Max Berkers

@wmaxb.bsky.social

PhD student Elektrochemie.

Our criteria for success are disastrously skewed. In my view, a successful person is one who does more good than harm, on any scale. On this measure, most billionaires are massive failures, while humble folk in my neighbourhood who look after other people are highly successful.

Hebben de Nederlandse media wel door wat voor revolutionairs er momenteel gebeurd in de Zee van Azov? Oekraïne heeft de afgelopen 6 dagen naar eigen zeggen 76 (!!!) schepen geraakt met drones, voornamelijk kleine (ca. 5000 ton) Volga-klasse olietankers. 1/7

ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 4w ago

1/ Ukraine's drone blockade of Crimea is tightening, with yet more ships hit in the Sea of Azov. Russia is reported to have halted shipping in the area in response. This is likely to have drastic effects not just on Crimea but on many Russian exports. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/spec...

Enschede heeft een nieuw college van Burgermeester & Wethouders. Met twee wethouders namens PRO Enschede: Narda Teke-Bozkurt en Willemijn Punte-Zwart. Vervolgens zijn Robin Sligman en Paul Oonk geïnstalleerd als raadslid! Alle vier van harte gefeliciteerd en veel succes! #PRO #Enschede

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Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

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Een ‘extra gasrekening van 850 miljoen euro’ moet Tata Steel betalen als de twee cokesfabrieken gedwongen dichtgaan. Althans, dat zegt het bedrijf zelf. Follow the Money rekende het na, en kwam op een heel ander bedrag uit. Lees hier de hele analyse 👉 www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ta...

Waarom stopt Tata Steel niet gewoon met zijn vervuilende cokes­fabrieken?

Volgens de een leidt sluiting van de cokesfabrieken van Tata tot gigantische problemen, volgens de ander kan de staalfabriek in IJmuiden dat prima aan. Wie heeft gelijk? Follow the Money dook in de ci...

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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.

If you look at other North Sea countries with really successful uptake on renewables, you'll see a strategy: community buy-in through community ownership. 52% of Denmark's wind farms are community owned. It's 50% in Germany!

Amerikaanse toestanden in het UK. Politieke invloed is gewoon te koop. Maar ook in Nederland zien we dit. Denk aan de mega-donaties aan de VVD en JA21 vanuit Quote500-lui als Frank van Gool(OTTO uitzendbureau), Rene Moos(Basic Fit), en vastgoedbaas Chris Thünessen

De Linkse Revolte@delinkserevolte.bsky.social · 3mo ago

JA21, FvD, Reform UK en zelfs de Britse Labour-partij. Allemaal leunen ze op enorme giften van een extreem-rijke bovenlaag. Dit is een handjevol mannen die er alles aan doen om het publieke debat op de cultuurstrijd te richten en niet op de enorme ongelijkheid.

JA21, FvD, Reform UK en zelfs de Britse Labour-partij. Allemaal leunen ze op enorme giften van een extreem-rijke bovenlaag. Dit is een handjevol mannen die er alles aan doen om het publieke debat op de cultuurstrijd te richten en niet op de enorme ongelijkheid.

Turns out, if you stop tearing up the seabed, wildlife thrives: ten years after banning bottom trawl fishing, there are 3 times the number of sea creatures + double the number of species in the South Arran MPA, Scotland, than there were before the ban 👏🦪🐟 share.google/2M5WqP3CXwSH...

Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area

Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...

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Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

The amount of pain and misery that the US is heaping upon the world is staggering. Everyone knows that fuel fertilizer food shocks are coming. While millions go hungry & governments are destabilized. More here: tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe... bsky.app/profile/bloo...

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Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 4mo ago

US government officials and Wall Street analysis are starting to consdier the prospect that oil prices might surge to an unprecedeted $200 a barrel.