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Tony Nuspl
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goodreads bookwyrm, culture muncher, shutterbug (e.g. banner image is my photo, 2025) & cat butler
Following #booksky #filmsky #envhist #opensource
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#QuizOfTheDay: What is the Fastest object ever built by humans?

A. Space Shuttle Atlantis
B. NASA Parker Solar probe
C. Voyager 1
D. .220 Swift Cartridge

knowledgezone.co.in/resources/qu...
October 3, 2023 at 3:50 PM
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Watching that blowout of leaky oil and gas infrastructure in "Landman" one is forced to conclude that the fictional M-TEX company is not just ignorant of best practice, or worse than average, but actually among the worst.

#LongformTV
#fossilfuel
#globalwarming

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Can methane cuts pull us back from the brink of climate breakdown?
With temperatures breaching the Paris limit, experts say tackling the powerful gas could buy crucial time as the clean-energy shift stalls
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Craquelure (fine hairline cracks in an old oil painting)
photo©2024TonyNuspl

#sunrisemagic
#silhouetteSunday
#lakeside
Final de madrugada en Oklahoma Oriental photo credit Tony Nuspl 2024March10 dawn at Lake Hudson, OK
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Another sub-plinian eruption, this time at the triple-junction of the African, Arabian and East Indian tectonic plates.
The African plate is also splitting in two--diverging at a rate of 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) per year
#Holocene
#geologictime
#envhist
#vulcanology

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years
Ash clouds from Hayli Gubbi volcano sent drifting across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
tonynuspl.bsky.social
BEEP BEEP! SpaceX Starship Booster 18 Explodes

Super Heavy suffers catastrophic COPV (composite overwrapped pressure vessel) failure during test.

In 2016, Falcon 9 rocket exploded due to COPV.  In June 2025, Starship prototype S36 was destroyed by COPV.

#techbroFAIL

m.youtube.com/watch?v=JivM...
New Glenn’s MASSIVE Upgrade, Starship V3 Booster Explodes & EuroSuit on ISS!
YouTube video by NASASpaceflight
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November 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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With mention of the Ponca Nation in Oklahoma, fighting a Google data center in Stillwater, OK

#datacenteremissions
#datacenterwaterconsumption
#AIbubble
#AIslop
#sycophancymachines

www.democracynow.org/2025/11/19/j...
“Data Crunch”: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals
A new report titled “Data Crunch: How the AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals” from the Center for Biological Diversity warns the booming artificial intelligence in...
www.democracynow.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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East Java: pyroclastic flow, sweeping down flank of vulcano.
Similar to (not as powerful as) Plinian eruption of Mt Vesuvius, that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii in 79 AD.
CCTV feed cuts out as fast-moving current of hot gas and tephra moves closer.

#worldhistory

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj0W...
GIANT Pyroclastic Flow from Semeru Volcano – November 19, 2025 (Level IV Alert)
YouTube video by afarTV
m.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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An example of #BrightGreenEnvironmentalism or tech fixes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and global warming

#sailpower vs #dirtybunkerfuel
#decarbonization
#internationalshipping
#carbonfootprintreduction
#pilotproject

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?
The Neoliner Origin set off on its inaugural two-week voyage from France to the US with the aim of revolutionising the notoriously dirty shipping industry
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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A death by electrocution during an upgrade to the nuclear power plant, as part of a deal made by Facebook’s parent company Meta to expand the output by 30 megawatts to meet surging electrical demand-- all for the sake of #AIslop
 Edwin Lyman @nucsafetyucs.bsky.social · 10d
My goodness. On Friday an Unusual Event was declared for more than 3 hours at the Clinton-1 #nuclear reactor in #Illinois after the emergency reserve aux transformer shorted out, causing a loss of offsite power. A worker was electrocuted and killed. A warning sign of the impact of reduced oversight?
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Claudia Cardinale (d2025) in some of her films 🎥🎬
#filmsky #moviesky #lastfourwatched
#letterboxd #GridArt #gridmix
Claudia Cardinale in 4 film stills, 1963 (2x), 1968, and 1982, arranged in a grid
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Mise en place -- vegan tacos 'al pastor'
Tried NYTimes recipe
Remarkably well-balanced flavors
Salsa is both tomato- and onion-free
But no, did not use fresh pineapple
Makes more than suggested 8-12 tortillas
Goes well with non-alcoholic Bundaberg's ginger beer

#OmnivoresDilemma
#MeatFreeOptions
Ingredients needed for vegetarian recipe, displayed on kitchen counter, ready to start cooking. Unneeded toaster in background. Needed food processor outside of frame. Other utensils not displayed: sharp knife, cutting board, medium-sized glass and metal bowls, large frying pan and spatula. photo©TonyNuspl2025
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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"Big Ag, Stay outta my plate!" or "Don't bother me or my meal, Ag Industry"

Indigenous peoples vs #IndustrialEaters
#COP30
#ClimateJustice

oilchange.org/blogs/cop30-...
photojournalism from Conference of Parties, in Belem, Brazil: indigenous activists photographer unknown via OilChangeInternational
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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With historical footage/photos, maps, #underwaterphotography and excerpts of Gordon Lightfoot singing about the 1975 shipwreck on the Great Lakes--the best-known of some 6,000 such founderings.

