Shaun McGrath

🇺🇸🚀 WSJ: CSIS estimates the U.S. has burned through about half its prewar interceptor stocks and now has roughly 800 Patriots, while Russia alone produces more than 100 ballistic missiles a month.

"Economic damage from climate change arrives sooner than expected", headline in @Trouw@mastodon.nl today. While climate scientists were pretty much on the mark on warming (and a bit cautious on its effects), economists may well have been too rosy about the impact.

😡📚🇺🇦 Russia destroyed 1.5 million Ukrainian books in just one incomplete month of July, — Budanov Enemy missiles destroyed printing houses, burned warehouses of publishing houses and hundreds of thousands of textbooks that were supposed to reach Ukrainian schoolchildren. 1/2

Russia’s indiscriminate attacks on Kyiv and other regions cause civilian casualties by design, not by accident. The strike on Latvia’s Honorary Consulate in Slovyansk underscores Moscow’s utter disregard for international law. Latvia has our full support. (1/2)

“Norman Kirk once said people do not ask for much: someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work, and something to hope for. Fifty years later, it remains the most concise statement of what a decent society owes its citizens.”… By Nick Ruane #nzpol thestandard.nz/four-promise...

I discovered L7 only recently but goodness me they're one hell of a good band. And now their bassist has died 😢

Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people more CHOICE to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.

Haha Kortrijk …

Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up.

This looks very serious, road is still closed, and will be for quite some time.

Today’s GFS 18Z for 11 July showing max temperatures in England reaching 41°C Not to be taken as a deterministic forecast. However, this suggests that yet more extreme heat is possible in the next few weeks, which is made more likely and intense by climate change driven by burning fossil fuels.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

For several years now,discussions about Russian gas have revolved around one question:will Gazprom go bankrupt? For those who don't read long texts, here's a brief summary: Gazprom's bankruptcy would mean the Kremlin's bankruptcy⤵️

NEW SUBSTACK: Europe's best defence against the next energy crisis is the one nobody talks about. The EU pays 29% less for energy today than it would have without the efficiency gains made since 2000. Energy you don't consume can't be withheld or weaponised. open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...

Ha sempre fatto caldo un caz.o! Situazione. Dopo una settimana di caldo anomalo su gran parte d’Europa, quella appena iniziata di annuncia ancora peggiore. Attese temperature eccezionali per il periodo, con diversi record storici destinati ad essere cancellati dalle statistiche. 1/7

It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press

I sometimes wonder what Ukrainians really think of Western Europe. They die and suffer terrible injuries - not to mention all the emotional trauma - while the rest of Europe double-deals with Russia. What a shameful chapter in Western European history... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-madnes...

Russia modernizing military bases along entire NATO border - from Norway to Kaliningrad An NRK article, published as part of a joint investigative report with Swedish SVT, Danish DR, and Estonian Delfi, reveals that Russia is rapidly expanding and modernizing its military infrastructure⤵️

Antipinsky oil refinery in Tyumen - one of the largest private oil refineries in fascist Russia - on fire. The refinery can process over 9 million tons of oil per year, producing gasoline, diesel fuel and other oil products for the Russian market. Unclear if attack or accident.

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

Met Police will ask the CPS to consider charging up to 57 people & 20 companies over the Grenfell Tower fire Alleged offences include corporate & gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office & fraud 72 people were killed in the disaster

New page: El Alamein, the forgotten wayside halt that named a battle. www.seat61.com/places-of-in...

🇪🇺 "63% of Britons want a closer relationship with the EU, while 55% want to rejoin – something the EU has always said it would welcome. Support for the UK’s return is at or above 50% in Germany, France, Spain, and Italy." Brits want to be back at the heart of Europe, and the EU want us back too.

In 55 countries, wind and solar generated more electricity than coal in 2025. 34 of them have near-zero coal left. Spain crossed over in 2009. The UK in 2016. The USA last year. Different grids, different politics, same pattern. Want more of this? Sign up here janrosenow.substack.com

BC Towns Call for an Investigation into LNG Health Effects. Important piece by @zoeyunker.bsky.social via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

#R4Today was fun - they had a bond trader on and repeatedly asked them what the impact of Labour leadership worries was on the bond market. He kept replying 'not much - it's mainly the oil markets'.

