John Wold🇺🇦💙💛🇪🇺🇬🇪
@cracklytoes.bsky.social
One planet, Human rights/Women's rights/Indigenous rights, #EveryoneEverywhere, NATO 🇦🇱🇧🇪🇧🇬🇨🇦🇭🇷🇨🇿🇩🇰🇪🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇷🇭🇺🇮🇸🇮🇹🇱🇻🇱🇹🇱🇺🇲🇪🇳🇱🇲🇰🇳🇴🇵🇱🇵🇹🇷🇴🇸🇰🇸🇮🇪🇸🇹🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦🇫🇮🇸🇪 #TerrestialOceans&Ecosystems
China's CBDC: "The landmark transfers signal China’s broader strategic effort to construct alternative cross-border clearing rails, accelerating the internationalisation of the Chinese currency while bypassing traditional, Western-centric financial networks" www.scmp.com/business/ban...
Chinese bank touts digital currency platform’s largest transfers yet
Bank of China uses mBridge for two cross-border transfers worth more than US$1.7 billion each, as CBDC platform gathers momentum.
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Here is an outstanding video by Heather Cox Richardson explaining how what the right is calling communist and radical was actually part of the Republican Party's platform in 1956. www.youtube.com/live/_Nt2CQR... #news #following #EconSky #universal #AcademicSky
Politics Chat, June 25, 2026
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Mark Hamill@markhamillofficial.bsky.social · last mo.Coming from the most corrupt Administration in American history, this is an honor I'll treasure forever.
What if we mapped the U.S. without state boundaries? An article co-authored by #NASmember and archaeologist Torben Rick explores how nature’s maps—from ancient seas & migration routes to watersheds & biomes—reveal the connections shaping our landscapes. theconversation.com/where-nature...
Where nature draws the map – here are 5 ways to look at the US, without state boundaries
State lines are one way to picture the US, but natural history provides another – one that shows the ancient and living connections running across the landscape.
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Hooray! @MissionBlue has today officially launched their new Science Initiative, led by their amazing Chief Scientist (and my friend) Dr. Tessa Hempson 🇿🇦! 🌊 🦑 🧪 🌏 🌍 🌎 Go team go!!! youtu.be/Q6jfehHBvi0?... missionblue.org/our-work/
As most of Earth’s HABITAT is actually on the ocean floor pls check out our paper on a new characterization of the bumpiness of the global seabed IN COMBO w/ primary physical properties deep water (temp, salinity, bottom pH, dissolved oxygen, POC, nutrients). tos.org/oceanography... 🌊 🦑 #gischat
"Unlocking Landscapes: Landcover Mapping using Pretrained Deep Learning Models" by Kate Fickas, co-founder of Ladies of Landsat www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...
Unlocking Landscapes: Landcover Mapping using Pretrained Deep Learning Models
Esri has released a collection of pretrained deep learning models to create land cover maps. Here's an overview of whats available.
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I want to see it completely dark 🌑 for a long time until liberated!
Ukraine War Brief Podcast@ukrainewarpod.bsky.social · last wk.Crimea is the darkest I’ve ever seen it, with Sevastopol almost completely dark.
Ukraine gave America exclusive war experience without US lives lost, Zelensky says. "We paid. Without this experience America would need 10-20 years to reach this level." He adds Ukraine will build a large drone plant in the US as part of their mutually beneficial deal.
File under; Or what's wrong with this statement: I signed with Trump in a leadership position to make a "positive" difference for American Democracy in the world!?
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 2w agoNot sure I will read/listen to this one, but I am surprised to see the word’s “Trump” and “Grand Strategy” linked. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/o...
Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, the president of the Venice Film Festival’s parent organisation, La Biennale, is now whining about the EU withdrawing €2 million in funding over the Festival’s decision to renew Russia’s participation this year. www.screendaily.com/news/biennal...
Biennale president launches extraordinary attack on EU for withdrawing €2m funding over Russian participation
Pietrangelo Buttafuoco was speaking at launch of Venice Film Festival line-up.
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🇪🇺 EU law enforcement agencies have detained a Russian shadow fleet vessel, MV South Star, on suspicion of sailing under a false flag of Cameroon. GUR that during the oil embargo of the countries, this tanker is participating in the export of Russian oil products from Tuapse and Novorossiysk.
IMAGINE a sovereign wealth fund managed by the Trump administration! What could the outcome be, Tantalum Tantrums every day? "The estimated oil revenues figure does not include income from mining exports, some of which is also being collected by the administration, US officials have said."
Josh Busby@busbyj2.bsky.social · 2w agoThis should be a bigger scandal than it is.
The drone boat that helped drive Russia's navy out of the Black Sea is coming to American shipyards. Ukraine's UFORCE just teamed up with a US Special Ops boatbuilder to build it here. defence-blog.com/ukraines-shi...
Ukraine’s ship-killer drone is coming to U.S. shipyards
A Ukrainian drone maker that helped push the Russian Navy out of much of the Black Sea is bringing its combat-tested kamikaze boats to American shipyards. UFORCE, the London-registered parent of Ukrai...
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A former UK defense chief says he asked Israel to help Ukraine years ago and was turned down over fears of upsetting Russia. defence-blog.com/ex-uk-defens...
Ex-UK defense chief says Israel snubbed Ukraine to appease Russia
Britain's longest-serving Conservative defense secretary since Winston Churchill says he personally urged Israel's government to help Ukraine early in the war, and that Benjamin Netanyahu's government...
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"Het Kremlin, Poetin, heeft een nieuwe escalatie nodig, een soort nieuwe overwinning, en de Baltische regio en Polen zijn in dit geval het meest voor de hand liggende doelwit." - Litouwse minister van Defensie Robertas Kaunas:
Lithuania's defence minister says Russia views Baltic states, Poland as next targets
With Russia unable to secure victory in its war against Ukraine, the Kremlin is looking for an alternative win and now r...
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De Poolse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Sikorski waarschuwde eerder deze maand dat Rusland een valse vlag-operatie zou kunnen uitvoeren met 'Oekraïense' drones.
Poland Warns Russia May Stage False Flag Drone Attack Using Ukrainian UAVs
Poland's Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski warns Russia may stage a false flag drone attack using Ukrainian UAVs to justify escalation against NATO.
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Recent US attacks on the International Criminal Court are a concrete example of the "all-out assault" on the systems protecting democracy and human rights. HRW's Executive Director Philippe Bolopion spoke to France 24 on these dangerous attacks ⤵️
Anthropogenic Global Warming & Fire 🧵 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... From 1987... “Beer says the devastating Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983 had driven interest inside CSIRO for research. A national bushfire research unit was established, and he moved to Melbourne to work.”
'What could I have done?' The scientist who predicted the bushfire emergency four decades ago
Dr Tom Beer’s pioneering 1980s research into bushfires and climate change has, to his dismay, proved all too accurate
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OTD in 1987 President Reagan signed Proclamation 5680—Captive Nations Week, in which he stated something about Ukraine the current Republican party would regard as woke.
🔥 There was a fire near Moscow covering 5,000 m2, two fuel trucks and a company were burning. 🇺🇸 More than 60 US senators have supported a bill calling for "hellish sanctions" against Russia, - Axios. 5/5
¡Dios Mio! Talarico has a mariachi song that says "¿Y sí si?" the chant of the Mexican soccer team. This is "Yo Voy a Votar por Donald Trump" levels of Latino outreach.
James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social · 3w agoI visited the small town of Marfa, TX. A local mariachi band greeted us with a song they wrote for our campaign! Our Frontera Tour has been full of special moments — but this was a highlight. 🎶
🕸️🙏 The front line in the Lyman direction is covered in kilometers of fiber optics from drones, which can remain in the environment for hundreds of years.
#OneSustaintablePlanet File under dysfunctional problem solving! Definitely read @Vesselspotter But also go to Go Wikipedia and read about Neuston you will be amazed.
@vesselspotter.eurosky.social · 3w ago#Maersk #APMoller #Mærsk #APMøller still engaged with Ocean Cleanup #OceanCleanup ? #Maritime #Shipping
@globalfishingwatch.org @maritimekiwi.bsky.social @starboardintelligence.com
Nikolas Evangelides@evangelides.bsky.social · 3w agoA Chinese longliner was arrested in #Tuvalu for alleged #IUUfishing incl expired FFA authorisation, night fishing without nav lights, masked AIS location data & discards of sharks. A reminder transparency, enforcement and boarding & inspection at sea matter. www.seashepherdglobal.org/latest-news/...
