It's essential for any healthy academic discourse that everything can be discussed. When government sets boundaries, academia ends up arguing about some fantasy world with no grounding in reality whatsoever. All that while elsewhere knowledge, like the real world, moves ever faster.

I was thinking this is like the early 1900´s Italy, but even then there where real bandits and revolts that justified sending the military. Trump is creating a theater fascism where brutal force is used against totally imaginary foes

Neen. Dat waren ze al niet en zijn intussen nog minder te verantwoorden www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...

"a new study using seismic imaging and analysing rock samples indicates it was caused by a 535ft (160m) wide asteroid" shocked quartz ft. @uisdeannicholson.bsky.social

We urge world leaders gathering at the UN General Assembly to end the genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza. Our staff in Gaza are doing all they can to save lives while weapons of war continue to maim and kill Palestinians. Doctors can’t stop this genocide. World leaders can.

Who can point out the poles on this Mercator projection? Admittedly that's a trick question 🤭

Our children and communities are literally choking. The real ‘con job’ is 8.7m people a year dying from fossil fuel burning. It’s PM2.5 dumped into the homes of billions. It’s our urban centres dosed with toxic air from power plants, oil refineries and mines. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

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Heading in the direction of Nazi Germany after Hitler took power 30 January 1933 and put his political,opponents in concentration camps. But instead of having historians reconstruct events in retrospective, it‘s on live television.

6 numbers ICQ 💪 Then onto Trillian, with its cool skins, brought together all IM. Contacts different IM's grouped, individually, so Trillian would pick any of their IM they were online with or which had the VOIP/file Tx/… capability you wanted. From there, GAIM, then Pidgin. Then came the silo's.

A requirement for permission from an employer before one gets to unionize: Only in corporate America. For over 100 years, we've had unions here. Who joins and what union they pick, if any, that's nobody else's business. Read more:

Belast brandstoffen meer. Gebruik die inkomsten voor subsidies voor warmtepompen en om woningen te isoleren. Zoiets?

So Italy and Spain are sending war ships to protect its citizens from drones from its “friend” Israel?

Stellar!! 🍀🍀🍀

Danke an @maxschrems.bsky.social & @noyb.eu Eure Arbeit ist super wichtig! Gut, dass es euch gibt. ❤️

If you can afford it and #privacy is important to you, this is a good #cause to consider. #NOYB #defends the public against mayor companies willing to trade in our privacy for #financial #gains. I am a supporting NOYB member for years now. Will you join me? #gdpr @NOYBeu #nonprofit

Bsky netsplit?

Stellar!! 🍀🍀🍀

Beide hoofdsponsors dreigen ermee de stop uit de ploeg te trekken als de naam Israël niet uit de ploeg wordt gehaald. Bye bye, Israel.

It's great to know you get to rely on steadfast allies 😏 #ukraine

Studies haven't just "been inconclusive:" Studies showed no link whatsoever between Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. Anyways, what am I even talking about. This, like so many others far out, is a pure Murican debate.

Berend Vonk in @trouw.nl, woensdag.

"We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster." ~ Carl Sagan Image➡️ www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... 🔭 🧪 #science #histsci 1/2

In 1 ruk uitgelezen/geschreven! Kent u iemand die constant klaagt over vanalles en nog wat, die vaak boos is, zich ergert aan alles wat er op social media voorbij komt en alle problemen constant groter maakt dan ze zijn? Dan is dit boekje een aanrader. Al zeg ik het zelf😇

So, how do you

Unfortunate tweet copypasta to bsky. (Why does @theatlantic.com do that? Is that due to some multiplexing bot/app? Such apps also tend to use shorteners or append URLs which is redundant on bsky) They got excellent reporting though, and Anne is here as @anneapplebaum.bsky.social:

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

From the paper's conclusions: "International #climate law is not so much an enforceable set of obligations that, where necessary, can set aside inadequate national law, but rather a set of principles and objectives that guides the construction and application of national law."

Het is begonnen! De wind uit het N/NO bracht de eerste grote golf vogeltrek met zich mee! De afgelopen twee nachten zagen we het onmiskenbare signaal op de ongefilterde radarbeelden, zoals hier op de KNMI-radar van Herwijnen gisterenavond (de heldere vlekken boven de Noordzee zijn buien).

Goh...

Een regering die het klimaat negeert, gezinnen opzadelt met extra kosten en de zwaksten laat vallen, kan niet rekenen op onze steun. De Vlamingen verdienen beter dan dit.

Wow! 🌳💚

Nobody expects their govt to deploy much contested war gear, right. Here, USG is using it, once more, on their own people. #Trumpistan

With such a tsar CEO at the controls, nobody's expected this 😏 #Meta #LGTBQ

Meta-study on populism & economics: "Populist leaders may promise to protect and support ordinary people but often do the opposite. Their countries experience declines in both economic growth and political freedoms." "they cannot claim to have solutions to economic problems" Q.E.D.

Viktor Orban has made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the EU www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Een verhaal in 2 beelden, via @lectrr.bsky.social …

De kachel heb ik gemaakt van een wc rol en omgekeerd medicijn flesje als boiler- de klok van een knoop- de bankjes van balsahout- het telraam van kralen- de vloer van ijscostokjes - de potloden van tandenstokers - de tekeningen hebben de muizen gemaakt ;-)

#artmatters! Great work by @davewhamond.bsky.social here and lots more via Cagle Cartoons 1/2

This is an out-of-focus (on purpose) picture of a starry sky. The colors of the stars can be appreciated better this way. The color of a star tells its age. Bluer for younger, reddish for older stars. It took humankind a long time observing the sky and developing physics to understand this. ⚛️ 🧪 🔭

They may have been with us for twice as long as previously thought. [This] "discovery underscores something profound: long before villages, long before writing, long before beer or bread, people and wolves were already circling one another – sniffing at the possibility of friendship."

Harrrrrow, Tiger!