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Our guest from @… Ep. 209 on the past, present and future of nuclear power, veteran nuclear industry journalist Stephanie Cooke, has an excellent op-ed in NYT:

Opinion | The Fantasy of Reviving Nuclear Energy
The nuclear industry has a long history of failing to deliver on its promises.

From LeadNow
RBC is Canada’s biggest bankroller of fossil fuels and the fifth largest in the world. And they’re not just fueling the climate crisis – they’re supporting projects that trample on Indigenous rights. RBC is a key backer of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline, which is being forced through Wet’suwet’en territory right now without consent.
And in addition to tar sands and pipelines, RBC has bankrolled some of the biggest weapons manufacturers in the world

Sorry to everyone following my bots because they've been disrupted the last few days due to a computer failure on Sunday morning (the aforementioned md/lvm calamity). Slowly getting things back under control and yes, I will be doing proper backups from now on and yes, I am an idiot.

I am feeling a little excited about the prospect of a heat pump replacing my window unit air conditioner in my #nyc apartment. Good for the #climate and good for my wallet I think.

The US government has suspended its effort to survey #cryptocurrency #mining operations over their ballooning energy use following a lawsuit from an industry that has been accused by environmental groups of fueling the climate crisis.
A federal judge in Texas has granted a temporary order

In a surprise vote, major European climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests
https://apnews.com/article/eu-climate-nature-protection-farmers-protests-7b222f346d4898e32766b230da781385

In a surprise vote, major European climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests
A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed , underscoring how farmers’ protests sweeping the continent influence politics ahead of the June EU parliamentary elections..Monday was supposed to be the day the member states gave their final approval to the plan. But what was to be a mere rubber stamp following months of proceedings through the EU’s institutional maze has now been indefinitely postponed. It …

the mental state diff between
"I can't even be bothered to do dishes / my apartment is a mess of trash and laundry, I haven't kept up with journaling/calendars/inboxes"
and
"I just cleaned everything from top to bottom and I know what's going on for the next month"
it's such a nice feeling to have a clean workstation
and I know it's hard to monitor or prevent the bipolar-ness of it besides journaling
sometimes it feels like I'm not on top of stuff, or the pace is wrong, but other times the pace feels slow
feelin' better, but "how unkempt is the apartment" is a weird two-way street to my mood...

I am feeling a little excited about the prospect of a heat pump replacing my window unit air conditioner in my #nyc apartment. Good for the #climate and good for my wallet I think.

Ich habe irgendwo mal einen Filmschnipsel gesehen, wo doch allen ernstes ein Politiker die #Vergewaltigung in der #Ehe doch irgendwie geil findet. Ich finde das leider nicht auf youtube. Da sind nur Tondokumente. Hat das noch jemand? Danke! #Followerpower

The far right has replaced the old left as Russia’s propaganda tool
In 2018, President Donald Trump endorsed Vladimir Putin’s denial that Russia interfered with the 2016 election, even though American intelligence had reached the opposite conclusion.
The following year, in the Trump impeachment proceedings, House Republicans claimed that Ukraine had interfered with the 2016 election even though Fiona Hill, a former Trump national security council official on Russia, told them th…

The far right has replaced the old left as Russia’s propaganda tool
Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin echoes the left-wing journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, who downplayed or otherwise covered up Stalin’s murder of millions of Soviet citizens.