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UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan Emergency security council session criticises killings of civilians in El Fasher and external supply of arms to RSF

Staggering atrocities in Sudan.

Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

A lot of foods got shitty because they reduced the number of " real" food and bumped up the amount of stabilizers and fillers. You can cut the milk fat in ice cream if you throw in some gums and that saves you money for example.

in Germany a lot of this was a reaction to the war years and the failed promises of German imperialism, but you see similar dynamics all over. Fascism's greatest supporters are mediocre people born in comfort who need someone to blame for the fact that they don't have more.

Happy birthday and you’ve survived the rock and roll age by 10 years!

Finally… I’ve been waiting for someone to cover this story. So sad. Climate[dot]gov has always been one of my favorite go-to resources to share.

The Delusion of “No Energy Transition”: And How Renewables Can End Endless Energy Extraction In popular book More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz says the ‘energy transition’ is a myth as we consume more fossil fuels than ever. In doing so, he masks real, rapid energy transitions, pa...

This is a fantastic, long and strongly-evidenced rebuttal of the "no energy transition" meme popularised wrongly by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

I am probably one notch less optimistic on renewables than Nafeez but entirely agree w/ the overall thesis: fuel elimination exists, and it can exist everywhere

I crisscrossed America to talk to people whose views I disagreed with. I now have one certainty I’ve spoken to white nationalists in Tennessee and Black activists in Texas – and learned about what it takes to connect across difference

‘I crisscrossed America to talk to people whose views I disagreed with. I now have one certainty’.
Anand Pandian

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Four global maps showing near-surface air temperature anomalies for the month of June in 1985-1994, 1995-2004, 2005-2014, and 2015-2024. Most all areas are observing long-term warming, which is largest over the Arctic region and Asia. Anomalies are calculated relative to 1951-1980 from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis.

It's already June! Here's a look at how temperatures have changed globally over the last four decades during this month... 🧪

Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 (doi.org/10.24381/cds...).

YouTube video by TheMoonDuster Up Stairs - TheMoonDuster

Sometimes the person who goes up is not the same person who comes back down.

youtu.be/xCwXVEYdkPg

I keep saying this... both operationally and in research, the situation is still much worse than most people seem to realize or want to accept.

“Eugenics isn’t just about eradicating the lesser people like myself, like people with disabilities, it’s about attaching disability to marginalized communities in order to slate them for eradication.”

Fantastic crash course in eugenics, ableism & anti-blackness from @imanibarbarin.bsky.social

Mild Spoiler: it's a testament to the quality of writing in Andor that one of the best and easily the most relatable scene in all of Star Wars is a fascist collapsing onto his bed in a panic attack because his mom won't stop being mean to him

Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...

Can scientists trace climate losses back to the emissions from individual fossil fuel companies?

Yes, we can.

The inimitable @ccallahan45.bsky.social and I provide an 'end-to-end' attribution framework that can be applied in many climate accountability contexts:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Graph showing daily global mean sea surface temperatures for 2025. This is also compared to the daily data from the 1981-2010 average and 1991-2020 average. Annotations are also shown to the current year with the other years from 1940 to 2024. There is a seasonal cycle. There is a long-term warming trend. 2023 and 2024 are also indicated, which were the warmest years on record. Data is from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis and updated through 24 April 2025.

To complement my daily and monthly air temperature graphics, I’ve added a new visualization of daily global mean sea surface temperature (SST) to my climate indicators page. It updates in near-real time.

Follow along at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

alright folks, here's my best stab at a roadmap for what to expect out of the next six months to a year of this administration

That tracks. Still, I hope the next one takes it further. If the first thing the new pope says is ‘protect the earth or you’re going straight to hell’ maybe I’d contemplate believing in miracles.

100 years of average March temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025...

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

Conservatives and right-wingers do not genuinely or sincerely want more energy security when they say the words "energy security".

They use it as a rhetorical proxy for "more fossil fuels". So offering them a right-wingified energy security justification for renewables does not compute, for them.

Reverb soaked twangy guitars and bongos go well together

Accurate description!

Bit of an early Santana feel to this one

I decided to calculate what the minimum wage would be if the FWC did what ACCI wanted each year. And well... eeeeek.

People of Brisbane and Melbourne we need your help! We are trying to develop a new diagnostic for Long Covid and so we are asking people with Long Covid to kindly join our study - please DM me if you have any questions about the study or Long Covid in general! Please repost!

YouTube video by TheMoonDuster Foggy Headlights - TheMoonDuster

When you can it’s good to appreciate what you have as most likely it won’t last forever.
#MusicSky
#Reflective
#Ballads

youtu.be/i3wu7n-f9j4?...

1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media.

2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.

3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.

4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.

gates is smart enough to know he helped poison the world. so he salves his conscience by imagining a robot will fix what he and his kind broke, without any of them needing to change how they live or treat people

Global map showing surface air temperature trends for each January to March period from 1975 to 2024. Only land areas are shown. Red shading is shown for warmer temperature trends, and blue shading is shown for colder temperature trends. Data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTempv6.0.0. The temperature trend scale is from -0.5°C/decade to +0.5°C/decade. Most all areas are warming, except for parts of the Antarctic.

A look at the significant land warming over the last 50 years during the boreal winter season (January to March)...

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).

empathy doesn't mean loving people or liking them or forgiving them it just means understanding why they do what they do because you kinda need to if you wanna fix shit

thinking about how in parts of Rojava they experimented with the idea of "what if everyone's aunts were the cops and they just sorta had guns but also still dealt with mostly everything by just surrounding the offending parties and yelling at them"

anyway, worth remembering

people regularly ask me what they should do to prepare for the possibility of mass violence and civil unrest. we give this advice often on It Could Happen Here but this is my list of advice in no specific order: