Wif Stenger
@wifsten.bsky.social
writer, listener
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Brian Eno urges support for Together for #Palestine song
#Lullaby features #Palestinian singer Nai Barghouti and artists including Eno and Neneh Cherry with English lyrics by #PeterGabriel (available on #Bandcamp
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
#Lullaby features #Palestinian singer Nai Barghouti and artists including Eno and Neneh Cherry with English lyrics by #PeterGabriel (available on #Bandcamp
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
Brian Eno urges support to get Together for Palestine song to Christmas No 1
Lullaby features Palestinian singer, lyrics written by Peter Gabriel and artists including Eno and Celeste
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Brian Eno urges support for Together for #Palestine song
#Lullaby features #Palestinian singer Nai Barghouti and artists including Eno and Neneh Cherry with English lyrics by #PeterGabriel (available on #Bandcamp
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
#Lullaby features #Palestinian singer Nai Barghouti and artists including Eno and Neneh Cherry with English lyrics by #PeterGabriel (available on #Bandcamp
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
‘We look ridiculous’: US government website removes #fossilfuels as cause of #globalwarming
'It's like pretending cigarettes don’t cause lung cancer'
#epa #climate #uspol
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
'It's like pretending cigarettes don’t cause lung cancer'
#epa #climate #uspol
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
Fossil fuels removed as cause of global warming on EPA website
'It's like pretending cigarettes don’t cause lung cancer,' says one climate expert.
www.euronews.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
‘We look ridiculous’: US government website removes #fossilfuels as cause of #globalwarming
'It's like pretending cigarettes don’t cause lung cancer'
#epa #climate #uspol
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
'It's like pretending cigarettes don’t cause lung cancer'
#epa #climate #uspol
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
Sonny Daze is passionate, honest and discerning about new #jazz and other musics, was lucky to meet him at #NYC Winter Jazzfest last year
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downbeat.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Sonny Daze is passionate, honest and discerning about new #jazz and other musics, was lucky to meet him at #NYC Winter Jazzfest last year
downbeat.com/news/detail/...
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To encourage innovation, incentivize newsroom staff by not just tying their performance reviews to AI, but also a variety of other technologies, like bullhorns, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, egg whisks, and those cool Daft Punk visor helmets with the scrolling LEDs
December 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
To encourage innovation, incentivize newsroom staff by not just tying their performance reviews to AI, but also a variety of other technologies, like bullhorns, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, egg whisks, and those cool Daft Punk visor helmets with the scrolling LEDs
Finnish Parliament approves shoddily prepared wolf hunting bill by wide margin, with support from many opposition MPs
yle.fi/a/74-20200200
yle.fi/a/74-20200200
Finnish Parliament approves wolf hunting by wide margin
The Council of Regulatory Impact Analysis had sharply criticised the government's handling of the wolf-hunting legislation.
yle.fi
December 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Finnish Parliament approves shoddily prepared wolf hunting bill by wide margin, with support from many opposition MPs
yle.fi/a/74-20200200
yle.fi/a/74-20200200
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After a big fall in coal-fired power generation in November, the CO2 emissions from China’s three largest emitting sectors - power, steel and cement - are almost certain to fall in 2025.
Our detailed monthly snapshot on power generation, industry and air pollution in China 👇
Our detailed monthly snapshot on power generation, industry and air pollution in China 👇
🇨🇳 NEW | China monthly snapshot | December 2025 | Energy & air pollution | EN & CN
📉 CO2 emissions from China’s three largest emitting sectors—power, steel, cement—almost certain to fall in 2025
💡 📉 In November 2025, coal power generation was down by 5.5% YoY
📉 CO2 emissions from China’s three largest emitting sectors—power, steel, cement—almost certain to fall in 2025
💡 📉 In November 2025, coal power generation was down by 5.5% YoY
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
After a big fall in coal-fired power generation in November, the CO2 emissions from China’s three largest emitting sectors - power, steel and cement - are almost certain to fall in 2025.
Our detailed monthly snapshot on power generation, industry and air pollution in China 👇
Our detailed monthly snapshot on power generation, industry and air pollution in China 👇
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Clifford Brown
Study in Brown (1955)
George's Dilemma
youtu.be/hmNBXvbC2cU
#NowPlaying #JazzSky #VinylSky #CliffordBrown #MaxRoach #HaroldLand #RichiePowell #GeorgeMorrow
Study in Brown (1955)
George's Dilemma
youtu.be/hmNBXvbC2cU
#NowPlaying #JazzSky #VinylSky #CliffordBrown #MaxRoach #HaroldLand #RichiePowell #GeorgeMorrow
December 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Clifford Brown
Study in Brown (1955)
George's Dilemma
youtu.be/hmNBXvbC2cU
#NowPlaying #JazzSky #VinylSky #CliffordBrown #MaxRoach #HaroldLand #RichiePowell #GeorgeMorrow
Study in Brown (1955)
George's Dilemma
youtu.be/hmNBXvbC2cU
#NowPlaying #JazzSky #VinylSky #CliffordBrown #MaxRoach #HaroldLand #RichiePowell #GeorgeMorrow
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Maybe it's the howling darkness ahead.
Maybe it's fear.
People say they want this and that for Christmas. All I want is to survive it.
Maybe it's fear.
People say they want this and that for Christmas. All I want is to survive it.
December 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Maybe it's the howling darkness ahead.
Maybe it's fear.
People say they want this and that for Christmas. All I want is to survive it.
Maybe it's fear.
People say they want this and that for Christmas. All I want is to survive it.
Pekko Käppi's Oli kerran ryytimaassa: Poignant acoustic ballads to blazing, feedback-soaked blues-rock
#songlines #finnishmusic #folkmusic #finland
www.songlines.co.uk/review/oli-k...
#songlines #finnishmusic #folkmusic #finland
www.songlines.co.uk/review/oli-k...
Oli kerran ryytimaassa…
www.songlines.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Pekko Käppi's Oli kerran ryytimaassa: Poignant acoustic ballads to blazing, feedback-soaked blues-rock
#songlines #finnishmusic #folkmusic #finland
www.songlines.co.uk/review/oli-k...
#songlines #finnishmusic #folkmusic #finland
www.songlines.co.uk/review/oli-k...
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The obsessions over sports are much more understandable when one recognizes them for what they are; proxy warfare via contrived tribalism.
Think back to the original Olympics; the idea of warring nations putting down their spears & arrows, and instead contesting one another through athleticism.
1/3
Think back to the original Olympics; the idea of warring nations putting down their spears & arrows, and instead contesting one another through athleticism.
1/3
December 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The obsessions over sports are much more understandable when one recognizes them for what they are; proxy warfare via contrived tribalism.
Think back to the original Olympics; the idea of warring nations putting down their spears & arrows, and instead contesting one another through athleticism.
1/3
Think back to the original Olympics; the idea of warring nations putting down their spears & arrows, and instead contesting one another through athleticism.
1/3
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There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat.
The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.
Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.
Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
December 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat.
The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.
Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.
Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
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This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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Trump's US was the only country in the UN voting against a resolution for the safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of UN workers. Not even their Russian buddies (abstention) stooped so low.
- De Verenigde Staten zijn het enige land dat tegen een resolutie stemt over de veiligheid en bescherming van humanitaire werkers en VN-personeel wereldwijd.
December 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Trump's US was the only country in the UN voting against a resolution for the safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of UN workers. Not even their Russian buddies (abstention) stooped so low.
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The counting machine at Paris's busiest cycle route just passed the mark of 5 million cyclists since the beginning of the year!
@brenttoderian.bsky.social @cycloxoxford.bsky.social @ingwarpero.bsky.social @sustainable2050.bsky.social @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social
@brenttoderian.bsky.social @cycloxoxford.bsky.social @ingwarpero.bsky.social @sustainable2050.bsky.social @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social
Ce samedi 13 décembre 2025, le cinq millionième passage de cycliste a été comptabilisé par le totem du boulevard de Sébastopol à Paris vers 13h, sans attendre que j’aie fini de déjeuner.
#CompteurSebastopol
#CompteurSebastopol
December 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The counting machine at Paris's busiest cycle route just passed the mark of 5 million cyclists since the beginning of the year!
@brenttoderian.bsky.social @cycloxoxford.bsky.social @ingwarpero.bsky.social @sustainable2050.bsky.social @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social
@brenttoderian.bsky.social @cycloxoxford.bsky.social @ingwarpero.bsky.social @sustainable2050.bsky.social @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social
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ICE tried to kidnap one man from a local grocery store in St. Paul, MN, but community members used their humanity & their bodies as a human shield to successfully fend them off. ✌🏻
December 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
ICE tried to kidnap one man from a local grocery store in St. Paul, MN, but community members used their humanity & their bodies as a human shield to successfully fend them off. ✌🏻
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It didn’t have to be this way.
December 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
It didn’t have to be this way.
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Thursday was brutal for Trump on multiple fronts — Indiana, Letitia James, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, AP poll, et al. — but don’t sleep on the House passing the Protect America’s Workforce Act.
It’s the first time this year the Republican-led House has voted to undo a Trump executive order.
It’s the first time this year the Republican-led House has voted to undo a Trump executive order.
House Republicans made matters even worse for Trump on his day from hell
The president has suffered through plenty of awful days this year, but few could compete with Thursday's events.
www.ms.now
December 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Thursday was brutal for Trump on multiple fronts — Indiana, Letitia James, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, AP poll, et al. — but don’t sleep on the House passing the Protect America’s Workforce Act.
It’s the first time this year the Republican-led House has voted to undo a Trump executive order.
It’s the first time this year the Republican-led House has voted to undo a Trump executive order.
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I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?
is…?
"The Russian President expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and confirmed his support for [the Maduro] government's course in defense of the country's sovereignty."
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?
is…?
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Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that
the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else
continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
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Congratulations to Democrats in Miami & Georgia! 🗳 💙
Eileen Higgins wins Miami mayoral race, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold. She's also the first female to become their mayor!
AND
Georgia Democrat, Eric Gisler, flips a GA state House seat in a district Trump won by 12 points! 🥳
Eileen Higgins wins Miami mayoral race, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold. She's also the first female to become their mayor!
AND
Georgia Democrat, Eric Gisler, flips a GA state House seat in a district Trump won by 12 points! 🥳
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Congratulations to Democrats in Miami & Georgia! 🗳 💙
Eileen Higgins wins Miami mayoral race, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold. She's also the first female to become their mayor!
AND
Georgia Democrat, Eric Gisler, flips a GA state House seat in a district Trump won by 12 points! 🥳
Eileen Higgins wins Miami mayoral race, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold. She's also the first female to become their mayor!
AND
Georgia Democrat, Eric Gisler, flips a GA state House seat in a district Trump won by 12 points! 🥳
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Sunshine durations so far in December. Zero hours almost everywhere in Finland. No wonder if it's felt dark recently.
December 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Sunshine durations so far in December. Zero hours almost everywhere in Finland. No wonder if it's felt dark recently.
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Big news: Deutsche Welle has launched DW Access, an Android app that delivers independent news where it's needed most: in regions under information lockdown.
Key features:
➡️ No app store needed (share via link, messenger, bluetooth)
➡️ Offline mode
➡️ Built-in VPN protection
➡️ Zero […]
Key features:
➡️ No app store needed (share via link, messenger, bluetooth)
➡️ Offline mode
➡️ Built-in VPN protection
➡️ Zero […]
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mastodon.social
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Big news: Deutsche Welle has launched DW Access, an Android app that delivers independent news where it's needed most: in regions under information lockdown.
Key features:
➡️ No app store needed (share via link, messenger, bluetooth)
➡️ Offline mode
➡️ Built-in VPN protection
➡️ Zero […]
Key features:
➡️ No app store needed (share via link, messenger, bluetooth)
➡️ Offline mode
➡️ Built-in VPN protection
➡️ Zero […]
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Always read @willbunch.bsky.social.
This one in particular gave me chills, the good kind, despite what’s going on.
Thank you Bell for the gift link.
This one in particular gave me chills, the good kind, despite what’s going on.
Thank you Bell for the gift link.
December 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Always read @willbunch.bsky.social.
This one in particular gave me chills, the good kind, despite what’s going on.
Thank you Bell for the gift link.
This one in particular gave me chills, the good kind, despite what’s going on.
Thank you Bell for the gift link.