Bethany 🦋
@bethanycran.bsky.social
may you be well, may you be free from suffering
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March sea surface temperature anomalies over the last 100 years through 2025. While there is interannual to decadal climate variability, the overall long-term warming is also clear.
Data from @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 at psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
Data from @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 at psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
April 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
March sea surface temperature anomalies over the last 100 years through 2025. While there is interannual to decadal climate variability, the overall long-term warming is also clear.
Data from @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 at psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
Data from @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 at psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
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This country doesn’t lack abundance. This country has a problem because a 0.1% of the population has hoarded wealth at historic levels that destabilizes everything and has done so with the assistance of the political class.
March 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This country doesn’t lack abundance. This country has a problem because a 0.1% of the population has hoarded wealth at historic levels that destabilizes everything and has done so with the assistance of the political class.
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Gaza. 21 March. An indigenous Palestinian mother holds her dead boy, murdered by a military of ‘Israeli’ European settler war criminals, using weapons provided by the UK & USA in illegally occupied Palestine.
March 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Gaza. 21 March. An indigenous Palestinian mother holds her dead boy, murdered by a military of ‘Israeli’ European settler war criminals, using weapons provided by the UK & USA in illegally occupied Palestine.
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Many areas are seeing record snowfall this winter, thanks to global warming--or rather, global weirding!
How so?
It hasn't been cold enough for lakes other than Erie to completely ice over yet. As cold air sweeps across them, it's picking up moisture and dumping massive snowfall on the other side.
How so?
It hasn't been cold enough for lakes other than Erie to completely ice over yet. As cold air sweeps across them, it's picking up moisture and dumping massive snowfall on the other side.
🔵🔴⚠️The ongoing cold spell affecting USA and Canada is bringing heavy snowfalls and very low temperatures,triggering a #lakeeffectsnow that covers 800km from LakeSuperior to LakeOntario, with all the Great Lakes seen a in this Sentinel-3 view of Feb.17.
February 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Many areas are seeing record snowfall this winter, thanks to global warming--or rather, global weirding!
How so?
It hasn't been cold enough for lakes other than Erie to completely ice over yet. As cold air sweeps across them, it's picking up moisture and dumping massive snowfall on the other side.
How so?
It hasn't been cold enough for lakes other than Erie to completely ice over yet. As cold air sweeps across them, it's picking up moisture and dumping massive snowfall on the other side.
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Fascism thrives on fear and exhaustion. Reclaiming joy, laughter, and leisure (as one is able, of course) is an act of resistance.
Dear sister, please rest. 🫶🏾
Dear sister, please rest. 🫶🏾
February 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Fascism thrives on fear and exhaustion. Reclaiming joy, laughter, and leisure (as one is able, of course) is an act of resistance.
Dear sister, please rest. 🫶🏾
Dear sister, please rest. 🫶🏾
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cc: @Gavin Newsome It’s time to build a CDC & NIH in California with the folks who were fired from the feds. In fact, I think each blue state governor needs to scoop up these scientists, healthcare workers and laboratory workers asap. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
February 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
cc: @Gavin Newsome It’s time to build a CDC & NIH in California with the folks who were fired from the feds. In fact, I think each blue state governor needs to scoop up these scientists, healthcare workers and laboratory workers asap. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
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I deeply believe that one of our greatest forms of resistance is our joy.
They want our pain, our fear, our terror. I refuse.
I am joy. I am love and fulfillment and bounty and beauty; I am a living, breathing expression of the divine magic of the Universe in all Her wisdom.
They want our pain, our fear, our terror. I refuse.
I am joy. I am love and fulfillment and bounty and beauty; I am a living, breathing expression of the divine magic of the Universe in all Her wisdom.
February 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I deeply believe that one of our greatest forms of resistance is our joy.
They want our pain, our fear, our terror. I refuse.
I am joy. I am love and fulfillment and bounty and beauty; I am a living, breathing expression of the divine magic of the Universe in all Her wisdom.
They want our pain, our fear, our terror. I refuse.
I am joy. I am love and fulfillment and bounty and beauty; I am a living, breathing expression of the divine magic of the Universe in all Her wisdom.
Hear me out: maybe our planet is actually the Hell you get incarnated on as a consequence for your soul’s choices elsewhere, but God is benevolent and includes nature and loved ones in the package. 😂🫥
February 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Hear me out: maybe our planet is actually the Hell you get incarnated on as a consequence for your soul’s choices elsewhere, but God is benevolent and includes nature and loved ones in the package. 😂🫥
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New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening
The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Screening performance and characteristics of breast cancer detected in the Mammography Screening with Artificial Intelligence trial (MASAI): a randomised, controlled, parallel-group, non-inferiority, ...
The findings suggest that AI contributes to the early detection of clinically relevant
breast cancer and reduces screen-reading workload without increasing false positives.
thelancet.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening
The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Word of the Day: GLISK (Shetlandic) - a glimpse of sun through the cloud; metaphorically, a ray of hope in dark times.
