NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: How countries with hot climates, fast-growing economies, expensive energy, and fragile grids turn to solar. Not because of policy. People and businesses voted with their feet. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-solar-...

The solar boom outrunning the grid

How countries with hot climates, fast-growing economies, expensive energy, and fragile grids turn to solar.

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Honest question: Anyone still on Facebook or Shitter - do you see any difference in engagement and what appears on social media? If this really hit the propaganda infrastructure... it could save global democracy. And maybe countries will finally act!

Mandy G 🇮🇪🇪🇸🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@argally.bsky.social · 6h ago

I am interested to see how this impacts the midterms in terms of the Russian propaganda machine? Honestly this single act by Ukraine has done more in the last 48 hours to preserve global democracy 🇺🇦

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Israel vs Hamas - Israel continue genocide Israel vs Iran - war continues Egypt vs Ethiopia - no war ever took place Kosovo vs Serbia - no war, tensions persists Rwanda vs DRCongo - fighting persists The remaining three with caveats can be argued. How many countries did Trump bomb?

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · yesterday

good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed

Absolute lawlessness. Backed by American taxpayers. If the little boy running away doesn’t infuriate you something is very wrong

so the same day we're putting sanctions on the icc, we're lifting sanctions on russian oil?

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump says we’re now going to be getting diesel from Russia

US imposes sanctions on the international criminal court (ICC), hours after former judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize - live

US imposes sanctions on ICC, hours after former judge Pillay wins Nobel peace prize - live

The ⁠ICC’s deputy prosecutor condemned the sanctions and said they would not halt the tribunal’s work

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This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

Giving it to a brown South African descendant of slaves that is against Israeli genocide and an ex-ICC judge at that... they slapped around the whole Epstein class so hard... Tariffs on Norway incoming!

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d ago

Did she end 8 wars and save the world from nuclear annihilation like Trump? RIGGED AND STOLEN!!!

I gather Cheetos is still shitting in his diaper in bed in the White House and hasn't yet truth socialled.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 2d ago

1. BREAKING The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay. Pillay is a South African jurist of Indian Tamil descent.

2026 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay

2026 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay

The former UN human rights commissioner was recognized for her efforts to promote peace and international law

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Navi Pillay last year: "The commission finds it is genocide" Pillay has just won the Nobel peace prize.

@ketanjoshi.co Something I haven't seen communicated outside of Poland & seems in your scope of interest. Kids in Poland have been recently participating is a macabre social dare: bloody attacks on schools. A few people have died and police are scrambling to mitigate panic. All via social media.

Grzesiek Dzięgielewski@gdzie.eurosky.social · 2d ago

w czasach post-prawdy dużo nie trzeba, by rozsiać panikę, że idzie "krwawy piątek" koleżanka z mazowieckiego interioru donosi, że w powiecie mińskim zamknęli dziś wszystko szkoły średnie, tak "na wszelki wypadek" 🎃 wiadomosci.wp.pl/zamiescili-n...

w czasach post-prawdy dużo nie trzeba, by rozsiać panikę, że idzie "krwawy piątek" koleżanka z mazowieckiego interioru donosi, że w powiecie mińskim zamknęli dziś wszystko szkoły średnie, tak "na wszelki wypadek" 🎃 wiadomosci.wp.pl/zamiescili-n...

Zamieścili nagranie z groźbami. Policja zatrzymała dwóch 15-latków

Policjanci z Komendy Powiatowej Policji w Pruszkowie zatrzymali dwóch 15-latków, mieszkańców powiatu pruszkowskiego, którzy mieli zamieścić w mediach społecznościowych nagranie z groźbami pozbawienia ...

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Would you be on board with that plan?

This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d ago

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

The manufacturing construction down 1/4 is the really worrisome point for the US. It seems USA is heading for a major manufacturing collapse.

Jason Furman@jasonfurman.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is what crowd out looks like.

I am genuinely curious: if you are YIMBY or aligned/curious, how do you rationalise this? Do you see data centres as part of the general philosophy of welcoming large-scale developments eagerly? It seems like a moment where a movement based around encouraging local development has to distinguish..

Jason Furman@jasonfurman.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is what crowd out looks like.

Hours later, Trump posts that the US has just had “productive talks” with Iran and announced the US will not attack Iran before the midterms.

I've been traveling and caregiving and stuff, so I kinda missed that Publishers Weekly gave Elon Take The Wheel a starred review! www.publishersweekly.com/9798902680116

Elon Take the Wheel: The Danger and Delusion of Tesla’s Self-Driving Technology by Edward Niedermeyer

Automotive journalist Niedermeyer (Ludicrous) delivers an enthralling and deeply troubling account of Tesla’s pursuit of self-dr...

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Duńczycy się nie szczypią😂

CNN@cnn.com · 4d ago

Danish artist Jens Galschiøt unveiled a sculpture depicting a naked US President Donald Trump surrounded by golf equipment. It was unveiled on the grounds of the European Parliament building in Strasbourg.

Pretty Awesome 👍

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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Danish artist Jens Galschiøt unveiled a sculpture depicting a naked US President Donald Trump surrounded by golf equipment. It was unveiled on the grounds of the European Parliament building in Strasbourg.

On the day he is a main candidate in a very important by-election, Facebook has *suspended* Zack Polanski’s account. This ON ITS OWN should be reason to vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras. This is foreign interference in British democracy. And guess what, the media (and Labour) is silent.

I am on the verge of buying two bikes and turned out the ones I wanted to buy were American. They cost a couple thousand dollars. So I decided that I can not with a clear conscience spend that without knowing their stance on the Orange Doofus. I emailed them. Waiting for a response.

Podpisz apel o delegalizację partii Brauna: akcja.link/delegalizacja Braun na konferencji z AfD opowiedział się za przyłączeniem Polski do Nord Stream i Nord Stream 2. Jakub Wiech: „trudno znaleźć postulat, który byłby bardziej sprzeczny z polskimi interesami”. Źródło: Jakub Wiech na X, 7.10.2026

What if the secret plan is to make you happy and the world a better place? Electrification is a happiness machine - at least for Germans.

What if the secret plan is to make you happy and the world a better place? Electrification is a happiness machine - at least for Germans. 94.9% of Germans with a heat pump report (great)… | Jaap Burg...

What if the secret plan is to make you happy and the world a better place? Electrification is a happiness machine - at least for Germans. 94.9% of Germans with a heat pump report (great) satisfaction...

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Tying health insurance to employment makes workers easier to exploit, bc when you get fired you don’t just lose your job, you might also die or go bankrupt…

Proof that not all idiots are on the right side of the aisle.

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 4d ago

Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside City Hall to call out Mayor Zohran Mamdani for what they see as his betrayal of the movement. "Mayor Mamdani, you can't hide we charge you with genocide" was a chant that just rang out.