Rooney’s old account @girls_can@social.cleverlibre.org

Increased COVID vaccination in nursing home staff cut cases, deaths https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/increased-covid-vaccination-nursing-home-staff-cut-cases-deaths

Remember this? A simple, creative way to make the really important point about the need for child-safe, all-ages & abilities PROTECTED bike-paths. Paint isn’t safe infrastructure, any more than stuffed animals are — if you wouldn’t let your kids ride in it, it isn’t safe, Period. #Berlin via @umwerfer.

#LetKidsBike #Urbanism #BikeLanes #Cities #transportation #bikes #cars #city #kids #car

Wall Street has consolidated into 5 giant banks.

Airlines have merged from 12 carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

A handful of drug companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

Four giants control over 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

The National Grid is supposed to be capable of running without fossil fuels by 2025 but, looking at these numbers, it is getting very close to doing it for the first time already. Gas is producing just 1.42GW within a total demand of 35.1GW. That’s 4%. Coal adds another 0.8%. Wind, meanwhile, is making 19.66GW. Excuse me if I’m excited but the first time Britain runs without fossil fuels — even if it’s just for ten minutes — will be a big deal.

https://grid.iamkate.com

“The city is poised to require owners of vehicles weighing over 6000 pounds to pay an annual $500 vehicle registration fee, almost 7X the cost to register a modest sedan. No other US jurisdiction has created such a forceful financial disincentive against the biggest, heaviest car models.” Via @davidzipper

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-26/a-new-way-to-curb-the-rise-of-oversized-pickups-and-suvs

#cities #urbanism #trucks #SUV #cars

GRETA, NOW DO ELON.

Elon Musk reinstating Andrew Tate only for Andrew Tate to dox himself and tip off the police to his location while trying to get into a pissing match with Greta Thunberg is such an amazing story arc. 😭

A truly good thing @ElonMusk@twitter.com accidentally did for humanity.

and he would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling kids

Hurricane Fiona is among 10 most expensive climate disasters worldwide: report

Advocates warn results of climate disasters will become unaffordable and uninsurable

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/hurricane-fiona-climate-disaster-cost-1.6699148

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #Climate

Tough... but fair.

"Also, scientific topics are often complex, and it’s generally not worth spending time and energy to understand a technical argument unless it’s particularly germane to your work.

But compounding these issues is a simple truth that has made science less impactful than it could otherwise be: Scientific papers are poorly written. And they’ve been getting worse."

https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-elements-of-scientific-style/

@IdahoLark @Flash Kathrin Swoboda https://novanaturephotography.com/

Tonight I decided to add candy eyes to our chocolate-dipped strawberries, only to learn that when it comes to desserts there is a very, very fine line between “whimsical” and “cursed”

I genuinely don't remember making you all this stupid.

The best land and ecosystem managers are natural processes.

They have very long resumes.

The second best are very humble humans with extensive general and local knowledge of ecosystems.

Mistakes will be made, but until we get the population down to a sustainable number, we need to support and rely on the latter.

#biodiversity #ClimateChange #Nature #economics #ecology #wildlife #sustainability #environment

"We can now 3D print as much wood as we want without cutting a single tree
"At number 13 on IE's 22 best innovations of 2022, we look at the world’s first lab-grown wood."

#StopClearcuting Ban #BioMass Scam.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/lab-grown-3d-printed-wood

A new modeling study by @goblinshrimp & @conservbytes predicts (among other dire things) that synergies among extinction drivers -- e.g. overexploitation of resources by #invasivespecies combined with #climatechange -- will be a major cause of global biodiversity loss by the year 2100.

Their model provides "the first global quantitative assessment of the impacts of biological invasions on planetary diversity over the coming century".

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.abn4345