Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

Same as it ever was

Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you for $8 a month.

#8DollarsAMonthABibleVerse
#HashtagGames

BREAKING: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has ADVANCED legislation to SEIZE Russian assets to fund Ukraine. 🇺🇦

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4426738-seize-russian-assets-ukraine-senate/

NEW: "The Russian porn guy that gave Tя☭mp’s Truth Social $8M to stay afloat is the nephew of a former Putin staffer and has been charged by the SEC for insider trading.

I couldn’t write that shit if I tried, y’all." --m.s.w.

#PutinStooge #PutinStooges #RepublicansAreTheProblem #moneylaundering

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@skykiss @DemocracyMattersALot

the struggle was real

In 1978, one of the greatest discoveries of lost media in history took place in the remote Yukon town of Dawson City, Canada.

After demolishing the down's decrepit, half-century-old skating rink, workers discovered that it had been built on top of a pile of wooden boxes packed into an even older swimming pool. Inside the boxes were 1,100 reels of extremely delicate nitrate film from the 1910s and '20s.

Nitrate film is famously flammable, which is why so many of the movies that were recorded on it are lost today. But packed under ice and earth, the Dawson City hoard survived the decades shockingly well. Of 1,100 reels, 527 were still playable.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/hollywood-in-the-klondike-author-recalls-the-year-a-silent-film-trove-was-unearthed-in/article_5a59f181-12de-5a75-9ee4-f9b9e0deb959.html

Terra-Gen and Mortenson have announced the activation of the "Edwards & Sanborn Solar + Energy Storage project",
the largest solar-plus-storage project in the United States.

The project is a true renewable energy behemoth, spanning 4,600 acres, comprised of 1.9 million US-made First Solar panels.
It holds a capacity of 875 MWdc solar, and nearly 3.3 GWh of energy storage. It has a 1.3 GW interconnection capacity. 

California’s grid is expected to receive enough electricity to power the equivalent of about 238,000 homes from the project. This leads to an estimated 320,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions abated annually. 

The energy storage is made up of LG Chem, Samsung, and BYD batteries.
This feat of engineering required 98 miles of MV Wire, over 361 miles of DC wiring, and 120,720 batteries. 

Edwards & Sanborn is partially located on the Edwards Air Force Base in Kern County, California, a hub for many of the largest solar projects in the United Staes.
It represents the largest public-private collaboration in US Department of Defense history.
Since 2020, more than 1,000 craftworkers contributed to the project, and it was executed with more than a million hours of injury-free labor
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/01/22/largest-us-solar-storage-project-goes-online/

A shadowy new organization attacking the climate efforts of Canadian cities is infiltrating Google searches and ads in the New York Times and other publications online.

The group — Voice for Energy — bills itself as a platform for Canadians to "speak up" against municipalities implementing measures to reduce or ban natural gas to "protect" people’s so-called "energy choice."

The group keeps its provenance secret, with no phone numbers or staff listed on its website.
A search of its metadata through the Whois database reveals the domain name was created in April 2023, but any information that could identify the website's owners is redacted.

Last week, some Canadian New York Times readers were greeted with an ad from the organization targeting Burnaby, B.C.'s recent decision to ban gas hook-ups in new buildings.

Canadian Google users have also been targeted by the group, as reported by DeSmog reporter Geoff Dembicki and according to the platform's ad transparency database.
Those ads have been running Canada-wide since mid-October accompanied by photos of diverse, happy-looking families. The most recent ad was published on Jan. 10, 2024.

"It is a fear campaign. They're trying to get people scared that if we don't keep natural gas, then we won't have reliable electricity," said Julien Beaulieu, a Université de Sherbrooke lecturer.
"That's what this campaign is about. It is about making people scared of renewables
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/01/15/news/shady-group-determined-block-our-climate-solutions

Saved this like ten years ago. Still lovn' it.
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#BlackMastodon

Born in 1896, biochemist Gerty Theresa Cori became the 1st woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (and the 3rd to win a Nobel Prize).

Cori faced gender discrimination & was marginalized for years. But she never gave up.

With her husband Carl, she discovered how glycogen is broken down & eventually stored as an energy source (aka the “Cori cycle”). They also identified the Cori ester. http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/women/cori.htm #HistoryRemix #science #history

The deadliest earthquake in recorded history occurred on this day, January 23 in 1556. Taking an estimated 830,000 lives, some counties lost nearly 60% of their residents.

Can you guess where this event took place?

Click the link below to see where:
https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=160&type=q

#Earthquakes #Geology #Education #History #TodayInHistory #Histodons #geography #wikipedia #maps