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Community MH Nurse, Hodges Model h2cm Non-Mathematician seeking help. Researching 'Care Fusion'? HUM - SCI; NHS & Global Health He/him https://t.co/2vkXidgkWS

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The Modern Boethius
The Modern Boethius@ModernBoethius·
“Public opinion is gradually being shaped and conditioned by polarizing media narratives, which are often amplified by algorithms that prioritize conflict and confrontation.” -Pope Leo The pope just exposed the entire grifting social media influencer class
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Danny Deraney
Danny Deraney@DannyDeraney·
Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend
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Beauty of Nature 🥀
Beauty of Nature 🥀@NaturalEye78321·
📍 Milford Sound, New Zealand 🇳🇿
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fOx
fOx@fOx1257067·
At first glance it looks like these divers in New Zealand are just pulling sea urchins off the ocean floor by the bucket load. But there’s a much bigger reason behind it. When sea urchin populations explode, they can strip entire kelp forests down to bare rock, creating what divers call "urchin barrens." Kelp forests aren’t just underwater plants. They’re giant underwater ecosystems that provide food, shelter, and breeding grounds for fish and countless forms of marine life. By removing excess urchins, divers help restore balance beneath the surface, giving kelp forests a chance to recover and helping protect the sea life that depends on them. Sometimes protecting nature isn’t adding something new... it’s restoring what was already there. Crazy to think an entire world exists beneath the surface that most of us will never see. What place have you visited that felt like another world?
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Fair Vote Manitoba
Fair Vote Manitoba@MBFairVote·
"We don’t want to run the country. We want to fix how it’s run." "Democracy Reform NZ is the only party in New Zealand that takes no position on health, housing, tax, or any other policy area.  We exist for one purpose: to research, test, and deliver practical reforms to how democracy itself works — so that every government, no matter who wins, works better for everyone." Canada needs a democracy reform party. democracyparty.nz Here's their executive summary: democracyparty.nz/wp-content/upl…
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HRC New Zealand
HRC New Zealand@HRCNewZealand·
We're delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Hannah Buckley as the Health Research Council of New Zealand's new Chief Executive. hrc.govt.nz/news-and-event…
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Wall Street Apes
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes·
Erin Brockovich has launched a website and has begun tracking all data centers in America and logging resident complaints In just 1 week it’s already logged 1,690 resident complaints For this who don’t remember Erin Brockovich was the paralegal responsible for winning out a case against PG&E, Hinckley in California, because their wastewater runoff was seeping into rural areas and creating a lot of health issues for, for the surrounding neighborhoods That case brought in a $333 million settlement that went to the families affected by the situation because a lot of them either had staggering medical bills due to their tap water was no longer safe So why is this important, well residents all over America are reporting their tap water and river water is being heavily polluted by data centers Her map of data centers is new, she just launched it The website features an interactive US map showing operational, under-construction, and proposed AI data centers, overlaid with community-reported complaints Residents can submit reports with details, photos, and locations. Within days of launch, it received a surge of submissions over 1,600 in the first week, and reports of 1,800+ from 47 states shortly after Common Resident Complaints Being Logged - Water usage - Raising utility bills for residents - Noise pollution: Constant 24/7 humming from fans, generators, and cooling systems disrupting sleep, daily life, and wildlife. - E-waste from frequent hardware upgrades, pollution including PFAS concerns
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.
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🚨| La claridad de un acueducto del imperio Romano, de hace 2000 años

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