So let me get this straight ...
1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil
A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
U.S. network TV climate coverage drops by a third: "Corporate broadcast climate coverage declined 35% from 2024 to 2025... Only 8% of climate segments mentioned fossil fuels" @mmfa www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...
"In case of a linear evolution, that corresponds to the mid‐point of the 20‐year period defined by IPCC as 1.5°C threshold. According to this, all data sets are near 1.5°C already and will cross that limit before 2030."
#ClimateEmergency
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Early medieval bone pin… oops, sorry, Mesolithic bone pin
I'm not suggesting this is an open secret within the climate science community, but it's remarkable how little impact this sort of research is generating. Because if the rate of warming really has *doubled* then you can kiss goodbye to 2°C. www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...
Trump's Iran war makes the case for the energy transition to renewables for most countries much clearer and immediate. @pkrugman.bsky.social 1/
Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.
A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.
For 50 years, the entire energy world has gamed out this exact scenario, and yet, there doesn't seem to be a plan? Seems bad. rdcu.be/ehooz
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Something started happening in 2020 and is continuing to happen, which causes premature death and chronic illness, huh?
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Young Woman Being Harassed by a Man
This is Judith Leyster's amazing 1631 painting ‘Young Woman Being Harassed by a Man’.
She was well known in her day but SURPRISE! her works were later misattributed either to Frans Hals, her local contemporary, or her husband, Jan Miense Molenaer.
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The fact that it all could be switched-off at the whim of a dictator?
And this is how we go through life: from alarm in the morning, to checking weather forecast or traffic report to meditation before bed.
In a few months, I'm doing a talk about how computing has lots its way, and I'm looking for input.
What irks you about working with computers (be it laptops / desktops / smartphones / ...) today?
For example: "every software is a subscription now, and we own nothing."
More spyware fallout in Italy 🇮🇹 following WhatsApp & Apple notifications & @citizenlab.ca investigations
Prosecutors' team confirms journalist @fcancellato.bsky.social's phone hacked with Paragon spyware
@lorenzofb.bsky.social with details; stay tuned for more
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BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".
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World U.S. submarine torpedoes Iranian ship in Indian Ocean, reportedly killing at least 87 sailors Attack off coast of Galle, Sri Lanka, set off rescue efforts Thomson Reuters Posted: Mar 04, 2026 6:36 AM PST | Last Updated: March 4 Listen to this article i Estimated 4 minutes Workers in Galle, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday unload the bodies of Iranian sailors from a vehicle, after they were killed when the IRIS Dena warship sank outside Sri Lanka's territorial waters. (Eranga Jayawardena/The Associated Press)
An Iranian ship at a joint Indian naval exercise, where all vessels were required to be unarmed, paraded its sailors along other participants, including the US. The US then withdrew at the last minute, torpedoed the Iranian vessel, and refused to rescue survivors. 87 sailors killed, 60 missing.
What they want is access to everyone's internet activity. They want to know what you're watching, reading and whacking to. They want to shame you at will with something like, "Weren't you looking at tentacle porn?" The internet could go from the freest to the most restricted mode of communication.
Instead of a thousand words.
Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine.
Look at the writing on the fence.
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Screenshot showing 711 partners.
What's the largest number of "trusted partners" you've seen in a cookie consent pop-up?
The situation in Cuba is dire. It hasn’t been this bad decades. And it’s on purpose. This is a humanitarian crisis, made in the United States, with the goal of overthrowing the Cuban gov. Latest episode @undertheshadow.bsky.social @nacla-report.bsky.social
The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.
Vaccines are free. #Measles now costs $1.5 billion a year - boingboing.net/2026/03/02/v... not to mention the pain; well done #antivaxxers
The attacks on Iran from the US and Israel further confirm that they’re rogue states operating outside international law. They need to be reined in, but we also need to reduce US leverage over us—which includes getting off US tech and developing alternatives.
The latest Disconnect recap is out now:
🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦 The United States joined Russia, China, and Niger on Thursday in opposing a resolution adopted by the U.N. nuclear watchdog's board denouncing attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as a threat to nuclear safety, - Reuters
It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.
Thomas is absolutely right in this thread. The only small nuance I would add is that it is not just about massively investing in renewables - it is the massive roll-out of EVs, heat pumps and helping industry to electrify. Unpicking our combustion-favouring policies in those fields is urgent.
Enforcement, please.
