Barbara 🇺🇦 @babs_at_masto@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2022
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A combination of renewable energy sources and clean #Hydrogen – including blue, green or turquoise – will likely be necessary to meet the world’s #energy needs in a sustainable way.
For now, though, using fossil fuels to create gray hydrogen is probably need to jumpstart the necessary hydrogen infrastructure
#climatesolutions #climatechange #RenewableEnergy
(via @TheConversationUS)
@MitchW Probably a hawk; osprey are fish-eaters.
@JamesGleick The news media - particularly right-wing news media - is in the business of making people afraid of literally everything. Republican politicians rely on it too.
There's really no other explanation for the actions and attitudes of millions of Americans. Arming themselves to the teeth; afraid of anything "woke"; believing that American cities are war zones; etc.
@MitchW Rescue places will take these birds in, if there's one nearby.
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It's honestly astounding how Elon Musk took over a healthy, functioning, respected, and successful company, laid off most of its workforce, fundamentally changed the user experience for the worse, and completely decimated their verification system, thereby eroding any trust that anyone had in their integrity, in the span of six short months. Claiming that badges were given arbitrarily, and then taking away existing ones, just to give them to those that pay a subscription fee, or to whoever you feel like.
@KlasfeldReports Never seen a sportsball or entertainment event followed here the way people used to do it on Twitter. But people do talk about news as it happens, although usually in a slower, more thoughtful, less snarky way.
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To mark the beginning of England’s nightingale season, we revisit our conversation with acclaimed folk singer, conservationist, and song collector Sam Lee, who steps into the forest each spring to sing with these beloved birds. Listen to “The Nightingale’s Song.” https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Photo by Dominick Tyler. #Podcast #SingingWithNightingales
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Stating the obvious, but at least she's stating it:
"Former Rep. #LizCheney said Thursday that GOP firebrand Rep. #MarjorieTaylorGreene should not have a security clearance after Greene defended the Air National Guardsman suspected of leaking a trove of classified documents."
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PBS has not tweeted from its main Twitter handle since April 8, after Twitter labeled it "Government-funded Media", and says it has no plans to resume tweeting (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/12/pbs-twitter-government-funded-label
http://mediagazer.com/230412/p20#a230412p20
@tomheyes Thank God somebody has at last crunched the numbers.
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Deepest Fish Discovered More Than 5 Miles below the Sea Surface https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deepest-fish-discovered-more-than-5-miles-below-the-sea-surface/
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The podcast that I listen to both regularly and inexplicably is the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s ‘Fish of the Week.’ If you would also like some random piscine goodness in your life, the episode on the Mexican tetra (‘the most phenotypically dichotomous fish’) is especially great, and not just because the host describes what Odysseus did to Astyanax as ‘yeeting’:
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5/ Michael Beschloss thread:
Tennessee legislators have just taken a crowbar against American democracy.
What is happening to our country?
What we are seeing in the Nashville legislature is an authoritarian scene worthy of the bleak history of Europe in the 1930s.
And the whole world is watching.
"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal'..." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
More....
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I've been a member of the xerces society for about two years and I'm really happy with their work. They are a charitable organization focused on invertebrate conservation. If you become a member not only will you be supporting a good cause but their magazine is amazing. They also have lectures and other events you can attend.
Invertebrates are often overlooked so I'm glad they're out there.
(If anyone know of an ant conservation group lemme know~)
@johannneem At LEAST since Reagan, I meant to say. Maybe it started with Nixon.
@johannneem And BTW: this poor-me-the-left-hates-us stuff has been going on since Reagan and Rush Limbaugh. Right-wing media has carefully cultivated and grew this feeling of "victimization" for more than 40 years; Murdoch has made millions from it because everybody loves to claim to be oppressed. FOX catered to this group in particular and nursed its grievances. Now it's their central identity: being hated and put-upon (as if nobody had anything better to do). Pretty sad, really.
@johannneem Nobody cares about their being "rubes." What we care about is that they elected an unprincipled and amoral thug who cares about nothing but himself and who'd happily bring the country itself down to save himself.
@ketan Hard to think this matters at all. The hard right are hard-core anyway, about everything - and never, ever change their minds.
Everybody else is somewhat normal and persuadable. And as the evidence mounts, they will see it.
