-20C in London … the UK’s entire housing stock would have to be replaced @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/ocean-curren...

1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵

I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Pretty cool! TLDR: Cutting particulate and SOx emissions from ships stopped lightning over shipping lanes.
theconversation.com/the-world-re...

Totally blew some students' minds last week with the fact that Bluetooth was named after King Harald Bluetooth who united the tribes of Denmark into a single kingdom (bc Bluetooth technology connects devices) AND the Bluetooth symbol is a bind rune that combines his initials, H (ᚼ) and B (ᛒ).

Can any law enacted under such circumstances be considered democratically structured?

Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit.

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI

The Atlantic Multidecadal Overturning Circulation (#AMOC) is an 800-pound gorilla of climate tipping points. How's the AMOC behaving right now, and what might it do this century? Here's part I of II.

yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/12/atla...

A #map of the world in the #Spilhaus projection with the global #ocean as the main focus. It includes arrows of the global currents (@oceanandice.bsky.social) and sea surface temperature & velocity (Niklas Röber).
It shows the interconnectedness of the world's oceans with #Antarctica at the centre!

Does anyone know if Donald Trump ever watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

It's a shame this scene didn't stick with him if so.

Wow.

This video is truly eye-opening.

Take a couple minutes to watch this.

A mind-boggling visual representation of wealth inequality in America.

This sh*t ain’t workin’, folks. #TaxBillionaires #UnionsForAll

The Slender-billed Curlew is gone. A paper published today concluded that there is a 99.6% chance that the species is extinct, likely dying off around the time of the last irrefutable sighting in 1995.

Read Curlew Action's response to this news: buff.ly/40SqglT%E2%8...

The cost of governing in Ireland: changes in vote shares for government parties combined.
With the exception of 2002 and 1965, government parties failed to gain substantial levels of support in all elections since 1948.

Data: parlgov.org
#GE24

“Cró" (“Enclosure”) in medieval Irish

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From the lovely (Twitter addresses) @MoLI_Museum podcast series by @eDIL_Dictionary colleagues

🛖📷 Reconstruction by Conor McDermott of early medieval enclosure at Cahercommaun, Co. Clare, & photo by National Monuments Service

ICYMI:
Ahead of the upcoming election, Irish media's coverage of Sinn Féin bears all the hallmarks of what is called "agenda-setting theory" - but what is it, and how does it work?
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Bellingcat’s Financial Investigations team explores the bizarre streams of online gambling company 1xBet, that allow gamblers to bet on tournaments organised on an industrial scale from amateur sports separated by curtains to strange arcade-like games. www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/10...