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This illustrates exactly how the term, 'Covid' has come to mean, 'the non-pharmaceutical interventions adopted during the emergency phase of the pandemic', not the disease itself. The 'Covid effect' mentioned in the piece is actually acute C-19 and its sequelae. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Mars Orbit 23 - Hope Mission - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mz7dDJ
⚡️ Update: Ukrainian soldier whose throat was cut by Russian forces found safe after disappearing from hospital. Vladyslav Nahornyi's wife told Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne that her husband had been found safe and was now with her.
@simonoxfphys.com At least your video probably doesn't also have this horrible news, or a million other living nightmares. Take some time off, and talk to people who can help you regain your ethical center.
Indonesia is fast-tracking a plan to turn 7 million acres of rainforest and wetland into rice and sugarcane plantations. Critics say it is the largest deforestation project on Earth and will upend the lives of thousands of Indigenous people.
MARS PHOENIX MISSION - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iMXita
Say goodbye to fake reviews!👋 We welcome the Code of Conduct for Online Ratings and Reviews for Tourism Accommodation. Only real guests can leave reviews, ensuring clearer, fairer, and more reliable information for everyone. A win for travellers and accommodation providers ↓ europa.eu/!r8TDmp
California - - Downtown LA, Hollywood area is "Hotel California" - 45 min - 1 h to get there, 1 h to get to downtown, and another hour to get back to where you started. - Sacramento is fucking sadistic with 5 min waits at stop lights, too, you'll - never - go more than a block before waiting again.
“Our destiny by all accounts and historical records has always been to self-annihilate” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Technically it's - Kegsbreath - that screwed everyone... Not that he'll remember, since the hangover never goes away. 😞
This is so anti-military and anti-veteran. This is not what the National Guard was intended for.
Crikey! You might be right, mate !
Saturn: Naked - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/mfq3Kb
Religious extremism ends the same no matter the flavour. . . . Current in Afghanistan: www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/women... Project 2025 USA: www.project2025.observer/en
“Today as we witness the aftermath of a millennia-long relentless ecological and environmental holocaust, some still choose to call this disaster a “civilisation”. As a biologist I prefer to refer to it by its scientific term:a quickly escalating pest infestation” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Snapshot of the Star that Changed the Universe - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/9LgZfQ
Full report here: actuaries.org.uk/media/wqeftm...
Opportunity (14) - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKTQ6Y
⚡️ NATO launches new command in Finland near Russian border. The alliance's Multi-Corps Land Component Command (MCLCC) in Mikkeli, Finland, strengthens NATO's footprint in its new northern member state.
🌎 Fresh data just in from space: the first results from the Microwave Sounder and Radio Occultation Sounder onboard @eumetsat.int’s MetOp-SG-A1 satellite are here, after less than a month in orbit: esa.int/Applications... 📸Eumetsat
Tories Ditched Net Zero Commitment While Receiving £250,000 from Oil Investors and Climate Deniers
In Lesotho, the potato is now a symbol of national transformation. With support from @fao.org and His Majesty King Letsie III of Lesotho, FAO Special Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition, the project is empowering rural women and youth. #FAO80 #1Country1Product
⚡️ Ukraine liberates village near Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, military says. Ukrainian forces cleared out Russian troops from the Donetsk Oblast village of Udachne and raised the Ukrainian flag in the settlement, the military reported.
When that was made offical, the Roman pseudo-English won the war against the northern Kelt people. The Ravens have flown away. Thistle dies, now begins to rot. Clover is dying, So is the dragon. 12025-09-01 T19:29 PDST Z-8
"Scotland’s frontline health and care staff will no longer be an automatic priority for receiving the COVID vaccine, the latest update to the Scottish government’s winter vaccination programme has revealed." healthandcare.scot/stories/4265...
Why not, Russia did; Orange T, Heritage Foundation... Like every other abusive relationship, it looks normal in public, especially to a gullible (median uneducated), predatory population that spends its entire work life in sales ("A client saying "no" is an invalid answer" says corporate).
Please remember:
Keeping clocks an hour fast can’t stop nature’s cycles. “Daylight Saving Time” saves no daylight. #DitchDST
“We should keep Standard Time. It’s the natural way; we’ve thrived on that for hundreds of thousands of years. Permanent Daylight Saving Time is absurd.” —Jeffrey Rose, clinical hypnotist, sleep counselor, and advocate for sleep health. Thank you! #DitchDST
Preferences may vary by (and even within) individuals, but time is best defined objectively by the sun.
“In the United States alone, the ‘Daylight Saving Time’ effect implies a one-day loss of $31 billion on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ exchanges.” #DitchDST
Ohh, you're a furry are you? OK Sit like a dog, then use your back foot to scratch an itch on your elbow. Too, scratch an itch behind your ear with your foot.
3 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 5 hours, 44 minutes, and 56 seconds ▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 15.24%
There are entire technologies dedicated to helping prevent us from making stupid mistakes. I wish they could come up for one that prevents fascism.
This is the world that people like JK Rowling, Matt Walsh, and Jesse Singal work every day to achieve
I know landscape photographers who will refuse to shoot mountains & lakes without clouds - flat out refuse 'there's no drama'. If a glacial fed mountain lake & NZ's tallest peak with an atmospheric inversion layer or smoke across a dead calm lake isn't drama, I don't know what is. #NZ #Photography
There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social
It's probably the best thing I ever made. It costs me multiple dollars a year to keep going. You're welcome.
Kia ora #Kikorangi! Are you in a 15 minute city? Check out the Access Explorer to find out! access.resilience-explorer.com This is something me and my colleagues have been working on for the last couple of months, hope you find it useful!
