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wesinjapan@wesinjapan.bsky.social |
951 followers 714 following 4198 posts
sociologist of disasters pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. (views aren't even my own) roll tide
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Capital B
@capitalb.bsky.social
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Texas is subsidizing $10 billion worth of new fossil fuel plants, citing new demand caused by climate change and population growth.
But in reality, much of the new demand is coming from supercomputers for AI and crypto.
Guess where the new plants will be placed:
capitalbnews.org/crypto-minin...
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wesinjapan
@wesinjapan.bsky.social
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I was at their final show in Austin. But now they do reunions- and I'm glad, but I can't really claim to have been at their final show anymore.
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Dave Weigel
@daveweigel.bsky.social
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Noted election winner Stacey Abrams
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ArtButMakeItSports
@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
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Christ Curing a Possessed Man, by Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1856, 📸 by @RobbieJBarratt
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman
Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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The Onion
@theonion.com
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Thousands of protesters in Barcelona attended a demonstration to express their opposition to the number of visitors the city receives, with attendees spraying any tourists they saw with water guns. What do you think? www.theonion.com/locals-fire-...
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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Trump gets BY FAR the most generous press (relative to performance) of any politician in my lifetime. Just absolutely wild shit.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"After the game, Argentina’s social media team posted an image of Messi and Co celebrating their victory with the caption “Not like us”..."
the sheer size and scope of the anti-Drake coalition that Kendrick Lamar has built
www.theguardian.com/football/art...
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wesinjapan
@wesinjapan.bsky.social
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Still insisting this is the greatest song ever written: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_sd...
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
@diplomatofnight.com
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First of all this guy is a hitlerite who lives in an illegal Israeli settlement and second of all, has he ever talked to an Armenian or Kurd before? Or a Greek? "Nobody questions the Turkish nation state" lol really buddy???
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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The Washington Capitals are so far over the NHL salary cap that they bought the website that tracks the NHL salary cap and shut it down so no one can see how boned they are. Not *specifically* important but a good example of how the modern media-information-money environment is working!
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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So now we are all apparently living in a Fortnite dystopia. “Get bullets on your own schedule.” I can’t imagine any problems will arise from making sure ppl can buy unlimited bullets at 3 am on a Friday night.
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wesinjapan
@wesinjapan.bsky.social
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They've managed to take even the most middling definition of racism and just shove the goalposts all the way back into the parking lot.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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“Colored”? They’re going to be causally saying the N word on air by September
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wesinjapan
@wesinjapan.bsky.social
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Fascism and capitalism: A love affair
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The Party of Limited Government
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Dave Vetter
@davidrvetter.bsky.social
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Republican senator Jim Inhofe, who once attempted to bring criminal charges against 17 climate scientists for doing climate science, died today aged 89.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
@rmcarpiano.bsky.social
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One helluva story on the impacts of Bitcoin on the health of people in a Texas community after a local business invested in Bitcoin farming computers that run at all hours... Sociology episky 🛟 policysky polisky lawsky 🧪 Medsky 📈🧭
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Charles Logan
@charleswlogan.bsky.social
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Famously environmentally-friendly AI answering questions about climate. No notes!
www.axios.com/2024/07/09/w...
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Delthia Ricks
@dricks.bsky.social
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67 years ago this week the polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, was hailed at the 4th Internat'l Poliomyelitis Conference in Geneva. A 1957 report in the NY Times noted studies globally "confirmed US findings of the vaccine's safety & effectiveness" www.pittsburghmagazine.com/this-week-in...
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Larry Glickman
@larryglickman.bsky.social
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After noting that Inhofe opposed federal disaster-relief funding elsewhere "but he voted for federal relief for victims of tornadoes...in his home state," the very next sentence of the Times obit somehow reads, "He consistently favored smaller government."
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/u...
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David Fedman
@dfeds.bsky.social
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A feature from the June 22, 1945 Yomiuri about a wedding ceremony conducted amidst the air raids The highlight of the ceremony apparently came when the bride removed the outer layer of her wedding gown to reveal that she was wearing her air defense uniform underneath
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Sarah Tuttle
@niais.bsky.social
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Sometimes, the universe provides.
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Edith Charles 🏳️⚧️
@edithcharles.bsky.social
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Please help, I'm trapped on this island, no no don't rescue me, just blow it up
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Reconstructed exPat
@panarmstrong.bsky.social
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"But pat, you live in Chicago why are you still worried about hurricanes?" Hurricanes:
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laura olin
@lauraolin.bsky.social
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Project 2025 is useful mostly in that a key problem Democratic campaigns have historically had is that when you tell people what Republicans actually want to do, they don’t believe you. The evil public list makes it a bit more concrete.
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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One of the single most prominent barriers to climate action and purveyors of utterly ridiculous climate change denial of the past two decades
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.
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Jonathan Cohn
@jonathancohn.bsky.social
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Saw that former Senator Jim Inhofe, a notorious climate denier, just died. Just an absolutely terrible human being. Reminds me of my line: Do you know what they say about speaking ill of the dead? They can't hear you.
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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tragic, yes, but it's done for a good cause: infusing their products with a slurry of plagiarism and bullshit
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wesinjapan
@wesinjapan.bsky.social
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And this is going to be a regular occurrence
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Anna Meier
@annameier.bsky.social
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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.
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Punk Rock History
@punkrockhistory.bsky.social
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In memory of Darren Henley aka D.H. Peligro, drummer for the great Dead Kennedys and briefly drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, born on this day in 1959 in St. Louis
#punk #punkrock #deadkennedys #dhpeligro #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Shannon Mattern
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
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“…three years of data collected by the Coastal Bend group near the SpaceX site indicated a 54 percent decline in the threatened piping plover population through 2021.”
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David Kaib
@davidkaib.bsky.social
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People know the answers that they have been offered are insufficient. Telling them that won’t motivate them. Showing them an alternative might.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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The speaker of the house is openly saying concentration camps are needed for Latinos if they take power. Make no mistake detention camp is code. This is the smirking face of fascism at the highest levels of government and in the direct line of succession.
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Dr. Jeff Masters
@drjeffmasters.bsky.social
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This is going to get expensive: If climate change has increased the outside temperature from 96F to 100F, the energy your air conditioner consumes increases by 42%, since the power consumed varies by the square of the temperature difference between the outside and inside.
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Benjamin Dreyer
@bcdreyer.bsky.social
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*in numbers not seen in decades*
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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The official 2024 GOP platform makes a reference to "Christian-hating Communists" who the Republicans will keep from entering the country. Back in the early days of the America First movement, "Christian-hating Communists" would have just been a longer way of saying "Jews."
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TW
@twesq.bsky.social
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I think we can officially retire the heartbreaking meme now
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wesinjapan
@wesinjapan.bsky.social
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Of course it was
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Timothy Burke
@bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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just so everybody knows what's happening here, this is Jack Posobiec—who spent the past week as a featured guest on InfoWars—speaking to the MAGA group of the wife of a Supreme Court justice
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🤖 AP Breaking News (unofficial)
@ap-bot.bsky.social
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BREAKING: The global temperature in June was record warm for the 13th straight month and it marked the 12th straight month that the world was 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial time, according to Copernicus.
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Philip N Cohen
@philipncohen.bsky.social
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Now you know: In 1970 there were a million children born in the years 1960-1964 -- BABY BOOMERS -- whose parents were also Baby Boomers (born in 1946 or later)! The Baby Boom was 18 years. A lot of people had kids younger than that. Amazing when parents and their children are in the same generation!
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Jennifer K.
@pdxjenni.bsky.social
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We! Never! Stopped! Getting! COVID!!!! What the actual SHIT is this headline?????? There has never been a time, in the last 4.5 godforsaken years, when we didn't have people getting COVID!!!
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Ken R
@chewieken.bsky.social
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Fascinated by this paragraph. “Dems have more substance, but Repubs are better at lying about it. Therefore there is no way to determine which is better.”
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Reconstructed exPat
@panarmstrong.bsky.social
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The best way to stop a weekend of gun violence is to build more housing security, food security, public education, healthcare, & job programs 20 years ago. The second best way is to build more of those civic programs today.
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Chloe Koast
@chloekoast.bsky.social
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We are breaking the worst kind of records. The all-time high in Las Vegas is now 120° set today, shattering the previous all-time record of 117° set in 2021, 2017, 2013, 2005 & 1942. 🔥🥵🏜️ #WeatherAuthority #VegasHeat #HeatWave #LasVegas
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Reconstructed exPat
@panarmstrong.bsky.social
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Defeat fascism at the ballot box using this one weird trick...
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Punk Rock History
@punkrockhistory.bsky.social
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53 years ago today
Young rioters fleeing the British Army during the Troubles in Derry, Northern Ireland, on July 8, 1971.
Photo by Don McCullin
In 1980, Killing Joke used this photo as the cover of their debut album
#punkrock #postpunk #killingjoke #punkrockhistory #otd
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