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Brian Vargecko

@solarpoet.bsky.social

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I'm a husband and father. I own PV Power & Retrofit. Am a lay Buddhist, a climate activist, dabble in poetry, and am a bushcrafter. 🙏🌎


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Robert Ellingsworth's avatar Robert Ellingsworth @by1959.bsky.social
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It's Entirely up to Us.

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Tom Scocca's avatar Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social
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Clarence Thomas unquestionably committed tax fraud on his motorcoach deal and the president has the power to put him in handcuffs this afternoon, in his official capacity in charge of the IRS and federal law enforcement

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”'s avatar pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social
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Happy Birthday to rock ‘n’ roll legend Chubby Checker. 82 and still going strong!

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Brian Vargecko 's avatar Brian Vargecko @solarpoet.bsky.social
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This is the greatest social media post I have ever read and doubt it will ever be matched.

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Maddie (derogatory)'s avatar Maddie (derogatory) @pbastronaut.bsky.social
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Holy shit. I just found that Adam West, who famously played Batman in the 1966 TV series, also played millionaire Bruce Wayne. What a talented actor.

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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*looks around* WELP. I better hurry up and finish this book while it’s still legal for black people in the US to read.

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

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pee wee herman-palladino's avatar pee wee herman-palladino @markpopham.bsky.social
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I can't believe we, as a species, invented bread and cheese - two things that require multiple, complicated steps as well as microbe husbandry - and this is the best political system we've got

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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial)'s avatar The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social
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Climate News: Climate crisis driving exponential rise in most extreme wildfires: Scientists warn of ‘scary’ feedback loop in which fires create more heating, which causes more fires worldwide The climate crisis i...

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Men's rea activist's avatar Men's rea activist @internethippo.bsky.social
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"Bruce Wayne could end poverty but instead he chooses to dress up like a bat" Yes he earned the right to make that choice by being a good businessman

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Men's rea activist's avatar Men's rea activist @internethippo.bsky.social
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Tech billionaire who hasn't talked to a normal person in 25 years: Here's what today's consumers want

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Men's rea activist's avatar Men's rea activist @internethippo.bsky.social
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Craigslist rules. Has looked the same for like 30 years. Does what you need it to do. No new dumbass features to ruin it. The pinnacle of Business

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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“the fall of roe” sounds much more romantic than “the supreme court decided to force people to stay pregnant against their personal preferences or medical advice”

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Richard Waite's avatar Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social
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“In fact, in water-stressed states like California, a large amount of irrigation water is used to grow alfalfa and then exported to other countries as livestock feed,” said the report,

*checks notes*

Oh haha never mind that’s not The Onion that part is real life

waeaonline.org/wp-content/u...

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George Takei's avatar George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social
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Pete Buttigieg perfectly called out Samuel Alito's wife, Martha-Ann Alito, over her hatred of the Pride flag.

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The New York Times's avatar The New York Times @nytimes.com
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Breaking News: Thailand is poised to become the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage after lawmakers approved an equality bill on Tuesday.

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Jan Cordell's avatar Jan Cordell @twignest.bsky.social
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Don't know who made this. I snagged it off of someone I follow.🪶

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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i’m at the crystal energy i’m at the taco bell i’m at the combination crystal energy taco bell

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Bonnie Honig's avatar Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social
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This was the view when I looked up today on NYC. Great theater weekend and then a momentous vision of mirroring sky and skyscraper

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Brian Vargecko 's avatar Brian Vargecko @solarpoet.bsky.social
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I just told 4 top telecom companies to commit to global climate success for the next 6 years. Will you join me in sending that message? #ClimateActionNow

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Naomi Alderman's avatar Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social
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Here is my origin story. It’s a story about activism I did when I was nine. I saw that my brother’s Cub Scout badge book had different badges (Explorer, scientist) to my Brownie badge book (cook, needlewoman). And I was annoyed. I showed it to my dad and he said “let’s write a letter to the Times.”

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Brian Vargecko 's avatar Brian Vargecko @solarpoet.bsky.social
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That’s outta this world! 😃 🏳️‍🌈

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious's avatar Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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Brian Vargecko 's avatar Brian Vargecko @solarpoet.bsky.social
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Here's an interesting climate fact—the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea is home to millions of animals, including polar bears, walruses and ice seals. However, the previous administration made plans to open it up to oil drilling.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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The ocean takes up nearly 90% of the heat trapped inside the climate system by our emissions, and about 30% of the carbon we produce as well.

Why don't we talk about this more? The only answer I can think of is, because we don't live there. Yet our life depends on it, all the same. #WorldOceanDay

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Daughter: Hey Daddy! Check it out! I got a bag of Reese's cups from the birthday party! Me: That's awesome! But I thought you didn't like those. Daughter: I don't. But you do Daddy! 😭😭😭😭😭

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 's avatar Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social
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We don’t want this climate future for Europe - in my view it’s a risk we should avoid at all cost, as I explain in this video: youtu.be/ZHNNW8c_FaA?...

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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"When a cop tells you to do something, you fucking do it," one officer told the shopkeeper. Video shows members of a new mayoral NYPD task force rushing and arresting a shopkeeper for obstruction of justice after he asks to see a court order before letting them inspect the back of his store.

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Brian Vargecko 's avatar Brian Vargecko @solarpoet.bsky.social
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He’s never used wood glue, but he knows from his vast historical reading what it is. 😊

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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄👹🩸's avatar 💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄👹🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social
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Fossils make me feel so alive.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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There’s a growing trend of replacing shuttered coal plants with solar, batteries, or other forms of clean energy. The ground is already cleared and the hookup to the electrical power grid is already there, so it makes all the sense in the world! More of this please 😊🌎 Here’s Nevada USA…

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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I really enjoy the science and climate community here and I would love for it to grow. If you’re still on X, why not use it to invite people to come over here? I do, every week! RT if you agree 😁

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Sam Burgess's avatar Sam Burgess @oceanterra.bsky.social
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Why was 2023 so warm? 
The particularly large anomalies in the final four months of 2023 are associated with significant contributions from both ocean and land, primarily from the tropics (over ocean) and the northern extratropics (over land). 🧪⚒️

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Sam Burgess's avatar Sam Burgess @oceanterra.bsky.social
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Extremely excited to introduce Climate Pulse - the latest application from #CopernicusClimate to start #climate conversations giving users global temperature data two days behind real time.

👉 Check it out: pulse.climate.copernicus.eu
*beta release - constructive feedback welcome:)
🧪⚒️🛰️🌍

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Tim Onion's avatar Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social
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Richard Lewis used to reach out just to say nice stuff. He was just an absurdly kind dude, on top of being one of my favorite parts of Curb, and he fought Parkinson's hard until the very end. RIP to a very funny human.

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Brian Vargecko 's avatar Brian Vargecko @solarpoet.bsky.social
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So SCOTUS is in the tank for Trump and it’s up to us who care about American principles and democracy and the rule of law to step up and vote Joe & Kamala in November. We can’t let the bastards win. They’re evil. Freedom vs. Fascism.
#VoteBlue2024

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Mara Wilson's avatar Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social
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The only downside to narrating a romance audiobook is you can’t recommend it to the people close to you. I mean, you can try, but more often than not, you’ll probably hear “I’m happy for you, but I really don’t ever want to hear you simulating sex”

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