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How South Korea plans to use the Iran crisis to spur a renewables revolution Energy crisis unfolding in Middle East has added political urgency, and more funding, to transform the solar industry in particular

This village uses its solar income on free communal lunches, buses and other communal efforts.“If you divide money as individual income, people feel disconnected. People who didn’t know each other for years now get to know each other within days”

I love everything about this.

The Milky Way rises over Nugget Point lighthouse in New Zealand's dark-sky Catlins region

The Milky Way rises over Nugget Point lighthouse in New Zealand's dark-sky Catlins region

I used to fly to a sunny beach and read books for 2 weeks each summer. Then I realised I could read the books at home and not have to tramp through 2 airports. Sorry Heathrow, you've lost my trade because you make the experience horrible. And home is really nice.

5 true things that shouldn't be partisan but are.

Orban and Putin are not America's friends.
Tariffs are inflationary.
Democracy is good.
Pedophilia is bad.
Trump isn't Jesus.

Picture of the century. 😍

📷 credit: Science Tube

"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

Coming out of agnostic retirement to rejoin the Counter-Reformation on the side of the papists is not how I expected my fifties to go.

Weasel words won’t do. In the Trump era, Australians need a PM to speak more clearly and more often | Tom McIlroy To the frustration of some in his own party, Anthony Albanese is cautious by nature, and often follows the lead of others when it comes to sensitive topics * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Admiral David Johnston knows how to deliver a difficult message. Australia’s chief of defence invited journalists to the sprawling Russell complex in Canberra this week, ahead of the imminent release of the new national defence strategy. Continue reading...

Weasel words won’t do. In the Trump era, Australians need a PM to speak more clearly and more often | Tom McIlroy

A photograph of a brick building in Gothenburg, Sweden, where an outside winding stairway casts long shadows across the wall in the late afternoon light.

Shadow & Light
Göteborg [Gothenburg], Sweden

#UrbanGaze #Urban #UrbanScape #Buildings #Architecture #Shadow #Light #Reflections #CitysCape #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #Thursday #Sweden

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.

This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Earth behind the Moon

Awesome image from Artemis.
Big!

The Moon! The Sun's corona! A crewed spacecraft! Oh my!

HOLY SHIT

Reminder: You don't have to give right-wing chuds attention & you *really* don't have to share screenshots of the dumb shit they say on Twitter!

We came to Bluesky to get away from it. If you want to engage, go there. Don't bring it here like a dog dropping a rat at our feet & expecting praise.

The president of Iran has written a letter to the citizens of the United States.
It’s not a crazy ranting speech intended to bully us, like we get from our own government. It comes across as a very honest appeal to rethink our actions.

thoughtportal.org/2026/04/02/f...

This was more than a year ago…

Please get me off the “my pet just died” algo. I promise I’m already depressed enough.

You don’t have to watch him. You can go outside and watch the rain, or read a book, or snuggle with your dog. You do not have to watch him lie.

BREAKING: It is now antisemitic to ask Israel to pay for its own missile defence system instead of Americans with no healthcare paying for it

Your president is really dumb. America must be so embarrassed.

Hey @albomp.bsky.social can we please withdraw Australia’s blind subservient loyalty to the USA? Their leader is unhinged and self-serving. Their values are not ours and it’s not in our interest to continue the past relationship.

Palantir Bot said target acquired.
Soldier said machine knows best.

My rental’s stovetop doesn’t have enough juice to boil a large pot. In a medium pot if I don’t snap the spaghetti fuses together into an uncooked blob. Snap = edible.

For Christian nationalists in the US Iran is a crusade. Unfortunately they are ignorant of history and so ignorant of the fact that every crusade ended in dismal failure. As an aside, most who organised/fought in the crusades did so to make money. In that respect, nothing has changed in 930 years.

It’s literally their business models to keep people doomscrolling/watching to sell more advertising. There’s nothing up for debate here.

The Jetsons lied to us

The image displays a serene landscape at Sakuranosato Park in Mie Prefecture, Japan, where several cherry blossom trees in full, pale-pink bloom are positioned along a grassy, sloping bank. Their vibrant colors and the surrounding evergreen mountains create a sharp, symmetrical "V-shaped" reflection on the mirror-like surface of the Miyagawa River.

The image showcases the serene Sakuranosato Park in Mie Prefecture, Japan, where vibrant cherry blossoms lean over the tranquil Miyagawa River. This scenic location is celebrated by photographers for the perfect "V-shaped" reflection of the pink blooms against the surrounding evergreen mountains.

I don’t even live in your country but this just makes me growl to myself in low guttural tones. Miller is the neo Adolf.

All star cast for such a lame result, only highlight was the Dame as Starmer 😂