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Invented in 1761 by Benjamin Franklin, the glass armonica was so eerie people thought it could drive you mad, yet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart turned it into hauntingly beautiful music.
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Heterodox unicorn: anti-woke and pro-Green.
Virginia, USA Se unió Kasım 2021
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The planet’s undisturbed old-growth boreal forests may be far more important in the fight against climate change than previously realized, according to a new Science study, which finds that primary forests in Sweden store over 70% more carbon than managed secondary forests.
Learn more: scim.ag/4uL06hL
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A Restore Britain Government would tackle the so-called ‘little’ things - the litter, the graffiti, the fly-tipping, the ‘petty’ crime, the vandalism. The broken windows.
Because if you tolerate small acts of disorder, you invite the larger ones. It is very straightforward.
We don’t want any of it. The graffiti, the vandalism, the crime.
Look around Britain today and you can see the principle grimly playing out in real time.
Litter left on the streets and never cleared, graffiti that remains untouched, petty theft treated as a minor inconvenience. Antisocial behaviour ignored or excused. I am so very bored of it all.
Each one, on its own, might seem small. But together, they send a very clear message.
We live in a lawless dump. Optional standards, nobody enforces the rules.
A low-trust society.
And once that message takes hold, the consequences follow.
Because disorder breeds yet more disorder. If people see that rules are not enforced, more people begin to ignore them. What starts as low-level neglect becomes something far more serious.
A high-trust society cannot function like this. And I want to live in a high-trust society, I want my grandchildren to grow up in a high-trust society.
A Restore Britain Government would enforce the basics.
Clean streets, zero tolerance for vandalism, real consequences for antisocial behaviour. A visible, consistent presence of policing authority.
And yes, we will obviously acknowledge and reverse the role of mass immigration from certain countries has contributed to this decline.
Import the third world, become the third world.
Our town centres don’t have to be crime-ridden hellholes, our countryside doesn’t have to be plastered in litter, our transport network doesn’t have to be painted over with vile graffiti.
This is all a choice. It’s a choice to live like this.
I don’t want to live in a filth-pit where basic standards are trampled over.
Our political party would restore Britain’s high-trust society.
If you want that, vote for it. There’s now an option.
Restore Britain.
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For the millionth time… there is no third sex. Or someone who is both or neither sex. Human Sex is binary. Two gametes. One large one small. Males or females who have a difference of sexual development. I blame MSM for deliberately & maliciously muddying the water.
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The crazy, beautiful thin line of air between us and space.
Living in orbit I would often look to Earth's horizon, marvelling at how bizarrely thin our atmosphere is. Half of all air is in the first 3 mi/5 km. A common running distance.
Sometimes big thunderheads were visible, pushing to the edge of the stratosphere. Above that, the coloured aura of the mesosphere, and then eternal empty blackness. Lit by an occasional star, like a small lightbulb in a vast darkened hall.
Let's appreciate and take responsibility for our planet.
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@mattyglesias Burning methane is a bridge to nowhere.
The future is renewables + batteries. Period.
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Very few elected officials, generalist staffers, or journalists understand the time horizon shenanigans being pushed to make methane leaks look so bad that gas crowding out coal and oil is no longer climate-positive.
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The snake head caterpillar is a wild example of Batesian mimicry.
When threatened, it hangs from a branch, inflates its body, and reveals a convincing snake-like head complete with eye spots, even mimicking a strike to scare off predators.
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Human ingenuity is a much more powerful force than gradual shifts in the earth's climate.
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@MichaelAArouet You're deluded or a liar. Which is it?
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This again. I’ve complained about this exact chart design and this exact framing before, and I’m impressed by how often it gets recycled. To be clear up front: if you’re not in the energy sector and you're posting this, you’re not stupid, but you’re being misled. Unless you work in energy accounting, this chart seems quite intuitive. It's meant to. This is a primary‑energy (exajoule) data series from the Energy Institute. Since they have abandoned the controversial substituton method that dominated for so many years, fossil fuels are counted as upstream chemical energy inputs, while wind and solar are now counted as downstream electricity output with no conversion efficiency adjustments. Those are not comparable quantities. Mixing them guarantees that wind and solar will look small anywhere electricity is still a minority of total final energy use (which is basically every country in the world) That outcome is guaranteed by making a dishonest chart on a data series not meant to be used in this way. This is not just my interpretation. The IEA and data publishers like Our World in Data have both noted that summarizing energy systems with a single ‘primary energy’ metric is inherently problematic, because fossil fuels are counted as energy inputs while renewables are counted as electricity outputs, so the measures track different things. For context, wind and solar supplied roughly 22% of China’s electricity in 2025. This chart doesn’t contradict that per se. It just collapses everything into a metric that broadly minimizes electricity technologies. You’d get the same visual story for the U.S., Europe, or anywhere else. Primary‑energy charts are fine for tracking aggregate system demand trends. They are not valid for comparing fossil fuels to wind and solar contribution, and they are especially not a way to assess “renewable leadership” or lack thereof. If that’s what you care about, you can look at electricity generation mix, capacity additions, build rates, deployment speed, manufacturing scale...etc., metrics that correspond to something comparable. But if your argument depends on treating an EJ primary‑energy chart as a like‑for‑like comparison, then the conclusion you’re drawing is flawed. The people who make such charts sometimes don't know this, but often they do, and they do it on purpose because it's a very friendly narrative for their fossil fuel clients. :/
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NEW: Republicans are handing precious public lands to foreign corporations and billionaires.
We went to Superior National Forest, which is on the verge of being sacrificed to a Chilean mining company.
Americans want public lands protected, but Trump and the GOP want profit.
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Here's a slightly different look at Germany's shift to wind and solar power 🇩🇪 ⚡
The last decade has seen a massive change. From 2015 to 2025, the annual share of wind and solar in Germany's generation mix has grown from 19% to 45%.
But annual averages tell only one story. It's useful to look at the distribution across the year. We can clearly see:
- high wind and solar days (50%+) are becoming a very regular occurrence
- low wind and solar days (<25%) are increasingly rare
2015:
- 86 days (24% of the year) had a wind and solar share over 25%
- not a single day reached 50%
- most days were around 10-20% w+s share
2025:
- 324 days (89%) with shares of at least 25% (only 41 days below 25%)
- 156 days (43% of the year) with shares over 50%!
This tells us two things:
1. The floor (lowest daily w+s output) for flexibility requirements is lifting up, especially as more battery storage comes online to smooth out hourly fluctuations 2. Wind and solar are frequently contributing the majority of Germany's power on a daily timescale, not just for individual hours
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These two photographs are separated by only 66 years.
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A rare close-up of the elusive Golden Langur, one of the only known primates that actively avoids humans
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In 2025, Jon Pike and I argued that exclusion of athletes with androgenising XY DSDs from female athletics is justified, because these athletes are male, not female.
@runthinkwrite
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Masculine and feminine are two overlapping bell curves. The Right is guilty of forcing everyone into "normal" stereotypes, while the Left is guilty of collapsing two curves into one. A wiser path honors the difference between the curves, while making full room for outliers.
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The Southwest is running out of water, and 80% of Arizona's water goes to agriculture...not homes.
Arizona ships a MILLION homes worth of water (via alfalfa alone) to China, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE every year.
The West needs many different solutions, but this madness must end
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🚨NEW: Last year I published a paper detailing the gamete-based definition of the sexes and debunking common activist objections to it.
This year, the journal published a critique of it rooted in "feminist epistemology."
They invited me to respond. It's now published.
The final paragraph of my response (not shown in the screenshots) is:
"The renowned geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote that 'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,' highlighting evolution as the unifying framework that makes life’s diversity, complexity, and interconnectedness comprehensible. I contend that a parallel statement applies similarly to reproductive biology: Nothing in the biology of the sexes makes sense except in the light of gametes."
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Mahr's critique of my paper:link.springer.com/article/10.100…
My response to Mahr:link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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Important breakthrough in the European Parliament!
I was treated like a public enemy by the left-wing press for demanding exactly this. Now it has been decided at the European level: “Return Hubs” outside Europe are possible.
We must completely outsource the entire broken asylum system. This means pushbacks for all new arrivals and the immediate transfer of all illegals already in Europe to these Return Hubs.
There they can stay in safety and dignity until they return. We should turn these hubs into educational centers. We could train and inspire the youth of poor countries to help them to lift up their own societies. Left-wingers who really want to help could volunteer abroad in those hubs instead of destroying ihr homelands.
Investing in those return hubs and formation centers would be way cheaper than wasting all the money on failed integration in Europe.
Also these centers would be a boost for the local economy in African states. They could be organized as charter cities and special economic zones to encourage foreign investment.
The time for half-measures is over: the tools now exist. Within three years, we can bring the millions who have entered our country into these hubs. From there, it will be much easier to ensure their actual return home. None of them should ever set foot on the European continent again.
Let’s get it done.
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In 2025, the United States had negative net immigration for the first time in 50 years…
They don't teach that from 1924-1970 we had negative net migration for half a century. Yet, America saw unprecedented success and the middle class thrived.
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