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Catweazle

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"Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me." - Sigmund Freud "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." - Martin Luther King "If you love space check the pinned post." - Catweazle 💙🌊 🚫DMs

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Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · Mar 14

ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the Dark Universe and so far has released 1% of the map their #DarkUniverse detective is working on.

Taken in just two weeks, the #ESAEuclid mosaic captures 100 million sources: ✨ Stars & Galaxies ✨

New data due soon !

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · 13h

It's the time of the year when Arctic sea ice growth out does Antarctic sea ice loss.

It's on a knife edge...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 6h

Keeping an eye on our planet's recent temperature trend and variability (12-month running mean). Many of the temporary peaks and dips are related to upper ocean heat anomalies in the Pacific (like ENSO).

+ Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
+ Climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Line graph time series of a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies from 1979 through September 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large interannual variability on this graph. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline. Blue shading is shown for below average anomalies, and red shading is shown for above average anomalies.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 4h

Will there be a record low global sea-ice maximum this year, beating the record low set just last year?

The Climate 8-ball is snookered.

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Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · 14m

The heat is on...

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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 3h

In 2024, China increased electricity production from solar and wind by 366 TWh above 2023 values.

A 1 GW nuclear plant with an 85% capacity factor, generates ~7.5 TWh / year.

In other words, China deployed new solar and wind equivalent to ~50 nuclear power plants.

Bar chart from Ember showing changes in the Chinese electricity mix by source type.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 4h

Please sign and share. This petition will be delivered to Congress 11/5.

www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...

Sign the Petition

RFK Jr. Must Be Removed—Before More Damage is Done, Before More Lives are Lost

www.change.org

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 2h

The US is now more vulnerable to a biological attack of other serious disease emergency than it has been in a very long time.

www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

www.wired.com

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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 4h

In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial conducted in Uganda, the use of permethrin-treated baby wraps significantly reduced the incidence of clinical malaria among young children. Full trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/4msFwwX

#MedSky #PedSky #IDSky

The New England Journal of Medicine
Permethrin-Treated Baby Wraps for the Prevention of Malaria
A Research Summary based on Boyce RM et al. | 10.1056/NEJMoa2501628 | Published on September 24, 2025

Visual representations of the patients in the trial and the treatments they were assigned.

Read the full Research Summary at NEJM.org.

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Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · 48m

Butthole Surfers - Pepper

YouTube video by ButtholeSurfersVEVO

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2h

No. I will not vote to allow 15 million people to lose their health insurance and watch 50,000 Americans die each year unnecessarily.

No. I will not vote to double premiums for 20 million.

Republicans must come to the table and negotiate an end to the shutdown.

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Senator Mazie K. Hirono @hirono.senate.gov · 2h

Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.

This shutdown has Republicans' name written all over it.

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 2h

Calling all scientists and science supporters! You can help make Saturday's No Kings the biggest day of protest in modern American history. Find an event near you and raise your voice for the facts, evidence, and truth we need to protect our democracy. #NoKings

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

www.nokings.org

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Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · 1h

Vyvyan's Killer Sock

The Young Ones S02E01: "Bambi" - Vyvyan's Killer Sock

YouTube video by Video Clip Party USA

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Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · 1h

Lexx

Brunnen-G Fight Song from the series Lexx

YouTube video by awesomemouse

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National Democratic Redistricting Committee @democraticredistricting.com · 3h

TODAY: SCOTUS is hearing Louisiana v. Callais at the same time as the White House is running a pressure campaign to gerrymander red states.

If the Court guts Section 2 of the VRA, it will be paving the way for the GOP to further silence voters and secure illegitimate power.

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Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · 2h

I am a fierce proud science loving woke cry baby snowflake, not a Republican and it's not my fault they can't tell their left from their right. 😊

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2h

The American people deserve a public health system that puts science before politics.

That's why California and 14 other governors are joining forces to launch the Governors Public Health Alliance to protect communities and guarantee decisions are rooted in data and health.

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Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · 2h

Good to see you forming an effective Federal government, we could do with one.

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Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · 2h

They might surprise us. Even Schumer seems to be walking straighter since he discovered his spine.

Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · 2h

To be clear the Republicans, who control Whitehouse, Congress & Senate, can break the filibuster at any time by using the nuclear option.

The reason they don't is because they want Democrats to be complicit by voting for the funding measures that includes their massive cuts.

This IS a GOP shutdown

Nuclear option - Wikipedia

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 3h

Over 300,000 Black women have lost jobs this year

In Minneapolis, Sheletta Brundidge is hosting a job fair for Black women, by Black women.

This is what community looks like. When doors close, we open new ones. 💙
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US unemployment rate spikes among Black women, prompting job fair in Minneapolis

More than 300,000 Black women were laid off or left the workforce by mid-summer, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

kstp.com

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Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · 3h

Have a brilliant day as well Ladybug!

Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · 3h

Btw try not post the Whitewashing Post, many of us cancelled our subscriptions.

Try PBS or NPR next time...

News outlets including The New York Times and Newsmax say they won't sign Pentagon rules document

The new rules declare large swaths of the Pentagon off-limits to reporters and declares that journalists who report information not formally approved by Hegseth's team risk getting their access revoke...

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 4h

Good for you, New York Times. Good for you, Fox. Thanks for not accepting Hegseth’s ridiculous press pledge—an effort to turn you into mouthpieces for MAGA state propaganda. A free press is not the “enemy of the people,” but—when you do your job and tell the truth—the people’s best friend.

Media including Fox News overwhelmingly reject Pentagon press policy

Fox News, along with ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, said that the Pentagon policy violates their “core journalistic protections.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · 3h

Surprised they actually did one thing right. How rotten to the core must something be when even Newsmax thinks you've gone too far.

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