JEDI10

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Nature, climate, ecosystems, sustainability; I like comedy, good writing, and commentary. Mom of cool persons and cats. Retweets are not endorsements.
love you British people 🤗🇬🇧

Josie, a legendary 17-year-old lioness in South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park, survived for five years while completely blind thanks to the devotion of her daughters, Dawn and Duffy. They protected, guided, and fed her until she passed away from old age in October 2025.

The protectors.

You Can't Be A Master of the Universe from Boca

I wrote a column for The Nation about the various billionaires who've been whining about Zohran Mamdani's teeny tiny tax increase on their multi-million dollar pied-a-terres and threatening to move to Florida. (Promises, promises.) The column is below. The Billionaires’ Bathos Club American plutocrats can’t stop whining about how

Elizabeth Spiers
Who called them fake plants and not fauxliage

Scientists are warning that one of Earth’s most important ocean current systems may be approaching a tipping point far sooner than expected — with massive consequences for weather, food systems, and sea levels worldwide.

#ClimateCrisis #AMOC #ClimateScience #GlobalWarming

https://www.commondreams.org/news/amoc-collapse-study

'Time for Half Measures Is Over': Study Warns of Terrifying Atlantic Ocean Current Collapse | Common Dreams

"We must avoid this collapse at all costs," said a leading expert on the collapsing AMOC current.

Common Dreams
Trump is lifting restrictions on hunting in national parks, refuges and wilderness areas

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-is-lifting-restrictions-on-hunting-in-national-parks-and-other-areas
Trump is lifting restrictions on hunting in national parks and other areas

President Donald Trump's administration is quietly pushing national park, refuge and wilderness area managers to dramatically scale back hunting restrictions, raising questions about visitor safety and the impact on wildlife.

PBS News
Yep
Top solar companies, banks and insurers have stopped doing business with recently built ⁠U.S. panel factories because of uncertainty over whether their ties to China could disqualify them from clean-energy subsidies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/05/11/tech/trump-china-solar-firms-us-factory/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #rebewables #solar #china #us #donldtrump #energy
Trump’s crackdown on China-linked solar firms stalls U.S. factory boom

The policy could backfire by imperiling growth in U.S. manufacturing jobs and power generation at a time of rising utility bills and soaring electricity demand.

The Japan Times

Folks are gonna need to stop with the "grandma on the computer" to mean uneducated users tropes soon.

I was writing and debugging code to a cassette tape drive before a lot of folks who say this nonsense were even born. I have built my own computers from the case up. My first computer class in college was COBOL. I hard coded websites before there were any tools to do it with.

I'm 52.

What I find is that most of the yunguns have no fucking idea how they work and couldn't find a command line if their life depended on it.

So, yanow, maybe stop.

NYT: “The pool is the latest in a string of cases where Trump’s government invoked special powers to shut down required competition, and then handed contracts directly to his preferred vendors.” Endless grift at taxpayers’ expense. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...