Hugo Flávio

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Lula Goes HARD

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! It takes 2 weeks to confirm ocean sea surface temperatures and the long wait is finally over. The first day in recorded history with Nino 3.4 SST at or above 30.0°C is now officially on the record. October 7, 2026: 30.000°C. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...

A police officer in France fired a tear gas grenade at a high school student’s face, breaking his jaw and destroying many of his teeth. The incident outside a school in a Parisian suburb last month stirred a national outcry. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/w...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Depois de uma madrugada marcada por uma violenta carga policial, centenas de manifestantes ocupam a Praça D. João I para voltar a exigir respostas para habitação

Toronto bike lane removal. When your infrastructure project has huge police protection and the contractors hide the logos on their trucks and gear, you are in the wrong.

A protester just slapped a "for sale" sign over this welcome sign back in my home town and I think that's beautiful.

Cyber attack on French supermarket fridges raises alarm over food security ft.trib.al/CtRFMT6

He thinks icebergs and glaciers are the same thing, right?

the tech industry is about to invent books

Most people are underreacting to this El Niño.

The fish thinks the pond was made for it When actually it was made by the pond

From a discussion of updating a department website...

Upholding international law isn’t optional - it’s our responsibility. #UNGA81

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Q: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world-- TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also

The SciArt Feed is only 14 Likes away from 4,800 Likes! 1. Tap the link below 2. Tap the 3 dots on the top right 3. Tap the 🩷 4. Win at the internet because you like SciArt Note: Liking the welcome skeet doesn't count; neither does pinning. But pin it all the same!

I’ve spoken to many reporters who are frustrated that even though they sometimes mention that the extreme events they’re reporting on are due to climate change and make the link to fossil fuels, people get upset when they don’t. The solution is to mention it every time, even if it seems repetitive.

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

You can use this UN-approved Equal Earth projection right now in #rstats #gis #databs

Lake Ontario

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

pfffft, renaming the smallest of the Lakes America? weak

Trump says he might change the names of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans next

JUST IN: Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” The laughingstock of the world.

Update: lol

There is currently a Wikipedia edit war on the Great Lakes Wikipedia pages because everything is so stupid

Parents, what would you do with four hours of child-free time? 
We launched a Parents’ Night Out program with NYC Parks to give NYC parents a little time back for themselves, because we’re committed to making it easier to raise a family in the greatest city in the world.

We may hit 3.5C sea surface temperature anomaly in September. The planet you were born in no longer exists

📢 New publication alert! Animal movement data can transform how we track biodiversity change. A new article calls for integrating movement insights into global biodiversity indicators. Proud to see OTN’s @jdpye.bsky.social co-author this work, helping rep the marine movement community. rdcu.be/foMed

FreeCAD 1.1.2 is out. Bugfix release only, no new features, but 32% of the patches fix BIM and core issues, and 12% are security fixes. Recommended update for everyone! blog.freecad.org/2026/07/23/freecad-1-1-2-released/ Support the project: wiki.freecad.org/Donate #FreeCAD #CAD #OpenSource

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Jesus Christ, this is quite possibly the worst things that prediction markets could do.

Breaking News! Code: y-axis alert. Nino 3.4 SST is now up to 3.63 SD above the 1991-2020 baseline, about 1-in-7000 in the absence of anthropogenic warming. There's not enough room in a single post to express just how crazy this is. Please read: climatecasino.substack.com/p/some-monst...

hello yes I need the capacity to like and repost this several times.

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"