Thinkling
@thinkling.bsky.social
Seattle. Biking, skiing, kayaking. Meditation. Science, Non-profits, Climate. Being nice to people.
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i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
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nothing says you’re kicking ass at Buddhism quite like having an insatiable desire for something
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
nothing says you’re kicking ass at Buddhism quite like having an insatiable desire for something
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This may be an exception to Betteridge's law of headlines
Microplastics have made it into our brains. Should we be worried?
A growing problem for the planet has become one for the body too, as a new study shows a build-up of plastic where we least want it
A growing problem for the planet has become one for the body too, as a new study shows a build-up of plastic where we least want it
Microplastics have made it into our brains. Should we be worried?
www.thetimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This may be an exception to Betteridge's law of headlines
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in retrospect I think it may have been a mistake to make the work machine and the procrastination machine be the same machine
January 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
in retrospect I think it may have been a mistake to make the work machine and the procrastination machine be the same machine
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I previously built a little slide deck of interactive charts on US electricity mixes state-by-state.
The data only went to 2022. I just updated it with 2023 data, via @ember-energy.org.
You can find it here (all free): public.flourish.studio/story/1965354/
The data only went to 2022. I just updated it with 2023 data, via @ember-energy.org.
You can find it here (all free): public.flourish.studio/story/1965354/
State-by-state electricity sources in the US
A Flourish story by Hannah
public.flourish.studio
January 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I previously built a little slide deck of interactive charts on US electricity mixes state-by-state.
The data only went to 2022. I just updated it with 2023 data, via @ember-energy.org.
You can find it here (all free): public.flourish.studio/story/1965354/
The data only went to 2022. I just updated it with 2023 data, via @ember-energy.org.
You can find it here (all free): public.flourish.studio/story/1965354/
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physics of climate impacts 101:
- Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves)
- Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall)
- Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk)
- Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms)
- Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)
- Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves)
- Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall)
- Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk)
- Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms)
- Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)
January 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
physics of climate impacts 101:
- Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves)
- Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall)
- Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk)
- Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms)
- Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)
- Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves)
- Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall)
- Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk)
- Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms)
- Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)
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The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.
December 21, 2024 at 8:16 PM
The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.
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Happy Winter Solstice!
These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.
Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.
The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds
These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.
Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.
The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds
December 21, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Happy Winter Solstice!
These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.
Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.
The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds
These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.
Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.
The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds
I wish the Bluesky app let you read your feed forwards from where you last left off, instead of the mandatory backwards from “now”.
Ice Cubes for Mastodon gets this right.
#blueskysuggestions
Ice Cubes for Mastodon gets this right.
#blueskysuggestions
December 1, 2024 at 2:00 AM
I wish the Bluesky app let you read your feed forwards from where you last left off, instead of the mandatory backwards from “now”.
Ice Cubes for Mastodon gets this right.
#blueskysuggestions
Ice Cubes for Mastodon gets this right.
#blueskysuggestions
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Mercator size vs. true country size
by @neilrkaye.bsky.social
by @neilrkaye.bsky.social
November 10, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Mercator size vs. true country size
by @neilrkaye.bsky.social
by @neilrkaye.bsky.social
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a whoopie pie is a sandwich, a moon pie (US meaning) is a calzone, and a moon cake (Canadian meaning) is a taco.
August 13, 2024 at 1:06 AM
a whoopie pie is a sandwich, a moon pie (US meaning) is a calzone, and a moon cake (Canadian meaning) is a taco.
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more shots of this crazy cloud. truly surreal vision as it was low and moving so fast, the wave front had these halos, and it was bright out, so the insides were lit up in angry swirls. definitely felt lije demon spawn were about to start flying out of that thing, we got the heck out of there!!💨⛈️
August 4, 2024 at 1:56 PM
more shots of this crazy cloud. truly surreal vision as it was low and moving so fast, the wave front had these halos, and it was bright out, so the insides were lit up in angry swirls. definitely felt lije demon spawn were about to start flying out of that thing, we got the heck out of there!!💨⛈️
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I told my students back in May that he wanted to nuke a hurricane, and they refused to believe me until I went online and found the video. I think if the Dems just replay Trump’s greatest hits and remind normie America that this man is fundamentally unfit to lead, it will be a landslide.
July 29, 2024 at 1:41 PM
I told my students back in May that he wanted to nuke a hurricane, and they refused to believe me until I went online and found the video. I think if the Dems just replay Trump’s greatest hits and remind normie America that this man is fundamentally unfit to lead, it will be a landslide.
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The Democrats’ fatal flaw is a tendency to assume ordinary Americans are as tuned into politics as they are.
They’ve got to keep reminding voters who Trump is and all the weird creepy stuff he actually did
They’ve got to keep reminding voters who Trump is and all the weird creepy stuff he actually did
I told my students back in May that he wanted to nuke a hurricane, and they refused to believe me until I went online and found the video. I think if the Dems just replay Trump’s greatest hits and remind normie America that this man is fundamentally unfit to lead, it will be a landslide.
July 29, 2024 at 1:44 PM
The Democrats’ fatal flaw is a tendency to assume ordinary Americans are as tuned into politics as they are.
They’ve got to keep reminding voters who Trump is and all the weird creepy stuff he actually did
They’ve got to keep reminding voters who Trump is and all the weird creepy stuff he actually did