I spoke to a colleague in the financial sector who put it quite simply: I don't care what Iran says, or what Trump says. I just count the number of ships passing through the Strait. That's the only tangible data point that matters.

Good morning to all the good people in the North East who are going to have years of suffering because they share their towns with racist cunts who voted for a party led by a man who ten years ago campaigned to make them poorer. A funny gif doesn't suffice.

Has an NZ government ever before so flippantly risked disaster as one that thinks breakdown prone passenger ferries, that cross one of the most unsettled straits in the world, do not require the safety measure of sea going tugs that can rescue them? www.rnz.co.nz/news/regiona...

Welp, just deleted Google Chrome from all my devices. Which took some doing on the Macs because of the hidden 5Gb LLM model it had sneakily installed without permission, which is *why* I'm yeeting this malware browser for good.

Omg the grey whale was apparently hit by a jet ski this evening www.facebook.com/share/v/1DZk...

Congratulations to The Tudor Consort of Wellington on their 40th anniversary concert this evening. Sadly I’m 18 000 km away and unable to join you!

AMOC collapse on front page. If it happens, effects for the Netherlands can be bad: cold winters, heavy storms, drought, extra sea level rise. Some scientific research now estimates a probability of 50%. Still, it's hard to get a few millions of funding for ocean measurements, scientists complain.

Their stories became a key argument against Russia’s narrative of "evacuation" and "liberation." Ivan Matkovskyi from Mariupol described witnessing one of the most cynical crimes committed by Russian forces - the destruction of the Mariupol Drama Theatre, where civilians had been sheltering:

Anyone interested in a better future should read! Also, as someone doing food pop-ups outside, it is insane that there is inadequate shade in SUNNY SOCAL! Wide streets and parking lots, infrequent trees, shopping in the most bleak built environment.

I covered this last month in my Working Paper on renewables and grid stability. The press totally whiffed on their reporting on the Iberian blackout last year — here I call out the @financialtimes.com and @bloomberg.com. 🔌💡 www.planetarytech.earth/s/The-Sun-Ha... bsky.app/profile/keta...

Today in Brexit Britain you are being asked to believe that a Thailand-based cryptocurrency tycoon secretly gave Nigel Farage - the person, not his party - five million pounds without any hope or expectation of getting anything in return.

"Electrifying industrial heat in India is now cheaper than producing heat from natural gas and oil across all temperatures, and cheaper than coal in three of five temperature bands, representing 55 percent of the country’s industrial heat needs."

shorturl.at/IxFxe Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences claim to have developed an all-iron flow battery electrolyte that sustains more than 6,000 charge/discharge cycles without capacity degradation. The material costs roughly 80 times less than lithium-based alternatives.

everlee wihongi, the new zealander kidnapped by ICE, has just had her first appearance in front of a judge (please RT and share): www.webworm.co/betty2/

“Since New York City introduced congestion pricing, the state has heralded significant reductions in traffic and rush hour delays, fewer crashes and noise complaints, & toll revenue projected to hit $500 million by the end of 2026. Now, Cornell researchers have tallied the environmental benefits.”

9 GW für ein neues Rechenzentrum 🤯 Das sind 12–15 % der gesamten deutschen Spitzenlast oder 6–9 Großkraftwerke – Strom für mehrere Millionenstädte. ...mit neuen fossilen Kraftwerken 😡🤬

Rejoining the EU Internal Electricity Market would restore efficient cross-border trading, reduce energy costs, and support investment. The EU recently authorised the Commission to open negotiations with the UK regarding our participation: this is a practical step to cheaper, cleaner energy.

🚨🚨New @bestforbritain.org report argues I think convincingly that a push for UK membership of the EU would galvanise support among progressive voters, recognising that other halfway options such as customs union or EEA are would offer to limited benefits. 🧵 www.bestforbritain.org/push_for_eu_...

On Saturday, I'll be one of 60 musicians doing something completely mad: singing the complete choral music of Thomas Tallis (by sight) in 1 day. 10 hours of fabulous music, including The Lamentations, "If Ye Love Me" & the titanic, 40-part "Spem in Alium". All livestreamed here: bit.ly/TallisMags

Excellent last rehearsal ahead of concert next Wednesday (22nd) 7.30pm. Music and poetry for the passage from Winter to Spring; and Ephiphany to Easter