Rain Gravity
@raingravity.bsky.social
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Contrary to some media reports, heat pumps aren’t new tech — they’ve been around for 100+ years!
✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today
✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Contrary to some media reports, heat pumps aren’t new tech — they’ve been around for 100+ years!
✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today
✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries www.openculture.com/2025/11/expl...
Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries
Look up the word architecture in the dictionary, and though you won't actually find a picture of Frank Lloyd Wright, it may feel as if you should.
www.openculture.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries www.openculture.com/2025/11/expl...
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My beloved Squeaky napping
November 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
My beloved Squeaky napping
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Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Selections from an artist whose phantasmagoric works defined an era.
publicdomainreview.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
February 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
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Dutch intelligence recently started scaling back intelligence sharing with the US over concerns of Trump’s increasingly autocratic actions.
My latest…
My latest…
Why the Netherlands No Longer Trusts U.S. Intelligence Because of Trump
Last week, something significant happened that should alarm every American.
olgalautman.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Dutch intelligence recently started scaling back intelligence sharing with the US over concerns of Trump’s increasingly autocratic actions.
My latest…
My latest…
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Synchronicities can produce the crack in our consciousness that expands our choices, our capacities and our consciousness of the divine. These mysterious moments go beyond our ego consciousness & open us to the sacredness of being a part of something larger than we are.~Laurence Hillman, Alignments
October 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Synchronicities can produce the crack in our consciousness that expands our choices, our capacities and our consciousness of the divine. These mysterious moments go beyond our ego consciousness & open us to the sacredness of being a part of something larger than we are.~Laurence Hillman, Alignments
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
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This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.
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Attn Black people, stop scrolling.
This is not a drill: Chicago
This is not a drill: Chicago
October 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Attn Black people, stop scrolling.
This is not a drill: Chicago
This is not a drill: Chicago
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"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."
Ursula K. Le Guin on the magic of real human conversation: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
Ursula K. Le Guin on the magic of real human conversation: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
October 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."
Ursula K. Le Guin on the magic of real human conversation: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
Ursula K. Le Guin on the magic of real human conversation: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
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New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
September 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
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🚨ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants
Please read, share, and sound the alarm
Please read, share, and sound the alarm
ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants
Trump is quietly building a surveillance state, and almost no one is paying attention.
olgalautman.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🚨ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants
Please read, share, and sound the alarm
Please read, share, and sound the alarm
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Important workshop going on here.
Join SASSI for a digital workshop on Wednesday, October 1st from 7-8:30pm ET to learn how to identify and map Flock Safety cameras in your community and city as a tactic in challenging the use of automated license plate readers in your city.
October 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Important workshop going on here.
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heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle
September 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle
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When a person says, "This can be done the easy way or the hard way", with extremely high probability, they are a sadist.
And sadism *never* exists in isolation, it's always accompanied by sociopathy-psychopathy (ASPD).
And sadism *never* exists in isolation, it's always accompanied by sociopathy-psychopathy (ASPD).
September 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
When a person says, "This can be done the easy way or the hard way", with extremely high probability, they are a sadist.
And sadism *never* exists in isolation, it's always accompanied by sociopathy-psychopathy (ASPD).
And sadism *never* exists in isolation, it's always accompanied by sociopathy-psychopathy (ASPD).
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“Tile has, historically, been a bad actor in this space in the sense that they have known about all of these problems with their design choices,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @theverge.com. www.theverge.com/news/787836...
Tile’s lack of encryption could make tracker owners vulnerable to stalking
Its anti-stalking features are reportedly too easy to circumvent.
www.theverge.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“Tile has, historically, been a bad actor in this space in the sense that they have known about all of these problems with their design choices,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @theverge.com. www.theverge.com/news/787836...
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Albert in his chair
September 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Albert in his chair
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Today I learned that the magician David Copperfield is not only all over the Epstein documents and flew on his plane and to his properties many times and was also named by sex trafficking victims in court documents.
September 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Today I learned that the magician David Copperfield is not only all over the Epstein documents and flew on his plane and to his properties many times and was also named by sex trafficking victims in court documents.