Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · yesterday

anytime people raise concerns about land use for solar projects or anything like that i just want to point out that half the corn we grow in this country gets used to make gasoline slightly worse

Holy shit

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 11h ago

We're done kicking the can down the road. Here's how we're fixing the city-owned section of the BQE.

This painting is good but it feels unfair to Colville that people experienced PS1-level 3d graphics. Sometimes when I see his paintings I have the feeling the HD textures haven't loaded yet

Canadian Paintings@canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 4d ago

Horse and Train Alex Colville 1954

The existence of these types of materials always feels like a glitch to me www.euronews.com/next/2026/08...

New Spanish nanomaterial cools surfaces by up to 12.9C without electricity

Researchers at Spain's CSIC have developed a polymer nanostructure that sheds heat into outer space using solar radiation, potentially cutting reliance on air conditioning in buildings, vehicles and e...

euronews.com

responding to a diss track with a song called Genuinely Thought We Were On Good Terms

always be nmaping

MMMM VERY COOL AND GOOD Updated my chart to include OpenAI's latest absurd megaproject fossil-fuelled data centre

??? maps.app.goo.gl/ttd6bzf5Qtsj...

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

Why did we try to do netbooks? Why was that a thing?

I had forgotten about "grokipedia" and I guess Elon Musk did too www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months

You can still suggest articles and edits, but nothing seems to be changing.

theverge.com

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

A New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth by Tracing Early Chemical Reactions in Single-Celled Organisms

The work challenges the assumption that all life descended from one free-living cell. Instead, it suggests that two microbial lineages, the bacteria and archaea, evolved independently from a primordia...

smithsonianmag.com

Must sound so cool if you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

Got talking to the barber about the Trans Canada railroad today and he got so worked up he basically stopped cutting my hair. Anyway, bucket list, obviously.

josh (oldfriend99)@oldfriend99.bsky.social · last yr.

My barber forgot to cut my hair. I had to go back

"Whales emerge from deep in the sand, black sand, underneath the deep ocean"

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · last mo.

THE WHALES ASCEND. THEY HEED THE CALL. Only ‘Emergency’ knows the truth.

How could Britain look under proportional representation? See the results for your area

How could Britain look under proportional representation? See the results for your area

These visualisations from exclusive polling modelling show how the UK parliament could change under different voting systems

theguardian.com

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

lines down@linesdown.bsky.social · last mo.

The growth of solar energy in Pakistan

just one more pipeline bro, just one more

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · last mo.

Southern Ontario is covered in smoke today from the devastating wildfires that have already destroyed multiple towns up by Thunder Bay 😰

Is the sun real or fake? This is your daily reminder to check! @skylerhigley.bsky.social

This weekend I installed linux on laptop I got off ebay and the most painful part of the process was the Windows 11 setup and update process, which took half an hour and like a half dozen restarts before I was able to confirm the hardware was as advertised

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last mo.

I will go down swinging against Windows 11 aftermath.site/windows-11-nope

legitimately actually embarrassing to me as a dual citizen

Clare Blackwood@clareblackwood.bsky.social · last mo.

Carney calling Lindsey Graham a defender of democracy and freedom when the man made jokes on his official X account about taking over Canada is just the last straw of many last straws for me.

UNBELIEVABLE. Screenshot this reddit post now before the government takes it down. PROOF that Alex Jones died on OceanGate.

I was reading a description of how a repeater vacuum tube was made in the 1920s at Bell Labs (impossibly intricate), and searched for an image of it, and somehow you can still buy the same model on Amazon after 100 years, incredible

Everytime i read this stuff, i somehow am still shocked at it. And yet these revelations don't lead to his impeachment. Therefore, the US govt can't be trusted, simple as.

Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i believe this the follow up part

Hahahaha what a fucking loser

Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 2mo ago

can't stop laughing at this Poilievre: "We will reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture."

haven’t seen America this thoroughly embarrassed on the world stage since we lost that war we started with Iran like 3 weeks ago

Something Canada could do instead of spending public money to build pipelines for the world's dirtiest oil www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Australia's battery subsidies spark rooftop solar resurgence

For 64-year-old transport worker Paul Tyler, who lives ​160 km (100 miles) north of Sydney, installing solar panels had long been financially out of reach.

reuters.com

This is a Pom-pom crab. No, really 😄 🦀 (Also Boxer crab or Cheerleader crab) The pink structures are actually living sea anemones that the crab holds in its claws for defense and to help mop up food particles. If one anemone is lost, the crab clones another by tearing it in half to regenerate.

Colton Sissons is not a hockey player name, it is the name of the sheriff of Abilene, Kansas in 1878. Sorry if this offends