Patrick Galey

We survived the summer. We need to prepare for El Niño. In the breath in between, I wrote about how we can honour what we have lost and steel ourselves for what is to come. I hope it helps. patrickgaley.substack.com/p/before-the...

In other words: we have a year to resist and then these Epstein class bros will take their enshittifying machines and sod off. Good to know.

The utterly sociopathic entitlement of these tech freaks. Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco has given the UK government a 12 month deadline to quash public outrage over data centres, or they will... flounce off with their debt? Go on, then. Off you fuck. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The UK government met 137 times with representatives of the tech industry - and not once with environmental groups - in designing its AI policy, new research shows The government doesn't want to hear how truly hated these things are. Make yourself unignorable www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Sharing this thoughtfully curated resource hub with many practical things to read, listen, watch, do or exlpore as you and your loved ones navigate climate change and all the feelings that weigh on you. Many child friendly activites too. www.unthinkable.earth/resources?ut...

Lula won despite Trump and Meta. So many people are convinced that there is nothing to be done against the fascist oligarchy that they too frequently do nothing. So do something. elpais.com/america/2026...

Having moved back to the UK a year ago after 15 years or so, I can say with confidence that absolutely everyone is on gear, and that might be a problem www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Storm Austen is no joke. This front formation looks closer to a tropical cyclone than a European storm. The “eye” is in Eastbourne currently with winds of 1-2 knts, while out at see it’s 60+ (110 kph) This is what happens when you add climate change to weather

50,000 people in Europe were killed by fossil fuels in 2026. That's 6 Srebrenicas. We know the companies responsible for the warming of our planet. They have names and addresses, and there are international criminal courts to try crimes against humanity edition.cnn.com/2026/10/22/c...

The US’s largest state pension fund is taking its $640 billion in assets out of AI, because it cannot see any route to ROI This is a problem for the hyperscalers, who are banking on your 401k for payment giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Perfectly normal country www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The same day that Labour greenlit the Jackdaw gas field, the UN says we must cut emissions by a fifth within 4 years just to limit the overshoot of our climate’s inhabitable zone www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Flagging this very cool Reuters piece on global heat storms using historical data and geospatial mapping, showing precisely how baked we are www.reuters.com/investigates...

Young people are having their futures sacrificed in the name of shareholder value. Full solidarity with the protests in France and Spain www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

"Gartner said AI data centre owners would need to generate revenues of $8.5tn by the end of 2030 to cover their capital and financing costs and generate ROI. But it forecast that all spending on AI services that would flow to data centre providers would reach “no more than $3.6tn”."

I feel like I'm living in a simulation. The Amazon is on fire, the lungs of the planet are burning out. On the radio news bulletin, I hear about how Elon Musk has made a "flying car". www.reuters.com/business/env...

This is meant as shorthand for “survival of the fittest” but I would suggest Darwin here invokes the reptilian greed and idiocy of these spivs and knaves who weren’t satisfied earning from the biggest and most sedately profitable companies in history giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

State-sponsored and right wing violence against protesting students in Spain and France. This is turning into a Europe-wide movement from people who (rightly) feel governments are sacrificing their futures on the altar of short term growth. Solidarity.

As someone who has been stuck around 1200 for a year or more, and someone who despises the summoning of AI as a substitute for the hard-experienced, gradual knowledge accumulation we used to call wisdom: Can I say how much I hate this www.ft.com/content/8267...

This is a free app. This doesn't equate to ROI. Meta could charge *millions* of paying customers double digit dollars monthly and still not make back anything more than a tiny slice of the capex Chernobyl that got it here (just in time for frontier flight) www.ft.com/content/fca2...

This👇🏽. This👇🏽. And this👇🏽again For those at the back - Getting off fossil fuels IS A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE

The last 4 Septembers have been the 4 hottest in Europe on record. We are already living in a changed climate and we are terrifyingly unprepared for more to come. Governments need a Marshall Plan and 24/7 war room footing urgency to end the fossil fuel era. climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...

I suppose if I had only one wish it would be to shake policymakers until they realised that electrification and the energy sovreignity (not to mention the climate mitigation) it brings *IS* national defence www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Won't someone please think of the oil executives?? Seriously, though, it proves these people have some pressure points that will force them to change tack. Bear in mind... www.ft.com/content/a017...

I wish to remember that a lot of people on the UK left this week were vastly more upset about some words and a vote among party membership than the actual ceaseless violent subjugation of an entire people and maybe they want to check their privilege for once giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

HUGE NEWS: A group of top civil rights & free speech lawyers are calling for the $345 MILLION verdict against Greenpeace International and Greenpeace in the US to be overturned. Here’s what really happened and why EVERY activist is at risk 🧵

"L'ouragan Isaias a entraîné l'arrêt de la production de 1,28 million de barils de pétrole par jour dans le golfe du Mexique 121 des 371 plateformes habitées ont été évacuées. Un exemple assez frappant de l'absurdité de s'obstiner dans la voie des énergies fossiles en pleine crise climatique"

Hurricane Isaias has shut in 1.28 million barrels per day of US Gulf oil, 62.89% of output, and 57.35% of Gulf gas. 121 of 371 manned platforms have been evacuated. A rather neat example of how dumb it is to double down on fossil fuels during a climate breakdown www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A reminder: OpenAI has $280 BILLION committed debt by 2030 That is money it has promised its creditors it will invest in data centres that cannot be built and can't be monetised until full complete And Sam wants us to swallow a $1 tn valuation www.ft.com/content/b66a...

The WMO now says that El Niño will peak in December this year with a SST (sub-surface temperature) anomaly of +3.7C This is the hottest El Niño in history. The 2023-4 anomaly was +2.0C, the 2014-2016 was 2.3C This year's is almost 2x stronger than even the strongest years wmo.int/resources/pu...

I know I try to be less pessimistic these days about our prospects of managing climate breakdown, but when His Majesty's opposition can't even read a spreadsheet... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Is it right that these data centre creeps are bitching about the market "not accurately reflecting future value" of their ocean boiling Internet rephrasers as a reason for pulling IPOs after years of the market wildly overinflating value? No. Is it funny? Yes? www.ft.com/content/205e...

If like me you've been scared by a summer of future heat arrived too soon, and you fear for your loved ones and their tomorrows, this might be one for you. You are so much more than your climate anxiety patrickgaley.substack.com/p/before-the...

In hoping to provide you all with resources to help adapt mentally and overcome some of your climate fear and anxiety. This is completely free and always will be. Please consider reading and, if you like, subscribing Thank you 🙏 patrickgaley.substack.com/p/before-the...

I want you to remember that at the precise moment diesel surged past £2 a litre, and probably at the first time your boiler had kicked in for months, these executives were permitted to meet in London and openly say how we need more oil from the world's least stable region www.ft.com/content/3534...

I suppose the obvious point of difference is that climate change will impact women disproportionately Men tend to be more egocentric (for whatever nature/nurture reasons), but I think we should feel empowered to call out these untouchable creeps who deny or delay www.ft.com/content/6111...

A dispatch from the end of the Great Bleaching. I wrote about joy and sorrow and honouring the solidarity of our collective loss. It is a manifesto for what comes next. Please read and subscribe for free! patrickgaley.substack.com/p/before-the...

Huge small D energy (misogyny, crypto). We need to raise our men better, for everyone’s sake giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The son of one of the biggest of the Epstein class creeps - and possessor of perhaps the singularly most punchable faces in all business, now essentially controls US media We are truly in the final stages of oligarchy before collapse www.ft.com/content/9375...

This is now the largest civil unrest in France since the emeutes of 2021/22 Young people are fed up of being forced out of jobs, affordable accommodation, and training by AI-obsessed CEOs, fossil fuels, and bought politicans. They should rise up globally www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Young people in France are right to demonstrate: They are being being told by lawmakers that they don't matter, that their future is for sale Everyone young person should rise up and force governments to remove barriers to system change www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

A reminder that by far the largest use case for LLM-based AI products is "therapy and companionship". The Epstein class's hostile takeover of the global economy depends on our isolation and disconnectedness. The more we pour into chatbots, the less power we have datareportal.com/reports/digi...

Saudi Arabia now says that 3 billion barrels have been wiped from the global supply since March. 1 bn bbl released from strategic reserves, meaning we are down 2 bn bbl. The market cannot absorb that - this means looming pain and privation for everyone www.thetimes.com/business/com...

While I am yet to be convinced these models have any world changing use case, I can see a lot of misuse cases: they are perfect for scammers and hackers www.ft.com/content/353b...

Guillotine meat. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Plug it into my veins. Forget the fake apocalypse hype they are spinning to slow down their debt pile: how about we protest these creeps for commandeering the global RAM supply chain and making all tech for everyone crappier without our consent? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Instances of AI-made child sexual abuse material have been rising for several years, with a huge surge in videos in particular.." I'm not sacrificing land, water, air quality & energy resources to AI data centres to make & serve hideous, criminal AI-made child sexual abuse material

I still think you're sleeping on how truly insane it is to have a suite of products that are so costly to develop and for whom no one wants to pay that their developers have gone from the most profitable companies in history to a bankruptcy risk within 3 quarters www.ft.com/content/ac13...

No one is using models the hyperscalers have torched hundreds of billions of dollars to develop, and they have borrowed debt from some of the most cut throat people in the world www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/a...