Oh god so much wine right now 😵‍💫

Interior shot of food market with dining tables and patrons. Cool art On the walls

Street level Madrid scene with painted mural in storefront

Quiet residential Madrid street with pastel 4 story apartment buildings

Old school lamp storefront on first floor of apartment building

Report: I really like Madrid. So walkable and way, way fewer cars than other major cities. The vibe is very humane and livable. Also the cheese. And the wine.

We can only hope this doesn’t kick off a bunch of “megalodon still exists” stories ;)

"I entered this project in good faith, working with the mining company to help determine whether or not deep-sea mining at Solwara I could be conducted with minimal harm to the marine environment. I exited convinced that there is no viable path forward for hydrothermal vent mining, anywhere...."

Andrew knows of what he speaks.

Loot, pillage and ransack the oceans: unpacking the 2026 Trump Administration ocean science budget The 2026 budget proposal from the Trump administration just dropped, and if you’re a fan of having a functional ocean, breathable air … or whales, you might want to sit down. We’ve seen “lean…

Loot, pillage and ransack the oceans: unpacking the 2026 Trump Administration ocean science budget

www.southernfriedscience.com/loot-pillage...

OPERA PLANET Tiri Te Kanawa Chi Bel Sogno di Doretta 4K ULTRA HD YouTube video by OPERA PLANET

Ah and stil Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s Chi il bel sogno di Dorreta in the Florence hills scene give me goose bumps every time

youtu.be/YPNTupBgmss?...

Each part so perfectly cast with the exact right actors 🫶

accurate

I dress like my inner child, who happens to be a 12 year old boy from upper NW DC circa 1990.

10 min walk from my hotel! I am 1000% not stylish enough to shop there.

Maggie smith and Judi dench gossiping in A room with a view

Mrs honey church, Cecil, Mr beebe, Lucy and Freddy at windy corners house - A room with a view

George about to kiss Lucy in a Field of barley outside Florence while Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings the most beautiful Puccini

George Emerson and father eating at the pensioner in a room with a view

A Room with a View (1985)

Still favorite rewatchable #movie of all time. Wonderful book, script, director, actors, music and settings.

Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Helena Bonham-Carter, Daniel Day-Lewis, Julian Sands, Rupert Graves, Simon Callow and my fave Denholm Elliot.

HBOMax for those in US

Old Spanish hat store in Madrid

Crazy bar that is a shrine to bullfighting in Madrid

Interior at Mercado San Miguel in Madrid

Contemporary frescos On a 1619 facade in Madrid

Enjoyed some scenes in Madrid. My first time here and I welcome recommendations!

Marine Animals in the Strait of Hormuz Don’t Get a Ceasefire As ships return to the Strait of Hormuz, mines, sonar, and congestion continue to reshape the Gulf beneath the surface.

Military conflict in the Strait of Hormuz continues harming marine life despite a ceasefire: noise, explosions, mines, and pollution disrupt feeding, communication, and habitats, with long-lasting ecosystem damage in the region’s slow-recovering waters

My fandoms collide

LMK if you have special interest (craft shops, art, olives, canned sardines, design - I’m seeing great stuff everywhere!)

Old Spanish hat store in Madrid

Crazy bar that is a shrine to bullfighting in Madrid

Interior at Mercado San Miguel in Madrid

Contemporary frescos On a 1619 facade in Madrid

Enjoyed some scenes in Madrid. My first time here and I welcome recommendations!

Phillies, stop hurting me.

a mascot for the phillies is sitting on a black pipe Alt: phillies Phanatic banging his head on the tarp tube thing

I picked the wrong moment to see if my MLB audio works from Spain

Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024

Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this

Now do you believe me when I tell you the ocean has absorbed ~30% of the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted? 🩵

And that it has absorbed 90%+ of the heat trapped by greenhouse gasses? 🩵

hilarious

This was all @craken-maccraic.bsky.social. So well written!

Gagh! Chris my bad!

Phantom science – how “AI slop” is making environmental policy There’s a new specter haunting environmental governance, and it doesn’t rattle ghostly chains, it’s its generating phantom science. Recently, I was reading a government report trying to find scient…

"Once a fabricated citation enters an official report, it gains legitimacy... It becomes “fact” by repetition.

This is how scientific understanding erodes—not with a bang, but with a bibliography." #AI #science

@drandrewthaler.bsky.social on the mark www.southernfriedscience.com/phantom-scie...

Bummed by the disappearance of DC's streateries
(why isn't it spelled streeteries?)

from @51st.news

51st.news/dc-streateri...

and these kids are the dumbest looking mofos, big Nelson Muntz energy

YUP. As the OP says later in the 🧵, "...a synthetic summary is inherently untrustworthy, and cannot ever be anything but untrustworthy, which means it cannot actually be a summary as that is a non-negotiable condition of the form. It is instead a forgery of a summary."

Photo of a salmon with caption underneath “once-adventurous salmon can’t believe she ended up moving back to birthplace, having a bunch of kids” from The Onion

What's at Stake for Ghana’s Oceans YouTube video by Oceana

My newest colleague, Sonia Kwami, the VP of @oceana.bsky.social in #Ghana! We just opened an office in Accra and she is building our team as we speak. I can't wait for us to get started.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDU2...

Notepad closeup showing logo at top which says “wcpfc7 10th anniversary Honolulu Convention December 6-10 2010” logo is blue with a tuna fish outline and a wave

Old notepaper unearthed from 3 jobs ago #tuna #wcpfc #fisheries #packrat?