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#pressure
#climate
#Earth
#climate #earth #pressure
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Have a good weekend! Here's your Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *2nd* lowest on record (JAXA data)...

• about 630,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,320,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,960,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,370,000 km² below the 1980s mean

More graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-ex…

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between September and December by looking at the decadal average line positions.

Arctic: Sea-Ice Concentration/Extent

Near real-time visualizations [Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability] [Arctic Sea-Ice Extent and Concentration] [Arctic Sea-Ice Volume and Thickness] [Arctic Temperatures] [Antarctic Sea-Ice E…
Zachary Labe
#arctic

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This Mind-Blowing Photo Shows a Skydiver Transiting the Sun
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This Mind-Blowing Photo Shows a Skydiver Transiting the Sun

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has captured a stupendous shot of a skydiver falling in front of the Sun.
Matt Growcoot (PetaPixel)

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#gardening, or how to grow tomatoes in five easy steps:

1) fill the #greenhouse with leaves and stuff

2) throw in some #chicken

3) close the door and let the chicken rampage for a bit

4) remove the chicken, and wait many months

5) actually grow tomatoes 🍅

Greenhouse with leaves
With added chicken
Closed door. Toddler approves
#gardening #greenhouse #chicken

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One day in and the #chicken are in their element. They've spread the leaves around the greenhouse in one consistent layer and are pecking at everything that could potentially move. Here's a quick timelapse.
#chicken

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certainly looks like a pretty cool nightclub for chickens!

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Cop30 begins

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#news
#cop30
#environment
#climatechange
#brazil

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www.reuters.com
#News #climatechange #Environment #Brazil #COP30
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Last month was the 4th warmest October on record for the average global sea surface temperature...

Graphic using NOAA ERSSTv5 data. Methods described in doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0836….

Green line graph time series of average sea surface temperature anomalies for each October from 1900 through 2025. There is large interannual variability, but an overall long-term increasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.

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The shear amount of energy transfer to achieve this amount of warming is staggering. Wow.

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#solar
#electricity
#Australia
#free
#socialscience
#experiment
#news
#newscientist

Australia is getting free electricity - will other countries follow?

As one of the most advanced solar nations in the world, Australia is well placed to experiment with giving people free power - and if it succeeds, other countries may look to copy its approach
James Woodford (New Scientist)
#electricity #experiment #News #free #Australia #solar #newscientist #SocialScience
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Bonfire Social 1.0 is live! A federated, community‑first social network built on the modular Bonfire toolkit, and it’s only the beginning.

It's time to go beyond microblogging and build apps for community organising, open science, mutual aid, and collective decision‑making. Let's take back the internet with open protocols, consent‑based governance, and portability by design.

Back the “last migration” from closed platforms to open networks: indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire…

1/2

Screenshot of Bonfire Social
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Could you tell what exactly this is and how it’s different from using Mastodon or so? I don’t mean a/the pitch-story for investors (I could read the lengthy campaign then) but simple facts?
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Bonfire
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both bonfire social and openscience.network are built on bonfire, they address different needs and have different features and UX. We are now working with communities that needs tools for organising and coordinating (events, decision making, mutual aid, etc) which will result in new extensions that everyone will be able to install and use in their own bonfire app. We're not competing or building a mastodon alternative, we're building tools for communities in the open social web...

Open Science Network

Reclaim scientific discourse with federated digital spaces where researchers shape their own conversations, data, and collaborations
Open Science Network
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply
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congratulations. That’s really exciting for you. This is an ambitious project with great value.

(I know you posted this news a month ago, but I just now saw a boost in my feed. And the congrats is still in order.)

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🚨 Last month observed the highest average temperature for the month of October across the #Antarctic Circle, with clearly 2025 well above any prior year in the satellite era.

Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds.f17050d7

Line graph time series of 2-m air temperature anomalies for the Antarctic in every October from 1979 to 2025. There is a long-term warming trend, and 2025 is the warmest on record in this time series. Data is from ERA5 with a 1981-2010 climate baseline used for calculating the anomalies.

ERA5 monthly averaged data on single levels from 1940 to present

ERA5 is the fifth generation ECMWF reanalysis for the global climate and weather for the past 8 decades. Data is available from 1940 onwards. ERA5 replaces the ERA-Interim reanalysis.
doi.org
#antarctic

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#ClimateDiary It’s 8th November, in the UK. All these flowers in our garden still flowering. And indeed, it’s is so warm. It’s crazy!
Purple flowers, salvia i think. Not sure. Toon tired and no time to look up
Fuchsia and yellow flowers in flower bed
Pink flower. Another salvia, possibly
Flower pots ekth pink and purple flowers
#ClimateDiary

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I've never published anything so close to my heart. Hope ya love it.

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#Indigenous #metal


Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation

In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster (High Country News)
#metal #indigenous
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@jens
Don't forget: at Wacken last year, metalhead.club ran outdoor advertising.

blog.650thz.de/posts/advertisi…

"This probably makes us the first Fediverse instance to place commercial advertising - and certainly the first Fediverse instance to do so in Wacken!"

