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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 02/09/2026

New York City’s public school system plans to impose strict limits on artificial intelligence and screen time in classrooms for the upcoming school year, including a blanket ban on generative AI for instruction and tutoring for all students below high school: gothamist.visitlink.me/ch5xEi

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Kevin passed about an hour ago. The time to find his cats a home IS now, and I'm not one step closer to finding it. Please, friends.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 04/08/2026

Our cute friend Laguna, last kitten of the Final Fantasy colony, goes for his ear surgery first thing in the morning. If you’d like to help cover this costly procedure, you can donate at: linktr.ee/crits4cats

Laguna, a white and brown tabby cat, lounging in a wall-mounted cat hammock.

An estimate for ear surgery for Laguna, with the cost ranging from about $3-4k USD

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 28/05/2026

Kittens are everywhere and we can’t help them without foster homes to get them safe and socialized and ready for adoption. If you’re in the Newark, DE/Northeastern MD area and you want to be a loving temporary stop for some kittens (or adult cats!) who need a little TLC, DM us!

5 small kittens in various shades of Orange are in a cluttered carport. Two of them are practicing their Wrestlemania moves and three are nursing their exhausted dilute tortie mama.

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Depiction of a scene from my original series Dreamwar, drawn by @birb-o-fluff.bsky.social Cross-faded version, Mepria's pov version, and Mepria's expression standalone. Scene info in alt text. Other characters & info in previous posts & other socials. #indieseries #IndieAnimation

This would be the second-to-last scene of episode 2, where we see what Mepria sees when she happens to look south-southwest during dusk while at the Sleetfjord harbor. Amidst the withdrawn, disconnected state she has been in since leaving her homeland behind and coming to Denali, she experiences a rare moment of actual surprise and wonder. Here she sees aeroplanes in the sky in-person for the first time.

Since the world Dreamwar is set in is roughly equivalent to the early-mid 1920s, similar to how it was at the time in our reality, the fact that “flying machines” were a legitimate thing that existed had become common knowledge, but things were not yet at a point where everyone had seen them or was used to having them around.

Actually seeing them in-flight herself leads her to inquire to go with Elemme to the airfield where Andim, Ash and Ban are training, and eventually to become a biplane pilot herself as the war begins.

General series info : Taking place in a different world from our own, one where both humans and anthro animals, called "uprights", exist. Set in a timeframe technologically equivalent to the early 1920s, and with a global war looming on the immediate horizon.
Humans are more dominant globally simply owing to fact, in the end, that different human groups can all interbreed while differing species Uprights cannot, so humans almost always had a numbers advantage in most scenarios.
Some nations are equal for all, many are “humans first”, some are “humans only”, and others are either “Uprights first” or “Uprights only.” However, despite the human vs upright angle being the one many governments and their people lean on the most, looking past the supposed “us vs them” solidarity will reveal discrimination between individual races of humans against each other, and likewise between differing upright species.

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Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Character and scene artwork for Dreamwar is done by my friend @birb-o-fluff.bsky.social Dreamwar stuff with deeper info on my DA - www.deviantart.com/maxojir Support everything (along with me and my cat's existence) Patreon - www.patreon.com/Skasis PayPal - www.paypal.com/paypalme/Max...

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Ash and Ban, secondary characters in my would-be 2D original series Dreamwar. Artwork done by the project's concept artist, the immeasurably talented @birb-o-fluff.bsky.social Info on these 2 in the alt text, other characters and more info in previous posts.

Ash, on the left, is a 22-year-old human, and Ban, on the right, is a 19-year-old cat upright (upright is this world's term for furries/anthros, shorthand for "upright animals").

Both are from the nation of Denali, same as Andim, and are both biplane pilots in their country’s only air squadron alongside him.

Ash is an encouraging and protective person, always wanting to make sure those around him don't feel inadequate or as if they've failed. He is the only family his remaining little brother Moon has left, and while away in the aeroplane squadron, he treats Ban like a little brother as well, much to Ban’s annoyance. He (partly) first became a pilot because his little brother Moon thought it would be the coolest thing.

Ban, meanwhile, is far more “prickly” or non-personable, frequently written off as antisocial, prone to more snide remarks and consistently critical with no filter. He's even against Mepria being allowed into the squadron since she’s a lady. Although the more easily dislikable, Ban is actually on the same “moral page”, and actually the most morally impulsive of the group, having the least amount of hesitancy and near zero aversion to risking himself.

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off. Leave your comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-... morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests

One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Mepria, another character from my series Dreamwar. For broader series lore/info, see longer posts on Tumblr or DeviantArt (or feel free to ask on any platform) Scroll down for prior characters Character info in alt text Art done by @birb-o-fluff.bsky.social #originalseries #indieanimation #furry

Mepria is a 21-year-old female cat upright from the nation of Ingastalli (a rough fictional equivalent of Italy) , a “humans first” nation.

A quieter, more stoic girl, the threshold for her to smile is set high, though it grows more easier after leaving her prior environment and as the series goes on. Naturally gifted at stonewalling any effort to get her to concede.

Up until episode 1, she had lived with her parents in the Upright segregated housing district of the port city Pecha. She grew up without electricity, as it had not entirely become common in Ingastalli yet to begin with, and even if it had been, most Uprights could not afford it.

Speaks Ingastalliano (Italian), can speak Wallaesh (English) pretty well, and can understand a fair bit of Fleuragnais (French).

Before immigrating in episode 1, she had taken over as the primary income earner for herself and her parents after her dad was barred from working as punishment for defending himself.

She immigrates to Denali after her parents plead with her to upon seeing the opportunity, and she very reluctantly leaves them behind when they choose not to come along.

Feels great internalized uncertainty and distress over wanting to be back where everything is familiar and everyone speaks her own language, but just as much wanting to remain in Denali where she is completely free. Struggles constantly with yearning for a place where her language is spoken and where uprights are also free and equal, but knowing that no such place at the time exists. She becomes driven by the desire for no one else to ever again be forced to feel like she has, or into a similar situation, leading to her joining the war.

Having loved the physicality, turn-leaning and wind-in-face of riding bicycles, she becomes drawn to aeroplanes upon seeing them in person for the first time, eventually becoming a biplane pilot as the war begins. She becomes part of Denali’s small, only air squadron, alongside Andim, Ash, and Ban.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This is Jade, the sweetest, most wonderful lady at our local shelter here in Burlington, VT. She is such a love but she's been waiting for a home for months because she's older and diabetic (well controlled with medication). She deserves a loving home of her own. 😢 www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...

Photo of a beautiful longhaired black tuxedo cat with light green eyes.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/01/2026

Everyone should be submitting this to Apple and Google.

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Becca Patterson @mreauow.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Macie has been my kitty-nurse for almost 14 years now. She trained herself to monitor my diabetes. Now she needs my help. She's developed a distinct wobble and needs to see a vet. Please help me afford to prove my love for her. gofund.me/859dffb69

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Donate to Help Macie Get the Care She Needs, organized by R.S. Justiniano

My name is Becca. I live with three cats, one of whom is showing some worrying signs… R.S. Justiniano needs your support for Help Macie Get the Care She Needs

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Elemme, from my series Dreamwar. Posted her husband Andim a few days ago. For broader series lore/info, see longer posts on Tumblr or DeviantArt (or feel free to ask on any platform) Character info in alt text Art by @birb-o-fluff.bsky.social #originalseries #indiecartoon #anthrofox #furry

Elemme is a female fox upright from Fleuragne (fictional France)

26 at the start of the series, she is married to Andim. She was and still is the primary initiative taker between the two of them, frequently convincing him to go to things he otherwise wouldn’t.

Sociable but not overly extroverted, she enjoys chatting with others and going to smaller social events, but she doesn’t feel the intense need to like a traditional extrovert would. Her demeanor is generally bright and often playful

Becomes close friends with Mepria after the latter’s arrival in episode 2, bonding over both missing home and being culturally and linguistically displaced, even though Elemme chose to do so willingly.

Worked as a translator at various embassies in Fleuragne, where she and Andim met when he was diplomatically visiting. Now she works as part-time translator for Fleuragne’s small embassy in Denali when needed, while also beginning to work as a fill-in teacher for school children. She can speak Fleuragnais (French), Wallaesh (English), and Krentsch (German).

Shares her husband’s moral alignment and strength of conviction about ending all preferentialism, oppression and lingering colonialism, regardless of whether it’s humans or uprights committing it. Though she is not as socially abrasive about it.

Loves the snow and cold of Denali, though she admits she does wish it had more fleursoir or “french things” available, and insists the french bread in Denali’s shops is not up to the true standard of home.

Spends both her own and her husband’s money buying sweets and pastries, or the ingredients to bake them, and bringing them to orphan care schools that otherwise wouldn’t have any. Wants to adopt a couple after the war, as she and Andim can’t physically have any.

Is reflexively fearful of Andim flying aeroplanes. Also harbors a quiet but inescapable fear that Andim might actually want to die in the global conflict that is coming.

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Andim, focal character of Dreamwar. My would-be 2D animated series, follows characters in a time of tense change and war, enduring and eventually refusing to idly witness the cruelty of the world around them. Charater info in alt text Art by @birb-o-fluff.bsky.social #indieanimation #indieseries #

From left to right, top to bottom: Andim gripping the railing of the bridge wing of the N.S. Ursa, Andim combating nausea while training to be a biplane pilot in secret, and Andim seeing his wife Elemme again after being away for weeks.

Andim is a young man from the nation of Denali, 26 at the beginning of the show.

He is the son of his nation’s governor, and has had a mostly privileged life, as well as even having an unofficial position of government and diplomatic authority from both nepotism and their country's small population.

Introverted but not shy.

He is perpetually ill / nauseous to varying degrees as a result of incurable illness, and visibly appears so, along with appearing tired from lack any proper sleep due to a mix of his illness and more so his stress over upcoming events.

Married to Elemme, a female fox Upright from Fleuragne (fictional France)

As he’s become an adult, he’s grown zealous about bringing an end to oppression of Uprights (anthros/furries) by humans in nations where it occurs, and vice-versa, that of humans by Uprights in the rarer case of nations where such occurs. Just as much so wants to see the end of occupations and colonies that lingering empires are still clinging onto.

Resigned to existing in the shadow of his father’s permanent disapproval, which he interprets from their consistent conflict, usually a result of Andim failing or refusing to act or see as pragmatically as his dad would desire.

Andim is torn inside and pre-emptively self-condemning, knowing a global war is inevitable but finding himself in some part actually wanting there to be one instead of not, because of his dreams it could result in liberation for at least some regions, or even imperial collapses. While he dreams as much, he knows that dream is delusional, or at least he’s been led to believe so.

His country, Denali, is an amalgamation of Alaska, Yukon & British Columbia. Their world is technologically equivalent to the early 1920s.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

So far AI is causing me more work. One of my main responsibilities is to use a database to find certain things. This database used to have humans look at the webpage of a thing and then write a description. Bad AI descriptions have led to an increase in false positives I need to sift through.

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Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

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Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?

Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/11/2025

17 strikes and you’re out. 💀

By and large, however, the allegations against the other social media platforms are less detailed than those against Meta. The internal documents cited by the plaintiffs allege:

Meta intentionally designed its youth safety features to be ineffective and rarely used, and blocked testing of safety features that it feared might be harmful to growth.
Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as “a very, very, very high strike threshold."
Meta recognized that optimizing its products to increase teen engagement resulted in serving them more harmful content, but did so anyway.
Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.

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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 TsubasaCon (Charleston, WV) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Los Angeles friends! There is a WELL-kept, social, fixed cat named “Cheddar” who has been a stray at the National History Museum for over a year but DOES NOT HAVE A HOME - and would like one! Please reach out to me if you or someone you know could become an owner - I have more info I can provide!~

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli sez keep on, keepin' on. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Our cat Bindi got a little confused at dinner time the other night. She has her on channel over on YouTube. #catvideo #confusedcat #petvideo #catvideos www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvZf...

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Our Cat got Confused at Dinner Time

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Quick video covering the approaching water supply crisis in Iraq. The country's reservoirs are down to only 8% total, plus Euphrates & Tigris rivers flow at historic minimums and dams in Turkiye withholding water. #Iraq #MiddleEast #WaterCrisis #WaterShortage #IraqTurkey youtu.be/2TXtY9cLyfI

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Iraq Water Reservoirs Down to 8%

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Short video covering the A.I. bubble and why AI is being forced into everything. #AIBubble #InvestmentBubble #Overvalued youtu.be/ww64GUUEU8o

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AI Bubble - Why they're Putting AI in Everything

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The ballooning use of fiber optic cable drones in the Russia Ukraine war is eating into global Germanium supply, plus now the cables are getting longer, and other countries are building reserves of such drones. #UkraineWar #RussiaUkraine #RussiaUkraineWar youtu.be/QgPmApukT7s

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Drone Warfare is Destroying our Germanium Supply

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Video on the latest electricity demand levels of different countries and their long-term patterns and trajectories. #electricity #energy #powergrid #energynews #China #中华 #USA #India #Bharat youtu.be/cl2IYTpHHCc

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Changes in Electricity Demand Levels

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

India reaches new record threshold in gasoline / petrol demand, reaching over 1 million barrels per day. #India #oilandgas #energy youtu.be/jJa60Qz6Agw

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India sees Record High Gasoline Demand

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Global Steel production total since 1975, showing production broken down into in China and "The rest of the world" #steel #metals #industry #data #China

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Pep @pepverbsnouns.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

"Bluesky is boring." Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually. When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Rundown on the latest oil production levels of OPEC nations and breakdowns on some specifics behind current trends for specific members #oilandgas #petroleum #energy #OPEC #Venezuela #SaudiArabia #Iran #Iraq #UAE #Kuwait #Libya #Nigeria youtu.be/jKU05xjXPDY

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OPEC Oil Production continues to Rise

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The police will call you about photos you post to private chats. They will do this almost immediately, it seems www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-ki...

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Over the last few months, China has begun importing extra crude oil shipments, beginning to build larger strategic inventories in preparation for when their upcoming invasion of Taiwan disrupts their seaborne tanker imports. #oilandgas #energy #ChinaTaiwan #crudeoil youtu.be/C0BLVA9G3_s

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China Stockpiling Oil ahead of Taiwan Invasion

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This is really worth reading. It's not just that they buried the study. The government is due to come out with new dietary recommendations. The study was started to inform those guidelines. It said: alcohol raises your risk of several cancers. It got buried.

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

US military buildup around and offshore of Venezuela under the pretense of "combating drugs". More likely tied to regime change aims or at least forcing Maduro into a more amicable position to enable full development of the Orinoco belt oil reserves #oilandgas #energy #Venezuela youtu.be/fLHIUdg0rkU

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No, Venezuela is Not about Cartels

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Quick runthrough of the most recent available on oil demand levels for countries that report it. US remains #1 consumer, China potentially at peak demand, data updates on consumption levels of many others. #oilandgas #oil #petroleum #economy #Commodities #energy youtu.be/WdhXvTmgZIg

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Latest Oil Demand Data of 2025

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Video on the rapidly-dropping water level of Lake Powell & how the consequences of either Lake Powell or Lake Mead dropping too low have much larger effects than just their surrounding areas. #water #watersupply #watercrisis #LakePowell #ColoradoRiver youtu.be/UKV73lMIm54

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Lake Powell Water Level Plummeting Again

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Quick video on the reality that US population is never going to reach 400 million, despite some projections still showing it doing so. #USA #Population #PopulationPeak #Demographics #BirthRate #Immigration youtu.be/aiWF_yrOZXo

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US Population will Never Reach 400 Million

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Updated some birth rate (TFR) graphs for a few countries with the latest data indicators. Available among hundreds of other graphs of all kinds in the Drive folder linked in my pinned post. #demographics #BirthRate #population #TFR #FertilityRate #Argentina #Italy #Itallia #Mexico #Egypt #Masr

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Screenshots from the EIA power grid monitor. USA broke its electricity demand record today, hitting a grid load of 752 gigawatts an hour ago, and a height of 756 just before that. Prior record was 743 set two years ago in August of 2023. #Electricity #Energy #USA #HeatWave #RecordHigh

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Mexico hit a new record for average electricity demand load across its grid. Seeing a 53 Gigawatt average earlier this month, AND setting a new 1-hour/single-point demand record of 81 at one point on a specific day, beating the prior single-point record of 76. #Mexico #Energy #Electricity

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I'll upload different types of graphs again soon. For now, a population projection comparison chart for India, with prior assumptions based on data from a few years ago, vs their new trajectory updated with their 2025 data. #India #Demographics #Population #PopulationPeak #BirthRate

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

2 Updated Population curves for comparison on a stacked graph. China's current trajectory (with TFR of 1.0) vs their adjusted curve if their birth rate falls further to 0.8 like Korea & Taiwan. #China #Population #PopulationDecline #Demographics #PopulationCollapse #DemographicCollapse

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Maxojir @maxojir.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Stacked graph of 3 USA demographic curves. 1st - prior assumptions of a plateau around 373 million, 2nd most updated one, peaking near 367 then slow decline, & a "reduced immigration" scenario (25% reduced intake due to changing policies & attitudes) #USA #demographics #population #PopulationDecline

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