Absorber the Geek

“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years. Let’s increase taxes to pay for net zero. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give huge renewable energy construction contracts to China. Lets fail to improve gas storage facilities, Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1billion this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

Trump’s top two goals in the war: (1) No Iranian nuclear weapon. (2) The Strait of Hormuz is open for business. Just a friendly reminder that we already had both before the war.

If you study the rise and fall of empires the two most important things are ships and salt. Now the UK barely has either.

Tonight, Parliament will join landmarks across the world taking part in Earth Hour 2026 🌍 All non-essential lights will be switched off from 8:30pm to 9:30pm to raise awareness of environmental issues.

Israel reportedly struck Iran’s Khondab Heavy Water Nuclear Complex this evening.

Trump can TACO, burrito and chimichanga, but nothing will open Hormuz unless Iran wants it open. We can’t go home with Hormuz shut and missiles raining down on our friends. The only way out, is through Iran.. As scary as that sounds, I think we’re going to mobilize serious boots on the ground. That takes 6+ months. No one’s portfolio is positioned for half a year of this chaos…

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran has sent an official letter to the UN Security Council warning that if the U.S. attacks, ALL American bases, facilities, and assets in the region become legitimate targets. The letter, dated today and signed by Iran's UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani, states: → Trump's public threat to use Diego Garcia and RAF Fairford to strike Iran is a "flagrant violation" of the UN Charter and international law → Iran has engaged "constructively, with seriousness and in good faith" in nuclear talks → The military buildup "must not be treated as mere rhetoric, it signals a real risk of military aggression" → Iran "will not initiate any war" but if attacked, it will respond "decisively and proportionately" under Article 51 self-defense → In such a scenario, "all bases, facilities, and assets of the hostile force in the region would constitute legitimate targets" → "The United States would bear full and direct responsibility for any unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences" This is a formal warning to every member of the Security Council.

The crows have circled and then left Tel Aviv. ⌛️✡️

I am just a guy that likes making my maps but I do feel somewhat compelled to say that Iran has a particularly good power grid, and gas distribution network. Like nearly impossible to destroy. I mean, I think Iran has a better gas transmission footprint than Canada. I know know who this tweet is for, but maybe these maps are helpful. In 2017, Iran exported 7,871 GWh and imported ~4 kWh, mainly exporting to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Iran's 4.3MWh per capita of annual electricity consumption is actually in-line with the UK at 4.6MWh per capita, and ~25% ahead of countries like Brazil and South Africa. Attacking a very hardened system like this, and opening the Gulf up to attacks on far more single-failure-point assets -- seems wildly, WILDLY stupid.