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Terrific game between China and Bangladesh at Women’s Asian Cup!! Group B looks like 🔥🔥 (and love that China away strip)
#CHNvBAN
#WAC2026
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TweetingTechno
11 days ago
I find myself slightly suprised to be recommending a video from the Norwegian Consumer Council, but it's bloody good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ
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I'm loving these preview pods from
@thefarpostpod.bsky.social
team to get ready for AFC Women's Asian Cup Football tournament. Matildas play Philippines in opening game on Sunday.
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Sam Lewis (she/they) 🌈
22 days ago
some big (and pleasant!) surprises in the
#Matildas
squad for the Women’s Asian Cup 👀 we’re recording a reaction pod later today
@thefarpostpod.bsky.social
- send us your thoughts and questions!!!!
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Katharine Hayhoe
about 1 month ago
This cartoon of his lives rent free in my brain.
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Dr Paul Dorfman
about 1 month ago
A few years ago we crossed some invisible line where it became cheaper to generate electricity from the sun and wind than from burning fossil fuels.
www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opin...
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Bill McKibben on solar power's remarkable rise - The Engineer
US environmentalist and author Bill McKibben discusses the ongoing rise of solar energy and its future potential
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opinion/bill-mckibben-on-the-unstoppable-rise-of-solar-power
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Eliot Higgins
about 2 months ago
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@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
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Jenny Chase
about 2 months ago
I don't think you have to be perfect to want everything to be better, but it does exasperate me a bit that, while many forms of climate action (wind farms, bike lanes, etc) need high-level coordination, others do depend on people not getting what they're used to having.
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Jenny Chase
about 2 months ago
Ideally at the country level, not the individual level. But governments won't do it if individuals won't! (I always see the high polling numbers for climate action and they're great, but how many people in favour of climate action still want to fly off regularly on holiday?)
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Jenny Chase
about 2 months ago
The best thing to do about this is to reduce our dependence until we can say to the big fossil firms: "no thank you, we do not want or need what you are selling", and walk (or cycle, take an electric bus or drive an electric car) away.
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David Ho
about 2 months ago
These lines; give the speech writer a raise! “We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.” “Our view is the middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”
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Alan Stedman
about 2 months ago
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
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David Roberts
about 2 months ago
The scale of China's clean energy buildout is difficult to fathom. Check out these pictures.
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Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-renewable-photo-essay
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nilay patel
2 months ago
Sometimes you just have to let
@lopatto.bsky.social
say it out loud
www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
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Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards
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Katie Mack
2 months ago
I found this discussion really interesting (and validating of some of the thoughts I’ve been having about certain aspects of politics for a while).
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Scott Hanselman 🌮
8 months ago
Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done. I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you!
youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg
#AI
#Tech
#TED
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Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
https://youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg
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This is excellent! "New manners for a post-smartphone society" by
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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Laurie Laybourn
5 months ago
The world missed its goal for tackling climate change What happens next? That's the question I'm asking in a new documentary series We uncover the fantasies that brought us here and meet the people with ideas to navigate what's next Listen to the trailer👇
open.spotify.com/episode/2ICK...
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Overshoot: a new podcast about a world beyond 1.5°C – trailer
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ICKU4ZnUw8jqDsBwB6PWv?si=f39ad5b2e57c4a98
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"My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world." ~Adrienne Rich from fly sheet of "All we can save" Ed
@ayanaeliza.bsky.social
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@kkwilkinson.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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Trond Hjorteland
6 months ago
Highly recommend spending half an hour on this talk by
@chrissimon.au
on the bulshit that LLMs produce. Yup.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bF_...
#AI
#LLM
#ChatGPT
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Programmable 2025: AI is a Hype-Fuelled Dumpster Fire - Chris Simon
YouTube video by Banks Productions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bF_AQvHs1M
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Dr. Lucky Tran
6 months ago
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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Bryan Cantrill
8 months ago
A must-watch talk from
@scott.hanselman.com
. Scott and I are of the same vintage, and I am embarrassed (mortified!) by how revolting some of our generational peers have become. Technology still has a unique power to improve our lives, but wow, do we ever have work to do.
youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...
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Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
https://youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?si=Z9oI2xgzPnq9Bcr5
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Royce Kurmelovs
8 months ago
Federal Court Justice Wigney is beginning his summary of his decision in Pabai Pabai v Commonwealth with a sketch of the changes to the Torres Strait islands. He is describing profound changes to the landscape. /n
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Robert Rohde
8 months ago
Some people are suddenly very opposed to cloud seeding and all forms of weather modification. Boy, are those people going to be upset when they realize how fossil fuel burning has been changing the composition of the atmosphere and modifying the weather for everyone.
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Amy Remeikis
8 months ago
Just realised that from today (July 2) it’s now closer to the year 2050 then it is to 2000.
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apropos of nothing, this is my holiday reading this week.
9 months ago
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Max Kennerly
9 months ago
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Ed Hawkins
9 months ago
Next week it is time to
#ShowYourStripes
again. We encourage everyone to download their warming stripes graphics and use them to start climate conversations on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st June.
www.ShowYourStripes.info
Graphic: Change in global average temperature from 1850-2024.
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Maca Iglesias🇺🇸Thank You, President Biden🇺🇸
9 months ago
If you watch only one video today, let it be this one. Watch NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway’s outstanding commentary on what prosperity and wealth should mean in America. His words could not be more on point and timely. Please pass it on.
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Terry Hughes
9 months ago
Another ABC article about the cost of climate change that forgot to mention either climate change or the resulting sea level rise. 'It doesn't look like it's going to stop'. Genius.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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Gippsland residents fear erosion measures no match for rising tides
The Victorian government spent more than $500,000 earlier this year on protective works that have already failed to stop erosion in a coastal community.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-05/dune-erosion-phillip-island/105089654
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Marissa Lordanic
9 months ago
It's joenly the beginning
www.espn.com.au/football/sto...
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Montemurro's Matildas to do list: Five things the new coach must address
Joe Montemurro faces a monumental task in revitalising the Matildas. Here are five issues that are on the new coach's plate.
https://www.espn.com.au/football/story/_/id/45355815/montemurros-matildas-do-list-five-things-new-coach-address
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Katharine Hayhoe
10 months ago
“Fixing climate change is too expensive.” Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing. Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚
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Katharine Hayhoe
10 months ago
Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed. Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.
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Swiss village almost entirely destroyed after collapse of glacier buries it in mud
One person missing and Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated town
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/28/swiss-glacier-collapse-village-switzerland-blatten
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Ian Mannix
10 months ago
Good news and well done the people behind this. 🧪
#nature
@euanritchie.bsky.social
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Quolls reintroduced to Flinders Ranges are thriving
Native Australian quolls and possums are thriving in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park in South Australia after they were first reintroduced.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/animals/western-quolls-flinders-ranges/
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Mount St. Helens Archive
10 months ago
Rrrright on schedule—KOMO posted the first broadcast of Dave Crockett’s footage. He survived. It’s okay to watch. But if you’ve never seen it before, fair warning: it’s disorienting.
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Escaping the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption: KOMO News photographer shares story of survival
YouTube video by KOMO News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO7DNs6LBBA&pp=ygUEa29tbw%3D%3D
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Burning Astronomers
10 months ago
Respect to NASA for somehow fixing the thrusters on their Voyager spacecraft which broke 20+ years ago and is currently 48 years from earth. ✌️
#DIY
#nasa
#voyager
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause
The mission team wanted to fix the thrusters, deemed unusable decades ago, before the radio antenna that sends commands to the probe went offline for upgrades.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-revives-backup-thrusters-before-command-pause/
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
10 months ago
Kinda cool to see myself quoted on the wall at
@bellmuseum.bsky.social
last week!
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Microplastics Sommelier
10 months ago
thinking about the some sheep/no sheep map again
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Bronwen Scott
10 months ago
Oh my goodness. Look at this strange and beautiful sea slug. It is completely transparent except for a complex network of pale tubules that runs through body and looks like an armature you would use if you were making a model of a sea slug. Amazing!
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Kimberley Peters
10 months ago
This is heartbreaking
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Tom Quinn
10 months ago
They've launched it! "Clifford said Incat hoped to build “as many sustainable ships as possible for the global market, both here in Australia and overseas”."
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Auke-Florian 🪹
11 months ago
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
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Nick Hedley
11 months ago
Thanks to Trump the unwitting climate activist, 2024 may turn out to be the year that global emissions peaked 🙌
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Hank Green
11 months ago
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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💧 simon holmes à court
12 months ago
a dutton majority or climate indies in the balance of power? 🤔 just a handful of seats will answer that question & ~12 indie campaigns are on a knife's edge. 🔪 can you chip in to help get them over the line? 👇 ✨ all donations will be DOUBLED ✨
www.climate200.com.au/campaign/ele...
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Independent races on a knife's edge | Climate 200
https://www.climate200.com.au/campaign/election-called?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=electioncalled&utm_content=shac
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This is the sort of content the internet is made for.
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David Chen
12 months ago
ADOLESCENCE on Netflix is extraordinary television. Filmmaking of the highest order. Pretty much every single creative decision is perfect. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
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Nick Feik
12 months ago
Adolescence on Netflix is a hell of a show innit
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Will Click
12 months ago
completely insane. foreign travel to the united states should be over. we should be a pariah state. you would have to be insane to come here for any reason after reading this.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney
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