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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 5d

They lost this round because they're amateurs and clowns 🤡, but it's clear from across the Atlantic what more organised (and well-funded) authoritarians can do to the media. Let's not get complacent.

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 5d

Quite. I would be interested to know exactly where the pressure comes from here. Particularly if it's self-censorship.

And, to be fair to the authors, the likes of Google et al. caved to the Orange Tyrant pretty much immediately. So much for being our corporate overlords.

Google goes gaga over the Gulf of Mexico

“We will update Google Maps in the US quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America.”…

arstechnica.com

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 5d

The lead author's institute is US, so it'd be difficult to pushback there without potential consequences. And, for an ECR, that'd be a stretch. Hopefully we'll just have a ~4 year window of nomenclature insanity before normality is restored.

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 5d

Possibly a coincidence, but it's difficult not to notice the word "petroleum" in this journal's title and not to suspect this is related to the choice of nomenclature. #BigOil being an Orange Tyrant fan. However, I say this in complete ignorance - it's likely this is me making a false connection.

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 6d

Except, of course, if it's being used by savvy local communicators to make struggles in these nations more understandable to important external players. Then it would make a lot more sense to me. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to clarify.

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 6d

Far outside my experience/expertise, but I'm still surprised to hear this given the branding (and it is branding) makes most sense in western nations with a particular demographic stratification and history. Where nations are dominated by a young demographic it's harder to see why it would be used.

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 6d

I seriously doubt that - bar the age range being about right - that the "Gen Z" terminology is meaningful here. The youthful demography of these nations, in particular, is completely different from western nations where the term has more cultural currency. It's just lazy using it here.

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 6d

🚨New GMD publication alert!🚨 🌊
Do you like your limiting nutrients to be proximate or ultimate? Delighted to have worked on this with David, Jamie and Toby. *And* to be reunited with one of my great model loves, #GEnIE! And with more to follow ...

#MarineBiogeochemistry #BiogeochemicalModelling

NutGEnIE 1.0: nutrient cycle extensions to the cGEnIE Earth system model to examine the long-term influence of nutrients on oceanic primary production

Abstract. Understanding the nuances of the effects of nutrient limitation on oceanic primary production has been the focus of many bioassay experiments by oceanographers. A theme of these investigatio...

gmd.copernicus.org

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 6d

The absolute state of a "newspaper" that publishes a flat-out ridiculous - and offensive - comparison between two murdered media figures. Even an AI wouldn't be so moronic as to conflate a journalist out doing her job with a racist, homophobic, white supremacist ideologue. You should be ashamed.

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 7d

Commonise costs, privatise profits - the CC-PP game. A staple of parasitic forms of "capitalism" the world over.

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 7d

It really is the last roll of the dice for Badenoch and she's blown it. This will just alienate another block of Conservative support and gain her nothing as she - belatedly - arrives at a party Farage has already crashed and trashed.

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 7d

I think this might be enough to allow #KemiBadenoch to squeak under the limbo bar already set at "zero credibility" ...

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 7d

(Well, obviously not *all*, but a good fist is being made)

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Warning! 🚨 A second Pope is making all the right noises. High risk of turning Catholic! ...

Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming

In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.

www.bbc.com

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 7d

This sort of deep-dive dissection into the motivations of the terrible people who, somehow, have control of the levers of power is pretty much absent from most media channels. At the very point when we most need such scrutiny. Someone please give this guy a job.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 8d

What Do These Ghouls Even Want

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe below! The least interesting answer to the above question goes for the president himself. He wants, as a...

www.gravityisgone.com

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 8d

Who says that quantum mechanics has no macroscopic expression? 🤔

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 8d

What kind of moron says "three to four days" when there are lives on the line?

Rightly or wrongly (100% the latter) this asshat has power over people's lives ... and he trots out vague bullshit deadlines?

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 8d

Intriguing / depressing 🇬🇧 vs. 🇺🇸 divergence in the news today. While 🇬🇧 medics are bemoaning the rollout of a telehealth scheme as damaging to patients (esp. non-digital seniors), seniors in the 🇺🇸 actually face a loss of such services ahead of yet another retarded govt shutdown.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8d

Millions of American seniors could lose access to telehealth appointments with their doctors if Congress fails to fund them amid a looming government shutdown.

Millions of seniors could lose access to telehealth without deal in Congress

Millions of American seniors could see major disruptions to health services amid a government shut down.

www.washingtonpost.com

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 8d

That's good to know - thanks. It might also make the whole process of tallying up the "fallen" much easier for the owner of the @reformexposed.bsky.social account.

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 9d

But facilitating 80s nostalgia in mere seconds ... 👌

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 9d

And simultaneously horrific at what this technology can do so effortlessly without further human input.

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 9d

Saw this and thought that. And AI was happy to oblige.

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 9d

It would be nice to accompany these regular suspensions / resignations / defenestrations of Reform with a tally of how many have fallen so far. I've completely lost track.

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 10d

Important to remember that just a few decades ago US anti-abortionism was a fringe movement of secondary interest to the Republican party. But marrying the zeal of its fervent adherents with the resources of malevolent oligarchs got them to a dominant position today. Let's not make the same mistake.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 10d

Reform ‘proudly embracing’ anti-abortion politics as experts warn issue faces US-style politicisation in UK

Reform ‘proudly embracing’ anti-abortion politics, experts warn

Campaigners accuse party of ‘fast becoming the political refuge for anti-abortion hardliners’

www.independent.co.uk

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 10d

#CloudPorn - I can never get enough.

Upward view in London with buildings and a blue sky with fluffy clouds

A segment of the London Eye with back-illuminated clouds in front of them.

Upward view in London with buildings and a blue sky with fluffy clouds. Reflections on the glass windows of the buildings.

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