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What do you get when you mix climate change, logistics, and fossil fuels, and a war? A Bluesky thread on the convergence between summer drought in Europe, a dam in the Netherlands, Germany's reliance on a single river, and why the US still has to care about climate change. Settle in. (1/11)

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.

for this latest expansion of the franchise, we've reflected on our own experience as fans and thought about the questions we knew the fans have wondered about for ages, such as, what does Chekhov's Gun actually want?

Unser neues Gutachten widerlegt Reiches Mythos von teurer Energiewende: Auch unter Einbeziehung der Systemkosten für Netzausbau & Batteriespeicher sind Erneuerbare deutlich günstiger als Neubau von Gaskraftwerken – ohne Versorgungssicherheit zu gefährden. www.duh.de/presse/press...

DUH widerlegt Mythos angeblich hoher Systemkosten Erneuerbarer Energien

• Deutsche Umwelthilfe und Wirtschaftsverband Windkraftwerke veröffentlichen Gutachten zum Vergleich der Systemkosten von Gas und Erneuerbaren• Auch unter Einbeziehung von Kosten für Netzausbau und Ba...

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A reminder that the entire NASA budget is 0.37% of the U.S. government's annual spending. That's one two-hundred-and-seventieth of the yearly federal budget.

The Artemis II mission launching.

Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇

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Hätte die deutsche Automobilindustrie 1994 mit dem Erscheinen des Abschlussberichts der Enquete-Kommission zum Schutz der Erdatmosphäre konsequent auf die Entwicklung CO2-neutraler Motoren gesetzt, hätte sie die Weltmarktführerschaft wohl halten können. Jetzt freuen sich chinesische Hersteller!

Rekord-Wirkungsgrad bei Elektromotor: Die Zeit des Verbrenners ist vorbei

Zwei Drittel der Energie eines Verbrennungsmotors geht als Wärme verloren. Beim neuesten Elektromotor sind es nicht einmal zwei Prozent. Trotzdem will die konservative Politik am Verbrenner festhalten...

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Meine diesjährige Reise ins Baltikum geht dem Ende entgegen. Und es ist mir ein großes Bedürfnis zu sagen, was alle längst wissen sollten. Russland bereitet sich auf einen Angriff gegen die NATO vor. Der Kreml schlägt alle diplomatischen Angebote aus. Dieses Russland ist unser Feind.

"We're going to have to learn to live with [radical right wing demagoguery with all its associated violence]" is: - An abdication of responsibility. - An abandonment of hope. - A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it

Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"Much of what I would describe as Kirk's worst moments were now just standard fair MAGA Republicanism. And the leader of MAGA Republicanism is the President of the United States...we are going to have to live here with each other believing what we believe. Disagreeing in the ways we disagree."

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

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That’s true for both Ukraine and Europe: there aren’t enough interceptors to sustain a missile defense-centric strategy. Instead, they must shift to a deterrence posture in the missile domain that relies on the threat of imposing unacceptable costs rather than denial. 7/7

Eine russische Drohne fliegt im Juni 2025 in ein Wohnhaus in der ukrainischen Hauptstadt Kyjiw. Im vierten Jahr seines Vernichtungskriegs kann Russland die Ukraine in einer Nacht mit mehr als 400 Drohnen und mehr als 30 Raketen angreifen. Wie ist das möglich? Ein Thread. 1/5