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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 12h

Goniatite fossils packed throughout this piece of shale. The shells of these ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus must have littered the sea floor that covered this part of the earths surface over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 8h

Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Damien Meadows @damienmeadows.bsky.social · 14h

Great article from @hannahritchie.bsky.social… and the EU ETS can fund action to reduce these non-CO2 climate impacts from aviation (and from shipping - where black carbon has a GWP of 900). It’s really good that this is getting more public attention

Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 1d

Eliminating contrails from flying could be incredibly cheap, by @_HannahRitchie
substack.com/@hannahritch...

Eliminating contrails from flying could be incredibly cheap

Could we halve aviation's climate impact at a fraction of the cost of sustainable aviation fuels?

substack.com

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Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 1d

Good post - check out the replies for thread with sources

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 1d

I got this wrong. Beaver Moon is in November. Hunters Moon or Harvest Moon tonight … but didn’t see any hunters either. Will watch out for beavers next month.

Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 1d

Technically this is the Beaver Moon tonight but I suspect it also works for Hedgehogs? Neither seen in Wells Harbour this evening.

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Climate Central @climatecentral.org · 1d

Tropical Storm #Jerry formed Tuesday, expected to turn north before reaching the Caribbean.

An October storm isn’t unusual...but the ocean heat feeding it is.

So far, Jerry’s traveled over above-average warmth made 10x–20x more likely by human-caused climate change.
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Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 1d

No AI

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Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 1d

Technically this is the Beaver Moon tonight but I suspect it also works for Hedgehogs? Neither seen in Wells Harbour this evening.

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Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 1d

Wells next the Sea Harbour with the Beaver Moon tonight. Didn’t see any beavers but to be fair I don’t think they like salt water.

Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 1d

Plus a flock of Pinks flew by oinking across the moon but at that point I was in between trying to take video ... it was nice anyway.

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Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 1d

Eliminating contrails from flying could be incredibly cheap, by @_HannahRitchie
substack.com/@hannahritch...

Eliminating contrails from flying could be incredibly cheap

Could we halve aviation's climate impact at a fraction of the cost of sustainable aviation fuels?

substack.com

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 3d

This is not a surprise to anyone on Bluesky. "A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism." www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism

Most — but not all — political scientists are deeply troubled by the president's attempts to expand executive power, according to a national survey.

www.npr.org

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Donald Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy troops on.ft.com/47dKZn2

Donald Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy troops

Warning to use 19th century law comes as president faces legal setbacks in efforts to put soldiers on streets of US cities

on.ft.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

These guys look adorable and their demand is very reasonable

Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 2d

Say hello to literally the only protesters outside Tory conference this year

Two protesters holding up a sign saying “pedestrianise the M6”

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Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know whether this is right or not but do read it

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

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Wet Tribe @wettribe.bsky.social · 2d

“71% of ocean microplastics are plastic microfibers, the type found in synthetic clothing, textiles, and fishing gear.” #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #MicroplasticMonday #Research #Microplastics #Microfibers #FastFashion #CommercialFishing #Automotive

A close-up of an ocean researcher's hands as he sorts colored flecks of microplastics from brown organic debris on a seawater sample using tweezers and a metal sieve.

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2d

Here is the breakdown graphic from the report.
It is Canada wide, even in the west.
Interesting that the older the people are they more they support stronger ties with the EU.
I guess us oldies have seen more and remember.
Link to the report below.

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting paper suggesting a mechanism for why in-context learning happens in LLMs.

They show that LLMs implicitly apply an internal low-rank weight update adjusted by the context. It’s cheap (due to the low-rank) but effective for adapting the model’s behavior.

#MLSky

arxiv.org/abs/2507.16003

Learning without training: The implicit dynamics of in-context learning

One of the most striking features of Large Language Models (LLM) is their ability to learn in context. Namely at inference time an LLM is able to learn new patterns without any additional weight updat...

arxiv.org

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Chris Rose @campaignstrat.bsky.social · 2d

Will AI especially generative AI like ChatGPT and other LLM AI follow the same trajectory ? Seems possible. But if in the meantime Agentic AI or Agentic/LLM leads to AGI, are we stuffed?

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline since. And this is not just the unwinding of a bump in screen time during pandemic lockdowns – what’s going on?

Read the full story here: on.ft.com/3IzaxBL

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline since. And this is not just the unwinding of a bump in screen time during pandemic lockdowns – what’s going on?

Read the full story here: on.ft.com/3IzaxBL

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Geoffrey Lean @geofflean.bsky.social · 2d

Very important report from @eciu.net that gives the lie to the common assertion that energy prices are high because of @ed-miliband.bsky.social driving to green energy. Shows that they would have been even higher without it: wind cuts wholesale price by 25%.

eciu.net/media/press-...

Analysis: Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by…

Gas power now only setting the price of electricity around 85% of the time.

eciu.net

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