Patrick Galey
@patrickgaley.bsky.social
Anti-Fascist. Anthropocene Pepys. Gen AI Cassandra. Journalist taking names on the fossil fuel industry and its role in the climate, energy, and cost of greed crises. Other than that, mainly dogs and cycling
These people will all be dead in 50 years. The damage they inflict on your children and grandchildren will exist for geological time. Are you going to let them get away with it? www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” @patrickgaley.bsky.social @fossiltreaty.bsky.social
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
YOU GAVE OIL COMPANIES EXTRA MONEY TO GIVE TO TRUMP? Yes, you did.
Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW: The Big 5 oil majors raked in more than half a billion dollars every day in Q2, making it the most lucrative period since the height of the Ukraine-linked fossil fuel crisis of 2022 It's a wonderful time to be an oil baron. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
... While simultaneously collecting tax payer funded subsidies.
Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW: The Big 5 oil majors raked in more than half a billion dollars every day in Q2, making it the most lucrative period since the height of the Ukraine-linked fossil fuel crisis of 2022 It's a wonderful time to be an oil baron. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
Crucially however, they are not guaranteed profit-makers; and are subsidised massively. They are cash-extracting, not cash-generating
The myth of fossil fuel profitability
Fossil fuel companies are routinely described as reliable, cash-generative and indispensable engines of profit for investors, and for the…
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NEW: The Big 5 oil majors raked in more than half a billion dollars every day in Q2, making it the most lucrative period since the height of the Ukraine-linked fossil fuel crisis of 2022 It's a wonderful time to be an oil baron. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
Big Oil reaps half a billion dollars a day as ‘scandalous’ war windfall continues
World’s 5 leading oil ‘supermajor’ companies rake in $48 billion in Q2 2026 – the most since height of Ukraine crisis. Global Witness senior campaigner Flossie Boyd said: "As wildfires ravage Europe, ...
globalwitness.org
Say what you want about our country, its democracy is in rude health www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
New polling reveals Count Binface support ahead of Clacton by-election
independent.co.uk
What will it take for you to take take this seriously? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn
Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue
theguardian.com
Remember this week when the editor of the Telegraph said we need to adapt to a European lifestyle because climate change is inevitable? That would be: cowering indoors in shadow as fear lays panting in the white hot street, fleeing fires for our lives www.politico.eu/article/spai...
Spain, France, UK warn megafires show climate change is ‘threatening our way of life’
In joint statements, the three countries reaffirmed their commitment to fighting global warming.
politico.eu
The Teutonic idiot scion that used to work for Sam Bankman-Fried has lost people stupid enough to invest in his vapid, mindless AI fund all their money (Everyone enjoyed that) www.ft.com/content/620b...
How Leopold Aschenbrenner, the ‘golden child’ of the AI trade, was laid low
The $20bn hedge fund manager’s wild ride ended with a call to Ken Griffin
ft.com
This is despicable. As I saw @patrickgaley.bsky.social say on LinkedIn: "The burnings of the Library of Alexandria destroyed an estimated 400,000 written texts. Anthropic has destroyed 2 million books this year alone." novaramedia.com/2026/07/29/a...
AI Firms Are Buying up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them
The world’s biggest AI companies are buying antiquarian books en masse so they can be scanned to train their large language models (LLMs) before being destroyed.
novaramedia.com
Hey Internet, I'm looking for a favour: - Anyone who is or knows doctors or healthworkers who operate in the UK and would like to talk about their experiences working during heatwaves... please DM me Thank you in advance!
The first big UN assessment of the world's progress towards its 2030 nature goals finds that we are falling short on 22 of 23 targets Full breakdown of the draft global report and what it all means by me, @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org & @arunacsekhar.bsky.social www.carbonbrief.org/world-fallin...
World falling short on 22 of 23 nature targets for 2030, says draft UN report - Carbon Brief
The global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030 “will not be achieved” unless action by countries “accelerates…
carbonbrief.org
Shell, a UK company, made $9.8 billion profit in three months and you're telling me we can't afford $850 million to help the most vulnerable households keep their heating on over winter? www.ft.com/content/dacf...
