blog.uaar.it/2025/07/20/le-rad…
ft.com/content/d4315905-e7b5-4…
#nuclear #energy #electricity
Keep Dancing to the Beat of Your Heart, 2022
Laetitia Vançon’s series Tribute to Odesa is a personal tribute to the resilience and quiet defiance she encountered in Odesa, Ukraine, a city of strategic and symbolic importance. The war was present in the sea, in the air and in every story Vançon encountered.
Photograph: Laetitia Vançon
@photography
#photography
@ukraine
#Odesa
photography group reshared this.
The image features a social media post by Anthony Karls, who is identified as the President of Rocket Clicks. The post includes a photo of a couple, presumably the bride and groom, standing together outdoors. The bride is wearing a white strapless wedding dress with a beaded waistband, and the groom is in a gray suit with a white shirt and bow tie. The background shows a sunny day with trees and a blue vehicle. The text in the post reads, "I peed the bed on my honeymoon. Not exactly one of my proudest moments." The post is timestamped as being one day old.
Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
🌱 Energy used: 0.172 Wh
“Don’t Look Up is more realistic than most people believe”
What happens once we spot the asteroid that will hit Earth?
No more ‘good disabled’ guff
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/20/…
"The government’s proposed cuts to disability benefits will ruin lives if they are not fought ~ Fingers Malone ~ Their focus is on making it harder to get Personal Independence Payments (PIP), halving the health element of Universal Credit for new claimants, and after 2029 connecting the Limited Capability for Work Related Activities to qualifying
The post No more ‘good disabled’ guff appeared
No more ‘good disabled’ guff - Freedom News
The government’s proposed cuts to disability benefits will ruin lives if they are not fought ~ Fingers Malone ~ Their focus is on making it harder to get Personal Independence Payments (PIP), halving the health element of Universal Credit for new cla…Eds (Freedom Press)
The End, 2025
In his series Alfredo Jaar documents the Great Salt Lake, Utah, which is being destroyed by excessive water extraction and has become what scientists have described as an ‘environmental nuclear bomb’. A keystone ecosystem for the western hemisphere, sustaining rainfall and providing a habitat for 10 million migratory birds, it has lost 73% of its water ...
Photograph: Alfredo Jarr
@photography
#photography
#US
#Utah
#GreatSaltLake
#water
photography group reshared this.
As Rachel Wolf argues, one key to starting to resolve that part of the housing crisis related to building houses (yes, there are other aspects, not least of all renters' rights) is for this (or any) Govt. to stop trying to assuage local objectors to housing & rather recognise a social need that needs to be built even if locals object to new housing.
Its an argument that may have some merits, but only if you think building more houses *is* the answer!
#housing #politics
observer.co.uk/news/opinion-an…
To solve the housing crisis will take some electoral pain
If we could build 50,000 homes in London in a year in the 30s, we can surely do the same thing nowRachel Wolf (The Observer)
The UK government thinks we live in a topsy-turvy wonderland, where share prices hitting record highs every month this year are caused by lack of share investment, and continuous house price rises by the difficulty banks have getting money into the housing market.
Why do they need to to be told by young youtubers that the problem here is not too little money - it's too much ?
@GeofCox @InsurgoFormica @KimSJ
yes, redirection of the flow of money into productive investment rather than asset speculation is one key issue, certainly, but not something that will be at the forefront of the strategy discussions of a political class dominated by landlords (and asset holders) of course
As Richard Murphy has pointed out this morning, in 1975, 80% of government housing expenditure went on the construction of social housing; by 2000, 85% was instead going directly to landlords, via housing benefit.
Socialism for the rich...
@GeofCox
I posit that it's not amount of money, it's where the money is located, hoarded, pet and fondled like Epstein victims by a monied class that is using it to keep score rather than doing anything useful.
Yes - exactly. The reality we need to adjust to has been described clearly enough by Thomas Piketty: since, in developed economies, the rate of return from assets becomes higher than that from enterprise, private investment flows into assets. Moreover, the rate of return on sustainable investment (eg retro-fitting home insulation) is particularly poor.
The obvious answer is to remove money from the wealthy, who have more than they can usefully employ, to enable public investment in what is really needed, and the distribution of more money to the hard-pressed, who will inject it straight back into circulation.
Guillotines - are they all bad ?
Seriously - all any of us can do is what I guess most of us already are doing: campaigning, speaking and voting for the left/green, and (here, for example) equipping each other with the ideas, evidence and arguments for good policy choices.
@ApostateEnglishman @GeofCox @InsurgoFormica @KimSJ
I mean, we are/have depending on expert, reached the point where wealth inequality is more than it was at the point of the French Revolution.
We have not (yet) gotten to a point where food insecurity hits half the population, but we are not far from it. We are at 25% in the US currently. The current US regime is doing everything in its power to make sure a starvation event occurs.
What I think they have failed to take into account is how heavily armed the crazy section of society is. Like, I know people with enough guns to outfit a militia. More than a few, actually. And big freaking guns too, like I didn’t know you could own weapons like that as a civilian, and I’m a certified marksman.
Honest to god, I fear what’s coming in the US.
@MissConstrue @GeofCox @InsurgoFormica @KimSJ Yeah, an old pal of mine knows the fella who owns the largest private collection of decommissioned, but mostly still operative military hardware in the UK. We're talking actual working tanks, stacks of old rifles from WWII - all sorts. I have often wondered what would happen if *that* guy went crazy and decided to go on a killing spree.
The thing is in the USA, there are millions of that guy.
What is an ally? Armenia’s security and the politics of self-interest
Armenia and its global nation live within two parallel realities. Emigration from Armenia has stabilized, with a recent report indicating a modest populationBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Azerbaijan to file international lawsuits against Russia over downed plane, Aliyev says
Azerbaijan is preparing to submit documents to international courts over the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft, President Ilham Aliyev said on July 19,BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
An injured child was asked: “Get well soon, little hero. What’s wrong?”
He didn’t say he was waiting outside the operating room for his turn. He didn’t mention the bombing that shattered his life. He didn’t complain. He didn’t ask for anything. He didn’t say much at all...
Just one word spoken with broken eyes lifted upward: “Hungry.”
That’s it. Just… hungry. So simple, yet it crushed the heart.
reshared this
Good morning, #HephalumpWorld! Tea is steeping.
A gray morning here at the ol' Imperial Palace. Kittys are fed and on patrol.
America is fallen.
Aмерика struggles to emerge.
Now is the time of pedophile rapists.
#AmericanPresidentGoFuckYourself
GOP = #GroupiesOfPutin (AKA #Nazis)
Fuck you, 🚀boy. Eat shit and die. No one elected you to shit.
#CompostTheRich
Israel is a terrorist state.
🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦
Today's agenda: TBD
💜 Cynni 🏳️🌈 likes this.
Bon jour, mon écureuil!
🙄 I went back to bed, and am just now reawakened. The hoped for effect of feeling refreshed was not achieved.
What is Project Esther? It’s the Heritage Foundation’s Plan to stop & criminalise Pro-Palestinian protests in US
#USpol
newsweek.com/project-esther-pr…
What Is Project Esther? Plan To Tackle Pro-Palestinian Protests in US
Architects of Project 2025 unveiled a blueprint to stop pro-Palestinian activism months before President Trump returned to office.Khaleda Rahman (Newsweek)
L'immagine mostra la scatola di un gioco intitolato "La Giornata dell'Umarell - il gioco del vero pensionato". La scatola è di colore verde scuro con il titolo in caratteri gialli e bianchi. Sul lato frontale della scatola è raffigurata una scena di un cantiere con gru e un uomo anziano con un cappello e un cappotto, che osserva il cantiere. Sullo sfondo, si vedono edifici in costruzione e un cielo azzurro con nuvole. La scatola è sigillata con plastica trasparente e ha un prezzo di €37,90 indicato in alto a sinistra.
Fornito da @altbot, generato localmente e privatamente utilizzando Ovis2-8B
🌱 Energia utilizzata: 0.209 Wh
Truly remarkable discoveries near the city of Hradec Králové in the northern Czech Republic where archaeologists discovered an exceptional settlement from the La Tène period.
Photo credit Ludmila Němcová, Matouš Holas, Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové / University of Hradec Králové.
english.radio.cz/unique-celtic…
Unique Celtic settlement discovered near Hradec Králové
Archaeologists have unearthed a Celtic settlement, unprecedented in Czechia for both its size and the number of artefacts uncovered.Radio Prague International
xro [39C3📞2976]
in reply to Kees van der Leun • • •#nuclear #energy #electricity
So... are they biting into that expensive bad apple, because they desperately need capacity for low-sun low-wind winter weeks and don't have better technologies or energy storage lined up?? Or what is the reasoning?
Earthworm 🐌
in reply to xro [39C3📞2976] • • •Reasons why politicians promote nuclear energy are (maybe in the following order):
- ideology
- believing lobby campaigns by the nuclear industry
- corruption (direct & indirect)
- potential for military use (not directly, but as a nuclear power, you need a nuclear industry)
All the "technical" arguments do not hold. Economic arguments much less, as can be seen with these prices (luckily, otherwise, they'd be building many more nuclear power plants).
EDIT: I forgot Putin...
kolektiva.social/@earthworm/11…
@xro @Sustainable2050
Earthworm 🐌
2025-07-20 09:48:59