meileaben.bsky.social
@meileaben.bsky.social
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Cutbacks have gutted the staff at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, who work to protect the public from toxic algal blooms.

Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals…
www.propublica.org
May 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
#RIPE90 next week! I will attend Wed-Fri, so hit me up if you want to catch up!

For netops from #Spain and #Portugal : I'm really curious about your stories on how you dealt with the grid outage on 28 April. I would love to see how these stories connect up with the data we collected about the event
May 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Yup, this and also the fuckers that know these moves are coming in advance are literally stealing your 401k in the process.
Classic abuser move: create a crisis and then position yourself as its solution. After the abuser “solves” the crisis, he will expect gratitude and adoration.
April 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand.

You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls

RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.
April 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Game theory will determine the winner of this trade war, says @johnauthers.bsky.social 🎥
April 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
April 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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this is how the american economy is going to work for AT LEAST two entire years
a man in a white shirt is making a funny face with his mouth open and his arms outstretched .
Alt: guy jokingly pretending to kill himself
media.tenor.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Both the lettuce and the tariffs survived the night!

What will go first? The lettuce or the tariffs?

livestream: www.twitch.tv/emileaben

#LettuceVsTariffs #Lettuce #Tariffs #kakistocracy
April 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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“A trillion comments have been wasted accusing the wrong people of Trump derangement syndrome. The real TDS afflicts those who keep seeing a rational actor, or an economic chess game, where none exists.” Me on Trump’s wrecking ball. www.ft.com/content/9f51...
Trump has no idea what he has unleashed
There is no school of foreign policy realism or trade mercantilism that could explain the US president’s actions
www.ft.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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April 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I started a livestream: www.twitch.tv/emileaben

#LettuceVsTariffs

h/t to Kevin Beaumont for the idea

For background: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Tru...

Basic for now, let me know what you'd like to improve
April 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s treatment of Ukraine – cartoon
Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s treatment of Ukraine – cartoon
After his row with the US president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is ‘fully committed’ to dialogue over a peace deal with Russia
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Snn...
Funny dutch sketch. Hope it makes people realise how absurd #POTUS #Zelenskyy spat really was.
Wij zijn er voor je... toch? | Klikbeet
YouTube video by Klikbeet
www.youtube.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
November 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM