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gaarkat.bsky.social
@gaarkat.bsky.social
How much is safe to say these days? I like gardening, cats, and not living in a dystopian hell state, but here we are...
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"Fossil fuels are losing their grip on EU energy. At the start of the European Green Deal in 2019, few thought the EU’s energy transition could be where it is today; wind and solar are pushing coal to the margins and forcing gas into structural decline"

Big new @ember-energy.org report on EU energy
European Electricity Review 2025 | Ember
The EU’s electricity transition continued at pace in 2024, as solar overtook coal for the first time and gas declined for the fifth year in a row.
ember-energy.org
January 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.
VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional
Better late than never: last night a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant....
www.eff.org
January 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.
January 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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I believe the general internet tradition on these kinds of things is well known.

techcrunch.com/2023/04/21/m...
January 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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If you're overwhelmed & not sure how to help, promote small & local organizations that help people who are especially vulnerable in this time (e.g., immigrants, LGBTQIA+ (especially youth), women seeking healthcare or safety, etc.) Be that safety net where you can; all you can do is your best ✌🏼💝
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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ICYMI: We can love The Village People again. The real village ppl are not performing for the felon. Check it oot 👇🏻👇🏿👇👇🏼👇🏾🥳
January 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Drumph had to be somewhere he didn’t want to be today… in a prayer service.

This preacher schooled him pretty good in a really really well written passive aggressive speech.
This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
January 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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They could all go bankrupt this easily. “And we just took the last 60 billion dollars worth of value from Uber and put local control back with taxi driver collectives. They have no control over data any more and they can be easily replaced.” #BindingChaos #3E georgiebc.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/t...
January 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Izrahell's view of the Gaza ceasefire appears to be that they can take a little coffee break and then have the "right" to return to the mass murder of Palestinians.
January 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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"Even the story of his near-murder, his tragi-farcical trials, and his ordeal in the penal colony is told with humor—and humanity." Navalny's refusal to knuckle under is permanent, now that he's dead, and is still a threat to Putin's regime. www.thebulwark.com/p/even-in-de...
Even in Death, Navalny Still Threatens the Putin Regime
The opposition leader’s posthumous memoir is a chronicle of a death foretold.
www.thebulwark.com
January 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I think we're going to see a HUGE proliferation of #horror over the next four years. We will need the catharsis, and of all sorts: splatterpunk, weird, cosmic/eldritch, folk/cult, Gothic, and bubblegum, to name a few. Horror contains multitudes. Horror can heal. Horror lets us know we aren't alone.
December 2, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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I’ve seen people talk about a lot of things that you should consider having on hand In Case Of Things Going Weird starting on January 20th—electronics, food prep, and so forth.

One thing I haven’t seen on any lists yet?

A darning needle and darning thread.
December 3, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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Well gang,

Looks like we have to fight, and defeat, a compilation of history’s greatest evils all at once. Civil War, WW2, the Cold War, greed, racism, sexism, ignorance, fascism…hell is empty and all the demons are here.

Let’s fucking go.
December 3, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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This is huge.

The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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True! Vivek Ramaswamy was appointed by President-elect Donald Trump to co-lead the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory commission. This role is a presidential appointment, not an elected position, making Ramaswamy an unelected federal official.
December 2, 2024 at 3:40 AM