Dutchess1970
@dutchess1970.bsky.social
Lazy artist, with a love for snowboarding and mountain biking. Utterly horrified by our current human world. In order to change the world we have to change humans. What we value, how we value it, how we speak, how we think. From Chimp to Bonobo.
BP quarterly profits up from $2.5bn to $5.73bn as Iran war sends oil prices soaring. Shell doubled its net profit to almost $10bn. High bills fuelling poverty and misery for households and businesses. Boon for execs and shareholders. Must levy 100% windfall tax on oil, gas, energy companies.
BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring
Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record
theguardian.com
Forty degrees celcius in Vienna for the second time this week. Note that this weatherapp expects the lowest temperature, at around 5 am in the morning, to be 28 degrees. (The forecast id back at 30 around 7 am… ) Meanwhile, no oil company is going to pay for the outfitting of AC, and the harvest..
So tidy that B of A and Chase are also two of the biggest US banks for fossil fuel, along with Citi and Wells Fargo. Investing in harm since....
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
theguardian.com
Aaaand in the lowlands.. the country where, in my youth, it would rain a few days nearly every week of the year… The camping whose guests have been evacuated paid for their emergency shelter… very nice, but.. SHELL SHOULD PAY THAT BILL! www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
‘Zeer grote’ natuurbrand in Limburg
nrc.nl
A data-driven picture of our rapidly changing planet - updated through June 2026... Download the graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
Spanien hat jedes andere europäische Land bei territorialen Verletzungen/ Krisen unterstützt - Finnland gegen Russland, Dänemark als es um Grönland ging und Ost/Zentraleuropa bei den großen Fluchtbewegungen 2015. Und diese Länder hauen jetzt auf Spanien hin statt die Rolle Marokkos zu hinterfragen.
Much fuss about basically nothing ? The Ceuta situation once again showed that if European leaders could have waited a day or so before reacting, the whole thing could’ve basically been solved amicably. The real-time outrage loops and need to react to everything IMMEDIATELY is a huge issue
„Der Tod der menschlichen Empathie ist eines der frühesten und deutlichsten Zeichen dafür, dass eine Kultur gerade in die Barbarei verfällt.“ Hannah Arendt
Eigentlich müsste es DIE Meldung des Tages sein, dass an mehrere Stationen in Deutschland 40°C oder etwas mehr gemessen wurden. Aber wohl nicht mehr seit diesem Sommer. /FR
Max. Temperatur 2m, 12std, Messwerte Deutschland vom 30.07.2026, 20:00 Uhr
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Wir haben es nicht gewusst. Aber wir haben es gewollt. (We did not know. But we wanted it)
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6d agoA report from BBC verify on how Israel is concentrating Palestinians in Gaza into a smaller and smaller area.
In Germany, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Power - Yale E360 share.google/Rem412Yc9lFN...
In Germany, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Power
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Now they’ve done it… Mark Carney and Alex Stubb actually wrote ”middle powers of the world, unite!” 😅 Also, it should give Americans some pause that they basically suggest that Canada’s geographical predicament with its border with the US compares to Finland’s with Russia…
Met de strenge stikstofregels, vooral in de buurt van kwetsbare natuur, vragen boeren zich af of hun bedrijf toekomst heeft. Deze 'gangbare' melkveehouder veranderde in ‘natuurboer’ en kon daardoor aan de rand van een beschermd natuurgebied blijven. Is dit dé oplossing? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
Ruim tien jaar geleden werd melkveehouder Arie een ‘natuurboer’. Nu wordt naar zijn werkwijze gekeken als oplossing in de stikstofcrisis
Boeren in de natuur: Nu het kabinet met strenge stikstofregels komt, vooral in de buurt van kwetsbare natuur, vragen boeren zich af of hun bedrijf toekomst heeft. Arie van Oosterom veranderde van gang...
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My colleague @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social got some extra photos of newly discovered geoglyphs in the Amazon from the researchers. They estimate there are tens of thousands still to be found. 🧪
Hundreds of never-before-seen ancient ‘earthworks’ discovered in the Amazon
Many of these structures date to around C.E. 100–300, during the time of the Aquiry civilization, and may have been used for ceremonial purposes
scientificamerican.com
I haven't watched this yet, but it's both a documentary film and a 6-episode docuseries about Germany's UBI experiment that gave 122 randomly selected participants €1200/mo for 3 years. 89-min movie ($8): dokwerk.gumroad.com/l/big-dream-... 6x30-min series ($15): dokwerk.gumroad.com/l/big-dream-...
