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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 66 days ago • 1070 comments

I hope Americans realise that the USA is finished. We'll never, ever trust you again. Your political & legal inability to rein in an iota of the catastrophic fascist coup that has shaken your nation, your neighbours, and world order is unforgivable.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

When the Nazis took power and gutted the Weimar era civil service in government, they also claimed the need to increase efficiency and to ensure loyalty to the nazi party. They did it through the law for the restoration of the professional civil service. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for...

submitted 72 days ago • 24 comments

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

submitted 73 days ago • 2008 comments

I cannot even begin to describe how catastrophically dangerous this is...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

A sobering read. theconversation.com/is-doge-a-cy...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

I genuinely don't understand how a supposedly educated country can be so incredibly imbecilic...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

I've made a Covid conscious starter pack called "Salting the Vibes" - voices on advocacy and/or science 🧬 go.bsky.app/5871Mhv

submitted 169 days ago • 385 comments

There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”

submitted 87 days ago • 465 comments

Here's the latest variant picture for the United Kingdom. Growth of XEC.* continued, to around 76%. The new LP.8.1.* variants are present, but have struggled to grow above 10% frequency. Globally, this group looks like the most likely challenger. #COVID19 #UK #XEC #LP_8_1 🧵

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

No, SARS-CoV-2 isn’t a little bit airborne. It’s not “situationally” airborne. It’s an AIRBORNE VIRUS, spreads via the air. I’m granting an amnesty on people who said (5y ago) that it wasn’t. I won’t say I told you so if you finally acknowledge the evidence. Let’s just get this right and move on.

submitted 102 days ago • 23 comments

Two stabbings of two teenage trans girls in less than a year, one of them fatal, both motivated by transphobia, demonstrate that “gender critical” beliefs are in no way “worthy of respect in a democratic society.” They are dangerous and produce violence and deadly hatred.

submitted 103 days ago • 10 comments

A day in the life of a SuperScooper Canadair Bombardier CL-415 C-GBPD QUE245 Notice the change in speed over the sea where the pilot scoops up sea water into fuselage tanks. Incredible skills. #GIS data via @flightradar24.com Aircraft data @AirhistoryNet www.airhistory.net/generic-type...

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

All counties affected by H5N1 bird flu in poultry, according to the CDC.

submitted 107 days ago • 12 comments

A good study that shows what many teachers have been experiencing for a long time – even before the pandemic: an onslaught of education technology that just made our administrative load worse.

submitted 110 days ago • 9 comments

This is a particularly good, and nuanced, analysis by @davidallengreen.bsky.social on the complexities of regulating social media, and the cold, hard, business logic which continues to underpin the decision making processes of meta, twitter et al which allow misinformation to spread.

submitted 108 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 108 days ago • 6 comments

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

submitted 111 days ago • 452 comments

1/2 🔭 🧪 'The Aurora Tree', a stunning pic by Alyn Wallace, shows an incredible visual coincidence between the bare branches of a foreground tree and the brilliant glow of a far- away aurora. The pic was taken in Iceland in March 2017. Image source and info: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap21022...

submitted 113 days ago • 5 comments

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper criticises the previous Tory government for failing to implement any of the 20 recommendations from a 458-page, 7-year independent report into child sexual abuse which interviewed 7,000 victims, considered 2 million pages of evidence and led to 61 reports/publications

submitted 113 days ago • 23 comments

Meh.

submitted 114 days ago • 15 comments

Any other teachers procrastinating about their #BackToSchool to-do-list? So far this morning I've cleaned the fruit bowl, discovered & emptied the washing machine filter for the 1st time in 8yrs, and experimented with homemade-digestive / buttercream sandwiches (yum). You?! #EduSky

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Sing along! On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: 12 epicentres, 11 glaciers seiching, 10 pets a-leaping, 9 liquefactions, 8 concerts bouncing, 7 structures shearing, 6 plates subducting, 5 Aftershocks! 4 seismographs 3 fault lines 2 tremor bumps And an earthquake in a palm tree!

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

111k kids with long COVID 20k kids with severe long COVID I don't understand why every parent is not insisting on hepa filters for clean air in every classroom 10m kids in school, 111k affected Why is sacrificing the health of 1% of kids ok?

submitted 115 days ago • 21 comments

If you are lucky enough to live in a country with multiple time zones, you can celebrate New Year with the most easterly one and then go to bed early with a clear conscience! (Yr welcome...). Canada wins funky options with Newfoundland's half-hour time zone!

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

As you walk, you show the world how to walk towards the tank alone. #KeepTellingofGaza

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

remember a few years ago when all the companies that are now shoving AI in every possible orifice of us as consumers said they were going to be “carbon negative” by 2030 they’re doing a great job on that mission now lmfao

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2024: $454.1 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2024: $242.3 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2024: $210.1 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2024: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. We’re in the thick of it.

submitted 125 days ago • 136 comments

So very grateful for farmers this Christmas season - thank you for all your hard work that enables us to share Christmas dinner with those we love.

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments