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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 9h

And at the global scale...

"...the oceans are getting hotter and can therefore absorb less CO2 while on land hotter and drier conditions and more wildfires mean less plant growth."

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 11h

One of the most challenging aspects of the climate crisis is that it becomes harder to solve as it proceeds, both in terms of mitigation and adaptation. It isn't something that can be put off until tomorrow without serious penalty.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11h

The wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are now a carbon source because CO₂ emitted from trees dying and decaying outstripped the CO₂ taken up by trees growing. 😕

Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study

Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.

www.abc.net.au

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 9h

Study: Prevalence and Clinical Impact of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome in Highly Symptomatic Long COVID

Published 30 September 2025

www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Prevalence and Clinical Impact of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome in Highly Symptomatic Long COVID | Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

BACKGROUND: The incidence of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) in long COVID has been a growing concern since the first cases were reported in 2021. The aim of this study was to assess ...

www.ahajournals.org

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 9h

Young Women With Symptomatic Long COVID At Higher Risk of POTS.

A study of 467 long COVID patients—91% middle-aged women—found 31% had POTS, 27% borderline cases, and 42% showed no signs. Those with POTS had much lower physical activity than the other two groups.

Source: archive.md/ERp6I

The image shows a young woman wearing a light blue sweater, holding her chest with one hand as if feeling discomfort or pain. A glowing red light is centered over her chest, radiating outward in a branching, nerve-like pattern that symbolizes internal stress or inflammation.

Below the image is a news card from Pharmacy Times, titled:
“Young Women With Symptomatic Long COVID At Higher Risk of POTS”
by Luke Halpern, Assistant Editor.

The image visually represents the heart-rate and autonomic issues linked to POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), often seen in people—especially young women—living with Long COVID.

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Martin @kameraten.bsky.social · 12h

Really worth reading the full essay.

Graeber argues that capitalism didn’t replace slavery -- it rebranded it. A key mistake of the mode-of-production model was reducing “production” to making things instead of also producing people and social relations that constitute social reproduction.

David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 17h

Modern capitalism has more in common with Feudalism and the oldstyle slave-system than most people realize.

From: davidgraeber.org/articles/tur...

"In the case of slave mode of production,
the exploiters directly own the primary
producers; in feudalism, both have complex
relations to the land, but the lords use direct
jural-political means to extract a surplus; in
capitalism, the exploiters own the means of
production and the primary producers are
thus reduced to selling their labor power.
The state, in each case, is essentially an
apparatus of coercion that backs up these
property rights by force."
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- David Graeber

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 15h

Aftonbladet's report is harrowing and should make anyone who doubted it feel ashamed.

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 11h

Anarcho-Capitalism is great because it adheres to free market orthodoxy and doesn’t rely on government hand-outs ….. oh wait.

fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 20h

In other words, he approves of foreign electoral interference.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 21h

Re: can we afford the NHS?

"Anything we can actually do, we can afford."

John Maynard Keynes, 1942

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

What’s that Jeremy? Your private healthcare couldn’t save your life but the NHS could?

People need to think long and hard about voting for Reform, Farage openly says we need insurance based healthcare, but what about people who can’t afford it?

They die. It’s simple.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 2d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 22h

Opinion | The demand for broad-scale disinformation is widely underconsidered. When angry, disenfranchised people go hunting for validation, it's disinformation they often find.

Reducing the demand for disinformation starts with working out why people believe bullshit so readily

www.crikey.com.au

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Leanne Veronica @leanneveronica.bsky.social · 2d

Victorian agronomist, Tony Rinaudo, has been awarded an international peace prize for a farming technique that has revolutionised farms in Niger.

Australian wins peace prize for farming idea feeding millions in Africa

A Victorian scientist whose farming technique has revolutionised agriculture in Niger is awarded an international peace prize.

www.abc.net.au

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 1d

An egotistical, sociopathic grifter?

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · 1d

Defund consultants www.afr.com/politics/fed...

More errors, ‘irrelevant citations’ in Deloitte’s revised AI report

Academics question how AI-generated “gobbledegook” can be justified after the fact by irrelevant citations, as the big four firm republishes its welfare report.

www.afr.com

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 1d

Ian is always worth a read.

We really are living in the worst timeline. In actual petrostates, they actually get revenue from their gas exports and get nice things, like free uni, or low income taxes.

In our corrupt colonial petrostate, we get nothing....

..except marine heatwaves

Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 2d

AU. Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs. By chief business correspondent Ian Verrender
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 5

The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens.

He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.

Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 1d

Never mind. Found them. e.g.

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Access Restricted

www.telegraph.co.uk

fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 1d

Source?

Would be on-brand for Hamas.

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Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 1d

There is no universe where space based solar will ever be cost competitive with ground based solar plus storage.

Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 1d

Endless Sunlight, Endless Costs: The Economic Reality of Space Solar Power - CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2025/10/04/e...

Endless Sunlight, Endless Costs: The Economic Reality of Space Solar Power - CleanTechnica

From microwave beams to megaton rockets, China’s space solar project highlights the gap between imagination and economic gravity.

cleantechnica.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The “get em while they’re young” plan worked for Big Tobacco and… other institutions

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 26

I’m increasingly convinced by the argument China’s decade-long investment to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, and particularly imports, is not only creating a new electrified model that other South countries can benefit from, but is leaving the West behind because it can’t ditch fossil fuels.

Graph showing a series of industrial revolutions, suggesting a sixth wave is ongoing defined by China called the Renewable Age

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 26

“China’s dramatic surge of investment into the ’new three‘—EVs, batteries, and solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5M barrels/day by 2030. That cheaper green tech is now enabling 100+ countries to break free from … imported hydrocarbons towards the sunlit uplands of electric self-sufficiency.”

BRICS in 2025 | The Polycrisis

Nations meet in Brasilia for the 2025 BRICS Summit. China's rise and US chaos shape the opportunities and challenges for the group.

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

Trump playing up his bullet dodging skills at the Charlie Kirk memorial is really beyond parody.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 1d

And bsky.app/profile/nick...

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 3d

lol

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

The world's richest man, and owner of one of the largest social media platforms, is funding white supremacists seeking to undermine democracy everywhere he can. www.huffpost.com/entry/tommy-...

Far-Right UK Activist ‘Tommy Robinson’ Says Elon Musk Is Funding His Latest Legal Fight

Musk recently appeared by videolink at a massive London rally hosted by the anti-Islam activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

www.huffpost.com

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