zMikeC
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zMikeC
@zmikec.bsky.social
· Oct 10
If you read only one thing this week, this is it. Multiple jaw drops 😳
“even under an optimistic ‘low’ emissions climate scenario, the earliest the climate might stabilize is in the mid-2070s” and weather patterns are already locked in to growing increasingly more extreme for the next 50-100 years.
“even under an optimistic ‘low’ emissions climate scenario, the earliest the climate might stabilize is in the mid-2070s” and weather patterns are already locked in to growing increasingly more extreme for the next 50-100 years.
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Once again, Russia and USA are allies. Although this time we are fighting to put Nazis back in power.
Which is a nuance.
Which is a nuance.
December 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Once again, Russia and USA are allies. Although this time we are fighting to put Nazis back in power.
Which is a nuance.
Which is a nuance.
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Ronald Reagan is rolling in his grave.
December 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Ronald Reagan is rolling in his grave.
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Some parts of the NSC-1488 may also have been originally in German
December 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Some parts of the NSC-1488 may also have been originally in German
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Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Does that mean that British journalists will finally quit the Nazi site?
How about the British Government?
Why is it feeding the Nazi site?
How about the British Government?
Why is it feeding the Nazi site?
If only American journalists had the same amount of integrity, or ANY integrity.
December 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Does that mean that British journalists will finally quit the Nazi site?
How about the British Government?
Why is it feeding the Nazi site?
How about the British Government?
Why is it feeding the Nazi site?
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It's GB News that has done the trick for him.
I think many have underestimated it's threat.
I think many have underestimated it's threat.
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It's GB News that has done the trick for him.
I think many have underestimated it's threat.
I think many have underestimated it's threat.
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@fesshole.bsky.social posts tickle me silly, but sometimes they also give very sound advice
December 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
@fesshole.bsky.social posts tickle me silly, but sometimes they also give very sound advice
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With long time peace you forget your memory of war…which is why vivid, vital history storytelling is so important….and not just in schools.
December 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
With long time peace you forget your memory of war…which is why vivid, vital history storytelling is so important….and not just in schools.
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018.
We need an investigation into Russian interference in our politics.
We need an investigation into Russian interference in our politics.
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018.
We need an investigation into Russian interference in our politics.
We need an investigation into Russian interference in our politics.
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Tell me again why our government is buying Palantir...?
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Tell me again why our government is buying Palantir...?
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So Europe should conclude this open and clear and should take the required measures for independency from US. In defence, in IT services, in intelligence services. US can not be longer trusted as an ally.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
So Europe should conclude this open and clear and should take the required measures for independency from US. In defence, in IT services, in intelligence services. US can not be longer trusted as an ally.
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Appropriate that the FIFA peace prize they're giving to Trump looks like a bunch of zombie hands rising up to destroy the globe.
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Appropriate that the FIFA peace prize they're giving to Trump looks like a bunch of zombie hands rising up to destroy the globe.
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“NSS’s language strongly suggests that parts of the U.S. foreign-policy apparatus, including its intelligence agencies, may now align themselves with and actively promote the cause of Europe’s far-right parties by all means at their disposal.
Europeans must actively counter this attempts.”
Europeans must actively counter this attempts.”
The new US #NationalSecurityStrategy is so alarming that I spent hours today on this piece, rather than my real work.
We the Europeans, and especially the #NB8 countries in #NATO 's Eastern Flank, MUST prepare to defend our #democracy and deter #Russia by ourselves.
jmkorhonen.net/2025/12/05/w...
We the Europeans, and especially the #NB8 countries in #NATO 's Eastern Flank, MUST prepare to defend our #democracy and deter #Russia by ourselves.
jmkorhonen.net/2025/12/05/w...
When the umbrella starts to leak: Securing NATO’s Eastern Flank after the new U.S. security strategy
The new U.S. National Security Strategy shifts the United States to an unreliable ally at best – an active threat at worst. Europe and in particular NB8 countries on NATO’s Eastern Flan…
jmkorhonen.net
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“NSS’s language strongly suggests that parts of the U.S. foreign-policy apparatus, including its intelligence agencies, may now align themselves with and actively promote the cause of Europe’s far-right parties by all means at their disposal.
Europeans must actively counter this attempts.”
Europeans must actively counter this attempts.”
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Take a look. Still sure it couldn't happen to you?
FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Take a look. Still sure it couldn't happen to you?
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FEW EASY AND IMMEDIATE COUNTERMEASURES????
Have these people never heard of N95s? Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes? HEPA filters? HVAC? ASHRAE 241? Upper room UV?
Oh, yeah: they're physicians. Useless for public health.
Get them the fuck out of the way and let engineers who KNOW HOW TO DO THIS do their JOB!
Have these people never heard of N95s? Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes? HEPA filters? HVAC? ASHRAE 241? Upper room UV?
Oh, yeah: they're physicians. Useless for public health.
Get them the fuck out of the way and let engineers who KNOW HOW TO DO THIS do their JOB!
Document from NHS England which basically says when there is another Pandemic we can’t be bothered to protect you, it’s too costly. We are on our own folks. H/T @catinthehat.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
FEW EASY AND IMMEDIATE COUNTERMEASURES????
Have these people never heard of N95s? Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes? HEPA filters? HVAC? ASHRAE 241? Upper room UV?
Oh, yeah: they're physicians. Useless for public health.
Get them the fuck out of the way and let engineers who KNOW HOW TO DO THIS do their JOB!
Have these people never heard of N95s? Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes? HEPA filters? HVAC? ASHRAE 241? Upper room UV?
Oh, yeah: they're physicians. Useless for public health.
Get them the fuck out of the way and let engineers who KNOW HOW TO DO THIS do their JOB!
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Apparently there's an org dedicated to recruiting, training, and electing Democratic scientists to public office - they've been quite successful ("In 2024, we helped elect 248 Democratic scientists into offices across the country"), and they're here: @314action.bsky.social
3.14 Action | Electing scientists who will use evidence and facts to fight climate change and fix our broken healthcare system.
We’re on a mission to elect more scientists to Congress, state legislatures, and local offices. As trained problem-solvers, STEM professionals are ready, willing, and able to find solutions for the si...
314action.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Apparently there's an org dedicated to recruiting, training, and electing Democratic scientists to public office - they've been quite successful ("In 2024, we helped elect 248 Democratic scientists into offices across the country"), and they're here: @314action.bsky.social
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Across regulated industries there has been a step change in the past 16 months. Solar farms left as proposals for years were signed off in weeks. We haven’t completed a new reservoir in 30 years despite the population growing by 10m. This government’s signed off 9
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Across regulated industries there has been a step change in the past 16 months. Solar farms left as proposals for years were signed off in weeks. We haven’t completed a new reservoir in 30 years despite the population growing by 10m. This government’s signed off 9
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I live in the rurals and in 2024 ordered from Amazon almost once per week: 50 times in the year. In 2025 I've cut that down to 2 with almost no effort: the 2 were the only time I had to do any extra work, trying to find alternative sources. If I can ~cut Amazon out of my life, most people can.
Thinking about shopping on Amazon for Cyber Monday?
Watch this first. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FaRBjqYsXRE
Watch this first. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FaRBjqYsXRE
Should You Boycott Amazon?
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I live in the rurals and in 2024 ordered from Amazon almost once per week: 50 times in the year. In 2025 I've cut that down to 2 with almost no effort: the 2 were the only time I had to do any extra work, trying to find alternative sources. If I can ~cut Amazon out of my life, most people can.
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Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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"The #HockeyStick" | My recent conversation with #BBC's Hannah Fry for the "Uncharted with Hannah Fry" podcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Uncharted with Hannah Fry, 2. The Hockey Stick
A climate scientist who shocked the world and provoked a scandal.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"The #HockeyStick" | My recent conversation with #BBC's Hannah Fry for the "Uncharted with Hannah Fry" podcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Great podcast! Everyone should be breathing healthier indoor air.
If you haven't listened to this yet, I highly recommend it. All your basic questions about indoor air quality -- what are the pollutants? what tech can keep them out? what policies do we need? -- are answered.
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
www.volts.wtf
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Great podcast! Everyone should be breathing healthier indoor air.
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I'm not sure a squeezed middle isn't an almost inevitable consequence of demographics. There are 13 million pensioners in the UK. Compared to 25 million full time workers. Do the maths, it won't be pretty however you cut it.
Latest from me: on the budget, Labour's troubles, & the government's increasingly tense & distant relationship with the UK's squeezed middle www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing | John Harris
Last week’s budget left middle-income families anxious and angry. The party is turning its back on voters it can little afford to lose, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I'm not sure a squeezed middle isn't an almost inevitable consequence of demographics. There are 13 million pensioners in the UK. Compared to 25 million full time workers. Do the maths, it won't be pretty however you cut it.
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😳 Wow.
"For the first time in American history, a president has openly claimed that justice is an extension of his will — a rejection of not only what the Founders envisioned but of the thousand years of effort since the Magna Carta to reject such an approach."
#History #USPolitics #Law #Democracy
"For the first time in American history, a president has openly claimed that justice is an extension of his will — a rejection of not only what the Founders envisioned but of the thousand years of effort since the Magna Carta to reject such an approach."
#History #USPolitics #Law #Democracy
We have spent more than 1,000 years trying to separate the awesome prosecutorial powers of the state from the personal whims and vendettas of the head of state.
Trump’s actions and ideology seek to reverse those gains.
Here’s the history he’d like to reverse www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...
Trump’s actions and ideology seek to reverse those gains.
Here’s the history he’d like to reverse www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...
The oldest abuse in human government
Donald Trump and the ‘king’s justice’
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
😳 Wow.
"For the first time in American history, a president has openly claimed that justice is an extension of his will — a rejection of not only what the Founders envisioned but of the thousand years of effort since the Magna Carta to reject such an approach."
#History #USPolitics #Law #Democracy
"For the first time in American history, a president has openly claimed that justice is an extension of his will — a rejection of not only what the Founders envisioned but of the thousand years of effort since the Magna Carta to reject such an approach."
#History #USPolitics #Law #Democracy