@immitb.bsky.social
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“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 AM
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
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Nobody tell Trump
Boy (7) strikes it lucky by finding one of the world’s rarest minerals near his home in Cork
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Boy (7) strikes it lucky by finding one of the world’s rarest minerals near his home in Cork
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Boy (7) strikes it lucky by finding one of the world’s rarest minerals near his home in Cork
Within seconds of handing it over to an expert, it was clear quartz discovery was very special
www.irishtimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Nobody tell Trump
Boy (7) strikes it lucky by finding one of the world’s rarest minerals near his home in Cork
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Boy (7) strikes it lucky by finding one of the world’s rarest minerals near his home in Cork
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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This is very good from WaPo. Note position of officer's feet to side of car when first shot is fired. I think everyone defending this should be asked: Was it not even an *overreaction* to fire those shots, especially 2 & 3, into her face point-blank with the officer clearly not in danger? Really?
January 8, 2026 at 5:47 PM
This is very good from WaPo. Note position of officer's feet to side of car when first shot is fired. I think everyone defending this should be asked: Was it not even an *overreaction* to fire those shots, especially 2 & 3, into her face point-blank with the officer clearly not in danger? Really?
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This week on @ppfideas.bsky.social, we're exploring "Home Rule for Ireland!"
Home Rule shattered the Liberal Party, broke the women's suffrage movement, brought thousands onto the streets and drove Britain to the brink of civil war.
In the next two episodes, we ask why. So here a quick intro... 🧵
Home Rule shattered the Liberal Party, broke the women's suffrage movement, brought thousands onto the streets and drove Britain to the brink of civil war.
In the next two episodes, we ask why. So here a quick intro... 🧵
January 7, 2026 at 10:42 AM
This week on @ppfideas.bsky.social, we're exploring "Home Rule for Ireland!"
Home Rule shattered the Liberal Party, broke the women's suffrage movement, brought thousands onto the streets and drove Britain to the brink of civil war.
In the next two episodes, we ask why. So here a quick intro... 🧵
Home Rule shattered the Liberal Party, broke the women's suffrage movement, brought thousands onto the streets and drove Britain to the brink of civil war.
In the next two episodes, we ask why. So here a quick intro... 🧵
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A short thread about the back story behind our new study. 🌊
A pile of evidence suggests the Atlantic overturning #AMOC (and its surface branch North Atlantic Current) has slowed. But some colleagues were sceptical, arguing the Norwegian Current and its deep return flow haven't slowed. 1/6
A pile of evidence suggests the Atlantic overturning #AMOC (and its surface branch North Atlantic Current) has slowed. But some colleagues were sceptical, arguing the Norwegian Current and its deep return flow haven't slowed. 1/6
January 10, 2026 at 12:34 PM
A short thread about the back story behind our new study. 🌊
A pile of evidence suggests the Atlantic overturning #AMOC (and its surface branch North Atlantic Current) has slowed. But some colleagues were sceptical, arguing the Norwegian Current and its deep return flow haven't slowed. 1/6
A pile of evidence suggests the Atlantic overturning #AMOC (and its surface branch North Atlantic Current) has slowed. But some colleagues were sceptical, arguing the Norwegian Current and its deep return flow haven't slowed. 1/6
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A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.
January 10, 2026 at 10:51 AM
A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.
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I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...
January 10, 2026 at 2:14 AM
I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...
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I go back to game theory and the Prisoner's Dilemma across multiple rounds. You can't have one side always choosing "cooperate" while the other side always chooses "snitch" and expect things to work.
Optimal approach is always "cooperate first; on subsequent rounds, do what the other guy did"
Optimal approach is always "cooperate first; on subsequent rounds, do what the other guy did"
January 7, 2026 at 6:23 AM
I go back to game theory and the Prisoner's Dilemma across multiple rounds. You can't have one side always choosing "cooperate" while the other side always chooses "snitch" and expect things to work.
Optimal approach is always "cooperate first; on subsequent rounds, do what the other guy did"
Optimal approach is always "cooperate first; on subsequent rounds, do what the other guy did"
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absolutely correct -->
Trump looks at Putin's Russia -- a failed and decaying state with a ruined economy engaged in perpetual wars of conquest that benefit only a dictator and his cronies -- and asks: How can I make the United States like that?
Trump just said "all" of Venezuela's oil must be made accessible to US oil companies. Trump wants to emulate Putin's model: Authoritarian, expansionist rulers carving up their regions and distributing the spoils of conquest to friendly oligarchs. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
January 6, 2026 at 8:35 PM
absolutely correct -->
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Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter.
Featuring illustrations by Grok, because “pixels 🟰 zero harm” apparently. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
Featuring illustrations by Grok, because “pixels 🟰 zero harm” apparently. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter.
Featuring illustrations by Grok, because “pixels 🟰 zero harm” apparently. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
Featuring illustrations by Grok, because “pixels 🟰 zero harm” apparently. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
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"Who's who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter". The Financial Times reports on career role models on and around the blurred boundaries of media, technology, sex and the enterprising transnational criminal networks of Musk & co
www.ft.com/content/ad94...
www.ft.com/content/ad94...
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:33 PM
"Who's who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter". The Financial Times reports on career role models on and around the blurred boundaries of media, technology, sex and the enterprising transnational criminal networks of Musk & co
www.ft.com/content/ad94...
www.ft.com/content/ad94...
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Lieber Herr Außenminister, liebe Bundesregierung, hier ist eure To-do-Liste für die Weihnachtsfeiertage: US-Botschafter einbestellen, Einreisesperre für Musk und Zuckerberg verhängen, HateAid-Etat verdoppeln. Jetzt ist Handeln angesagt, nicht wohlfeile Worte.
