False Clownfish
@juliuswanders.bsky.social
Just a false clownfish livin’ in an anemone, humanitarian and disaster response professional, all opinions those of a fish.
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Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
buttondown.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
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Here's a gift link: wapo.st/4b14KAy
The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
wapo.st
December 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Here's a gift link: wapo.st/4b14KAy
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" Myanmar refugees are undertaking dangerous journeys
in search of protection, safety, family reunification, and livelihoods."
A Route-Based Snapshot: Data & Trends for #Refugees from #Myanmar, as of end-November 2025 (UNHCR)
data.unhcr.org/en/documents...
in search of protection, safety, family reunification, and livelihoods."
A Route-Based Snapshot: Data & Trends for #Refugees from #Myanmar, as of end-November 2025 (UNHCR)
data.unhcr.org/en/documents...
December 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
" Myanmar refugees are undertaking dangerous journeys
in search of protection, safety, family reunification, and livelihoods."
A Route-Based Snapshot: Data & Trends for #Refugees from #Myanmar, as of end-November 2025 (UNHCR)
data.unhcr.org/en/documents...
in search of protection, safety, family reunification, and livelihoods."
A Route-Based Snapshot: Data & Trends for #Refugees from #Myanmar, as of end-November 2025 (UNHCR)
data.unhcr.org/en/documents...
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Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
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"This year, renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide, and solar and wind energy grew fast enough to cover the entire increase in global electricity use from January to June"
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
www.science.org
December 20, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"This year, renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide, and solar and wind energy grew fast enough to cover the entire increase in global electricity use from January to June"
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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It’s important to remember that fossil fuel proponents aren’t just creating a climate crisis threatening the livable atmosphere, they’re also pushing a more expensive form of energy than what is available with renewables.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind...
Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants
Even without subsidies, renewable energy is staying competitive with power from gas and coal
www.scientificamerican.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
It’s important to remember that fossil fuel proponents aren’t just creating a climate crisis threatening the livable atmosphere, they’re also pushing a more expensive form of energy than what is available with renewables.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind...
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Allocating $100 million from UN Central Emergency Respond Fund to underfunded emergencies around the world.
This funding will help support the most vulnerable, and deliver life-saving aid fast where needs are greatest.
This funding will help support the most vulnerable, and deliver life-saving aid fast where needs are greatest.
December 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Allocating $100 million from UN Central Emergency Respond Fund to underfunded emergencies around the world.
This funding will help support the most vulnerable, and deliver life-saving aid fast where needs are greatest.
This funding will help support the most vulnerable, and deliver life-saving aid fast where needs are greatest.
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🚨Airstrike at Mrauk-U General Hospital, #Rakhine #Myanmar
🗨️"The United Nations condemns this attack, which is part of a broader pattern of strikes causing harm to civilians and civilian objects that continue to devastate communities across the country."
press.un.org/en/2025/db25...
🗨️"The United Nations condemns this attack, which is part of a broader pattern of strikes causing harm to civilians and civilian objects that continue to devastate communities across the country."
press.un.org/en/2025/db25...
December 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
🚨Airstrike at Mrauk-U General Hospital, #Rakhine #Myanmar
🗨️"The United Nations condemns this attack, which is part of a broader pattern of strikes causing harm to civilians and civilian objects that continue to devastate communities across the country."
press.un.org/en/2025/db25...
🗨️"The United Nations condemns this attack, which is part of a broader pattern of strikes causing harm to civilians and civilian objects that continue to devastate communities across the country."
press.un.org/en/2025/db25...
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This winter in #Afghanistan, hunger is soaring. Food aid has collapsed. Clinics are closing. 1.1 million children are missing life-saving nutrition.
We need restrictions on women humanitarians lifted immediately and the funding to do our work.
My remarks: bit.ly/4q04OVx
We need restrictions on women humanitarians lifted immediately and the funding to do our work.
My remarks: bit.ly/4q04OVx
December 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This winter in #Afghanistan, hunger is soaring. Food aid has collapsed. Clinics are closing. 1.1 million children are missing life-saving nutrition.
We need restrictions on women humanitarians lifted immediately and the funding to do our work.
My remarks: bit.ly/4q04OVx
We need restrictions on women humanitarians lifted immediately and the funding to do our work.
My remarks: bit.ly/4q04OVx
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The world’s emergency fund is 20. Today was a moment of pride, a mission for 2026, and a challenge for the next 20 years.
A fully funded $1B UNCERF is not symbolic. It’s a lifeline. And it’s needed now.
My remarks: bit.ly/3Mpv514
A fully funded $1B UNCERF is not symbolic. It’s a lifeline. And it’s needed now.
My remarks: bit.ly/3Mpv514
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The world’s emergency fund is 20. Today was a moment of pride, a mission for 2026, and a challenge for the next 20 years.
A fully funded $1B UNCERF is not symbolic. It’s a lifeline. And it’s needed now.
My remarks: bit.ly/3Mpv514
A fully funded $1B UNCERF is not symbolic. It’s a lifeline. And it’s needed now.
My remarks: bit.ly/3Mpv514
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it's so funny that Games Workshop went in twenty years from a company that made games you got beaten up in middle school for enjoying to now being the 67th most valuable company in the United Kingdom
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
December 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
it's so funny that Games Workshop went in twenty years from a company that made games you got beaten up in middle school for enjoying to now being the 67th most valuable company in the United Kingdom
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
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Catastrophic flooding and landslides, driven by intensifying cyclones and seasonal monsoons, are devastating communities across South and Southeast Asia.
Since 17 November, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Viet Nam and Malaysia have been among the hardest hit.
reliefweb.int/report/sri-l...
Since 17 November, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Viet Nam and Malaysia have been among the hardest hit.
reliefweb.int/report/sri-l...
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Catastrophic flooding and landslides, driven by intensifying cyclones and seasonal monsoons, are devastating communities across South and Southeast Asia.
Since 17 November, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Viet Nam and Malaysia have been among the hardest hit.
reliefweb.int/report/sri-l...
Since 17 November, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Viet Nam and Malaysia have been among the hardest hit.
reliefweb.int/report/sri-l...
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November 30: Awful situation across parts of South & Southeast Asia as two cyclones spawned extreme flooding and landslides that have left more than 1,000 people dead.
CY Ditwah
- Sri Lanka: >334 dead
CY Senyar
- Thailand: >162 dead; >$1bn economic loss
- Indonesia: >505 dead
- Malaysia: >3 dead
CY Ditwah
- Sri Lanka: >334 dead
CY Senyar
- Thailand: >162 dead; >$1bn economic loss
- Indonesia: >505 dead
- Malaysia: >3 dead
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
November 30: Awful situation across parts of South & Southeast Asia as two cyclones spawned extreme flooding and landslides that have left more than 1,000 people dead.
CY Ditwah
- Sri Lanka: >334 dead
CY Senyar
- Thailand: >162 dead; >$1bn economic loss
- Indonesia: >505 dead
- Malaysia: >3 dead
CY Ditwah
- Sri Lanka: >334 dead
CY Senyar
- Thailand: >162 dead; >$1bn economic loss
- Indonesia: >505 dead
- Malaysia: >3 dead
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Rescue workers in Indonesia are struggling to reach victims in several devastated areas that were hit by an earthquake and tsunami, and authorities fear the confirmed death toll of 248 will rise.
Death toll from floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island rises to 248, authorities say
Rescue workers in Indonesia are struggling to reach victims in several devastated areas that were hit by an earthquake and tsunami, and authorities fear the confirmed death toll of 248 will rise further.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Rescue workers in Indonesia are struggling to reach victims in several devastated areas that were hit by an earthquake and tsunami, and authorities fear the confirmed death toll of 248 will rise.
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Poor rains, rising hunger and funding cuts are pushing millions to the brink in #Somalia.
I've allocated $10M from UNCERF for early action – to protect people before drought becomes catastrophe.
Food. Water. Health. Critical to reach people in the hardest-hit areas.
I've allocated $10M from UNCERF for early action – to protect people before drought becomes catastrophe.
Food. Water. Health. Critical to reach people in the hardest-hit areas.
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Poor rains, rising hunger and funding cuts are pushing millions to the brink in #Somalia.
I've allocated $10M from UNCERF for early action – to protect people before drought becomes catastrophe.
Food. Water. Health. Critical to reach people in the hardest-hit areas.
I've allocated $10M from UNCERF for early action – to protect people before drought becomes catastrophe.
Food. Water. Health. Critical to reach people in the hardest-hit areas.
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We still outside. youtu.be/dcU-YZtRwi4?...
Talib Kweli, J.Rawls - We Outside ft. Tristate
YouTube video by TalibKweliVEVO
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We still outside. youtu.be/dcU-YZtRwi4?...
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A M5.5 earthquake killed at least ten people in Bangladesh today. What made this moderate event so deadly? And what do we know about seismic hazards in the country?
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earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/bangladesh...
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earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/bangladesh...
Bangladesh shaken by deadly M5.5 earthquake
A moderate magnitude earthquake near a dense, vulnerable megacity
earthquakeinsights.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
A M5.5 earthquake killed at least ten people in Bangladesh today. What made this moderate event so deadly? And what do we know about seismic hazards in the country?
⚒️ 🧪
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/bangladesh...
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earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/bangladesh...
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📢Latest #Myanmar Humanitarian Update
🚨Civilian casualties and new displacement continue daily
🍚Myanmar is now a hunger hotspot of “very high concern”, with nutrition situation worsening in Rakhine
📈The 2025 HNRP is only 15% funded
reliefweb.int/report/myanm...
🚨Civilian casualties and new displacement continue daily
🍚Myanmar is now a hunger hotspot of “very high concern”, with nutrition situation worsening in Rakhine
📈The 2025 HNRP is only 15% funded
reliefweb.int/report/myanm...
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
📢Latest #Myanmar Humanitarian Update
🚨Civilian casualties and new displacement continue daily
🍚Myanmar is now a hunger hotspot of “very high concern”, with nutrition situation worsening in Rakhine
📈The 2025 HNRP is only 15% funded
reliefweb.int/report/myanm...
🚨Civilian casualties and new displacement continue daily
🍚Myanmar is now a hunger hotspot of “very high concern”, with nutrition situation worsening in Rakhine
📈The 2025 HNRP is only 15% funded
reliefweb.int/report/myanm...
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Kinda interesting to compare water year precipitation with snowpack at a continental scale. Most of the western US has been very wet since October 1, but there is almost no snowpack anywhere except at the very highest elevations because it has been so ridiculously warm. #hydrology #wx
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Kinda interesting to compare water year precipitation with snowpack at a continental scale. Most of the western US has been very wet since October 1, but there is almost no snowpack anywhere except at the very highest elevations because it has been so ridiculously warm. #hydrology #wx
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I for one will welcome, etc. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...
Oxford researchers say octopuses 'likely to take over the world'
Oxford University boffins say the octopuses are likely to take over the world after humans.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I for one will welcome, etc. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...
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Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts
Read @daveweigel.bsky.social on the widespread societal consequences of Elon's link suppression:
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...
How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider
We don’t know the minute when X started throttling links to news,...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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Super Typhoon Fung-wong, the biggest storm to threaten the Philippines this year, started battering the country’s northeastern coast ahead of landfall on Sunday, knocking down power, forcing the evacuation of more than a million people.
More than a million people evacuate as Super Typhoon Fung-wong threatens the Philippines
Super Typhoon Fung-wong, the biggest storm to threaten the Philippines this year, has started battering the country’s northeastern coast ahead of landfall.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Super Typhoon Fung-wong, the biggest storm to threaten the Philippines this year, started battering the country’s northeastern coast ahead of landfall on Sunday, knocking down power, forcing the evacuation of more than a million people.