Jazzlet
@jazzlet.bsky.social
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Jazzlet
@jazzlet.bsky.social
· Aug 14
A thing I've been mulling over for a while:
- if you have a favourite airport in your country you are flying too much.
- if you can rate airports all over your continent you are flying way too much
- if you can rate airports all over the world you are flying way WAY too much
Climate change is real
- if you have a favourite airport in your country you are flying too much.
- if you can rate airports all over your continent you are flying way too much
- if you can rate airports all over the world you are flying way WAY too much
Climate change is real
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Excellent advice on this 🧵 👇🏽
I'll add some of my own below.
I'll add some of my own below.
If you're trying to cut costs one tiny way is : use less laundry detergent.
The measuring cups that come with detergent encourage us to use too much which is better for companies bottom line but bad for our wallets and our clothes.
You're gonna want to get dedicated measuring spoons
The measuring cups that come with detergent encourage us to use too much which is better for companies bottom line but bad for our wallets and our clothes.
You're gonna want to get dedicated measuring spoons
Here's How Much Laundry Detergent to Use—and Signs You're Using Too Much
Experts offer tips on how much laundry detergent to use for different types of laundry loads to achieve better cleaning results and save money in the long run.
www.realsimple.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Excellent advice on this 🧵 👇🏽
I'll add some of my own below.
I'll add some of my own below.
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Of course it’s airborne.
This rejection of airborne pathogens reads like reactionary, emotional objections to the concept of miasma. That because miasma said infections were airborne, and miasma was wrong, infections must definitionally be not airborne. Which is not true.
This rejection of airborne pathogens reads like reactionary, emotional objections to the concept of miasma. That because miasma said infections were airborne, and miasma was wrong, infections must definitionally be not airborne. Which is not true.
After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Of course it’s airborne.
This rejection of airborne pathogens reads like reactionary, emotional objections to the concept of miasma. That because miasma said infections were airborne, and miasma was wrong, infections must definitionally be not airborne. Which is not true.
This rejection of airborne pathogens reads like reactionary, emotional objections to the concept of miasma. That because miasma said infections were airborne, and miasma was wrong, infections must definitionally be not airborne. Which is not true.
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Let me say it too:
You're fucking brave as fuck, and if nobody's told you? I'm proud of you.
You're fucking brave as fuck, and if nobody's told you? I'm proud of you.
November 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Let me say it too:
You're fucking brave as fuck, and if nobody's told you? I'm proud of you.
You're fucking brave as fuck, and if nobody's told you? I'm proud of you.
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Incoming waves, with Vestrahorn and Brunnhorn in the distance.
#Iceland #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro
#Iceland #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Incoming waves, with Vestrahorn and Brunnhorn in the distance.
#Iceland #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro
#Iceland #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro
Great work!
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Belfast-based non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education and mandatory Christian collective worship in Northern Ireland are discriminatory under human rights law.
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Great work!
Funny how Labour keep borrowing policies from parties that go on to lose elections.
November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Funny how Labour keep borrowing policies from parties that go on to lose elections.
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In Idaho's Clarkia fossil beds, ~15-million-yr-old leaves are sandwiched between rock. When exposed, the leaves momentarily retain their original colors—red, copper, sometimes even a chlorophyllic hue—before oxidizing and fading.
A sedimentary scrapbook. Reverse polaroids from Earth's deep past.
A sedimentary scrapbook. Reverse polaroids from Earth's deep past.
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In Idaho's Clarkia fossil beds, ~15-million-yr-old leaves are sandwiched between rock. When exposed, the leaves momentarily retain their original colors—red, copper, sometimes even a chlorophyllic hue—before oxidizing and fading.
A sedimentary scrapbook. Reverse polaroids from Earth's deep past.
A sedimentary scrapbook. Reverse polaroids from Earth's deep past.
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A friend is one of the editors of this project and they take previously published work too!
🌱 WE BUILD A HOME: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
We're looking for existing or new illustrations and short comics (max 3 pages) for a digital fundraiser zine to support East African LGBTQIA+ refugees build a home in South Sudan.
More about the project here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We're looking for existing or new illustrations and short comics (max 3 pages) for a digital fundraiser zine to support East African LGBTQIA+ refugees build a home in South Sudan.
More about the project here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We Build a Home - call for submissions
We Build a Home - call for submissions Call for submissions for illustrations and short comics of max. 3 pages* about stories of what a home might mean to someone in the context of being queer. > SU...
docs.google.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A friend is one of the editors of this project and they take previously published work too!
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"Some parents shared deeply distressing accounts of what they have heard about the services, including stories of patients as young as 11 being continually asked about their genitals and sex life."
Parents say: “They are killing our children” share.google/zAlvx2QNLX1a...
Parents say: “They are killing our children” share.google/zAlvx2QNLX1a...
Parents say: “They are killing our children”
Parents cry out in despair for their children at the NHS Sussex investigation into WellBN's prescription of gender dysphoria medication
share.google
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Some parents shared deeply distressing accounts of what they have heard about the services, including stories of patients as young as 11 being continually asked about their genitals and sex life."
Parents say: “They are killing our children” share.google/zAlvx2QNLX1a...
Parents say: “They are killing our children” share.google/zAlvx2QNLX1a...
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You're very welcome
and
hey youre doing great 😄
and
hey youre doing great 😄
a woman standing in front of a hyundai car
Alt: a woman opening the back of a car and ao many puppies tumbling out
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
You're very welcome
and
hey youre doing great 😄
and
hey youre doing great 😄
Such charmers, the lot of them.
