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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant – so what is it and how does it work? The site in Fukuoka is only the second power plant of its type in the world, harnessing the power of osmosis to run a desalination plant in the city

@hankgreen.bsky.social i would love it if someone better at explaining would explain this one to me

Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant – so what is it and how does it work? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Literally, one of the top 10 things people should remember from high-school physics.

Feeling embarrassed by your past work is not a sign of incompetence. It’s a mark of growth.

Regretting your prior decisions doesn't reflect poor judgment. It reveals new insight.

Cringing at your old opinions doesn't display ignorance. It demonstrates an open mind.

I didn't know goldfish liked to swim in grape juice but I don't blame them

Top App for teens, to go with the podcast for teens

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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What about "spaced out" instead of space for all of them? 🙃

Solar power is now California's largest source of electricity. ☀️🔌💡

Switzerland built a 4,000 m² retractable solar roof producing 350,000 kWh yearly. It folds automatically and was funded by citizens adopting panels. The model is scalable for urban and commercial applications.

Omg can I have this as socks and undies X 10? I would seriously buy 10 pairs.. Ok fine, 20 so I can give some as presents!

Weird modern guys alt account incoming 😂

Summer thunderstorms

Abgelehnte Autobahnprojekte durch die Hintertüre? Anstelle der Überprüfung der im vergangenen November abgelehnten Autobahnausbauprojekten fordert umverkehR ein sofortiges Autobahnmoratorium. Nur so können wir unsere Klimaziele einhalten.

🚨 Rösti will die abgelehnten Autobahnprojekte durch die Hintertür retten!
Trotz klarem Nein der Stimmbevölkerung vom 24. November stehen die verworfenen Autobahnausbauten wieder auf der Liste "Verkehr 45". Nicht mit uns! Autobahnmoratorium JETZT! 🛑
www.umverkehr.ch/autobahnproj...

5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!

Good Science

xkcd.com/3101/

Are they? Or are they just happy to see you?

No... Fuck those policemen.. Cmon Sam I know you're angry but...

Tuberculosis is no longer something we need to worry about, right? TLDR: Unfortunately, wrong. 😔 John Green , a person I greatly admire has recently written about TB, how it profoundly shaped our history and then suddenly ceased to be a problem during the 50s and 60s...

Another one infected with JohnGreenitis 😍

I did a little linkedin post to view death rates in a different way

www.linkedin.com/pulse/tuberc...

It has been a rather large gap between the last gazoonka and this one.

Illustration commemorating 10 years of the podcast Dear Hank and John. In the lower right quadrant, Hank Green wears a yellow spacesuit and grips a bottle of champagne, its contents erupting from the bottle and sending him backwards through space. The upper left quadrant, John Green runs through grass wearing a black and yellow soccer kit. The planet Mars is in the bottom left corner, while a soccer ball is in the top right corner. Each are followed by a looping stretch of rainbow. The yellow outline of the frame contains the text of the introduction to the podcast, which reads: “Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John! Or as I prefer to think of it, Dear John and Hank. It’s a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you dubious advice, and bring you all the week’s news from both mars and AFC Wimbledon.” The circular logo for Dear Hank and John is in the middle of the picture and is preceded by a “1”, representing 10 years of memorable episodes.

Happy 10th year anniversary weekend to @dearhankandjohn.bsky.social! Thanks for reminding us that hope is the thing with feathers, sneezing isn’t normal, and-OH MY GOD, IT’S BURNING!

I discovered yesterday, in a mass email sent at 3am, that I will not be receiving the roughly £40,000 that my publisher Unbound/Boundless owes me for pre-order sales of The Paradox Paradox. The payment for five years of work, gone.

#unboundless

Why send anyone back to Honduras when you can bring Honduras to the US. Very intelligent administration y'all have

Steve Coogan reads the names of over 15,000 children killed in Gaza at vigil 'Those names are not just statistics.'

metro.co.uk/2025/05/30/s...

Loved this TED talk from @angushervey.com of #FixTheNews: www.angushervey.com

"The revolution is happening (just not on your newsfeed)."

"The end of the world is already here; its just not evenly distributed yet."

Guess I Stan goobers then 🤷‍♂️

Photo of a hand holding a page-a-day calendar. The date is May 24/25, 2025. There is a black and white illustration of a bird sitting on a branch. Large text next to the bird reads, "Normal people don't say shit like that."

Evergreen content from @effinbirds.com.