If you Brexit you bought it

There is no way that collective action takes place without individuals making changes in their own lives. Yes, the rich are more responsible than the poor and yes, what we need is systematic change. However, there absolutely are things we can and should be doing to reduce our own impact and put pressure on polluting industries through direct action and boycott.

These include stopping or reducing flying, eliminating or drastically reducing our consumption of meat and dairy, buying second hand where possible, repairing, recycling and supporting environmental action and rewilding efforts. None of this in isolation will mend the world but its a hell of a lot better than passing the buck while refusing to make any changes in our own lives.

I know that the idea that climate change is caused by someone else; somewhere else, and that it’s up to them to change instead of us is seductive rhetoric, but it’s also extremely dangerous. It encourages the kind of apathy that plays directly into the hands of corporations who want us to feel powerless and to continue to consume as we do now.

“In the original press release accompanying the report, CDP said: “100 active fossil fuel producers including ExxonMobil, Shell, BHP Billiton and Gazprom are linked to 71% of industrial greenhouse gas emissions since 1988.”

“This means that the total estimated cumulative greenhouse gas emissions released by human activity (excluding carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, and agricultural methane) between 1988 and 2015, 71% of those emissions originated from 100 fossil fuel producers. This includes the emissions from producing fossil fuels (like oil, coal and gas), and the subsequent use of the fossil fuels they sell to other companies. Therefore, it might not come as such a surprise that these 100 entities are linked to 71% of human activity-related greenhouse gas emissions, since all 100 are fossil fuel producers.”

Binky sounds like a slur and doesn't tell me what it is at all.

But this is another examples of something I've noted elsewhere, where US terms are often more functional descriptions clearly constructed from other words whereas UK terms can just be bundles of letters with a less obvious etymology, or perhaps the US terms just sound more technical and robotic to a UK ear.

@nacricissa

I knew the UK's southernmost point was parallel to like the northernmost third of France, so I thought "there's no way the UK is larger than 1/3 of France plus all of Belgium and the Netherlands. Scotland must end just slightly south of the northernmost tip of the Netherlands."

But apparently the UK is larger than 1/3 France + Belgium + the Netherlands + Denmark + 1/4 Sweden ????

I actually see it more in reverse: we look at France to the south, separated by sea, and assume we are therefore floating to the north of mainland Europe. But there is an awful lot of overlap, and English people are often stunned to learn that Hamburg, Germany is more northern than Liverpool, England.

Then the continent thing works both ways. I think most English people would assume New York is roughly on a line with London, so it's always a shock to learn just how far south the US is, or vice versa.

Congratulations to the people of Hungary!

President Donald Trump suggested his administration will turn its sights to Cuba after U.S. military operations in Iran are done.

It “will be just a question of time before you and a lot of unbelievable people are going to be going back to Cuba, hopefully not to stay,” Trump told a crowd at the White House.

Feb: Iran

March: Cuba?

Left-wing users saw almost the same amount of left-wing and right-wing content, even though they only followed left-wing accounts. But only 14% of the political content sent to our right-leaning users was left-wing. The neutral users saw twice as much right-wing content as left-wing content. Barely any of the political content shown to our X users was non-partisan. So right-wing content was shown most prominently, regardless of users' political leaning. These figures indicate a clear imbalance of content promoted on the platform, with right-wing voices dominating and the algorithm pushing posts to new users that don't align with their interests.