#ClimateChange is here and it’s making new fire weather #Pyrocumulonimbus I hope Europe loses less flora & fauna than Australia did. You can still see the loss from space.

Kangaroo and Joey in Bushfire

Alt: Kangaroo and Joey in Bushfire

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Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 2d ago

Wildfires, drought and heatwaves make it abundantly clear: climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. Denying it is both dangerous and ridiculous https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/climate-crisis-daily-telegraph-wild-fires-b3025464.html

175200 million litres per year. 1,752,000 million litres over 10 years. 1.752 trillion litres, 1.752 cubic kilometres, 1.752 km³, 1,752 gigalitres. This massive amount equals about 700 Olympic-sized swimming pools. An entire ecosystem lives there. None of us would thrive in chlorinated water.

@caitbsky.bsky.social · 2d ago

What’s the point of having 3 Marine Sanctuaries to conserve the bay's biodiversity, if you’re going to dump chlorine wastewater in it every day for 10 years? So fucking stupid! A map of #Vopak Victoria Energy Terminal dumping up to 480 million litres of chlorinated seawater per day, for 10 years

What’s the point of having 3 Marine Sanctuaries to conserve the bay's biodiversity, if you’re going to dump chlorine wastewater in it every day for 10 years? So fucking stupid! A map of #Vopak Victoria Energy Terminal dumping up to 480 million litres of chlorinated seawater per day, for 10 years

@caitbsky.bsky.social · 2d ago

In addition to no #GasTax while taking a razor blade to essential services, now there’s a plan to IMPORT expensive gas, use an outdated method to process it in Port Phillip Bay, dumping chlorine wastewater in it every day for 10 years. GET THE FUCK OUT! NO WAY! 🤬 #VicPol #AusPol c.org/spCwgbsTcR

In addition to no #GasTax while taking a razor blade to essential services, now there’s a plan to IMPORT expensive gas, use an outdated method to process it in Port Phillip Bay, dumping chlorine wastewater in it every day for 10 years. GET THE FUCK OUT! NO WAY! 🤬 #VicPol #AusPol c.org/spCwgbsTcR

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Gavan@ornerygav.bsky.social · last wk.

A floating gas terminal in Port Philip bay?? #nofuckingway! c.org/JdfHnpzFsZ

#6BillionHumans #HeatWave #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalRisk #HumanDependencies #EnvironmentalDebt #Insurance #Actuaries #Consequences #GetOutTheVote 🗳️

Hugo@nonviolence.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Four to six billion humans will soon die." - Insurance companies and science "human activity is pushing Earth into a climate crisis that could threaten the lives of up to 6 billion people" www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...

“49,985 short-stay listings across the state compared to 22,347 long-term rentals” [223%] “Mid North Coast had 4,676 Airbnb listings to 584 long-term rentals” [800%] “Northern Rivers, which includes Byron Bay, had 5,303 Airbnb listings and 393 ongoing rentals” [1349%] #AusPol #AirBnB #Tax

Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 4d ago

Staggering amount of short term rentals and Ms Shields, running her rental business says it’s not the same thing. One is for short term and the other for long term and long term housing comes up far less frequently. I guess she’s a genius to figure this out. 😳 🤦‍♀️ #Housing

#4B

KateAllDaySTILL@buildaguillotine.bsky.social · 4d ago

Genuinely can't fucking wait for the global AH-HA! moment when everybody realizes over the course of about a year that... Women understand themselves, children, men, animals, nature and society. Men don't even understand themselves. And women can just... Withdraw society.

“49,985 short-stay listings across the state compared to 22,347 long-term rentals” [223%] “Mid North Coast had 4,676 Airbnb listings to 584 long-term rentals” [800%] “Northern Rivers, which includes Byron Bay, had 5,303 Airbnb listings and 393 ongoing rentals” [1349%] #AusPol #AirBnB #Tax

Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 4d ago

Staggering amount of short term rentals and Ms Shields, running her rental business says it’s not the same thing. One is for short term and the other for long term and long term housing comes up far less frequently. I guess she’s a genius to figure this out. 😳 🤦‍♀️ #Housing

I know a man who is a university lecturer doing Proper Science with zooplankton, and is also New Zealand's leading garden gnome historian. This seems fine to me.

#BugSky #BioDiversity I will never forgive America for the wonton destruction of scientific data. Book-burning banjo-playing 🤬🤬🤬 “Digitizing the past and present for the future” ends in August #Error404 835 Datasets 87,760,407 Occurrences 306 Publishers 1605 Collections 416 Institutions

@caitbsky.bsky.social · 4d ago

iDigBio Shutting down in August! Back up your own copies before the data is gone. #iDigBio ⚠️ #DataLoss ⚠️ #ScienceSky #AcademicSky #PhDSky #MedSky #GBIF #NSF #Research #Science #BiologicalSpecimens #IntegratedDigitizedBiocollections #GlobalBiodiversityInformationFacility ‼️ #ServersShuttingDown ‼️

iDigBio Shutting down in August! Back up your own copies before the data is gone. #iDigBio ⚠️ #DataLoss ⚠️ #ScienceSky #AcademicSky #PhDSky #MedSky #GBIF #NSF #Research #Science #BiologicalSpecimens #IntegratedDigitizedBiocollections #GlobalBiodiversityInformationFacility ‼️ #ServersShuttingDown ‼️

@mossworm.bsky.social · 5d ago

Just in case anyone on here still has images or other stuff hosted on the digital collections portal iDigBio, make sure you have your own copies. Servers are shutting down permanently on August 31st 2026. idigbio.gbif.us/post/2026/me...