This has to be the most 2025 headline so far of this crazy year. www.bbc.com/news/article...
summarizing my feelings about the last 10 years of tech as: i do not want my tools to guess
Today, we remember and celebrate Janey Godley.
Re-upping this given the news that our beloved US icebreaker N.B.Palmer, whose portal I took this pic from, may be lost from science.
ni-, like Nick -che, like check Ni(t)ch, or Nietzsche - In Greek, -oi- (omicron iota), o is silent, therefore... voila = vila, like mansion. Unless V-ol-ya, like the flower.
Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.
"Aotearoa" comes before "Australia" alphabetically - but sure use the Dutch name.
Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!" Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere -"CO2 is plant food!" -pretty hard to eat when you're on fire -"Climate has changed before!" -We know, we told you that -"Scientists don't know everything!" - doesn't mean we know *nothing*
WEIGHT DOESN'T MATTER! An actual good video about towing with EVs (Psst, ads don't play if you watch the video on BlueSky - go on click it it's fine - nothing bad will happen)
Just a reminder that tsunamis aren't just one wave. This tide gauge in Alaska has recorded 5 hours of surges so far from the Kamchatka quake - still more to come!
I love renewable energy tech because it's either "use quantum mechanics and semiconductor physics to leverage the photoelectric effect" or "put three spinny things on a stick"
The Pacific is still ringing three days later!
Kamchatka tsunami still bouncing around the Pacific 4 days later!
Got the yearly thing sent in the mail (California), for what electric sources we want. While the semi-environmental one is cheaper than full ecological this year, I noticed that it included hydropower, while the full ecological one did not. - Foresight's optometrist, is hindsight.
The heatwave in Sodankylä has now lasted for 26 days. This is probably not only the longest heatwave in Lapland, but also the longest heatwave ever observed in Finland. Note that here a heatwave is defined with 3 consecutive days above 90th percentile, which is scientifically robust definition.
Summoning @theoctopuslady.bsky.social !!! Mattias needs your help to teach his octopus to play the piano!!!
It's an - organic * - , free range, sustainably used, locally sourced guillotine. 😍 - * Both wood and steel have carbon in the molecule, hence, it's organic.
Back in the day, they used sticks, not carrots, to incentivise the rich to be good people
I understand why "renewable energy is expensive" is lodged in so many brains. It is expensive *to set up* The trouble lies in stopping there. Help more people get to the important bit which is that it is NOT expensive to operate. That makes investment in those technologies cheaper in the long run.
Another one, using land for solar panels to power EVs instead of using it to grow corn or soy for biofuels to power gas vehicles reduces land use per mile driven by more than 99%
Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.
You might like @longnow.org (Long Now Foundation); 10,000 year planning.
There is no red li... woah
Climate model create by Exxon in 1982 absolutely nailing CO₂ and temperature rise 42 years later. #ExxonKnew
Along that note... The value of money is just an idea.
The world needs to prepare for the collapse of the US.
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
abcnews.go.com/Health/covid...
Sol 1077 - MSL MastCam - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/xeQ6fs
European Countries Smaller Than The Land Used For Roads & Parking In The US brilliantmaps.com/europe-vs...
Earth Day - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/2ov47BN
Close-up with the Rosette Nebula (Narrowband Colour) - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/VuN7BQ
This is worth reminding everyday!
Today is International Overdose Awareness Day As the US continues to criminalize substance use disorder, jails & prisons are described as de facto treatment facilities – but the reality couldn't be further from the truth Communities must prioritize public health, not punishment
I've never wished a man dead, but I have anticipated reading some obituaries with great pleasure. ~ Mark Twain, 2025 Edition
REP. BUDDY CARTER: We want to make sure that children are protected from trans and that we keep men out of girls' locker rooms REP. WESLEY BELL: So we're going back to attacking trans folks ... let's talk about what's actually happening here
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
Comic ✏ by Clay Jones Click here for more comics 👉 www.dailykos.com/blog/Comics
This is the kinda stuff right wing media said when Michelle Obama oversaw a school nutrition program fyi. Glenn Beck transcript is from 2010.
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
Discount codes and vibes.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN NORTH AFRICA Brutal heat continues unabated in the area since months: Tonight MINIMUMS uo to 34.4C at In Salah, ALGERIA Next days THOUSANDS of records will be wiped out in all North Africa, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Middle East Unprecedented in September
O'KEEFE: Are you planning beyond Chicago to expand these kinds of operations to other cities? There have been reports that Boston may be next KRISTI NOEM: I think there's a lot of cities that are dealing with crime and violence right now, so we haven't taken anything off the table
O'Keefe to Noem: "At least 20 people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees & they've been placed on administrative leave. Is it now the policy of DHS that anytime an employee puts their name on something criticizing you or POTUS, they should anticipate being put on leave or fired?"
Grapes 'Big Hit' At Area Picnic https://theonion.com/grapes-big-hit-at-area-picnic-1819568649/
JunoSRUImages - From Brian Swift (bswift.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jtHRbA
![Images from Juno Stellar Reference Unit PJ11_Image12,PJ13_Image11, PJ13_Image12, PJ14_Image11, PJ14_Image12, PJ15_Image12, PJ15_Image13, PJ16_Image19, PJ17_Image13 A Mathematica HistogramTransform[] operation has been applied to the images. The data for these images came from](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz5uoq2emhdgxcnndqq5our4/bafkreib3fptn3cyhfhu5juj5rp4arkxoeq3phuwyugjomdj4mqkpiksgii@jpeg "Click to view full size")
here's today's post: "Chicago cordially invites the Mad King to go fuck himself" — Chicago will not comply with Donny’s police state fascism. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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