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In my opinion, Blusky is worse than Twitter.
October 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
In my opinion, Blusky is worse than Twitter.
October 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In my opinion, Blusky is worse than Twitter.
October 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In my opinion, Blusky is worse than Twitter.
October 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Ancient Organisms Have Been Sleeping Beneath the Arctic for 40,000 Years—and Now They're Waking Up
Once awaken they are as active as modern microbes
These microbes break down soil and release even more carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...
Ancient Organisms Have Been Sleeping Beneath the Arctic for 40,000 Years—and Now They're Waking Up
Once they awaken, these microbes continue to break down soil and release carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.
www.popularmechanics.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Wheat production is down by the equivalent of over a year’s supply of bread for the UK, after extreme weather hits harvests

UK Govt reacts

Increase passenger numbers in Gatwick by over 40% within the next decade and promote even more extreme weather
eciu.net/media/press-...
Year's worth of British bread lost this decade as extreme weather…
New analysis suggests that wheat production is down by the equivalent of over a year’s supply of bread for the UK, after extreme weather hits harvests
eciu.net
October 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Scientists race to cryopreserve a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct
Its not just the birds and wildlife heading for extinction

www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
'This needs to happen fast': Scientists race to cryopreserve a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct
Less than 400 angle-stemmed myrtle specimens remain in the wild in Australia. Scientists are working on ways to preserve the species so that we can bring it back at any point if it dies out.
www.livescience.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The whole economic and political system from left to right is geared towards economic growth based on the total annihilation of the natural world
And this is called progress
And anyone who says otherwise is mocked as a freak and a clown but we all know who the real clowns are
February 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Agent #Krasnov hails 'great day for Germany' as conservatives and the pro Russian far-right on track for record vote shares

news.sky.com/story/german...
Election latest: Trump hails 'great day for Germany' as conservatives and far-right on track for record vote shares
Donald Trump has hailed a "great day for Germany" as the conservative bloc CDU/CSU looks set to take the election. It could also be an historic night for the far-right AfD party, if exit polls are acc...
news.sky.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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H5N1 is a human creation
That came from intensive poultry farming in China

Avian influenza viruses are endemic in wild aquatic birds, with whom they have coevolved for millions of years. They cause minimal disease; damaging their hosts would impair their own spread.

nautil.us/the-unnatura...
The Unnatural History of Bird Flu
H5N1 is a human creation
nautil.us
February 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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'We've lost a partner and a friend': Ukrainians somber as U.S. partnership disintegrates

www.nbcnews.com/news/world/r...
'We've lost a partner and a friend': Ukrainians somber as U.S. partnership disintegrates
Ukrainians “couldn’t cope without American weapons and support,” Yuliya Antonyuk, a 42-year-old real estate agent, told NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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European poster: America wants to teach us Democracy?
February 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"
February 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Regret
February 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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The US wants to get 50% of Ukrainian minerals and may deploy its troops to guard them.... kyivindependent.com/us-wants-to-...
US wants to get 50% of Ukrainian minerals, may deploy its troops to guard them, NBC reports
President Volodymyr Zelensky hasn't yet signed the document, calling it "a memorandum," not a security agreement.
kyivindependent.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Because you are sucking up to the owner of your newspaper?
February 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign.

4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe.

881,776 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and made Trump a dictator.
February 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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For those who follow climate clichés, this may be an all-time record:

"This makes the ice sheets canaries in the coalmine for climate change, and we ought to pay close attention. Crucially, the window for corrective action may still be open for the ice sheets..."

medium.com/the-new-clim...
“We May Have Lost Control”: The Melting Ice Sheets and What Happens Next
Scientists now believe significant melting of the ice sheets is inevitable. What does this mean for everyday life and the planet?
medium.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Why on February 15, 80 years ago, the british crown made a strange and terrible decision to bomb Dresden?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing...
Bombing of Dresden - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Since 1979, Arctic sea ice extent, a term that describes the area of the Arctic Ocean covered by ice, has been reduced by 40% in the late summer months
Without our Arctic cooler we are toast
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
February 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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On Thursday, Trump and Musk tried to fire 300 government nuclear officials.

Today, they realized those officials oversee the US nuclear arsenal — and they scurried to rehire the officials.
February 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
February 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ?

And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions !

We all look forward to reading your thoughts
I keep saying Dems need to do a daily briefing on Capitol Hill and fill the void, fact check the WH. Hire Pete Buttigeig and give him a staff to do this.
February 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM