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Grad Cert Buddhist Philosophy, 1971-72, LTWA, Dharamsala India
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atj15 @atriverside.bsky.social · Oct 11
🔥James Hutton Tercentenary 2026🔥

"The world will celebrate the 300th anniversary of James Hutton’s birth in 2026. This website will highlight the many activities planned to mark this important milestone across Scotland and beyond."

james-hutton.org/tercentenary/
The Birth of ‘Deep Time’ Towards the end of the eighteenth century, one man’s theories about the real age of the Earth transformed the way people thought about how truly ancient the planet is. His name was James Hutton – the Founder of Modern Geology and the pioneer of Deep Time.
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auonsson.bsky.social
NATO made a record 16 interceptions Dec 10-17.

Normal week 2025: median 3, mean 4 scrambles.

December weeks 2024: 2, 7, 2, 0

2nd highest: 12 in July.
December 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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borisetneo.bsky.social
Eruptive activity has increased since 24 December 2025 at two of #Etna 's four summit craters: the Northeast Crater and the Bocca Nuova. Strombolian explosions produce jets of incandescent material and minor ash emissions

www.ct.ingv.it/Dati/informa...
Glow produced by Strombolian activity at Etna's Northeast Crater during the night of 25-26 December 2025, seen from Nicolosi, on the south flank of the volcano Simultaneous Strombolian activity at the Bocca Nuova (at left) and Northeast Crater (background) at Etna's summit just before dawn on 26 December 2025, recorded by a monitoring camera of the INGV-Osservatorio Etneo located on the Montagnola, an old crater high on the south flank of the volcano. Heat anomaly at Etna's Northeast Crater during the forenoon of 26 December 2025, recorded by a thermal monitoring camera of the INGV-Osservatorio Etneo located at Monte Cagliato on the east flank of the volcano. Ash emission from the "BN-2" vent of the Bocca Nuova crater at Etna's summit at about noon on 26 December 2025, seen from Piano Vetore, on the upper southwestern flank of the volcano
December 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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peterbrannen.bsky.social
I got New York Review of Books’d by Bill McKibben www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
December 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
atriverside.bsky.social
"During the second week of December, New York City recorded 24,607 laboratory-reported cases of flu — more than during any week during the last flu season, which was particularly bad. More than half of those cases, 14,957, were children."

Read for free
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/n...
Flu Cases Climb to Highest Levels in New York City in a Decade
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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advocate.nyc.gov
The Trump administration attempted to make New York roads less safe, for the sake of scoring a few political points and feeding their deportation machine.

Thankfully, a federal judge threw out their challenge to the Green Light Law. When we fight, we win.
Federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit against New York's 'Green Light Law'
The law allows the DMV to issue standard driver’s licenses to individuals without Social Security numbers and "regardless of their citizenship or lawful status in the United States."
spectrumlocalnews.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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delriverkeeper.bsky.social
As 2025 draws to a close, please consider donating to support the defense of our Delaware River watershed—every dollar makes difference.
givebutter.com/DRN2025EOY
2025 End Of Year Giving
By Delaware Riverkeeper Network
givebutter.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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philbildner.bsky.social
Support Local Media

@mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social has created a directory of the more than 2200 local news outlets in the 50 states. This holiday season, please consider getting or gifting a local newspaper subscription.

Defend democracy.

www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...
Local Journalism Directory | Media and Democracy Project
We created a directory to help you find local journalism and local news sources in your area worth reading and supporting.
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org
December 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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janainelson.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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brennancenter.org
At the Supreme Court, a private prison company is seeking a ruling that could help all government contractors evade liability. More on the case: bit.ly/4pfafj2
Supreme Court Considers Private Prison Case
A private prison company seeks a ruling that could help all government contractors evade liability.
www.brennancenter.org
December 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
On Friday (12/19/25), a gathering in quiet reflection took place at the State Capitol in memory of the past months' victims of ICE.
December 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Happy Resistance! ✊
December 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
It’s satisfying to watch them reach their own downfall; all they had to do was keep talking until the truth became undeniable.
December 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
A Dallas church has swapped the traditional stable for chain-link and barbed wire, forcing a raw look at what a modern-day Nativity really looks like.
December 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Happy Holidays from Visibility Brigades around the country!
December 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
WHY ARE YOU HIDING
YOUR FACE?
December 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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mollytaft.com
merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this
An onion in a Christmas box
December 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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bsbiscotland.bsky.social
My #PlantoftheYear for 2025 is the fabulous Tufted Saxifrage, one of our rarest arctic-alpines. I helped survey the known sites for this plant in Scotland for @plantlifeuk.bsky.social - this beauty was in a grotty gully just under the summit of Ben Nevis 😍

Merry Christmas everyone! #wildflowerhour
December 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
atriverside.bsky.social
"After the discovery beside a stream in Sungai Congkak Recreational Forest, the researchers conducted several surveys nearby. They have only found 20 individuals to date, including some that lived within tree hollows."

#FairyLantern
December 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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robin-tibochi.bsky.social
Phone calls home help maintain the connection when loved ones are separated maintaining that connection can translate into a softer landing when being released. This is just cruel and bad policy if you truly want people to be rehabilitated, which we know they don’t.
boltsmag.org Bolts @boltsmag.org · 2d
“Making incarcerated people pay for communication has a regressive effect on their well-being, on their improvement in prison, and after they are released,” says Wanda Betram, a spokesperson for the Prison Policy Initiative.
Priced Out of Phone Calls Home
The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.
boltsmag.org
December 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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dennisgoris.bsky.social
Journalism USA #60minutes
December 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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🧪⚒️ Just posted: Carina Hoorn on the evolution of the Amazon basin. It was the rise of the Andes and the subsidence induced by the subduction under S. America's W coast that drove diversification. Listen and find out why. #geology #earth #Amazon
Amazonian blackwater lake (left), rainforest, and whitewater river. The whitewater river is laden with sediments from erosion of the Andes. Photo Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay Miocene fossil palm pollen grain (40 µm across) from the Pebas Wetland System. This species and others found with it are characteristic of lacustrine-estuarine conditions with wetland vegetation, peripheral forest, and a diverse aquatic fauna. The Amazon pink dolphin Inia geoffrensis is derived from a marine species. Michel Viard Modern plants that are still distributed in the former marine incursion pathway which is thought to have left a geochemical imprint in the soils on top of the Solimões/Pebas formation. It has been shown that the bedrock and soils of the Pebas/Amazonas are much richer due either due to general chemistry or chemistry related to marine incursions.
December 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Xmas Eve at Kew
Xmas lights Xmas lights Xmas lights Xmas lights
December 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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londonist.com
Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update
A glimpse of London, 1,000 years past.
londonist.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
US issues visa ban on former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton as well as Imran Ahmed, the British CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate; Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon of the German nonprofit HateAid; and Clare Melford, co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI).
US targets former EU commissioner, activists with visa bans over alleged censorship
The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed visa bans on a former European Union commissioner and anti-disinformation campaigners it says were involved in censoring U.S. social media platforms, in the...
www.reuters.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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maddyseale.bsky.social
The @science.org NOSTER microbiome prize is open for entries until 14th February. $25k top prize and essay published in Science. Open to researchers up to 10 years post PhD. See the website for further details
www.science.org/content/page...
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NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize
The NOSTER Science Microbiome Prize has been established to reward innovative research by young investigators working on the functional attributes of the microbiota of any organism that has potential ...
www.science.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM