Reposted by RobertAarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 15hWhy would the world’s largest net importer of fossil fuels in a volatile geopolitical region invest almost a trillion into the energy transition? The story tells itself, doesn’t it. bsky.app/profile/aarn... 0193
Robert @royuen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026perhaps we should buy these cheap, cheap, other nation subsidized solar panels and batteries. I like a bargain. Most people like bargains. I hear they deploy fast and don't cause a big mess just from operating unlike some other energy sources. 110
Robert @royuen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026isn't the company's name Nova Red, based in Vancouver, and the platform name NRED? 000
Reposted by RobertEuan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Context: 300k tonnes of diesel = 93 million gallons. US uses 160 to 170 million gallons per day - so 300k tonnes would last 13-14 hours. Total order of 1.8 million tonnes = ~82 hours of US use = ~3 days 10 hours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTrump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky criticises 'gift to Putin'Ukraine's president said allowing Russia to sell petroleum products would prolong a war that must be ended. 57564241
Reposted by RobertJohn Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Carney's pitch has tried to rhetorically balance the new fossil fuel agenda with a recognition that clean electricity will be key for future economic competitiveness. But the new data shows our power grids are getting dirtier due to gas (and will get worse!) if he sticks with his plans. 13311
Reposted by RobertTony Dutzik @frontiertony.bsky.social · 09/10/2026… is that it’s a divisive distraction that pretends that immolating our environmental laws can somehow render the data center buildout as currently conceived compatible with stabilizing the climate. It can’t. 2197
Reposted by RobertBC Green Party @bcgreens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's time for an actual wealth tax - not an income tax. 10392124
Reposted by RobertArrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I am once again asking @avilewis.ca to call for an Epstein investigation in Canada 🇨🇦. 620267
Reposted by RobertMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/10/2026*sigh* This is the part where you learn that I'm not talking in hypotheticals or about the future tense. BYD Is *already* the leading EV truck manufacturer in the US. They are *already* doing great here. SF Muni buses are *already* silent, and have giant electricity symbols on the side of them. 22310
Reposted by RobertMark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If comfortable respirators are available, people will wear them, and infections will go down. If infections go down, infection control will face difficult questions about why they didn't do it earlier. So infections can't be allowed to go down. So comfortable respirators can't be offered. 22615
Reposted by RobertMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/10/2026This is a key point that people still don't understand about why labor happens in China, and where human manufacturing wins over robotic automation: Stuff doesn't move to China just because the labor is cheaper. Stuff moves to China because the defect rate is lower, and manufacturing logistics. 1765
Reposted by RobertSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/11/2024"The litmus test of whether the US is an entrenched mafia state has always been Kushner." Full article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of... 441749705
Reposted by RobertKristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Everyone needs to be asking why we have endless funds for data centres and pipelines but nothing for healthcare and education 1154
Reposted by RobertCat Randall @catrandall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Remember: the current state of horror is largely the result of backlash against the idea white men should be held accountable. Just the mere suggestion white men might be taken to task. We as a nation dared toy with the barest rumor of justice and equality. And this is what happened. 1104
Robert @royuen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think the beneath applies in this case. I suspect he knows. bsky.app/profile/geor... 111
Reposted by RobertGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵 31914398
Robert @royuen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wonder if those people making those arguments are not interested in the public saving 6B and more concerned about the fossil fuel industry losing 6B. 090
Robert @royuen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In lieu of the royalties, I'd really rather not experience 40C+ temperatures for days on end again. 030
Robert @royuen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i've previously read the hunger and the dusk and dark spaces: dungeon. both really good. I still think about dark spaces: dungeon some times. 010
Robert @royuen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Isn't it pretty much a given that any UCP government will let that happen? And even if they don't, can't they just declare bankruptcy and then run off without ever having to clean anything up? 120
Robert @royuen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think it's because they know their goose is cooked and they're just trying to extract as much money as possible from the public before it's mostly common knowledge that we know it too. 240
Robert @royuen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Meanwhile, solar and batteries get cheaper and cheaper and better and better each year, with none of the inconveniences of dino juice/dino farts 010
Robert @royuen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026it's disgusting how cheap the two have gotten. And they're only going to get cheaper and better. I think we're going to get destroyed before the gas/oil infrastructure is even done, so that there's no money to even be made. 130
Reposted by RobertGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying. 11582124
Reposted by RobertGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Then the government must find a find of selling this policy, which might be very harmful. It will argue that it’s essential for “growth”, “jobs”, “international standing” etc. Opponents will then argue these claims, engaging in the great democratic tradition of “debate”. But debate is irrelevant. 432448
Reposted by RobertGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026That’s because the decision has already been made. The issue being debated is merely the post-hoc justification. Where decisions happen and where debate happens are different places. The idea that debate leads to policy outcomes is a fiction designed to create an impression of democratic consent. 439457
Reposted by RobertAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/20265/ May surprise ppl. We found the US is the largest destination for cleantech manufacturing FDI globally US leverage of a large consumer market & IRA manufacturing incentives attracted surge of Korean, Japanese, Chinese. Made IN America was Made BY Asia. cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com/explorer.html 1398
Reposted by RobertAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/20266/ Customers NOT cheap labour Our econometric analysis of cleantech FDI found the largest power a country has to get foreign firms to set up a manufacturing plant is a large domestic market. US, EU, China, Brazil, India etc policies are using that leverage cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com/docs/cm-fdi-... 1459
Reposted by RobertKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026I wonder if I maybe don't say this enough: the gas-fired data centre boom is *planned* but not *inevitable*. In fact, the plans are fragile, and this petrotech dream only works if everything lands with perfect timing and poise. stand.earth/insights/wes... 418473
Reposted by RobertJustin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Forever we have been told the price of refined fuel products in the US is based on the global price of oil and that US producers have no control over what they charge. But now they are saying that simply isn't how it works and that they will limit production to keep prices high. 1235
Reposted by RobertGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 17925401731
Reposted by RobertRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Blanchet points out Carney cancelled the digital services tax on tech giants to placate Trump and it didn't work -- so will he now reimpose this tax? Carney says we don't need taxes that impact affordability for Canadians (??) Thank god the Bloc is here (lol help) to ask some actual questions!! 1131852
Reposted by RobertCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026This isn't me being a "doomer." This is me saying that the master that pays for all the tools will not let the tools be used to dismantle its house. 1975
Reposted by RobertCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026I also think that people telling you that the courts are a good place to stand up against the combined weight of all capital, and that this will definitively work, are really deluding themselves about the nature of the law. It just is not going to do that. 11086
Reposted by RobertCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026I don't think we're going to beat AI in the courts. I think we're going to beat AI by dint of it collapsing under its own bubbled weight and I would personally like to extract as much from them as possible before that happens. 116117
Reposted by RobertDr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We are here now: Germany is storing backup versions of US climate data to protect the work of our scientists for the next U.N. climate assessment so that it “cannot be meddled with or compromised by the administration of President Trump.” e360.yale.edu/features/ger...e360.yale.eduWhy Germany Is Building an Ark for U.S. Climate DataAs researchers around the world begin work on the next U.N. climate assessment, fears are growing that the Trump administration could meddle with critical U.S. climate data. In response, scientists ar... 315161
Reposted by RobertMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026BC politicians have been dragging their heels on preparing for the next heat wave for 5 years, hoping that everything will just work out and not really caring if it doesn't.thetyee.caBC Isn’t Ready for the Next Heat Wave, Doctors Say | The TyeePoor, senior and disabled people are being left behind. And the province hasn’t divested from fossil fuels yet. 1285
Reposted by RobertParis Marx @parismarx.com · 20/09/2026“privatization doesn’t mean prices will go up,” they told us last week. but of course they will, and they’re starting to have to admit it. the reason why investors are so desperate to get our airports is precisely because they know they’ll be able to make monopoly profits. 6328152
Reposted by RobertSteffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you're in BC: Don't be a fucking idiot. If you call 811, you can talk to a REAL, LIVE NURSE PRACTITIONER for free, 24/7. They also have pharmacists and all kinds of other health professionals who are accessible if they need them. It's a FANTASTIC resource. Probably saved my life. 34428
Robert @royuen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Was this the "but look at the price of eggs" in the US but for Canada? 120
Reposted by RobertDr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Flu cases never need to surge. This is a choice. They could be grumbling at low levels or even moderate levels. Surges cause preventable deaths in ED due to waiting times blowing out and staff shortages. Stop flu surges. 😷 210131
Robert @royuen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It forces them to not be able to mask (not that they would want to), lest it undermine their narrative, which unfortunately works. Days after 9/11, no one is talking about the confirmed coverup, which I suppose is understandable given how the results have been in plain sight for a while. 000
Robert @royuen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026By saying vaccines are the 'best' solution, they can claim that they are doing their best, without having to do the most expensive. There's past precedence for lying to avoid legal liability. abcnews.com/US/nyc-mayor...abcnews.comNYC Mayor Mamdani releases thousands of long-sought city documents on 9/11 air qualityFirst responders who rushed to the World Trade Center on and immediately after the 9/11 attacks were likely exposed to dangerous toxins, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said. 010
