Sara Hill
@sara-hill.bsky.social
PhD: ecofascism, far-right ecologism, securitisation, migration, enviro politics, IPE @sheffielduni.bsky.social Member: @reacpolrn.bsky.social Director: @weareopus.bsky.social @nowthenmag.bsky.social Trustee: Arts on the Run She/her/bunny hugger/AuDHD
"Without minimising the..." potentially 100s of millions of deaths in countries Allister doesn't care about... When my supervisor next asks for an example of 'sanitised' ecofascism for the masses, I'm just going to show him this.
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 6d agoThe Daily Telegraph has raced through all five stages of climate denial this week. But this is, perhaps, the most ridiculous column so far: "Without minimising the severe downsides…especially on some poorer nations, many in Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers..."
England & Wales water firms lose 2.87bn litres a day, 20% of all water pumped through network. Hosepipe ban would save 577m(4%) litres a day. Violating hosepipe ban is a criminal offence, potential penalty of £1,000. No water execs fined or prosecuted. No new reservoirs built since privatisation
Water firms in England and Wales ‘leak five times what hosepipe ban would save’
Greenpeace UK says 2.87bn litres lost daily, a fifth of all water pumped through network
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'Emerging research suggests data centres raise temperatures in their immediate surroundings by between 2-9°C.' I cannot comprehend how university leaders, politicians, & casual users of AI justify it to themselves. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/chat-ar...
Chat, are we cooked?
Around a third of EU citizens used generative AI (GenAI) tools like Claude and ChatGPT in 2025. Even if you aren’t one of them, GenAI is increasingly
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Ciarán Cuffe@ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 4w agoOuch! 80% of Dublin’s electricity going to data centres? Tom Parlon, chair of the Irish Data Centres Supplier Alliance needs reminding that his members cannot ignore environmental and consumer concerns. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/chat-ar...
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
“Far from signaling an end to genocide, apartheid and occupation, this document suggests entrenching some of its ugliest signature characteristics. This risks not only complicity, but direct perpetration of grave abuses.” www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun...
Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show
Draft resolution seeks to shield board members and security forces from potential prosecution for work in Gaza
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"The script is made of Play-Doh and our protagonists are but flaps of luncheon meat pegged to a washing line." Possibly one of the best review pieces I've ever read. Accurate too. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
I Will Find You review – seen one maddeningly watchable Harlan Coben adaptation? You’ve seen them all
Severance’s Britt Lower stars in Netflix’s latest lot of cobblers. It’s an eight-part saga of fists and mumbling, with a script made from Play-Doh
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If AI is sentient, then so is Age of Empires 2. A Microsoft AI researcher built a basic neural network within the video game using digital goats to prove his point. Point is to show "sometimes the claims we make with regards to LLM capabilities are too strong." www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...
If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’
“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."
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Would you look at that... 900. We’re close now. Very close. But this is the hardest bit - the final 100 people who decide whether we hit 1,000 and deliver all five pledges for Sheffield.
🚀 New publication! Super happy that my study on local responses to the #FarRight is now out in @prxjournal.bsky.social! 😍 Focusing on mayors in Germany, I show why their role perceptions are crucial for maintaining the #Brandmauer (cordon sanitaire). 🔓 doi.org/10.1080/2474... #OpenAccess
🐕🦺🐴🐦⬛🐄 Our new Multispecies Mutualisms project website is now live. The amazing design work is by Sheffield artist Lisa O’Hara. Some exciting announcements to come about our new post docs - keep a 👀 out 👇 multispeciesmutualisms.org
Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot
The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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For @foreignpolicy.com, Ben and I wrote about SpaceX's origins in the Global War on Terror and the many vulnerabilities Musk has created for his business—from India to Brazil to the EU—by bolting himself so tightly onto the current administration. foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/12/m...
Elon Musk’s Self-Contradictory Military Policy
The soon-to-be trillionaire’s politics undermine his own business as a government contractor.
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I have now reached The Truth in my Discworld complete reread - and honestly, same. #Booksky
Sara Hill@sara-hill.bsky.social · 3mo agoI've reached Jingo in my Discworld complete reread - not only has it not lost anything, I think it's become even more relevant. Which is a huge compliment to the writing and a depressing observation about the... *gestures at everything* #BookSky
"Marketers chose the slogan after consulting an AI tool, looking for suggestions, Shinsegae Group said. It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the marketing material." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea
A botched tumbler promotion on the anniversary of a pro-democracy massacre unleashed a boycott, police investigation and political firestorm
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Today we are launching the Global Justice Project. This is the result of two years of research involving more than 40 contributors from around the world. We propose a path to €5,000-a-month average incomes for all countries within +1.8°C of warming. 👇👇👇 globaljusticeproject.wid.world
Global Justice Project
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SLOW CLAP "AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China" Congratulations to US AI Tech Oligarchs www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...
Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈
Wait, isn’t Utah the state where they’re building a data center six times the area of Manhattan? Don’t data centers need water? www.accuweather.com/en/weather-n...
State of Emergency declared for Utah drought after 'no-pack' winter
After a winter with record low snowpack, and continued dry weather since, the governor of Utah has declared a state of emergency because of the drought.
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Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something): techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... A short thread 🧵>>
Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t...
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#ClimateAdaptation As in so many areas of security, the UK is terribly under-prepared www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns
Landmark report calls for widespread air conditioning and says UK temperatures forecast to exceed 40C by 2050
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I've reached Jingo in my Discworld complete reread - not only has it not lost anything, I think it's become even more relevant. Which is a huge compliment to the writing and a depressing observation about the... *gestures at everything* #BookSky
Fascinating and important piece from @alondra.bsky.social as tech companies seek to internalize what should be the public project of finding a new social contract in the age of AI.
Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 3mo agoAI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
Some theses on #slop. A thread. Slop is automated ideology. It's content made of content, optimized for circulation, prompted, shaped, and refined through feedback loops of adaptation to platform conditions 1/
Next event! 📅 On 21 May we welcome Jessica den Outer to Sheffield. In 'The Forest Fights Back', Jessica explores a groundbreaking global movement taking on the legal system to recognise the rights of rivers, forests, and mountains to exist 🏞️ Tickets ➡️ buytickets.at/festivalofdebate/2149276
📣New interview📣 'The route to transnational left-populism is simply a question of political will.' Reid Kleinberg discusses left-wing populism, nationalism and the limits of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s conversion strategy. reacpol.net/populism-nat...
Interview: Left-wing populism, nationalism, and the limits of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s conversion strategy (Reid Kleinberg) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Reid Kleinberg's article "The Firebrands Echo: National Fantasy as an Obstacle to Jean‐Luc Mélenchon's Populist Spectacle."
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