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Akín

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Lifelong #MUFC. ❤️: 📚, ideas, 🎼, human behaviour, 📈, economics, ✈️, fashion, language, zeitgeist. Ⓜ️@itsaykay@mas.to Usual caveats apply.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
States, unlike the federal government, cannot have deficits. The massive cost shift from the feds to states for both Medicaid and SNAP, will just lead states to either massively cut, or just abandon altogether, these programs.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 02/07/2025
I wouldn't be Chancellor for all the money in the world. Incredibly tough job. Impossible ask. Especially over the last decade. contd
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Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air @creacleanair.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🇨🇳 NEW | Analysis: Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s GDP in 2024 Solar, EVs, and batteries drove a quarter of the country’s GDP growth in 2024 and have overtaken real-estate sales in value bit.ly/4kg1R18 w/ @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @carbonbrief.org
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Read the full article with a lot more detail on the developments in different clean energy sectors as well as the findings and the methodology: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...
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Analysis: Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s GDP in 2024 - Carbon Brief
Clean-energy technologies contributed more than 10% of China’s economic growth in 2024 for the first...
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
It matters for the world and for the global climate effort that clean energy is so central to China's economic growth, because it provides a strong motivation for the country's policymakers to sustain the rapid growth of the sector, which in turn would help peak and decline the country's emissions.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The exponential growth in energy storage will hopefully give China's decision-makers confidence that they can keep the lights on without new coal. Storage is a new policy priority, with a new action plan aiming for "distinct international competitive edge". bsky.app/profile/yanq...
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The key role of clean energy in China's economy shows that the sector can be a major driver of economic growth and investment. China's clean energy sectors are the largest in the world in absolute terms, but in relation to the size of the economy, these rewards are attainable elsewhere as well.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The “new three” of EVs, batteries, and solar continued to dominate the economic contribution of clean energy in China, generating three-quarters of the value added and attracting more than half of all investment in the sectors overall.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Energy storage was the growth story of 2024, with almost 40 GW of battery storage and 4 GW of electrolyzers added to the grid, up 70% and 100% on year, and pumped hydro storage capacity under construction rising to 190 GW.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The clean energy sectors in order of value: EVs and batteries; solar; other clean power; rail transportation; electricity grids and storage; and energy efficiency.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Investment in clean energy reached 6.8tn yuan ($940bn), close to the global total put into fossil fuels in 2024, and of a similar scale to the overall size of Saudi Arabia’s economy.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Clean energy sectors grew three times as fast as the Chinese economy overall, accounting for 26% of all GDP growth in 2024. China would have missed its 5% target for GDP growth without the growth from clean technologies, expanding by 3.6% instead of the 5.0% reported.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
New from us: clean energy technologies contributed more than 10% of China’s GDP in 2024 for the first time ever, with sales and investments worth $1.9tn. Clean energy sectors drove a quarter of the country’s GDP growth and have overtaken real estate sales in value.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
China's wind and solar industries themselves have expected the effect of the new tariff policy to be manageable, with a significant slowdown in the second half of this year but next year's capacity additions climbing above this year's levels. bsky.app/profile/laur...
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Due to the major economic significance of the clean energy industry and its importance in meeting GDP targets, both the central and provincial governments will want to keep the industry humming, so I expect them to act if the new tariff policy results in a sharp slowdown. bsky.app/profile/laur...
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The jump in capacity means that clean power generation growth will remain strong this year and early next year even if capacity additions slow down. This gives the policymakers and the companies some time to calibrate policies and develop business models under the new system.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
For companies in the sector, the lull in installations that follows this rush of course means hard times.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The rush to install will make the numbers for the rest of the year hard to read, as the project pipeline will have been drained to an extent. So it will take some months before we see where the additions of new capacity settle after the change to tariffs.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This massive wave of capacity additions will inevitably be followed by a lull, but it still shows what is possible with the dramatically reduced costs and increased supply capacity of the solar industry in particular.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
These wild installation numbers are made possible by rapid growth of the sector in the past few years and by strong profitability, compounded by a rush to install before a June deadline when the tariffs paid to new renewable power plants change.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Chinese companies installed 93 GW of solar and 27 GW of wind in a single month in May. That's about 230 million solar panels and 5300 wind turbines. That's almost 100 solar panels every second, and a wind turbine every 10 minutes.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
In the first five months of the year, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind. Those turbines and panels will generate as much electricity as: -Indonesia -Turkey -Any U.S. state except for Texas or -California, Arizona and New Mexico put together -and much more than the UK
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
We knew China's rush to install solar and wind was going to be wild but WOW😮. The solar panels & wind turbines China installed in May alone, in a single month, will generarate as much electricity as: -Poland -Sweden -Norway -the UAE -North Carolina&Maryland or -Washington&Wyoming
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
academic folks: Harvard international students may need to begin immediately transferring out in order to avoid having to leave the country If it sounds insane, that's because it is what will your institutions do to help?
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Can't quite get out of my head the conviction that DT knows that had this been the policy in the 1950s, Barack Obama Sr. might never have come to the US....
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NPR @npr.org · 22/05/2025
The musician Scott Mescudi, who records as Kid Cudi, told the court that after Combs discovered his relationship with Cassie Ventura, his house was broken into and his car was set on fire.
