Gary Evans
banner
bluecloudacademy.bsky.social
Gary Evans
@bluecloudacademy.bsky.social
I'm an immigrant from Britain who has become a German citizen. Based in Aachen/Aken/Aix la Chapelle
E-learning & teaching via https://bluecloud.academy/
Reposted by Gary Evans
How to Test the Moisture Content of Your #Cannabis

"How damp is your dank? Exploring the uncharted territory of #moisture in #marijuana and #concentrates."

cannabisnow.com/testing-mois...

#Weed #MMJ
How to Test the Moisture Content of Your Cannabis
How damp is your dank? Exploring the uncharted territory of moisture in marijuana and concentrates.
cannabisnow.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Reposted by Gary Evans
November 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Reposted by Gary Evans
This is me at 15. I’m a child.
I’m a CHILD.
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Fascinating nonsense from the distant past.
I find it wonderful that we embraced science.
Let's keep things this way.
Mind-blowingly rare first editions of esoteric books that I got to hold yesterday (courtesy of Justin Sledge), #5 of 5:

Agrippa’s “Three Books of Occult Philosophy” (Cologne, 1533), the granddaddy of occultism and ritual magic.
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Reposted by Gary Evans
More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém (Brazil), 12% up from last year’s talks in Baku, Azerbaijan.

What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Reposted by Gary Evans
Do please join me on World Soil Day, 5 December, 2pm GMT, for the global launch of the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with:
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und...
We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...
us02web.zoom.us
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
‘We had to dumb ourselves down to fit in’: Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford on finally making the first album they wrote as teens
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘We had to dumb ourselves down to fit in’: Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford on finally making the first album they wrote as teens
Written in 1974, the Bowie-influenced songs on Trixies are set in a fictional south London nightclub, but were shelved when punk took the band in a new direction. Now, after Squeeze’s 50th anniversary...
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I suppose it's irrelevant that no working SMRs have been built to date.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
US ‘disappointed’ that Rolls-Royce will build UK’s first small modular reactors
As Keir Starmer announces SMRs to be built in Wales, US ambassador says Britain should choose ‘a different path’
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Reposted by Gary Evans
😱

“A world at 2.6C means global disaster,” said Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics.

“That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Reposted by Gary Evans
My digital assistant tells me it's 52 degrees outside. This is pretty cold for South Florida but I don't see any frost. My duck ran outside so evidently it's acceptable. And speaking of being acceptable: help me normalize trans people by accepting them in your life... Thanks and please repost :)
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Reposted by Gary Evans
The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Reposted by Gary Evans
"Outrage and betrayal"
AOC on House Dem.
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This cemetery is just down the road from me.
So many soldiers were killed in WWII, including black Americans. It's shocking to see their memories being erased by Trump.
How the fuck could this be allowed to happen?
The provincial assembly in Limburg wants to establish a permanent memorial to Black American servicemen who took part in the liberation of the Netherlands, after two panels were found to have been removed from an exhibition at the US military cemetery in Margraten. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/call...
Calls for permanent memorial in Limburg to black US liberators - DutchNews.nl
Provincial councillors in Limburg have called for a permanent memorial to black American servicemen to be erected next to the US war cemetery in Margraten after it emerged that panels commemorating th...
www.dutchnews.nl
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Paradise Lost: Lützerath, Germany
flic.kr/p/2mgRQEP
Performance at the Bus Stop
Lützerath, Germany: Destroyed by RWE to make way for a coal mine. Corporate power rules over everything. Destruction is its MO.
flic.kr
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Reposted by Gary Evans
Mon Laferte
La llorona
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Reposted by Gary Evans
So we are finally protesting the right people.

This is outside of the Heritage Foundation.
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Reposted by Gary Evans
BREAKING: Federal appeals court says full SNAP benefits must be paid for November. The Trump administration is expected to appeal.
States face uncertainty as Trump administration tries to reverse SNAP food payments
States are facing uncertainty about providing full monthly benefits for a federal food program serving 42 million Americans.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Reposted by Gary Evans
I am so glad my iPad has a BlueTooth link to my hearing aid. I only have one barely functional ear, but I able to experience this song like I did when it played on FM radio in San Antonio. Viva la funk!
#deaf

youtu.be/ghLWjyOOLno?...
Living For The City
YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reposted by Gary Evans
This accidentally turned into a short thread. Bit of a rage-thread I'm afraid. Please read to the end if you can. Thanks
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Reposted by Gary Evans
When all the lovely data centres are built we’ll be able to use ChatGPT 24/7 while we die from dehydration.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Reposted by Gary Evans
Newsom: "It's not about rule of law anymore. It's rule of Don. He's choosing which court decisions he agrees with. He's quite literally running an extortion racket. He's doing it with some of the most powerful corporate leaders. What does everything have in common? Tariffs. They're about leverage"
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM