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It’s clear Elon thinks of the federal government as being two million civilian office workers. In reality that figure includes logistics and shipyard workers, FBI field agents, doctors, nurses, TSA officers, coastguards, correctional officers, you name it. Probably 800k-1m not in desk jobs.

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Oligarch class starting to get a bit spooked...

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This is what truly adult communication looks like: “I don’t plan to stay in power for decades. But we won’t let Putin stay in power over Ukrainian territories either. Honestly, it’s important what Ukrainians think of me.” His expressions say it all too.

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Pure, unadulterated authoritarianism. Mind boggling that this is the United States of America

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President Trump's right hand man Musk responds in agreement to a video by "Putin's Brain" Alexander Dugin. Dugin has repeatedly called for the total destruction of western civilization, specifically "Anglo-Saxon" civilization. Folks, the US is in very big trouble.

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

jesusfuckingchrist

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Has your science ever been twisted, misrepresented, or taken wildly out of context? My latest Eos article dives into how I navigated this whirlwind—and what it taught me. Check it out (published this morning)!

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A social media post featuring a fake news report is spreading a false claim about damage to a #solar farm in the Sunshine State

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I'm currently on day two of a workshop from the NIH. We're in the middle of a presentation and we're now being told that the remainder of the workshop is cancelled. 🙃

submitted 37 days ago • 54 comments

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

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Badenoch speech today: "We made it the law that we would deliver net zero carbon emissions by 2050. And only then did we start thinking about how we would do that." This is not really true - eg see technical advice from Climate Change Committee before the decision www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

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This post makes a huge "Gotcha" out of an uncaught error on a webpage. The idea that a comms person writing the web page used old data is totally believable. The word "static", simply means that the webpage was written manually, and isn't connected dynamically to a data source. 1/3

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Rep. Jim Himes, the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters that removing Turner “sends a shiver down my spine” and that he is “enormously concerned.”

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Trump said today he’d kill offshore wind projects that already have permits — and maybe were fully built already. How’d he come up with that idea? And is it really on the table? Funny you should ask. Read my story to find out!

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JUST IN: Donald Trump blamed the U.S. for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, claiming it was due to U.S. support for Ukraine’s NATO membership. He also repeated the Kremlin lie that the U.S. sabotaged a deal between Ukraine and Russia. What a fuc*ing traitor

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The Conservative party accuses Keir Starmer of refusing to take child abuse seriously. In other news, here's former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson complaining about £60 million being "spaffed up the wall" investigating historic child abuse cases

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1/ Happy new year, #energysky! Let's kick 2025 off with a little 2024 review of negative prices in the German wholesale electricity market. 🇩🇪 🔌↩️ A 🧵with the main insights, based on graphs from the #OpenEnergyTracker: https://openenergytracker.org/en/docs/germany/prices/#negative-prices 🔽

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reupping my @heatmap.news story from the end of the year about how a vaccine “skeptic” in michigan is now using disinfo about solar panels and health care to try and shut down renewables development for an entire county heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

This isn’t good news, but well worth a read… heatmap.news/climate/chri...

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IKEA latest innovation - double headed bogbrushes…. Er…

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On the streets of Free Damascus, I asked Syrians if they had a message to send to the people of Ukraine. Here is what they said: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcS1...

submitted 63 days ago • 8 comments

Around 33% Australian homes now have solar panels. Here it's more like 5%. Load factors may be higher there but solar makes sense even here. Expect penetration to increase materially.

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Astounding: Canada’s wildfires greater emissions than its economic activity. “It’s roughly 3 times the amount from all other Canadian sectors,” Rogers said of Canada’s total wildfire emissions. “It’s higher than in any other country’s annual emissions except for China, the U.S., India and Russia.”

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"God, the weather is horrible. I wonder how the wind fleet is coping?" Wind fleet: "YOUR SYSTEM BELONGS TO ME NOW."

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So it turns out they spent £715 million on sending a grand total of FOUR volunteers to Rwanda. For comparison, this is more than you could expect to spend on building an entire brand new hospital in the UK

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00:58 December 3 - #Tbilisi 🔴 A girl at the protest broke through the wall of riot police shields, shouting: 🗣️"You trash people, I'm tired! What do you want?! Are you afraid of me?!" #GeorgiaProtests

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On The Climate Brink: Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check This is a crucial point because it determines how much warming is already "locked in" and effectively unavoidable. The answer is very little warming is locked in. Also, this is our 100th post! www.theclimatebrink....

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£34bn loss: car industry could ‘crash’ if EV investment stalled Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) ‘fundamental’ to future prosperity of UK automotive sector, which could vary in size by up to £50 billion in GVA.

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Some of you may remember I wrote about my search for the biggest heat pump system in the world. One of the systems I looked at, in Esbjerg, was under development at the time. However, I just got an announcement saying it's started operations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...

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KLAXON READ THIS KLAXON - "Predatory ambition' by @ketanjoshi.co This is part of a trend that I’m calling “predatory ambition” – the tactical setting of ambitious-looking but unattainable climate targets6, and I’ll be digging into it in more detail in a future post. ketanjoshi.co/2024/11/24/2...

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How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...

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