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proud parent of 🏳️‍⚧️kids, B Corp + 1%FTP founder, Transformation, Climate, Socent, Social Impact, Trek


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Joseph D. Ortiz 's avatar Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social
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Vote for what you want. Lots of advantages to shifting to renewables, including lower operating costs, climate, environmental and health benefits. 🧪🔌💡

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Kevin Gangel's avatar Kevin Gangel @kegangel.bsky.social
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For a moment, I thought I was going to be able to just have you do my list…but then I noticed I haven’t read your Day 1 book. :(

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Joe Katz's avatar Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.

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Robert Ferry's avatar Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social
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When you realize we can measure the biomass of the entire planet and observe changes over time it makes you wonder why we don’t somehow peg the value of our economies to the natural support systems that sustain our lives instead of to the amount of stuff we make to pollute and destroy those systems.

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Kevin Gangel's avatar Kevin Gangel @kegangel.bsky.social
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This is, and these guys are, utter bullshit. One white guy doesn’t get hired, another 10,000 white guys do get hired, and that’s “anti-white.” Uh huh…

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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This is Stephen Miller's law firm. They're also currently repping a TV reporter suing CBS-LA for being anti-white, which as a former CBS-LA reporter I think is absolutely laughable. But they're trying to create still more legal precedent for a racist takeover, it's clear

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LucieCatnip 's avatar LucieCatnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social
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Here's the difference between Trump and Biden: even though some Democrats and pundits have openly called for Biden to drop out, Biden won't sic an angry, violent mob on them or pledge unhinged retribution to make them live in fear.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️'s avatar Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social
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4th of July in Kotzebue: Baby contest, Miss Arctic Circle, & Arctic Circle contests started last night. Baby contest is named after my Aunt Louvie, master sewer and my dad's hunting partner until she passed in 2007/8. My cousin Shyena Lie is in the first baby pic, then representations of diff styles

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Deva Woodly 's avatar Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social
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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆

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Sarah Weinman's avatar Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.bsky.social
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The thing about the march to fascism is that aside from the terror and the consequences it’s also so goddamn embarrassing

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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher's avatar Prof. Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com
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🎉🥳

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Randall Munroe's avatar Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
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And here’s my guide to determining the age of an undated map xkcd.com/1688

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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Part of a good thread that illustrates why I don’t hang out on Twitter/X anymore

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Kevin Gangel's avatar Kevin Gangel @kegangel.bsky.social
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I’m sending you money for new runners!

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists.

See:

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 's avatar Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social
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I think part of our work as horror writers in 2024 is to help people unlock the parts of themselves that can face terror and adversity without losing their humanity & goodness. We are entering an era of fear and horror like our species has never faced. We need heart.

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Kevin Gangel's avatar Kevin Gangel @kegangel.bsky.social
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This resonates Premee. Thanks for channeling it into your work.

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Premee Mohamed's avatar Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com
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I love this and I feel this really hard as a writer of, specifically, cosmic horror. What do you DO when you're faced with a foe you can't defeat or understand? You still have choices left in your humanity -- not many, but a few -- and the horror is about exploring what those choices are.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.

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Maggie Astor's avatar Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social
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"He didn't chain himself to the desk" is the actual democratic standard in my inbox right now

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin's avatar Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social
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In what ways can those organized around love and community, sufficiency and ecology, find advantages vs structures of consolidated power, under conditions of destabilization? No answers from me, but I think these are good questions.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin's avatar Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social
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Don't leave environmental collapse out of your analysis of democracy collapse. Some questions: - to what degree has premonitions of ecological collapse led to these power grabs? - to what degree will these power grabs accelerate ecological collapse?

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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This is the exact same area that was devastated by two wildfires less than two weeks ago. Wildfire makes areas more vulnerable to landslides, and these types of compound whiplash events are becoming more common thanks to, you guessed it, climate change.

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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher's avatar Prof. Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com
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Heatwaves can drive electricity demand for air conditioning past the safe limits of wires and transformers, causing blackouts when people need power the most. Deadly blackouts during heatwaves are happening more often as humans heat the planet by burning fossil fuels. And it's killing people.

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Laura Helmuth's avatar Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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Scribes in ancient Egypt wrote while sitting down for extended periods. A new analysis of their skeletons found they probably had pain in the knees, fingers, thumb, ankles, shoulders, lower jaw, right collarbone, neck and back. Perhaps you can relate. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...

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Jennie Dusheck's avatar Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social
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I also subscribed the Philadelphia Inquirer, for the same reason.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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"CNN Defends Decision to Not Do a Journalism"

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Premee Mohamed's avatar Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com
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Anyway did you know that if you are procrastinating and you have a drawing program on your cheap little Android tablet you can just... draw anything you want

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Bo Thompson's avatar Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social
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I am not safe. I do not aspire to be safe. I do not believe authenticity can fully inhabit the same space as safety; at some point trade-offs occur. As an educator and worker, I spent decades making myself small and safe. The first thing I retired was my obligation to pick safety over authenticity.

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Kevin Gangel's avatar Kevin Gangel @kegangel.bsky.social
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Aligned. And authenticity creates a new, albeit different, “sense” of safety because when we are authentic there is less to defend and little for anyone to attack. Our authenticity turns what was previously vulnerable into the invulnerable.

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Kevin Gangel's avatar Kevin Gangel @kegangel.bsky.social
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…dropping family for trip THEY are taking… Brain: we should pack Me: we’re not going anywhere B: we are. the airport. in 2 hours M: yes and coming home B: forgot your swimsuit last time M: thx. I’m aware B: should make a list M: we are NOT going anywhere B: oh ok … B: do you have your passport?

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Kevin Gangel's avatar Kevin Gangel @kegangel.bsky.social
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Literally the opposite of “maximize your reading potential”

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Tom Gauld 's avatar Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social
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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian books.

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Tom Gauld 's avatar Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social
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SCIENCE CAT (my latest cartoon for New Scientist)

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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everyone raise your hand if you’ve done this yes, even you, I see you over there pretending you haven’t done this, get your hand up

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns's avatar UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social
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Op-ed from Dr. Peter Kalmus explains why scientists are taking part in #SummerOfHeat to pressure big banks like Citi to stop financing fossil fuel expansion!

"Our demand is for Citigroup to simply stop financing oil, coal & gas projects, and to finance solutions such as renewable energy instead."

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gamera obscura 's avatar gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social
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We didn’t get the kind of dystopia. we expected. No treanchcoated heroes; just a slow trickle of indignities that overwhelm. Sometimes I wonder if that’s why we’re not in the streets en masse, in smoky basements planning takeovers, or skulking through alleys in high collars with big plans.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 's avatar Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social
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A crack in the rock is all it takes for a colony of wildflowers (sheep's bit) and a rowan tree to seed in. If we let it, nature finds a way. 🌎

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Chantal James's avatar Chantal James @chantalalive.bsky.social
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One thing about whiteness, is white people will always consider they have something of import to say in a conversation that interests them due to privilege. With in group conversation of the Black community, they insert themselves from presumption & get out of their depth. @shengokai.bsky.social

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Kevin Gangel's avatar Kevin Gangel @kegangel.bsky.social
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In a stunning plot twist, if you drink coffee and move around a lot, your mortality rate increases 24%. Choose wisely!

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️'s avatar Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social
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Being an Indigenous scientist means submitting yet another grant (that will likely get triaged) and feeling accomplished, and then crying because you see a post of your dad watching your cousin cut up oogruk on the beach and she looks just like your dad's mom and you question your life choices.

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Taniel 's avatar Taniel @taniel.bsky.social
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A Democratic lawmaker in Texas voted for legislation targeting LGBTQ people. She just lost her re-election race overwhelmingly in a Dem primary.

The winner, Lauren Ashley Simmons, is LGBTQ herself, and a labor organizer. t.co/ZX0mWK3xuv

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