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Ukraine Is Shielding Europe From War

2014 — it began
2022 — it escalated
2026 — we stand

”Families being murdered, cars burned down, houses erased to the ground.”

Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social
International advocacy/ ICUV, AntAC.

Stand With Ukraine 💙💛

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Ombudsman vergelijkt asielwetten met toeslagenaffaire: 'De problemen worden alleen maar erger' Volgens de Nationale Ombudsman zijn de nieuwe asielwetten een voorbeeld van onbehoorlijk bestuur. Hij vergelijkt ze met de toeslagenaffaire en met de situati...

Ombudsman vergelijkt asielwetten met toeslagenaffaire: 'De problemen worden alleen maar erger'. 'Welke politieke kleur je ook hebt, je moet hiervan zeggen: dit levert onbehoorlijk bestuur op. Iedereen ziet dat er iets wordt bedacht dat niet gaat werken. Dat het toch wordt doorgezet, vind ik ernstig'

NEW ANALYSIS: Driving a car on HVO is 79% more expensive than an electric car.

Advanced biofuels are not the affordable alternative to oil that the fuels industry claims.
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What a 5,000-mile-long marine heat wave means for summer in the U.S. It could boost temperatures, humidity and the threat for tropical storms in the West through summer.

Opwarming van de Stille Oceaan (tussen Micronesië en Californië) kan komende zomer leiden tot watertemperaturen maar liefst 6 tot 8 graden boven het gemiddelde, met als gevolg tropische stormen en enorme bosbranden, waarschuwt artikel in de Washington Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

The coolest thing about solar energy is that you don't need to invade another country to go get it. GREENPEACE

Absolutely this 👇👇👇

"For the people that I serve, the international order is already broken. They're already at war."

United Nations Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher on the weakening of the international order.

Watch the event➡️ bit.ly/4cDWXbb

Hier moet toch een lobby achter zitten?

Ah kijk: Rob Bravenboer is lid lobbyclub NLdigital en zit namens hen in de Cyber Security Raad, een "onafhankelijk" adviesorgaan van het kabinet.

Rob heeft alleen nog een functie: Managing Director van Kyndryl

Spain and Portugal today are 53-percent less exposed to gas prices than three years ago, driven in large part by a 74 percent surge in solar capacity that now contributes roughly a fifth of total generation - equalling gas.

Another solar generation record set today in Britain.

14,426 megawatts were being generated at 11.30 today, delivering 37% of GB’s electricity and contributing to a record low reliance on fossil fuels. Gas accounted for just 2% of electricity generation at that time.

“People come to me and say: ‘Well, look at the world, look at the wars, look at the destruction. ... What can I do? I’m just one person,’” said Jane Goodall, the late conservationist, in a previously unaired interview.

“Just do something.” https://wapo.st/4mGWh9u

Become A Member. Get The Paper. Plus A Tote.

Celebrate our historic victory by seizing control of an Onion membership and InfoWars tote membership.theonion.com/iw/

EU approves €90bn loan for Ukraine as pipeline is turned on ending deadlock Ukraine says it has reopened the Druzhba pipeline, after months of stalemate over stalled oil supplies to neighbouring Hungary.

It would have been easy to miss this good news story of the day
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Okay, who's doing privacy research on hearing aids?

Children. #FFS

Live updates: Iran attacks 3 ships in the Strait of Hormuz as Trump indefinitely extends ceasefire Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. is indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran.

The body of a Lebanese journalist killed in an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon has been recovered hours after the attack. The daily Al-Akhbar newspaper confirmed that its reporter, Amal Khalil, was killed in the strike.

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones | TechCrunch The iPhone and iPad bug allowed law enforcement using forensic tools to read messages that had long been deleted by the Signal app.

NEW: Apple fixed the bug that law enforcement, like the FBI, were taking advantage of to extract chat messages that had been deleted or disappeared automatically.

Until now the iPhone stored deleted or disappered messages in a database, allowing authorities to access them with forensic tools.

Grim but useful read.

Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster
economist.com/finance-and-...

Putin’s hired thugs fight dirty to disrupt clean energy in Europe Cheaply recruited disruptors are targeting energy projects in Latvia and Lithuania — and experts warn that Russia could be planning to hit western countries next

Trump, Putin and MBS are the three amigos of oil and gas trying to fight renewable power (with a little help from their friends in Canada, Mexico, etc).

They can't win now but they still can do a lot of damage. And they will not go quietly.

Renewable energy overtook coal in the global electricity mix last year, for the first time in over 100 years. Per @ember-energy.org

Image of a planter used as a modal filter on a street. The planter has a large green sign on it which says "Road Open to" followed by symbols of pedestrians, a scooter rider, a wheelchair user and a bicycle.

This signage has become popular in the UK.

Map from UKMTO

An Iranian gunboat has attacked a container ship 15 nautical miles off Oman.

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs.

But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅

First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti.

#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌍 🌏

To mark this special day, we’re tuning in to Sen, the world’s first continuous 4K video livestream from space.

Sen’s cameras are hosted on our Columbus module of the ISS, with data delivered via the Airbus platform.

Watch Earth from above, just like an astronaut

📹 Sen

In one of the world’s most densely populated places, green is growing back.

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are restoring forests, adapting to extreme weather and rebuilding their lives.

This #EarthDay, remember: refugees are rebuilding on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

Despite laws against doing so, and a new government propaganda campaign to prevent it, Russians continue posting videos of ongoing damage due to Ukraine’s nightly strikes all across Russia.

Raging fires still consuming oil infrastructure in the port city of Tuapse this morning.