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Hi friends, you may know me from my previous incantations as owning my own business, maps, GIS, tech, strategy, IT, green stuff and renewable energy. Glad to see familiar folk here! :)
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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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📍 Map showing the intensity from a 6.3-magnitude quake that struck Afghanistan
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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.
"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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"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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🇸🇩 Map showing areas controlled by the Sudanese army, the Rapid Support Forces and neutral groups
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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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🛰️ From above, the world looks a little spooky this season...

👻 Ghost River
🎃 Pumpkin Island
💀 Skeleton Coast
🌋 Hell’s Gate

Can you guess where in the world these locations are - and why they sound so haunting?

📷 Copernicus Sentinel-2
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This 🧵 reminds me of a print I saw at Penland (artist unknown): "Student protest brought us civil rights." May older folks trust students' protest. May we slower carers reflect on what we now understand of the Palestinean genocide & who was showing us for years—& jump past that delay in the future.
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Just perfect.

"Been in Europe 3 yrs, never felt this close to Russia, you are repeating line by line the propaganda on Russian TV," Pussy Riot artist tells a stunned Putin-Versteher Sarah Wagenknecht to her face, on prime-time TV.
Pussy Riot Künstlerin Maria Aljochina, Gulag-Häftling, richtet sich bei Markus Lanz an Wagenknecht: Sie wiederholen das, was in Russland die Propagandasender sagen
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Farage has already destroyed the farming sector in the UK with his Brexit nonsense.

Trump has already destroyed most of the farming sector in the USA.

All funded by fossil fuels - they want to destroy us all.
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Drinking water for up to 6 million people in England may have levels of 'forever chemicals' which could "constitute a potential danger to human health"

Drinking Water Inspectorate have issued enforcement notices on water companies to reduce levels of chemicals

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water for 6m people
The persistent pollutants which build up in the environment have been linked to serious illnesses.
www.bbc.co.uk
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‘The intimidation included approaching country officials during coffee breaks to warn them they might not be able to transit via the US, or that they and their families could face restrictions on entering the country if they acted against American interests’
on.ft.com/4qJF3Ko
US accused of ‘bully-boy’ tactics to sink climate deal
Officials say ‘threats’ used to derail net zero deal for shipping industry ripped up rules of global diplomacy
on.ft.com
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3 November 1911 | A Dutch Jew Simon Cune, was born in Amsterdam.

In March 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
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Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
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Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks.

Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...
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‘En deze oppositieleider (Wilders) is niet uit op een constructieve bijdrage aan een stabiel landsbestuur, maar op het langzaam en doelgericht afbreken van vertrouwen in elkaar, in instituties, journalistiek, rechtspraak en elke vorm van controle op de macht.’

www.demorgen.be/meningen/uit...
Uiterst rechts is uiterst groot in Nederland – en dat mag niet wennen
Rosan Smits is politicoloog en adjunct-hoofdredacteur van De Correspondent, waar dit stuk eerder verscheen. Recent publiceerde zij het boek Dit is fascisme.
www.demorgen.be
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The fossil fuels line has to go down

It is not bad that line goes up

But other line is not go down
Our plan to replace ageing coal generators with cleaner, cheaper renewables is making progress.
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lmao, Poland is so real for this
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🚨November 25th - December 2nd we cut the billionaires off from our $.
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Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.
He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.
www.nytimes.com