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Emigrant / Immigrant. Fan of strigidae & raptors Views on nature, environment, conservation, renewables etc An occasional sprinkling of history & culture. Slovakia
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Anna B Ehlers, a Tlingit of the Chilkat tribe, Alaska, skilled master weaver #womensart

Donald doesn't even know the difference between AfD and CDU. The U.S. is the truest example of a kakistocracy.

Good piece. ⬇️ We're often taken aback when women, minorities or socialists back Fascist parties. But if we're going to meet the challenge of the far-right, we need to understand its ability to reach unlikely parts of the public. In the 1930s, that included a number of militant suffragettes. [1/9]

Today’s Oaxaca, Mexico wall art. The world understands.

Not great results from the exit polls in Germany. Not enough seats for anything but a “grand” coalition, which is no longer grand, and this *only* if FDP really doesn’t make it into parliament and that’s not clear yet.

Yesterday CDU leader, and probably the next Chancellor, Friedrich Merz declared "Links ist vorbei" (The Left is finished). Today:

Sobering votes by 18-24 year olds in German elex

The thought in private in Bxl and EU capitals

So which historians predicted 'Shittier Thomas Carlyle' as the trend this year?

This piece by @jemima.bsky.social is worth a read: “either we prioritise living in a prosperous, healthy, stable society, or we prioritise tribalism; we can’t have both.”

Solar + storage making leaps & bounds

America and Europe, sitting comfortably around conference tables sipping coffee and intellectually pontificating about "security guarantees" need to understand just what a desperate fight for national survival and self-determination the War in Ukraine is. apnews.com/article/ukra...

if ya'll think you're full of micro plastics now just wait a decade or two for the shitloads of plastic waste from consumer 3D printers to make its way through the environment. those things are giant plastic waste machines: struts, failed prints, garbage to sell on etsy all ending up in landfill.

Just turned on the tv to see that score, quick hands 👍

BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

The most pathetic, but hilarious, example of manufactured outrage for the purpose of political smearing I’ve seen for a while. This is a must read! raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/02/21/s...

I am tired of this horseshit. BP didn’t “go green”; it kept drilling for oil and gas in repressive petrostates and creaming billions in profits These analysts actually believed the greenwash, and are now calling for the black pill www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Not the least surprising after recent days. The EU, UK and Ukraine need to check every dependency on the US in Ukraine's defence - military, intelligence, economic, tech - to see where they have the ability to say no to US pressure. I fear the answers will not be pretty, but important.

EV share of new car market is surging in Scandinavia - 96 per cent in Norway and 51 per cent in Denmark in 2024 thedriven.io/2025/02/20/d...

In Brazil, the rising food prices has become increasingly persistent, especially after the Brazilian agricultural sector decided to turn its efforts to exports, reducing the production of items consumed internally. Droughts and floods are also to blame! www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/02/21/e...

Gangster capitalism. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Bosnian Serb secessionist Dodik threatens that he will recreate the Serb nationalist army which perpetrated the Srebrenica Genocide if he is - as is widely expected - found guilty next week by Court of BiH for violating decisions of OHR. Evidently panicking, Dodik lashing out.

Cuba has entered the chat

The more you read on DOGE ... “the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits'' www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

This is Andrew Neil's summary of a new report from the Tony Blair Institute on the UK's green industrial strategy and next to it is the first point in the report's executive summary. Can anyone spot the difference?

Digital reconstruction of Tap o'Noth Hillfort, near the village of Rhynie in Scotland (c500 AD). Developed for the University of Aberdeen with the assistance of Professor Gordon Noble and James O'Driscoll. © Bob Marshall / University of Aberdeen 2022. #HillfortsWednesday

Good to see @nickhedley.bsky.social receiving attention from @volts.wtf Nick has been working tirelessly on renewable energy comms for quite some time & really deserves support So, go to his site & get clicky, if you can

Bill Bramhall, @nydailynews.com

Actual post from a White House account

And here we are .. pls read the thread, because, as we flirt with 'moderate' right or even Far Right aka AFD in Germany, we are on a terrible road

And in other news, me a prospective 'convert' am off to a meeting with these idiots on Friday Am so tucked up bratislava.scientologymissions.org

Gen Z & 'influencers' aren't going to see us through this I think ...

This really is worth a read, Sanaa Marin is on point & not pulling any punches #Ukraine #Russia

New billboard in Clacton, Farage’s constituency. He’s still the UK’s #1 grifter. No other MP takes more from second jobs while being employed to represent their constituents in Parliament

Drink bleach kids 👍

man this is legit no different than a 4chan /pol/ post. like truly no difference, down to the ASMR gag. from the white house account.

It irritates me no end that it’s always liberals who are dismissed as being “out of touch” with “real people”. Liberals are much more in touch with the public mood than the reactionary right, whether it’s on race, same-sex relationships, or abortion rights. We should start saying so more boldly.

So fucking gross

1990 for me, on leave in Val d'Isere with old schoolmates. No skiing for two days after ... 👀 www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

Cracking comments on tech valuations, VCs & the pump & dump culture from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social #tech www.politico.com/newsletters/...

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

So odd to blame Ukraine for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is like blaming Poland for being invaded by the Nazis in 1939 or Hawaii for the attack on Pearl Harbour.

Slowly but surely, Europe is weaning itself off gas "Gas demand reduction policies & renewable energy deployment helped drive a 19% decrease in Europe’s LNG imports in 2024. " #energysky ieefa.org/articles/eur...

Plenty of people hit the 'what about China?' trope when talking about renewables & decarbonisation. Well ... China invested 6.8 trillion yuan ($940 billion) in clean energy in 2024, the sector's contribution to GDP grew to 10%, up from 9% in 2023 #energy #economy www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Lots of interesting lines in former chief whip Simon Hart's diary, but this part is particularly telling www.thetimes.com/article/e25f...