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Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 8h

Australia?
#auspol

I live in North Bondi- loads of massive SUVs clogging up the streets- and a few- with no sense of irony- have stickers on saying “no to gas / CSG developments in the Liverpool Plains”…. And no- none of these vehicles ever go off road…

Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 9h

Cardiff To Be First UK City To Introduce Extra Parking Fees For SUVs www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Cardiff To Be First UK City To Introduce Extra Parking Fees For SUVs

Cardiff tackles 'carspreading'.

www.forbes.com

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Thomas Wier @trwier.bsky.social · 1d

Weekly Georgian Etymology: ნისლი nisli 'fog, mist', from Old Georgian ႬႨႱႪႨ nisli, from Georgian-Zan *nisɬ- fog, metathesis of Akkadian 𒈾𒀊𒋗 nalšum dew, deverbal noun of 𒈾𒆷𒀀𒋗 nalāšum fall as dew. Across languages, 'fog' words are often related to other weather phenomena.

Gergeti Monastery in Stepantsminda, Georgia, shrouded in fog and clouds

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Nils Berglund @nilsberglund.bsky.social · 23h

Dents du Midi seen from Cornettes de Bise. October 2006.
#photography #landscape #mountains #autumn #Alps #Valais #Switzerland

Dents du Midi with some fresh snow, seen from Cornettes de Bise. October 2006.

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Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 12h

With the exception of a few roads, the current administration has not brought a new rail project into existence- working you legacy inherited from previous govt.

TfNSW in full reorg- to be complete sometime in the new year…nothing will happen until that is over…

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Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 14h

Teasing with AI generated image of Sydney CBD.

Every Sydney Station @sydneystations.bsky.social · 15h

❌ Live traffic
✅ Live music

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 1d

Well, now we know why the Trump regime is banning any mention of climate change.

The Carbon Rains of October

From Alaska typhoons to coal-juiced Nor'easters

hillheat.news

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Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 1d

Particularly that a phone call has just come to light between trump and netenyahu (ahead of US elections) with trump telling Netanyahu not to negotiate as would help Kamala
Harris with her election campaign… in other words- he helped prolong the genocide…
The turning factor was bombing of Qatar.

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Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 1d

Complimentary to the gems in the article re skeletal-muscular system lagging behind the cardiovascular system (increased load as you get faster because fitter but not stronger) is the importance of resistance / weight training.

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Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 1d

And it sucks because- paradoxically- you feel like you are going backwards… that is until you check your running diary (assuming you keep one).

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Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 1d

And to power up things like co-pilot- which gets it wrong most of the time- and useless the rest of the time…

Bedrooms Are For People @boulderbedrooms.bsky.social · 1d

"Dr. Pam Valenza wasn’t immediately alarmed by the construction outside Tepeyac Community Health Center."

Does the AI boom threaten local air quality? A north Denver neighborhood is about to find out

A new data center campus is currently under construction in Elyria-Swansea — a neighborhood already struggling with pollution from major highways and Colorado’s only oil and gas refinery.

www.cpr.org

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 2d

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/F8vI5_gN90g?...
@aljazeera.com does some fantastic programming- however grim- worth watching on a big screen as photography is superb
#climateemergency
#climatechange

Inside the planet’s most urgent climate warning | Global Warning E1 | Featured Documentary

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 2d

In Queensland the message is no support for renewables but it will pour money into clapped out last century technology. Is that really how Queenslanders see the future?

reneweconomy.com.au

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3d

www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
"Australia doesn’t just excel at big renewables and big batteries. Four million homes produce rooftop solar; a few weeks ago, those households temporarily supplied 55% of demand on the National Electricity Market, Westerman said."

As coal fades, Australia looks to realize dream of 100% renewable…

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other…

www.canarymedia.com

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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 3d

Color Contrasts

#dolomites #nature #mountains #photography

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Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 2d

Learner surfers -
Northern end of Bondi Beach
#bondibeach

Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 2d

35 years on I remember my grandma’s, my best mate’s and the home phone…

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 3d

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.

www.leeds.ac.uk

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Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 3d

Politicians inactivity… my arse… complicity with fossil fuel and extractive industries ✅

Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 3d

"It is the first time scientists have declared that Earth has likely reached a so-called "tipping point": a shift that could trigger massive and often permanent changes in the natural world."

Politicians' inaction in the face of the climate crisis is undermining our planet's ability to support life

World's coral reefs crossing survival limit - experts

The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced.

www.rte.ie

Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 3d

A fresh southerly coming through- nice change after a hit weekend.

#bondibeach

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Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 3d

DPIE and others involved in developing the area are doing a bit of a ham-fisted job of it…car crash INSW review too.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 3d

Matterhorn this morning! 😍

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Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not sure how one is to learn from something that can‘t know anything.
CGPT doesn’t know anything- it simply produced a statistical approximation of human anatomy - having only a statistical approximation of the question
“Draw me human anatomy“.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 5d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 3d

Also known as a a ”bingle” (Australia).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingles....

Bingles - Wikipedia

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