Le shock! Le gasp!

"Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has admitted over-reporting the performance of a flagship carbon capture and storage project by about 30 percent due to defective monitoring equipment, underscoring risks associated with plans to scale the technology as a climate solution, DeSmog can reveal."

#ClimateCrisis #Environment #BigOil

https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/28/norways-equinor-admits-it-over-reported-amount-of-carbon-captured-at-flagship-project-for-years/

@TheAbbotTrithemius

Agreed. They managed to convey sweeping topical range, tremendous narrative control, and deep themes in everything they produced. A standard-bearer for so much to follow.

Today, we've got another piece from the 1940s, this time in the middle of World War II. It's extraordinary how much nuance was possible in film-making at the time, compared to many portraits of Jingoism in mainstream media today.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp can be viewed two ways, depending on how well you know your military history--and it offers lessons that continue to matter to our understanding of war today.

#War #Film #History #MediaLiteracy #Propaganda

https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/the-layered-propaganda-of-colonel

Newsletter written by hand while oot n aboot. Now home to write it up and post!

(Nice change of pace, though. I love the difference in thinking that comes from writing freehand.)

@AskTheDevil

Well that sucks loads, Luce. 🫂

Just because you don't have someone to lean on in the way you need, doesn't mean the needs you have don't matter.

You are a full person (Legion?) of worth, even if you're being used day in and day out right now as a functional support object by those around you.

And you deserve to move toward situations where your full personhood is seen and honoured - even if the road to that end is long and hard right now. 🫂

Never forget that you deserve more.

@AskTheDevil

🫂

The Devil deserves his due, too.

Are you able to do something for yourself today, after shouldering such a heavy, if also valuable load for others?

@corlin

Thank you for sharing the mood you're moving through.

It's not just by the river now; it floats along a deeper human current, too.

May its passage through you be gentle.

May you be gentle with yourself, as it's passing through.

Well that "brief chat" was 2.5 hours long.

🙂

And very very very promising!

Walkies, then newsletterin', then story submittin'. This will have been a good day.

@matuzalem

I sense... sarcasm in the Force. 🤔

Today's piece is going to be on The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), but good grief, does it ever suck sometimes to be reminded that we've done all this before. We humans never learn.

@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN

💪🏻 Hot dog. Well done, SAM!

@matuzalem

Así es. Gracias primo. :)

@matuzalem

Es impresionante, cierto? La gran mayoría del mundo no es tan diferente. Hay paisajes aquí que también puedes encontrar en muchos otros lugares. :)

O mejor dicho: el mundo es un pañuelo!

I was too busy running (🥳) for any photos this morning, so have a merry set of roadside moocows from yesterday.

I have a mysterious meeting in a few hours (no idea what the topic is; the organizer just wants to have a "brief chat"), and tons of other work to cram in before it happens.

May your days be splendid and your weeks, spooky - except when it comes to electoral discourse, which is haunted enough!

@AskTheDevil

Is it the World?

The World bothers me, too

Some days I pass as normal.

Other days you can catch me muttering a word to myself over and over, because I just love how it feels to say it, until I forget what it means.

Assiduously
Assiduously
Assiduously

In other news, I've got two emails to schedule before bed, and then I hope I can leap up at dawn and go for a run to start a full day off right. It's been a while, but I'd once again like to live more... oh, gosh, I feel like there's a word for this... 🤔 Eh, it'll come to me!

Night CoSo!

@thedisasterautist

Do the sleeps well!

Rise in victory, or at least in good health!

@Toni_Walker

Now that is a stunner of a compliment! You've got a gift for them, Toni. 👌🏻