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In a past life I wrote docs to help corporations (often, oil refineries) comply with regulations put in place after and responding to the Bhopal disaster. This has Bhopal written all over it, but on a much bigger scale.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 5h

Credit where it's due. Though it should not have taken a fucking Obama-level genius to figure out that credibly arguing for a high-level goal of *solving a problem crushing everyone over generations* might earn you some latitude.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 5h

Tom Watson is only5 years older than me. He could have chosen any number of ways to take his reputation for public service and added to it for many years to come. Instead...this. How much better can you eat? How many holidays do you need? How can it not be enough?

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 8h

Agree but maybe remove the R and the E?

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 5h

We've come to the "I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO" part of FAFO.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h

People are really furious at Huckabee over at Xitter. Which feels like it could be a teachable moment.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 6h

ICYMI: This morning on Radio 4's Today programme, Andy Burnham confirmed joining the EU customs union, single market membership and full rejoining are all on the table, and said "we could go all the way" (after the next election)

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 29/09/2026

Man I hope The Farm got a good usage fee out of Labour

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 29/09/2026

Unpopular opinion: recovering your attention span for the length of a couple of speeches is actually worthwhile

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 29/09/2026

Not seen this particular Gogglebox variant and it is really really effective

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 29/09/2026

As a Yank expat, please can I beg anyone interested to say "yay" if Dems have some world-historical midterm victories. But that you ARE OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND if you think that going back to sleep and not preparing for a post-American world is the most urgent task of this moment.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Although good luck finding any edible blackberries this year…

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is Michaelmas, a quarter day in the Irish calendar, and traditionally when rents were paid & contracts signed. It's also the last day to eat blackberries - after today, they belong to the Devil and will make you sick!

Detail of a page showing text in Spanish and a woodcut of blackberries. From Dioscorides' Materia Medica, 1555

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lest we forget, this is politics in action: - the David Cameron-led Conservative govt had de facto halted onshore wind in 2015 (raised planning restrictions, cut subsidies) - in 2024 Labour under Starmer, and really the energy secretary Ed Miliband, removed the hurdles and lifted the ban

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is such a serious issue. It's time for the government to level with the public about the threats from the climate and nature crisis - and what can still be done if we face the challenge together as a nation. #NationalEmergencyBriefing

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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Personally if I were the UK government and major figures within the government of our closest military ally were publicly speculating about a potential "bomb plot" that was not only sub judice but actively under investigation, I'd be getting my Ambassador to tell them to shut their fucking mouths.

theguardian.com

Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford plot

US secretary of state, who offered no evidence for claims, also says many people ‘disturbed’ that five suspects released on bail

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 29/09/2026

People have (rightly) been shorting Bill Gates for a minute. But this interview with Ezra Klein, gotta say, he sounds very different about AI risk than any time he spoke about climate change or malaria or vaccines. He sounds afraid. And angry. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I. (Gift Article)

As A.I. capabilities accelerate, the technologist is shocked by the “complete lack of engagement” with the question of how to manage its risks.

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Crucial point on the importance of reducing vulnerability and building overall resilience rather than focussing merely on early warning systems. There are around 15,000 glaciers in the Himalaya. Monitoring them all for warning signs would be near-impossible eos.org/thelandslide...

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remember when we thought investors might mobilize in ways sufficient to protect the world from climate change

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026

Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026

The Trump administration's illegal kidnapping and detention of Mahmoud Khalil will perhaps be seen as one of the more pivotal moments which accelerated the change in elite, and especially elite youth opinion on Palestine.

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A Quietly Shattering Memoir by a Man Detained by ICE for His Beliefs (Gift Article)

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and former Columbia graduate student, offers an account of his ordeal and explains why his work continues.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 28/09/2026

[Archers spoilers] Man George Grundy really went there

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 28/09/2026

Vaporware steel plant and you can all choke on more smoke? That's the big gambit? I want a refund.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 28/09/2026

Not sure I'm OK with the new ChatGPT model UI

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Someone was saying that one of the fash adjacent theobros had written a book called “Offensive Christianity,” but _this_ is precisely what the offensiveness of Christianity looks like. Yes, that is a victory for the Lamb, yes that criminal nailed to that cross _is_ our God, yes, love beats death.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is actually the ideal Agnus Dei. You may not like this, but this is actually what peak performance looks like

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 28/09/2026

You can always tell when Pope Leo gets that tiny bit choked up.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 28/09/2026

Not sure I'm OK with the new ChatGPT model UI

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 28/09/2026

Catching the Miliband speech on delay. Hard not to wince thinking of how we were one bacon sandwich away from avoiding so so much bullshit after 2015.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 28/09/2026

You can always tell when Pope Leo gets that tiny bit choked up.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 28/09/2026

EVs are now up to 9x cheaper to drive than diesels in UK www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.

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Meta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera

De cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"El Nino Digest" (aka 'SOOT Newsletter") #2 was published yesterday. Chock full of quotes, links, excerpts of articles (both academic and newspaper-y) about the coming "Godzilla El Nino" 1/n allouryesterdays.info/el-nino/sum-...

Quote(s) of the Week
“This event is a huge redistribution of energy in the climate system and is dangerous because it is unfolding on top of a much warmer, human-influenced climate system. So, in many places around the world we will see never-before-experienced heat extremes, with all their consequences on health, food security and water stress. El Niño comes and goes, but as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels it occurs on an increasingly hotter baseline, making it much more difficult for communities to deal with the consequences.”

Prof Friederike Otto, at Imperial College London, quoted in Carrington, D. 2026, Sept 21

“It’s going to be a very, very strong event occurring against a backdrop of very rapid global warming. I think we’re going to, unfortunately, learn a lot this year” Christopher Callahan, a climate scientist at Indiana University. (quoted by Garza and Yoder, 2026)

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 28/09/2026

'So I'm gonna tell Ezra that we need to inflict pain and suffering on people and the climate and make it worse "for a few years" [lol] - like surgery - to bring about the glorious AI eschaton.' 'Erm...we might want to workshop that, boss.' 'No time - gotta run!'

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 28/09/2026

Solid interview by UK Energy Sec @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social at NY Climate Week. Good signals on continuity, focus on cost reduction, adaptation added to a still-robust climate lens. youtu.be/GdgTzMIgS9g?...

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UK Energy Secretary on Net Zero, Electrification

YouTube video by Bloomberg Live

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 28/09/2026

Diesel export ban. Or martial law. Or he’s renaming the days of the week.

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i predict that someone is going to make some money insider trading off of whatever this is

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was released on this day 62 years ago. I have a first edition & come back to it often, including this paragraph in the chapter "Obligation to Endure." It's worth reading. "We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts."

The last paragraph in the Silent Spring chapter Obligation to Endure, reads, in part, " We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts... The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know."

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...

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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula

Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good reminder that we have agency, nothing is inevitable, & we don't have to consent. "...so haben wir festgestellt, dass Zustimmung und Legitimität nach wie vor Aspekte des gesellschaftlichen Lebens sind, für die die Führungsklasse des Silicon Valley noch keine technologische Lösung gefunden hat"

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