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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 1d

is it against bsky tos to rejoice in kissinger being dead

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 1d

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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Aleksey Shipilëv @shipilev.bsky.social · 4d

A periodic reminder that you can re-process iconic Hubble images from the publicly available Hubble raw captures using the pretty standard astrophotography tooling. Since all of this is synthetic color, you can choose your own for extra trippy results.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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Griffin @griffinberlste.in · 6d

I'm bad at self-promo but I am currently on the job market looking for industry gigs. If your team needs a compiler engineer, language developer, rust programmer, or language tools person, drop me a line! All my details are on my personal site.

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Jorge Tamames @jorgetamames.bsky.social · Jun 9

Siempre con Greta. Desde 2018 es un detector de cenizos y pelmas sin rival.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 9d

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg raised her fist as she and about 160 other Global Sumud Flotilla participants arrived in Greece to roaring cheers. Crowds welcomed them after their release from illegal Israeli detention.

Greta later addressed supporters — her remarks are below.

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 9d

do people do those "developed with chatgpt" tags to get a cookie from management? weird stuff

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 9d

french politics: it'll make you laugh, it'll make you cry, i hope it all turns out right in the end for our protagonist (me)

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 11d

i regret to inform you that the next 700 programming languages are going to be "types with baggage"

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Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 12d

"The field changes arising from train leakage currents have to be added to the variations due to temperature changes, terrestrial tides and seasonal deformations of the LEP ring from the water level of the lake of Geneva and the amount of rainfall in the vicinity of CERN" cds.cern.ch/record/33409...

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Xan López @xanlopez.xyz · 14d

Esto de @mikelotero.bsky.social es prácticamente un manifiesto para firmar. Los problemas fundamentales de la transición ecológica, resumidos en tres palabras: tiempo, escala, mayorías. Vedlo.

José Luis Rodríguez @jlrodriguezgut.bsky.social · 14d

Esta intervención de @mikelotero.bsky.social sobre los problemas fundamentales a los que se enfrenta la política climática es tan redonda y está hecha con tanta sencillez que me parece que solo se puede construir un proyecto a partir de este diagnóstico, y ya no contra él.

Intervención de MIKEL OTERO en la ‘Conferencia Más Allá del Crecimiento’

YouTube video by EH Bildu Congreso - Senado

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Stefan Marr @stefan-marr.de · 14d

First Day: A New Chapter at the JKU

It's Wednesday. Is this important? It's my first day in a new position. So, perhaps the real question is: what's going to be important to me from now on?

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First Day: A New Chapter at the JKU

New job and responsibilities: what's now important to me?

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 14d

hey congrats on the new job!! looks like a fun place to be :)

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 16d

congrats, and what a relief!!

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 16d

If you're good at admin, do admin for a wind developer. If you're bad at admin, do it for a chain of petrol stations.

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 16d

Get a heat pump, get a job installing insulation or selling EVs, go to local council meetings in support of bike lanes or solar parks or dense housing near public transport. Run for political office, or at least vote. Recommend flight-free holiday destinations to others. (Delete as applicable).

Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 17d

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"