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Emily Johnston

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Climate, writing, running, beasts. Valve turner. Host of A Wild & Beautiful World: sites.libsyn.com/459540/awabw

Troublemaker: troublemakerscommunity.org

Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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I feel compelled to point out that kissing humans and being within ten feet of a toddler are also not sanitary. Some things are just worth it!

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Time to reconsider what we think we know. "Many experts think [the destruction of most life on Earth] could happen far sooner if we simply continue w/ the status quo. Looking back from such a vantage point, if anyone will even be able to do that, who then will seem to be the ‘winners’ of history?"

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I'm sorry, but this world is just TOO MUCH.

Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way.

Really enjoying this pod, which I stumbled on when searching for a specific author, but I've listened to about 4 more in the last 2 days. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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Okay I know this is trivial, but it makes me crazy that whenever I order anything online, I have to delete SO MANY "it's on its way...it's coming tomorrow...it's out for delivery...it was delivered!" messages. I mean, they power data centers for that crap? It's like cutting forests for coupon paks.

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Humans are often, how shall I say it, genuinely charming idiots. The combination of characteristics involved in the formulation of this "plan" and its recounting is...well...chef's kiss. If only some capitalists could tell thusly the story of how they thought maybe we could try "endless growth".

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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Oh I don't think it even occurred to them that Biden would need immunity for anything, so the ruling wasn't really relevant to that possibility. This was craven six ways to Sunday, but they know he doesn't roll like that!

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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"And careful"—i.e., unlikely to have been exposed. Last reply, since it seems unlikely you're actually thinking here. I said it was math, & a balance; I stand by that. Again, the real question is, is it ever reasonable to stop masking? Covid isn't going away, nor are vulnerable folks.

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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Are you assuming they want a functioning government?

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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Do you wear a mask at home with your loved ones? Would you want to do so forever? If not, then you probably make reasonable judgements about when to do so, & when it’s unneeded. So do other people. Without crowds, with good ventilation, people who are well & careful are VERY little risk to others.

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No, it’s not over. But we’re in a very different place from a few years ago, & there’s no reason to assume it’ll be notably different in a few more years…so again, we all need to figure out how to balance the concerns. Saying it’s “justifying” anytime someone figures it a bit differently, is dumb.

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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Just signed up for 300: 10 a day for 30 days, plus a donation. While mulling which bigger commitments, it's a start!

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I think this oversimplifies it in unhelpful ways. Are you prepared to say people should mask in grocery stores forever, if an employee worries that one-way masking isn't enough? If not, then we're ALL doing the math: ventilation, crowdedness, surges. It's not about community/moral one-upmanship.

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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Ha! Didn't see it, but definitely wouldn't fuck with Theron.

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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You just keep cheering me up. Stop. More seriously, one Elon could "fix" this, but given everything in your long thread, and given lots else, it may not matter. The (self-) determination of women may be the only thing holding back fascism.

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But what is the meaning of the word "regulate", Genevieve? I think we need to ask a Trump-appointed judge.

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This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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Maybe they were just reading questions an AI had written?

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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Is it low risk for the workers, though? For a long time I wore a mask in any store where I saw a worker wearing one--I figure they have so MANY folks breathing near them, that the brevity of the encounter mattered less. I'm not as rigorous anymore, but maybe I (we all) should be.

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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Nuts that we can't even mandate and fund SCHOOLS and HOSPITALS to have good (MERV13) ventilation & filtration.

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But Ministry DOES offer redemption! He said something about it being the most utopian book he could believe in, and it's true, despite his clear-eyed depiction of the horrors too.

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Mike Murphy's avatar Mike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social
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Non-linear climate damages Human bodies can cope with heat up to a threshold. Past that threshold your body cannot cool itself, leading to death. As more places hit these temperature thresholds we will see more deaths of vulnerable people who cannot access cooling.

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Seattle's ("West") wastewater plant shows by far the highest levels since the end of January. Several friends sick. Not going anywhere inside without a mask for a bit....

kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dph/...

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Just finished The Dissident—disturbing & really worth watching. Underlines the stakes for the election, too...not that we needed that.

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1000%. I had a mild case. I did not have what I'd consider LC (i.e. debilitating fatigue+). I did not have deadly after-effects (like the clotting that killed a friend). But for months I had weird minor symptoms & rashes, & about 10 mos later, for about 10 mos, I had vestibular issues. It sucked!

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Alito and Thomas are monsters but Roberts is a joke. Supposedly an institutionalist? If he had any integrity at all he'd step down, because he's either just as bad as they are or completely unable to wrangle them in any meaningful way.

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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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David Weiskopf's avatar David Weiskopf @weiskopf.bsky.social
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Agency staff: oh hey this statute that asks us to do something contains an ambiguity. Can someone sue me real quick so a judge who knows fuck all about the issue can decide how I should interpret it?

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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A foul-mouthed pedant is a joy to behold.

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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Yeah, that makes sense—like EPA mpg standards. But in this case, different by region, too, I imagine.

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I suspect that if it were code, we’d find that an awful lot of folks would find it worth their while to get the skills. I think design costs were included in that low percent, which was given to me by an architect friend, @holz-bau.bsky.social.

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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Yeah, was responding to your “how homes should be built in the future”.

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I’m told the premium for meeting passive house standards is now about 2-3% (insulation is cheap compared to most building materials), so it’s horrifying to me that this isn’t required by code. (So much) better for the tenants, and for the planet.

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We may get there—meanwhile, carbon emissions are going gangbusters, and for every renewables leap, there's new tech that hoovers up the extra power. Blue sky is good, but we can't let the very real victories obscure the necessity of RAPIDLY SHUTTING DOWN FOSSIL FUEL USE. Because tipping points.

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It's not that simple, nor is it either/or.

Also, if you're saying that concern over planetary/civilizational instability is lesser than the "magic of the market", then, um....just no.

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We have so much work to do in pressuring governments/companies to actually reduce FF use & deforestation, changes to ag., etc.

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Alas, it doesn't work that way—too many sunk costs, and (even more), not enough PROFIT in renewables. Amazon is likely about to claim 100% renewables for its power, but it's mostly REC's, and their actual emissions are 40% over what they were at the 2019 Climate Pledge moment. B/c growth.

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I would NOT want the bottom left one looking at me each time I went home. But I suspect it would deter break-ins!

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bUt iT WiLl sOLVe aLL oUr PrObLeMs

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"If the top 1 percent of income earners in America just paid all the federal income taxes they owed, we could raise an additional $175 billion a year. That’s 38 times what it would cost to provide a bed to every person experiencing unsheltered homelessness in America."

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