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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 8h

Do low quality selfish self centred idiots like Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz, Victor Orban and Geert Wilders go into politics because right wing billionaires with huge sums of money convince their tiny masculine brains devoid of any intelligence that they somehow deserve to lead nations?

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 7h

Your 'moment of neo-fascist kakistocracy' for today:

"CDC has no leadership across multiple centers and offices... CDC cannot respond to this threat, which has the potential to kill hundreds of millions of people."

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

The Death of Public Health

Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die

rasmussenretorts.substack.com

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 3d

Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chemistry Nobel Given for Molecules That Aid Carbon Capture

Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.

www.bloomberg.com

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1d

When the BBC decided to pull its documentary Gaza: How To Survive a Warzone, 13-year-old Abdullah al-Yazuri found himself in the middle of a national row in Britain.

He'd hoped to share and document the "suffering that children in Gaza" face.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 17h

Modern earth building video.

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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 1d

Joint paper with A Paulsson, R Raphael & M Islar on the provision of autonomy in #degrowth/#postgrowth circumstances, looking at democracy, work and education. Will talk about education part tomorrow at the @scientistrebellion.bsky.social summit in Berlin
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Autonomy within limits: Post-growth and social imaginaries of work, education and democracy - Alexander Paulsson, Max Koch, Mine Islar, Riya Raphael, 2025

Autonomy is central to thinking about democracy and human needs, but the question of how autonomy relates to growth is ambivalent. Is growth necessary to achiev...

journals.sagepub.com

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 10h

There should be 5 Nobel prizes focused on the avoidance of the end of civilisation:
- climate tech
- climate infrastructure
- climate communication
- political journalism of climate blackmail by fossil fuel companies
- political journalism of climate bribery by fossil fuel companies

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 9h

Humanity can survive the climate crisis of its own creation.

Not by sitting there like idle adults scrolling the timeline.

Not by hopefully taking part in picking up garbage in the street.

Focus on the big things. Our democracy has been taken over by fossil fuel
companies.

Fix that.

Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 1d

Joint paper with A Paulsson, R Raphael & M Islar on the provision of autonomy in #degrowth/#postgrowth circumstances, looking at democracy, work and education. Will talk about education part tomorrow at the @scientistrebellion.bsky.social summit in Berlin
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Autonomy within limits: Post-growth and social imaginaries of work, education and democracy - Alexander Paulsson, Max Koch, Mine Islar, Riya Raphael, 2025

Autonomy is central to thinking about democracy and human needs, but the question of how autonomy relates to growth is ambivalent. Is growth necessary to achiev...

journals.sagepub.com

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1d

Truly inspirational journalism from these iconic Palest!nian journalists.

Watch, share and vote! And let’s slowly work to restore our humanity.

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 10h

This was the young journalist pulled by the BBC Israel lobby. His colleague was killed. He wants us to join and vote

Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1d

Truly inspirational journalism from these iconic Palest!nian journalists.

Watch, share and vote! And let’s slowly work to restore our humanity.

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 1d

Boarding the @CalSleeper from London Euston to Glasgow Central…

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 1d

Time for a nightcap in the club car…

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Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social · 17h

Norway are facing Israel in the Football World Cup qualifiers today

The Oslo Tram Driver’s Union will be striking on the tram lines to the stadium in solidarity with the people of Palestine

www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/va...

Varsler kollektiv-streik i Oslo før Norge-Israel

Oslo Sporveiers Arbeiderforening varsler streik 11. oktober, samme dag som Israel og Norge spiller landskamp i fotball på Ullevaal Stadion. Hensikten er å vise støtte til Palestina. Én time før kampst...

www.nrk.no

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 1d

The world’s longest rainbow path. The 600 metre “Long Walk to Equality” by artist Travis Myers at Hanlan’s Point on Toronto Island … the location of Canada’s first Pride in 1971.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

What if you had to take your drivers test at least every 10 years?

A lot changes over time. Including knowledge/memory of the road rules, driver skills and ability, and the size and deadliness of vehicles.

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 14h

Off to the Netherlands for a fun sci-com weekend!

(also new haircut)

Me (white male in his 40s) wearing a dinosaur T-shirt and a leather jacket in St Pancras station. I have shirt curly hair

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15h

Standing up to fascism is always the right choice.

Rejecting censorship is always the right choice.

Fighting for marginalized and vulnerable communities is always the right choice.

A Wyoming librarian refused to purge books with LGBTQ+ content and was fired for it.

She won a $700,000 settlement

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

www.nytimes.com

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14h

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Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 1d

Inside the beast: The sound of one of our class 373 power cars while at rest at St Pancras.
#TMST

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Trains Trams Tracks @trainstramstracks.bsky.social · 15h

That’s what Palestinians can conclude from westerners who pretend to be interested in democracy and freedom.

Your double standards are showing.

Do some reflection.

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AnthroB👀logal @anthropologal.bsky.social · 15h

Heia Tram Drivers! 🇳🇴

Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social · 17h

Norway are facing Israel in the Football World Cup qualifiers today

The Oslo Tram Driver’s Union will be striking on the tram lines to the stadium in solidarity with the people of Palestine

www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/va...

Varsler kollektiv-streik i Oslo før Norge-Israel

Oslo Sporveiers Arbeiderforening varsler streik 11. oktober, samme dag som Israel og Norge spiller landskamp i fotball på Ullevaal Stadion. Hensikten er å vise støtte til Palestina. Én time før kampst...

www.nrk.no

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Trains Trams Tracks @trainstramstracks.bsky.social · 15h

Excellent!

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 16h

💯 this. Dubai is the worst some-people-think-it‘s-good place I’ve ever been. If you want a SimCity city, at least go for Singapore not Dubai.

And I’ve been to places more depressing than Dubai, but those are mostly because some crisis (war, industrial decline) broke them.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17h

I've been to Dubai for work a few times. It's like the world's biggest airport lounge. Utterly soulless. Can't imagine wanting to live there whatever the financial benefits. (That's before you get to the ethical issues...)

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 17h

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

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Joshua 🏳‍🌈 @joshuagrid56098.bsky.social · 1d

56045 and 56103 crawl through Long Eaton on 0Z56 Chaddesden Sidings to Barrow Hill LIP.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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