Do yourself a favour today and block @lewisgoodall.com because he’s an absolute cockwomble and will waste the pixels on your screen 😵

Cat in Hard Hat Blocks Button

Alt: Cat in Hard Hat hits a big red Blocked Button Do yourself a favour today and block @lewisgoodall.com because he’s an absolute cockwomble and will waste the pixels on your screen.

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Killer T cells (CD8+) in Long Covid directed to SARS-CoV-2 and Herpes virus antigens are persistent and may have a causal role www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Persistent cytolytic CD8+ T cells recognize SARS-CoV-2 and herpesvirus epitopes in long COVID

Ma et al. perform deep-phenotyping of CD8+ T cells specific for viruses implicated in LC pathogenesis: SARS-CoV-2, CMV, and EBV. These T cells from LC individuals share features of terminal differenti...

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The National-led coalition government passed legislation in December 2023 to remove the requirement for the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) to support maximum sustainable employment when making monetary policy decisions. THEY are the Ghouls. The RBNZ now has NO mandate to protect workers #nzpol

I don’t care how respected you are as a person, science educator, author, artist, etc. If I find out that you are using generative AI in any aspect of your work, you lose all of my respect.

So uhh I have multiple pairs of these USB rechargeable hand warmers that just got recalled for fire and burn hazards that killed someone and some of you might too

OCOOPA Direct Recalls 1.5 Million Rechargeable Hand Warmers Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire and Burn Hazards; One Death Reported; Imported by Shenzhen Street Cat Technology

Consumers should stop using the recalled hand warmers immediately and contact OCOOPA Direct for a full refund in the form of an OCOOPA gift card or the original form of payment. Consumers will be aske...

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The FTC conducted a nearly 3-year investigation before filing a lawsuit.

Hims and Hers accused of sharing GLP-1 patients' health data with Meta

The FTC conducted a nearly 3-year investigation before filing a lawsuit.

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Rowling looming over a progressive Irish cultural festival with her menacing insinuations & a phalanx of expensive lawyers dashing off legal letters. And all because the organisers don’t want transphobes peddling hate at their event. A nauseating spectacle of spite.

Flexible maybe. No mention of location and pollution. Power stations go through significant #Planning barriers, comply or don’t get built AI data centres have been developed next to Residential housing & kids playgrounds. Both contamination & sound pollution are already concerns #Enshittification

The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 5d ago

AI data centres are contentious for consuming large resources. But with the right incentives and regulation, can they make for more flexible electricity systems?

#MEcfs #ME #ResearchFunding #LongCovid #MedSky

ME/CFS Science@mecfsscience.org · 5d ago

⏱️REMINDER: This ME/CFS research call is currently open to applications. It has a budget of € 120,000-180,000 per project, provided by the WE&ME Foundation. The first stage only requires a short proposals (ca. 4 pages). The deadline is 25 August.

#LongCovid #MouseStudy

Jon Douglas@atranscendedman.bsky.social · 5d ago

University of Iowa, 4 to 5 mice per time point showed brain microglia stayed inflamed for 100 days after SARS-CoV-2, despite no productive brain infection. Mitochondrial genes fell, suggesting stressed immune cells may sustain neuroPASC. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hating Netanyahu and hating genocide is not one bit anti-semitic.

#FuckThePatriarchy 🖕👊🥊 This is what happens when women aren’t excluded from systems completely #EpsteinAgenda They thrive and they lift others up. #AcademicMisogyny #Matriarchy

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · last wk.

From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”

#Enshittification #EA #AndrewWilson #Bonus #FireSuccessfulTeams

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · last wk.

After laying off Battlefield 6 devs, EA boss Andrew Wilson's bonus rose $8m to $38m last year, thanks to the game's success across "all milestones" www.eurogamer.net/ea-boss-38-m...

Wellington water bills. Folks getting $3,000 plus water bills on top of rates. This is the price of Luxon riding Act's overtly racist stop three waters TPU/groundswell sock puppet campaign into govt. This all on National. This is the price of racism. Vote them out. #nzpol

#HeatWave #Solar #UK #AirConditioning #CheaperElectricity

@dave161256.bsky.social · last wk.

That's about 5x more than the UK with half the population.

Australia: Home battery rebates still adding 2,000 systems a day as total hurtles towards half a million installations reneweconomy.com.au/home-battery...

Home battery rebates still adding 2,000 systems a day as total hurtles towards half a million installations

The Cheaper Home Batteries scheme is on track to notch up half a million installations in August, according to the latest tally, as the hugely successful federal government rebate continues to defy all expectations.

reneweconomy.com.au

New: The Queensland government went against the advice of its own Olympic venue review with a controversial decision to host rowing in Rockhampton after intervention from Australia’s richest person and conservative political patron Gina Rinehart.

Rinehart lobbied Bleijie on Rockhampton rowing. Then the LNP backed it

A letter obtained by this masthead shows billionaire Gina Rinehart pushed for Rockhampton to host 2032 rowing. The state then rejected its own independent advice.

brisbanetimes.com.au

#RooftopSolar #Solar #CheaperElectricity #NEM #WholesalePowerPricesDown #Australia #AusPol #ClimateChange

Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · last wk.

More than 700 MW of rooftop solar was added to Australia’s main grid in the past three months, helping drive wholesale electricity prices in the country’s National Electricity Market to their lowest June quarter average since 2020. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/28/r...