“Despite thousands of years of innovations and breathtaking scientific advances, you'd be more likely to survive if you were marooned on a tropical island with a tradesman or farmer from ancient Rome or medieval England than with most modern professionals.” - @brianklaas.bsky.social

One of my favorite stories about Mamdani’s father, who was jailed during the civil rights march in Montgomery in 1965: Weeks after he got out, the FBI paid him a visit. They asked why he was at the march, and who had influenced him. An hour into the interrogation, they asked, “Do you like Marx?” 🧵

Sunset in the Swiss Alps 🏔️🇨🇭

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Whoa: This highway outside Paris can charge your EV while you drive – at a whopping 300 kW (!) Can’t do that with ICE motors! This approach could significantly reduce the size, weight and materials needed for EV batteries, (eg, for buses), without compromising uptime! electrek.co/2025/10/30/t...

Moment of Zen, from the Swiss Alps 🏔️🇨🇭

The peaceful No Kings march kicks off in Geneva, Switzerland! 🇨🇭🇺🇸🐸 #NoKings

We’re hiring for an Entrepreneurship Manager based in Berlin! This is a central role on our Sustainable Ventures Team at beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship. Are you passionate about environmental entrepreneurship, climate innovation, sustainability? If yes: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Today in the Swiss Alps 🏔️🇨🇭

✅ Flu shot ✅ Covid shot Modern science rocks 👩‍🔬

It’s been *totally* overcast for 6 (!) days in a row now ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️ So I went back to the mountaintops this morning in search of the sun. 🏔️🇨🇭

Stunning sunset above the clouds in the Swiss Alps this evening 🏔️🇨🇭 www.bergfex.ch/rochers-de-n...

Found another sunny spot above the clouds in the Swiss Alps today (during my lunch break). Perhaps a good reminder about life in general: “Above the clouds it is always sunny.” 🏔️🇨🇭

Today in the Swiss Alps. I love this cloud effect over the lake. Only happens 2-3 times a year during colder months. During the winter it’s so dark & grey below the clouds (see next photo in thread), so finding the sun & blue skies on mountain tops is one of my favorite things about planet Earth. 🏔️🇨🇭

I remember like 10 years ago when fascism was seen by most people for what it is: criminal behavior, and not “political opinions”.

Due to recent trolling by the Bluesky CEO, I finally decided to try out another server - namely the myatproto.social server offered to non-Black users by Blacksky. Followed the transfer instructions below and it went fine! (Had to use my DID id instead of my username, but other than that, all good!)

On my way from Lausanne to Berlin by train. So much more comfortable than dealing with airports and airplanes. More importantly, far better for the climate! Just 8 more hours to go 🚅 🚃🚃🚃🚃 #SlowTravel #Trains

Timeline moment of Zen, from last weekend in the Swiss Alps 🏔️🇨🇭

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Today in the Swiss Alps 🏔️🇨🇭

jolly_good_ginger Retired Army Vet Dropping Facts

A wide ranging convo between me & @rabble.nz for @revolution.social → past, present and future of Blacksky (the community + company) → mutual aid, susus, people's assemblies, etc → building protocols for people wherever you get your podcasts.

Sunset on the Swiss Riviera #Montreux 🏔️🇨🇭

Remember the part in “V For Vendetta” when the late-night comedy host gets canceled for upsetting the dictator?

From the 1878 World Fair in Paris, this solar energy concentrator could heat water and produce steam. It also produced ice. The inventor, Augustin Mouchot, also experimented with the conversion of solar energy into electricity, nearly 150 years ago!

Every billionaire is a staggering policy failure.

From 1987: SOLAR, the Sony Walkman WM-F107, was a cassette player and stereo radio powered by an integrated solar panel. It was equipped with a rechargeable battery for rainy days. #RetroSolar

This self-powered lampshade is both a light and a solar panel. Unfolded like a flower and applied to a windowpane during the day, it charges. At night, folded like an origami, it powers a light sounce. The solar light invites us to practice a ritual that follows the daily cycles of light.

Haven’t seen this before. Spotted at an airport in Europe. They must be using AI / robotics at the end point to auto-sort the waste. More on the role that sustainable robotics can play to scale climate action: climaterobotics.network #climate #climatetech

Somewhere over the Swiss Alps this morning 🏔️🇨🇭

On my way to Bangalore for our Regional Summit on Climate Innovation & Environmental Entrepreneurship. This is one of six regional summits we’re organizing across the globe in September. We = beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship. #climate #inclusion #diversity #climatetech #india #asia

Cannes? St. Tropez? Think again: Montreux, Switzerland 🏔️🇨🇭

Time-laps of the sunset in the Swiss Alps 🏔️🇨🇭

"The only known solution to creeping authoritarianism is broad-based, peaceful, geographically dispersed mass engagement by everyday Americans. That’s it. That’s what works." Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Tonight’s Moonrise over the #Swiss #Alps 🏔️🇨🇭

ZEUS 2.0 depicts a bolt of lightning touching the ground, suspended beneath a drone. The symbol of Zeus' ⚡️ representing divine power in Antiquity, is updated. The sculpture draws our attention to the link between belief and knowledge, proposing a new entity as a "superior" divinity: technology.

Opening scene of the next Godzilla movie… oilprice.com/Latest-Energ...

History book from 2054:* In September 2025, the “Health Alliance” formed by just a handful of States on the West Coast would go on to include 13 more States in rapid succession. Thread 🧵 * Caldwell, Amina. Fault Lines: America in Crisis, 2020–2040. New York: Columbia University Press, 2054.

Moonrise over the Swiss Alps 🏔️🇨🇭

Montreux by night on the Swiss Rivierra 🏔️🇨🇭

US “leadership” has slashed R&D budgets by 10 of billions of dollars. Europe is almost doubling its Horizon R&D program, to the tune of 200+ billion dollars.

Wow, had missed this news… cc @romainmurphy.bsky.social, @simulacrandrew.bsky.social, @heatherleson.bsky.social

Reaching for the moon. Still my favorite statue in Montreux, #Switzerland 🏔️🇨🇭

From a slow walk in the vineyards this morning. Sending peace and tranquility from the #Swiss #Alps 🏔️🇨🇭

They’d rather let the country burn than have undocumented people fight wildfires

👏👏👏: The Swiss collect more than 90% of all glass for recycling! 🤦🤦🤦: Over 80% of this glass is exported to other countries for recycling. This represents 288,000 tons of glass exported annually, equivalent to 11,000 trucks. So, Switzerland is now considering reuse. www.rts.ch/info/suisse/...

Cement is one of the most widely used materials in the world — and one of the biggest polluters. A fellow at beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship is creating a cleaner alternative by replacing 1/2 of cement’s most polluting ingredient with rice husk ash and other CO₂ absorbing materials. 🧵