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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The biggest warning will be if Chinese airlines stop flights from Irkutsk to Beijing, Reuters reports.
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Michael Shurkin @michaelshurkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The war has started in Ethiopia. This could easily become the worst human catastrophe of the century. I wrote this in February. The situation has become more complex, and more dangerous. shurkin.substack.com/p/the-loomin...
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The Looming Disaster in the Horn of Africa: A Primer
A major war is imminent in East Africa.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Another fossil-fuel industry, anti-renewables talking point bites the dust as wind turbine blades - in fact the whole wind farm - sends v little to landfill For years anti-wind farm campaigners have said landfill of turbines blades means wind power is unsustainable www.thetimes.com/business/ene...
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ScottishPower fully recycles Hagshaw Hill wind farm in UK first
A pioneering scheme to reuse turbines from one of Britain’s first wind power projects has sent less than 0.1 per cent to landfill
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
EU feels diesel pain “We run road transport on internal combustion engines, we’re reliant on a commodity we have no control over" say @transportenvironment.org “As long as we are dependent on imported fossil fuels, our energy prices [will] be volatile ” @ec.europa.eu www.ft.com/content/76b5...
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Diesel surge costs European drivers €203mn per day
Motorists are spending 40% more each time they refill their tank, compared with the start of the year
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🇨🇦🇪🇺 Canadians, where there is will, there is a way.
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Rhodium Group @rhg.com · 14/09/2026
Global investment in clean technology manufacturing and industrial facilities fell 14% in Q1 and another 7% in Q2 2026, continuing a downward trend underway since late 2023. Solar manufacturing accounted for a large share of the decline.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Now THIS is incredible. 26 decommissioned wind turbines from Scotland's first commercial wind farm were - wait for it - 99.9% recycled? Less than 0.1% of their materials into landfill: www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/uk-fi... Blimey.
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‘UK first’ sees decommissioning of ScottishPower wind farm demonstrate turbine circularity | New Civil Engineer
Hagshaw Hill Wind Farm in South Lanarkshire opened in the mid-‘90s and was decommissioned in 2023 before being repowered and brought back onstream in late
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Building with timber, hemp, straw etc. is a DOUBLE climate WIN. It is not just about storing carbon in the walls. It is about actively DISPLACING highly polluting, fossil-intensive materials like concrete, steel, and petroleum-based insulation. The substitution effect is HUGE.
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 08/09/2026
🚨 New video out now! We've got a double-premiere. @anderspucknielsen.dk joins the podcast for the first time, and we have a dedicated segment for listener questions at the end. Join us as we discuss Ukraine, Hybrid Warfare and the potential for war between Russia & NATO: youtu.be/-bgbuH50PFk
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Will Putin Attack NATO Next? Anders Puck Nielsen on Ukraine, Hybrid Warfare and Russia's Options
YouTube video by Dr Marcel Dirsus
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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 05/09/2026
Cool new maritime air defense asset.
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In yet more 'why isn't the rest of the world trying to decarbonise' news: www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...
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Global Briefing: China's CO2 emissions fall despite coal generation rebound
Falling oil consumption cuts China's Q2 carbon emissions, US and UK to chart 'Pink Corridor' for nuclear-powered shipping, and Spain pushes for oil and gas tax to fund climate adaptation
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I hope Ukraine and the EU can make the whole line from the border to Kyiv dual gauge. You obv can’t convert everything but enabling direct services abroad would be great
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One track gauge, one step closer to Europe 🚆
YouTube video by European Committee of the Regions (CoR)
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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 27/08/2026
First views of Ariane 6 liftoff, flight VA270 🫰 @esa.int @esaearth.esa.int @eumetsat.int @cnes.fr credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
Ariane 6 liftoff for flight VA270.Ariane 6 liftoff for flight VA270.Ariane 6 liftoff for flight VA270.Ariane 6 liftoff for flight VA270.
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New article- visual guide to the naval drones (USVs) on display at Kyiv’s Independence Day parade. The second one hasn’t been shown in public before. There were a couple of others, a RHIB based one and a Magura V5 with mast, but they were hiding from the camera www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
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World’s First Military Drone Parade: What We Saw On The Water - Naval News
Military parades are normally measured by the number of troops marching, or the quantity of big, expensive bits of kit on display. Ukraine’s Independence Day parade on August 24th changed the rules. I...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2026
Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I think I maybe undersold how gross the “prank” played on this employee was. Imagine you come into work, try to help customers, and later realize they've racked up 500,000+ views on social media by harassing you and your coworkers.
In August, Toru Hinkle was stocking shelves at their job at Target when they noticed two customers and asked if they needed any help. The men requested a price check on an item — but even after Hinkle told them the item was $20, the customers asked for the price again and again.