THE BIG DREAM – MONEY FOR ALL | Official Trailer
YouTube video by DOKWERK
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Still thinking about genderfluid avocados
Jeff Groh@jeffgroh.bsky.social · last wk.Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Climate change-fueled disasters threaten the safety of our homes & insurance provides a financial safety net to help us recover. But current insurance systems are failing, leaving households high (& not dry). What can the federal government do? I've got a proposal: peri.umass.edu/publication/...
National Disaster Insurance for All: Single-Payer Disaster Insurance and Community Resilience Investments for Safer and More Affordable Housing
The Problem The climate crisis is fueling extreme weather and increasing disaster risk for households and housing providers across the country, representing collectives risks that no individual househ...
peri.umass.edu
Your 'doom quote' for today: "we are fast approaching the stage when climate change will be playing the tune for us while we stand by and watch helplessly, with our reductions in CO2 emissions having no effect in the face of, say, runaway emissions of methane." e360.yale.edu/features/as_...
The Global Impacts of Rapidly Disappearing Arctic Sea Ice
The top of the world is turning from white to blue in summer as the ice that has long covered the north polar seas melts away. This monumental change is triggering a cascade of effects that will ampli...
e360.yale.edu
Investors in UK companies reap record dividends. Dividends to UK shareholders taxed at lower rates than wages. No national insurance paid. Unlike the USA, UK doesn't have withholding tax on dividends to foreign investors. Those holed-up in offshore tax havens escape tax altogether.
Record dividend payouts as banking and mining flourish
Total payouts, which include special dividends, climbed 2.5 per cent in the year to the three months analysed, but regular dividends soared 7.4 per cent.
thisismoney.co.uk
🚨 BORDEAUX 🇫🇷 ON HIGH ALERT 🚨 Wildfires have advanced within 7 km of Bordeaux, driven by 60 km/h winds heading straight for the metropolis. With over 1 million residents in the area, the threat of unprecedented evacuations looms tonight. Stay safe, stay informed, and hold Bordeaux in your thoughts.
In the Dutch newspaper today: tourists near Lacanau supping on the lake. I would have expected such scenes in avant garde art films……..
sondern als Anker für ein Identitätsversprechen, das auf Ehre und teleologischem Auftrag aufbaut. Deswegen sind die Online-Radikalisierungen von Islamisten und der extremen Rechten fast ident, sie bieten auch ein ähnliches Versprechen an. Aber die Zielgruppe ist anders und hängt klar von
Mal was Schönes und Positives: RedKiteNRW zeigt wie gut eMobilität funktioniert in der Praxis und die vielen tollen Kommentare darunter. Macht Freude zu lesen! ❤️💪
RedKiteNRW@rotmilanmuenster.bsky.social · 2w agoWir sind g'rad zum 1. Mal mit #E-Auto im #Urlaub, an der Ostsee. Was soll ich sagen: spitze! #Fahrtkosten: im Vgl. zum Verbrenner gering, ca. 1/3 ✅️ #Ladesäulen unterwegs u. vor Ort völlig ausreichend ✅️ Zeitverlust durch's Laden keiner - 1/2 Std Pause hätten wir sowieso gemacht ✅️ #E-Mobilität
I'll start with that bastard Gianni Infantino's 95,000-kilometre private jet travel generated an estimated 900 to 1,000 tonnes of CO2 during the World Cup Equal to taking over 800 round-trip commercial flights between London & NZ. 1 Kiwi produces about 6.2 tonnes per year
Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · 2w agoThe great burning has arrived. Bordeaux is being evacuated. If this upsets you, I have names and addresses. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
The great burning has arrived. Bordeaux is being evacuated. If this upsets you, I have names and addresses. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
France and Spain race to control wildfires as Bordeaux suburbs evacuated – live
Meanwhile in the UK, a blaze in Cairngorms national park is described as ‘very serious’ by Scotland’s first minister
theguardian.com
