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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 20h

Some are mad because people are on SNAP and not working.

I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.

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Johannes Diesing @jdiesing.bsky.social · 11h

'Spaß am Gerät' - heute in #Rostock auf der #Stadtbild Demo gesehen. 🤓

Rückseite einer selbstgebauten LED Anzeige, die auf einer Demonstration in der Rostocker Innenstadt gezeigt wurde. Die Demo richtete sich gegen die wiederholten Ausfälle von Friedrich Merz.

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🤖 Newsfeed-Bot 🇦🇹 @orfnewsbot.bsky.social · 1h

Der Hurrikan „Melissa“ mit Windgeschwindigkeiten von 280 km/h bedroht Jamaika und Kuba, verursacht Stromausfälle und führt zu Evakuierungen. Die Behörden warnen vor katastrophalen Überschwemmungen und bereiten Notunterkünfte vor.

Hurrikan „Melissa“ erreicht stärkste Stufe

Hurrikan „Melissa“ hat vor der Küste der Karibikinsel Jamaika weiter an Kraft gewonnen und die höchste Hurrikan-Kategorie 5 erreicht. Sollte „Melissa“ mit der derzeitigen Windgeschwindigkeit auf Jamaika treffen, wäre der Wirbelsturm laut Meteorologen der stärkste Hurrikan, der den Karibikstaat seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen im Jahr 1851 je erreicht hat.

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Brian Matilla @bxmatilla.bsky.social · 1h

Final post from me tonight. Melissa is now definitively moving to the north/northeast. At its present heading, it's looking like a landfall near or just west of Treasure Beach.

Conditions will really deteriorate from here. My thoughts are with everyone on the island. Hang on, folks.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 1h

Wind gusts picking up in Kingston. Think I just saw lightning flashes. Going to get a lot worse... will see if the Internet connection goes before the little structure here and the power lines get ripped down by wind. (doubt those power lines will survive Melissa […]

[Original post on ai6yr.org]

Rain shelter of some sort obscured by many power lines

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Kachelmannwetter @kachelmannwetter.com · 3h

Hier der wahrhaft monströse 🌀 #HurricaneMelissa aktuell mit beängstigenden Daten:

▶️ Kategorie: 5 (höchste)
▶️ Mittelwinde um das Zentrum: 280 km/h
▶️ Verlagerung: NNO nur 4 km/h

Mit beeindruckendem Auge. Aktuellste Animation: kachelmannwetter.com/de/sat/cc4d6... (1/4)

/FA

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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · Jul 23

In most of the world day-to-day weather variations are still much larger than long-term global warming.

As a result, both daily record highs and daily record lows remain common.

However as the world warms, new daily record highs consistently far outnumber new daily record lows.

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Florentine Dömges @fdoemges.bsky.social · 2h

Stell Dir einfach ein Windrad irgendwo hin, Du brauchst nichmal nen Netzanschluss. Statt dessen verbrauchst Du die Energie vor Ort indem Du KI-Chips damit betreibst. Der wertvolle Output lässt sich dann via Satellit oder Funk einfach verteilen.

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Florentine Dömges @fdoemges.bsky.social · 2h

Wenn man sich mal vor Augen führt wie effizient dezentrale KI ist, dann wundert es dass irgendwelche Tech Bros jetzt die Kernkraft wieder pushen, nur damit sie sich KI Kathedralen errichten können die in wenigen Jahren niemand mehr braucht.

Florentine Dömges @fdoemges.bsky.social · 2h

Stell Dir einfach ein Windrad irgendwo hin, Du brauchst nichmal nen Netzanschluss. Statt dessen verbrauchst Du die Energie vor Ort indem Du KI-Chips damit betreibst. Der wertvolle Output lässt sich dann via Satellit oder Funk einfach verteilen.

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Florentine Dömges @fdoemges.bsky.social · May 21

Thread of Threads:

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Florentine Dömges @fdoemges.bsky.social · 8d

🧵 Thread 2: Warum bald jeder eine KI trainieren kann
Die erste große Barriere für AGI-Entwicklung war immer: Hardware ist teuer.
Rechenleistung kostet Millionen.
Nur große Firmen können sich das leisten.
Aber: Diese Barriere verschwindet gerade. ⬇️

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 7h

A central exhibit in that case has been Roger Pielke Jr's insistence that his own analyses of extreme weather events show *decreasing* impact. The claim defies common sense and the consensus of mainstream researchers: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Nasa data reveals dramatic rise in intensity of weather events

Extreme events such as floods and droughts are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe, study says

www.theguardian.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 7h

As the reality of human-caused warming has become clear, climate deniers in congress have instead turned to disputing the negative *impacts* of human-caused warming (as I discuss at length in my book "The #NewClimateWar" (www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...)

The New Climate War

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year awardA renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 7h

For years, an erroneous (see: www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...) satellite-based estimate of atmospheric temperatures by climate contrarians Roy Spencer & John Christy was used by climate-denying politicians to dispute human-caused warming. 🧵

How not to science | RealClimate

A trip down memory lane and a lesson on scientific integrity.

www.realclimate.org

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 15h

Day 2 totals for early in-person voting in NJ.

Some analysts wondered if Rs might do better on Day 2 compared to Day 1.

They did not.

Based on prior years, Rs might take the lead on weekdays, with Ds taking the lead back by the weekend.

Note: this does not include Ds' large mail vote advantage.

X tweet featuring updated early voting totals

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 10h

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

[Short thread]

Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Along with other visual content, data visualizations are increasingly used within online discourse, including political communication. Though often considered to be ''objective'', data visualizations ...

dl.acm.org

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Mark Pickens @airshipwriter.bsky.social · 12h

Correct. What the Republicans are doing is contrary to how #SNAP was set up. This is sabotage. Call Congress
202-224-3121

You may use @resist.bot to send e-letters in your own words… or for speed: Text ‘sign PFNGWA’ to 50409

resist.bot/petitions/PF...

Protect SNAP Funding During Government Shutdown

Text SIGN PFNGWA to 50409 to send this to your officials.

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 8h

"Portugal became the first country in the European Union to decriminalise all drugs, including cocaine and heroin, under a statue passed in 2000."
www.drugsandalcohol.ie/12204/

“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8h

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

A tweet from Morgan J. Freeman states:
“FACT: Venezuela is NOT a major producer of cocaine.
They do not have large cocaine factories.
They do not produce fentanyl either.
What Venezuela does have is the world’s largest oil reserves.”

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 7h

Every mention of SNAP being frozen should include this simple fact:

TRUMP is CHOOSING TO CANCEL FOOD ASSISTANCE. There are literally emergency dollars available to keep SNAP funded.

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Florian Schlund @florianschlund.bsky.social · 7h

Gemeinsam gegen Rassismus und Spaltung
#Stadtbild Demo #München
So., 02.11., 15:00, Odeonsplatz

Friedrich Merz bezeichnet Migrant:innen als „Problem im Stadtbild“. Dieser Satz zeigt, wie rassistisch er denkt und Politik macht.

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Martina Kraus @martinakraus.bsky.social · 16h

#muc0211 #tdgr

VERBOTSVERFAHREN EINLEITEN JETZT! München @muc-afdverbot.bsky.social · 17h

SAVE THE DATE!
Am Sonntag Nachmittag gibts am Odeonsplatz in München eine Demo zum Thema Stadtbild.

Details folgen in Kürze!

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Tristan Ammerer @triammerer.bsky.social · 11h

Hurricane Melissa hat bereits mehrere Rekorde gebrochen, u.a. stärkste Windböe (388 km/h) und tiefstes Auge. In etwa 15 Stunden trifft Melissa mit voller Wucht Jamaica.
Das dürfte schlimm werden.

Hurricane Auge, am Rande dessen ist die Geschwindigkeit 241mp/h angezeigt

Darstellung des Hurricane Melissa, mit tiefem Auge. Über Melissa sieht man Jamaica. Die Insel ist kleiner als der Hurricane im durchmesser

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M3Roadworx @m3roadworx.bsky.social · 8h

The legendary jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette has died at age 83. My favourite album of his is the mellow Parallel Realities with Pat Metheny and Herbie Hancock. Have a listen to it in a quiet moment, and for a brief time the problems of the world will fade away
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralle...

Parallel Realities - Wikipedia

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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 9h

If you care about climate change, you should care about these November elections.

www.environmentalvoter.org/overlooked/o...

Three November elections every climate activist should be watching

In this edition, we spotlight three November 2025 elections that could have a significant impact on climate policy-making. Of course, this fall’s prominent gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Vi...

www.environmentalvoter.org

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