“After a while, I realized that I’m basically being pranked, and I noticed the glasses,” Hinkle says, referring to the frames with a blinking light. They were the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and the customers were filming. Hinkle eventually called a store manager over, but the pranksters antagonized her, too — asking the price repeatedly, deliberately misgendering Hinkle as “ma’am” and the female manager as “sir.” At one point, Hinkle attempted to stop the recording by saying “Meta, stop recording” out loud, hoping to trigger a voice control setting. The customers pretended to be confused by the accusation that they were recording Hinkle.

The confrontation made Hinkle queasy. “I felt like this pit in my stomach just started to build up,” Hinkle recalls. “After this whole exchange happened, the rest of the shift, I was just quiet and didn’t even talk to anyone because I was just so shaken up by it.” Another customer called the police, Hinkle says, and the two men were escorted out of the store. Target declined to comment.
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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Long thread, well worth the read. Being unable to compete is bad, not realizing it is probably worse.
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“There’s a squeeze on Europe from various fronts to extract more wealth out of it,” said Davide Oneglia, a London-based macroeconomist at research firm TS Lombard. “Europe is seen as still rich enough to pay for stuff, while not strong enough to defend itself industrially, technologically or
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Rather unhelpfully, categorisation of "endangered", "threatened" etc, depends on relative population change. For "endangered" it's ~"population size reduction of ≥70% over the last 10 years or 3 generations". So if 2015 & 2025 counts show the same tiny number, it magically becomes "least concern".
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is a really significant development, especially given that it’s the UK that wants to get rid of US components - one of the hitherto closest US allies, with a deeply US-intertwined defence industry. ”We don’t want to depend on how some negotiations are going”, a UK govt official said
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UK unveils prototype missiles for Ukraine with no US components
Low-cost, long-range weapons could be deployed as soon as this year in war against Russia
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Tapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
20,7 g (that's 20.7 g in English)
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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It's not food for people
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17/08/2026
friend sends
the "oh they got this all screwed up" meme from thesimpsons, but it goes from "PIVOT TO ASIA // NO MIDDLE EAST WARS" to "PIVOT TO ASIA? NO, MIDDLE EAST WARS!"
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International Energy Agency @iea.org · 17/08/2026
Manufacturing facilities for key energy technologies can be found around the globe, but overall capacity is highly regionally concentrated. This is underscoring the importance of strengthening industrial competitiveness and diversification → iea.li/4sBzPRs
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
amazing article
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 14/08/2026
A job ad. A ticket to Russia. A contract. Then the Russian frontline. An EEAS investigation has uncovered the digital pipeline behind Russia’s recruitment of foreign nationals for its war against Ukraine.
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 14/08/2026
👇 Back in the day I even drafted a research paper about a type of myopia often suffered by enthusiasts for specific technologies: aiming where the competition was. I would've explained it by availability bias: when you are into tech X, you won't follow that closely what happens in tech Y.
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Spengler Ballet @puderfrei.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Quick, I need to know if it’s named after [x] Tolkien [ ] something else Uh oh no
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Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace @armee-air-espace.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🌘☀️ Il fallait au moins un phénomène astronomique de cette rareté pour éclipser le #Rafale et l'#A400M !
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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 13/08/2026
See, eyeo is a business. Ad Blocking, which feels very anti-commercial, is actually a business. eyeo is but one participant in the Ad Blocking Business... which is actually ALSO the ad tech business. Why? Well Eyeo also owns BlockThrough. blockthrough.com/blog/blockth...
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Blockthrough and AAX join forces as a single business unit – Blockthrough
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“The fiasco has cost American taxpayers $533 million, according to the Army. But the Army has not held General Dynamics … publicly accountable for the failures. Nor has it made General Dynamics pay a penny back.” — www.propublica.org/article/gene...
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
South Korea hitting 42.5°C while potatoes literally boil underground in Gangwon isn't just an outlier—it’s proof our agricultural infrastructure is completely unprepared for catastrophic soil baking. We must treat food security as vital national defence. How long can supply chains survive? 🥔
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Potatoes ‘boil’ in the ground as record heatwave sweeps across swathes of Asia
South Korean farmers are suffering in record heat, as Hong Kong reports its highest ever temperature and Japan swelters through newly designated ‘cruelly hot’ days
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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 12/08/2026
But then US backtracked on Patriot license and deliveries, and today there was a massive Ukrainian strike on Novorossiysk. Influence on targeting requires something in return.
