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veremack.bsky.social
Husband, father, grandfather. Engineer. Love science & tech. Politically a centrist - remember them?
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‘In China, forests with up to 24 tree species reduced midday summer peak temperatures by as much as 4.4° C (7.9° F) compared with monocultures, benefiting both biodiversity and forest functionality’ 🌐🌍 #ForestEcology #RestorationEcology #Biodiversity #Climate news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

I suspect I'll make myself unpopular again, but I welcome this. Small modular reactors make decarbonising heavy industrial processes; hydrogen production; grid balancing and other tasks easier. We don't need to choose between SMRs and renewables. We can have both. futurism.com/china-thoriu...

Who holds US Treasury debt (Dec 2024 figures) Japan, the UK, the EU and Canada hold 3.5 trillion between them www.visualcapitalist.com/which-countr...

You tell 'em, AOC!

Who had the inside scoop and traded on it illegally?

Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

TFFT - it’s in Canada

Blimey. One of Nigel Farage's biggest donors, and the owner of 55 Tufton Street, is helping the Russian military effort www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

I’ve kept this piece of paper for nearly 9 years. As a scientist entering politics in 2015/6… it was utterly (and grimly) fascinating to me that those who voted Brexit trusted *no-one*. There was no category of society that Leave voters, on average, had faith in and would readily defer to.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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The new norm Free speech, not so free any more in the US

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Remember this all the time!

That's going to send him off the edge

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

Holy shit. The United States was not invited to the NATO summit on Ukraine in Paris on March 11. There’s no other meaning: The United States was just benched for colluding with the enemy.

On Kremlin TV, Putin intimate Solov'yov says Russia so encouraged by Trump taking their side no longer see need for ceasefire. "No, there won’t be any ceasefire. Our idea of peace is everything happening as we see fit” Then plays a clip of Vance slamming Ukraine. Vance is "our man" he says.

Mark Carney to be Canada’s next P.M. ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard...

As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud.

Spending vast sums on a replacement nuclear deterrent that's potentially compromised by its reliance on a mercurial and untrustworthy USA seems like a very dumb move indeed. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

The consequences of the US stopping intelligence sharing with Ukraine, as one Russian newspaper sees them: “Now we have a higher chance of finding the enemy’s weak spot and striking when they’re not expecting it.” #ReadingRussiahttps

Exactly #traitortrump #impeachtrump