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🇬🇷 Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind Hannah Ritchie & Pablo Rosado “_The chart shows that just over a decade ago, almost half of the country’s power came from coal. This has now fallen to 6%._ _Solar and wind have […] [Original post on qoto.org]

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Does anyone here in the Bay Area have a lead on a month-to-month room or ADU or unit in any proximity to Menlo Park? A friend-for-whom-I-will-vouch is on the receiving end of a very sudden return-to-office crisis. (Feel free, and my thanks, to spread widely.)

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Went on a multi-day bike touring trip over the weekend. You might think spending so much time on a bike might be boring, but in fact, but in fact it was a lot more fun than going to those destinations by car.

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I don't think it's possible to be where we are in #uspol (and in the global authoritarian slide) without our information ecosystems being such a mess. There's a ton of work to do on the distribution side of the problem, but also on the info-making side: Even great newsrooms aren't built to make […]

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Starting to think that when I had to buy a new phone a few months ago, my decision to buy a repairable phone was a good one. #uspol #tariffs #righttorepair #hmdskyline

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Any #python devs here have opinions on uv? https://docs.astral.sh/uv/

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EVERYONES GOTTA USE AI they said USE AI OR YOURE FIRED they said https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/malicious-npm-packages-infect-3200.html

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#spring #flowers #photography #bloomscrolling

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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

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Gotta say, the new Caltrain is pretty great. It really does win out often when thinking about driving somewhere, and considering "or I could take the train". As I understand, running trains every half-hour at a minimum is a low bar by some standards, but it is a game-changer relative to what it […]

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Happy Revenge of the Fifth! I do like that Luke and Leia are siblings here. Kris Kristofferson and Paul Lynde only add cherries to the sundae.

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“I started a spreadsheet, which is what middle-class professionals do when faced with systemic problems — we quantify things, as if converting human suffering into Excel cells might render it more manageable.” Via @gvwilson […]

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Speaking of swimming.. I’ve been on boats to the farallon islands and they’ve been terrifying and long and choppy This Bay Area grandma SWAM there https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/amy-appelhans-gubser-farallon-islands-swimming-19460296.php

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#SaveVOA campaign appealing the decision by X (Twitter) suspending our account.

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CBC - A remarkable reversal for the Liberal Party which has made an incredible comeback and will form government. #Canada

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An attempt to create a dashboard of who is capitulating and who is fighting back against unconstitutional gov't pressure and demands...

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A federal district court judge rules USAGM (including its "special adviser" Kari Lake) acted unlawfully in shutting down the Voice of America. https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/98-Op-on-PI.pdf

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Don’t work at Palantir.

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[Politics] Having run across some of the folks in charge messing up the US, just an observation which I shared with some folks this weekend trying to figure out why someone would want to cut the National Weather Service, the VA, Social Security, USAID, etc. etc. The way they make decision is […]

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Can you find me in this picture? San Francisco Ocean Beach this morning. #handsoff #50501movement #april19

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[Politics, Counter-protests, Nazis (real Nazis)] Meanwhile, counter protestors showing up in Utah are showing their true colors. I hate Utah Nazis (well, hate all Nazis). https://bsky.app/profile/schotthappens.com/post/3ln7njmfmcc2h #HandsOff #protests #politics #nazis

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There's been a lot of fretting recently—some of it from me—about there being Too Much Politics On Here, encouraging people to (A) stop posting so much about it and (B) post about other things. This is a valid concern but I want to take a moment to put a structural lens on this problem.

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Lisa Murkowski: "It’s important that the concerns continue to be raised, rather than allow the fatigue of the chaos grind you down,” she added. “Don’t let it grind you down.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/lisa-murkowski-trump-second-term-afraid-retaliation-1235319799/ […]

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Senator Chris Van Hollen in El Salvador says he met tonight with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the 29-year-old illegally deported from the US last month, who the Trump administration accuses of being an MS-13 gang member.

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David Brooks calling for a general strike or nonviolent civil disobedience was not on my bingo card. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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CalMatters: How labor killed a bill to let California wildfire victims sue Big Oil for climate change https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2025/04/17/how-labor-killed-a-bill-to-let-california-wildfire-victims-sue-big-oil-for-climate-change #climatedisaster #legal #lawsuits #California #wildfires

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I will say, being a college student who’s graduating this year isn’t fun. This is beyond 2008, too in my opinion. We have a recession coming AND we are in a major constitutional crisis.

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Whistleblower reveals evidence on how Elon Musk's DOGE team extracted 10 GB of sensitive data about American citizens from a government agency, and then deleted accounts and logs to cover their tracks. Then, when the whistleblower tried to report the data beach, he received a threatening letter […]

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Visiting some conservative/non-political family members, and working on bringing up the topic of our government's lurch towards authoritarianism non-confrontational ways: "So, did you hear about that guy who's stuck in El Salvador?"

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However stupid you think the times we live in are, you're wrong. They're stupider.

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Capitol Hill reporters: Please ask congressional Republicans if they believe the Trump administration should follow federal court orders. If they say yes, ask them what Congress should do if Trump refuses.

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Senator Van Hollen is going to El Salvador to try to aid Abrego Garcia. I reiterate my suggestion that people send a few bucks to Van Hollen’s campaign to make it clear that this the sort of bravery and action we expect and and reward.

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Here's a description of the Russian attempted access to NLRB from the whistleblower complaint. whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/u...

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Hmm, crosswalk voice messages are hackable? 🤔 https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/13/peninsula-crosswalk-audio-hacked/?share=1adh0swteimklaasnks2 #cybersecurity #crosswalks

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Pretty happy to have gotten a larger contribution in for an open source project, (Avro library for Rust.) I've contributed some one-line fixes to projects here and there, but this was a first for me in making a sizeable change and working through the reviews to get it to where it can be merged […]

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One thing I will say about Rust, is that simply learning it has made me a better programmer. Similar to how a static-typed language teaches its users concepts about types, (which you may take for granted if you learned programming with Java and have never met a python developer,) Rust has taught […]

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