Advertising metalhead.club in Wacken! | 650thz.de Services Blog

I have booked my first poster advertisement! For metalhead.club! In Wacken! In order to make metalhead.club better known among metalheads, I decided to test some outdoor advertising.
blog.650thz.de
@Jens Finkhäuser
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A visual summary of inequality. Cartoon from last year.

#wealth #poverty #inequality

Cartoon showing a cliff with a giant pool on top filled with money, with a few superrich swimming in and lounging by the pool. A vertical conveyor belt transporting money from the bottom of the cliff to the pool is powered by people on unicycles, balancing precariously on a spinning rod. Signs on the cliff face read 'keep pedaling' One person has fallen off the unicycle and is falling down, passing a red painted line on the cliffside, with the text 'poverty line'.
#Inequality #poverty #wealth
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This image seems familiar to me for some reason. Perhaps, I have seen this somewhere before
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The astrophotographer I worked with earlier this month, Jeanine Holowatuik instagram.com/jeanine.holowatu… northernescapephotography.com/… sent me some horrifying (Halloween-levels of scary) time lapse movies she took of Comet Lemmon.

Why horrifying? Starlink.

About

Night Photographer in Saskatchewan, Canada specializing in the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.
Northern Escape Photography
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I agree.

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This must be shared!
wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/rot…
#wildlifetrust
#nature
#protectland
#rothbury
#northumbaland
#uk
#land
#environment

Donate to Secure the Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts

Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years.
www.wildlifetrusts.org
#nature #uk #Environment #land #WildlifeTrust #protectland #rothbury #northumbaland

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Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean
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Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean

Researchers previously took first confirmed footage of a juvenile colossal squid in scarcely explored habitat
Helena Horton (The Guardian)

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Vampire Spiders Obsess Over Human Blood, Pouncing on Mosquitoes to Get Their Fill
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Vampire Spiders Obsess Over Human Blood, Pouncing on Mosquitoes to Get Their Fill 

Learn about vampire spiders and their love of human blood, which they're able to salvage from blood-carrying mosquitoes.
Jack Knudson (Discover Magazine)

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Comet C/2025 A6 #Lemmon in the constellation Boötes, on the evening of October 24th. Captured from the light polluted outskirts of Munich.

18 minutes integration time with my Fujifilm X-S10 and 135mm f4.5 lens (untracked).

#astrophotography #comet #c2025a6 #c2025a6lemmon #astrodon #space

A starfield with many small and colorful stars is dominated by comet Lemmon which is oriented diagonally in the frame. The comet has a greenish coma and a diffuse yellowish dust tail is pointing up from the nucleus. Layered with the dust tail is the blueish ion-tail which is much narrower and longer, stretching beyond the top of the image. The ion tail shows some slight undulations from changes in the comets activity over time.
#space #astrophotography #Comet #Astrodon #lemmon #c2025a6 #c2025a6lemmon

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I've lately been quite obsessed with this app called StreetComplete. It gamifies contributing to OpenStreetMaps in a really nice way by giving you you little quests to do while you walk around. A fun way to get some steps in, to make you look closer at your environment and to do a good thing!

Play Store: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Fdroid: f-droid.org/packages/de.westno…

Screenshot of a map from my phone with quest bubbles on top

StreetComplete - Apps on Google Play

OpenStreetMap surveyor app
play.google.com
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@InsertUser yes. They are using it to create crowd sourced low stress bike routes. We’re starting to build a network here in Berkeley. Feel free to contact them if you’re interested.
@InsertUser
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No.

I can see no links to download their network data under an open license. In skimming their terms I think they seem very keen that no one but them ever benefits from it and they repeat "Copyright © 2025 Bike Streets, LLC. All rights reserved." on every page I've checked.

I will not be contributing to what appears to be a closed #OpenStreetMap derived database.

I would much rather improve an actual community project like OSM with data that can be used by others.

@Techaltar

#OpenStreetMap @TechAltar
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Do you have fun zines about how to switch away from big tech? Maybe a little intro to Mastodon, or something about the thrills of libre office?

I'm going to do a little peer workshop in a bit to help activists with a non-tech background start shifting away from big tech.

It would be cool to have some zines/printouts to share.

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@cyberlyra @sly_vi @trib At the moment the group I'm working with aren't engaged in any activism that's illegal. Their main risk is reputational (getting fired for talking about Palestine), and they're not trying to avoid that. Their main motivation is to tm shift away from the big tech companies that are complicit in genocide.
@Stephen Collins @Cyberlyra @Sly VI
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@cyberlyra @trib I've also followed this project, it's really awesome! I really like the focus on "real people's problems" instead of tech problems (which can be resolved with elbow grease or throwing money at an independent company)

Some friends of mine had critics about the VPN part, like "We should stop presenting VPNs as a panacea for security, it's not.
Sure, it can prevent your Internet provider or the state to read your traffic, which is great, but most you're still at the mercy of wherever your VPN tunnel ends (ie: which country), and VPN companies could potentially read your stuff, if asked for by law enforcement
VPN is tool in the tool chain, not a stopgap solution for security"

@Stephen Collins @Cyberlyra
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Yah there is no purpose in this society other than trading. Ancient practice that has transformed us all into merchants and consumers. Until that is recognized there is no path towards a solution.

Source - theguardian.com/environment/20…

#climatechange #pollution #trade #politics #environment

#politics #climatechange #Environment #pollution #trade

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