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Please tell her that people she's never heard of and never will are cheering her on.

Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.

"God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?"

How out of touch can Donald Trump’s top economic adviser be?

A 60-year-old couple making $85k/year will have to pay over $22,000 more EVERY YEAR.

TWENTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.

Definitely

Second look at Butlerian Jihad?

A print run of 50 of my '26 calendars will be on pre-order in my Etsy shop tmrw (Thurs) from 8pm UK time.
I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them alters brain biochemistry & is likely to trigger dopamine release in your brain &...cont'd in following post 🧵

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!"

Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

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Huh. Don't remember that.

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

Love her!

The UW Anthropology department installed a story pole today outside Denny Hall. The story pole, titled skʷatač dxʷʔal x̌ʷəlč, was made by local Coast Salish carvers. An official celebration is scheduled for Sept. 18.

I don't think he did the reading.

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

This feels like a spot of good news

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Flowers and neuroscience!

Finally!

Love

🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy.

Slava Ukraini!

I need to make an alt account that’s just “republicans being scared of cities”

I feel like this should be a #goals post for science communicators everywhere. 😂

This is absolutely a real thing. One more reason to support local journalism (like @theurbanist.org @typewriteralley.bsky.social).

Universal basic income and healthcare, free college, affordable childcare + housing, a strong democracy that ends gerrymandering and publicly finances elections.

My American Dream is built on a foundation of universal human and economic rights, where no one experiences poverty and we all can thrive

as someone who was alive in the 90s this is a surreal headline to read. We actually defeated the Satan Bug

Isn't it wonderful to be able to walk and look at things in the sunshine outdoors with space and people around??

I'm so sad. For years here in Seattle I've listened to Michael Burman every Saturday night with gratitude and appreciation. No substitute for sunshine like that. Thank you for posting this, I've been wondering where he was.

My photo shows a small Roman flask made of translucent cobalt blue glass in the form of a mouse, viewed in profile with head to the left. The neck of the flask (on the right) is funnel-shaped and slightly up-turned to look like a tail. The body of the vessel is rounded and has four tooled trails for feet. A separate blob of glass forms the head with eyes, ears, and a pointed nose. The flask surface is decorated with distinctive trails of glass which have been flattened and notched, using a technique known as ‘snake thread’. Dimensions 6.3 x 5.1 x 14.6 cm.

Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a little mouse 🐭 💙

The Met 📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

“People do not like to be conquered sir. And so they won’t be. Free men won’t start a war, but once it’s started they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader cannot do that. And so it’s always the herd men who win battles and free men who win the war.” The Moon is Down,John Steinbeck

Solar+storage is so much farther along than you think On how plummeting battery prices make 24/7 solar power a reality today.

Today on Volts: the sun doesn't shine at night, but if you add batteries it might as well! If you're not closely tracking the industry, you're probably not aware of just how cheap solar+storage is getting, and how quickly. I talk with the authors of a new Ember report about the good news.

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Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans