Ok this is really cool. Researchers at the Institute of Materials Science of Seville have created a hybrid device that can generate energy from both sunlight and rainfall. A single raindrop can generate a potential difference of 110 volts, enough to power a small portable device.

Join the BDS campaign against Elbit Systems — during the Global Week of Action of April 20–25 and beyond. Intensify pressure against Israel’s largest military company, enabling and profiting from Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide against Palestinians. #StopElbit

"3 years... [into] major conflict, Sudan’s capital Khartoum is slowly showing signs of recovery. However, widespread destruction remains visible across the city, highlighting the long road to rebuilding & normalcy for residents." www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmjl... #News #Sudan #SudanNews #WorldNews

NEW: Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against Purdue for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation under a new payout plan. With @inquirer.com

Sophy Ridge: "Amal Khalil, who worked for al-Akhbar, which is a Lebanese newspaper aligned with Hezbollah" Shameful. If Sky News journalists are targeted & killed will you also excuse their murder by telling us who Comcast is aligned with?

2024: Keir Starmer, "I will restore standards in public life with a total crackdown on cronyism" 2026: Victoria Derbyshire asks Labour's Anti Corruption Tsar Margaret Hodge if finding a job in the diplomatic service for someone with no experience in it, is cronyism

This is my 1,520th daily thread documenting Russia's war on Ukraine. Let me with you Happy St George's Day, particularly if, like me, you are English. Or Georgian. And apparently Romania, Spain and Portugal too, but to a lesser degree there. Anyway, back to the war - it's Day 1520

Data centers have contaminated ground water in Oregon. They've released smog into the air in Memphis. And they've contributed to electricity bill spikes — all while receiving millions of dollars in tax breaks. Is it any wonder why a nationwide backlash against AI data centers is brewing?

Added more pollinator plants to my garden. I have been building/expanding it a little every year for 10 years. My budget is limited,and work is limited by health issues,but earth needs more trees and flowers. The insects are vanishing. When they are gone,humanity will disappear also

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Beirut under Israeli siege, 1982. Hezbollah didn’t even exist at the time. (Photo shared by @aymanmak.bsky.social)

Funeral of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, murdered by the IDF. Press helmet and a Lebanese flag, symbolising her two crimes according to the Israeli genocidal regime: she was a Lebanese journalist www.instagram.com/reel/DXei0yp...

Might interest you @petergeoghegan.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org I wonder if some of these (ex) employees would speak to you?

On St George’s Day, I’d like to celebrate the good things about England. That’s mostly the music and the cheese.

Zeynab Faraj, the Lebanese journalist who survived yesterday’s Israeli strike that killed her colleague Amal Khalil, is interviewed in hospital www.instagram.com/reel/DXeAK5A... What Israel does to journalists

#OtD 23 Apr 1979 New Zealand born socialist, Clement Blair Peach, was killed by police on an anti-Nazi demo in Southall, Middlesex, after being struck by an illegal weapon. Despite 11 witnesses their evidence was dismissed and no one punished stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9539...

It has been 4 days… 4 full days without a single donation! Not a single sign of support… while everything around us keeps getting harder. Even the smallest help means everything. It could be the reason we make it through another day.🙏 Your support is not just help… It is hope.❤️ It is survival!

Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised. RT if you know it has to be.

I can't imagine how terrifying this is for Retaj and her family. If you have anything to give, even a few dollars, it is greatly appreciated. Please share. 🧡 chuffed.org/project/1232...

Support Firas's Family with Basic Needs and Evacuation chuffed.org/project/1298...

The ex-Israeli soldier who served as Biden’s Lebanon envoy, Amos Hochstein, says he supported Trump's Iran bombing last year, and that Biden might've done the same. Read @premthakker.bsky.social's reporting on Hochstein here: zeteo.com/p/who-is-the...

Sleep walking into WW3. All the signs are there. - 100000 US troops on the middle east - Blockades on fuel - Destruction of Oil production and refinery in middle East - Attack on Iran - CIA destroying Russian refineries using Ukraine as cover - blockade on Venezuelan Oil to China

In the #Gaza Strip, around 11,000 UNRWA workers continue to deliver: ➡️ healthcare ➡️ learning ➡️ shelter ➡️ water ➡️ sanitation With unimpeded access, we would be able to do even more. #UNRWAworks

Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closes due to cuts Officials warn department will lose access to database of 26,000 verified cases after project ends www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Since the most recent “ceasefire” in Gaza, the Israeli military has used and moved a lethal “yellow” line in Gaza — yellow concrete blocks placed along the boundary it claims — to steal land and kill any Palestinian who crosses it. Now, it’s using the same tactic in Lebanon.

Anyone seen more about this story?

This administration is always coming up with ways to drain our nation's treasury. If it's not starting wars, encouraging bogus discrimination claims by white men, giving former Trump advisors >$1M because Donald is still mad at the Biden's FBI, it's Trump making a spurious $10B claim vs. the IRS.

Officials say Israel’s attacks on humanitarian aid workers aim to block essential aid from reaching Palestinians, as Israel continues to impose a blockade on Gaza seven months into the so-called “ceasefire.” mondoweiss.net/2026/04/isra...

Israel seeks ‘green light’ from US to kill remaining Khamenei family members - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-seeks-green-light-us-kill-remaining-khamenei-family-members

Porous blockade: • Iranian ships are sailing past US blockade line at Hormuz • This article says they've moved 9 million barrels of oil to the market • That's about 1 million barrels of oil per day, given that the blockade began on 13 April www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nobody is safe while Genocide supporting madman like Alex Karp and Palantir are in control of everything.

Israeli settlers killed 25-year-old Awda Atef Awawdeh, father of 2 newborn girls in Deir Dibwan, Ramallah. According to an AFP tally based on Palestinian health ministry figures, Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 1,065 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of Gaza’s genocide.

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Reminder that Hannah Arendt called statelessness the forced removal by the state of "the right to have rights," leaving only "people who had indeed lost all other qualities and specific relationships except that they were still human."

My friends, I'm Mahmoud 🍉 writing to you again from the heart of suffering and destruction. No food, no medicine, only fear, hunger, and an endless siege.💔 Life here has become unbearable. Your support today could save my family's lives. Please help us to donate.⬇️🥺🙏 chuffed.org/project/help...

At the Sacramento Bee, unionized journalists are withholding our bylines from McClatchy’s AI-generated “articles” in protest. According to a McClatchy corporate exec, non-unionized reporters will be forced to use their bylines. We stand against this initiative. gizmodo.com/newspaper-co...

In a story on ProPublica reporters’ fight for AI protections, WaPo highlights Bee journalists who stand against McClatchy’s AI “articles” initiative. I wonder why McClatchy has now twice declined to comment on this AI tool. Internally we have heard corporate executives say they’re very proud of it 🤔

As I told the Washington Post, Sacramento Bee journalists are withholding our bylines from this AI-generated content for many reasons. One is that they will degrade the quality * of the entire paper. * We want to balance quality and quantity; management’s plan is quantity at the expense of quality.

Israel has repeatedly violated the ceasefire in Lebanon, as in Gaza, and today targeted two journalists, killing one. There has been no word from Western officials and little media coverage. When is enough enough? The IDF won’t stop until it’s stopped.

Try to withhold your shock, but the IDF is stealing everyone’s shit in southern Lebanon

Described by experts as "the most expansive invasion of Canadian privacy rights in modern history." If you Carney people give away all our privacy because you are too stupid to admit what he is doing, we deserve it. openmedia.org/press/item/c...

I live in Seattle I applaud our state for doing the right thing despite all the Zionist propaganda and opposition against it! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍💙🇺🇸