#authorinterview
#booksky 💙📚
#GitchiGumee
#GhostShips
#musicsky
#envhist

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'The Gales of November' explores the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy and the legend it inspired
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Spinoza would've loved to see this.

The human-sized L1 lens of the Rubin Observatory camera, or the first lens of the observatory's telescope, at 1.55 m in diameter, the largest lens ever built.

#Astronomy #RubinFirstLook #NightSkyViewer
L1 lens, 2018 photo by LSST ( Large Synoptic Survey Telescope ) first put into service this year, in June 2025 • CC BY 4.0 via Wikipedia
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Flight season comes to an end

©TonyNuspl2025oct
#poisondata. AI overview in Google "The image shows a fire opal, a type of transparent or translucent opal known for its fiery yellow, orange, or red color. Fire opals are formed in volcanic rock, such as rhyolite, when water becomes trapped in lava. Fire opals are often found in Mexico, where they are sometimes referred to as "Hummingbird stone" due to their resemblance to the bird's plumage. Another AI image sesrch result for the same image:  "Rare orange sea glass" #funny #techfail
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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The storm surge that came ashore from Hurricane Melissa raised water levels in Jamaica by up to 16 feet, devastating coastal communities.

#CoastalRetreat
#climaterefugees
#disasterpreparedness
#warmingoceans
grist.org Grist @grist.org · 21d
No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse.

An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”

grist.org/climate/no-d...

#Hurricane #Weather #Climate
No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse
An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”
grist.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Firefox is free #opensource software or #FOSS from Mozilla.org
The browser automatically blocks over 2000 online trackers from collecting your browsing data. "Mozilla isn’t in the business of selling advertising like Google, so it doesn’t have any 'backdoor agreements' with advertisers." ~Brainstorm
Firefox logo
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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How to get a whole community to live off geothermal heating and cooling

#NetworkedGeothermal
#altenergy
#pilotprogramsuccess
#decarbonization
#campuswidecooling
#cleanheatsince1913
#envhist

m.youtube.com/watch?v=sAxe...
Unlikely alliance builds cleaner geothermal energy network in Massachusetts community
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
m.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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DitchMicrosoft club gains another country member

#opensourcesoftware

news.itsfoss.com/austrian-min...
Good News! Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud
The BMWET migrates 1,200 employees to sovereign cloud in just four months.
news.itsfoss.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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300 people from Newtok, an Alaskan village north of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, abandoned their town last year, moving 9 miles inland to a new village known as Metarvik.

#stormsurge
#climateresiliency
#climatejustice
#TreatyObligations
#ClimateChange
#risingoceans
grist.org Grist @grist.org · 24d
Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.

As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.

grist.org/indigenous/n...

#AK #Alaska #Weather
Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
grist.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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#RisingOceans "For now, relocation is voluntary, and nearly 50 people have signed up to move."

#CoastalRetreat
#HurricanePreparedness
#envhist

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea
As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Tip no.15
The Firefox browser is one alternative that puts privacy first. Unlike Chrome, Firefox automatically blocks trackers and ads in Private Browsing mode

Firefox is free to download (comes pre-installed in most flavors of Linux, e.g. Linux Mint o/s)

#opensource

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy m...
www.eff.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"Late Flight"
Question-Mark Butterfly in the third week of October
in NE Oklahoma, on Roadside Thistle gone to seed,
at midday, in full sun, at the forest edge
©TonyNuspl2025

'Nothing to munch on here, moving on...'

#OklahomaNatureWildlifePhotography
butterfly: Polygonia interrogationis aka the Question-Mark butterfly, in the Nymphalinae subfamily, part of the True Brushfoots, resting on Tall Thistle (Cirsium altissimum) gone to seed, in RogersCounty, Oklahoma
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"Capturing a red sprite requires a mastery of technical photography, as well as an understanding of science and creative flairflare."

1-min video

#neologism
#skyscape
#photography
#MilkyWay

www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
‘A perfect coincidence’: rare red lightning captured in New Zealand skies
The extremely unusual phenomenon – also known as red lightning – lasts for a millisecond and is rarely visible to the naked eye
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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STL formerly known as "the grimy old man" because of the city's dependence on cheap coal, that produced vast amounts of smoke laden with sulfur

cp. The Big Smoke

#envhist
#airpollution

theconversation.com/when-coal-sm...
When coal smoke choked St. Louis, residents fought back − but it took time and money
The situation had to get pretty bad before people really forced the government to act. But the effort was ultimately successful.
theconversation.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM