Meanwhile, Reform want to send us back to the 1970's. — producing a combined output of 74 megawatts from 18 floating turbines, sufficient to power the entire city of Inverness (population 65,000) continuously and indefinitely from tidal energy alone.

Radiohead has issued a statement responding to the Department of Homeland Security's unauthorized use of their song "Let Down" in a recent social media video.

I wrote a book! It's trickling out, already in some bookstores. And I'm doing a bunch of events for it (see below). More info on book in alt text.

Trump's lies vs. the last four weeks of extreme weather reality:

Cryptographer Juanita Moody helped avert a nuclear war. She played a pivotal role during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, where her leadership in signals intelligence (SIGINT) helped provide critical, real-time information to US decision-makers. Moody died #OTD in 2015. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

American medicine: waiting over 1 hour 1/2 wearing paper shorts after waiting 2 weeks to see a doctor for a painful injury & made to fill out the same forms I filled online, told my mri isn’t complete by a voice yelling in the waiting room, paying insane copay fees to learn nothing. #cedarssinai

"It is the first time anywhere in the world that an insect species receives this kind of legal status." www.ecoticias.com/en/for-the-f.... #bees

From the "... the void screams at you ..." department: "... our recent paper analyzing distorted sounds from the early universe ... Distorted sound of the early universe suggests we are living in a giant void phys.org/news/2025-07...

Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.

Brian Eno & David Byrne: Help Me Somebody - from their 1981 album, My Life In The Bush of Ghosts www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcGa...

Isn’t it weird that it is weird to hear obvious truth from a politician in the US (or anywhere, really)?

Welp, finally time to really leave IG too…

Some good news: 'Contracts were awarded to 157 new solar farms, 28 new onshore windfarms and eight offshore windfarms after ministers doubled the amount of funding available to developers...for Labour’s goal to create a clean electricity system in Great Britain by 2030.'

Edith Clarke, the first professional female electrical engineer in the US, was born #OTD in 1883. + Invented the Clarke calculator to solve electric power transmission problems faster + First woman to earn an MS in electrical engineering (EE) at MIT, 1919 + First woman EE professor, US #WomenInSTEM

#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”

lol how about: ‘should nature be valued and protected?’ Why is there a question mark on this story?

To have a voice means not just the animal capacity to utter sounds but the ability to participate fully in the conversations that shape your society, your relations to others, and your own life. There are three key things that matter in having a voice: audibility, credibility, and consequence.

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

Milky Way’s ‘Central Black Hole’ is Compact Object Composed of Fermionic Dark Matter, Study Says - #Astronomy - ift.tt/vTzBfO4

Jeez, another lost from Television…

Wizards of oz run a lot of the world, and many of them are underpaid in ‘offshore’ and ‘near shore’ digital labor sweatshops that the hegemonic global north depend on for their daily lives. Waymo is not an exception, it is the norm.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Totally ok with a re-up of these folks

Heating homes with the world’s largest particle accelerator Now operational, a new heat exchange system is reusing hot water from part of the Large Hadron Collider’s cooling system to heat homes and businesses in the local area. Read more: home.cern/news/news/ce...

A Guide To The Music Of Iannis Xenakis www.theguardian.com/music/tomser...

🌡️Heat pumps convert 1 kilowatt hour into 3-5 kilowatt hours of heating / cooling power. 🏗️ Plant-based building materials absorb almost 4 kg of CO2 from the atmosphere per 1 kg of carbon, stored useful as buildings. 🪙 1 Euro invested in climate protection yields a return of ~ 5 Euros. Invest.

An anomaly from Hubble’s archive — Gravitational lens 2

Ontem a noite eu assisti ao filme "Saneamento básico, o filme", de Jorge Furtado. O filme conta com uma equipe de peso, que inclui Fernanda Torres e Wagner Moura. A plataforma Itaú Cultural Play é gratuita, é só se inscrever. www.itauculturalplay.com.br

Dark Matter Map "Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets." #News #Science 🧪

The medium is truly the message, because and this message is Ellison

RIP Sly Dunbar

Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

The fossil fuel industry (and its enablers) are responsible for the climate crisis. Their CEOs receive million pound bonuses from soaring profits, whilst sabotaging climate action and pushing misleading narratives of individual responsibility. It's time they pay up.

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on the super-rich: Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney are among signatories of a letter timed for the WEF in Davos, saying the wealthy are buying political influence www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“WILD AT HEART” (1990) dir. #DavidLynch Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, Harry Dean Stanton 🎬 PolyGram 🎞 Propaganda Films

Call to Action: This Friday, Minnesota is being called to stand together in real, visible solidarity. Labor unions, faith leaders, and community organizers are urging people across the state to plan ahead and take part in a Minnesota Economic Blackout do not work, do not attend school, and do not

Fun fact, my first rock show was Echo and the bunnymen my dad bought us tickets for a show in Oxford Ohio and I and my 10 or 11 year old friends were in the front row center but we didn’t have the money to get whole albums so we didn’t really know all the songs but it was mind blowing and thank you

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

✅ More than 80 Members Signed On ✅ More than 20,500 letters sent to Congress Join the growing number of Americans telling their representatives to impeach Kristi Noem:

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s