Yes I do know sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
Yes I do know sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
Lancashire County Councillor suspended for being member of a WhatsApp group where people expressed very extreme views.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK councillor suspended over WhatsApp group featuring extremist posts
Tom Pickup confirms he was member of group in which one participant allegedly called for ‘mass Islam genocide’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Such charmers, the lot of them.
Yes I do know sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
Yes I do know sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
Somehow millionaires who want to be taxed more are ignored just the way my 'legitimate' concerns about many of this Government's policies are ignored. Too many Labour ministers and other MPs have sold themselves cheap at our expense.
UK millionaires say 'we want to pay more tax'.
Why is that UK govts only listen to the rich who resent paying tax and decent wages?
The rich can't feel secure whilst masses live in poverty. Poor people can't buy goods/services to boost the economy.
Why is that UK govts only listen to the rich who resent paying tax and decent wages?
The rich can't feel secure whilst masses live in poverty. Poor people can't buy goods/services to boost the economy.
Millionaires call on Rachel Reeves to raise their taxes in Budget
Two wealthy businessmen say the chancellor should make them pay more ahead of the Budget.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Somehow millionaires who want to be taxed more are ignored just the way my 'legitimate' concerns about many of this Government's policies are ignored. Too many Labour ministers and other MPs have sold themselves cheap at our expense.
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This is fantastic!
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is fantastic!
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It's true 💯 - we're all only here for #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖
The remarkable Pentre Camp near Llanfair Caereinion in north Powys is highly concentric with 3 lines of defence: perhaps for prestige or to mark it as a special locale..? 🤔
📷 Mobile phone during #RCAHMW aerial photography, May 2025
The remarkable Pentre Camp near Llanfair Caereinion in north Powys is highly concentric with 3 lines of defence: perhaps for prestige or to mark it as a special locale..? 🤔
📷 Mobile phone during #RCAHMW aerial photography, May 2025
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
It's true 💯 - we're all only here for #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖
The remarkable Pentre Camp near Llanfair Caereinion in north Powys is highly concentric with 3 lines of defence: perhaps for prestige or to mark it as a special locale..? 🤔
📷 Mobile phone during #RCAHMW aerial photography, May 2025
The remarkable Pentre Camp near Llanfair Caereinion in north Powys is highly concentric with 3 lines of defence: perhaps for prestige or to mark it as a special locale..? 🤔
📷 Mobile phone during #RCAHMW aerial photography, May 2025
Plus if 'protest' is limited to marches those of us who can't march, for whatever reason, are automatically excluded from taking action. Which is counterproductive when there are so many different ways of protesting, and we need as many people as possible protesting in as many ways as possible.
Part of it is that a lot of folks need to rethink what protest means right now. It hurts us that people have a very narrow, often purely symbolic notion of what protest means. Mass marches are good, but we need so much more. We need more values-driven, direct material intervention.
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Plus if 'protest' is limited to marches those of us who can't march, for whatever reason, are automatically excluded from taking action. Which is counterproductive when there are so many different ways of protesting, and we need as many people as possible protesting in as many ways as possible.
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Link's perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.
And what illustrates it being EVEN MORE WRONG, are recent suspensions with restoration with much much more egregious offenses in the same line of what Bluesky claims Link was banned over.
FREE LINK.
And what illustrates it being EVEN MORE WRONG, are recent suspensions with restoration with much much more egregious offenses in the same line of what Bluesky claims Link was banned over.
FREE LINK.
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Link's perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.
And what illustrates it being EVEN MORE WRONG, are recent suspensions with restoration with much much more egregious offenses in the same line of what Bluesky claims Link was banned over.
FREE LINK.
And what illustrates it being EVEN MORE WRONG, are recent suspensions with restoration with much much more egregious offenses in the same line of what Bluesky claims Link was banned over.
FREE LINK.
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A red-shouldered hawk for the #mottled theme of #BirdOfTheDay.
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A red-shouldered hawk for the #mottled theme of #BirdOfTheDay.
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding
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A late Neolithic dagger found in the pile dwelling site of the Roseninsel, Bavaria.The blade is made of flint from the Monti Lessini, upper Italy.
Dating 3500 - 2700 BC.
On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung München
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Dating 3500 - 2700 BC.
On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung München
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A late Neolithic dagger found in the pile dwelling site of the Roseninsel, Bavaria.The blade is made of flint from the Monti Lessini, upper Italy.
Dating 3500 - 2700 BC.
On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung München
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Dating 3500 - 2700 BC.
On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung München
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
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i can 100% endorse this one as a terrific example of LGBTQIA & STEM, as i narrated it! absolutely love this story. it's another terrific piece by Ember Randall 🖤🖤🖤
On the back of this, you should really check out this one from our back catalog as a great example of LGBTQIA & STEM ^^ www.castofwonders.org/2023/02/cast...
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
i can 100% endorse this one as a terrific example of LGBTQIA & STEM, as i narrated it! absolutely love this story. it's another terrific piece by Ember Randall 🖤🖤🖤
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I heard about MRM’s terrible contract and I have heard that individuals have negotiated a more reasonable contract. But MRM didn’t change their boilerplate.
SFF writers can’t unionize, but I won’t send stories to them until their contract is fair for every writer. Solidarity is solidarity.
SFF writers can’t unionize, but I won’t send stories to them until their contract is fair for every writer. Solidarity is solidarity.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I heard about MRM’s terrible contract and I have heard that individuals have negotiated a more reasonable contract. But MRM didn’t change their boilerplate.
SFF writers can’t unionize, but I won’t send stories to them until their contract is fair for every writer. Solidarity is solidarity.
SFF writers can’t unionize, but I won’t send stories to them until their contract is fair for every writer. Solidarity is solidarity.
Absolutely right.
By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Absolutely right.