But We Can All Feel Pious While Freezing In The Dark
In discussions of Net Zero, I’ve previously mentioned the pleasingly hard-nosed energy analyst Kathryn Porter.
Here she is being interviewed by the chaps at Triggernometry:
This Isn’t Science, It’s Ideology – Kathryn Porter
Watch the full episode with @KathrynPorter26, right here on X. pic.twitter.com/SLQB9l9Evb
— TRIGGERnometry (@triggerpod) September 28, 2025
“Excuse my language, but are they fucking mental…?”
“Yes.”
It’s ninety minutes, but time well spent and dense with information. Much of it of an eye-widening kind.
Ms Porter’s YouTube channel can be found here.
She’s smart and sensible. Did she set off the alarm?
I’m now trying to imagine a conversation between Ms Porter and, er, Ed Miliband.
Or Ed fucking Miliband, as I believe he’s properly known.
The part on blackouts is horrifying. I remember the 1970s.
It won’t be fun. And on our current trajectory, it’s a very real possibility, along with energy rationing and other third-world scenarios. Conceivably, someone will have to decide which towns and cities to plunge into freezing darkness this week. And ecological pieties, however loudly announced, will not stop little old ladies from dying, or avert economic ruin.
And again, the nation’s hopes are pinned on Labour and Ed fucking Miliband. It’s almost funny, like some dark farce.
It’s worth noting, I think, that Ms Porter mentions niceness as being a euphemism for unrealistic and hopelessly wrong-headed. As I said in an earlier thread, regarding common assumptions and reactions to pretty much any demurral:
This is where we are.
As Typepad is due to shut down today, Mick Hartley has a new blog.
“The government doesn’t run the country. I think people need to understand that.”
The part on blackouts is horrifying. I remember the 1970s.
I was between my junior year and senior year of high school in the Bronx during the Summer of 1977.
Son of Sam, sweltering heat, and then – the big blackout and looting. As I recall, that was the first time in my childhood that a blackout was used to start stealing and trashing neighborhoods. My father joined the other men in our neighborhood to grab what they could and protect what you Brits call the high street (and we called “Bainbridge and Two Fourth”) in our neighborhood should the savages venture that far north in the borough. Fortunately, that did not happen.
And on our current trajectory, it’s a very real possibility, along with energy rationing and other third-world scenarios.
God bless the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and its embrace of nuclear power.
Sorry if this has been posted before, but I simply love the eloquence of Jo’s burn here.
Which reminds me, I should probably update the blogroll when I get a minute. If anyone has suggestions – sites that may be of interest to regulars here – by all means let me know.
Blogroll suggestions:
Tell Me How This Ends (Chris Bray, chrisbray.substack.com)
Bad Cattitude (El Gato Malo, boriquagato.substack.com)
Laughed, not sorry.
Three visible comets at one time does seem a tad portentous.
[Copied from end of previous thread]
Owner of this place no doubt headed to the slammer.
It’s a bit of a slog, but I found Meredith Angwin’s Shorting the Grid worth the time.
And so, our left-leaning media uses the term “rant.” Because of course it does.
It’s civil rights, you know.
Not now, visible comets!
“If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast”.
–General William Tecumseh Sherman on reporters
The above is one of the two most famous things General Sherman said (the other is “war is Hell”) and yet it cannot be found in Wikipedia and Wikiquote.
Thus, the same quote applies equally well to Wikipedia editors.
Civil rights seem to be absent any, you know, civility.
Suggestion: Encourage all the loonies to move there. Then build a wall around it.
Cf. On the corruption of Wikipedia. in Friday Ephemera (786)
Then fill it in.
European royalty through the ages heartily agree with this study.
[ Waves farewell to old blog. ]
Fun fact no doubt unknown to whatever dolt wrote that, but the word in question in some vernacular also referred to the corresponding female anatomy which, without knowing that, makes some of the songs of Lucille Bogan (AKA Bessie Jackson) confusing.
Many of her songs are on the yootoobs, look up at your own risk.
Better: sealed gates, gun emplacements, and cameras. It can be the progtard version of The Truman Show.
She actually leaves them speechless.
Well, such is the perversity of the situation. On so many fronts. The sheer wrongheadedness of it.
Front Page follows Simon Webb?
Expensive and, as most if not all of the audience would be inside the wall, redundant.
Pretty much.
Expensive and, as most if not all of the audience would be inside the wall, redundant.
Defense in depth, can’t go wrong.
I think the channel could be used as an object lesson.
Final defense layer: Sterilize them.
Brit card.
As a wee seedling, a cold house and compulsory darkness soon lost any charming novelty. Usually when trying to read by candlelight, or when you could no longer postpone a trip upstairs to the dark, freezing bathroom.
So hey, there’s that to look forward to.
Brit card.
Not to worry, if they come after you all you have to do is put a chair under the door knob to prevent this.
Blackouts: in New York state, the state has prevented gas pipelines from being laid or fracking being done. Now that the gas companies will no longer hook up new construction to gas lest the pressure crash, they are upset. In the same way, if there are blackouts they will blame the energy companies. Because they willfully remain ignorant of how things work.
Re “crime is fun”: the victim tried to reason with the thug. “I have a right to be here.” A natural reaction, but why would a low-life care? I don’t know what should be done in a situation like that, but in my later years I have come to the conclusion that actually trying to reason with people is often a bad idea.
My mother lived in an apartment which was so cold in winter that she wore her winter coat indoors, in bed, while studying.
It is time to declare that the thugs have no right to be here–or anywhere.
See also this, from which:
And,
So, vigorous kicking it is.
[ Cough. ] Blogroll suggestions. [ Cough. ]
I’m old enough to remember the 1965 Blackout. I was 5 years old. Granny Fanny was babysitting. We watched for mom and dad’s return from work by the front window.
James Lyndsay’s newdiscourses.com
Jordan Peterson’s jordanbpeterson.com/blog/
The Other Half is watching the 1977 BBC adaptation Count Dracula starring Louis Jourdan. It’s an odd mix of the inspired and the tedious. Much like the novel, I suppose. And very 70s.
Some of the video effects are in Top of the Pops territory.
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When he’s climbing down the wall…
Heh. Yes, the scenes of Dracula convulsing his way down the outside of the castle, like some enormous bat, are still surprisingly effective. It seems to be the bit that people remember. And the production is fairly faithful to the novel.
Though that’s very much a mixed blessing.