Dave

Dave

@redskyforge.bsky.social

Energy, decline and decay, golden retrievers and lately a kitten.

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Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!

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An innovative floating offshore solar project that generates electricity and converts seawater into drinking water. The farm near Gran Canaria produces 85 MW of renewable electricity while using that same power to operate reverse osmosis systems that desalinate seawater #ActOnClimate #renewables

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MISSED CONNECTION: You were leaving the dog park, I was arriving. Our eyes met... There were sparks. I need to see you again. My chip # is 148A27J98614Z. Have your person track me.

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This is Winnie. He got so excited that he briefly forgot how to be a dog. You can laugh, but he'd like to point out you look this ridiculous all the time. 13/10 (TT: brisbreaks)

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The middle ages were not brown. By today's standards, the middle ages were often disgustingly colorful. Poorer people were more limited in the range and vibrancy of their wardrobe, but blues and greens and reds and yellows were all accessible. Only the very poorest had to start with undyed garments.

Can you think of a movie/ tv trope that is a wildly inaccurate representation of what they’re trying to depict? For me, it’s science stuff . They’ll show a scientist and say something like “ he has a ph. D in molecular biology “ and then have him solving physics or organic chemistry problems

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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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🔥 Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat is on fire in Bashkortostan after an attack by the Defense Forces. This is one of the largest oil refining complexes in the Russian Federation with a capacity of 10 million tons of raw materials per year.

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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: In a stunning admission, the FBI just confirmed to me the existence of training videos instructing FBI analysts on what to redact in the Epstein Files. I’ll show you the letter and discuss the massive implications in one hour. Link below: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

muellershewrote.comBREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: FBI Admits it has Epstein Files Training VideosIn a letter sent to me in response to my Freedom of Information Act Request, the FBI admits to having training videos that it failed to release under the Epstein Files Transparency Act

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🇺🇦🔥 SBU hit more than 10 military, logistics and fuel facilities last night. ▪️ Two patrol boats of the project 12150 "Mangust" in the Black Sea; ▪️ Hangars with military equipment at"Bagerov" air base in Crimea; ▪️ 3 stationary radar stations used by the enemy to detect unmanned boats and UAVs; 1/2

"QSO1 is very likely a glowing black hole packing a mass of tens of millions of suns into a span of at most 100 light-years across" That's unimaginably, unfathomably huge

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Every morning, this critically endangered Red Ruffed Lemur spreads its arms and sunbathes for up to 40 minutes to warm up instead of burning internal energy. Only 2,500 left in the wild.

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Gasoline shortages are spreading across fuel stations in different Russian regions, where 92 and 95 octane fuel is disappearing from pumps. #Russia

We need more electrostates

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social

Electrofficiency: electric tech is far more efficient than the fossil tech it replaces. A heat pump, an EV, an induction hob, same job on a fraction of the energy. That’s why electrification taking centre stage at COP matters. Excellent piece in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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China went from ~11% electricity in 2000 to nearly 30% in 2024. Fastest in the Global South by far. Indonesia is the other big mover, up nearly 17 percentage points from a low base, while India added a bit over 8 points. More in Bright Spots: janrosenow.substack.com

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The electricity-to-gas price ratio is the biggest barrier to electrifying European homes. Heat pumps deliver ~3 units of heat per unit of electricity. The maths works in Sweden but not everywhere. Much of gap is policy. More analysis in my forthcoming Substack newsletter janrosenow.substack.com

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i believe that harnessing solar energy is immoral. that energy does not belong to us, it belongs to the sun, and it's going to come back to get it when it consumes the earth in several billion years. don't take what isn't yours. you don't need lights at night if you just remember where everything is

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US [to dog]: You don't have to bark at random people passing the house. DOG: I'm protecting us. US: Of course, but-- DOG: Have you ever been murdered in your beds? US: ...no. DOG: YOU'RE WELCOME. #dogsofbluesky #doglife #dogs

Aye, on the shores of darkness there is light,   And precipices show untrodden green;There is a budding morrow in midnight;   There is triple sight in blindness keen