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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

This is an aside but Spirit Halloween and a few other online stores carry these if you want to avoid Amazon

Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 7h

It’s hilarious how something simple like “people are sharing Amazon links to buy the same costumes” gets filtered through these conspiratorial grifters’ minds and becomes “They are highly organized.”

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 10h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 20h

I really have yet to find a very good theory explaining why it is that both the Republicans and the Democrats have been so openly handing power to a guy who tried to murder them.

It is truly one of the scariest and most bizarre political events I've ever seen.

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · Nov 30

the 1.1 MWh apricum-group.com/electricity-... is 2020
the IEA reference is 2022
there are various numbers
1.1 is now conservative - it's likely better
I would argue EROEI is actually around 3 months, but the conservative numbers are pretty huge

Electricity payback time of a PV system – the facts - Apricum - The Cleantech Advisory

Opponents of solar energy tend to circulate the misinformation that a PV module cannot generate the amount of electricity during its lifetime that was used in its production. How much electricity is r...

apricum-group.com

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · Nov 29

Try bringing coal-fired power to your village by boat or donkey

#coal owned by companies

#solar belongs to the peeps

Villagers unload solar panels from a boat and carry up the beach

Masia woman leads donkey carrying solar to her village

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · Jul 20

Solar improves farms, improves soil below, improves biotic activity and biodiversity, improves crops
Hawaii installed solar on old contaminated site while long-term amelioration deployed

Farm with solar energy better farms
#Agrivoltaics
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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · Dec 1

Farm with solar energy
Agrivoltaics increased grape yield up to 60%

2 vineyards of French biz Sun’Agri increased grape yields by 20-60% in 2024, vs areas with no solar
PV modules helped moderate temperature extremes, reducing summer heat and winter cold
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · Nov 30

IEA report Solar PV Global Supply Chains
- and so includes data on life cycle costs of solar
www.iea.org/reports/sola...
(2022 report)

Executive summary – Solar PV Global Supply Chains – Analysis - IEA

Solar PV Global Supply Chains - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

www.iea.org

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · Dec 1

Farm with solar energy
Agrivoltaics increased grape yield up to 60%
bsky.app/profile/prof...

Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · Dec 1

Farm with solar energy
Agrivoltaics increased grape yield up to 60%

2 vineyards of French biz Sun’Agri increased grape yields by 20-60% in 2024, vs areas with no solar
PV modules helped moderate temperature extremes, reducing summer heat and winter cold
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · Nov 27

Better to farm solar for energy
than to farm crops to use for biofuels

Far better

1 hectare annual yield:

2t soy bean
➡️ 800 litres biodiesel ➡️ 8.29 MWh

70t sugar cane
➡️ 7000 litres ethanol ➡️ 57.5 MWh

600 kW solar
➡️ ➡️ 900 MWh (low estimate)

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 4d

⚡️ Public funds should prioritise smart electrification, efficiency and truly sustainable alternatives.

Using just 3% of this land for solar would produce the same amount of energy.

Explore the full report on the state of global biofuels ⤵️
bit.ly/4h1M5W9

CrOP30: Why burning food for land-hungry biofuels is fuelling the climate crisis

For the first time ever, Cerulogy, on behalf of T&E, looks at the global biofuels landscape today and what a growing market will look like in 2030.

www.transportenvironment.org

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 21h

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 20h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 19h

I wrote about the government shutdown—and why this one is different

newrepublic.com/post/201612/...

Why It’s Pointless for Democrats to Negotiate a Shutdown Deal

The most overlooked aspect of the current impasse is that it began a long time ago—and is rooted in a deep Trumpian dysfunction.

newrepublic.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h

Trump was President on January 6th.

The FBI agents were sent by his FBI in response to the riot at the Capitol.

The lies are either getting more ridiculous and dangerous, or his grip on reality is. Either way, this is not a man who should have nuclear codes.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 19h

Needed to sleep on this and my god the evil of this news. I don't have better words than that.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20h

FRIENDS - is there any way to extract the msft powerbi table in this as a CSV?

co2re.co/FacilityData

Facility Data - Global CCS Institute

co2re.co

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 1d

If we survive this, and Democrats are able to take back power, I guarantee you we will have to endure think-piece after think-piece that demand the rest of us reach out, stop shaming, and forgive fascists and the crimes they’ve committed. I absolutely guarantee it.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 1d

"In a time of darkness, New York must be the light." @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social makes a 2-minute ad about transgender rights, while sitting at the Christopher Street Pier in NYC. And yes, I'm crying, too.
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

You Have to See This Mamdani Ad

I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this...

www.burnsnotice.com

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Feb 9

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 1d

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 3d

Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle):

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

H/t @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

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Jonathan Koomey @jgkoomey.bsky.social · 1d

The GOP is the party of death.

Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 1d

I've yet to see this properly analysed from a psychological point of view. Obviously RFK is a nut, but there's also a broader pattern in the GOP ranks that seems deeply peculiar, of wanting positively to welcome the threat of disease and death. It feels like a collective psychosis.

Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Flood, (R-NE), wasn’t received as expected by his Constituents on 10/4. Met with Boos & chants of “Tax the Rich” & “Vote Him Out”they’re not happy about Medicaid & SNAP cuts

JUST Wait ‘till they 👀 their ACA INCREASES!

Vote for ACA subsidies Mike & end the GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

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