Reposted by David SebrechtsSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 20/05/2025What's keeping UK power prices so high? (Gas) We thought about writing our shortest article ever: "Russia turned off the gas taps; they're still mostly off. The end." But where's the fun in that? Here's our deep dive: 36022
Reposted by David SebrechtsKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/05/2025"We will explore more, find more and extract more" Norway announces its largest ever expansion of fossil fuel extraction. We don't get to claim we're climate heroes while we aggressively and almost anxiously seek to increase supply of the stuff that causes it. 624378
Reposted by David SebrechtsDr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 14/04/2025A rare *double unboxing* this afternoon as I receive author copies of ‘Pre-Christian Baltic Religion and Belief’ AND advance copies of ‘Silence of the Gods’ (out in June) 📚 4622
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The hunter paused, the wolf in chase It's only castles burning jutegyte.bandcamp.com/track/only-c...jutegyte.bandcamp.comOnly Castles Burning, by Jute Gytefrom the album Unus Mundus Patet 020
Reposted by David SebrechtsBond Beter Leefmilieu ⚡🌊🌿💪 @bblv.be · 10/04/2025🧫 Één asbestcrisis is genoeg. Maar de producenten van PFAS lijken daar anders over te denken. Lees de oproep van beleidsexpert bodemkwaliteit Inès Martin: PFAS verzieken de hele wereld. Tijd om de kraan dicht te draaien. www.bondbeterleefmilieu.be/artikel/zond...bondbeterleefmilieu.beZonder actie, wordt PFAS ons nieuwe asbest | Bond Beter LeefmilieuFlickr | Cheryl Skinner 151
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Na twee decennia scheef neustussenschot en weinig zin om onder het mes te gaan, heeft dit flutdingetje van de apotheek me gisteren de beste nachtrust in eeuwen bezorgd. Hoezo sukkel ik hier al zo lang mee. 010
Reposted by David SebrechtsBond Beter Leefmilieu ⚡🌊🌿💪 @bblv.be · 07/04/2025VERENIGINGEN ONDER VUUR 📢 Sluit je aan bij meer dan 500 ondertekenaars: roep je Europes verkozenen op om de ongeziene aanvallen op NGO’s aan te pakken en de stem van de burger te beschermen! 📄 Lees onze verklaring: bondbeterleefmilieu.be/sites/defaul... #StopAttackingNGOs 083
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Bedankt voor de reality check! Ik wist niet wat ik las 🫠 000
Reposted by David SebrechtsKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/03/2025Here's something funny: - By distance travelled, pure-electric cars make up ~22% of total in 2023 in Norway - By *amount of energy consumed*, it's like, maybe 5% ish This is bc electricity is ridiculously more efficient than fossil or bio :) robbieandrew.github.io/EV/ 622471
Reposted by David SebrechtsSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 12/03/2025📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872 🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London 🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn 🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power 📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84% www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/9 431709602
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Klopt ... maar je bent wel een kei. De hoeksteen van Bond Beter Leefmilieu 000
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Net een dagpauwoog gespot van op de fiets. Hoe lang was dat al geleden zeg 040
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 04/03/20255 tips om het maximale uit je Bluesky te halen! Van tip 3 ga je uit je dak 🤯 021
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Die puzzel is echt een makkie trouwens, een goed voorteken 100
Reposted by David SebrechtsBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025You: Oh my god the house is on fire! Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore, 151141881711
Reposted by David SebrechtsBond Beter Leefmilieu ⚡🌊🌿💪 @bblv.be · 21/02/2025🙂 Het is hoog en vangt veel wind. 👴 Een boom? 🤣☠️ Get with the times, boomer. We hebben het over windturbines. Passeren ook de revue in deze wekelijkse InZicht: elektrische auto's, Zwitserse treinen, twijfelachtige PFAS en gemanipuleerde groentjes. 162
Reposted by David Sebrechtsrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17/02/2025the basic idea is that you can compress an entire discourse into a word and then cause that word to convince people independently of the discourse which led to it. this is a variety of magical thinking. 41077
Reposted by David SebrechtsBond Beter Leefmilieu ⚡🌊🌿💪 @bblv.be · 14/02/2025Wat is klein, telt vier letters en zit in je pan? Antwoordde je 'peul'? Mooi zo, jij bent mee met de Week van de Peulvrucht! Antwoordde je 'PFAS'? Helaas ook correct. Maar niet lang meer, als het van ons afhangt. Lees in deze wekelijkse InZicht wat je kan doen om je gezondheid te beschermen. 151
Reposted by David Sebrechtsvanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025dems: we are putting forward the "crimes are illegal" bill to fight back reps: the department of education will be overseen by adolf hitler (unanimous confirmation) 39513
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Ik doe dit heel regelmatig, maar mijn gewassen raken nauwelijks geïrrigeerd. Succes aan Marokko 020
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Ik heb gehoord dat het eigenlijk een eeuwenoud vredesgebaar is 020
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Sinds het nieuwe jaar heb ik op m'n treinpendel al elke dag op de grond moeten zitten of rechtstaan ... op de stakingsdag na, toen ging alles gesmeerd. Raar! 130
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Is dit medium klaar voor zo'n zingers? Als een boom héél goed omvalt in een bos en er is niemand om het te zien gebeuren, is het niet sneu? 100
Reposted by David SebrechtsBond Beter Leefmilieu ⚡🌊🌿💪 @bblv.be · 14/01/2025🧫 Weinig plekken zijn zó vervuild met PFAS als Vlaanderen. Hoe is het zo ver kunnen komen? @corporateeurope.bsky.social brengt deze week de resultaten van een jaar onderzoeksjournalistiek. De clou? De PFAS-lobby werkt dag en nacht om inperkingen tegen de houden. Lees dit draadje voor meer uitleg 👇 1104
Reposted by David SebrechtsBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 14/01/2025New paper by ischiappacasse.bsky.social & co-author. *Incredible* Pinochet quotes from the secret sessions in which Chile's Junta decided the mother of all pension privatizations. He accused Piñera & his finance allies–"a bunch of crooks"–of engineering a bonanza. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 45720
Reposted by David SebrechtsClem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 07/01/2025A 3 act green-non-green finance drama: 1. The EIB christens itself EU Climate Bank 2. The EIB has to follow EU green reporting rules, showing that green is only 1% of its lending 3. Facing a reputationnal disaster, EIB tries to avoid compliance with the EU reporting system it helped to develop 1143
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 24/12/2024open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz... happy holidaysopen.substack.comChartbook 341 On thinking in medias res: An Interview with Ding Xiongfei from the Shanghai Review of Books (summer 2024)Conducted in the summer of 2024 in Shanghai this interview with Ding Xionfei is the most far-reaching public discussion I have had had about the development of my writing and thinking since Perry Ande... 010
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Or that Verso was able to find 3 somewhat appreciative lefty reviews to blurb on the back cover... Nowadays you can only reject him out of hand, or reject the rigid marxist axioms he put to test. 000
David Sebrechts @blavid.bsky.social · 21/12/2024There's not a week when I don't reflect on Bill Warren — nice to see you find him useful. Insightful review too. 110
Reposted by David Sebrechtsjoseph francis @joefrancis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I wrote some reflections on state formation and financial revolutions in A̷r̷g̷e̷n̷t̷i̷n̷a̷Latin America, Europe, and the United States… open.substack.com/pub/thepoorr...open.substack.comFrom Argentina to American capitalism and slaverySome comparative reflections on a book on Latin American state formation 252
Reposted by David SebrechtsJoannes Laveyne @jolaveyne.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Zowel China als Polen voeren een bijzondere strategie: beiden zijn ze kampioen in het vergroenen van hun energie en industrie, en beide doen ze dat door echt alles uit hun fossiele infrastructuur te wringen. Maar zo zullen ze wellicht eerder net zero zijn dan andere EU landen. / 181
Reposted by David SebrechtsSteve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Well, getting a little better. By comparison, China 160GW in the first 9 mos, 20GW in September alone, projected total for the year about 215GW. China's population ~4xUS, so per capita China still installed around 1.9x as much. And since they use only abt 1/2 as much energy per capita... 041
![‘Who will manage the money? That gets me nervous because I also know that several gentlemen are becoming millionaires in this country, and they have sent people [abroad] to study the [pension] system since they want to operate in it’, said General Augusto Pinochet in October 1980 during the opening of the key secret session in which the military Junta discussed – and ultimately passed the proposed reform to privatise Chile’s pension system.1 Later during the same meeting, the powerful dictator was to reiterate his concerns several times: ‘I believe that a new pension system is necessary, but the fact that there will be so much money and [that] here we have a bunch of crooks [who might take advantage of the system] causes me anguish.’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ri3ciinceco5himlcykqomh7/bafkreigdekxmg6ne6hlyypbtx2nr4f63qrdeon5qcdclhhw25f5pbx6l6m)
![As mentioned in the introduction above, Pinochet raised his concerns regarding the management of the funds in the opening of the first session: ‘I also agree on the fact that the social security system has to be modified ... But at the same time, I have said that I do not agree with the idea that the funds go to the private sector.’103 Then, he openly proposed that funds be managed by the state:
"Therefore, Minister [Piñera], everything is OK, but when we discuss the issue of the management of the funds, I hesitate. Let me explain: could it be that one of our agencies, a responsible state agency ... such as the Central Bank, that such an agency could hold the money and assign it to banks and ‘cajas’, I don’t know, I can’t work it out at the moment."
Later, he once again made clear his reservations about the role the private sector was to play in the defined-contribution, for-profit system:
"I maintain the apprehensions I pointed out before. Why? Because here there are two gentlemen who are trying to grab ... I will not name them, but you know perfectly well who they are since Hoy magazine published a report on this ... The machinery is so big, but if you remove the nut at the bottom the whole building collapses. The evidence is clear: they have built an empire. Therefore, I have found out ... they will be those who will ruin the [pension] system."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ri3ciinceco5himlcykqomh7/bafkreifbrgbtotkllqcszdbyevzqkagfiqh6ptzgx3y7c5lk6xx7rjggue)
