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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

Now this is totally my wheelhouse lol — namely, the way that climate propagandists take a scientific word like "confidence" and manipulate it to convey something false to the public.

Here's how Pielke plays that trick in this case (screenshots from a 2023 thread over on the Nazi site):

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
@DoctorVive So, I dug into @RogerPielkeJr's claim that the @IPC_CH has "concluded" that a climate signal beyond natural variability will NOT emerge by 2100
for many big impacts, & guess what?
(You'll never guess!)
The self-appointed "honest broker" is misrepresenting the science.
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Pielke centers his claim on AR6 WGI Table 12.12, which shows the "confidence" scientists have that a climate signal has emerged or will
emerge in a particular region.
White signifies "low confidence" of an emerging signal.
There is a lot of white in this Table.
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Chanter 12
Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessmenti
Table 12.12

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 1d

Son of economic immigrants, anchor baby, Muhammad Yusuf, one of the Kremlin r🐀ts, lies about Farage, claiming he doesn’t know who Gill is, the former Refuk leader in Wales who admitted taking bribes to make statements in favour of terrorist state Russia while being MEP. #ukpoitics

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Rebecca Griffiths @yorym-flo.bsky.social · 1d

This amazing object is a Bronze Age palstave axehead c.1500-1250 BC. The axe would be hafted to a forked wooden handle held in place by high flanges & deep stop ridge. It is decorated with a trident-like shield design. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Guy Harvey @guyharvey70.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!

Thank you.

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 1d

Mum, the Americans are acting up again

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

#FindsFriday
Papyrus with lists of #Roman centurions stationed in #Egypt have found by Polish archaeologists in Berenike. These documents were found along with, among other things, pottery from Italy, Roman coins, in what may be the remains of a centurion’s office. #Archaeology #History

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a guy throwing a printer at a horse

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman eight months pregnant—she is an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School—and she is saying 'eff Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta."

gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-compl...

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 2d

Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line.
The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes.
Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.

On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld

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The picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.

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honey i am a guy & i shrunk the kids @snowrespecter.bsky.social · Nov 15

Beyoncé is short for Beowulfyoncé

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

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Guy Harvey @guyharvey70.bsky.social · 2d

'Lets set aside the disastrous outcomes, who led the best?'

This is the problem with political commentators.

They're really only interested in the characters, the game, the optics.

Not the policies that affect people's lives outside.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Compiling a best to worse post-war Conservative party leadership board.

Ranking is based on how well they led and not on the basis of their politics, obviously
wdyt

Thatcher
Major
Cameron
Heath
Churchill
William Hague
May
Sunak
Johnson
Alec Douglas-Home
lain Duncan Smith
Eden
Badenoch
Truss

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Guy Harvey @guyharvey70.bsky.social · 2d

How can you separate leadership from policy?

Cameron led us into Brexit. That counts as the worst leader in decades (possibly centuries).

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 2d

I wish someone online would point out some hypocrisy or inconsistent behaviour because only then will we have real change.

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The Daily Mash @the-daily-mash.bsky.social · 2d

Stamp duty the bane of our lives, agree young people in deprived areas buff.ly/PpGu6Wl

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gerrarrdus @gerrarrdus.bsky.social · 3d

This is a very sinister review.

"Castle carvery now has a children's soft play area located inside at a cost of only £3.50 per child.On both occasions the meat has been very tender & fresh."

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Guy Harvey @guyharvey70.bsky.social · 3d

In US constitutional law, plenary power is power granted in absolute terms, with no review of or limitations. It's assignment to one body divests all other bodies from the right to exercise that power. Plenary powers are not subject to judicial review in a particular instance or in general.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 4d

There are side road junctions, and then there are side road junctions. @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social

The junction of Bank Bridge Road and Riverpark Road, in Clayton. The junction mouth is extremely wide – around 74 metres!

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zero @egrettt.bsky.social · 4d

AI and fake citations 👇

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 4d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch