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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November

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QA (retired) for Inkle Studios, Tributary Games, Failbetter Games, etc. Former Highways Inspector, Emergency Callout Highway Engineer & Streetworks Supervisor. Accessibility ally. I ❤️ Civil Eng, Archaeology & Greenock Morton FC. Cis, he/him. BLM, 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November@pvbuk.bsky.social · 8h ago

1. Wessex no longer exists. It vanished as an area of England in around 927 A.D. 2. The story of the Blackstone CEO using water during a drought (and the water company stopping him) comes from September 2025: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Southern Water bans tankers doing runs to US billionaire's lake

Tankers taking water for US billionaire Stephen Schwarzman have been told to stop by Southern Water.

bbc.co.uk

BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10h ago

Blackrock US Billionaire is using 13,000 gallons of water a day to keep his grass green and trees watered in Wessex, England, where drought has been declared. They just think they can use everything up because the rules only apply to you.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · yesterday

EA's annual Ebitda is around $1.5 billion, which should be enough to service the interest payments. But the publisher has told debt investors that it will cut $700 million in annual costs including $170 million in "organizational efficiencies," per Bloomberg. In other words: mass layoffs

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · yesterday

EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest

Tiffany Morris@tiffmorris.bsky.social · 24h ago

So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

“Sure. Sure. Yes, we know AI is using up resources. So does driving a car or a planes so does building a new home. So do a lot of things. Humans have always used up Earth’s resources and usually not nicely. There are reservations and other Indigenous communities in Canada that have never had clean water and have been ravaged by pipeline construction. But somehow that’s been okay for the past fifty or a hundred years, and very few people scream about that. But suddenly, AI is the enemy, not everything else we’ve been doing all along. Suddenly YOUR water might not be clean, so it’s a Big Deal”.
Ro Salarian@rosalarian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Abusive men aren't abusive because of testosterone, because I have a male level of testosterone in my body and I don't do that shit. It made me calmer. Abusive men are abusive because they were taught to be, and rewarded for it. By blaming T, you ignore the actual cause and its actual solutions.

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 9h ago

This is the highest-resolution view of the surface of the Sun. Ever. Taken by the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, features as small as 19 km across can be resolved. The wispy things are magnetic field boundaries formed by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The island of Ireland for scale.

A swirling, complex view of yellow–orange–brown wisp-like features. The dark shape in the middle is a superposed outline of the island of Ireland to show scale.
SEAN ORR@seanorr.bsky.social · 12h ago

Remember as your eyes burn from the smoke today, Ken Sim and ABC voted to allow fracked gas in new builds, cancelled $8 million in climate retrofit grants; voted against funding for cooling kits for people in the Downtown Eastside; and got rid of the climate justice charter.

Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer@cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 19h ago

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM@shlead.bsky.social · 14h ago

🌎"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong. Remembering Neil Armstrong on his birthday. 💐💐💐

This image features astronaut Neil Armstrong posing for his official portrait before the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong
Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · yesterday

Hey Bluesky! We're Scripps Oceanography and we're looking for friends who are interested in: 🔬 Marine Science 🌍 Earth Science 📈 Climate Change ⚠️ Hazards 💊 Biotechnology and Biomedicine 🌊 Oceanography 🪸 Coral Reef Ecology 🌧️ Atmospheric Science ➗ Geophysics ⚛️ Bioscience