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Great Wave, Evan M. Cohen, Digital Art, 2019

#Art

Yes, we should all celebrate Orban leaving office. It is a victory in the fight against autocrats - where Orban was a weird ally of the US AND Russia AND China.

But: This has come at a huge cost for any progressive movements in Hungary. Parliament is now run EXCLUSIVELY by right-wing, anti-migration parties. Leftists voted for Magyar to get rid of Orban.

Magyar will be an easier partner for EU institutions (also increasingly anti-migration). He is no ally for the left.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9vg782kx7o

🇬🇧 A new comet is visible with the naked eye !
C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) is an Oort cloud comet which will reach perihelion (the closest distance) on the 19th, before going away forever.

This morning, I loaded my backpack and set up to capture it. I wanted to see it rise next to the Bietschhorn (3 934). The comet is currently in the Pegasus constellation, just below 51 Pegasi, the first star known to host an exoplanet.

If you have clear skies, you should definitely try to see it : It is bright, and will pass only once! It already shows a very long tail, more than 10° long.
The image was taken with a 120-300 lens, set at 180mm. It is an ethical composite: I first captured the foreground with the tracking off (5 x 15s) and then turned the tracking on when the comet reached the desired position (120 x 15s).

🇨🇭 Une nouvelle comète est visible à l'œil nu !
C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) est une comète du nuage d'Oort qui atteindra son périhélie (la distance minimale au Soleil) le 19 avril, avant de s'éloigner pour toujours dans l'espace interstellaire.

Ce matin, j'ai chargé mon sac à dos et je suis allé la capturer. Je voulais la voir se lever à côté du Bietschhorn (3 934 m). La comète se trouve actuellement dans la constellation de Pégase, juste en dessous de 51 Pegasi, autour de laquelle on a découvert la première exoplanète.

Si vous avez un ciel dégagé, ne ratez pas ça : elle est brillante, elle ne passera qu'une seule fois, et sa queue s'étend déjà sur plus de 10° dans le ciel !

J’ai utilisé un objectif 120-300 mm à 180 mm. L’image est un composite éthique : le premier plan capturé sans suivi (5 x 15 s), puis suivi activé une fois la comète en position (120 x 15 s).

#Astrophotography #Comet #PanSTARRS

I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).

Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"

Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."

Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster.

That mismatch is killing some of the planet’s most vital ecosystems, from California’s towering redwoods to the seagrass meadows along its coast, both of which store vast amounts of carbon and support complex webs of life. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-dna-adaptation-heat-waves-wildfires-7c34ca1d3a09065b9f9ab617dd1a6e25

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.

In a first, renewables beat na...

High resolution US water table depth estimates reveal quantity of accessible groundwater. #US #grounwater #water #AI #machinelearning https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-03094-3

En ny analys visar att EU i mars har sparat mer än 1 miljard kronor per dag på den olja och gas vi inte köpte tack vare solel – en total besparing på över 30 miljarder på en månad! ☀️ www.euronews.com/2026/04/07/a...

The Green Party now has over 225,000+ members. Just to note; In December 2025, the Labour Party recorded that it had less than 250,000 members. It's likely, based on the analysis graph (included) that the Green Party now have more members than the Labour Party have.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2yp6g7aqepdbjup33qrosebv/post/3mj66ez7hos2h

Fun new game for art gallery visits: find all the portraits that could be valid UK passport photos

France is transitioning government desktops to Linux, with each ministry required to formalize its implementation plan by autumn 2026.
https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/

#linux #opensource

🔗 https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-march-2026?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=MA&utm_campaign=climate-bulletins&utm_id=CB-03-2026

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-WIRED

The number of #elderly inmates in #Japan has quadrupled over the past 20 years. Around a fifth of people over 65 live below the #poverty line, struggling to make ends meet. Some go to extraordinary lengths to improve their circumstances, deliberately getting caught shoplifting in the hope of landing in prison. There, they can access a secure place to live, proper meals, and medical care – basic necessities often denied to them outside.

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/reporters/20260403-when-jail-becomes-home-japan-s-elderly-seek-refuge-behind-bars

Every euro spent by national governments is treated by commission as generating just €0.60 of economic activity no matter where it goes. Grid investment, education, tax cuts for the wealthy: all are logged as a net loss.

https://euobserver.com/210119/eu-fiscal-models-degrade-strong-case-for-clean-energy/

At the same time, the “data-driven" nature of quantitative methods tends to be disjoint from morphological theory.

We took concepts known from 80s and re-conceptualised them for urban morphometrics. This leads to identification of "morphotopes" (as biotopes), the smallest morphologically homogeneous regions.

And because there's a lot of them, we have organised them into a taxonomy.

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In the first days of December, as it became clear that the ICE invasion was a real thing that was really happening to us, as groups of us gathered swapping rumors about the kidnappings and clearly inadequate tips about phone security, we had no idea what to expect, no idea what would happen, no idea what we were going to do. As much as we’d planned, heard from other cities, tried to be ready, we had no idea.

Only one thing was crystal clear: nobody, absolutely nobody, was coming to save us.

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