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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 23h

#RisingOceans "For now, relocation is voluntary, and nearly 50 people have signed up to move."

#CoastalRetreat
#HurricanePreparedness
#envhist

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea

As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents

www.theguardian.com

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 1d

Tip no.15
The Firefox browser is one alternative that puts privacy first. Unlike Chrome, Firefox automatically blocks trackers and ads in Private Browsing mode

Firefox is free to download (comes pre-installed in most flavors of Linux, e.g. Linux Mint o/s)

#opensource

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security

Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy m...

www.eff.org

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 3d

"Late Flight"
Question-Mark Butterfly in the third week of October
in NE Oklahoma, on Roadside Thistle gone to seed,
at midday, in full sun, at the forest edge
©TonyNuspl2025

'Nothing to munch on here, moving on...'

#OklahomaNatureWildlifePhotography

butterfly: Polygonia interrogationis aka the Question-Mark butterfly, in the Nymphalinae subfamily, part of the True Brushfoots, resting on Tall Thistle (Cirsium altissimum) gone to seed, in RogersCounty, Oklahoma

Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 4d

Now with AI's spread on campuses we see the further degradation of the educational system via "the AI coalition" working to create "a vast corporate-backed lower order of luckless pupils" whose instructors do little more than facilitate (serve?) AI chatbots

#LLM

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 5d

Ran across today: "Trumpian stupidity ... needs to be confronted, without falling into the trap of 'sanewashing' or inflating strategic cunning to the point of conspiracy theory." (from n+1 magaxine, "Stupidology" issue 51, Fall 2025)

#EnglishAsSheIsSpoke

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

www.theguardian.com

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 5d

"Capturing a red sprite requires a mastery of technical photography, as well as an understanding of science and creative flairflare."

1-min video

#neologism
#skyscape
#photography
#MilkyWay

www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

‘A perfect coincidence’: rare red lightning captured in New Zealand skies

The extremely unusual phenomenon – also known as red lightning – lasts for a millisecond and is rarely visible to the naked eye

www.theguardian.com

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 6d

The remake (2020) is worth watching, with Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 6d

STL formerly known as "the grimy old man" because of the city's dependence on cheap coal, that produced vast amounts of smoke laden with sulfur

cp. The Big Smoke

#envhist
#airpollution

theconversation.com/when-coal-sm...

When coal smoke choked St. Louis, residents fought back − but it took time and money

The situation had to get pretty bad before people really forced the government to act. But the effort was ultimately successful.

theconversation.com

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 8d

Convincing win for the Jays in game 1

sports.yahoo.com/mlb/live/wor...

World Series 2025: Blue Jays blow out Dodgers as Addison Barger hits first pinch-hit grand slam in Fall Classic history

Toronto scored nine runs in the sixth inning as the Dodgers' bullpen completely melted down.

sports.yahoo.com

Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 8d

Before GenZ, before GenX, before Boomers or Trads, there were the descamisados.
'Have i said too much?'
allusion to the movie-based musical

🎥🎬
#filmsky #moviesky
#YouTubeFilmSky
#BroadwayMusical
#filmadaptation

6-7 meme, Madonna starring in 'Evita' (1996 film), balcony scene at the Casa Rosada, Buenis Aires, set circa 1945. screencap via Youtube

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 8d

i wore my commemorative Blue Jays World Series t-shirt for a quarter century, till it was just too full of holes to keep wearing

Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 10d

Tailgating with camp stove, lakeside
©TonyNuspl2024

#banketjestukken #carcamping #openair

foreground: portable gas-fired campstove on a picnic table provided by park services
middleground: open tailgate of a vehicle, parked close by
background: lakeshore with treeline in the distance

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 10d

"rural drivers — who rack up the most miles — could save over $4,000 each year by switching to an electric vehicle"

#ElectrifyAmerica

Electrek @electrek.co.web.brid.gy · 11d

Here are 6 great reasons rural drivers SHOULD embrace EVs in 2026

America’s heartland is full of rural communities that are miles away from its major cities, both geographically and culturally – but that doesn’t mean these more sparsely populated regions can’t reap the benefits of electrification. In fact, EVs offer rural drivers even _more_ benefits than they do to city-dwellers! more…

electrek.co

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 11d

First heard on a mixtape made by a friend, and played on a portable cassette player (pre-Walkman era).

Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 11d

in Pryor Creek, OK. with mural on exterior wall

storefront, Boomerang Diner in Pryor, Oklahoma. exterior street-level view of mural featuring James Dean
local restaurant chain with '50s decor, also in Tahlequah, and Claremore, other small towns.

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 14d

Well it's not a biosphere, but the Moon is one place that was both untouched and pristine, before the space age: now there are nearly 200 tonnes of human #spacejunk left on the lunar surface. Including bags of feces. Pretty much the opposite of 'Leave no trace'

www.theguardian.com/science/2019...

Moon buggies and bags of poo: what humans left on the moon

After 50 years of exploration, the lunar junkyard holds nearly 200 tonnes of objects

www.theguardian.com

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 16d

Diane Keaton (d2025) in some of her films
🎥🎬
#filmsky #moviesky #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #GridArt #gridmix

Diane Keaton, four film stills 1970, 1972, 1981, 1986, arranged in a grid

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 19d

Reading this just after having seen the 2021 documentary "Seaspiracy" -- which addresses, in passing, both the carbon sequestering of whales and phytoplankton

Seaspiracy (2021) supplemental infographic (appeared in the documentary) re: carbon capture in the oceans

Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 20d

Ali Tabrizi is like the Michael Moore of the high seas, but with the mellifluous voice and cadence of Dev Patel. The scales fall from the eyes.

#overfishing
#commercialfleets
#FishingNetsPollutingOceans
#IndustrialEaters
#SlaveryatSea
#OceanOnFire
#habitatdestruction

www.imdb.com/title/tt1415...

Seaspiracy (2021) ⭐ 8.1 | Documentary, Adventure

1h 29m | TV-14

www.imdb.com

Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 21d

I have long argued for vitrification of nuclear waste, to obviate the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation, and as in this article, to minimize the environmental damage from the leaking tank farm at Hanford.

#WWIIcleanup
#TojosRevenge
#radioactiveplume
#ColumbiaRiver

apnews.com/article/hanf...

From bombs to glass: Hanford site can now transform nuclear waste

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state produced plutonium for most of America's nuclear arsenal through the end of the Cold War.

apnews.com

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 21d

Gerry, glad you made it to London! for #DickensDay

Professional illustrator Gerry Mooney speaking in London, UK, Oct 2025 (screencap from the livestream)

Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 22d

The problem goes back to #Winblows by #Microsucks

Fortunately, Linux OS is "capable of breathing new life into older machines that Windows 11 won’t touch." For your perfectly usable older computer, the #Endof10 guide helps Windows 10 users install Linux.
#opensource #FOSSinside

endof10.org

End of 10

Windows 10 ends in 2025. Don’t buy a new PC — revive yours with Linux. It's fast, secure, and help is available to get you started.

endof10.org

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 22d

Challenging 2-part interview touching on #RightToRepair #DigitalFootprint #TechnoFeudalism #JailbreakPhones #digitalrights #databrokerage #GigEconomy #regulatorycapture #privacylaw #antitrust #techlayoffs #techbroFAILS and "the tools of technological liberation"

www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/c...

“Enshittification”: Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It

Writer Cory Doctorow returns to Democracy Now! to discuss his new book Enshittification, which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how online platforms like Facebook degrade over time as c...

www.democracynow.org

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Tony Nuspl @tonynuspl.bsky.social · 23d

According to NYT, it only costs $3.89 to drive your EV 100 miles, in Oklahoma, when charging your EV at home, a savings of -$6.95 compared to driving a gas car.

But in practice, on the highway using fast chargers, the cost goes up +$4.78

#EVstats
#50states

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

www.nytimes.com

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