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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 5h

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

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Hesters rariteitenkabinet @hesterloeff.bsky.social · 1h

Winkeldraadje van Het Wonderkabinet. Wat heb ik dit najaar te koop? Ik post alles hieronder zolang de webshop nog niet staat. Niet alles is op voorraad maar het meeste kan in opdracht (zolang de voorraad strekt en ik nog tijd heb). Graag een DM als je iets ziet en repost is lief!

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2h

I’m grateful that I got the opportunity for six years of work teaching educating & giving away 18,000 chestnut trees to communities all over, never happened without social media community and I know that just keeping it going during the pandemic was a feat, but I really do wanna move on next steps

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Portentious @portentious.bsky.social · 48m

What worries me is that hatred is now normalised and distributed across far right parties.

It’s like we never learn.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge.

As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.

Tomorrow, we win it together.

Zohran, Tish James and Brad Lander lead a procession of hundreds walking across the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn.

Tish James, Brad Lander, Tony Simone and Rita Joseph wait for the march on the bridge.

Zohran at a packed press conference outside city hall, Tish James and others raising their hands in the air.

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 1h

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

tcnv.link

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Portentious @portentious.bsky.social · 59m

And that’s what fossil fuel companies are trying to avoid: FREE energy?!

Won’t somebody think of the shareholders!

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GreenKraut @greenkraut.bsky.social · 1h

They even keep sending me daily reminders saying use as much as you like. So the dishwasher, the washing machine heating and cooling run predominantly between 11 am and 2 pm

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GreenKraut @greenkraut.bsky.social · 2h

Australian Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power
three hours a day.
I am with OVO-Energy and I am enjoying the three hours of free energy already - every day, rain or shine, summer or winter 365 days a year. #energytransition #electrifythis #everythingelectricAus #Auspol

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 8h

Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day

Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

www.abc.net.au

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Portentious @portentious.bsky.social · 1h

As my fellow cartographers would say: land doesn’t vote, people do.

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WIRED @wired.com · 1h

OpenAI has committed to buying billions of dollars worth of compute from AWS—the latest in a string of major deals brokered by the AI startup. www.wired.com/story/openai...

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Deal With Amazon

OpenAI has committed to buying billions of dollars worth of compute from AWS—the latest in a string of major deals brokered by the AI startup.

www.wired.com

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egg price watcher @bluser12.bsky.social · 15h

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.

Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

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Portentious @portentious.bsky.social · 2h

When the goods are brought in by ship at Rotterdam, it’s really weird that people in west of the country pay more than the rest of the Netherlands.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 2h

A funky and original way of showing cross-border price differences for common consumer goods. Yes, the borders are open but you get what I’m saying…

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 5h

New awareness campaign

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6h

Once more from yesterday: My newsletter was about how hurricanes kill people long after the wind and water is gone, how that will probably be worse in Jamaica, and how the media has already moved on from one of the worst storms to strike land in recorded history.

Please subscribe!

The Long Tail of Hurricane Death Will Be Even Longer in Jamaica

A growing body of research has demonstrated that hits from tropical cyclones leave more than just damaged rooftops in their wake, in fact raising mortality rates through a likely wide variety of mecha...

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 10h

We’re hiring! We’re seeking four Research Assistants to join the research group on digital ethics and defence technologies led by @rosariataddeo.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk. Full-time position, fixed term for three months. Find out more and apply: bit.ly/47l8NWf

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 10h

📍 Map showing the intensity from a 6.3-magnitude quake that struck Afghanistan

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NRC @nrc.nl · 10h

Jesse Klaver volgt Frans Timmermans op als fractievoorzitter van GroenLinks-PvdA

Jesse Klaver volgt zoals verwacht Frans Timmermans op als fractievoorzitter van GroenLinks-PvdA. Dat heeft de gezamenlijke fractie van de partij maandag besloten.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 10h

Stock up on bike parts quickly

The Independent @the-independent.com · 10h

Trump claims Xi told him China won’t act against Taiwan while he is US president

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 10h

Yes. I listened to a psychologist say that people often get angry to avoid feeling other emotions recently. It is often helpful to stop and face whatever it is for a while. Drink a mug of tea with your monsters and listen to what they have to say.

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

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Caro Kyllmann @carokyllmann.bsky.social · 10h

"Businesses and states at the forefront [of the energy transition] should not be punished through a weakening of [climate] targets," says @umweltministerium.de Carsten Schneider at #dena Energiewende-Kongress

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 10h

🇸🇩 Map showing areas controlled by the Sudanese army, the Rapid Support Forces and neutral groups

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Nutwerk🔻 @nutwerk.bsky.social · 11h

Vandaag 3 november. Luchtalarm #Alkmaar. #FreePalestine

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 12h

European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO.

This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.

US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules

Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.

www.politico.eu

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