Raine
@symbioticspiritist.bsky.social
AuDHD soil scientist and artist. Always ask why.
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Ugh, the most annoying part of knitting socks 2 at a time while also doing other things 🧶 (yarn ball emoji)
November 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Ugh, the most annoying part of knitting socks 2 at a time while also doing other things 🧶 (yarn ball emoji)
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Heavy-industry sectors like cement have long struggled to decarbonise because their processes require very high temperatures.
That’s why the new Rondo Energy heat-battery project in Thailand is such a big deal - powering a cement plant with low-carbon steam.
www.energy-storage.news/rondo-energy...
That’s why the new Rondo Energy heat-battery project in Thailand is such a big deal - powering a cement plant with low-carbon steam.
www.energy-storage.news/rondo-energy...
Rondo Energy deploys Southeast Asia’s ‘first industrial Heat Battery’
Rondo and SCG Cleanergy have commenced operation of Southeast Asia's first industrial thermal BESS at SCG's cement plant in Thailand.
www.energy-storage.news
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Heavy-industry sectors like cement have long struggled to decarbonise because their processes require very high temperatures.
That’s why the new Rondo Energy heat-battery project in Thailand is such a big deal - powering a cement plant with low-carbon steam.
www.energy-storage.news/rondo-energy...
That’s why the new Rondo Energy heat-battery project in Thailand is such a big deal - powering a cement plant with low-carbon steam.
www.energy-storage.news/rondo-energy...
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So Much Life on the Forest Floor
Porcelain Fungus on a fallen tree.
Happy Friday all!
#Scape
#ForestFriday
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
Porcelain Fungus on a fallen tree.
Happy Friday all!
#Scape
#ForestFriday
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
So Much Life on the Forest Floor
Porcelain Fungus on a fallen tree.
Happy Friday all!
#Scape
#ForestFriday
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
Porcelain Fungus on a fallen tree.
Happy Friday all!
#Scape
#ForestFriday
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
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Theory: We replaced "experiencing art" with "having opinions about art" and this explains why everyone has takes on movies they haven't seen.
You don't need to read the book anymore, you just need to know which side you're on.
You don't need to read the book anymore, you just need to know which side you're on.
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Theory: We replaced "experiencing art" with "having opinions about art" and this explains why everyone has takes on movies they haven't seen.
You don't need to read the book anymore, you just need to know which side you're on.
You don't need to read the book anymore, you just need to know which side you're on.
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It’s really rubbing me the wrong way that tech companies want to call it “hoarding” that some people aren’t buying new devices. Not acquiring more stuff is the opposite of hoarding.
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It’s really rubbing me the wrong way that tech companies want to call it “hoarding” that some people aren’t buying new devices. Not acquiring more stuff is the opposite of hoarding.
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Sixty Seconds of Streamside Serenity for you, today. I hope I brings you peace.
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Sixty Seconds of Streamside Serenity for you, today. I hope I brings you peace.
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A large study involving brain scans of 800 individuals has revealed that COVID-19 infection can cause measurable brain damage, even in cases with mild symptoms. Researchers observed changes in brain regions responsible for memory, attention, and cognitive processing, suggesting that the virus may
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A large study involving brain scans of 800 individuals has revealed that COVID-19 infection can cause measurable brain damage, even in cases with mild symptoms. Researchers observed changes in brain regions responsible for memory, attention, and cognitive processing, suggesting that the virus may
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Get in, losers, we are joining the mass blackout #MBO #MB #BlockParty #MassBlackout #BlackoutForDemocracy
The website even has a wheel of small actions you can do to contribute if you can't go all-in.
(As with all actions, participate if you can. Do not put yourself in danger to join in.)
The website even has a wheel of small actions you can do to contribute if you can't go all-in.
(As with all actions, participate if you can. Do not put yourself in danger to join in.)
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Get in, losers, we are joining the mass blackout #MBO #MB #BlockParty #MassBlackout #BlackoutForDemocracy
The website even has a wheel of small actions you can do to contribute if you can't go all-in.
(As with all actions, participate if you can. Do not put yourself in danger to join in.)
The website even has a wheel of small actions you can do to contribute if you can't go all-in.
(As with all actions, participate if you can. Do not put yourself in danger to join in.)
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“Why are your posts so political?”
Because health is political
Because the President of the most powerful country on earth has said disabled people should be “left to die”
Because we’re living through a mass disabling event
Because eugenics is back
Because our lives matter
Because health is political
Because the President of the most powerful country on earth has said disabled people should be “left to die”
Because we’re living through a mass disabling event
Because eugenics is back
Because our lives matter
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
“Why are your posts so political?”
Because health is political
Because the President of the most powerful country on earth has said disabled people should be “left to die”
Because we’re living through a mass disabling event
Because eugenics is back
Because our lives matter
Because health is political
Because the President of the most powerful country on earth has said disabled people should be “left to die”
Because we’re living through a mass disabling event
Because eugenics is back
Because our lives matter
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Reminder that we aren't shopping today through Dec 5. If you forget, here's a little tune to help you remember.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrMVraRH/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrMVraRH/
We ain’t buying 💲HIT !!!
TikTok video by Jenifer Lewis
www.tiktok.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Reminder that we aren't shopping today through Dec 5. If you forget, here's a little tune to help you remember.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrMVraRH/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrMVraRH/
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New radiocarbon dates reveal the Pecos River murals formed a 4000-year tradition, linking Archaic foragers to later Mesoamerican worldviews. A rare case of cultural endurance written on canyon walls. #Archaeology #RockArt #Anthropology #Mesoamerica www.anthropology.net/p/canyons-of...
Canyons of Memory: How a Four-Millennia Painting Tradition Rewrote the Deep History of North American Thought
New radiocarbon work on the Pecos River murals reveals an artistic and philosophical lineage that outlasted empires, climate swings, and entire ways of life.
www.anthropology.net
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
New radiocarbon dates reveal the Pecos River murals formed a 4000-year tradition, linking Archaic foragers to later Mesoamerican worldviews. A rare case of cultural endurance written on canyon walls. #Archaeology #RockArt #Anthropology #Mesoamerica www.anthropology.net/p/canyons-of...
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The architects of the sixth mass extinction are woefully short on honesty.
We call ourselves “rational actors” as ecosystems collapse around us.
Self-deception may be the only thing we’ve mastered at scale.
apple.news/AaF6VkKwrQay...
We call ourselves “rational actors” as ecosystems collapse around us.
Self-deception may be the only thing we’ve mastered at scale.
apple.news/AaF6VkKwrQay...
The 6th Mass Extinction Is Further Along Than We Thought — Popular Mechanics
It's getting late.
apple.news
November 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The architects of the sixth mass extinction are woefully short on honesty.
We call ourselves “rational actors” as ecosystems collapse around us.
Self-deception may be the only thing we’ve mastered at scale.
apple.news/AaF6VkKwrQay...
We call ourselves “rational actors” as ecosystems collapse around us.
Self-deception may be the only thing we’ve mastered at scale.
apple.news/AaF6VkKwrQay...
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Developed initially to target and kill tumors, they are now being engineered to target cells that are contributing to autoimmune diseases, like antibody-producing B cells.
#Science 🧪
#Science 🧪
‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission
Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Developed initially to target and kill tumors, they are now being engineered to target cells that are contributing to autoimmune diseases, like antibody-producing B cells.
#Science 🧪
#Science 🧪
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How US corporations are deliberately poisoning human consumers & other species with PFAS. time.com/7336883/epa-... #environment
EPA Is Embracing PFAS Pesticides. These Are The Health Risks
The dangerous 'forever chemicals' could be causing still more contamination of crops.
time.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
How US corporations are deliberately poisoning human consumers & other species with PFAS. time.com/7336883/epa-... #environment
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As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste nevadacurrent.com/2025/11/26/a...
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste • Nevada Current
The U.S. government has caused massive food waste during President Donald Trump’s second term. Policies such as immigration raids, tariff changes and temporary and permanent cuts to food assistance pr...
nevadacurrent.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste nevadacurrent.com/2025/11/26/a...
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Wild how we have studies to show that hoarding wealth and being ultra rich literally poisons your brain, and we can observe how selfish behavior is treated in other species (literal shit like banishment, murder, coups) but in humans we have to remind others how dangerous it is for us to let happen
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Wild how we have studies to show that hoarding wealth and being ultra rich literally poisons your brain, and we can observe how selfish behavior is treated in other species (literal shit like banishment, murder, coups) but in humans we have to remind others how dangerous it is for us to let happen
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Amazing look at a Erenna siphonophore. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 874 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Amazing look at a Erenna siphonophore. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 874 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
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'More than 110 million euros in losses in Latvia: heavy rainfall and frost have destroyed crops...
...persistent rainfall since May 2025 had caused flooding in many fields, significantly reducing both yield and quality, or completely destroying part of the harvest.'
bnn-news.com/more-than-11...
...persistent rainfall since May 2025 had caused flooding in many fields, significantly reducing both yield and quality, or completely destroying part of the harvest.'
bnn-news.com/more-than-11...
More than 110 million euros in losses in Latvia: heavy rainfall and frost have destroyed crops - Baltic News Network
By the end of the state of emergency, farmers had submitted information on 95,295 hectares affected by adverse weather conditions.
bnn-news.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
'More than 110 million euros in losses in Latvia: heavy rainfall and frost have destroyed crops...
...persistent rainfall since May 2025 had caused flooding in many fields, significantly reducing both yield and quality, or completely destroying part of the harvest.'
bnn-news.com/more-than-11...
...persistent rainfall since May 2025 had caused flooding in many fields, significantly reducing both yield and quality, or completely destroying part of the harvest.'
bnn-news.com/more-than-11...
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A new study reveals that burning of fossil fuels is accelerating winter rainfall changes in the UK and Europe, almost 25 years sooner than expected.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Fossil fuel emissions accelerate winter rainfall changes across Europe by 23 years
New study reveals burning of fossil fuels is accelerating winter rainfall changes in the UK and Europe, almost 25 years sooner than expected.
phys.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A new study reveals that burning of fossil fuels is accelerating winter rainfall changes in the UK and Europe, almost 25 years sooner than expected.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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I made a new friend today. Isabella tiger moth caterpillar, aka the woolly bear, are a common sight across Nova Scotia. The larva emerges from an egg in the fall and overwinters in its caterpillar form.
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I made a new friend today. Isabella tiger moth caterpillar, aka the woolly bear, are a common sight across Nova Scotia. The larva emerges from an egg in the fall and overwinters in its caterpillar form.
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Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1