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@wergend.bsky.social

Survivalist πŸ˜‰ Firefighter 15 yrs, Science geek, Geology, forager, sustainability, bushcraft, rewilding, silly old romantic.

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Thanks πŸ™πŸ½
I'm really interested to know what people think after listening to this.

25.10.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Google Researcher Shows Life "Emerges From Code"
YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk Google Researcher Shows Life "Emerges From Code"

a BOLD CLAIM!
Fascinating conversation.
Halfway through, my brain is still spinning round the idea that life, (or code,) that copy's itself, is more stable.
So evolution of complex life, may be said to obey the second law of thermodynamics.
What do you think?

youtu.be/rMSEqJ_4EBk?...

25.10.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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good morning everyone!
Splash your face with some refreshing culture and see how it feels πŸ˜‰β€οΈ
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25.10.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This made me think actually, what if we all collectively agreed, for just one day, not to use social media.
Just to see if we could personally as much as anything.
To gauge how dependent we had become.
Say, Jan 1st is The Day.
When lots of people have resolutions to examine and most are off work.

23.10.2025 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Why Local Business is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell | TGS 198
YouTube video by Nate Hagens Why Local Business is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell | TGS 198

What a brilliant lady and inspiring to see not just talk of how terrible everything is, but genuine pushback πŸ’ͺπŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½

youtu.be/Ohwaf1N94sM?...

23.10.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Michael Hudson: From Neoliberalism to Neofeudalism
YouTube video by Glenn Diesen Michael Hudson: From Neoliberalism to Neofeudalism

This was very accessible and REALLY interesting from a historical perspective.
youtu.be/8yB1008CLis?...

20.10.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How old is the old Holloway from the straights of Dover, past Stonehenge, to seaton?
Why Seaton?
Unless that route led to a now submerged land route, to seal hunting as the sea ice wasn't far off the NW coast of Ireland? 🏺
I suspect the route, is older than Britain being an island.

04.10.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

from the Balfour declaration to Starmer, there's an unholy alliance between the anti-Semitic and the Zionist.

04.10.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money

Sign the petition if you want to continue living in a democracy without corporate free zones stealing your money, your land, your homes, and your human rights.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

05.09.2025 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 175    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 18

There is a key moral distinction between immigration policy on new arrivals, no matter how draconian, and on people who have already been granted status, on set conditions. It is about being a country that keeps its word. If we're not that, we might as well fucking give up now.

29.09.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 663    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 7
The last Ice Age climate in Europe
YouTube video by Gwillerm Kaldisti The last Ice Age climate in Europe

Just a wild thought as I was watching a map.
(This one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rVA... )

Recalling the Harroway, and the last continental connection at dover, I was wondering why all the traffic went through Stonehenge, but then on to Seaton ... now I'm wondering about seal-fur.πŸ€”

28.09.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. β€” Harvard Gazette Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

β€œHarvard geneticist David Reich said … increasingly sophisticated analysis of genetic material made possible by technological advances shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, and everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration that washed over the globe.”

20.09.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 454    πŸ” 174    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 20

Drove me absolutley mental at the time.
Normally I prickle at people obviously just regurgitating what they read in the DM that moring ... but if I had to hear "E's just doin is best," one more time, I could have exploded!

28.09.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
For about a year now, Thiel has been publicly laying out his understanding of biblical prophecies and the potential for the rapid advance of technology to bring about an apocalyptic future. 

In a lecture Monday, he encouraged an audience to continue working toward scientific progress, whether in AI or other forms of technology. Fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist, Thiel said, according to people who attended.

For about a year now, Thiel has been publicly laying out his understanding of biblical prophecies and the potential for the rapid advance of technology to bring about an apocalyptic future. In a lecture Monday, he encouraged an audience to continue working toward scientific progress, whether in AI or other forms of technology. Fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist, Thiel said, according to people who attended.

New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...

24.09.2025 06:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1571    πŸ” 397    πŸ’¬ 157    πŸ“Œ 454
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Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals Homo Sapiens Are Nearly Twice As Old As We Thought And our ancestors may have originated outside of Africa.

Million-Year-Old Skull Pushes Back Homo Sapiens Origins By 400,000 Years www.iflscience.com/million-year...

25.09.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 221    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6

I missed the first half unfortunately.
that New Zealand game must have been like playing in a final alone.
I was a little conflicted as my sister in-law was the Canadian womens scrum half 2015-2017!

28.09.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'll keep doing what I do best, grafting. I think a lot, but. nobody cares so 65 I'll call it quits if not sooner.

27.09.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oooh, bit harsh. They just beat New Zealand... English players definitely won, but I think had everyone been fresh, it would have been a far closer game.
I'm biased though, English, but my sister in-law was Canadian scrum-half for several years! (bro married choice!πŸ’ͺ🏽β™₯️)

27.09.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

everything to do with Sharia law.

27.09.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's theissue.
It ignores social pressure of very conservative communities.
A very good friend long ago was very much in love, but her love had to end the relationship because she was Hindu, and he was Muslim, but more so his family would cut all ties if he followed his heart. All his family.

25.09.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join Dr. Mark Plotkin today, as we uncover how the spice trade fueled exploration, commerce, medicine, and culture and review Roger Crowley's new book Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World.

25.09.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok. Thank you. πŸ‘πŸ½

23.09.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm fully in support of the fishers, but Guernsey is also a tax haven.
If there's anything that Guernsey should be famous for, it's tax avoidance and money laundering by international criminals.

23.09.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's going back many years so it's just my recollection that the rulings, once someone had said that was the court of justice they ascribed to, that the government would enforce whatever ruling was made.
I'm not comfortable with that, if it's indeed true.

23.09.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

that once someone had agreed to sign up to the courts ruling, it was legally enforced by the UK government.
I might well be wrong but, If I am right, I'm not comfortable with different laws applying to different people unless they are completely, completely voluntarily, ascribed to the rulings.

23.09.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Which part?

23.09.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought they did have legal backing though, which opens the door to coercion in conservative communities?

23.09.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Johann Hari talks on what they do at Japanese schools to help kids be healthyπŸ€”@Steven Bartlett #foryoupage #foryou #fyp #diaryofaceo #doac #podcast #podcastclips #stevenbartlett #diaryofaceopodcast TikTok video by The Diary Of A CEO

FOOD!!! ?
Have you seen Yohan Haari discussing how the Japanese educate their children about food?
www.tiktok.com/@doac.clips/...

23.09.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report

A laymen discussion on what has changed, and what we may be able to do.
youtu.be/sZDh8JvUG1Q?...

15.09.2025 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a restaurant . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a restaurant .

What if I was to say,
"DAAA D-DAAA,
DANA DANA DOW,
DNALA D-DAAA,
DAA DNLA DAAA ...

13.09.2025 08:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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