a different guy

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

A really excellent synthesis of the interconnected risks of climate change. Great resource to bookmark.

Like, a lot of us right now have a prior assumption that "AI is driving water shortages." And no, it absolutely tf is not. It's agriculture. It's always been agriculture. Most of us have spent our whole lives not seeing it. We need to stop that ag water blindness before it screws us all over.

So Richard Tice, should farmers just "enjoy" low crop yields? Should the thousands who've died from the heatwaves just "enjoy" their premature deaths? What about the families whose homes have burned down in the wildfires? Charlatans with their heads in the sand. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A simple point that surprisingly few people understand: "The longer we wait to reach net zero, the higher the eventual peak temperature will be, and the worse the associated damage. Warming is now nearly 1.4C above pre-industrial levels. Imagine summers when it gets closer to 2C."

Chris Hohn, billionaire hedge fund manager: ‘All these people who say we can't afford net zero - they're completely misunderstanding the gravity of the situation.' www.thetimes.com/article/de38...

I really need everyone to remember that the fossil fuel industry knew-knows exactly the climate hell we now inhabit, and are determined to make it FAR worse. That's because they have decided our lives are worth far less than their profits. We are not angry -or organised- enough.

sometimes I listen to my partner's work meetings with no context and it's clear even to me that the meeting could have been an email

Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/i...

this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

I don't think quality matters much, if you sample Low Rider, I will happily listen to the song a hundred consecutive times

"Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants." - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

a small happy thing - 4 months after leaving my old job, I can now have a cup of coffee without associated heart palpitations I really should have left earlier >.>

The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash. If it goes it down, we’re looking, as complex societies, at a potential termination event. This week's column. Please read it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Only one Terra made day 2 of the Calling for the world premiere in London this weekend, and I am _so_ sad to not have been able to go >.>

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

I dunno how big the overlap between the Dropout and Flesh and Blood communities is, but the promo cards for Philadelphia have incredible Gunner Channel energy

TFI live app says bus in 2 minutes so it's time to play WHEEL OF TRANSIT I'd like to buy a bus? Oh, there's no bus? The endless abyss, you say? I see.

The world is deeply unserious about dealing with climate change. We need to reduce emissions by 50% in 5 years and we're nowhere near that.

ah yes the 2020s

Cloudward Ho is killing me - imagining a city where the focus is long term planning and ensuring everyone has what they need has me wanting to start building an airship

i may have successfully flashed a bios with a probe! at least, the chassis intrusion detection lights are flashing, and i'd disabled those on the previous BIOS. have to wait until the CMOS battery recharges, now... and might have to put it into a chassis to change the BIOS settings again >.>

I have successfully read the contents of a BIOS using a chip probe, yay now it's time to unpack the capsule file of the update I want to write to it, and try replacing the contents

I think as a society we need to move beyond pyramidal d4s they're just so hard to pick up and so pointy

the correct order is definitely not cocktails and then kitchen gadget store mistakes are so easy to make

systems design interviews are kind of the only time I get to do design thinking, because my job is just pushing whatever garbage horizontal management has produced today it's so much fun, actually. I haven't been to many conferences, but if the energy is like this, I absolutely see the appeal

i’m not going to accept any statement on the “steep environmental cost” of air conditioning while countries are backtracking on their climate goals to keep powering AI

Jaysus, the coil whine playing Rogue Trader is wild playing on 1080p with a frame limit and my poor computer is sweating profusely

HEY here's a new piece for @crikey.com.au! Sparked by David Suzuki's recent comments, but more broadly in response to the recent rise of performative fatalism: the reassuring, widely popular and lazy idea that fighting back against fossil fuels is worthless www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/14/c...

Powerful piece by @jksteinberger.bsky.social If we truly understood the necropolitics driving the polycrisis of our age, could we resist better? jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...

Global average temperature is expected to rise to almost 2C above preindustrial in the next five years, according to the WMO, with falls in crop yields and more than a third of the world’s population being exposed to extreme heat. People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.

I have finally, after too many beginnings, actually finished chrono trigger

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

this is wildly good: youtu.be/zXrjlOE9e50?...

One of the most lethal tendencies of centre-left governance is the idea that deliberation has no political cost, whereas adverse outcomes are both avoidable and the only things that do carry any cost.

it begins

Or we could fight climate change and stop voting for sociopaths so we don’t have to hide in bunkers.

Yes, that's it exactly.

I'm CRYING he was speaking FRENCH

JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS

we fucked up a perfectly good planet is what we did. look at it. it's got billionaires

This podcast on advanced geothermal with @timlatimer.bsky.social from @volts.wtf is one of the most hopeful things I've heard/read in awhile: www.volts.wtf/p/catching-u... Distributed, non-polluting, proven tech, appeals to right- and left-leaning politicians, and room to run. Super cool stuff.