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The interconnections between climate and nature is one of my main research interests, but I'm losing track of the endless ways that climate breakdown is killing off the natural world
OPB@opb.org · 2h agoTwo years ago, a botulism outbreak in the Klamath Basin killed roughly 140,000 birds. Biologists warn it could be worse this year as water levels continue dropping, providing warm, shallow wetlands for the bacteria to grow. To prevent another massive die-off, they say more water is needed.
Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...
this country is incredible because for all the gun talk they stand there and answer his question, if this had been a Bollywood production, three extras would be beating the shit out him on the side after the 2nd sentence and in post prod they'd be debating whether to use the footage
Andrew Pope@andrewpope.bsky.social · yesterdayI hate, hate these pervert glasses. Listen to this guy interrupting the filming of Cunk on Cinema. What an entitled dick.
I hate, hate these pervert glasses. Listen to this guy interrupting the filming of Cunk on Cinema. What an entitled dick.
Unapologetically: East Germany is a failure of a Leninist social experiment, a demonstration that you cannot create democrats out of the grandchildren of nazis without actually practicing parliamentary democracy
Guntiiiii@guntiiiii.bsky.social · 6h agoSaxony-Anhalt could well be the first state in Germany with far-right government as AfD is now only a seat away from absolute majority according to latest estimates from @dawum.de
Most of England and Wales are now in drought, with wildfires burning across the country and record-breaking heatwaves straining water supplies. Beatrice Mosello from Chatham House's Environment and Society Centre argues that the extreme summer temperatures expose a serious policy gap.
NEW Public justice vs private justice? Why sentencing and prisoner release is properly a matter for the state, and not media clamour My Weekly Constitutional at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Public justice vs private justice?
Why sentencing and prisoner release is properly a matter for the state
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All the candidates sharing a stage while the result is announced, including joke candidates, is a charming UK tradition. Incumbent PMs do it in good humor. And there's a real point about pluralism and egalitarianism to it. What a petulant little thin-skinned dork Farage is to skip and trash it.
Weird that data centres use a lot of power and produce a lot of heat, but elsewhere power plants use a lot of heat to produce a lot of power. So power plants generate heat to make power so that data centres can use power to make heat.
The Farage surrogate on BBC 5 live saying that ‘Nigel wasn’t in politics’ when he accepted £5m from Christopher Harborne He *owned* Reform at the time and became a MP candidate shortly afterwards. This line doesn’t wash and isn’t going to go away
Twats 🙄 “…there was another delay as the organisers dealt with “a few fires” caused by the wind fanning embers from the fireworks that had already fired.” #NationalFireworksChampionship #Plymouth
Hello again and welcome to Day 1633 of the war in Europe. Very nearly at the 4.5 year mark of Russia's war and it's incredible to think how much this conflict has changed, the technological developments and astute work by Ukraine Intel. Let's start Friday's daily thread..
In Zaporizhzhia region tonight, a drone strike has injured a woman and her child. The UAV struck the road next to the mother's car. She is 25 and the child just 5 years old. #RussiaIsATerroristState
This will reduce potential sortie capacity something like 40% and put unexpected cycling strain on reactors which were not designed for it. Basically indistinguishable from literal sabotage, if you care about such things as readiness or reliability or lethality or whatever
Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social · 21h agoNavy Knowers, is this good? www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
According to Putin, Europe is culturally and spiritually ‘decadent’. A continent of living traditions, extraordinary art, historic churches, languages, architecture and some rather stubborn cultural continuity begs to differ.
Humans were explorers. Dreamers. Newcomers to a world of magic, mystery, and possibility. Discover what it means to play a human in Guild Wars 3. ✒️ bit.ly/4wpXlls #GW3 #GuildWars3
But that world didn't happen. Publishers didn't understand the web. They gave away their capacity to make revenue online. They fked up. Ad tech companies and Google took over and created an escalating arms race for attention that is the rational reason people got an ad blocker. Now everyone loses.
WarGames: Nuclear Tic Tac Toe
ALT: WarGames: Nuclear Tic Tac Toe
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It's quite an important difference. For a start a third of asylum seekers will never get benefits because they are rejected so believing they get them automatically is a significant error.
Playing tennis today with a group I don't know well and we started talking about small boats and there's just so many misconceptions (like they get normal benefits, that they can work if they want etc...) These were smart professional people who read the news.
Nationalise the water companies without a penny of our money. Here's how with Feargal Sharkey youtu.be/MPo3_0DjgyU?...
The Water Industry Scandal
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Drilling for oil and gas will absolutely not lower bills. It's sold on the international market. And the idea of this being for jobs is utter nonsense. Jackdaw would create about 27 jobs. So when is the moment Andy Burnham will take the heatwaves & the climate crisis seriously?