Zoe Samuel
@zoesamuel.bsky.social
#Climate investor: early stage #cleantech Board member workonclimate.org Built #Google's biggest internal climate group Brit in Bay Area #Film & #theater producer Maker of world class roast potatoes Opinions expressed here are my own. Slava Ukraini
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
Merlin sets a good example for all who have exercise goals. #dogsofbluesky #doglife #dogvideo #cutedog
Merlin sets a good example for all who have exercise goals. #dogsofbluesky #doglife #dogvideo #cutedog
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
How many years have I been telling you to keep your eye on Iowa? I know what I’m seeing on the ground and what I’ve been seeing for a couple of years… LFG!
Zelenskyy: "For first time in Russia’s history, we now hear that its oil industry is running on fumes. Our target is Russia’s ability to finance this war, to drag it out, to make it more brutal & destructive. Russia’s finances & Russia’s production are what must be stopped if Putin is to be stopped”
You gotta respect his commitment to the idea that a heartbeat is the only important thing.
Merlin brought himself a toy to use as a cushion while I was cooking. #dogsofbluesky #doglife
Yikes on bikes. Suella Braverman making people have to agree with Jacob fucking Rees-Mogg. Obviously Englishness is not an ethnicity, it is a nationality. (British is the nationality in the legal sense as it's on the passport, and also covers the whole nation-state.)
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d agoJacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.
Merlin is a very well-trained dog (barking at street aside) but he is starting doggie "grad school" tomorrow to learn more commands, and also how to greet the world with a little more chill. Stand by for updates on his new skills coming soon. #dogsofbluesky #doglife #dogtraining
Big victory for Arizona: A court just ruled the Trump administration's attack on Solar for All was illegal. Congress created this program to help families get low-cost clean energy and cut their electricity bills. The EPA needs to release these funds now. apnews.com/article/clim...
Judge rules EPA illegally terminated $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans
A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the Trump administration illegally terminated a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-incom...
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Mark today as the first time Trump's approval rating dropped into the 20s.
Wait so when we say someone has half a brain, maybe what they really have is just the one brain?
send mike elias to the hague@chrpngbrd.bsky.social · 6d agothis is incredibly fascinating and the implications this has for treating neurological diseases like ALS is enormous. two minute read. amazing stuff. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Merlin is a very well-trained dog (barking at street aside) but he is starting doggie "grad school" tomorrow to learn more commands, and also how to greet the world with a little more chill. Stand by for updates on his new skills coming soon. #dogsofbluesky #doglife #dogtraining
They’re likely trying to prevent defections, but I understand why everyone thinks this is ominous - there’s a lot of intel out there that Putin is planning a major escalation, likely in the Baltic States. Which would be an absolutely moronic thing for him to do, but here we are.
Compulsory gender-affirming care for soldiers apparently
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last wk.NEWS: The Pentagon has announced mandatory low-testosterone screenings for male troops 30 and older, including screening for symptoms such as “reduced libido, loss of spontaneous morning erections, erectile dysfunction,” and other symptoms.
Holy shit. The feds think Iran hacked oil tankers bound for the port of Galveston:
Coast Guard and FBI boarded 2 energy tankers due to cyberattacks. How big is the risk?
U.S. Coast Guard personnel and FBI agents boarded two Texas-bound energy tankers last month after cyberattacks struck the vessels while they were traveling toward the United States, according to U.S. ...
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NEW: The Kremlin continues to deny that Russia will conduct mobilization after its September 18-20 State Duma elections, likely in an effort to dissuade Russian citizens from fleeing abroad. (1/8) Read the full report: isw.pub/UkrWar091826
The FCC will allow the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, & Abu Dhabi to own nearly 50% of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros — potentially giving them sway over our media. This of course comes after Trump received gifts or struck business deals with these countries. See the problem?
FCC Approves 49.5% Foreign Ownership of Paramount-Warner Bros.
The FCC has approved Paramount's petition to allow 49.5% ownership by Gulf state sovereign wealth funds as part of its W
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A thing that is striking (having just rewatched T2 the other night for the bazillionth time lol) is that Miles Dyson, the Cyberdyne engineer who makes the critical breakthrough on Skynet, upon learning of the certainty of apocalypse, immediately does whatever he can to discontinue its manufacture
A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey
The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
heated.world
the president has finally revealed his true form: a 1980s preppie villain determined to tear down the rec center
Saudi Arabia Faces ‘Worst-Case Scenario’ After Being Rebuffed by Trump The kingdom is in a state of strategic shock after coming under attack from an emboldened Iran and failing to win more U.S. military support, analysts say.
Saudi Arabia Faces ‘Worst-Case Scenario’ After Iran’s Attacks and Trump’s Rebuffs
The kingdom is in a state of strategic shock after coming under attack from an emboldened Iran and failing to win more U.S. military support, analysts say.
nytimes.com
Men: what is stopping you from dressing like this?
TARA SMITHSON -Wildlife & Nature Photographer 📸@tarasmithson.bsky.social · 2w agoMale (on the left) superb fairy-wrens pull off one of the cheekiest heists in the animal kingdom by plucking yellow petals and parading them in front of potential mates just to show off. 🌼🌼🌼🐦 #Mamas&Papas #BirdOfTheDay #ECK #birds #Nature #Wildlife
A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.
Peter Flax@pflax1.bsky.social · 2w agoThis story buries the lede, but if you pull out a calculator and do the math, AAA found that the average American spends $15,031 a year for a single car! www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/c...
NSF has funded over 80% of the world's BGC-Argo floats via GO-BGC, which ends in October 2026, so the global array will start shrinking. NSF is asking US researchers to weigh in on future ocean observing priorities: www.go-bgc.org/nsf/nsf-requ...
