Many people don't hate American anti-Democrat leftists nearly as much as they should because of how much they help out Republicans by convincing people to not vote against the fascists.

1 dead and 1 injured in shooting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Suspect broke in and shot ex-girlfriends current boyfriend in home before fleeing on police chase; chase ended at Arsenal Blvd and Herr St, Harrisburg, where suspect shot himself - hospitalized;

Whether they realized that benefit or not - they know it now. Good luck to Russian disinfo efforts! Ukraine can control the spam for European elections. New level unlocked.

Open Electricity weekly summary for NEM (5 Oct - 11 Oct 2026). Renewables proportion at 49.1% on 4,206 GWh of total generation. Interval Battery (discharging) Generation high record for NEM in South Australia

Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.

Was there the possibility that more carbon capture and storage could have been accomplished over the last ten years? Yes, but that's not the path that the electorates chose to support. I for one am grateful that "widespread, affordable deployment" of CCS is starting to happen now finally.

"Rigged election" rumors typically mislead in one of six ways. The rumors swirling around the election worker view fall in the "misinterpreted evidence" category. The video is real, it just doesn't show what the rumors suggest it's showing.

Update on the ceasefire Trump announced this morning.

It involves Malcolm Gladwell so best to assume that it is shite.

"Public anger is growing over the government's purge of voter rolls... Nearly a billion people in the world's biggest democracy are being asked to show documents to prove that they should keep the right to vote."

Was it worth it? Did we accomplish anything? Yes, and I think so. But these are the wrong questions; the answers are unknowable. Change develops mysteriously: people do things out of love & hope & anger & determination…and eventually, there's an undeniable shift, sometimes tectonic.

but we're not. Turning off a pipeline is obviously a niche act—but every day, there are myriad ways we can stand up to the business-as-usual that’s threatening literally everything we love & depend on, & we spent years after the action talking to people, trying to shake them out of hopelessness.