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In Sean Combs trial, Kid Cudi testifies about threats and violence
The musician Scott Mescudi, who records as Kid Cudi, told the court that after Combs discovered his relationship with Cassie Ventura, his house was broken into and his car was set on fire.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
It's one thing to fetishize the founders -- an approach the founders themselves discouraged! -- but it's something else to fetishize the founders *and* insist they said things they actually never said. Really bizarre.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 03/01/2025
Two members of Congress — Rep. Jared Huffman, co-founder of the Freethought caucus, and Rep. Sean Casten, a caucus member — are already calling out Speaker Johnson for attributing a prayer to Thomas Jefferson in his speech today that researchers at Monticello have previously labeled as "spurious."
Rep. Jared Huffman
@JaredHuffman
Dear Speaker Johnson,
Please don't make stuff up.  The prayer that you read in the House Chamber today was not written by Thomas Jefferson and your claim that he recited it "every day" is false.  Please use credible sources, not your discredited pal David Barton.   See  https://monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/national-prayer-peace-spurious-quotation/Sean Casten
@SeanCasten
So the story Johnson just told on the floor about Jefferson was entirely made up - our founders were much more tolerant of diverse religious views than he is, so he fabricated a history that fits his own views.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The new Republican House began with an obvious lie advanced in the service of Christian nationalism, so we’re off to a great start
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Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Your regular reminder that it wasn’t until the mid 1990s that Africa caught up with Europe’s population. Relatively speaking, there *used to be* a lot of Europeans.
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
In the middle of the worst economic depression in decades in Nigeria, last night the whole of Surulere was out partying, with owambes on every street corner and music until deep in the night. Lagos is showing the true meaning of 'shuffering and shmiling' this holiday season.
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Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan @rossaokod.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Excellent post (as always!) by @kopalo.bsky.social, looks at 4 key trends in Africa in 2024: 1) African countries past the worst of fiscal squeeze from debt service obligations 2) mixed results in structural reforms (focus on S Africa and Nigeria) ... www.africanistperspective.com/p/2024-year-...
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2024: Year in Review
African countries weathered ongoing fiscal squeeze better than expected, with emerging shoots of economic recovery. Electoral jamboree delivered mixed results, while weak state capacity endures.
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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
78% of matrimonial actions brought in the York court (1300-1499) were to enforce a marriage. Most litigants were not subversive/ independent. Women desperately sought a man's commitment. www.ggd.world/p/why-are-we...
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Andrew Little @anthlittle.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
“Synthetic Smoot Hawley”
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Patrick Boyle 💎 @pboyle.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hilarious line in today's @financialtimes.com
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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Stock up on N95s while you still can (part n+1) 😬😷
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Patrick Boyle 💎 @pboyle.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I wrote an op-ed for the Banking Risk & Regulation section of the @financialtimes.com on regulation and fintechs. Here is a link: www.bankingriskandregulation.com/why-fintechs... While it is behind a paywall - there is a link for a free trial on the page.
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Why fintechs might soon rule the roost - Banking Risk and Regulation
Why fintechs might soon rule the roost, argues Patrick Boyle, but at what cost to consumers and financial stability?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The thing about pardons is that they have a pretty shitty record and if you are reserving your ire for Hunter Biden's pardon maybe its not the shitty pardons you care about.
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 18/11/2024
Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
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Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
God lies, regrets & changes their mind #maklelan2406 youtu.be/hDHEDiZd2xo
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God lies, regrets & changes their mind
YouTube video by Dan McClellan
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Anna C. @anna-cwikla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I just put up my dissertation on Humanities Commons for folks who might be interested in reading it. If you can't access it, let me know, and I'll send you a PDF. works.hcommons.org/records/rxx9...
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Placeholders, Lessons, and Emasculators: The Literary Function of Women in Early Christian Texts
Scholarship on women in ancient Christian texts has primarily aimed to argue either that these texts were patriarchal and hostile to women or to show that on the contrary, women's capabilities and rol...
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
right, so i want to profile ECRs in early christianity/late antiquity you should follow, in no particular order. follow @chancebonar.bsky.social. his work on slavery in the ancient world is really, really sharp and does some much-needed mythbusting. check out this teachable public-facing piece:
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Dismantling the myth that ancient slavery ‘wasn’t that bad’
There was no one type of slavery in ‘biblical’ or ‘ancient’ societies, given how varied they were. But much of what historians know about slavery during those eras is horrific.
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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We're movin' on.
A tweet over on the network formerly known as the Twitter in which the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought announces its gradual withdrawal from activity there.
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Is MAGA for or against sex crimes? I'm struggling to remember
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
While we're on this subject, here's some great new reporting about the increasingly porous boundary between the Republican party and straight up groyper neo-Nazis. theintercept.com/2024/07/18/n...
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I Watched Groypers Descend on Detroit — Where They Were No Longer Pariahs Among Mainstream Republicans
For a time, associating with Nick Fuentes was enough to tank a career in GOP politics. Now, it hardly seems to matter.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
Or take abortion. The "establishment right" might be in favor of a ban at 15 or 20 weeks, maybe even push it back earlier than that with some exceptions. The "far right" will accept nothing short of fetal personhood. They've been saying this for decades. They say abortion is murder and they mean it.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
That's not "slightly to the right" of the establishment, that's completely off the political map into utter chaos.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
The "right" wants lower marginal tax rates for rich people and some tweaks to the federal tax code. The people we've called "far right" (like Ron Paul or other anti-tax radicals) have supported things like the Liberty Amendment which would have ABOLISHED THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX ENTIRELY.
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