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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 25/05/2025
"There is a cult of ignorance in the US, & there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" - Asimov
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
it’s a global contest, whether we want to compete or watch from the sidelines
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The 1972 image of a badly burned Vietnamese girl (Phan Thị Kim Phúc) running to escape a napalm attack haunted the world. This image from Gaza last night should do the same. Shame on every nation complicit in this genocide, all of whom will have to answer to future generations.
A still of the video from Sky News Arabia showing the young girl with pony tail silhouetted against the flames raging inside her bombed school building.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
NEW: The young girl seen stumbling through the flames of her school building in Gaza did survive. But her siblings & mother are dead. "I walked through the fire all by myself. The rubble fell on them. "I want to see my sisters, to be with them, but they're dead.“ (🎥 Channel 4 News)
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/05/2025
Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13/05/2025
It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.
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Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says
Speaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices.
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Kenneth Silber @kensil.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"The space science program is not merely the crown jewel of NASA. It is the gothic cathedral of our age, carrying the banner of our society’s highest ideal – the search for truth through science." Cogent defense by @zubrin.bsky.social spacenews.com/trump-assaul...
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Trump assaults American space science
Massive cuts are focused on the most productive part of NASA
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 12/05/2025
TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
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Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity (Gift Article)
When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House.
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Doug Lewin @douglewin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
ERCOT projecting an 84.6 gigawatt peak on Wednesday. May peak demand record is 77 gigawatts; all-time record is 85.5 GW. There are 20,000 megawatts of thermal plants offline. Solar & storage perfectly suited to heat waves, no energy emergencies expected. www.douglewin.com/p/record-ma...
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Record May Peak Demand Coming Wednesday: Grid Roundup #57
With a monster peak coming Wednesday amid 100+ degree temps in large portions of the state, we’re about to be reminded why solar & storage have large benefits for the Texas grid
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Hey @maxwellfrost.bsky.social and I keep adding stops on our tour of spots where Republican Congressmen are hiding and refusing to hold town halls. Saturday morning we will be in Sarasota, Florida. We are already near capacity, so hustle to RSVP or follow the livestream here.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/05/2025
Don't fix your rapidly torrential overflowing bathtub by drilling a 2cm hole in your floor. Fix it by turning the freaking tap off.
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Teri Kanefield @terikanefield.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I just realized it's April 23. That means it's the anniversary of the Farmville, Virginia Motion High School student strike. What? You don't know about that? Well, in 1951, Barbara Johns was fed up with the deplorable conditions in her segregated school, so she organized a strike. 1/
Graduation picture 1953 Barbara Johns
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Physicist Marietta Blau was born #OTD in 1894. She pioneered the use of nuclear emulsion plates for particle detection, and discovered "disintegration stars" produced by cosmic rays interacting with nuclei in the plates. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Photo: Agnes Rodhe
Black and white photo of Marietta Blau, seated at a work table with a microscope. She is turned slightly to her left so that she is facing the camera. Blau wears a long white lab coat, and her dark hair is pulled back.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/03/2025
Interesting: small home batteries that you can plug into any wall outlet & tuck away just about anywhere. If you plug in multiples, they automatically form a mesh network. This is the battery equivalent of "balcony solar."
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You Don't Need an Electrician to Install This Smart Home Battery
The former Tesla engineers who founded Pila Energy say their battery can make it easier and more affordable for consumers to weather power outages.
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 10/03/2025
Renewables and batteries are playing an increasingly crucial role for Texas in the shoulder season, when coal and gas plants fall offline in large numbers: buff.ly/pUgsmg3
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Texas broke its solar, wind, and battery records in one spring week
Renewables and batteries are playing an increasingly crucial role for the state in the shoulder season, when coal and gas plants fall offline in large…
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
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Mike Hicks @mulad.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I've enjoyed previous @volts.wtf episodes on hot rocks technology for heat batteries, and this one on finding the right kinds of crushed rocks to absorb CO2 when spread on farmland feels like it's in a similar vein www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...
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What's the deal with enhanced rock weathering to store CO2?
Crushed rock, farmland, and CO₂ storage—Zeke Hausfather breaks it all down.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Solar will generate 10% or more of global electricity for a full month for the first time in 2025! When? May 2025 will exceed 10% solar! April & June 2025 could also join the 10% club. Solar was 8.47% in May 2024 & 8.13% in June 2024. April was 7.89%. Solar will gain ~2 points in these months.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
100 years ago today, #OTD in 1925, Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda and other spiral nebulae were definitely separate galaxies outside the Milky Way, in a paper read to an AAS meeting by H.N. Russell. There was no doubt that the Universe was more than just our little island of stars. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
A black and white photo of M31, the Andromeda galaxy. It is characterized by spiral arms and dark lanes of dust and gas, with a bright center.
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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Please repost this 1st one! Daily🧵of editorial cartoons: when you get to last one, click on Continue Thread. If you save a cartoon for reposting, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle. Matt Wuerker @mwuerker.bsky.social
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