Nathaniel William Horadam

@horadam.bsky.social

Mostly energy, supply chains, and transportation. Toto and Art Deco enthusiast. Still a MENA student at heart. Views my own. Onward, Rocinante!

One reason I expect Ford can succeed with the Fathom *if* it delivers a high quality product is there's a good bit of evidence the F-150 Lightning was very well received by truck owners who didn't need real towing range. It just badly missed the mark on price. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ford Killed Its Electric Truck. Then Demand Surged

The F-150 Lightning has become a coveted item in the used market after the company discontinued the model.

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"The officials, who received calls from US officials on Saturday and Sunday or were briefed on them, said the US was lobbying European capitals & Kyiv in an attempt to end the attacks on Russian oil refineries. The White House declined to confirm or comment on the calls." www.ft.com/content/68fd...

US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over attacks on Russian refineries

Officials lobby European capitals and Kyiv following Trump’s diesel deal with Putin

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Every American adult knows what HIPAA is. Meanwhile, the mental health clinic is going to have grounds for lawsuits against everyone involved in fabricating the incident and promoting obvious falsehoods. I highly doubt Fox will touch it.

It appears the deus ex machina MAGA has concocted for Texas is a phony phone call to a mental health facility in Ohio that inexplicably “confirmed Talarico was a patient there”…produced by right-wing media guy Nick Sortor to “explain” the 10-day absence. Uh-huh.

While obviously a far cry in terms of human toll, it's safe to say the planet hasn't seen anything like this moment since World War 1, if not the 18th Century coalition wars. Absolute chaos, longstanding grievances reignited, multiple theaters opened, everything loosely connected.

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 22h ago

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

"But pledges for a steel plant in Iowa, an aluminum smelter in Oklahoma and a long-sought gas pipeline in Alaska face significant questions, leaving it unclear whether the projects will fully materialize or amount to anything more than a midterm mirage." 🔌💡 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Hypes Megaprojects to Voters Who Lament Gas, Food Costs

Presidents have long made bombastic pledges to voters in last-minute electoral appeals.

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If you asked me last week I would have said the election is more or less baked and we wouldn’t see much movement either way between now and 11/3, but Trump’s failing on diesel has me increasingly convinced we’re headed for a “bottom falls out” scenario.

Developments in Saudi Arabia are a reminder that coalition wars are often unpredictable and can easily spiral, metastasize, and drag on for years with devastating effects well outside the scope of conflict between the original belligerents.