Chris Phillips

Deadass Mad Max-style landscape photography coming down from Mars today

Of course it is, and Trump's aimless war has just made things worse.

Horrific

25 October 1894 | A Polish Jew, Samuel Wachs, was born in Nowy Sącz. In #Auschwitz from 29 December 1941. No. 25139 He perished in the camp on 19 January 1942. --- Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U

Kenyan environmental activist Phyllis Omido is known as the “East African Erin Brockovich.” Her multi-year fight against toxic lead pollution from a battery smelter transformed her from a plant employee into one of #Africa’s leading environmental justice advocates.

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Wildflowers in infrared. #photography #flowers #infrared #classicmono

Physicist Dr. Marguerite Perey discovered the element francium in 1939. First woman elected to the French Académie des Sciences, 1962--an honor denied to her mentor Marie Curie. She was born #OTD in 1909 & is among the 72 women to be honored with an inscription on the Eiffel Tower. #WomenInSTEM

The invincible airplane

New way climate change makes life suck more just dropped.

You may have seen reports about the campaign for charities to be more 'transparent' about who funds them. Well it turns out the mysterious new right-wing think tank behind it won't say who funds or runs them, and used fake names for the authors of the report which launched their campaign

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Wanna get high?!

No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.

In 1987 Trump visited Moscow. Since then, "He has changed his mind about abortion and crypto, he has supported different political parties, but his dislike of America’s democratic allies and his preference for Russia have remained remarkably consistent." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Were public toilet walls the @Twitter of the 18th century? Maximillian Novak on how a little-known book of “latrinalia” offers a unique and fascinating window into Georgian life: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/tales-from-the-boghouse

For #spacetober_challenge day 11 prompt crew or cargo spacecraft, my portrait of mathematician, aeronautical engineer, philanthropist and Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 👩🏻‍🔬🎢🔭🧪🐡 #histsci ⁠ Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead

41. Achieving a low-carbon transition, for most countries, will not look like winning a war or marching while waving flags. It is the ability to say "no thank you, we do not want what you are selling" to the petrostates, and walking (or cycling, or taking a bus, or driving an EV) away.

As I assume you also wonder what "healthy reef sound" sounds like, I got you covered. https://soundcloud.com/user-248456662/new-moon-coral-reef-sounds​

This is a public service announcement for junior non-U.S. (based) political scientists. You will see several jobs advertised at U.S. universities that are in (relatively) new Centers for “Civil Leadership” or “Western Thought” etc. These are GOP-created Centers with a clear political motivation!

NY Dems: "Woke 1 went too far! We can't abolish the police! We need what cops do in our cities! 🤡 But we must abolish ICE!" Who is Kyle Rittenhouse? The guy whose mom gave him an AR to go and kill people at a BLM protest in Kenosha. But why was there a BLM protest in Kenosha? What happened there?

Surprise!! This is a terrible decision.

#Iran Torat Mohammadi was executed on the morning of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, without prior notice to his family and without a final visit with his wife and four children; judicial authorities and the official media of the Islamic Republic have not yet made an announcement.

1/ Hundreds of Russian soldiers near Lyman surrendered because they were starving and drinking their own urine, according to first-hand accounts from frontline soldiers. The officers are said to have taken the radios and ran away, while ordering the men not to retreat. ⬇️

“This is what mother nature can do to you when you upset her. She doesn’t even spare the mothers.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

4/ But over the next 10 weeks, I’d mimic the patterns of a problem gambler with the help of a panel of gambling experts and learn just how much DraftKings would encourage my recklessness — and just how little pushback I’d get as I spiraled downward.

Just seen Danny Tommo referred to as "Captain Thugwash" and seriously, that's excellent work.

Not a moment of peace in this household!

Possession of an offensive weapon, reckless endangerment, criminal damage ... Let's hope the police take this seriously. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Not to mention the cost of having to buy cheaper goods in emergencies - 20 quid kettle will last no longer than 2 yr, 50 quid 6yr and counting! Same with cheap clothes - also generally less sustainable/healthy.

“In the next few months, the government will decide whether to cancel Palantir’s NHS contract. And right now we’re daring to hope they might.” https://goodlaw.social/k4ck

Scientists in Ghana are set to “see” beneath the soil surface in real time for the first time, using a new technology expected to improve climate-resilient farming and deepen understanding of how water and nutrients move underground. ghanaiantimes.com.gh/scientists-t...

Please share. #LongCovid

This needs sharing. The true face of racism masquerading as 'concerns'.

Thanks to @umassamherst.bsky.social Office of Global Affairs for this article on the paper on integrated crop and cargo war risk insurance, with a focus on Ukraine, and its impact I wrote with @isenbergumass.bsky.social PhD student Ismael Pour & Prof. Boris Kormych. www.umass.edu/global-affai...

We must stand up to the erosion of knowledge production by indiscriminate underhand tactics from unscrupulous AI vendors. Time to go open weight. mathandai.org

⚠️ NEWS: Britain "Not Ready" For Nuclear War. Please share this important update. 🙏

So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

#Rhodes Greece, May 2026. By me 🥰❤️