Megan Darby
Heat pump appreciation account. Pro-human intelligence, especially when it comes with human kindness.
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- Reposted by Megan DarbyICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.
- Steve Bannon says the federal government is planning to send ICE officers to patrol polling stations during the midterms. "We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November." "We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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- this clearly resonated with American followers. Curious if any other Londoners have been invited to a "travel party" or similar network marketing thing? A few people I've mentioned it to weren't familiar with the concept
- Reposted by Megan Darby“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
- Reposted by Megan DarbyReminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".
- “Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- tfw the chair of your parent teacher association is recruiting for an mlm on the school community whatsapp
- Reposted by Megan Darbyi was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
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- echoes of the UK fracking industry's genius PR move to suggest people (particularly women) were too silly and irrational to understand how great it was
- BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
- Reposted by Megan DarbyThere's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.
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- Reposted by Megan DarbyYou may have missed the news this week while certain groups focus on themselves, but Australia’s grid has hit a new milestone.
- Reposted by Megan DarbyI have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
- Reposted by Megan DarbyA coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
- Reposted by Megan DarbyIf the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
- I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...
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- Reposted by Megan DarbyI know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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- Reposted by Megan DarbyIn our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.
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- Reposted by Megan DarbyTrump: "I haven't been able to find any windfarms in China." Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth
- Reposted by Megan DarbyChina has the largest installed wind capacity in the world.
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- Reposted by Megan Darby"You never see a wind farm in China" says some wag at Davos... China had a total solar/wind capacity of 1,400 GW at end 2024, according to Ember; China's NEA suggested wind amounted to 521 GW of that. The US EIA suggested they had 150 GW of wind as at 2024, for comparison.
- Reposted by Megan DarbyMark Carney's speech is now only the second most acute analysis of where the world is at right now:
- I heard a laugh when he said there were a few enemies in the room. None of his other lines are landing
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- Reposted by Megan DarbySo far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
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- Reposted by Megan DarbyIt's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.
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- Reposted by Megan DarbyEurope is America's biggest customer for fossil gas exports, by a pretty decent margin. One hell of a time to be directly antagonising and alienating the key customer for the already-shaky LNG boom in the US www.netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-vie...
- UK just had our biggest ever offshore wind auction and the Green Party is resurgent! Heat pumps are outselling gas boilers in Germany!
- Reposted by Megan DarbyThis is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India. It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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- what is a "climate insider"? does the atmosphere have a corridor of power?
- Almost a year into Trump 2.0, where does the global effort to decarbonize stand? To find out, Heatmap picked the brains of 55 leading figures in the climate world — and their responses were fascinating. Read all about our second annual Insiders Survey: heatmap.news/insiders-sur...
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- yay for offshore wind! big relief that the latest auction delivered volume at a competitive price vs gas, despite some inflationary factors
- Reposted by Megan DarbyNEW: Coal-fired power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, for the first time since 1973. The drop came after record clean energy additions in both countries, and was the first time that clean energy was a major driver of falling coal power use.
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- Reposted by Megan Darby“If Americans increased their protein intake by just 25%…it would require about 100 million acres of additional ag land each year — an area larger than Michigan, Ohio & Pennsylvania combined — & increase annual emissions by 100s of millions of tons of CO2e, according to @worldresources.bsky.social.”
