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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 1h

I think I get most of the other otherworldly stuff: racism, health conspiracies, and gun-obsessions, as they come from some fundamental human reflex combined with bad information..

Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 1h

Someone please explain why these rural Americans, who I thought were all about being humble, hard-working, and showing your character through actions, overwhelmingly support a bloated self-obsessed, depraved, and spoiled baby-golfer

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 2d

“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.”

www.ft.com/content/013e...

The ‘profound’ global impact of China’s rise as an electrostate

The country’s companies now dominate many clean technology industries

www.ft.com

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 1d

Kunne gitt han ein litt større medalje kanskje, “The *Real* Nobel Prize”, ekte gull, eit lite brev, full pakke. Berre ingen dokumentasjon eller historikk, sjølvsagt

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Pekka Kallioniemi @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 1d

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce American propagandist Alexandra Jost, aka “Sasha”. She’s best known for being paid by the Russian state to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda — and for doing it with a big smile.

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 3d

Hungary is the worlds first illiberal semi-autocratic solar-powered regime 🎉

Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 4d

NEW @ember-energy.org report out today | Renewables now produce more electricity than coal worldwide ⚡️

Renewables produced 5,072 TWh (34.4% share) in the first half of 2025 overtaking coal for the first time which stood at 4,896 TWh (33.1%.)

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zauberberg.bsky.social @zauberberg.bsky.social · 5d

A7A5 was developed by A7, a company owned by Ilan Shor and the Russian state-owned lender Promsvyazbank, which was sanctioned by the UK, the EU and the US in 2022.
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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 5d

EU has proposed imposing sanctions on A7A5, a ruble-backed stablecoin tied to sanctioned Russian actors, - Bloomberg

The sanctions will prohibit any engagement by EU-based entities in transactions involving the token and target several banks for enabling crypto-related transactions.

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 7d

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 12d

Og til info, eg elskar heimfylket (Sogn og Fjordane), og finn ingen glede i å pisse på bygdenorge, eg blir faktisk oppriktig trist.

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 12d

Og styggare blir dei. Når ein i tillegg bygger alt av næringsbygg i varehusform 16 km utanfor sentrum døyr jo alt. Og så så forstår ein ikkje kvifor folk ikkje flyttar dit frå byen når ein kan få seg bykaffi på næringsparken. 2/2

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 12d

Hovedproblemet er kanskje at vi har null byggekultur eller respekt for kompetanse i landet. Bygder har mykje (billeg) areal, og måker opp nye platetekka bygg over ein låg sko. Sidan alt nytt generelt er stygt er bygdene stygge. 1/2

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 12d

haha sant

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 13d

Facts….they’re just snatching up anyone that’s brown don’t even care if they’re legal or not

Skeet Child O' Mine @furiosity.bsky.social · 13d

The scary part is that if ole boy was half a second slower on his bike, he could have wound up in South Sudan.

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SAINT JAVELIN @saintjavelin.bsky.social · 12d

This result is absolutely fucking golden. Moldova’s elections just showed how pro-European forces (PAS, the party of Maia Sandu) completely wiped the floor with Dodon’s pro-russian bloc.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 14d

How is this not front page news?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Conor Feehily @sligomicrobe.bsky.social · 15d

This is what happens when you chose to publish with @microbiologysociety.org. You are building the future of microbiology and giving a start to some incredible new scientists.

Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 26d

Meet the Vacation Studentship 2025 grant awardees 🤩! We loved receiving these photos! When you publish with us, we have the funds to continue supporting Early Career Microbiologists in developing their knowledge and skills.

A graphic with photos of Early Career Microbiologist during their lab-time during the Vacation Studentship, which is a grant provided by the Microbiology Society. In the photos people are smiling.

A lot of photos on the screen of individuals working in the lab.

Another page of photos on the screen of individuals working in the lab.

The last page is text explaining how publishing revenue supports the Society to give grants to Early Career Microbiologists.

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 15d

True! But not a good fit for people who prefer a couple of chat bots to review their paper and for the proceedings to be shuttled away to a bank account on Cayman Island

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 16d

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 19d

If nothing else, current affairs are taking the sting out of my imposter syndrome

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Trump: "Hepatitis B again, that's sexually transmitted, and I think you should wait until12. You know, I'm making these statements from me. I'm not making them from these doctors ... I talk about a lot of common sense."

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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 19d

Prague using street names to troll russian embassy.

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 20d

I love and admire Donald Trump’s intuitive grasp of maths

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21d

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead.

We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

Trump Says He Will Get Drug Prices Down By 500% To 1500%

ByBruce Y. Lee,

Senior Contributor.
Bruce Y. Lee,

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 21d

Smart people are a threat to autocrats. Every dictatorship ever has put a leash on academics and thinkers.
If he succeeds, of course the US will become worse and poorer along every metric, but that’s a price they are willing to pay for the kleptocrats to be safe and sound.. and still rich

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