@alansbird.bsky.social
not sure this is what Bluesky is for but:
we could use a couple of extra players for a longstanding Wednesday night 5-a-side football game in New Malden
please DM me if you’re interested
the age range is a somewhat wild 21-64
The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
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In a world of Matts, be a Derek.
10.03.2025 19:44 — 👍 31778 🔁 7989 💬 450 📌 255Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."
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~ 951 gallons (3,599 liters).
~ 6,372 lbs (2,890 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $5,324 cost of fuel.
~ 10 tons of CO2 emissions.
~ 2,455 gallons (9,294 liters).
~ 16,455 lbs (7,464 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $13,749 cost of fuel.
~ 26 tons of CO2 emissions.
This is Mont Saint Michel, a 1,300 year-old abbey built in Normandy, France.
It's a masterpiece of Medieval engineering and defies all odds.
But it isn't a solitary wonder, it's part of the greatest formation of marvels that you've never heard of... 🧵
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
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