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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 4h

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Dr Ella Gilbert @drgilbz.bsky.social · 4h

AI is being used to improve weather and climate prediction... But not in a make-you-dumber, planet-destroying, chatgpt kinda way.

New vid, ft. my best segue yet, here:

youtu.be/7gCbK1f0Zjc

Thanks to Kirstine Dale at the @metoffice.gov.uk for explaining how tech can enhance weather prediction ⛅

Is AI about to revolutionise weather & climate forecasting?

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz

youtu.be

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 3h

There is no point in appeasing Nazis. They can't be reasoned with. Because they're insane. You're going to have to fight them, sooner or later. And sooner is always better.

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 6h

Useful comparison

A graphic showing the enormous improvements since the launch of the original Nissan Leaf 14 years ago the new one goes four times further charges three times faster has two times more power and is 36% cheaper than the original

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Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 10h

China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations every week shows new research by Climate Energy Finance. The rest of the world must learn from China's incredible doubling down on clean energy. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month

While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.

www.abc.net.au

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 11h

Mark Bray is my Rutgers colleague. He is a scholar of anti-fascism. (My comments here are as a private citizen but I discuss my identity as a scholar and professor at Rutgers)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 11h

In case you were wondering, Mark Bray, who wrote a book about anti-fascism, got death threats from MAGA, and is fleeing to Spain with his wife and young children - yeah, he's Jewish.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 11h

I bet Ian Plimer would vote for fascists.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 11h

American exceptionalism

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 11h

Today that Donald Trump held court with Nazis in the White House, I learned Chumbawhumba are Anarcho-communists who released this song back in the 90's.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYG7...

Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died (live)

YouTube video by Giorgos Dimitropoulos

www.youtube.com

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 13h

Mass shootings by year and country.

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 13h

Just remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 13h

The latest update.

bsky.app/profile/mark...

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 13h

A Rutgers University expert on antifa was fleeing the United States with his family on Wednesday in the wake of death threats that followed President Trump's push to characterize the left-wing
antifascist movement as a domestic terrorist organization. Mark Bray, a historian who published the 2017 book "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," taught courses on anti-fascism and terrorism at Rutgers in New Jersey in relative obscurity until a few
weeks ago. Then, after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning
Point USA, Jack Posobiec, a right-wing influencer, called Dr. Bray a "domestic terrorist professor" on X. The Rutgers chapter of Turning Point USA circulated a petition accusing Dr. Bray of being an "outspoken, well-known antifa member" and called for him to be
fired.
The petition referred to him as "Dr. Antifa." "My role in this is as a professor," Dr. Bray, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers, said in an interview on Wednesday, hours before his planned departure. "I've never been part of an antifa group, and I'm not currently. There's an effort underway to paint me as someone who is doing the things that I've researched, but
that couldn't be further from the truth." The furor grew after Fox News reported on the petition. Dr. Bray's home address was revealed on social media. He has since received death threats, including one vowing to kill him in front of his
students.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 13h

Jack has now got a history professor attempting to flee the USA for his own safety.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 14h

Solidarity with & ❤️ for Mark Bray.

#FCKNZS

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 13h

See rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jack_Po...

Jack Posobiec

Jack Posobiec (1985–) is a Catholic[3] alt-right pro-Trump activist/troll, writer, and most importantly, completely insane conspiracy theorist. He even had a press pass at the White House duri...

rationalwiki.org

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 13h

We are living in an insane Philip K Dick timeline with Nazis in the White House.

Jack Posobiec is a Nazi lunatic conspiracy theorist who invented 'PizzaGate'.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 18h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 14h

Solidarity with & ❤️ for Mark Bray.

#FCKNZS

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 14h

Bless you.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 1d

They deliver

reneweconomy.com.au/australia-po...

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d

🔥Barbara Pocock slices up Richard Windeyer from Dept of Finance for allowing PwC back into govt contracts
RW “We were making a judgement about when we think the organisation is sufficiently changed & different”🤔
BP “How can u make that judgment over the top of the police?”💥 #Estimates

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