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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
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you're not really a dog owner until you google "[food dog ate] okay for dogs"
November 29, 2024 at 8:03 PM
you're not really a dog owner until you google "[food dog ate] okay for dogs"
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This is Teddy. He just finished his first Thanksgiving feast. Immediately proceeded to his new favorite tradition, the post-feast nap. 12/10
November 28, 2024 at 11:02 PM
This is Teddy. He just finished his first Thanksgiving feast. Immediately proceeded to his new favorite tradition, the post-feast nap. 12/10
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right wing Hindu nationalism has always been treated like a little bit of a side oddity here in the US but it is a horrifying, supremacist ideology and Tulsi Gabbard is all mixed up in it
November 13, 2024 at 10:12 PM
right wing Hindu nationalism has always been treated like a little bit of a side oddity here in the US but it is a horrifying, supremacist ideology and Tulsi Gabbard is all mixed up in it
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This is part of why one of the key issues at COP28 and now COP29 is financing for developing countries--they did little to cause climate change and won't be able to use fossil fuels to grow economically as the U.S., Europe and other countries did if we bring emissions down like we need to.
Last year for COP28, I wrote this piece (with graphics by @unamandita.bsky.social) explaining what the "carbon budget" is and analyzing who has effectively already overspent theirs (the U.S. is top of that list by a fair bit).
Wealthy Countries Have Blown Through Their Carbon Budgets
Some countries have used up far more of the world’s carbon budget—the amount we can emit and still avoid more extreme climate disruption—than others
www.scientificamerican.com
November 13, 2024 at 6:52 PM
This is part of why one of the key issues at COP28 and now COP29 is financing for developing countries--they did little to cause climate change and won't be able to use fossil fuels to grow economically as the U.S., Europe and other countries did if we bring emissions down like we need to.
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This is extremely important to track. The RSS in India spent years building an alternative infrastructure to undermine reputable centers of knowledge production and eventually took over our university system and professional academic associations. I am seeing the same process play out here.
Last month, the so-called American Academy of Sciences and Letters gave a medal to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who advocated for mass COVID infection. NY Post framed it as a “top award.”
We looked into it. AASL is 2 years old—part of a right-wing dark money network trying to transform elite universities.
We looked into it. AASL is 2 years old—part of a right-wing dark money network trying to transform elite universities.
The Invisible Hand: How Dark Money Is Inventing Prestige for Right-Wing Academics
The Academy of Sciences and Letters sounds prestigious, but is it really?
www.importantcontext.news
November 13, 2024 at 6:01 AM
This is extremely important to track. The RSS in India spent years building an alternative infrastructure to undermine reputable centers of knowledge production and eventually took over our university system and professional academic associations. I am seeing the same process play out here.
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"as the AMOC evolves in a changing climate, how we define these water masses becomes more critical"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Observed decrease in Deep Western Boundary Current transport in subpolar North Atlantic - Nature Geoscience
The amount of water transported southwards by the Deep Western Boundary Current shows a 26% decline since 2014 in mooring array monitoring data, despite the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overtur...
www.nature.com
November 8, 2024 at 1:28 PM
"as the AMOC evolves in a changing climate, how we define these water masses becomes more critical"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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July 1, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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I think when we bike home in the dark it must be like riding Space Mountain for him.
November 7, 2023 at 2:37 AM
I think when we bike home in the dark it must be like riding Space Mountain for him.
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Actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist. I, the person correcting you on this trivial point, am the monster.
October 31, 2023 at 4:28 PM
Actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist. I, the person correcting you on this trivial point, am the monster.
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Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith
“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment
"You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."
"You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."
Discworld QOTD, from Snuff
“I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.”
“I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.”
October 17, 2023 at 5:15 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith
“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
Do I wake up for this?
September 22, 2023 at 8:12 AM
Do I wake up for this?
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Bluesky is very slowly starting to build up enough that it has the constant flow of posts I need to avoid real life.
September 22, 2023 at 1:15 AM
Bluesky is very slowly starting to build up enough that it has the constant flow of posts I need to avoid real life.