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Retired chemist - advocating for local climate action, perhaps a bit too deep in the weeds. and a cynic And searchable 🌉 bridged from ⁂ sfba.social/@PaulWermer, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
San Francisco's Speed Camera program has been very effective - on the streets where we have them. We need to change State law if SF is to use speed cameras to reduce the speeding that happens on other streets. Walk SF has a petition campaign asking the City to engage with the state to change […]
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
The consistency of the #NetanyahuAdministration's persecution of #Palestinians and anyone who supports them is a pretty strong indication of intentional #CrimesAgainstHumanity. Israeli military detains US politician Brad Lander and rabbis at olive harvest […]
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
"Unlike in Germany or the Netherlands, French unions, while they may strike often, are not formal government negotiating partners. The top-heavy, presidential structure of the Fifth Republic marginalises institutional consultation. That means a heavily centralised state often passes laws with […]
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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
Typography: It matters. (And don't forget the kerning!) #weird #typeface #fonts #font #humor #humour
a pumpkin decorated to say "trick or treat" but the font makes trick look like F*uck
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
Love the way the #GOP supports the troops with that huge Pentagon budget. ‘It’s the most heartbreaking thing’: the active-duty soldiers who have to visit Texas food banks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…
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‘It’s the most heartbreaking thing’: the active-duty soldiers who have to visit Texas food banks
Nearly half of enlisted families struggled to afford enough food last year. Congress has known for decades how to solve the problem
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
Michigan heckler the son of Republican adviser paid for ‘influencer marketing’ against El-Sayed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…
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Michigan heckler the son of Republican adviser paid for ‘influencer marketing’ against El-Sayed
Timmy Teepell’s firm paid $250,000 by America Next, which has been trying to gin up ‘organic’ opposition to El-Sayed
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
‘Big business’: little-known court system in Louisiana churns out thousands of evictions – and millions in fees for judges www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-inte… #CorruptCourts #housing #evictions
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‘Big business’: little-known court system in Louisiana churns out thousands of evictions – and millions in fees for judges
Guardian investigation: Louisiana’s justice of the peace court system may violate tenants’ constitutional rights as eviction fees boost judges’ incomes
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
Why have countries been pushing for a vital global climate report to be delayed? www.theguardian.com/environment/202… #ClimateCrisis #IPCC #Obstruction
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Why have countries been pushing for a vital global climate report to be delayed?
Saudi Arabia, Russia and China among those claiming developed countries have skewed findings of IPCC review
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
Why SF's PropD will not impact the ability of the wealthy to get an initiative on the ballot, while making it much harder for community groups to to so: How Petition Circulators Profit from California Ballot Measures | | sfexaminer.com […]
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
Worth reading: Opinion: Why labor supports Connie Chan for Congress - 48 hills 48hills.org/2026/10/why-labor-suppo…
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Opinion: Why labor supports Connie Chan for Congress - 48 hills
Local unions aren't always in agreement on politics—but they agree on this election
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
And I'm old enough to remember when Red Delicious was delicious but not quite so red. Now it's very red, and not so delicious, unless you're lucky enough to know an orchard with the (much) older cultivars. Turns out that today's cultivars were selected for color to meet #MarketDemand based on […]
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
Encouraging news about heirloom apples. I've been fortunate enough to have access to apple farmers at farmers markets, and the older varieties are excellent. Glad to see this is happening (1 of 2) Core values: the Austrian scheme bringing forgotten apple varieties back to life […]
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
Amazing how governments can agree that something is a major problem, and something needs to be done, and the proceed to do nothing significant. Why? The corrupting influence of ¢£¥€₹₱? It seems the #ecoosystem #COP fares no better than #cilimate #COP. Yet we know what needs to be done, and how […]
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
"The US has maintained plausible deniability as services and programmes provided to support Ukraine have suddenly begun to fail.". A phrase from my youth: plausible deniability. Nixon moved it from the spy world to the political world. "The expression gained public prominence in the mid-1970s […]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/10/2026
140 days of protests triggered by a corrupt kushner/trump family luxury island deal… yet 🇺🇸 media is essentially crickets 🦗 🦗
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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
#thefarside #farside #comic www.thefarside.com/2026/10/19/0 The art of conversation
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
This actually seems a good use case: small, carefully curated #AI models targeting specific needs (not the #LLM #AGI hype) World Bank says ‘small AI’ could transform developing countries […]
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
This is VERY good. I encourage everyone to watch it until the end, and if you’re so inclined, share it.
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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 18/10/2026
It's very easy to get depressed by the state of politics right now, but then you see interactions like this one, and it rekindles your faith. A new generation of politicians will come forward and they will be different. #AbduElSayed #USpol #Politics
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
For cities with right-wing mayors (or premiers) because progressive parties lose by splitting the vote, the huge election result here in Vancouver was made possible by the agreement between Greens, COPE & OneCity to NOT each run full council slates, and have only one mayor candidate by election day.
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
#Sigh. Even with the best of intentions, humans disrupt ecosystems. Honeybees are barging aside wild pollinators in hunt for pollen and nectar, study finds […]
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Golden Gate Sunset 17oct2026 The annual Golden Gate Sunset season started tonight, with the viewing point near the Ashby freeway exit. You can find each night's spot using my map: acme.com/jef/ggs
sunset in the middle of the Golden Gatesunset in the middle of the Golden Gatesunset in the middle of the Golden Gatesunset in the middle of the Golden Gate, with a pelican
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Transport Evolved Official @show.mastodon.transportevolved.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
A hypercar you can't legally use on a road, for the kind of person who has a spare quarter-million lying around. Meanwhile the rest of us are choosing between rent, groceries and a doctor's appointment. Read the room. #EV #ElectricVehicles #Tesla #ElonNo
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Xamanismo Coletivo @eliasulrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
#Meta has blocked this graphic from being posted via WhatsApp and possibly other Meta platforms. We don’t know why. It says: “THE WORLD NEEDS #BRAZIL. THE WORLD STANDS WITH #LULA.” Share it if you can.
The image of a hand signing the “L” in Lula - “The world needs Brazil. The World stand with Lula.”
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
Words we long for and needed to hear.
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Dan Neuman 🇨🇦 @dan613.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
This is so great! The University Health Network of Toronto built housing for 51 high-risk homeless people, and their emergency room visits dropped in half. The group is now increasing the rooms to 300. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-…
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Artemis @artemis201.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
#startrek #democracy #vote #ivoted #klingon #worf
A screenshot of Worf from Star Trek edited to say "today is a good day to vote"
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icastico @icastico.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
My #NoKings gesture #fuckingVote #VoteEarly
A WA ballot goes into an official drop box slot in North Seattle.
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
Spending a lot of time these days thinking about the Red Cross report from the 1927 Mississippi Flood in the context of the Trump administration wanting to "return the responsibility of disaster recovery to ~the states~". 🧐
Screenshot that explains the reconstruction was personally directed by secretary hoover.
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
@tchambers Beating out the cat tags really is impressive
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Spocko @spocko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
At the #NoKings human banner at Ocean Beach in #SanFrancisco 10-17-2026 This woman's husband bought this shirt 20 years ago to take back the America he, as an immigrant, believed in when he came from India in 1962. He became a citizen in 1972. His name was Basab Basu.
Woman with a shirt with the Constitution on it and a American flag. At the #NoKings human banner at Ocean Beach in #SanFrancisco 10-17-2026
Her husband bought this shirt 20 years ago to take back the America he, as an immigrant,  believed in when he came from India in 1962. He became a citizen in 1972. His name was
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
#NoKings We want you to vote! Vote early if you can! Minneapolis
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
ALASKAN EMBARRASSMENT! Entitled Republican man BOMBS job interview and immediately accuses the competent woman of cheating. Ladies, ever seen anything like this Dan Sullivan-Mary Peltola interaction before?
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
#NoKings Sick of my No Kings posts? Then mute me, because I'm not going to stop today. Our democracy is at stake.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
Also, don’t forget that polls or popularity don’t win elections or separation referendums. TURNOUT DOES. There aren’t enough separatists in Alberta for separatism to win if everyone votes, clearly. But EVERY ONE OF THEM WILL VOTE. If those who oppose separatism DON’T VOTE, the foreign agents win.
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
A contender for the #NoShitSherlockAward Katie Zacharia’s five days as press secretary expose flaws in Trump’s TV-driven hiring www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…
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Katie Zacharia’s five days as press secretary expose flaws in Trump’s TV-driven hiring
The president reportedly chose Zacharia after seeing her on television, but her first press briefing and disastrous interviews sealed her fate
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
For some reason "The Merry Minuet" comes to mind when reading the morning news. ( Almost had that as "mourning news", are Freudian typos a thing?)
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
It's strange. #MayorLurie can't find $250 thousand to to support legal protections for immigrants: Bay Area Habeas Network waits on San Francisco funding missionlocal.org/2026/10/bay-area-h… But has no problem getting $12.8 million to […]
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@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
If you want the illegal and hopeless #IranWar to end, and tariffs and high prices to fall, and the terror campaign against good Latino people to end, and Ukraine to be given additional support in its fight against Russian aggression, and voting rights to be restored, and laws passed to help […]
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@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Rachel Bitecofer shared a video of a former Trump voter who said: "Trump said he was going to help the farmers. Out of all of the presidents I’ve ever lived under, I've hurt more under Trump than any other president. Fuel prices, beef prices, I mean he’s cutting our throats." #affordability copy […]
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Half of a Scaramucci is a Zacharia. The Yanks will do anything but go Metric...
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Judge rules Elon Musk, Kristi Noem spread false info to fire FEMA official
A federal judge ruled that officials including Elon Musk and Kristi Noem spread false information to justify firing a FEMA official.
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
I live in California, and I do not deny that often CEQA is badly implemented. But the state legislature could address that - there are many good strategies to speed up the permitting. see, for example , the Nature Conservancy's "Power of Place" reports […]
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
If you love and vote in California, PLEASE vote NO on Prop 45 - gutting CEQA to expedite vaguely defined important projects is the wrong way to go. For more info see environmentamerica.org/california/a…
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
@samlmontano.bsky.social Gee, the lettuce wins again!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The biggest threat to Canada at this moment may be Alberta voters who believe media messaging that the referendum vote to separate will be easily won, leading no-voters to stay home. It’s true that separatism is very unpopular in Alberta, even with Conservatives. BUT TURNOUT WINS ELECTIONS. Vote.
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#IsraeliSettlers attack #Palestinians & #WashingtonPost photographer in #WestBank The #settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives & beat #HeidiLevine, a veteran #photojournalist. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers did nothing to halt the violence. #GiftArticle #Israel #WarCrimes […]
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
There's a baby/bathwater problem here. I'm fully prepared to believe that the way maths is taught is problematic. But if you don't have some grounding in the priciples, using a calculator is a great way to get a very precise wrong answer. It gets even worse when you expect people to debug […]
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 @paulwermer.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#Globalization ? Norwegian teenage hitman hired for UK murder by Iran-backed crime gang jailed for 20 years www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oc…
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Norwegian teenage hitman hired for UK murder by Iran-backed crime gang jailed for 20 years
Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 19, was arrested in Huddersfield with two guns and live ammunition
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