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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 4h

impossible, I'm quite certain we put our top genius on this problem

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 8h

"This is a classic supply side shock. Inflation is high because the price of fossil fuels is high and the shipping routes are being blocked. [...] This is not new at all. It's been going on over the past hundred years. The question is: are we ever going to learn?"

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 8h

Go Sugandha! Clear and compelling, as usual

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Oxford Net Zero @oxfordnetzero.bsky.social · 8h

Fantastic to see this @channel4news.bsky.social interview with our Fellow Dr Sugandha Srivastav on the current oil price shock, inflation & why we need to transition away from fossil fuels. Watch here (from about 4 mins in): www.channel4.com/news/why-oil...

channel4.com

Why ‘oil shocks’ will hit bank accounts across the UK

In our latest episode of the breakdown, we examine oil prices, and the chain reaction being caused by conflict thousands of miles away.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

fan of this: "Europe is not stuck in a miserable path; it has made certain choices to be as it is." PK stresses the need not to be complacent (Europe *has* serious problems), but that we can also stop with the lazy "Europe is a hopelessly poor continent." It's just imperfect like everyone else ❤️

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

tldr the whole talk rotates around 2 fallacies: "labour productivity in US is higher"-> high prod. is not distributed across the US but mostly driven by tech hubs in CA/WA, which are not driving up US purchasing power "domestic AI will make the US win"-> no evidence domestic AI is well controlled

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I always had a weak spot for how Krugman explains things, but you gotta love a Nobel laureate that says "we tend to think of GDP as mass or energy, but it is not -- GDP is a metaphor more than a physical quantity"

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

giggle at his "it often comes loudly from the Americans"

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Kick off of Krugman's James Martin Memorial Lecture on "Is Europe Losing the Future" this evening at Oxford. Kudos for, 5 minutes in, going straight to the argument that "the people that say that Europe is falling behind have a political agenda"

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This post has too few likes, so put this in perspective: 1) in 2025, Reform had 268k members, leading all parties on membership. It’s 5th in the ranking of membership gives you a sense of how large the size of private donations is. 2) B. Delo is a crypto exchange guy that has pledged £36M to Reform

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Cosmoiselle @cosmoiselle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Reform continues to demonstrate the significant danger it presents to all of us 👇 🌍

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Delo’s is the largest donation to a British political party on record. The highest donation for Reform (and any other UK party) in 2025 was £9M by C. Harborne, which <wait for it> had been the largest single donation by a living person until then nation.cymru/news/reform-...

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Reform UK handed biggest donation from a living person, figures show

Reform UK recently received the biggest single donation in history to a political party from a living person, official figures show. Data released by the Electoral Commission reveals parties in the UK...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

if Trump does manage to catalyze the destruction of fossil capital (politically speaking) the Marxist histories of this era written 40 years from now are going to be magnificent

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

agreed. many possible paths to misery. anyway, great time to parents two girls

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

32 years ago, on the 14th of October 1994, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" ofter their roles in the Oslo Accords. #otd #history 🗃️

The Nobel Peace Prize laureates for 1994 in Oslo. From left to right: PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

also interesting that older women think that (descriptives only on show, one random draw here, yada yada)

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

young men (18-29) who spend >5 hours a day on social media are more likely to agree that advancing women’s and girls’ rights has gone too far than those who don’t use social media as much. no difference detected among young women. @eurcorrespond.bsky.social

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Agree with this. There is no 'back door': EU tariffs are applied to Chinese cars that are re-exported to the EU. There is no Chery-Nissan deal yet, and in any case similar deals are happening in Spain.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Don't hide behind your followers Matt. Tell us what YOU think about it

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

may the first thing the new US Congress does after the midterms be to block Trump’s Truth account forever

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The "I used AI for this and not for this" pledge goes in that direction, but I am not (yet? ever?) fully satisfied by the practice. I also hate to think that some people simply sprinkle typos to make writing more relatable. Sigh.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At the end of the day, whether you use AI or not when writing papers, you need to find a way to convince me through your writing that if you could rehearse a speech instead, it would have similar notes. It might contain some plastic material but I wanna know there is a brain made of flesh behind it.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Btw that image is from an internal bp marketing report leaked to me in 2020 when they were freaking out about how to respond to the climate movement.

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Good public support for heat pumps. We need more, not less fiscal assistance for them in the UK. bsky.app/profile/fgen...

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

since we're talking housing-based energy policy and the UK govt today is saying that this takes 2nd order priority: you should know that most Brits would want to install heat pumps and want interventions to make them more common. Even renters! Data (N=2k) from this paper: bsky.app/profile/fgen...

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María Ramírez @mariaramirez.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Con la ayuda y los comentarios de @fgenovese.bsky.social. Con los datos de @yougov.co.uk y un estudio muy interesante sobre vivienda y la extrema derecha cuya autora es de la Universidad de Viena.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Since the UK Labour (I repeat, Labour) is about to do a most myopic anti-decarbonization move in the name of higher defence spending, worth remembering that electrification and heatpumps are not a trivial way to fight fossil aggressors abroad while supporting people with affordability

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Two weeks in UK left politics. Last week: identitarian Zionism is Racism motion pushes left voters to Labour This week: myopic heatpump subsidy slash pushes voters to Greens www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And by all means, I am 100% about more redistribution. But exposing the “middle class” to more gas dependence that will just feed into gas import pressure is not quite the way I think struggling lower class will be helped

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“The scheme has helped tens of thousands of households install an electric heat pump but Treasury officials have long considered it a subsidy used mainly by the middle-class” — without any irony whatsoever, who does Labour think the biggest chunk of their base voters in the year of the Lord 2026 is?

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Also, the UK housing market is pretty stuck due to crazy interest rates and energy prices are about to go up, so you are kneeing the housing electrification at an all around strategic and important time.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Eveb if we think that the boiler upgrade subsidy is not properly use at scale yet (and yes UK houses lag behind Eu in term of heatpumps), it remains a relatively cheap device that carried credible commitments to the abroad fossil enemies.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

if we are serious about energy affordability AND international defence, the upgrade boiler subsidy should just get more - not less - priority

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theguardian.com

Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Remarkable: As of now, Latino early vote is outpacing where it was at same time in 2024 in both percentages of vote share and in RAW VOTE TOTALS. That's big. Presidential turnout is usually higher than midterms. I obtained new analysis from Dem firm TargetSmart: newrepublic.com/article/2164...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

"I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as was enacted this morning outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season we are humbly expressing before God our desire to remove the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out.

I am, Sir, your faithful Servant.
Charles Dickens".

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

god I hate this media prison we all live in

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For comparison: as of 2025 Brazil counts the impressive amount of 135 climate court cases, and various mid-income countries (Mexico, Indonesia, Colombia) more than 15 cases each. Italy and Japan [G7 countries]: 7 and 5 cases, respectively.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

and we have not even seen Petrobras under Flavio Bolsonaro yet

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yes - local *public* support for climate litigation is on average strong, and indigenous *people* are very much the mobilizers. But we need to appreciate that local GS-born and bred fossil fuels are a problem here too

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