Shell posts second-highest profits ever as traders cash in on Iran disruption
UK oil major says earnings have surged even as its gas production fell sharply because of Middle East war
ft.com
This is truly, wildly, insane. At a time when people are deep in energy debt. In the world's 5th largest economy, where people need to access heat banks in winter to not freeze to death Energy demand for planned data centres = 75GW Peak current UK demand = 45GW www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Datacentre projects could face fees for grid access to ease connection queue, Ofgem says
Energy regulator’s plan would mean upfront fees or financial security via letters of credit, bonds or cash deposits
theguardian.com
Whenever I dunk on AI people are like "yeah but DeepMind" and I'm like "yeah but look what the hyperscalers are doing - taking any good AI/machine learning IP and reassigning it to look at LLMs forever in the hope of answers" www.ft.com/content/61b2...
Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift
Landmark project that solved protein folding gives way to a wider race to build AI systems for scientific discovery
ft.com
We had a planet with all we ever needed. The fact that we fucked it up so bad hurts “what scares me the most when faced with the death & disease & exhaustion & pain that comes, is that, unless we stop the #FossilFuel industry from profitably poisoning us to death: this will be the coolest summer”
Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · last wk.With the great burning upon us, I wrote about what it means to raise the next generation, the one who will not let us be their teachers. I hope it hits with some people. medium.com/@patchgaley/...
Beautiful, tragic, wise, hopeful piece about the crisis that is already shaping all our lives, even though many of us still don't know it yet. Worth the time to read, even for those of us who already know... perhaps particularly for those of us who already know. #ClimateSky
Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · last wk.With the great burning upon us, I wrote about what it means to raise the next generation, the one who will not let us be their teachers. I hope it hits with some people. medium.com/@patchgaley/...
PLEASE READ: Remarkable context-setting and re-framing for the times that have now arrived. We had notice, we had time to fix this — but we ignored the warnings. The “great burning” is indeed upon us. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #PlanetaryBoundaries Well done, @patrickgaley.bsky.social
Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · last wk.With the great burning upon us, I wrote about what it means to raise the next generation, the one who will not let us be their teachers. I hope it hits with some people. medium.com/@patchgaley/...
So that's it, is it? We will make chips for fake text generators to delete humans from the economy and make autonomous killing machines and that... equals growth? How are these guys so completely out of ideas? www.ft.com/content/5b78...
Chips and drones to be at heart of Andy Burnham’s push to ‘reindustrialise’, AI minister says
Kanishka Narayan tells FT that new prime minister views technology as way for Britain ‘to get its mojo back’
ft.com
This is both beautiful and devastating writing. Please read it and share.
Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · last wk.With the great burning upon us, I wrote about what it means to raise the next generation, the one who will not let us be their teachers. I hope it hits with some people. medium.com/@patchgaley/...
What does this summer of fire and ash mean for people raising the next generation? How can we look to the future with hope and confidence? I wrote this over the weekend for parents struggling to stay positive in the teeth of climate breakdown medium.com/the-new-clim...
A Summer of Violence
The debt is now here for us all. We knew it would come.
medium.com
"what scares me the most when faced with the death and disease and exhaustion and pain that comes with future heat, is that, unless we stop the fossil fuel industry from profitably poisoning us to death: this will be the coolest summer for the rest of our lives." - @patrickgaley.bsky.social
A Summer of Violence
The debt is now here for us all. We knew it would come.
medium.com
At this point one has to conclude that the cruelty is deliberate www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Home Office blocking evacuation of dozens of women and children from Gaza
Refugee family reunions in limbo, despite Foreign Office saying it is ready to get people out of war-torn territory
theguardian.com
Make some time to read this. Maybe make a cup of tea first. (They say that validation - having your fears acknowledged - is part of the process of 'caring' for our climate grief/anxiety. I'm glad I read this today.)
Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · last wk.With the great burning upon us, I wrote about what it means to raise the next generation, the one who will not let us be their teachers. I hope it hits with some people. medium.com/@patchgaley/...
Reading this after the @gregorynorminton.bsky.social piece it quotes and it is searing. For any of us there won't just be one moment of realisation, that we've passed from one state into another. Find ways to help each other through these times. This is one.
Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · last wk.With the great burning upon us, I wrote about what it means to raise the next generation, the one who will not let us be their teachers. I hope it hits with some people. medium.com/@patchgaley/...
