that, as has happened more and more in recent years, we might outsource our world-saving imaginative tasks to the obscenely rich. Think the Gates Foundation and malaria, or Jeff Bezos giving new life to the Washington Post. The emergence of the private space flight industry could be seen as a sort of marker between the old and the new, a time when governments took on the biggest projects versus one when maybe those governments don’t quite have it in them anymore. Could geoengineering be next?
October 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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In other news I’m thinking of going for it w the beard til Christmas and pick up some mall Santa shifts. What do you reckon?
October 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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The whole thing is great. But the starkness of this line? “whether some low-lying coastal areas and islands remain habitable or not”..

Woof.
Our study shows clearly that mitigation decisions in the next few decades will have multi-century consequences for coastlines worldwide.” The researchers found that under current policies, emissions from 2020 until 2050 would already commit the world to about 0.3 meters of additional sea-level rise by 2300. What may seem like a modest increase would have major implications for long-term adaptation planning. Extending emissions on this trajectory until 2090 would lock in a global rise of about 0.8 meters, of which roughly 0.6 meters could still be avoided if the world started emissions reductions consistent with the Paris Agreement now. These differences can determine whether some low-lying coastal areas and islands remain habitable or not. Informing decision makers “Our work highlights the long-lasting legacy of today’s emissions and that adaptation planning must consider centuries ahead,” notes Dr Matt Palmer from the Met Office, a co-author of the study. “We also illustrate that some regions like the vulnerable Pacific islands will experience even higher sea-level rise than the global average. These regional and local changes have to be understood and resolved in much greater detail to better inform decision makers.”
October 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Second half
October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The R4 hit was pretty telling. As was the lack of any questions about TBI funding that might be useful context. (pt 1/2)
October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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An Irish bishop would like a word with JD Vance on Catholicism and climate...
October 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM