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This is the "House of Deputies", the parliament of the City of Berlin this morning.

I'd been called to testify to the Committee on the Environment and Climate today. Berlin has taken back control of its district heating from a private company. Now the issue is whether to rethink existing plans. These call for substantially ramping up the use of biomass burning for heat generation.

That's not a good idea, I testified alongside other experts.

Here's a media report:
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Stop a somewhat stern stone facade of a very large building flies the flag of the city of Berlin on a lone flag post. White with two thin red stripes on the top and bottom, it shows the silhouette of a standing bear, the symbol of Berlin.
An image of the full building. It has a huge entrance portal with high square columns and a very high upper floor, which is where assembly halls are located.

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a window with the word "TESTING" variously truncated and rotated applied to it in white vinyl. behind it, a square grid patterned brick wall.

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Now around 15.2 billion miles from Earth, still coasting off into the dark at around 38,000 mph with respect to the Sun.
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FBI raids homes of top aides to New York City Mayor Eric Adams (Politico)

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Liberals' national campaign director tells Justin Trudeau he is quitting (Althia Raj/Toronto Star)

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Birds of a Feather: Audubon Joins Elon Musk in Challenging Constitutionality of Labor Law After Violating Workers' Rights (Communications Workers of America)

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Steve Silberman, journalist who explored autism's history, dies at 66 (Harrison Smith/Washington Post)

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Okay, it's taken me a full day to bring myself to post this comic from 2022, but here it is.

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President Zelensky
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#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #BreakingNews #Breaking
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one of the excellent local bookstores when i was growing up helpfully put dates on their price tags (thanks book revue!), so i just noticed that i bought david shenk & @stevesilberman's "skeleton key" 30 years ago this week, right when it came out. #deadfreaksunite @bookstodon
price sticker with ISBN number, $13.46 SKELETON KEY 09/03/94
#deadfreaksunite @bookstodon group @Steve Silberman

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Fighting a virus while learning how to fight technofeudalism.
Cover Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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The main set of images of Mercury as seen by ESA & JAXA's #BepiColombo mission last night during its fourth & closest flyby yet have now been published.

They're available to download on ESA's website, but they've been enlarged to add logos & captions, making them too big to post on Mastodon 🤷‍♂️

So here they all in two toots as a preview, resized to the original 1024x1024 pixels, for you to enjoy.

Happy to have worked on them 🙂👍

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A black-and-white picture of part of the planet Mercury showing lots of craters and other surface features, seen against a black sky with some parts of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft in the foreground.
A black-and-white picture of part of the planet Mercury showing lots of craters and other surface features, seen against a black sky with some parts of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft in the foreground.
A black-and-white picture of part of the planet Mercury showing lots of craters and other surface features, seen against a black sky with some parts of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft in the foreground.
#spaceexploration #SpaceScience #BepiColombo
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Here's the second set of three images from the very close flyby of Mercury by ESA & JAXA's #BepiColombo mission last night.

As ever, it was a great pleasure & privilege to be with the mission team last night as the spacecraft made contact after the flyby & downlinked the data, to process the images you see here, & then to discuss with scientists colleagues across Europe & Japan what they show.

Full images & article:

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#SpaceScience #SpaceExploration

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A black-and-white picture showing the planet Mercury with craters and plains across the surface illuminated to different degrees by the Sun, seen against a black sky with parts of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft in the foreground.
A black-and-white picture showing the planet Mercury with craters and plains across the surface illuminated to different degrees by the Sun, seen against a black sky with parts of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft in the foreground.
A black-and-white picture showing the planet Mercury with craters and plains across the surface illuminated to different degrees by the Sun, seen against a black sky with parts of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft in the foreground.
#spaceexploration #SpaceScience #BepiColombo
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And as a bonus, several of the #BepiColombo images of Mercury were annotated to show craters & other features on the surface, including Stoddart crater, newly-named after the New Zealand painter, Margaret Stoddart.

Again, these are 1024x1024 previews at the original camera resolution; full-res version of these along with descriptions are available on the ESA website:

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#SpaceScience #SpaceExploration

A black-and-white picture of the planet Mercury as seen by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission showing craters and other features, some of which have been annotated in yellow in this version. The planet is seen against a black sky, with some parts of the spacecraft visible in the foreground.
A black-and-white picture of the planet Mercury as seen by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission showing craters and other features, some of which have been annotated in yellow in this version. The planet is seen against a black sky, with some parts of the spacecraft visible in the foreground.
A black-and-white picture of the planet Mercury as seen by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission showing craters and other features, some of which have been annotated in yellow in this version. The planet is seen against a black sky, with some parts of the spacecraft visible in the foreground.
#spaceexploration #SpaceScience #BepiColombo

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Robinhood, $HOOD, has settled with the California DOJ, which stated that Robinhood “failed to allow customers to withdraw their cryptocurrency from their Robinhood accounts from 2018 to 2022”

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

#News #finance #economics #stocks #Options

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Extinct Guam Kingfisher Readying For Release On Remote Pacific Island, an effort by USFWSPacific & The Nature Conservancy

by @GrrlScientist

#extinct #birds🪶 #ornithology🦉 #conservation #translocation #Guam #PalmyraAtoll #SciComm🧪 forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist…

#birds #conservation #ornithology #scicomm #Guam #extinct #translocation #palmyraatoll @GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ

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#mentalhealth #psychology #healthcare #depression #psychotherapy #psychiatry #socialwork #Counseling #psychotherapist @psychotherapists group @psychology group @psychiatry group @psychotherapist group @Psychology/Health Research Bot @socialpsych group @socialwork group @Psych Today Unofficial Bot

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#BlockTheBoat: The live blog

Follow and join the global mobilization to stop the MV Kathrin, illegally carrying military supplies for apartheid Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.

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#blocktheboat

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TI AM62xB-P1. Jokes have left the building. We now deal with a serious board. For serious people. Watch those corners.

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#embedded #linux

#Linux #Embedded

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With kiss on the cheek, father may have spread incurable virus to kid

Puzzle of child's misdiagnosed cheek lesion solved with one look at dad

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Texas Republican says GOP will cost itself the House majority in November (Saul Elbein/The Hill)

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Amphis I + II (2018)
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#art #sculpture by Ranti #Bam

#sculpture #art #BAM
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