Bluskey Blimpvondel
@eightywires.bsky.social
Games, Japan, pushbikes, some other stuff. See how it goes.
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Neat!
The Trans-Neptunium world 78799 Xewioso, which is about 500-600 km in diameter and orbits beyond Neptune, got in front of a star and folks in Japan using the 3.8m Seimei Telescope filmed it happening in real-time.
Watch as the star blinks on-off-on as the object moves in front of it.
🔭
The Trans-Neptunium world 78799 Xewioso, which is about 500-600 km in diameter and orbits beyond Neptune, got in front of a star and folks in Japan using the 3.8m Seimei Telescope filmed it happening in real-time.
Watch as the star blinks on-off-on as the object moves in front of it.
🔭
年の瀬ですが、太陽系の果ての天体が星を隠す瞬間の撮影に成功しました！
12月26日(おととい)、国内最大の光学望遠鏡『せいめい望遠鏡』を使用して、カイパーベルト天体(78799) Xewiosoによる恒星掩蔽の観測に世界で初めて成功しました！
円内の恒星が一瞬で隠され見えなくなり、その後出現している様子をご覧ください。
動画は等倍速で再生。
©︎ 京都大学岡山天文台/ 東京大学
12月26日(おととい)、国内最大の光学望遠鏡『せいめい望遠鏡』を使用して、カイパーベルト天体(78799) Xewiosoによる恒星掩蔽の観測に世界で初めて成功しました！
円内の恒星が一瞬で隠され見えなくなり、その後出現している様子をご覧ください。
動画は等倍速で再生。
©︎ 京都大学岡山天文台/ 東京大学
December 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Neat!
The Trans-Neptunium world 78799 Xewioso, which is about 500-600 km in diameter and orbits beyond Neptune, got in front of a star and folks in Japan using the 3.8m Seimei Telescope filmed it happening in real-time.
Watch as the star blinks on-off-on as the object moves in front of it.
🔭
The Trans-Neptunium world 78799 Xewioso, which is about 500-600 km in diameter and orbits beyond Neptune, got in front of a star and folks in Japan using the 3.8m Seimei Telescope filmed it happening in real-time.
Watch as the star blinks on-off-on as the object moves in front of it.
🔭
極南海氷：オレンジ線はその日月の歴史的平均です。
Antarctic sea ice concentration, on December 25, 2025. The image also shows the median Antarctic sea ice edge 1981-2010 highlighted in orange. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/12/wild...
December 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
極南海氷：オレンジ線はその日月の歴史的平均です。
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The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
法主が語ります！
In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 AM
法主が語ります！
日本だるいね
Solar capacity is expected to triple based on new projects in the pipeline.
Total global solar capacity, including all projects in construction and planned, is expected to reach almost 3 terawatts, with 80% concentrated in just 15 countries.
Data @globalenergymon.bsky.social
Total global solar capacity, including all projects in construction and planned, is expected to reach almost 3 terawatts, with 80% concentrated in just 15 countries.
Data @globalenergymon.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
日本だるいね
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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
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Having opened the box, Pandora tweets angrily at all the miseries and evils she enabled to fly out to afflict mankind
October 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Having opened the box, Pandora tweets angrily at all the miseries and evils she enabled to fly out to afflict mankind
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John Oliver mentioned this animal on his recent show, so i thought I'd tell you a little about the critically endangered #MountainChicken
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#frogs🐸 #amphibians #caribbean #EndangeredSpecies #conservation🌎 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/giant-cari...
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#frogs🐸 #amphibians #caribbean #EndangeredSpecies #conservation🌎 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/giant-cari...
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
John Oliver mentioned this animal on his recent show, so i thought I'd tell you a little about the critically endangered #MountainChicken
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#frogs🐸 #amphibians #caribbean #EndangeredSpecies #conservation🌎 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/giant-cari...
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#frogs🐸 #amphibians #caribbean #EndangeredSpecies #conservation🌎 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/giant-cari...
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The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos.
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
We are hurtling toward climate chaos.
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
academic.oup.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos.
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
We are hurtling toward climate chaos.
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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New post: How the reaction to a football ban showed how our politicians and media have become trapped in right wing Islamophobic narratives and detached from the majority of voters
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-...
How the reaction to a football ban showed how our politicians and media have become trapped in right wing Islamophobic narratives and detached from the majority of voters
In the weeks before the Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters ban was announced, Conservative party leader-in-waiting Robert Jenrick declared that ...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
New post: How the reaction to a football ban showed how our politicians and media have become trapped in right wing Islamophobic narratives and detached from the majority of voters
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-...
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In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock
Today they are outweighed 1 to 20
Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Today they are outweighed 1 to 20
Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock
Today they are outweighed 1 to 20
Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Today they are outweighed 1 to 20
Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This is very useful, timely analysis built on Global Energy Monitor data, confirming that fossil fuel companies are not meaningfully investing in the energy transition. These companies are responsible for a tiny 0.1% of global renewable energy production.
grist.org/accountabili...
grist.org/accountabili...
Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise.
A new study shows that fossil fuel companies own less than 2 percent of renewable energy projects worldwide.
grist.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
This is very useful, timely analysis built on Global Energy Monitor data, confirming that fossil fuel companies are not meaningfully investing in the energy transition. These companies are responsible for a tiny 0.1% of global renewable energy production.
grist.org/accountabili...
grist.org/accountabili...
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Three new Climate Data Records (CDRs) of atmospheric motion vectors are now available on the EUMETSAT Data Store bit.ly/4ozRrL8 #remotesensing #earthobservation
October 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Three new Climate Data Records (CDRs) of atmospheric motion vectors are now available on the EUMETSAT Data Store bit.ly/4ozRrL8 #remotesensing #earthobservation
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We've arrived at Essen 🤗
I found some appelschorle already 🥰 and had some delicious food and bread with friends.
🤗 See you soon at the Novelty Show or Hall 6, 300!!
#boardgames
#Essen #spiel #spiel25
I found some appelschorle already 🥰 and had some delicious food and bread with friends.
🤗 See you soon at the Novelty Show or Hall 6, 300!!
#boardgames
#Essen #spiel #spiel25
October 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
We've arrived at Essen 🤗
I found some appelschorle already 🥰 and had some delicious food and bread with friends.
🤗 See you soon at the Novelty Show or Hall 6, 300!!
#boardgames
#Essen #spiel #spiel25
I found some appelschorle already 🥰 and had some delicious food and bread with friends.
🤗 See you soon at the Novelty Show or Hall 6, 300!!
#boardgames
#Essen #spiel #spiel25
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kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
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More than 60% of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis
- Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’
Story by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’
Story by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis
Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
More than 60% of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis
- Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’
Story by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’
Story by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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In July 2025 I recorded 71 fatal landslides worldwide, with the loss of 214 lives. The number of fatal landslides was above the long term mean of 58.1 landslides.
eos.org/thelandslide...
eos.org/thelandslide...
October 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
In July 2025 I recorded 71 fatal landslides worldwide, with the loss of 214 lives. The number of fatal landslides was above the long term mean of 58.1 landslides.
eos.org/thelandslide...
eos.org/thelandslide...
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Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
October 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
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Basic principles for the future of the car in cities:
✅ Fewer
✅ Smaller
✅ Slower
✅ Cleaner
This can be achieved with:
✅ Parking controls
✅ LTNs
✅ Road User Pricing
✅ Pedestrianisation
✅ Default 20mph roads
✅ Improved public transport
✅ Segregated cycling
✅ Fewer
✅ Smaller
✅ Slower
✅ Cleaner
This can be achieved with:
✅ Parking controls
✅ LTNs
✅ Road User Pricing
✅ Pedestrianisation
✅ Default 20mph roads
✅ Improved public transport
✅ Segregated cycling
September 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Basic principles for the future of the car in cities:
✅ Fewer
✅ Smaller
✅ Slower
✅ Cleaner
This can be achieved with:
✅ Parking controls
✅ LTNs
✅ Road User Pricing
✅ Pedestrianisation
✅ Default 20mph roads
✅ Improved public transport
✅ Segregated cycling
✅ Fewer
✅ Smaller
✅ Slower
✅ Cleaner
This can be achieved with:
✅ Parking controls
✅ LTNs
✅ Road User Pricing
✅ Pedestrianisation
✅ Default 20mph roads
✅ Improved public transport
✅ Segregated cycling
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On Friday, October 17, Sviatlana Tsihanouskaya, leader of the democratic Belarusian opposition against dictator Aliaksandr Lukashenka, will deliver the ninth October Lecture in de @rodehoed.bsky.social in Amsterdam.
Get your tickets via: rodehoed.nl/programma/ok...
Get your tickets via: rodehoed.nl/programma/ok...
September 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
On Friday, October 17, Sviatlana Tsihanouskaya, leader of the democratic Belarusian opposition against dictator Aliaksandr Lukashenka, will deliver the ninth October Lecture in de @rodehoed.bsky.social in Amsterdam.
Get your tickets via: rodehoed.nl/programma/ok...
Get your tickets via: rodehoed.nl/programma/ok...
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My friend Ayham who lives at Khan Yunis just wrote me this when I asked him what’s happening in Gaza
"Nothing, Only massacres"
😢
"Nothing, Only massacres"
😢
September 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My friend Ayham who lives at Khan Yunis just wrote me this when I asked him what’s happening in Gaza
"Nothing, Only massacres"
😢
"Nothing, Only massacres"
😢
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It’s hard to look around—at Blair pitching a luxury resort to be built on the Gaza killing fields or Keir Starmer responding to anti-Asian hate by affirming his affinity for the perpetrators—and not conclude that the elite’s real problem with Corbyn was that he wasn’t sufficiently Islamophobic.
September 2, 2025 at 6:27 AM
It’s hard to look around—at Blair pitching a luxury resort to be built on the Gaza killing fields or Keir Starmer responding to anti-Asian hate by affirming his affinity for the perpetrators—and not conclude that the elite’s real problem with Corbyn was that he wasn’t sufficiently Islamophobic.
I'm not dead yet. Just wallowing in a big bed with shiny yellow bedding, plastered in my own urine and excrement, steadily descending into a miasma of delirium, pain and misery. In my lucid moments, I rage at the inescapability of death and the weakness of the fools who will betray my legacy.
August 31, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I'm not dead yet. Just wallowing in a big bed with shiny yellow bedding, plastered in my own urine and excrement, steadily descending into a miasma of delirium, pain and misery. In my lucid moments, I rage at the inescapability of death and the weakness of the fools who will betray my legacy.
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The Trump Effect
Wind power investment in US during first half of 2025 hits lowest point since before 2015
So where does that money go?
Wind power investment in Europe in same period reaches record high, by some way
www.ft.com/content/2e3e...
Wind power investment in US during first half of 2025 hits lowest point since before 2015
So where does that money go?
Wind power investment in Europe in same period reaches record high, by some way
www.ft.com/content/2e3e...
August 28, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The Trump Effect
Wind power investment in US during first half of 2025 hits lowest point since before 2015
So where does that money go?
Wind power investment in Europe in same period reaches record high, by some way
www.ft.com/content/2e3e...
Wind power investment in US during first half of 2025 hits lowest point since before 2015
So where does that money go?
Wind power investment in Europe in same period reaches record high, by some way
www.ft.com/content/2e3e...