White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US
https://www.theverge.com/policy/961449/white-house-mamdani-heatwave-deletion?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Science News @science-news-theverge

RE: https://ohai.social/@MarciaW/116860148541034744

“In January 2024, the International Court of Justice found the claim of genocide plausible enough to order binding provisional measures against Israel… The #UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded in March 2025 that Israel has “employed sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians to terrorise them and perpetuate a system of oppression that undermines their right to self-determination” and confirmed the finding of genocide in September 2025 … Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s 2026 report to the Human Rights Council is titled, plainly, “Torture and Genocide” … The UN Committee Against Torture, in December 2025, found that #Israel applies a “de facto State policy of organized and widespread #torture and ill-treatment” of #Palestinians in detention, practices the Committee found “amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, and form part of the actus reus of #genocide”…”

#CrimesAgainstHumanity #Gaza #ICJ #Terrorism #HumanRights #InternationalLaw

Gonna play some Wolfenstein in honor of the time when America was against Nazis

Fun fact, this game was made closer to the beginning of World War II than to today.

PSA:

I recently turned 50 and, to celebrate, my wife told me I wasn't heaing things normally anymore.

I went to the ear people who agreed with her.

I'm getting hearing aids before my mother and before my father in law, both of whom hear much worse than I do, because current science suggests that untreated hearing loss contributes to cognitive decline and dementia. No thank you!

I'll take the bionic parts.

#hearingloss #hearingaids #genx

The privatization of protected public property and the fast-tracking of development on environmentally sensitive land was the catalyst for the ongoing #FlamingoRevolution

The protest is now about so many more issues, but don't forget this environmental and public issue which Albanian environmentalists and scientists have been fighting on for years.

One Albanian org, PPNEA, has a Change petition you can sign in support. Boost it.

#Environment #Science #Biodiversity #Albania #Europe

https://www.change.org/p/protect-vjosa-narta-stop-construction-in-protected-natural-areas

Quintessentially British!! XD

so the Vatican just published a TL;DR history of the Lefebvre schism. what interests me is how the RCC rationalizes his excommunication:

since Lefebvre was one of the cardinals of the 2nd Vatican Council, he was given numerous warnings and passes, and even suspended from ecclesiastic work; for defending fascist dogma as real #catholicism, instead of the Beatitudes.

so the #RCC sees Lefebvre’s 1988 ordination of bishops as excommunicating himself with the impostors.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-07/lefebvre-s-schism-repeated-38-years-later-editorial-tornielli.html

Meghan Houser: Not Dead Yet. America’s 250th is a day for celebrating the defiant pulse of the living.

#america250 #USA #democracy #resistance
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/not-dead-yet

Take the time to watch this.

Video: https://xcancel.com/rephuffman/status/2072715643774713931

Australia's under-16 social media ban isn't working as multiple studies now find most underage users still have accounts. My post on the uncomfortable reality for Canada's Bill C-34: the better the privacy protection, the less effective the ban.
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/the-data-on-australias-social-media-ban-the-better-the-privacy-protection-the-less-effective-the-ban/

The estimated price tag for the pipeline is $35.2-43.7 billion, before factoring in potential cost increases like the monumental 584% cost overrun by the last fossil project Canadian taxpayers underwrote, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

#cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli

https://www.theenergymix.com/90-public-ownership-as-carney-smith-announce-new-pipeline-into-declining-global-oil-market/

We’re all aware that a whole lot of people of aren’t exactly feeling America’s 250th.

What’s actually *amazing* is how thoroughly you have to fuck up to make Americans look at an excuse to get drunk, eat garbage, blow stuff up, & praise ourselves & go:

you know what nah

it's at moments like this a split keyboard comes in handy

A quick reminder in case you haven't already:
move to a renewable electricity tariff, a bank that doesn't invest in fossil fuels, and superannuation/pension/401k that doesn't invest in coal/gas/oil. A few hours of boring work but then it's done for good and takes $10,000s out of harmful industries over the years.
If you've already done it, maybe look out for join offers to encourage others to do the same. 💚

The last pipeline we paid to build didn’t stop the Alberta separatists. This one won’t.

It will destroy the planet and make US oil companies richer though.

#cdnpoli

TIL some interesting things about the metric system…

1. Over centuries there were multiple attempts at standardizing a measurements system. France pulled it off during the French Revolution. Two chemists (husband and wife) devised it.

2. The base units were built to be realisable. Meaning based on and provable with nature.

3. The meter was realisable as one ten-millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the equator. Later is was converted to 1/299,792,458 of light speed per second.

Bonus: Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier is one of the two aforementioned chemists. She was instrumental in the standardization of the scientific method.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system

#MetricSystem #Science #History #TIL #ScientificMethod

"Professor fired over #CharlieKirk post could receive $1.9M in settlement."
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5948386-professor-fired-over-charlie-kirk-post-could-receive-1-9m-in-settlement

This is just the latest in a series. Universities that disciplined professors for criticizing Charlie Kirk knew or should have known that they were violating those professors' free-speech rights. But they did it to align themselves with the Trump admin, even on the wrong side of the law. Consider these settlements and damage awards to be a cowardice tax.

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #Trump #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

One of my big pet peeves is when people say "people used to ..." and they describe something well-off or only wealthy people did in the past. "but nowadays people just..." and they describe something poor and broke people do today.

We don't have as much documentation of how poor people lived in the past... so in a way we don't know how poor people lived as clearly.

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Interesting. Nikon is testing if there is a market for cameras that are normally only sold as special version to governments etc. „The Z6 III (No Wireless Connectivity) camera is identical to the standard Z6 III, except it lacks a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips and is completely incapable of wireless communication with any device, including a smartphone.“

https://petapixel.com/2026/06/24/a-special-wireless-free-nikon-camera-is-publicly-available-for-the-first-time/

The Democratic Socialists want your children to be fed healthy nourishing food and receive the best possible medical care, and to do that they intend to raise taxes on a handful of corrupt and squalid pedophiliac monsters who have stolen 1000x more money than anyone can spend—well not in MY America.