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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 16h

probably a really great time for me to roll over the kiwi super

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Breaking Mews/Ruff Translations @breakingmews.bsky.social · 16h

Monty is ready for his nap.

Brown and black French bulldog snoozes on brown armchair

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 16h

good morning, australia

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 19h

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

Graphs showing coal production (left) and employment in coal (right) for the state of Wyoming from 1983 to 2020 from the linked website. Coal production was rapidly increasing until 2008 and has more or less steadily decreased since. Employment in coal likewise rapidly increased until 2009, was stable until 2012 and has rapidly decreased since.

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 20h

Being emotionally blackmailed about going to work again

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

Wtaf!!!

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 2d

of course, science says no such thing: every biologist I know who isn't a bigot knows sex is phenomenally complicated in the non-human world. Human sex is complicated too, but with the added fun of culture, which defines what our sex *means*.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 2d

in fact, I'm pretty sure the first people I ran across who opposed gender diversity (and griped about "feminists with blue hair") were militant atheist skeptics

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 2d

not to mention the fucking professional atheist scientists who provide the entire foundation for anti-trans bigotry by saying "science PROVES there are only two sexes!"

May their underpants never be dry again.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

I guess some other time we can talk about the reactionary professional atheists who literally built the secular foundation for today’s anti-DEI arguments

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

I know I was answering the headline

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 2d

You can donate to Ahmed’s family here: chuffed.org/project/1426...

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

Pundit implies expertise. She has none

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 2d

The right-wing consolidation of corporate media continues.

Who Is Bari Weiss? Pro-Israel Pundit to Head CBS News as Billionaire Ellisons Expand Media Empire

We speak to journalist David Klion about the Trump-affiliated right wing’s increasing grip on mainstream news media, as “anti-woke” pundit Bari Weiss takes the helm as the new editor-in-chief of CBS N...

www.democracynow.org

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

No. Next question

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

Ahem I am here

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

I can do what I can but I’m not on her often enough. Also what happened to Link

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

This is the level we're dealing with here

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

I have fond memories of Maley being astonished that the IFLS founder was a woman, because she could not conceive of a woman being a scientist.

Ian Whitney @iancwhitney.bsky.social · 2d

Senior journalist.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

Diane Keaton? Ah. Eff.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t read this shit without finding my sanity standing on the edge of a precipice

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

Bad but also relieved they will be rehired

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

This is social. As someone who was in the audience when someone threw shoes at our former pm and found it shocking, it’s deeply ingrained and you know my brain works the same way

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Gazans stream back home as Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds reut.rs/4mVWtAd

Gazans stream back home as Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds

Much could still go wrong.

reut.rs

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

Pick a z!0, find a fascist

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

I mean I can relate : I’ve had exactly the same feelings/experiences

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

So like the entire US govt since WWII

Dr. Steven Quest @drstevenquest.bsky.social · 3d

If your organization supports the use of force to accomplish regime change and is openly talking about the trillions in investment opportunity in a country you want to lead, you’re a problematic Nobel Peace Prize winner. You’re not Desmond Tutu or Nelson Mandela.

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