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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 1h

Dammit, I was hoping that refusing to pay taxes could be an effective protest, but this level of badness kind of makes taxes irrelevant.

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 5h

Let them eat cake?

LET THEM EAT CAKE?!

Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 8h

Hagiograph.ly

Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 11h

Cool visualization!

I wonder where e-bikes would be on the graph?

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, so $400k annualized equivalent salary?

What a total failure of governance. The board of that charity should be ashamed. Notably, they are not named or listed on the I am Hope Foundation website, but these are the trustees, per the Charity Services website

Officers of the I am Hope Foundation, as per official Charities Services webpage: Roger Hatrick-Smith, Carlyn Topp, Ronnie Moore, Troy Jonathan Elliot and Anita Yugovich.

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 1d

Figuratively and literally a dirt bag - quickly becoming my favorite Mariner

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 1d

It's very good, isn't it. "...a world that never was and never could be" is such a clear and cutting synthesis of the weird conflation of untethered idealism and rose-coloured-glasses nostalgia that is stymying any, ANY, movement towards creating a better present or future.

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 2d

In which your faithful correspondent gets overly excited about seaweed:

www.nzherald.co.nz/video/herald...

Green gold? Seaweed industry makes its case at Nelson summit

Seaweed is being touted as New Zealand’s next sustainable success story. Michael Lakeman explains why this humble ocean plant is making waves.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 2d

That was definitely it, right? Not a real injury, per se, just the weight of the dumper being taken on the wrong body part

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, I haven't read the whole report, just enough to understand the attention grabbing, and deceptive, lede.

Argentinian soy oil probably driving land use change emissions?

US trend - not sure. I tend to not pay too much attention to projections, too often based on bad assumptions.

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 2d

The report discusses the policy landscape and how leading markets are clamping down on palm.

The problems with lumping all biofuel together into one grand average:

you miss just how bad palm is!

you miss that in most non-palm-using places biofuel actually does reduce emissions!

Table from the report, showing how worse-than-fossil impacts are driven primarily by palm-oil based fuel from Indonesia and Thailand, whereas 6 of the 9 case-study markets have an average mix of biofuels that is better than fossil fuel emissions.

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 3d

www.transportenvironment.org/uploads/file...

They do.

www.transportenvironment.org

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 3d

Yep, absolutely the norm now sadly, but I bet that unless you've got a teenage daughter you wouldn't even know it.

That article is mild compared to the things our family have seen and experienced.

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 4d

80 reposts so far, and I wonder if any of them read the paper and realized that the punch line is based on an average that so skews the analysis as to present a deceitful distortion of the true situation?

What is the punchline if you exclude the outlier: (almost universally decried) SE Asian palm?

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 4d

Ouch. At home too? That hurts

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 4d

An almost impossibly beautiful piece of music

The Black Dog @theblackdog.bsky.social · 4d

Cup Noodle - Fragments (Remastered)

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 5d

Me too and it has ruined my life

Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 5d

Okay, I'm outside the venue in my car. Can the Mariners just score so I can get on with my life?

Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 5d

Baseball is exciting

Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 5d

I am very tense and nervous, and I can't relax

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 5d

Em Vee Pee

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 6d

When?

Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · Feb 19

Brownlee vote of no confidence when?

Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 7d

that's purring like a satisfied cat

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 7d

Lol at sad CDJ in the corner

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Reposted by Michael Lakeman

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 8d

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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