Paula 🌹
@paularose.bsky.social
artist | always curious | pro-transit & accessibility | resiliency | nature lover
Derwent Valley lutruwita (Tasmania)
Derwent Valley lutruwita (Tasmania)
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“People in Appalachia are used to being let down by the government, but this time we had the money. It was still taken away, and people feel betrayed.”
‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
“People in Appalachia are used to being let down by the government, but this time we had the money. It was still taken away, and people feel betrayed.”
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"In summary, cycling is associated with lower risks of functional disability and mortality, especially among non-drivers."
#eBikes are especially good for senior folks.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#eBikes are especially good for senior folks.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Changes in cycling and incidences of functional disability and mortality among older Japanese adults
Although several studies have reported an inverse association between cycling and mortality in the general population, prospective studies in older ad…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"In summary, cycling is associated with lower risks of functional disability and mortality, especially among non-drivers."
#eBikes are especially good for senior folks.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#eBikes are especially good for senior folks.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The 3rd chapter of A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" is titled
"In which Pooh & Piglet Go Hunting & Nearly Catch a Woozle."
The characters find footprints in the snow, deduce the presence of a 'Woozle,' which they track.
But they're tracking their own footprints.
Let's talk about 'WOOZLE EFFECT'.
"In which Pooh & Piglet Go Hunting & Nearly Catch a Woozle."
The characters find footprints in the snow, deduce the presence of a 'Woozle,' which they track.
But they're tracking their own footprints.
Let's talk about 'WOOZLE EFFECT'.
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The 3rd chapter of A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" is titled
"In which Pooh & Piglet Go Hunting & Nearly Catch a Woozle."
The characters find footprints in the snow, deduce the presence of a 'Woozle,' which they track.
But they're tracking their own footprints.
Let's talk about 'WOOZLE EFFECT'.
"In which Pooh & Piglet Go Hunting & Nearly Catch a Woozle."
The characters find footprints in the snow, deduce the presence of a 'Woozle,' which they track.
But they're tracking their own footprints.
Let's talk about 'WOOZLE EFFECT'.
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“The central goal of this project is to light up the sky and extend daylight and obviously, from an astronomical perspective, that’s pretty catastrophic,” Robert Massey, deputy executive director at the Royal Astronomical Society of the UK told the publication."
Scientists Oppose Huge Array of Mirrors in Space That Shines Nighttime Sunlight on Wealthy Customers
The astronomical community is horrified at plans made by a for-profit company to flood the night sky with sunlight.
futurism.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“The central goal of this project is to light up the sky and extend daylight and obviously, from an astronomical perspective, that’s pretty catastrophic,” Robert Massey, deputy executive director at the Royal Astronomical Society of the UK told the publication."
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"Stardust solutions" is a huge Israeli-US company (with massive investment from techno-fascist silicon valley funds) that seems to be frantically racing to deploy geoengineering for profit
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"Stardust solutions" is a huge Israeli-US company (with massive investment from techno-fascist silicon valley funds) that seems to be frantically racing to deploy geoengineering for profit
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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"“The way they’re going about it is absolutely the most toxic, worst way"
@danvisioni.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
@danvisioni.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
www.politico.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"“The way they’re going about it is absolutely the most toxic, worst way"
@danvisioni.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
@danvisioni.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
“Industry agendas – whether the industry is tobacco, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, or tech – rarely align with human welfare or disinterested research, especially when left unchecked and unregulated. Instead, their interests are maximizing profit and market power”
“Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“Industry agendas – whether the industry is tobacco, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, or tech – rarely align with human welfare or disinterested research, especially when left unchecked and unregulated. Instead, their interests are maximizing profit and market power”
“Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
“Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
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“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
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This hits at one of the most troubling concerns: why would you want to filter all your information directly through a corporation that definitely DOES NOT have your best interest in mind?
“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This hits at one of the most troubling concerns: why would you want to filter all your information directly through a corporation that definitely DOES NOT have your best interest in mind?
“They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology.”
OpenAI is a loss-making monster, with new analysis that projects even IF it can hit $200bn revenue by 2030, it'll still need over $200bn in funding just to stay afloat.
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology.”
OpenAI is a loss-making monster, with new analysis that projects even IF it can hit $200bn revenue by 2030, it'll still need over $200bn in funding just to stay afloat.
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
OpenAI is a loss-making monster, with new analysis that projects even IF it can hit $200bn revenue by 2030, it'll still need over $200bn in funding just to stay afloat.
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
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The shift in Europe is part of a wider pattern: groundwater is depleting in parts of the Middle East, Asia, South America, along the US west coast + across swathes of Canada, Greenland, Iceland + Svalbard. We need to act now to preserve what is becoming an increasingly scarce resource.
NEW! Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across Europe
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The shift in Europe is part of a wider pattern: groundwater is depleting in parts of the Middle East, Asia, South America, along the US west coast + across swathes of Canada, Greenland, Iceland + Svalbard. We need to act now to preserve what is becoming an increasingly scarce resource.
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Oh my god. She's 1000% right. This makes so much sense.
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Oh my god. She's 1000% right. This makes so much sense.
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
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Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
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A little pet peeve. It’s not exactly that tropical rainforests have “gone from being allies in the fight against climate breakdown to being part of the problem.” Forests lose carbon when people cut them (or via fire) and gain carbon when trees grow. It’s that the losing is outweighing the gaining.
Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds
Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A little pet peeve. It’s not exactly that tropical rainforests have “gone from being allies in the fight against climate breakdown to being part of the problem.” Forests lose carbon when people cut them (or via fire) and gain carbon when trees grow. It’s that the losing is outweighing the gaining.
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The billions of tons of CO2 each year from tree cover loss are mostly linked to agricultural expansion, logging, and wildfire, with a tiny bit for settlements/infrastructure and mining.
Counting the land use side of the equation is important because global food demand continues to rise, and agriculture (the orange and yellow below) continues to drive tree cover loss, which adds billions of tons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year. www.wri.org/insights/for...
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The billions of tons of CO2 each year from tree cover loss are mostly linked to agricultural expansion, logging, and wildfire, with a tiny bit for settlements/infrastructure and mining.
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Forests are absolutely allies in fighting climate change! Forests are not the problem - it’s people cutting them down and/or burning them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Forests are absolutely allies in fighting climate change! Forests are not the problem - it’s people cutting them down and/or burning them.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Leafy seadragon
Southern right whale
Tasmanian Devil
Wedge tailed eagle
spotted-tail quoll
Leafy seadragon
Southern right whale
Tasmanian Devil
Wedge tailed eagle
spotted-tail quoll
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Leafy seadragon
Southern right whale
Tasmanian Devil
Wedge tailed eagle
spotted-tail quoll
Leafy seadragon
Southern right whale
Tasmanian Devil
Wedge tailed eagle
spotted-tail quoll
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This list includes Rhianna Gunn-Wright, who wrote this amazing essay a few months back alongside @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social --->>>
hammerandhope.org/article/clim...
hammerandhope.org/article/clim...
November 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This list includes Rhianna Gunn-Wright, who wrote this amazing essay a few months back alongside @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social --->>>
hammerandhope.org/article/clim...
hammerandhope.org/article/clim...
Does anyone care that we crossed the line we agreed not to cross?
We had fifteen years to stay below 1.5°C. We crossed it in ten. Now what?!
www.jacktoohey.com/p/does-anyon...
We had fifteen years to stay below 1.5°C. We crossed it in ten. Now what?!
www.jacktoohey.com/p/does-anyon...
Does anyone care that we crossed the line we agreed not to cross?
We had fifteen years to stay below 1.5°C. We crossed it in ten. Now what?!
www.jacktoohey.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Does anyone care that we crossed the line we agreed not to cross?
We had fifteen years to stay below 1.5°C. We crossed it in ten. Now what?!
www.jacktoohey.com/p/does-anyon...
We had fifteen years to stay below 1.5°C. We crossed it in ten. Now what?!
www.jacktoohey.com/p/does-anyon...
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Right.
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Right.
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
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This cartoon never gets old.
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This cartoon never gets old.
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Thing that I didn't realize until I was an adult is that a lot of people live nowhere near real nature so think that farms are nature. It's a bizarre phenomenon, but it makes sense in places like Ireland or the UK
Haven’t tweeted in like a year and still doing the numbers
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Thing that I didn't realize until I was an adult is that a lot of people live nowhere near real nature so think that farms are nature. It's a bizarre phenomenon, but it makes sense in places like Ireland or the UK
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A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority.
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority.
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social