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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 5h

Suppose we miraculously solve climate change. Then there’s this…just for starters.

The core problem is ecological overshoot, and it has many points to impale us on.

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The problem with our dwindling sand reserves

A new UNEP video captures how sand mining is a growing problem, exhausting a finite resource at a great cost to the planet.

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 6h

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Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 1d

What a horrible 24 hours for you both.

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a showery morning after overnight rain. Chloe dog has decided to return to bed until playing conditions improve.

Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 1d

Ouch! Hoping it ends happily and before midnight!

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 2d

Part of the attraction of learning to sail is gaining the right to use a small telescope dubbed a spyglass

Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 4d

Testifying to his own unfitness for public office, what?

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 5d

“for the poor you will have always with you”

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 6d

Only the best meetings

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 6d

Fearsome predator on the loose!!!

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 7d

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 7d

Fingers crossed for your girl.

Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 7d

The Book Fairy :)

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 7d

Fortunately, it could never happen here.

Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.social · 8d

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 8d

Embracing the cookie’s timeless wisdom!

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Sesame Street: Cookie Monster Sings C is for Cookie

YouTube video by Sesame Street

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 8d

They’re onto these guys…

Steve Vizard * 1 rug salesman sketch from Fast Forward

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 10d

Very soon I’ll learn more about the rocks and soils…

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 10d

Already the complex interactions of the web of life just at the water’s edge have me hooked. Weedy plants. Edible (by us) plants. Mussels and sea snails, oysters and crabs. Gulls on the water. Coastal shrubs and eucalyptus and birds and wallabies. All this literally within a stone’s throw.

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 10d

I’m beginning to believe really understanding this one tiny piece of the world, in a vertical slice from Earth core to exosphere (or as much of that as possible) will indeed take the rest of my life. It will be time well spent.

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 10d

Looking forward to someone inventing a generator that runs on pure unrefined Environment: the plutocrat just bulldozes everything straight into its maw.

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 10d

I can haz hand chews?

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 11d

It probably lacked an ion-bonded bolt carrier…

Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 11d

Chloe Dog: I must go outside!
Moi: hmmm, ok, I’ll come along too
Chloe: (stands tall, looks alert, shows no signs of weeing)
Moi: this is about chasing wallabies, isn’t it?

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 11d

Amateurs! youtu.be/eiM-RzPHyGs?...

M388 Davy Crockett Operational Test

YouTube video by jaglavaksoldier

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Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 11d

Ahhh I think I saw what this is about

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