Paul Wermer
@paulwermer.bsky.social
Retired chemist, climate advocate; feeling betrayed by the Democrats
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“Okay, but what if you’re two senior citizens w a bunch of holiday packages to mail?! How do you think you get them to the post office without a car?!”
Actually, easier than driving, parking no problem
Actually, easier than driving, parking no problem
December 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“Okay, but what if you’re two senior citizens w a bunch of holiday packages to mail?! How do you think you get them to the post office without a car?!”
Actually, easier than driving, parking no problem
Actually, easier than driving, parking no problem
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So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
December 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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This is so much more meaningful than the usual "thoughts and prayers" posts I've seen from nearly everyone else today.
December 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is so much more meaningful than the usual "thoughts and prayers" posts I've seen from nearly everyone else today.
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This man is a hero. Ahmed Al Ahmed.
The man who neutralized a terrorist in Sydney by taking his weapon was a 43-year-old Ahmed Al Ahmed, the owner of a fruit shop in Sutherland. During the confrontation with the terrorists, Ahmed was shot twice in the arm, but he continued to fight
December 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This man is a hero. Ahmed Al Ahmed.
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As both a teacher and a parent, I see every day how challenging it can be for families to figure out how to give their children real freedom in the world. Again and again, the #BikeBus shows me that it is one of the best tools we have for scaffolding independence.
December 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
As both a teacher and a parent, I see every day how challenging it can be for families to figure out how to give their children real freedom in the world. Again and again, the #BikeBus shows me that it is one of the best tools we have for scaffolding independence.
This:
"The only mitigation is to treat an AI agent as an employee working for you, one who could go rogue."
"You’d never let an employee access all your accounts and systems, hold all your passwords and financial details, run your life without ever checking their work, without any oversight."
"The only mitigation is to treat an AI agent as an employee working for you, one who could go rogue."
"You’d never let an employee access all your accounts and systems, hold all your passwords and financial details, run your life without ever checking their work, without any oversight."
Apple Confirms Attacks—All iPhone Users Must Update Now
Apple Confirms Attacks—All iPhone Users Must Update Now
1 billion users warned to update to iOS 26.2 now.
www.forbes.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This:
"The only mitigation is to treat an AI agent as an employee working for you, one who could go rogue."
"You’d never let an employee access all your accounts and systems, hold all your passwords and financial details, run your life without ever checking their work, without any oversight."
"The only mitigation is to treat an AI agent as an employee working for you, one who could go rogue."
"You’d never let an employee access all your accounts and systems, hold all your passwords and financial details, run your life without ever checking their work, without any oversight."
"The only mitigation is to treat an AI agent as an employee working for you, one who could go rogue."
"You’d never let an employee access all your accounts and systems, hold all your passwords and financial details, run your life without ever checking their work, without any oversight."
"You’d never let an employee access all your accounts and systems, hold all your passwords and financial details, run your life without ever checking their work, without any oversight."
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Apple Confirms Attacks—All iPhone Users Must Update Now
December 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"The only mitigation is to treat an AI agent as an employee working for you, one who could go rogue."
"You’d never let an employee access all your accounts and systems, hold all your passwords and financial details, run your life without ever checking their work, without any oversight."
"You’d never let an employee access all your accounts and systems, hold all your passwords and financial details, run your life without ever checking their work, without any oversight."
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
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On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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New analysis: The last German gas-heated homes face €4,000+ in annual extra costs by 2045 from rising grid fees.
Smart regulation can avoid this - our research on this thorny issue: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Smart regulation can avoid this - our research on this thorny issue: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
New analysis: The last German gas-heated homes face €4,000+ in annual extra costs by 2045 from rising grid fees.
Smart regulation can avoid this - our research on this thorny issue: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Smart regulation can avoid this - our research on this thorny issue: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I have ZERO interest in visiting the U.S. and I live here. 😡
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I have ZERO interest in visiting the U.S. and I live here. 😡
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The negative impact the Roman occupation had on the health of the natives in England:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Assessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Assessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis
www.cambridge.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The negative impact the Roman occupation had on the health of the natives in England:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Omg!!🥳🥳! #Georgia
BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight.
Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.
This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.
This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
December 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Omg!!🥳🥳! #Georgia
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It's not socialism if it's covering up your own ridiculous incompetence.
December 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It's not socialism if it's covering up your own ridiculous incompetence.
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No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
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Oof. Brutal truth.
Oof. Brutal truth.
We can debate each word he said, but I will leave you with this joke currently trending in Europe:
“In war between Russia and Ukraine, United States surrendered first.”
“In war between Russia and Ukraine, United States surrendered first.”
December 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Oof. Brutal truth.
Oof. Brutal truth.
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"In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a “Bermuda style” home in Palm Beach, Florida, pledging that it would be his principal residence. Just seven weeks later, he got another mortgage for a seven-bedroom, marble-floored neighboring property, attesting that it too would be his principal residence."
NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a “Bermuda style” home in Palm Beach, Florida, pledging that it would be his principal residence. Just seven weeks later, he got another mortgage for a seven-bedroom, marble-floored neighboring property, attesting that it too would be his principal residence."
So someone replied in this thread that ERVs(energy recovery ventilators) are the answer, not CR boxes.
For new construction or major gut rehab, absolutely: multiple benefits.
But many schools lack infrastructure to use ERVs, and in cases where that is too expensive to install, CR boxes work.
For new construction or major gut rehab, absolutely: multiple benefits.
But many schools lack infrastructure to use ERVs, and in cases where that is too expensive to install, CR boxes work.
To which I reply:
Option 1: air filtration with HEPA or high MERV filters (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E...)
Option 2: somewhat more expensive, air exchanges via energy recovery ventilators (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal...)
It can be done, it should be done. The solutions are cost effective
Option 1: air filtration with HEPA or high MERV filters (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E...)
Option 2: somewhat more expensive, air exchanges via energy recovery ventilators (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal...)
It can be done, it should be done. The solutions are cost effective
Corsi–Rosenthal Box - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So someone replied in this thread that ERVs(energy recovery ventilators) are the answer, not CR boxes.
For new construction or major gut rehab, absolutely: multiple benefits.
But many schools lack infrastructure to use ERVs, and in cases where that is too expensive to install, CR boxes work.
For new construction or major gut rehab, absolutely: multiple benefits.
But many schools lack infrastructure to use ERVs, and in cases where that is too expensive to install, CR boxes work.
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Find out who controls the budget in question (school district, city council, county board of supervisors, etc). Make a letter writing campaign targeting those people to fix this. If educators are unionized, talk to the union about making it a demand in negotiations - this puts them at risk too.
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Find out who controls the budget in question (school district, city council, county board of supervisors, etc). Make a letter writing campaign targeting those people to fix this. If educators are unionized, talk to the union about making it a demand in negotiations - this puts them at risk too.
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bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
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They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means. #Ceasefire
If you fire, a ceasefire is over.
If you fire, a ceasefire is over.
Israeli air raids hit Maghazi camp in central Gaza as mediators warn the ceasefire is at a 'critical moment'.
Israel targets Gaza, mediators warn ceasefire at ‘critical moment’
Israeli air raids hit Maghazi camp in central Gaza as mediators warn the ceasefire is at a 'critical moment'.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means. #Ceasefire
If you fire, a ceasefire is over.
If you fire, a ceasefire is over.
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Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.
December 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.
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This design appears to be commemorating a global zombie apocalypse.
December 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This design appears to be commemorating a global zombie apocalypse.
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Waymo lied about their robocar killing KitKat and the reality is so much worse. A woman is crouching near the front of the car trying to coax KitKat away. The moment she backs up, the car speeds away. A human driver would not have killed KitKat in this situation!
Video of KitKat killing by Waymo undercuts company's claim
Video corroborates accounts that KitKat, the Mission bodega cat, stood in front of the Waymo for 25 seconds before he was killed.
missionlocal.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Waymo lied about their robocar killing KitKat and the reality is so much worse. A woman is crouching near the front of the car trying to coax KitKat away. The moment she backs up, the car speeds away. A human driver would not have killed KitKat in this situation!