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Trump helps MAGA influencers flee Middle East war zone on private jet Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz, dogwalker Sarah Daither, former lobbyist Jay Footlik, and others managed to escape on a private plane thanks to the White House.

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

Vehicle fuel economy and vehicle miles traveled: An empirical investigation of Jevon’s Paradox There has been, in recent decades, a concerted effort to promote energy efficiency as a means to reduce energy consumption. The general thesis is that…

STUDY: Despite conventional wisdom that increases in vehicle fuel efficiency results in decreased gasoline consumption, Jevons’ Paradox holds. For every 1 mile per gallon of increased fuel efficiency there’s an associated 1.2 mile increase in vehicle miles travelled.

Better cars = higher emissions.

Grey cat sitting on a table, gazing pensively onto the middle distance. He has amber eyes and pronounced cheeks. A luxuriant mane, and a walrus moustache.

Nobly gracing the table

The long 2010s are finally over

Can you please share the PDF via DM or the Read-Only Sharing link to the paper? Thank you.

Summit Positions Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Peter Hansen about his research on the Alps and Himalayas.

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social sky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest shorturl.at/oI5fh #EnvHist #EnvHums
@nichecanada.bsky.social

Dear Auntie
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

Thinking your own breathtaking misanthropy is what will win over hearts and minds.

Austrian Man Found Guilty in Girlfriend’s Death on Mountain Hike

Oh my god, the guy who left his girlfriend on a mountain to die had done the same thing to a different girlfriend on THE SAME MOUNTAIN.

Inside the incredible, infuriating quest to explain consciousness Will brain science deliver answers about consciousness or hit another wall?

My Roman Empire!

Never not thinking about this, excellent feature summarising where we stand currently with this fascinating mystery.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.

It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @creacleanair.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/wC1nbXO

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

You don’t have a Valentine for Valentine’s Day?

Lots of people don’t have a shark for Shark Week. Check your privilege.

DinoCon with a more prompt response to academics complicit in sexual abuse than uh, the entirety of academia.

R.I.P Jon Kudelka @kudelka.bsky.social

“If I did a sequel it would probably involve a scientist swearing a great deal”

allouryesterdays.info/2025/04/28/i... @allouryesterdays.bsky.social

Been looking for the only copy of a 5000-word draft in my Google Drive for quite a few days now, and luckily found it in the bin just before I routinely cleared the trash folder!

whew 😰

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com:

www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

Narrator: "And they're BOTH in the Epstein Files"

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.

They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

Things have gone too far, even for the NRA:

America update: hours after federal agents executed a Veterans Affairs nurse on camera, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon watched a film about the president's wife at the White House.

F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns

Breaking NYT:

The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

I'm driving for Lyft and Uber, so it may take me ~30 minutes to respond to messages. I can meet you at UH with two hours notice.

This is for people who think all the scientists losing their jobs because of the Trump regime will magically be hired by other countries. Let’s see how a PhD geoscientist is doing…

🥁 India Is Electrifying Faster Than China 🥁

Read our story on @ember-energy.org's analysis. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...