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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How far above sea level is it?

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Not the odds, but the stakes.” And here, at stake is a liveable climate. bsky.app/profile/jayr...

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He’s a coward, so yes, he will do that.

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have some news for you: The office at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is in no way fake.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Greetings from Australia! We’re really sorry if sending those F-35 components via Hong Kong was our fault in some way. Given Trump is offering to sell arms to China, is the F-35 thing such a big deal? (We’re also really sorry about Rupert Murdoch.)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I haven’t read the paper yet, but that summary sounds like a form of Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance.

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Australia has 72 F-35s in the RAAF. What does the Defence Minster have to say about this? The PM? @albomp.bsky.social

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth “So... we have what the people are interested in, and human interest stories, which is what humans are interested in, and the public interest, which no one is interested in.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026

Terry, as always, with a depressingly accurate view of human nature: funny shaped vegetables are of more interest to the average person than deeply reported stories of powerful wrongdoing

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Indeed it is Gaia. I’ve seen it at Trinity College Dublin.

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Doing laundry doesn’t require an actual laundry. Socks, underwear, tshirts and shirts can all be washed in your hotel bathroom. Having the right kind of clothes can make that easier (so it’s a bit late for your current trip). Here’s a great guide from an expert: youtu.be/pwTa2riSCy0

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How to do laundry while traveling (& packing light)

YouTube video by Maurice Moves

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Inside Centcom, which conducted the US attack, some personnel relied too much on the artificial intelligence embedded in Maven Smart System, the officials said. Maven, which is made by Palantir..." Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It accomplished the survival of your ancestors against attacks by deadly animals before they migrated out of Africa. Isn’t that something?

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It would depend on whether the attack destroyed Trump Tower or any other of his property interests.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026

NEW: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting out a private island and paying for the fireworks show.

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Labor has no aspirations other than to be (re)elected to government, and being better than the alternative is all that they have to achieve to do that. So being better than the alternative is their highest aspiration. It’s pathetic.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of the stubborn dynamics in climate politics is conservatives being simply unwilling to believe that their ideological opponents were/are right about something very important. Lots of conservatives really did covince themselves it was all a conspiracy to impose more government control.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/09/2026

IT’S HERE! Out custom-engraved bottle of champagne is chilling as we speak! #WhenItHappens

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My dedication to preparing for #WhenItHappens isn’t quite up to AG’s level. bsky.app/profile/muel...

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Being a big baby is grounds for impeachment — that’s definitely a misdemeanor.

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The strategic surprise is currently the incumbent of the Oval Office.

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Impressive self-sabotage how they deferred the price rise until just before the midterms by depleting the oil reserve at just the right rate

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“it”? Is that the “it” like in the phrase “when it happens”? We can always hope

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And in which case, they should have logs of the senders and recipients of all the messages they lost. Ask them to use those logs to provide a list of senders. (I used to run an email system for a college.)

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And surely in this case, someone explained it to him, and he did not have the mental capacity to understand it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/08/2026

A new paper out of MIT investigates "The Net Climate Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)." Tries to weigh immediate carbon impacts, possible improvements in decarb tech, impacts of accelerated growth, etc.

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The Net Climate Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Balancing Current Costs with Future Climate Benefits

This chapter asks a deceptively simple but unresolved question: what is the net impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on climate change? Research has largely f

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And what if the AI-enabled emission reductions never actually arrive?

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Critically, AI emissions are growing today, while AI-enabled emissions reductions will take time, creating an AI "carbon debt" that accelerates warming.”

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

From the abstract: “However, absent complementary climate policies, efficiency gains enabled by AI are likely to trigger direct and indirect rebound effects that erode or reverse emissions savings.” …

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just so long as it’s not beagle-eating spaghetti 😱

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“undisputed evidence”??? The evidence is very much disputed! I look forward to the DOJ lawyer who made that court filing losing their bar licence eventually.

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

God responds: bsky.app/profile/theg...

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Send an office detailer to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave too please

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Greenland/Denmark? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Is...

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Hans Island - Wikipedia

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I presume they’d be moving heat from subway stations year-round, while the stored heat would be used only in winter.

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You and me both! It’s 0.0000087% of the atmosphere.

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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have not the slightest notion of how @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social hoovered up all my brain thoughts, emptied out the dust bag, and then sorted through the detritus for the makings of a magnificent 'toon... BUT HE DID!! x

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Carl saw this coming

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

When you say “the vaccine”, do you mean the one used in western countries that can’t cause polio, or the cheaper one that’s easier to administer used in the global south that can actually cause polio? Because one of those isn’t that good. We should be vaccinating everyone with the safer one.

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Tim Bell @timb07.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

But also, the midterms have everything to do with his “thinking”

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 17/08/2026

The Negotiating Table by Nick Anderson

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/08/2026

Folks: here's a meaty long read for you on how Australia's data centre industry lobbied (successfully) to kill regulations that would force them to cover their new demand with renewables And how (this is spicy) the desire within some climate/energy spaces to see data centres as 'cleantech' helped

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How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to to freely pollute

Data centre greenwashing is getting worse, alongside the tech industry’s hunger for fossil fuels. Why help them?

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