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Leonhard Gandhi @energy-charts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Die heutige Sonnenfinsternis beginnt in Deutschland um 19:15 Uhr und endet mit dem Sonnenuntergang gegen 21 Uhr. Dadurch vermindert sich die Netzeinspeisung von Solarstrom am Abend um maximal 2 GW bzw. 3,5 % der maximalen Tagesleistung von 57 GW. www.energy-charts.info/charts/power...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 12/08/2026
Water levels on the Rhine river are dwindling further, with no relief in sight, forcing companies that rely on the waterway to adjust rapidly to keep goods flowing
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Rhine River at Record Low Levels Is Forcing Industry to React
Water levels on the Rhine river are dwindling further, with no relief in sight, forcing companies that rely on the waterway to adjust rapidly to keep goods flowing.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Huge oil spill near off Iran's Qeshm island today. Video in next post 1/2 📸 via @tankertrackers.com
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edolis 🇪🇺🇮🇹 @edolis.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
agri choices which used to take decades are being done in just a handful of years here. Alpine Countries have a bit longer to think that water is a given constant. Dams and hydro require huge investment whose returns are based on assumptions which are no longer there. That's why I used 'obsolete.'
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edolis 🇪🇺🇮🇹 @edolis.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
Very complete piece about droughts and climate change www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8L5...
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Over 70% of England in drought as UK braces for fifth heatwave
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This stacked graph really showcases how high wind generation (dark green) offsets the tiny solar output (light green) in winter. Starting with 2023, solar starts to outpace and overcompensate wind so the total generation is now higher in summer.
EMBER data from 2016 to 2026 showing a stacked view of Solar+Wind output.
https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?chart=trend&fuel=wind_and_solar&tab=main&multi=false&entity=EU&metric=absolute&mode=stacked
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 11/08/2026
I've followed #energy transition since 2009. I used to be so critical of #renewables that I co-authored 2 books arguing #nuclear shouldn't be ditched yet. But I underestimated virtuous circles benefiting RE, #solar especially. Near enough 100% RE systems will work. e360.yale.edu/features/ind...
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A First Among Major Nations, India Is Industrializing With Solar
While China's push to modernize sparked a surge in burning coal, India is turning to increasingly cheap solar to meet its booming energy needs. Though it faces big hurdles, including a rickety grid, I...
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Here is a basic smell test. If the Netherlands and Denmark - Germany’s neighbours - can keep pace with US growth, are EU regulations really to blame for Germany’s stagnation? The red tape Berlin needs to cut, and the deregulation it needs to pursue, are primarily at home—not in Brussels. 1/
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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Shedding some light on why (and where) people in Europe have no air conditioning and how the discussion has evolved. youtu.be/MN-ms2rcsbc?...
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The Bizarre Debate Over Europe’s Air Conditioning
YouTube video by Prof Gio | Giordano Scarciotti
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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Wind + Solar are reliable once you build enough and don't neglect grid and storage. A single wind turbine or solar installation depending on the weather might feel like a coinflip, but once you flip enough coins all over Europe the heads to tails split becomes predictable. youtu.be/BIAwR4z7qdc?...
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The Genius Trap of "What if the Wind Doesn't Blow?"
YouTube video by Prof Gio | Giordano Scarciotti
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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Looking forward to this one. Italy is often overlooked besides UK, France and Germany but it gets a lot of mileage out of it's defense spending. The navy especially shouldn't be underestimated.
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 10/08/2026
Huge news from Germany: The drone in Leipzig didn't just hover close to the plane, it actually hit one of the plane's wings, which is where the fuel tanks are located. It's unclear why the drone didn't explode.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 10/08/2026
ZEIT has collected all the info from the attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport and it was as dangerous and deliberate as we feared: (Translation in alt. Full article: www.zeit.de/politik/deut...)
The videos show the Antonov cargo aircraft parked at the airport. And they appear to show that, as early as Tuesday evening at around 7.30 pm, an object flew directly towards this aircraft. It eventually struck one of the wings. The wings are particularly vulnerable parts of the aircraft because they usually contain fuel tanks. Anyone wishing to cause an aircraft to explode would detonate a bomb there. However, that is not what happened in Leipzig. The footage suggests that the object bounced off the wing and fell to the ground. Marks on one of the Antonov’s wings confirm this presumed sequence of events. It is as yet unclear why the explosive device did not detonate.It is now clearer exactly how the drone approached the aeroplane: not cautiously, but with the obvious intention of damaging it.
It is also clearer what purpose it served. Until now, one of the hypotheses under investigation was that it might simply have been intended as a kind of warning. Armed, yes, but not intended to actually explode. This hypothesis can now hardly be sustained. Leipzig Airport narrowly escaped a devastating attack.
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
China's July trade data out - more unpleasant reading for Europe China's EU exports +16%, imports from EU -1.4% China's German exports +17.4%, imports -2.7% China's Dutch exports +10%, imports -5.6% Exports to France +12.1%, imports +15.8% Exports to Italy +6.3%, imports +16.6%
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Andreas @andeu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Hybrid war is war. Important reminder that Russia wages war on on all of Europe, it just limits the conventional / cinetic portion to Ukraine.
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