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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 22h

Maybe 3 or 4, hiding behind the couch as Dad watched a Star Trek TOS re-run on Channel 11. "Silicon-based life" that could go through cave walls like butter freaked me tf out. Funny that fictional silicon-based life (or is it? 👀) has become the stuff of 2026 nightmares.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 22h

Depends. Not 100% over the recharge rate on that particular geology. But the soil moisture from last year going into probable drought gives them a bit of a cushion Inshallah.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 05/10/2026

Yes and...spent my weekend making fundraising pitches for charity putting solar-powered water systems in Zimbabwean villages previously without water access. The most vulnerable people, who didn't cause the problem, are the ones who will suffer drought, floods, crop failures, famine.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 03/10/2026

[content warning] We have to talk about Grackle

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 03/10/2026

If only there was a reporter who overcame those divides. One who may see this as their beat.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 02/10/2026

Lauding the RNLI. Cool. Must have missed where he came out supporting them against the fash before this conference speech.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 02/10/2026

I'm sorry but this is just fucking weird. How would a "technical issue" only allow you to share audio at the *next* speaker? This doesn't scan.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 01/10/2026

I mean, OK. But my kid made me this tool years ago and thought we might start with it

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 01/10/2026

I imagine this might come up. "Holy Father - than...?" [Leo holds up phone] "This you?"

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

I don't think they'd feel better after hearing Huang getting glazed by Ezra Klein before reassuring that he plans to do a lot more harm before anyone benefits. If I were Nvidia's PR I'd have died on the spot after hearing this.

If you want to turn a corner on climate change, if you want a future that’s sustainable, lean into A.I. It is the best opportunity we have to get there.

But we need to build the energy faster to do that.

That’s right. That’s right. I mean, that’s just life, you know?

There’s a market for it all. But you can subsidize it, and you can make it easier to build.

Yeah. It’s kind of like, in order to save you, they’ve got to hurt you first — that’s the nature of surgery. They’ve got to cut you open to save you. They’ve got to inflict an enormous amount of pain and suffering on you so that they can save you. And so I think A.I.’s kind of like that.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 26/09/2026

Django has become quite maternal. I reckon he's holding a support group to help the recently castrated.

A black French Bulldog flanked by two black kittens in a pet bed.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 26/09/2026

In short, you'd be out of your cotton-picking mind if you can stretch to it (start at £40) and you don't go while there are still tickets. And there aren't many.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 26/09/2026

Nobody tell POTUS. He get big mad. Splash ketchup.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 25/09/2026

Shout out to the RAF for the super-low-flying pass of a 2-rotor Chinook over the house at 3am. The dogs really appreciated it. You probably heard them over the rotors. As did @solstice-potter.bsky.social and I, having only got to bed at 1am. Tell me it was worth it.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 25/09/2026

Partly as a result of reading this and finding out Seamus Heaney’s reported last words I thought I’d make mine easy to find in the event.

Tattoo in Uncial characters on a left forearm. “Nolite Timere”

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 24/09/2026

Tell me again why the Irish football manager and Eurovision-boycotting-culture Irish culture mavens are being hysterical? Tyrants, not generally famous for self-discipline, always tell you what they fear most. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

The Israeli prime minister said he would seek new laws allowing the country to strip citizenship from people who “smear” Israeli soldiers and “defame” the state of Israel. Alongside the announcement, dozens of rightwing activists gathered outside Szor’s parents’ home.

Police and border police officers were deployed at the scene. One protester called for the “death penalty for traitors” and demanded that the homes of the film-makers’ families be demolished.

Speaking on Thursday, Abraham and Szor said: “We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israelis to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible.

“The threats from the Israeli government to revoke our citizenship and the death threats do not change that and will not stop the film. We thank our colleagues for the solidarity and look forward to sharing NAZA all over the world very soon.”

Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham pose with the special jury prize at the Venice film festival
‘This should be condemned by any thinking human’: film industry rallies behind NAZA directors
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Last week, 43 local human rights organisations issued a joint statement urging Israeli authorities to stop what they described as incitement and threats against the film-makers, and not to prosecute either them or their sources.

More than 1,500 Israeli film-makers have also signed a petition defending “freedom of expression and creation” and expressing solidarity with Szor and Abraham.

Their sentiments have been echoed by a number of leading film-makers around the world, including Ken Loach, Joshua Oppenheimer, Paul Laverty, Laura Poitras, Nan Goldin, Richard Eyre and Hanif Kureishi. Oppenheimer, the US director of Oscar-nominated documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, said, “The Israeli government is waging a full-scale intimidation campaign against film directors. I am appalled and enraged.”

