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YouTube video by Daniel Greene The Seven Levels of Science Fiction || EXPLAINED

Oh great! More novels and books and series that I could add to my increasing books-to-read list! 📚 c/o @danielgreene.bsky.social

youtu.be/H7Z72a8vGj4

a white crowned robin chat stands atop a book titled “a dumb birds field guide to the worst birds ever”

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅

(this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him)

🧪🌍 #bird #birb

Across Europe, Carnival still erupts in late winter, even as Lent fades from view. Rooted in a Christian “last hurrah” before 40 days of restraint, the season now survives mostly as spectacle:

These key strategies could help Americans get rid of their cars  » Yale Climate Connections Research points the way to a more climate-friendly, diverse, and desirable transportation system.

Going car-free is the best thing most people can do for climate. To reduce car dependency, cities should promote car-free living, supporting compact cities through policy, and investing in public transportation, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, and shared mobility options.

The moment that showed how low Team Trump can go Trump's Attorney General could have answered questions about the delayed and incomplete release of the Epstein files. Instead, she went on the attack

“At the hearings, Pam Bondi had a choice to make: she could deliver the answers that Epstein’s victims and the American public deserved, or she could give the performance that Trump would enjoy.

“Bondi chose Trump over Epstein’s victims. No wonder she couldn’t look them in the eyes.”

YouTube video by SportsBall Hockey at the Olympics 🏒 Data from NHL, Sound of Hockey, and QuantHockey

This hand-drawn #hockey infographic about #NHL players in the #Olympics is so good! 🤩

youtube.com/shorts/HmwXG...

Ireland announces scheme to provide basic income for artists The Basic Income for Artists (BIA) project is believed to be the first permanent one of its kind in the world.

After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists.

2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).

India has border disputes with China and Pakistan. And because OSM’s on-the-ground policy means that the default borders are based on the actual lines of control, this does not square with India’s requirement to show their preferred borders making most OSM-based maps illegal in India.

GitHub - ramSeraph/india_boundary_corrector: Library to correct the Indian Boundary for existing raster basemaps Library to correct the Indian Boundary for existing raster basemaps - ramSeraph/india_boundary_corrector

I recently learned of this JavaScript library that works with LeafletJS, @openlayers.org, or @maplibre.org to modify the most popular @openstreetmap.bsky.social-based raster tilesets to comply with strict Indian laws about depicting #India’s 🇮🇳 borders.

github.com/ramSeraph/in...

#gischat

This #map title could be "Retirement with a sea view in Belgium".
See online version on Eurostat website: tinyurl.com/2ps59n6a

Imagine seeing this right when you walk out your cabin in Alaska… well, I did two nights ago!

Trump, Extreme Wealth Concentration, and Our Societal Crisis | Common Dreams The US government simply has not done enough to ensure that the livelihoods of all Americans are protected or improved in this new Gilded Age. What it has done is made sure the rich get richer by the ...

From 1975 to 2023, $79 trillion in wealth was transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.

www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Letters from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

How a Philippines-based ops tried to bury Jeffrey Epstein's bad press Emails show Jeffrey Epstein hired a Philippines-based operation to sanitize his online image.

Buried in the #EpsteinFiles are email exchanges where Epstein contracted teams to sanitize his @wikipedia.org article.

www.philstar.com/headlines/20...

It’s been over a month since this post and I am still obsessed with this TV show. 📺

I’d like to think that I have a really good grasp of English, but I still have to look up the definitions of ‘alternate’ vs. ‘alternative’ to know which one to correctly use.

I’ve visited 8 Olympic host cities so far, including Milan, which is currently co-hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics.

1. Vancouver 🇨🇦
2. Tokyo 🇯🇵
3. Berlin 🇩🇪
4. London 🇬🇧
5. Barcelona 🇪🇸
6. Amsterdam 🇳🇱
7. Milan 🇮🇹
8. Rome 🇮🇹

YouTube video by CNA Insider Philippines' Rare 'Dinosaur-Egg' Salt That Cracks Open When Ready: Asin Tibuok | Salt Of The Earth

I have never tried asin tibuok before and so this CNA documentary about the Philippines’ artisanal salt (maybe even more prized than Himalayan pink salt) is very informative. 🧂

youtu.be/Nz4L0e2bRAc

YouTube video by Ego Dip Remaking Midnight City by M83 to Learn Why It’s So Good

The musical skill needed to recreate the 2011 synth-pop hit “Midnight City” by M83 is hella impressive!

youtu.be/kLh2dUhqv8I

#music #songs

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Name them
shame them

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

YouTube video by Langfocus Spanish in the Philippines

I don't speak nor understand Spanish but I know a ton of loanwords in Tagalog. This video by @langfocus.bsky.social is very interesting and I learned several new things. Like the fact that the Tagalog word for peanut 🥜 (“manî”) comes from Taíno and not Spanish or Nahuatl

youtu.be/_sgjgFno4xY

Remember, the full Epstein Files are well over 6 million pages long.

What you have seen so far is the *least offensive* 3 million pages.

Trump and his lawyers are hiding the other 3 million pages—and have made clear that they will never ever release them, federal law be damned.

Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor Tesla’s nascent robotaxi program is off to a rough start. New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of...

New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car.

Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX.

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“Stop asking candidates if they “believe in” climate change and start asking if they understand it. It’s science, not Santa Claus.”

Can we please never forget this. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Chart of US measles cases by year

US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.

Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers.

Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024.

And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary.

The system is rigged.