February 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Word of the Day: GLISK (Shetlandic) - a glimpse of sun through the cloud; metaphorically, a ray of hope in dark times.
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What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.
February 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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Remember to take breaks from all the noise. Get outside, turn off the tv and put on something with no commercials, observe a tree everyday to see how it changes and grows as the seasons change. Do not forget that we are part of the cycles of the universe, and listen to the lessons it has for you.
January 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Remember to take breaks from all the noise. Get outside, turn off the tv and put on something with no commercials, observe a tree everyday to see how it changes and grows as the seasons change. Do not forget that we are part of the cycles of the universe, and listen to the lessons it has for you.
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sorry for getting ✨️political✨️ on the good vibes and video games app again, but the human brain is not designed to withstand another 207 weeks of this shit so pace yourself and try to channel that anger, despair, and hopelessness into something productive. make some kick ass art, we will need it
January 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
sorry for getting ✨️political✨️ on the good vibes and video games app again, but the human brain is not designed to withstand another 207 weeks of this shit so pace yourself and try to channel that anger, despair, and hopelessness into something productive. make some kick ass art, we will need it
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Now, as the minority party, just how will they get that done? The leaders of each how will block it. How about - just thinking - YOU help them organize community meetings in the districts where they and you live. I've done that dozens of times. That's where they can't be stopped. Try it. It works.
January 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Now, as the minority party, just how will they get that done? The leaders of each how will block it. How about - just thinking - YOU help them organize community meetings in the districts where they and you live. I've done that dozens of times. That's where they can't be stopped. Try it. It works.
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some ways to generate electricity
A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons
B) use sunlight to make electrons
A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons
B) use sunlight to make electrons
January 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
some ways to generate electricity
A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons
B) use sunlight to make electrons
A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons
B) use sunlight to make electrons
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If you take it literally, “Last Christmas” by Wham! is a song about organ donation from the POV of a ghost.
December 20, 2024 at 5:27 PM
If you take it literally, “Last Christmas” by Wham! is a song about organ donation from the POV of a ghost.
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In a survey of 858 farmers and ranchers across Canada, almost a quarter highlighted climate change and severe weather as the biggest challenge ahead. .
More than 85% said they've experienced drought, heat waves, floods, wildfires, hail, tornadoes, or new pests and diseases in the past five years.
More than 85% said they've experienced drought, heat waves, floods, wildfires, hail, tornadoes, or new pests and diseases in the past five years.
Poll finds climate change, severe weather top issue for farmers across Canada
www.cbc.ca
December 20, 2024 at 5:08 AM
In a survey of 858 farmers and ranchers across Canada, almost a quarter highlighted climate change and severe weather as the biggest challenge ahead. .
More than 85% said they've experienced drought, heat waves, floods, wildfires, hail, tornadoes, or new pests and diseases in the past five years.
More than 85% said they've experienced drought, heat waves, floods, wildfires, hail, tornadoes, or new pests and diseases in the past five years.
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Got an email from an angry viewer for covering this last night so re-upping this article from @haaretzcom.bsky.social which is extremely extensively reported and disturbing.
Here’s a gift link.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Here’s a gift link.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF soldiers expose arbitrary killings and rampant lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim corridor
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www.haaretz.com
December 20, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Got an email from an angry viewer for covering this last night so re-upping this article from @haaretzcom.bsky.social which is extremely extensively reported and disturbing.
Here’s a gift link.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Here’s a gift link.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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We had a terrible mass shooting event in the mid-90s here in Australia. Our very conservative government at the time banned the majority of guns and enacted an amnesty and buy-back scheme to reduce the number of guns already out there. 30 years later, we've never had another mass shooting.
December 17, 2024 at 1:33 AM
We had a terrible mass shooting event in the mid-90s here in Australia. Our very conservative government at the time banned the majority of guns and enacted an amnesty and buy-back scheme to reduce the number of guns already out there. 30 years later, we've never had another mass shooting.
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In Syria the Assad regime, Russia, and Iran left behind so many tanks that civilians are turning them into market stalls and art installations.
December 15, 2024 at 4:03 PM
In Syria the Assad regime, Russia, and Iran left behind so many tanks that civilians are turning them into market stalls and art installations.
“There’s no telling how many billions the insurers made by denying claims on a bogus basis.”
www.propublica.org/article/blue...
www.propublica.org/article/blue...
Big Insurance Met Its Match When It Turned Down a Top Trial Lawyer’s Request for Cancer Treatment
Blue Cross and Blue Shield denied payment for the proton therapy Robert “Skeeter” Salim’s doctor ordered to fight his throat cancer. But he was no ordinary patient. He was a celebrated litigator. And ...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2024 at 6:51 PM
“There’s no telling how many billions the insurers made by denying claims on a bogus basis.”
www.propublica.org/article/blue...
www.propublica.org/article/blue...