December 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Lieber Herr Außenminister, liebe Bundesregierung, hier ist eure To-do-Liste für die Weihnachtsfeiertage: US-Botschafter einbestellen, Einreisesperre für Musk und Zuckerberg verhängen, HateAid-Etat verdoppeln. Jetzt ist Handeln angesagt, nicht wohlfeile Worte.
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Die durch USA verhängten Einreiseverbote, darunter gegen die Vorsitzenden von #HateAid, sind nicht akzeptabel. Der Digital Services Act stellt sicher, dass alles, was offline illegal ist, auch online illegal ist. 1/2
December 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Die durch USA verhängten Einreiseverbote, darunter gegen die Vorsitzenden von #HateAid, sind nicht akzeptabel. Der Digital Services Act stellt sicher, dass alles, was offline illegal ist, auch online illegal ist. 1/2
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It is crazy that the president can sue anyone while he is president by the way. There is always incentive to settle if he is office and it always effectively a bribe. Congress needs to eliminate that possibility
December 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
It is crazy that the president can sue anyone while he is president by the way. There is always incentive to settle if he is office and it always effectively a bribe. Congress needs to eliminate that possibility
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"Wir müssen jetzt solidarisch mit Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon sein. Es ist absurd und gefährlich, wenn Menschen sanktioniert werden, weil sie Aufgaben übernehmen, die unser Gesetzgeber ausdrücklich geschaffen hat."
www.digitalpolitik.de/usa-gehen-ge...
www.digitalpolitik.de/usa-gehen-ge...
USA gehen gegen HateAid vor
Passend zur Weihnachtszeit verhängt das US-Außenministerium Sanktionen gegen fünf Personen. Sie sollen Teil eines angeblichen „globalen Zensur-industriellen Komplexes“ sein – so behauptet es Außenmini...
www.digitalpolitik.de
December 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
"Wir müssen jetzt solidarisch mit Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon sein. Es ist absurd und gefährlich, wenn Menschen sanktioniert werden, weil sie Aufgaben übernehmen, die unser Gesetzgeber ausdrücklich geschaffen hat."
www.digitalpolitik.de/usa-gehen-ge...
www.digitalpolitik.de/usa-gehen-ge...
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This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
Memorandum and Order – #114 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER granting 112 Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; Respondents are enjoined from re-detaining Petitioner in ICE custody until this Court can receive further briefing from the partie...
www.courtlistener.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
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Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
December 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
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@greatdismal.bsky.social talks about "the jackpot" in some of his novels not a single breakdown, but a mess of small things adding up, of unintended consequences.
Reading this made me shiver, and feel that this is a harbinger of exactly that pattern.
Reading this made me shiver, and feel that this is a harbinger of exactly that pattern.
‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever
The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in the US, and this week were spotted in Northern Ireland for the first time
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
@greatdismal.bsky.social talks about "the jackpot" in some of his novels not a single breakdown, but a mess of small things adding up, of unintended consequences.
Reading this made me shiver, and feel that this is a harbinger of exactly that pattern.
Reading this made me shiver, and feel that this is a harbinger of exactly that pattern.
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Your daily reminder that EU farmers get enormous amounts of financial support.
#LuxuryProtests
#LuxuryProtests
December 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Your daily reminder that EU farmers get enormous amounts of financial support.
#LuxuryProtests
#LuxuryProtests
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Watching farmer protests in Europe, it is worth a reminder that we have paid an average of 30-50 billion euros in annual subsidies to our farmers for the last decades. The current E.U budget allocates 387 billion euros to farmers from 2021 to 2027. This is unsustainable. We can't keep doing this.
December 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Watching farmer protests in Europe, it is worth a reminder that we have paid an average of 30-50 billion euros in annual subsidies to our farmers for the last decades. The current E.U budget allocates 387 billion euros to farmers from 2021 to 2027. This is unsustainable. We can't keep doing this.
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President Trump campaigned on lowering costs. But he’s letting billionaire Elon Musk and Project 2025 Architect Russ Vought kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
If they succeed, CEOs on Wall Street will once again be free to cheat you out of your savings.
If they succeed, CEOs on Wall Street will once again be free to cheat you out of your savings.
February 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
President Trump campaigned on lowering costs. But he’s letting billionaire Elon Musk and Project 2025 Architect Russ Vought kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
If they succeed, CEOs on Wall Street will once again be free to cheat you out of your savings.
If they succeed, CEOs on Wall Street will once again be free to cheat you out of your savings.
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Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
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🚨 New #DataViz post!
I explore smart alternatives to a broken chart and highlight why avoiding bad practices matters.
👉 Which alternative do you prefer? Let us know in the comments!
#rstats
dominicroye.github.io/blog/2025-12...
I explore smart alternatives to a broken chart and highlight why avoiding bad practices matters.
👉 Which alternative do you prefer? Let us know in the comments!
#rstats
dominicroye.github.io/blog/2025-12...
Broken Chart: discover 9 visualization alternatives
Researcher in climate science at MBG-CSIC
dominicroye.github.io
December 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🚨 New #DataViz post!
I explore smart alternatives to a broken chart and highlight why avoiding bad practices matters.
👉 Which alternative do you prefer? Let us know in the comments!
#rstats
dominicroye.github.io/blog/2025-12...
I explore smart alternatives to a broken chart and highlight why avoiding bad practices matters.
👉 Which alternative do you prefer? Let us know in the comments!
#rstats
dominicroye.github.io/blog/2025-12...