Michael Punch

Irish astrophysicist back in Paris (escapee from Sweden). Sometimes political.

@[email protected]

[The Hasbara Buster @ibrahimibnyusuf]

In all wars, young men are more exposed than any other group (they go out to fetch water and food for the family), so that one good metric to decide if one side's strikes are indiscriminate is to look at female deaths.

On Oct. 7, female babies were vastly underrepresented among fatalities, indicating a Hamas policy of sparing that age group.

In Gaza, female babies were represented among fatalities in the same proportion as their numbers among the general population, indicating an Israeli policy of killing anyone they could.

This tells you all you need to know about who was indiscriminate and who wasn't.

[Laura Elliott @TinyWriterLaura]

so go bankrupt already and save us all the environmental and social problems you’re creating

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Money down the drain.

The only two reactors built in the U.S. in the last 30 years took 17 and 18 years, respectively, from planning to operation and cost $16/W, versus $1/W for wind/solar, which take 1-3 years.

Nuclear also poses 5 security risks: weapons proliferation (the cause of the Iran war), meltdown risk (1.5% of all reactors built), waste storage (200,000 y), underground U mining lung cancers, and CO2 (9-37x that of wind per kWh).

Trump administration announces $17.5 billion in loans for 10 new large nuclear reactors
https://t.co/MLg2PoPUHG

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Scary ! France's most famous weather presenter @EvelyneDheliat presented a landmark prediction in 2014 on TF1 of what French weather could be like in a 2050 heatwave

Here she runs the tape back on her 2014 self and compares it with 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 actual figures👇
My English s/t

[Raymond Deane @merriman27]

My recent unpublished letter to the Irish Independent, which prefers to give the last word to a Zionist fantasist...

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Let's just be direct here:

Using the suffering of the Sudanese people to deflect from the West directly facilitating Gaza being wiped from the face of the earth in a genocidal frenzy

is absolutely fucking digusting

and anyone who does it is morally disgraced beyond redemption

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

@jemimajoanna Hmmmm

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

I do think Starmer should take up a role at the ICC, though. Defendant.

[Nathalie Ventilation @VentiloAngel]

👏 Open source isn't a label. It's this.

Nukit just released fully open designs for stacked IKEA Starkvind filters. Free. Clear. Usable today. No questions, no paywall, no gatekeeping.

Here's what makes it remarkable: she sells air purifiers. Anyone can now build their own instead of buying one of hers.

That's a real business cost she's choosing to absorb.
A genuine gift to the community.🙏

[Michael Punch @MDPunch]

@TheMingjie Also true for Trinity College, Dublin.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

It's disturbing that someone at the highest level of the US government, who had literal life and death power over millions, was clearly controlled by a deranged cult. I'm talking of course about the late Alan Greenspan.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This is only the beginning.

The climate crisis is here.

So why are politicians and most of the media still acting as though this can wait?

It can't.

We can still avoid some of the worst impacts - but only if we find the courage to act.

https://t.co/BFF5sccaKk

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

They were talking on the news about how we’re going to have to adapt for a radically hotter country.
They said it like it’s normal, like we are meant to just accept that all our lives have been degraded forever just so that the fossil fuel industry can earn more billions. There really should’ve been a revolution by now.

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

Take notes kids this is how you answer cynical accusations of antisemitism

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

Adding the option for stacked IKEA Starkvind filters for those of us outside the cheap HVAC filter ecosystem.

https://t.co/Iv2xio51Qh

[PitBackle @PitBackle]

We didn't win against Iran but at least it didn't cost us 300 billion USD. 🤷‍♂️

[Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1]

Watching the Zionist freakout over Mamdani's criticism of "dark money" as constituting an "antisemitic trope" leads me to a couple places

1. They sure do tell on themselves!

2. Some jazz cat needs to write a composition called "Tropology" that is just all edgy squawk and cry

[Sarah @Sarahjdublin]

Starmer’s legacy will be the facilitation of a genocide and criminalisation of protest

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

There’s extraordinary stuff going on in Albania at the moment. Corporate media barely covering this. Funny that.
Check it out.