This graphic is fine, but unaccountably omits trains and ocean freight way over in the massive and energy efficient corner.
QT Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social 2025 October 17
“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.”
Tell your members of Congress to not permit this or anything like it.
And if you have a GOP Rep; remind them that they can break with their party leadership, remove Johnson as Speaker, and actually do their jobs at any time.
QT Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social 2025 October 17
Speaker Johnson now signaling the House will remain out of session next week, the fifth recess week in a row bsky.app/profile/fr...
Reading Nature is confounding lately, because it is papers about how the current text and image generators are harmful & useless interspersed with ads hyping said programs.
QT Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social 2025 October 27
I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' ... bsky.app/profile/au...
QT Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social 2025 October 17
The corrupt DOJ isn’t only manufacturing prosecutions against Trump’s political enemies, creating the government weaponization and “lawfare” Republicans pretended was happening before when it objectively wasn’t, they’re charging people with crimes Trump himself literally did at much greater scale.
QT BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social 2025 October 15
The US is on track to lose its measles elimination status this year or early next year. The current public health leadership seems intent to ignore the outbreak until more children die avoidable deaths. The vaccine is the most effective way to end the outbreak.
QT Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social 2025 October 15
my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are
-the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act -the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale ballsandstrikes.org...
QT Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social 2025 October 15
The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years. bsky.app/profile/bb...
This is not to be confused with ADAM, a software package for reconstructing asteroids' shapes from lightcurves and other data: www.aanda.org/artic...
Acronyms often end up overloaded.
QT Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 @b612-asteroid.bsky.social 2025 October 15
Big news from our #AsteroidInstitute 🚀 The ADAM Platform is now online with a user portal to save history, work within your org and connect via API. b612.ai/adam-platform/
Everyone tell Walz, Evers, and Whitmer to join up; Midwest.
QT Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social 2025 October 15
Weird that Minnesota is not among the states that have joined this alliance
[ map of the Governors Public Health Alliance, currently including 14 states all of which have Democratic governors but not include Minnesota, Wisconsin, or Michigan. ]