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 23/09/2026

Dude is far from a saint. Much was made of an unexpected brown man in the Knicks bagging area not too long ago. Personally I think he was done dirty but he'd racked up enough questions to make the story stick for a bit.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 23/09/2026

Thing I've always loved about business journalism. In most of it there's far less bullshit if it doesn't involve CEO knob polishing.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 23/09/2026

Man, FT scoop on the mass gamekeeper-turned-poacher defection of SFO prosecutors to become lawyers for Alejandro Betancourt, the Venezuelan billionaire who recently signed a major oil deal with Donald Trump, when Swiss authorities were seeking his extradition on suspicion of money-laundering is 🔥

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/b09297dc-f5c0-4cf4-99a3-fb16b9f10d48

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 23/09/2026

Really good Bloomberg package on the AI data centre impact on urban heat island effects in the US, with exhaust heat raising temps up to 4ºF (2.25ºC) higher up to 1/3 mile away from the data centre. One more driver to 70% US opposition to data centres. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 22/09/2026

The most BlueSky bot in the history of BlueSky bots has emerged

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 22/09/2026

We are severely under-reacting to what is going to unfold over the next 100 days.

Donald Trump instigated a war against America’s democracy on January 6, 2021. He and his Republican allies would have crippled America’s democracy that day had his own vice president not refused to be party to the gravest constitutional offense a president can commit—the refusal to relinquish and peacefully transfer the power of the presidency to his duly elected successor.

Today, almost six years later, Donald Trump and his Republican congressional allies are even more determined to prosecute the president’s war against American democracy to its catastrophic end than they were on January 6, 2021.

That catastrophic end could well come on January 3, 2027, when Trump and his Republican congressional allies wage the final battle in Trump’s determined war to corrupt America’s democracy and deliver a lasting political victory over the Democrats for his MAGA Republican Party.

Trump and his Republican allies have been preparing for this final battle since January 6, 2021. For the past six years, they have embarrassed themselves and the U.S. with their preposterous, win-at-any-cost denial that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election and their deceitful slander of America’s democracy. Since his return to the White House, Trump’s every unconstitutional act in his effort to seize control over the midterm elections—each hailed by his prostrate Republican Congress—has been toward the end of ensuring that Republicans retain a majority in the 120th Congress.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 22/09/2026

Well, at least the AfD local yokels in Saxony seem too racist to actually pull off a coalition

But shortly after its election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD also turned its fire on the BSW. Appearing on the far-right online channel Compact TV, AfD parliamentary group leader Oliver Kirchner referred to BSW politician Fabio De Masi as a "half-Italian." He went on to suggest that the BSW could not be relied upon if problems were ever to arise within a governing partnership.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-dar-right-afd-surges-but-shuns-compromises-needed-to-govern/a-79326208

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 21/09/2026

Explain the political legitimacy crisis of the past 20 years in one chart? HYG. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 21/09/2026

Why yes, of course, chairman of Spain's second largest bank writing to me on my personal email in comic sans...of course you can send me a proposal. I'm sure you need my help.

Carlos Torres Vila <sr.carlostvila.es@gmail.com>
12:29 (1 hour ago)
to me

Hello,

I obtained your address through LinkedIn. Is it appropriate to send a proposal to this email address?

Sincerely,
Carlos Torres Vila.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 20/09/2026

Quote post this with a picture of the aircraft you’ll accept as a bribe.

Snoopy getting ready to battle the Red Baron

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 19/09/2026

Can't quote-post but just want to say, this is the way. Like, just fucking STOP, man. It doesn't need to be this difficult.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 19/09/2026

Late to this but must be said, Granite Harbour might not have the best writing but does have the best-dressed detectives in telly history.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001ysk1/granite-harbour-series-2-episode-1

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 18/09/2026

Guess Tom Watson and Wes Streeting were using the same consultants as these jamokes *still* telling Democrats not to go hard vs AI data centres. It doesn't take a genius to ask for a sec who consultant clients might be off-cycle. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

Democratic consultants are privately encouraging their battleground candidates to avoid talking about artificial intelligence regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups will unleash a tidal wave of spending against them ahead of November.
That guidance came from strategists in three separate top-tier House races, according to people involved in those races, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal conversations. And it follows a surge in AI panic on Capitol Hill as industry leaders warn about existential threats posed by their rapidly developing technology.

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