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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, that's my pitch @itvx.com - happy to work up those scripts and work out what the fuck the #Thunderbirds are supposed to do about those societal, #TragedyOfTheCommons type problems!
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly it's just the scale that matters - invading a small ostensibly problematic nation homing #TheHood probably seems easier (in a very narrow sense) than rebooting our energy systems. But is it really?
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 1d

It's often struck me that we (and the original #Thunderbirds) focus on problems with a discernible, malevolent human behind them totally at the expense of genuinely more serious problems where we've all ultimately got a hand in them.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 1d

So, the obvious episodes are #Wildfire in high-tech California, #SeaLevelRise flooding in London, #ClimateChange driven avalanche at an Alpine resort, #ExtremeHeat in the Midwest, #IceShelfCollapse at an Antarctic base, heat-buckled rails and a high-speed train, ...
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 1d

Having just heard its theme on today's #DesertIslandDiscs, here's my capsule pitch for a remake of #Thunderbirds: exactly the same except all the problems are wholly side effects of civilisation, like #ClimateChange
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 3d

And there's also an associated scientific software engineer position on the same project!

UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 3d

🚀 We're hiring a Scientific Software Engineer!
Join the UKESM team to help develop and optimise the next generation UK Earth System Model for tipping point research.
💼 Grade 7 (£41k–£48k) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February.

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System Modelling

Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Are you keen to apply ...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 3d

Come join us! #UKESM has a great team of (geographically-distributed) experts across all areas of the #EarthSystem, 🌍🌊🌳🏔️⛅. The role will involve examining #TippingPoints as part of the #ARIA project, #PROMOTE.

UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 3d

🚀 We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling: develop the UKESM2 model and use it to investigate tipping points.
📍 Grade 7 (£41,064–£48,822) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling

Research Fellow in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Would you like to join a team asses...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 3d

🚀 We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling: develop the UKESM2 model and use it to investigate tipping points.
📍 Grade 7 (£41,064–£48,822) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling

Research Fellow in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Would you like to join a team asses...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 3d

🚀 We're hiring a Scientific Software Engineer!
Join the UKESM team to help develop and optimise the next generation UK Earth System Model for tipping point research.
💼 Grade 7 (£41k–£48k) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February.

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System Modelling

Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Are you keen to apply ...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 3d

- "The Other 70%"
- "Not Yours, Apes!"
- "Take Only Measurements, Leave Only Ripples"
- "The Ancestral Home"
- "Why You're Made Of Water"
- "We're Coming For Your Coastal Towns!"
- "Mostly Deep, Dark And Cold"
- "One Day You'll Regret Warming Me"

I'm possibly channeling the wrong emotion here ... 🌊

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 5d

While it's unlikely to ever get the same traction as the ongoing political Punch and Judy show, I'm very glad that someone's actually thinking about (a) the actual victims and (b) what this whole sorry affair tells us about the elites who shape our lives. Thank you #MarinaHyde!

Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway | Marina Hyde

I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile, quite possibly the very same people are pretending that all of those thousands of protestors in Minnesota (risking life and limb, let's not forget) are somehow paid for by communists (or some other convenient bogeyman).

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 5d

I see that you're keeping quiet about the thick carpet of cloud / all-encompassing haze of precipitation that will be separating those 10 hours of sunlight from attendees at ground level ... 😉

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 6d

These are all words I expect to continue making solid use of for the next 3 years.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.

bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy

Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 6d

It'd be a minor footnote for this whole debacle, but I'm sure that there's a PhD thesis waiting to be written contrasting how the politically powerful bitch about the education system and standards of writing in public and how they write and conduct themselves in private. Wankers.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.

bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy

Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 10d

Summary: authoritarian man tells knowledgeable woman what to do. The US's war on safe healthcare in microcosm.

She'll mess with Texas: Nurse keeps mailing abortion pills, despite Paxton lawsuit

Texas sues Delaware nurse practitioner shipping out hundreds of abortion pills each month.

arstechnica.com

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 17d

This reminds me how bullshit our calendar is.

We totally could've shaved a day each from January and March to give Feb its 30-day dues.

*Or* ... we could have gone for 13 months of 28 days to better line-up with the Moon's sidereal orbit, and then kept the extra day (or 2 if leap) as holidays.

Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 17d

Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.

Mnemonic

Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November.
Unless a leap year is its fate,
February hath twenty-eight.
All the rest hath three days more,
excepting January,
which hath six thousand,
one hundred and eighty-four.

Brian Bilston

Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 17d

Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 18d

Good luck! We erred on the side of risk-aversion with access to the outdoors for Phoebe.

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 19d

💯! I know exactly which tyrant I'd prefer to see extinct. 😂

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 19d

The conjunction of the colour orange with the phrase "king tyrant" seems vaguely reminiscent of something ...

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 19d

Such a Tetris amateur - your letters will be at the top of the window before you know it!

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 20d

However, murals are much harder to put a traffic cone on top of.

But they can be *painted on*.

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 20d

In years to come, future historians will be astonished at the litany of (essentially) "fuck you" posts from the #OrangeTyrant, and then aghast at just how long the leaders of western nations took these from him.

No self-respecting person would take this crap from anyone in their lives, and yet ...

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 20d

Has anyone extrapolated this to work out when the content of the UK's right-wing "newspapers" is basically 100% Ed Miliband hit pieces?

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 21d

Alternatively: Self-absorbed narcissist scientists reframe all biological discoveries as being all about their own species.

Really #PopularMechanics, that's what you're going with?

Popular Mechanics headline: "Scientists may have found the blueprint of the human body at the bottom of the ocean"

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 23d

Don't know, but I'm all for trying that.

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 24d

By contrast, rather than hide it from the fascists, Machado has actually given her prize to them, transmogrifying it instead into shit. I don't think there's a reverse reaction that can be used to restore it, however.

Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 25d

Great minds clearly think alike. This is from @newsthump.com.

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