Stephen Owens
@somemetatags.owens.dev
Recovering meta data and markup language obsessive, proud father of amazingly awesome twin boys. Been coding way too long to still like it this much.
A reputation aided by generations of men who have ignored, belittled, discouraged or outright absconded with the work of women scientists.
Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception
The forgotten women of quantum physics
Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception
www.newscientist.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A reputation aided by generations of men who have ignored, belittled, discouraged or outright absconded with the work of women scientists.
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Good morning with good news: India meets 50% renewables & nuclear capacity target 5 years early!
As clean capacity deploys, clean electricity production surges.
Solar grew from 5 TWh in 2014 to 48 TWh in 2019 & 137 TWh in 2024.
Hydro was 157 TWh; wind 82 TWh; nuclear 55 TWh in 2024. #energysky
As clean capacity deploys, clean electricity production surges.
Solar grew from 5 TWh in 2014 to 48 TWh in 2019 & 137 TWh in 2024.
Hydro was 157 TWh; wind 82 TWh; nuclear 55 TWh in 2024. #energysky
November 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Good morning with good news: India meets 50% renewables & nuclear capacity target 5 years early!
As clean capacity deploys, clean electricity production surges.
Solar grew from 5 TWh in 2014 to 48 TWh in 2019 & 137 TWh in 2024.
Hydro was 157 TWh; wind 82 TWh; nuclear 55 TWh in 2024. #energysky
As clean capacity deploys, clean electricity production surges.
Solar grew from 5 TWh in 2014 to 48 TWh in 2019 & 137 TWh in 2024.
Hydro was 157 TWh; wind 82 TWh; nuclear 55 TWh in 2024. #energysky
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Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.
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reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
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👀 “Continental Drying” by, checks title page, those “hair on fire” environmentalists at the World Bank. Certainly fits since 2018 at least for northern North America. Thanks, looking forward to reviewing this @hallegatte.bsky.social
Agreed. See our recent piece showing how global freshwater reserves have significantly declined over the past two decades, leading to the emergence of mega-drying regions.
www.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
www.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
Continental Drying: A Threat to Our Common Future
By combining satellite data with economic and land-use information, Continental Drying: Threat to our Common Future, offers new insight into where and why freshwater is disappearing and what can be do...
www.worldbank.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
👀 “Continental Drying” by, checks title page, those “hair on fire” environmentalists at the World Bank. Certainly fits since 2018 at least for northern North America. Thanks, looking forward to reviewing this @hallegatte.bsky.social
Rage inducing article about how, despite the support of a large majority of citizens around the world, climate action is not happening.
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
- Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
- Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Rage inducing article about how, despite the support of a large majority of citizens around the world, climate action is not happening.
This is a good answer and needs to be more widely understood.
It doesn’t compare.
In the UK a Battery EV needs to drive less than 15,000 miles (<25,000 km) to pay back the carbon debt from battery manufacturer. This is reducing every year as the grid decarbonises further.
👇🏽 Lifecycle carbon emissions from BEVs & ICE vehicles for Europe, US, China & India.
In the UK a Battery EV needs to drive less than 15,000 miles (<25,000 km) to pay back the carbon debt from battery manufacturer. This is reducing every year as the grid decarbonises further.
👇🏽 Lifecycle carbon emissions from BEVs & ICE vehicles for Europe, US, China & India.
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is a good answer and needs to be more widely understood.
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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No, they're really not.
Astronomers are grappling with a wild idea: Harvard’s Avi Loeb suggests that 3I/ATLAS might have “thrusters” strong jets pointing toward the Sun (its unusual “anti-tail”) possibly hinting at a technological, not just cometary, object.
Credit: David Jewitt / Jane Luu
Credit: David Jewitt / Jane Luu
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
No, they're really not.
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WITH WHAT WATER? AND ON WHAT POWER GRID??
If the plans come to fruition, Texas would have more Google data centers than anywhere else in the world, CEO Sundar Pichai announced with Gov. Greg Abbott. bit.ly/49UoTrr
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
WITH WHAT WATER? AND ON WHAT POWER GRID??
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One of the most egregious tactics used by the reactionary right is to pretend that progressive NGOs with miniscule budgets have an iron grip on governments globally, while the lobby groups funded by fossil capital are powerless smol beans.
It's easy to forget, amidst the amusement at Seb's frantic and futile scrapping for a Tory seat, that he is a complete imbecile www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
November 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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One of the most egregious tactics used by the reactionary right is to pretend that progressive NGOs with miniscule budgets have an iron grip on governments globally, while the lobby groups funded by fossil capital are powerless smol beans.
It's easy to forget, amidst the amusement at Seb's frantic and futile scrapping for a Tory seat, that he is a complete imbecile www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Meet the elite think tank responsible for Britain’s decline
The Resolution Foundation wants to make life better for the poorest in society but its noble aims result in policy that stifles growth and penalises the rich
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
One of the most egregious tactics used by the reactionary right is to pretend that progressive NGOs with miniscule budgets have an iron grip on governments globally, while the lobby groups funded by fossil capital are powerless smol beans.
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JFC FFS
Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
Shutdown Deal Kills Rules to Prevent Food Contamination and Foodborne Illnesses
The gutting of these rules coincides with a huge increase in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
truthout.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
JFC FFS
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I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
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Celebrating Gerty Cori on #WorldDiabetesDay.
Cori, a biochemist, co-discovered the Cori cycle which unlocked how the body regulates glucose--foundational for diabetes treatments & insulin therapy. She was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery. #WomenInSTEM
Cori, a biochemist, co-discovered the Cori cycle which unlocked how the body regulates glucose--foundational for diabetes treatments & insulin therapy. She was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery. #WomenInSTEM
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Celebrating Gerty Cori on #WorldDiabetesDay.
Cori, a biochemist, co-discovered the Cori cycle which unlocked how the body regulates glucose--foundational for diabetes treatments & insulin therapy. She was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery. #WomenInSTEM
Cori, a biochemist, co-discovered the Cori cycle which unlocked how the body regulates glucose--foundational for diabetes treatments & insulin therapy. She was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery. #WomenInSTEM
💯 this. Numbered with the many other crimes AI is committing against our information spaces.
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
💯 this. Numbered with the many other crimes AI is committing against our information spaces.
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This is a REALLY important story, Canada. The Carney government's push to AI our entire country is going to hurt so many people and cause SO much damage to our communities. The government isn't doing ANYTHING to try and mitigate the harms data centres are going to cause, either.
Canada’s next extractive industry: How #AI is following the fossil fuel playbook.
Ottawa is betting on artificial intelligence. Just like #BigOil, Big Tech is building infrastructure that will be nearly impossible to dismantle.
New from @terraloire.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/climate/cana...
Ottawa is betting on artificial intelligence. Just like #BigOil, Big Tech is building infrastructure that will be nearly impossible to dismantle.
New from @terraloire.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/climate/cana...
Canada's next extractive industry: How AI is following the fossil fuel playbook
Ottawa is betting nearly a billion on artificial intelligence, ignoring warnings of its environmental risks. Just like Big Oil, Big Tech is building infrastructure that will be nearly impossible to di...
ricochet.media
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is a REALLY important story, Canada. The Carney government's push to AI our entire country is going to hurt so many people and cause SO much damage to our communities. The government isn't doing ANYTHING to try and mitigate the harms data centres are going to cause, either.
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When I started to criticize wild promises for carbon dioxide capture & removal in 2022, I took *so much shit* from the energy modelers and journalists promoting it, but those same people are silent now that even the scientists who first imagined the tech are increasingly mounting the same criticism.
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
When I started to criticize wild promises for carbon dioxide capture & removal in 2022, I took *so much shit* from the energy modelers and journalists promoting it, but those same people are silent now that even the scientists who first imagined the tech are increasingly mounting the same criticism.
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CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG.
Yikes!!!!!
Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
Yikes!!!!!
Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG.
Yikes!!!!!
Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
Yikes!!!!!
Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
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States are facing enormous budget challenges, so why are they offering large-scale tax breaks to wealthy tech companies for data centers and then not disclosing key details to taxpayers - including what they're supposedly getting in return? @goodjobsfirst.org
Cloudy Data, Costly Deals: How Poorly States Disclose Data Center Subsidies - Good Jobs First
Cloudy Data, Costly Deals: How Poorly States Disclose Data Center Subsidies - Good Jobs First
goodjobsfirst.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
States are facing enormous budget challenges, so why are they offering large-scale tax breaks to wealthy tech companies for data centers and then not disclosing key details to taxpayers - including what they're supposedly getting in return? @goodjobsfirst.org
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Talked about the prospect of another pipeline and Carney's recent comments on my Monday political panel.
As I said, the biggest impediment isn't regulations or even Indigenous opposition but the lack of a viable business case.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...
As I said, the biggest impediment isn't regulations or even Indigenous opposition but the lack of a viable business case.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...
Danielle Smith’s pipeline still doesn’t have a business case
The biggest obstacle standing in the way of another pipeline to the West Coast isn't the tanker ban or federal climate policies. It's oil prices and the nature of the businesses that rely on them for ...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Talked about the prospect of another pipeline and Carney's recent comments on my Monday political panel.
As I said, the biggest impediment isn't regulations or even Indigenous opposition but the lack of a viable business case.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...
As I said, the biggest impediment isn't regulations or even Indigenous opposition but the lack of a viable business case.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...
While causing death and disease to those near it while it burns.
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
While causing death and disease to those near it while it burns.
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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Gift link to the tragic story of our Dem governor ordering Dept of Environmental Conservation to ignore the science showing irremediable harm to climate and public health and capitulate to Trump:
New York Approves $1 Billion Underwater Gas Pipeline After 3 Rejections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
New York Approves $1 Billion Underwater Gas Pipeline After 3 Rejections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
New York Approves $1 Billion Underwater Gas Pipeline After 3 Rejections
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Gift link to the tragic story of our Dem governor ordering Dept of Environmental Conservation to ignore the science showing irremediable harm to climate and public health and capitulate to Trump:
New York Approves $1 Billion Underwater Gas Pipeline After 3 Rejections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
New York Approves $1 Billion Underwater Gas Pipeline After 3 Rejections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...