tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
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Pretty cool map that shows for every municipality in Europe what they use for email...
https://jurgen.gaeremyn.be/map.html
Strong differences per country (like Belgium has a Microsoft dependency that Germany and Austria clearly do not have)
> “What happens in rice, because of complex biogeochemical processes in the soil, when temperatures and CO2 go up, inorganic arsenic also does,” Ziska said. “And it’s this inorganic arsenic that poses the greatest health risk.”
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> “There is a toxicological effect of climate change relative to one of the most consumed staples in the world,” Ziska said, “and the consumption is one of the hallmarks of whether you’re going to be vulnerable to that effect.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/climate-change-will-make-rice-toxic-say-researchers/
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Not exactly news, but this bears repeating: Europeans' attitudes towards #migration are more positive & nuanced than many politicians & journalists would make you believe. Also, salience (not really discussed in this article) is really important.
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Judges at the Supreme Court in London were asked to rule on what that law means by "sex" - whether it means biological sex, or legal, "certificated" sex as defined by the 2004 Gender Recognition Act.
[quoted out of order]
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously backed the biological definition of "woman" under the 2010 Equality Act.
[...]
They said a "certified" definition of sex would weaken protections for lesbians, citing the example of lesbian-only spaces and associations as it would mean that a trans woman who was attracted to women would be classed as a lesbian.
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The judges added: "The practical problems that arise under a certificated sex approach are clear indicators that this interpretation is not correct."
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Climate change costing Africa $15bn annually — AfDB president
President of African Development Bank Dr Akinwumi Adesina has disclosed that the African continent loses between $7-15 billion a year due to climate change, adding that if the current trend continues, it will rise to $50 billion by 2050
https://dailytrust.com/climate-change-costing-africa-15bn-annually-afdb-president/
#Africa #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
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Innan ni går på påskledighet vill jag påminna om att Joakim Medin fortfarande sitter i en turkisk fängelsecell.
#FreeMedin #FreeJoakim
#pressfrihet
#journalismisnotacrime #Turkiye
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Late #Spring in #Pakistan, & the government is already considering shutting schools for an early summer break due to the #heatwave.
Astonishing: the Gov is admitting temperature surges of 4-7C (7-13F) above the current heatwave are to occur in the coming few days.
This is what I kept warning! An avg rise of 1.5C means swings of 5-10C making that happen, and in heatwaves or cold snaps thats deadly!
https://www.dawn.com/news/1903252/schools-in-punjab-mull-early-summer-vacation-if-heat-persists
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #GlobalSouth #SouthAsia
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Financial deflation incoming: via the margin calls mechanism, the US tariffs have started a classic self-sustaining deflationary dynamics. (Italian)
https://lavoce.info/archives/107580/dai-dazi-alla-crisi-finanziaria/
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Ooh boy: China Orders Halts to Boeing Jet Deliveries as Trade War Expands.
China Orders Halts to Boeing J...
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In an unprecedented move, the Japan Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order against Google for violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall the company’s apps on their Android smartphones. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/15/companies/google-anti-monopoly-law/
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RIP Mario Vargas Llosa.
"Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams and placed the universe of literature within reach of the boy I once was."
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2010/vargas_llosa/lecture/
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Climate Change Is Helping Heartworm Spread to Pets in the Mountain West
Warming temperatures and changing precipitation patterns are helping expand the range of heartworm-carrying mosquitoes and other vectors for diseases that afflict dogs and cats
#dogs #cats #canada #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
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I began building a nuclear fall-out shelter in my garden around 15 years ago. In recent years it's just become the wanking shed.
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“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2024-08/Globalization Survey_2024.pdf
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@morganist @QueerSatanic @pluralistic Naomi Kritzer wrote this excellent short story about the kind of things that actually help during disasters
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/
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We just need to turn the negative productivity of research scientists at NASA and forner auditors at the IRS that DOGE fired to gainfully making shoes in Nike factories reshored from Vietnam.
This is the groundbreaking economic thinking of communist purges from Mao to Pol Pot with a sprinkle of American Exceptionalism.
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I 
eduroam. Best idea ever.
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Do you remember the 2019 study about how we can feed the world’s growing population without causing catastrophic climate breakdown?
"But the backlash was ferocious, with researchers receiving personal threats and insults." Twitter at the front of hate, then came articles. A leaked document shows that actions against the #scientists were a targeted PR-campaign for the #meat lobby: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/pr-campaign-may-fuelled-food-study-backlash-leaked-document-eat-lancet
The original investigation: https://www.desmog.com/2025/04/10/meat-industry-red-flag-animal-agriculture-alliance-behind-attacks-flagship-climate-friendly-diet-report-eat-lancet/
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
