Bex Self
@bexself.bsky.social
Sustainability professional and outdoors lover 💚🌊🐺
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Oil for water deals.
I don't know my Mad Max lore but isn't this a thing in that world?
I don't know my Mad Max lore but isn't this a thing in that world?
During its worst drought in a century, Iraq signs a water security for oil deal with Turkey. The once rich Tigris & Euphrates rivers are drying up from climate change & mismanagement, leading to crop losses & a water crisis. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/21/c...
Grappling with its worst drought in a century, Iraq bets on a controversial oil-for-water deal | CNN
The historic “land between two rivers” faces a crisis as the Tigris and Euphrates shrink dramatically amid severe drought and the increasing toll of upstream dams, helping create the country’s worst w...
edition.cnn.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Oil for water deals.
I don't know my Mad Max lore but isn't this a thing in that world?
I don't know my Mad Max lore but isn't this a thing in that world?
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Elon Musk was warned of safety concerns with Tesla's electric door handles. Read The Big Take:
Elon Musk Demanded Tesla’s Electric Doors Despite Safety Worries
Engineers raised concerns inside the company during development of the Model 3 sedan.
bloom.bg
December 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Elon Musk was warned of safety concerns with Tesla's electric door handles. Read The Big Take:
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The Trump regime wants to dismantle a world leading climate research center. Why? Because the US has become a petrostate where the government has been captured by fossil fuel interests.
They’re calling climate science “green new scam research”, in full denial of reality. 🤯
They’re calling climate science “green new scam research”, in full denial of reality. 🤯
December 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The Trump regime wants to dismantle a world leading climate research center. Why? Because the US has become a petrostate where the government has been captured by fossil fuel interests.
They’re calling climate science “green new scam research”, in full denial of reality. 🤯
They’re calling climate science “green new scam research”, in full denial of reality. 🤯
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An estimate of the energy cost of producing one single 10 second Sora video: one kilowatt hour.
- Deplete and then recharge your iphone 17 68 times
- 10% of daily German household use
- 5.5 hours of Netflix
- ~4hrs of gaming
This is probably a huge underestimate
www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...
- Deplete and then recharge your iphone 17 68 times
- 10% of daily German household use
- 5.5 hours of Netflix
- ~4hrs of gaming
This is probably a huge underestimate
www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...
December 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
An estimate of the energy cost of producing one single 10 second Sora video: one kilowatt hour.
- Deplete and then recharge your iphone 17 68 times
- 10% of daily German household use
- 5.5 hours of Netflix
- ~4hrs of gaming
This is probably a huge underestimate
www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...
- Deplete and then recharge your iphone 17 68 times
- 10% of daily German household use
- 5.5 hours of Netflix
- ~4hrs of gaming
This is probably a huge underestimate
www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
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Warning! This colorful chart is censored by IPCC - mailchi.mp/caa/warning-...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Warning! This colorful chart is censored by IPCC - mailchi.mp/caa/warning-...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
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The ABC News reporter who
pissed off Trump today
I STAND WITH MARY BRUCE💙
pissed off Trump today
I STAND WITH MARY BRUCE💙
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The ABC News reporter who
pissed off Trump today
I STAND WITH MARY BRUCE💙
pissed off Trump today
I STAND WITH MARY BRUCE💙
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Please give the ABC reporter a raise for asking Mohammed Bonesawman about Koshoggi and 9/11.
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Please give the ABC reporter a raise for asking Mohammed Bonesawman about Koshoggi and 9/11.
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Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
October 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
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No wonder the tippy top of the GOP wants to keep this a secret. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Democrats release Epstein docs with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions
Small tranche of documents includes meeting itineraries, flight manifest and redacted financial transactions
www.independent.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
No wonder the tippy top of the GOP wants to keep this a secret. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Appalled to see this image of Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle.
Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association
Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association
September 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Appalled to see this image of Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle.
Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association
Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association
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Trump: "Things that take place in the home they call crime....If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this is a crime."
September 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Trump: "Things that take place in the home they call crime....If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this is a crime."
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the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile
BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
September 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile
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The WA Museum Director's letter to staff defending the Woodside partnership contains a grab bag of climate action delaying arguments.
He goes: we all burn fossil fuels after all.
Classic blame shifting away from companies. Blaming people for existing in a world they want to change.
He goes: we all burn fossil fuels after all.
Classic blame shifting away from companies. Blaming people for existing in a world they want to change.
WA museum tells staff ‘almost all of us are guilty’ of burning fossil fuels in email defending Woodside partnership
Exclusive: Climate advocates reject CEO’s claim he is ‘not qualified’ to comment on risks of gas firm’s plan to extend production to 2070
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The WA Museum Director's letter to staff defending the Woodside partnership contains a grab bag of climate action delaying arguments.
He goes: we all burn fossil fuels after all.
Classic blame shifting away from companies. Blaming people for existing in a world they want to change.
He goes: we all burn fossil fuels after all.
Classic blame shifting away from companies. Blaming people for existing in a world they want to change.
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Well done Hnh and thank you to our listeners who took action 🎉
You did it. The neo-Nazi gig planned for Great Yarmouth has been CANCELLED. ❗
Over 34,000 of you emailed the Home Office and spread the word. Local press, councils and police took notice, and under pressure, we have just received the news that the venue has pulled the plug.
Over 34,000 of you emailed the Home Office and spread the word. Local press, councils and police took notice, and under pressure, we have just received the news that the venue has pulled the plug.
September 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Well done Hnh and thank you to our listeners who took action 🎉
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I'm still stunned that @yorkshirebylines.co.uk put in the huge effort to collect all press-reported downsides of Brexit (David Davis had said there would be "none"!)...
...and has the sheer patience to collect 2,000 discrete incidences via media reports before giving up.
...and has the sheer patience to collect 2,000 discrete incidences via media reports before giving up.
The Davis Downside Dossier
David Davis famously said there would be no downsides to Brexit only considerable upsides - so we started recording them.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I'm still stunned that @yorkshirebylines.co.uk put in the huge effort to collect all press-reported downsides of Brexit (David Davis had said there would be "none"!)...
...and has the sheer patience to collect 2,000 discrete incidences via media reports before giving up.
...and has the sheer patience to collect 2,000 discrete incidences via media reports before giving up.
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100%
Our 10 publications at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk now get many more engagements (and click-through) from Bluesky than it ever did on Twitter/X.
Here’s our graph of traffic from X vs Bluesky over the last 12 months.
Our 10 publications at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk now get many more engagements (and click-through) from Bluesky than it ever did on Twitter/X.
Here’s our graph of traffic from X vs Bluesky over the last 12 months.
August 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
100%
Our 10 publications at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk now get many more engagements (and click-through) from Bluesky than it ever did on Twitter/X.
Here’s our graph of traffic from X vs Bluesky over the last 12 months.
Our 10 publications at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk now get many more engagements (and click-through) from Bluesky than it ever did on Twitter/X.
Here’s our graph of traffic from X vs Bluesky over the last 12 months.
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“We did all of this with our hands tied behind our backs,” said a spokesperson for the families. “Even with the FBI pushing back and President Trump invoking state secrets, we created an overwhelming picture of Saudi Arabia’s role.”
Sept. 11 Victims’ Lawsuit Against Saudi Government Can Go to Trial, Judge Rules
Information uncovered by plaintiffs has already undermined the FBI’s conclusion that two U.S.-based Saudi officials “unwittingly” helped al-Qaida hijackers after they arrived in America.
www.propublica.org
August 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“We did all of this with our hands tied behind our backs,” said a spokesperson for the families. “Even with the FBI pushing back and President Trump invoking state secrets, we created an overwhelming picture of Saudi Arabia’s role.”
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Timmons Roberts was on a panel with me last year and since then, his team’s work has been useful for my investigations into the anti-wind movement. I hope Brown stands with its academics.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Timmons Roberts was on a panel with me last year and since then, his team’s work has been useful for my investigations into the anti-wind movement. I hope Brown stands with its academics.
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"... Americans wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from “democracy” to “authoritarianism.” Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"... Americans wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from “democracy” to “authoritarianism.” Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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Funny they don't seem so bothered by Jenrick's three homes (including a grade 1 listed manor) plus his forth home in his constituency rented at taxpayer expense.
Wonder why.
Wonder why.
Daily Telegraph today refers to A Rayner’s property “empire”. Whatever you think of her housing arrangements, I don’t think constituency house (bought for 375k in 2016), house in Hove, plus use of ministerial flat in London is an “empire”. Duke of Westminster wont fear a rival!
August 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Funny they don't seem so bothered by Jenrick's three homes (including a grade 1 listed manor) plus his forth home in his constituency rented at taxpayer expense.
Wonder why.
Wonder why.
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Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points:
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws
This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws
This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship
August 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points:
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws
This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws
This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship
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Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays
A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.
gothamist.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.