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More context about me beyond the bio (1/2): *The environment is what I study, and the bulk of my replies/reposts will likely be devoted to it * Another major interest is (military) history: I first joined here to follow @bretdevereaux.bsky.social * Whenever I review something, I'll post about it

Post your Arab colleagues/predecessors "Muawia was born to Badeah Sukkar and Muhamed Nor Al-Deen Barazangi on 14 September 1941. He grew up in the city of Damascus, Syria, and graduated in 1965 from the University of Damascus with a bachelor’s degree in physics and earth sciences with distinction."

Mamdani leak NYT editor: "launched term “Clinton Cackle” with an over 900-word account on her laugh "public editor criticized “jarring, sexualized top” in article titled “A Convention Speech, Not a Bodice Ripper.” "Healy’s widely-panned (and subsequently rewritten) report presented Trump speech

This is actually a pretty minor lapse by @nytimes.com standards; usually when they do one of these undecided voter stories it turns out to be a literal card-carrying local Republican Party official.

An Arab chemist won the Nobel Prize literally last year. RFK is not only a bigot, he's a stupid ignorant one. (Remember, this is the dude who claimed COVID was engineered to spare Jews and Asians.)

1. Lose election 2. Assume Trump will steal election for him 3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election 4. Oh shit oh fuck

It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!

EU AMO ESSES DOIS EU AMO TODO MUNDO QUE CONQUISTOU ESSA VIRADA OBRIGADA BRASIL

Here's Lula celebrating tonight with Erika Hilton, a transgender politician who led the drive to end the six-day work week in Brazil. Erika showed workers solidarity, they showed her solidarity back. Solidarity is how fascism loses.

www.braziloffice.org/en/articles/...

For those not in Brazil... what happened: - Mayors aligned to him, reduced public transport in areas where Lula had a better voter turnout - Flavio's campaign requested a time extension to allow everyone to vote - The head of the electoral authority, selected by HIS FATHER, granted his request 🤷‍♀️

It is darkly hilarious how many Westerners will describe these people as liberals: they believe in strict hierarchy, rule by divine right, socially conservative structures that politically disempower groups, "innate" inequality, etc. Of course, all arw vehemently opposed to democracy and equality.

We also need about 100X more discussion on how the Notre Dame Cathedral was getting built up right as a genocide to rival the Mongols was taking place on the other side of what we now call France.

"because Kurdistan would be a reliable ally in a hostile region, because Kurdistan would reduce the West’s reliance on Russia for its energy needs, and because we should prove we’re serious about extending human rights and liberal democracy..." - this, but for carving Provence out of Le Pen's France

When people like Anne Applebaum talk about the far-right they don't mean the Middle East because they exceptionalize the region so much that its developments exist outside time. The region is filled with far-right leaders that she happens to support.

There's the real intelligence and there's the Israeli "intelligence"

A new peer-reviewed estimate of what data centres will pump out in climate pollution - Between 300 to 1,300 mtco2-e per year, by 2035 (IEA scenarios) Mckinsey scenarios: - 3,000 by 2035 - 30,000 by 2045 arxiv.org/pdf/2608.14421 limited.systems/articles/ai-...

Few people like killing animals, & nobody who likes it should work in conservation. But sadly, as Euan explains, it can be necessary. Some people think that choosing not to kill invasive animals is a passive kindness, but it’s a cruel choice to not help the native animals killed by invasive animals.

Tag yourself, I’m ghost toast

It’s not the biggest problem with this idea but it’s dumb all around.

This 🤡

Meh. It's been done, no AI needed.

This is the guy who thought the delta variant was 😂 for kids.

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You can add Spain November 29th

It’s enraging that Ilhan Omar is being put through this, but she deserves so much credit for punching back. She’s doing her best to make it COST Trump and co for their persecution and lies. “Pedophile protection party,” hell yes. Calling out DOJ corruption, same. If they want a fight, hit ‘em hard.

Good thread surveying the current context of solar and the trajectory towards net zero. Very long but worthwhile reading, disappointed I missed it when it was first posted!

TFW Rahmstorf endorses your statistics ...

There’s no discussion of potential penalties in this article, but if people don’t go to jail for flagrant illegality like this, it will keep happening. For companies like Google, fines are just another cost of doing business. Something to toss on the balance sheet and weigh against profits.

The seeds for this have been sown for awhile I remember a pastor who I otherwise liked giving a sermon in the late 2000s about a poor kid stealing a watch to give to his mother for Christmas and the entire point was that our natural sympathies can't be trusted and must be calibrated to God's Word

bring back shame

Now that I’m actually developing games, I should get back to the idea I had based on this a decade ago.

Discussed here

Thread of the day ❤️

What we already know is a Jess Wilson-led Liberal Party will scrap Victoria's Treaty process that's been 10 years in the making & ongoing That's sufficient information to take a decision Will public institutions, civic orgs & leaders committed to Walking with First Nations honour their commitment❓️

I looked up this writer's other columns and it seems like she's really good at finding men who belong in the plastic Magneto prison

That is nuts obviously. But the falsehood that really got me was that she says the BoE outlined its QT programme the day before the “mini” Budget on 22 Sept 2022 and didn’t inform ministers. Er…. It was on 1 Sept 2022 and in the public domain www.bankofengland.co.uk/markets/mark...

“I’m leaving for the only place that hasn’t been corrupted by Blairism. SPACE!!

In addition to everything Juan Linz said, the best thing about parliamentary systems is that if an obviously stupid and insane person somehow becomes PM they can be quickly removed before the damage they do becomes irreversible.

read this wild piece but, I assure you, context does not help explain this