João M T da Costa

@joaomtcosta.bsky.social

Gott! welch ein Dunkel hier! O grauenvolle Stille! Go Cubs!

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Flags on the Abingdon Road

Is there a connection between opulence and the decline of empire? Who cares, suggests Chad Mizelle, Trump's 2025 former Deputy Attorney General, as he comments on the tourism draw of gilded statues and the "opulence of the epicenter of once-great civilizations," without a shred of self-awareness.

The mark of every great nation is stunning architecture and beauty. Millions travel the world to admire the opulence of the epicenters of once-great civilizations. 

Trump is making America’s capital just as magnificent.
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.@Interior is ushering in a new Golden Age for Washington, D.C. Thank you to all of the workers who are making @POTUS’ vision for a Safe and Beautiful capital possible!

Underneath is a photo of the re-gilded statues on DC's Memorial Bridge.

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

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Sorry Milt, the scientists can't innovate right now as they are shitting themselves to death because of the contaminated food supply produced by the free market-oriented decision to get government out of food safety screening and disease tracking. Can you smell the freedom? It's kinda funky.

Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 3w ago

Intensely foolish thing to say as the government utterly destroys the research and educational systems produced the innovation markets rely on. And the regulations that make markets and make them work

iPhone doesn’t do justice to the rust-coloured haze over Toronto, or the stench. I was fine in an N95. Birds were having a bona fide party in an utterly deserted Home Smith Park. Thinking about my impassioned speech in elementary school arguing for the swift implementation of the Kyoto accords.

N95 wearing genna with yellow haze over the river Dark yellow haze over Humber river Cormorants in the river with sickly yellow tinge reflected Haze over river park

Thank heavens Norway is finally on the map. As someone who travels there regularly I was getting tired of pilots just pointing the plane in a general northwesterly direction and giving it a go.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Erling Haaland described the previous month at the World Cup as the greatest adventure of his life. "It has been the best weeks and the best journey I’ve had in my entire life." nyti.ms/4aO9etu

To international historians in the 2050s, the major geopolitical story of our time will be entirely obvious: the oligarchic and institutional self-destruction of the United States and its displacement by China as the global number one.

US per capita income may be high, but its biological living standards are shockingly low. The Chinese live longer, are better fed, and kill themselves at dramatically lower rates. Their kids are now taller than ours; they score higher across the board, including on IQ tests.

China’s defense-industrial base now totally dwarfs that of the US. Chinese state capacity is an order of magnitude greater. China’s overtaken the US in top notch scientific publications. China now occupies the dominant position in global manufacturing. It’s share of global mfg value-added is 30 percent to America’s 18 percent. They can outproduce not just the US in weapons, but the entire geopolitical West. With ease.