Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
Novel reader, 🐈 lover, amateur 📸, gamer 🎮, slow 🚲, coattail-rider, rare blogger & ocean 🌊 biogeochemistry modeller (in that order). Views=own, RTs≠endorsement.
Environmental science
47%
Geology
23%
‘Unacceptable’ for Greenland not to be in US hands, says Trump
US president’s comments come hours before high-stakes talks between Denmark, Greenland and US
www.theguardian.com
To be fair, I thought that it was "unacceptable" for asshats to be in the White House, but here we are.
Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store?
Google describes apps exactly like Grok and says they are banned from Google Play.
arstechnica.com
Reminding the app stores that gatekeep the likes of #Grok to apply their own rules re: non-consensual / illegal imagery might have been an easier move for the UK government than slippery legislation / mudslinging with fascists ...
Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45
What is it with the so-called "new right" and their love of Nazi-adjacent symbols? Do they want brand recognition or not?
Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45
Leaving aside the whole "climate change is making the Arctic more accessible and strategically important" vs. "let's stop researching the climate change warming the Arctic" cognitive dissonance
Specifically: what services will you be able to sell to a human populace that has no economic role and, thus, no financial resources to purchase them? If corporations can't answer that question it seems strange to get excited (except in the short term) about this vision of the future. (🧵 2/2)
Car giant Hyundai to use human-like robots in factories
The firm plans to deploy the technology at the same plant that was involved in a huge immigration raid in 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
It's *always* been obvious to me that any sane corporation would like to replace all of its human workers with much cheaper (and more compliant) machine slaves. What's *never* been obvious to me is what they think that the world outside such corporations looks like. (🧵 1/2)
American citizens just need to be careful that it doesn't become the *USA* brand more widely. At the moment, despite the protests at ground level, the headlines are being dominated by belligerent / idiotic actions.
More selfishly, these are also feeding local idiocy, unfortunately.
More selfishly, these are also feeding local idiocy, unfortunately.
A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026
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Actually, he already had a go at the turn of the year, but not so much about projecting from the terribleness of 1900-1926 ...
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This feels like a job for @paulisci.bsky.social ...
A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026
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I find it fascinating that eukaryotic metazoans still expect the conflicting demands of their genome for exponential cell growth followed by stasis when they reach adult size to be easy to resolve in mere decades after more than 600 million years of clearly not solving them.
A #NothingButFoxes edit of several days (well, *nights*!) worth of visits by foxes to our garden. 🦊
#FoxesOfBluesky #GardenFox #BrowningTrailCameras #MrAndMrsFox
#FoxesOfBluesky #GardenFox #BrowningTrailCameras #MrAndMrsFox
A nice "tradition" that's sprung up in #Southampton in recent years is hanging Christmas decorations in trees in the old cemetery in the city's Common. Living close to this, we've started joining in and here's some snaps of our yews plus a few other decorated trees.
Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
· Dec 10
I expect they just want your social media handles so they can send an AI to do the work of reading these and answering the question "dislikes #OrangeTyrant?".
Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
· Dec 10
👍 To be honest, I haven't read any papers about this. I just know from a general immersion in science (I'm a marine biogeochemist; so I guess I do read unrelated papers) that this headline can't meaningfully be true. There'd have been so much more ahead of such a breakthrough.
Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
· Dec 9
More navel-gazing, self-indulgent, faux-philosophical, clickbaity horseshit. This time from @newscientist.com who should know better.
Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
· Dec 9
Has even #PopularMechanics completely lost its way in these clickbaity times?
Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
· Dec 6
I'd not noticed what that looked like before! 🧟 It comes to something when we can't tell whether someone is trolling or sucking up to the #OrangeTyrant.
Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
· Dec 5
Trump awarded inaugural Fifa peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington
US president receives new Fifa honour as scrutiny grows over Infantino’s political alliances and Trump’s disputed record on global conflicts
www.theguardian.com
What kind of sad sack of human garbage is so craving of praise that he can be bought off by a fake-ass "peace prize" from a brazenly corrupt sports organisation brown-nosing to the absolute hilt? How does someone get to have so little self-respect?
Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
· Dec 5
Of course, UK governments don't have to succumb to this pressure, but ...
Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
· Dec 5
Top UK scientist says research visa restrictions endanger economy
Prof Sir Paul Nurse says the UK is "shooting itself in the foot" with its visa system for researchers.
www.bbc.com
Don't forget @royalsociety.org that one of the reasons we have visa restrictions is that one of *your fellows* is driving racist narratives that pressurise UK governments into imposing them!
Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
· Dec 4
Quite. I'm afraid I was being a bit sarcastic, however. #BigOil isn't trying to make a sensible point about CO2 - it's merely another of their many sciencey-sounding misdirections to sow false doubt about climate science and keep the money pouring in. Standard denialist horseshit.
Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
· Dec 4
Counterpoint: Perhaps the vastly more numerous humans, whose numbers / spread around the world are responsible for the unfortunate occurrence of domestic cats (and wildlife loss more widely), could perhaps be kept inside the house? Cats are the proximate cause - the ultimate cause is closer to home.
Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
· Dec 4
But, but ... isn't CO2 plant food like the denialists at #BigOil periodically remind us?!?
Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
· Nov 25
ChatGPT - CO2 emission cost comparison
Shared via ChatGPT
chatgpt.com
(*) "very approximately" because petrol, natural gas, etc., have highly variable prices across the board. Between countries, between types of end-user, between fuel chemistries, etc. Here's some back-of-the-envelope that #ChatGPT did for me ...
Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
· Nov 25
... Let alone the cost of the climate damage caused by the CO2 added to the atmosphere in the period between burning the fuel and DAC-ing that CO2. All not paid for by the #BigOil companies (and consumers).