Nita Noor
nitanoorad.bsky.social
Nita Noor
@nitanoorad.bsky.social
i am here because i loathe that x guy and his ilk. my interests are varied, and this ‘description’ will change over time...

biophile | truth | beauty | integrity | in appreciation of the Absurd

unless otherwise stated, all photos are mine.
Pinned
to think is to resist – something no machine does...
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Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny

Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy

By Brian McHugh
Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Excellent and engaging conversation between Zack Polanski and Natasha Devon about education and how Michael Gove and austerity have between them caused a mental health crisis among young people. Enjoyable despite the challenging topic.
Great conversation with @natashadevon.bsky.social - How the Education system became a mental health crisis.

Full YouTube Premiere at 7pm.

youtu.be/308kvoBM3xw?...
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Listened to it yesterday and am filled with admiration for Natasha. The bit that got me most; People without empathy but with information are manipulating those with empathy but no information. A better description of the current Reform surge than any.
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Don’t let these two get away. They are also in the Epstein files
November 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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"Cosmos is closed and light cannot escape from it, then it may be perfectly correct to describe the universe as a black hole. If you wish to know what it is like inside a black hole, look around you."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Sensitive, confidential & interesting docs are sitting out in the open on the internet. Do you know how to find them?

My new @indicator.media Guide dives into Google dorks & tools that can uncover publicly available docs on websites and in unsecured buckets:
indicator.media/p/guide-to-h... #osint
The Indicator Guide to hunting for documents and files in open buckets, servers, and directories
How to find interesting and potentially confidential documents sitting on a publicly-accessible server or website
indicator.media
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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In an age where influential software designs often come by committee, this anecdote serves to remind us that it doesn't have to be this way.
Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes
In 1982, a young Mac developer turned Jobs into a UI designer—and accidentally invented a new technique.
arstechnica.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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When everything mediated by screens and signals becomes uncertain, embodied presence remains the last reliable interface with truth. Smell, touch, proximity — they can’t yet be convincingly faked at scale. That’s why human-to-human contact still carries epistemic authority.
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention.- Talking Heads

Pic of the day

#photography
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I find this remarkable:

The Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving Mayan manuscripts, contains tables that give highly accurate timings of solar eclipses over more than 700 years, from 350 CE to the 12 century. 🧪🔭

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Name one thing the Romans have done for us
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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A nice present from a couple from Virginia on the tour yesterday
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Asks Us to Consider the Monster
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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No surprise here...

Fun fact 1: the largest open pit mines are responsible for a major share in various mineral segments

Fun fact 2: financial markets will amplify the supply driven price shocks

Fun fact 3: volatility drives financial gains

Fun fact 4: problem solved

#climate #earth #finance
Climate change is devastating mining of minerals needed to fight it
Extreme weather threatens the extraction of critical minerals required to produce clean energy.
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Solar eclipse as seen from Lompoc, California, 1923
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1075, a 3rd or 4th century CE manuscript showing part of Exodus 40
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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November 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
‘However, the Mamdani campaign does not represent a frontal assault on the wealth of the oligarchy but an attempt to rescue the Democratic Party....’
In rebuke to Trump’s fascism, Mamdani elected mayor of New York City, Democrats sweep governor races

The large vote for Mamdani is a distorted reflection of the growing support for socialism and the radicalization of the working class and youth.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
In rebuke to Trump’s fascism, Mamdani elected mayor of New York City, Democrats sweep governor races
In New York City—the global center of financial parasitism—a self-described democratic socialist, Zohran Mamdani, has won the mayoral election in New York City.
www.wsws.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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can’t let genocide stand in the way of profits and decent relations with the US
Norway suspends $2.1tn oil fund’s ethics rules to avoid selling Big Tech stakes
Jens Stoltenberg says move will avoid forced sale of shares in Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet over their work for Israel
www.ft.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Comet Lemmon Beyond Lomnický Peak

Credit: Robert Barsa www.instagram.com/rob.barsa/

www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...

#APOD 🧪🔭
November 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Requiring government ID just to make an app is a disaster for speech, privacy, and innovation. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Application Gatekeeping: An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet
Apple and Google use their app stores to shape what apps you can and cannot have on devices, but now more governments—including the U.S. government—are using legal and extralegal tools to lean on
www.eff.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
‘their style of putting people & wealth redistribution back at the heart of politics has driven their surging popularity among voters ... However, the two have taken strikingly different routes when it came to growing support for their campaigns.’
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM