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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It helps to end with 'be brief'. Well it often does for me.

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Zeurel @zeurel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Make stuff. For the love of all that there is, please just keep making stuff! Doesn't matter if it's bad, good etc. Just *keep* making stuff.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well.

theguardian.com

World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use

The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a minor comment, half a million trees is what, one tree for every 100 persons? It's really not a lot. Apart from that, agree that rewilding is the best approach.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On balance, do you think the Chicxulub impact to have been a positive or a negative?

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There's an opportunity here to make it sound like a rhino or elephant, or a robin. A world of possibilities.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I no longer trust any animal video not to be AI-generated. In hindsight, before AI they were some kind of narcotic anyway, so it's good to mostly kick the habit and sparingly peek at one that looks genuine.

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ben Joffe's torus tetris for me. For decades now.

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Oh, Sweet Home Chicago (Blue Brothers version) is a king of shuffles that actually builds and builds.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Very happy to see that Drive your funky soul is already on there. * - might not have a sufficiently long edit. * The Cisco kid (War) Papa was a Rolling Stone (Temptations) * Could you be Loved (Marley & Wailers) Exodus (Marley & Wailers)

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Let's call it Automaton Inference.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A yes the cold war fear (I was alive and felt it), folly and close shaves, good point. Still, that aspect of human folly feels different from the unstoppable train of greenhouse emissions consequences that are baked in now. Although the nuclear threat never went away. Oh well ...

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

OTOH societal collapse is a lot more imminent, which is probably out of scope for both sides of the argument, but nonetheless adds poignancy.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Compare AlphaGo with Claude. AlphaGo learns from self-play; it can bootstrap. Claude is entirely dependent on the corpus of human knowledge across all its domain; it cannot bootstrap. It makes me marvel at the power of language to encapsulate and suggest meaning. LLMs are remarkable, but derivative.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"there’s an opportunity here: what’s collapsing is the post-industrial, colonialist, extractivist, growth-based system. [..] if we start to distance ourselves, see what’s happening and refuse to take part in its worst excesses, the better chance we have." www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

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Your worst fears about cultural collapse might be true – here’s what you can do about it

Writer Sarah Wilson argues we’re hurtling toward the same end as ancient Rome and the Mayan civilisation – but there’s plenty to fight for

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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

As of 4pm today the candidates were confirmed, & the race for the Clacton by-election is officially on between @countbinface.bsky.social & Farage. Here's our parody of "Englishman in New York" by #Sting - titled "Garbage Can Who Can Talk" - to reflect on the challenger 🎶🚀#noAI youtu.be/9NH5JpqrIzY

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"Garbage Can Who Can Talk" - Marsh Family parody of "Englishman in New York" about Binface v Farage

YouTube video by Marsh Family

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"[Climate scientists] got the basic outlines of what was coming and in many ways even the numbers on what was coming right decades in advance. In any kind of rational world we would be hailing them as heroes and very much listening to them about what we should be doing now."

paulkrugman.substack.com

The Fire This Time

The willful ignorance, it burns

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm getting very comfy in the state of intrigue.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Stories about people and communities doing things for climate and the environment are important not because these efforts are enough by themselves, but because they signal to likeminded people that there are others like them.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Shadows look impossible. Chalk it up to AI.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It would be a lot easier if I could just say 'good dog' instead of wondering whether they go by girl or boy. I mean, I can, but owners tend to go with one of the other two for no discernible benefit.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It's just a few atom bombs per second worth of energy. We still need to study whether this can be linked to climate change or whether it is the cause of a particular gust of wind in Hull. Maybe it was that butterfly in Brazil.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If only we could harness the wile, insouciance and stamina of fruit flies and additionally if we could harness the faux outrage of fallen footballers, what a life it would be.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Are these thousands of people with you on the lawn now?

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Just stop doing it. It’s dangerous. You could extremely easily kill a pedestrian or a cyclist because cars are over-sized wrecking containers and you are not fit to operate one." ?

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Lots of world cup 20 second three-acters; crashing down, wailing and waiting, blithely rejoining the game as opportunities appear to manifest.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The Norway kit font is Papyrus-level.

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Tonight I cycled from the western edge of Tilburg to the station in the centre, 8km on a continuous fast cycle route. Priority at every junction, and just two traffic lights once the route ends near the station. This is what happens when cycling is designed to be the easiest way to get around.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

signalling the 'car is guest here' maxim

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Ah yes, but how about its fluttering flight pattern? It looks like randomness that could help against predation?

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Does a butterfly know where it's going, short term, or does it ride a stochastic dance?

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

theguardian.com

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets

Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I've had to explain to Gemini that 'Dr awkard' is an actual palindrome. It took some doing.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Reminds me of Calcifer in the best possible (not derivative) way.

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Elliptical galaxies have random star motion around the galaxy center pretty much. It's also refered to as 'high velocity dispersion'. (I'm regurgitating factlets that I find - I love the science of galaxies but have no grounding in that subject).

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Searching gives "XMM-VID1-2075 is not a flat galaxy. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered that it is a massive, three-dimensional "slow rotator" that resembles an elliptical galaxy, similar to dead or "dead orbit" galaxies found in the local universe". Misleading pic!

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

So gravity is pulling everything towards the centre?

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Stijn van Dongen @micans.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

If not greenery, then surely a prime location for solar panels.

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