Maxtrophoto

Met Office: Extreme weather the UK's new normal The UK has a notably different climate compared with just a few decades ago, the Met Office says.

It really is astounding that, even with all the evidence right in front of them, there continue to those who not only claim climate change isn't real, but actually roll back the minimal steps we have taken to combat it.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

uh oh what’s the fifth panel gonna be

It drives me crazy. To dare to talk about protecting the Earth when all you're doing is a PR stunt that pollutes the equivalent of a decade of a Westerner's life who already pollute a lot.

I love space exploration, but space tourism for selfish rich people is a cancer.

🌍 On vous propose un «starter pack» garanti sans consommation excessive d’eau et émission de CO2. Vous en dites quoi ? 

Pas besoin d’IA quand on a @sanaga.bsky.social dans l’équipe 🫶

Et vous, vous ajouteriez quoi dans ce starter pack ? Dites-le nous en commentaires !

Imagine looking out the window and seeing your entire homeworld just floating there, in the dark.

The crew of Apollo 12 did.

Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.

The EU should completely ban X. It is not a social media platform but an mechanism to bring down democracies.

www.politico.eu/article/musk...

A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.

This image shows the planetary system HR 8799. The image background is black. At the centre of the image, there is a symbol representing a star labeled HR 8799. This star blocks the light from the host star. There are four exoplanets, which look like fuzzy dots, pictured in the image surrounding the star. Furthest from the star is a fuzzy, faint blue dot, labeled b, at the 10 o’clock position. At the one o’clock position, second furthest from the star is a blueish-white fuzzy dot labeled c. Just below that is an orange dot labeled e. At the four o’clock position, still nearby the star, is another fuzzy white dot labeled d.

The NASA/ESA/CSA #Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of gas giant #exoplanets in a system 130 light-years away, and found evidence that they formed like Jupiter and Saturn 🪐

Read more 👉 esawebb.org/news/weic2504/

🔭🧪 #astrosci

I'll just translate what @exserv.bsky.social wrote:

"Sony wins the challenge: how can you say you haven't read, listened to and understood the story of Horizon Zero Dawn without saying you haven't read, listened to and understood the story of Horizon Zero Dawn 🤦"

Sonde sur la Lune avec son ombre qui se projette, et la Terre au loin

La sonde Blue Ghost s'est posée sur la Lune ce matin.
Voici une première image !

The Culture War: Iain M. Banks's Billionaire Fans - Blood Knife The Culture novels are far-future communist space opera from an explicitly socialist author. So how do we explain their wealthy, hyper-capitalist fans?

It's an awesome post-scarcity sci-fi story, and it makes me laugh that a company like Amazon is in charge of adaptation. 😁 But that's the world we live in.

The tapestry of our colorful planet from 250 miles above is beautiful because of its diversity.

It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump | Moira Donegan A foreign billionaire is running the state through a shadow government without formal checks – the constitutional order, now, is largely window dressing It’s one of the humiliations of our historical moment that the constitutional order has been…

It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump | Moira Donegan

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

NY Post headline saying: The incredible, blind arrogance of the 'fact checking' censors By Post Editorial Board

I've been saying for years now that the GOP considers any attempt to correct their lies as "censorship" and eventually it would lead to this.

More speech is now called censorship.

Inconvenient truths about the fires burning in Los Angeles from two fire experts For years, renowned fire experts Jack Cohen and Stephen Pyne have tried to shift the conversation on fire prevention strategies. This week’s destruction, they say, could have been minimized.

Some of my LA friends have told me that the problem is climate change, and it is. It’s January for fucks sake. But that doesn’t mean we have to solve climate change to better control fire. If we wait for that, cities will keep burning. There are ways to mitigate risk. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Post-apocalypse show pausing for the apocalypse

Yes ! So happy to be able to follow my fav space agency 🪐✨️

The #climate/water paradox: As temperatures rise, more #water evaporates into the atmosphere & more precipitation occurs. But land areas are getting drier not wetter. Why? Because more water evaporates from soils. The rain that falls is in intense events in fewer regions, leading to worse #floods 👉

In online drone panic, conspiracy thinking has gone mainstream Authorities are urging calm. But with trust in media and other institutions at all-time lows, fringe theories are winning the day.

To me, the drone panic puts America’s decline — and how social media companies are further fueling it — on full display.

How can a country rule the work when its people are increasingly illiterate and consumed by conspiracy theories?

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image.

All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

Possibly my favourite picture of the Earth from the Moon, this one taken on Apollo 15.

I love this one because it isn't perfect. You can see the windowsill, you can feel that one of the astronauts is behind the camera. It's not perfectly framed but that makes it so human!