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today in "headlines you'd see on a background TV in a disaster movie" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Rhine Falls to Lowest Since 1880, Disrupting European Trade

The Rhine River’s water levels dropped to the lowest in nearly 150 years as hot, dry weather grips Europe, threatening to disrupt a crucial route for transporting coal, fuel and industrial commodities...

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He cites users' ability to mute & block folks as a positive, which is good. It's also why right wing chuds thankfully can't get a foothold here - b/c they violate community norms & get nuclear blocked out of normal people's timelines. Bluesky isn't a *liberal* bubble - it's a *decency* bubble.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Cadeaulink, nog 30 dagen geldig: www.groene.nl/artikel/een-...

Samen met radicaal-rechts maken de christen-democraten in het Europees Parlement natuur- en milieuorganisaties verdacht

NSC’er Dirk Gotink onderzoekt ‘geheime contracten’ tussen de Europese Commissie en ngo’s die een ‘groene schaduwlobby’ zouden vormen. Officieel gaat het om transparantie rond subsidies, maar in de pra...

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Sander Turnhout🔻🍉🌳🌱🍄🦟🐈‍⬛🍓🔥@sanderturnhout.bsky.social · 4d ago

67 procent van de lobby ontmoetingen komt op het conto van het bedrijfsleven. 16 procent voor NGOs. Toch worden NGOs verdacht gemaakt door allerlei #desinformatie te verspreiden. Dat gaat verrassend goed in een samenleving die steeds rechtser wordt. www.groene.nl/artikel/een-...

#bioinvasions theconversation.com/invasive-rat...

Invasive rats are stopping small mammals from returning to Madagascar’s regenerating forests – study

Lemurs and other native animals are rare in recovering forests.

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The same Russian outlets that regularly dedicate significant attention to falsely claiming that ‘Ukraine is refusing peace’, today took a break from that narrative and returned to very openly discussing the ‘erasure’ of Ukraine as a state.

🔥The CEO of #oil giant TotalEnergies offers free fuel to fight #EuropeanWildfires - feels like Malboro offering chemotherapy vouchers with cigarettes.

In epidemiology, when a disease carrier infects a large number of individuals that cause a chain reaction of disease spread, it's called a 'superspreader event'. The same applies to a vector (ships) introducing invasive species to a large number of environments (ports). www.cbc.ca/news/world/h...

'Worst-case scenario': Ships blocked from the Strait of Hormuz pose invasive species threat | CBC Climate Change News

Ships stalled in the Gulf region due to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could pose an 'immense' threat, according to a paper published last week. Experts say biofouling on hundreds of ships over ...

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Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift Et bah comme quoi, les boîtes veulent juste des chatbots cons, pas de la recherche scientifique et des applications qui peuvent servir. www.ft.com/content/61b2...

Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift

Landmark project that solved protein folding gives way to a wider race to build AI systems for scientific discovery

ft.com

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

Strikes me that more effort has gone into putting scientists on the stand to defend themselves against a lab leak conspiracy than fossil fuel polluters for decades of knowingly hastening climate breakdown and blatant crimes against humanity.

AI flagging opponents as "terrorists" and the state cracking down. Straight-up dystopian.

Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 6d ago

“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”

The physical constants of biology are indifferent to how quickly a model can read: cell lines must be cultured, samples collected and shipped, sequencing runs queued and completed, …

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · last wk.

Everyone says AI will accelerate science. I don't think it will -- at least not in biology, and at least not soon. New post where I explain why, and how the productivity paradox can be resolved: blekhman.substack.com/p/why-ai-wil...

Ships spread marine species (mussels, barnacles, tubeworms, tunicates, algae, etc) attached to their hulls. The longer they are docked at a port, the greater the number & diversity of organisms that attach as settling larvae. The ship then disperses them to other ports. abcnews.com/Internationa...

Scientists warn of possible invasive species superspreader event due to stalling near Strait of Hormuz

A possible ecological catastrophe could be fueled by stalled ships as conflict over the Strait of Hormuz continues to block traffic on the passageway, scientists say.

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Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

Anyone thinking that giving up the Donbas to Ruzzia would lead to peace? Putin has never hidden that he wants all of Ukraine. He’s obsessed with it, and every morcel ceded only emboldens him.

ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social · last wk.

1/ Vladimir Putin has strongly hinted that Russia should claim the entire eastern half of Ukraine, going far beyond the existing annexation of the Donbas and southern Ukraine. He foresees a future in which western Ukraine is also annexed by its neighbours. ⬇️

Polymarket lets people bet on wildfires. Wildfires that those samepeople could easily set in order to win money on this illegal gambling site. Big Tech is organized crime.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3w ago

yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets

56 DAYS STRONG! 🇦🇱 Thousands continue filling the streets for Albania’s Flamingo Revolution, standing firm against state corruption and selling out protected lands to foreign oligarchs. The message is loud and clear: ALBANIA IS NOT FOR SALE! 🦩

I’m looking forward to a time when Europe starts to act accordingly to its actual power. As long we allow ourselves to be bullied around by an unreasonable and double-minded American president, things will only get worse.

In 2025 the Trump administration spent considerable effort pressuring the EU to roll back rules meant to stop companies using forced labor in their supply chains. Now Trump imposes a punitive tariff on European companies, officially claiming it’s to punish forced labor. www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...

ANALYSE Trumps nye told skal stoppe europæiske virksomheders brug af tvangsarbejde. Det gjorde EU selv for to år siden

Trumps nye told mod EU har et officielt formål: at stoppe europæiske virksomheders brug af tvangsarbejde. Og så har tolden et reelt formål: at erstatte den Trump-told, som blev underkendt af den ameri...

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Tim Bradford scores a bullseye in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social Climate action versus the buts

"een ongekend fenomeen” Crisisoverleg over de branden in Frankrijk. Wanneer komt er crisisoverleg over klimaatverandering, vervuiling en biodiversiteitsverlies; de 'triple crisis' die volgens wetenschappers niet alleen de natuurlijke wereld maar ook onze complete beschaving bedreigt? #DontLookUp

NRC@nrc.nl · 2w ago

Aantal evacuaties in Frankrijk loopt op tot 110.00, regering houdt crisisoverleg

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

Israel is a terrorist state and its “most moral army in the world” endorses and supports terrorist attacks by heavily armed Israeli Jewish settlers on Palestinian communities, slowly executing a genocide, EVERY SINGLE DAY. Denying this makes you complicit. Supporting Israel makes you complicit.

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 2w ago

Four Palestinians and two Israelis killed in West Bank shooting

Masked gunmen invade Amazon communities in organised crime surge, say local leaders Delegation sent to Brasília after ‘assassins’ enter indigenous homes near Brazil’s border with Peru Story by me on narco-gang threat to rainforest and its people. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Masked men invading and taking Amazon communities ‘hostage’ in organised crime surge, say local leaders

Delegation sent to Brasília after gunmen from organised crime group enter homes in western Amazon

theguardian.com

Hot take: everyone wants to talk about Scylla (scientists are bad at simple, clear communication) and no one wants to talk about Charybdis (scientists, especially in climate or public health, live in constant fear of bad faith attacks on approximate statements by a right wing career-ending machine)

Birds on the € notes!? You can make it happen! 🐦✨ Vote now for your favourite design! www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot... The European Central Bank is redesigning the euro banknotes and is asking the public for feedback. And one of the themes is birds and rivers...😈

Did you know you can easily adapt your googling to be more environmentally friendly? Learn an easy way to turn off AI when you do not need it in a search, and save this planets dwindling water and energy.

How to Get AI Out of Your Google Search Results • The Revelator

Three simple keystrokes will deliver search results that consume less energy and water — and probably contain better information.

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