Remind me again who would benefit from oil prices being high?
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@benneholwerda.bsky.social
Dad, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Louisville. He/Him/hey you. Opinions are my own. As are the typos. Astronomy, datascience, ethics & occasional US/EU politics.
Remind me again who would benefit from oil prices being high?
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While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.
www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...
βOk I need to read a bit about the Herschelsβ I think to myself as I scroll an infinity of the worst news of the day.
28.02.2026 16:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 085 girls
28.02.2026 16:17 β π 9 π 5 π¬ 1 π 2As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter
28.02.2026 08:27 β π 5768 π 1744 π¬ 154 π 77The only GOP congressman Iβve seen so far saying this
28.02.2026 13:52 β π 110 π 32 π¬ 1 π 2That sounds very fun!
28.02.2026 16:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Purty.
28.02.2026 16:01 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In case youβre just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.
28.02.2026 12:14 β π 6411 π 2736 π¬ 1 π 73Republican secretaries of state in Kentucky and West Virginia are telling the Trump administration to get lost on their demands for state voter rolls π
27.02.2026 20:16 β π 40 π 13 π¬ 0 π 0In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.
27.02.2026 23:28 β π 2354 π 373 π¬ 6 π 35this is what they said it would be like under socialism
27.02.2026 21:06 β π 18084 π 4072 π¬ 1018 π 165What is happening and why can I not stop laughing. π
27.02.2026 22:36 β π 68 π 24 π¬ 2 π 0Practice with SWIFT soon.
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27.02.2026 20:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Small jeep sold separately.β
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It felt like the professor one βFeynmanβ was just trolling at this point.
So glad people are heavily associating physics with this linear algebra nonsense machine.
Ah yes. Saved to photo reel. Because too real.
27.02.2026 17:57 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Om fascisme terug in zijn hol te dwingen, hebben we betere journalistiek nodig, waarschuwde OneWorld-redacteur Marte Hoogenboom woensdag tijdens een herdenking van de Februaristaking. Want: βFascisten hebben hun succes van oudsher vaak te danken aan journalisten.β
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26.02.2026 22:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cool.
26.02.2026 16:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We shouldn't be basing higher ed decisions solely on numbers like these because higher ed isn't a business, but we *definitely* shouldn't let people use 'run higher ed like a business' as a pitch and then bury the numbers that show they're killing profitable programs.
26.02.2026 14:53 β π 407 π 126 π¬ 1 π 6Whatβs the typical length of a writing session? Your writing speed is set to βsuperhumanβ. Any tips for the rest of us?
26.02.2026 16:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Me and @readdark.bsky.social are advertising aPhD position in our lovely group here at Surrey university. We're looking to understand unusual globular clusters and faint dwarf galaxies. Check out the advert and get in touch if you have questions ππ§ͺ www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...
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