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Katherine Arnold

@arnoldke.bsky.social
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@wellcometrust.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate on 'Conserving Global Health' at @liverpooluni.bsky.social 🌿 || #plants, #empire, #nathist, #envhist, #collections, 🇬🇧-🇩🇪 || she/her || views my own ✨

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was wrong. It’s happening
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A titanic, pioneering figure in more than one field of history.
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Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ERC Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship applications went from just 7.000 applicants in 2022 to over 21.000 this year 🤯🤯🤯
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Fifth World Congress of Environmental History is Coming to Toronto in 2030! We are excited to welcome @iceho.bsky.social and environmental historians from around the world to Canada! niche-canada.org/2026/09/18/t... #envhist #envhum
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The Fifth World Congress of Environmental History is Coming to Toronto in 2030!
York University in Toronto will host the 2030 Fifth World Congress of Environmental History, marking its North American debut.
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Academia in the unregulated AI era. We need boilerplate language specifying draft manuscripts cannot be uploaded into an LLM @aaup.org @local6741.bsky.social Adding to list..
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Story time. Got a paper rejected. No big deal. It happens. Except one reviewer explicitly stated they were unfamiliar with our methods and asked a GenAI to explain it. They then used this to trash the paper, oh, and the journal forbids AI use in reviews. Livid is mild to describe my feelings.
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The programme I run - the MSc in Contemporary History - will be axed, amongst so many others. We've also been told our undergrad courses will need to have a minimum of 20 students over a 3 year period. The bonfire of the universities has truly come for Edinburgh.
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really excited to announce the online launch of The Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit, the result of two years of work between academics, archives and museums. Register here forms.gle/PYBjxGNDitDp... to join us on Friday 16 Oct at 3 pm BST online #histmed #photohist #ethics #medhums
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It was a real pleasure to contribute a piece to this fantastically interdisciplinary volume organized by Danielle Sands & Daniel Whistler, in collaboration with colleagues in the Library & Archives at @rbgkew.bsky.social 🌿 #envhist #histsci #plants www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It was a real pleasure to contribute a piece to this fantastically interdisciplinary volume organized by Danielle Sands & Daniel Whistler, in collaboration with colleagues in the Library & Archives at @rbgkew.bsky.social 🌿 #envhist #histsci #plants www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We have a book cover!
Cover for book "A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency" edited by Alexandra Hui and Emily Pawley.
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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trying so hard to not shout BUT OUR BOOK COVER IS UP SO I CAN FINALLY POINT YOU ALL TO THE MOST GRATIFYING COLLABORATIVE PROJECT EVER. @emilypawley.bsky.social Head over on Nov 17th for the OA version &/or NOW to preorder it: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205625... #envhist #envhum #hisSTM #skystorians
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A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World
The work of historians is vital to this moment. As climate debates shift from “believing the science” to fighting for the massive changes needed ...
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate…I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them."
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026
So rather than increase faculty payroll and lower student:teacher ratios, UMass would rather spend it on Claude. I would argue that a better investment would be hiring 100-200 tenure-line faculty.
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
SCOOP: An anonymous census report claimed thousands of noncitizens voted. But @davidgilbert.bsky.social and I found that not only was the report based on bad data, its authors include members of a Trump-aligned think tank and a former member of DOGE. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/a-us-c...
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A US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty Conclusions
Trump has touted a recent Census report. WIRED found grave flaws in its analysis and the process behind it, and confirmed the identity of several of its authors—among them a one-time DOGE affiliate.
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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Drake contrast meme. ‘Writing my current book’ ( drake repelled) vs ‘Imagining my next book’ (drake endorsing).
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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So if you protest a genocide you are automatically a "terrorist" but hold up a major shipping route while wearing balaclavas and you are a "protester" and the police "engage with you"? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest
Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.
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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For those of you who have been paying attention to the Duke Herbarium over the past ~2 years, here's more news: it's going to UNC Chapel Hill. Happy to see it's not closing entirely, but this is also part of a larger pattern of cuts + losses from multiple angles. dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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After near closure, Duke Herbarium to take up new roots in Chapel Hill
Despite previous concerns of a closure amid plans to relocate, the biodiversity hotspot will combine with UNC’s collection to become the largest herbarium in the Southeast. The move has provided resea...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.
Milo Yiannopoulos: "I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles, everybody is arrested like an MS 13 gang member. 
It was physically degrading. It was frightening. I don't think I've ever been frightened like that before. I was weeping like an old woman for an hour. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."
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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I will forever admire Wendell Berry's insistence on living his values through to their natural conclusions and relentlessly ripping through layers of politeness and habit to hold up for judgment those who do not.
Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy

In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security;
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Trump administration is pressuring the National Park Service to give a piece of Yosemite National Park to a private developer. This isn't Trump's first attack on our beautiful national parks. Here's what you need to know.
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Donald Trump’s New Enemy? Our National Parks
Americans love their national parks.There’s a reason why they were once described as “America’s best idea.”So why are Tr
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Is doomscrolling bad for you? A meta-analysis of 42 studies (N=46,912) finds that consuming short-form videos is linked to increases in inattention & impulsivity; reductions in working-memory span & self-regulation; elevations in anxiety, depression & stress; and a surge in addiction symptoms.
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Charles C Roseman @evoroseman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RE: freedom of speech, academic freedom, and race science. In this (long) thread, I’m going to 1) establish my bona fides on academic freedom and race science, 2) show why academic freedom and freedom of speech are different and… 1/34
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Lexington Herald-Leader @kentucky.com · 25/08/2026
Gov. Andy Beshear ordered flags at state offices lowered for a week in tribute to Dolly Parton, who he named a Kentucky Colonel in 2024.
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Flags to fly at half-staff in Kentucky in honor of Dolly Parton
Gov. Andy Beshear ordered flags at state offices lowered for a week in tribute to Dolly Parton, who he named a Kentucky Colonel in 2024.
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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There is still time to submit a proposal for our conference "Revisiting Geopolitics and Empire: A Transimperial Approach", taking place next year in Leipzig! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Revisiting Geopolitics and Empire: A Transimperial Approach | H-Net
Geopolitics have returned to our present—and it is only a matter of time before they will also return to the study of our past. The conference, organized by the Centre for Transimperial History at Lei...
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Mona Bieling @monabie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New publication, early view - any typos courtesy of not using AI! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Also check out the articles by my colleagues in the special issue “Lab, Field, and Companion Species: Tracing Nonhuman Histories in Times of Imperial Expansion"
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Crafting Colonial Companions: Zionist Botany in Palestine, 1900‐1930s<link href='#bewi70036-afnote-0001'>**</link>
In the early twentieth century, agricultural research played an important role in the Zionist movement's efforts to increase Palestine's productivity and to facilitate large-scale Jewish settlement. ...
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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Very happy to see another article out in the world! Part of a special issue edited by the wonderful @sabinehanke.bsky.social & Anne Sophie Overkamp, from a fantastic (and very hot) workshop we had in Tübingen back in 2024 #envhist #envhum #histsci Available open access: doi.org/10.1002/bewi...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Within a day of suspension he is able to defend himself in a hugely influential media outlet. The playing field is not level
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 21/08/2026
Maybe we will finally wake up to the fact that “free speech“ and “viewpoint diversity” are actually bad in academia. What you want is peer-reviewed knowledge, not a debate-me-bro culture in which empirically discredited views get resources & funding & platforms just because.
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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · 21/08/2026
The latest from South Africa 🇿🇦...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair wasn’t supposed to be an instructional manual www.newsweek.com/biggest-fda-...
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Biggest FDA recalls of 2026: Taylor Farms, blueberries, eggs and more
Several recalls have been tied to multistate flurries involving cyclospora, E. coli and salmonella.
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The US Forest Service, part of the Department of Agriculture (USDA), announced it had filed the proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule in its entirity. The rule, brought in by the Clinton adminstration was created to protect old-growth forests. If ... TAT: [Attacking science]
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Trump administration to rescind rule protecting old-growth forests
Almost 45m acres of national forests could be potentially opened to road construction, drilling and logging
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"...professors at my mini-viva questioning my use of the term 'Asian American canon', insisting that 'canon' was the remit of white authors (and reciting names to me as I fought back tears)..." www.vogue.co.uk/article/camb...
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I Aspired To Get My PhD At Cambridge – I Left Because Of The Racism
“I could write a second memoir solely on the racism I experienced at Cambridge University as a Master’s and PhD student,” writes Jill Damatac, a Filipino-American author who was a student at Cambridge...
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wondering about all the Colossal de-extinction hype and how it meshes with history and natural history? We have a new Viewpoint piece in Bioscience out today: "The return of an imaginary bluebuck" doi.org/10.1093/bios... #envhist #extinction
First page of article "The return of an imaginary bluebuck"
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It would be a terrible shame if this resource was lost for want of an archive - this stuff is still of major interest to policymakers today and is a crucial part of the social history that made the Britain of today (HT @municipaldreams.bsky.social )
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...
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Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.
Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 18/08/2026
The Trump administration advanced a plan to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to road construction and logging, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter-century.
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Trump administration moves to allow logging in pristine national forests - The Boston Globe
The proposal by the US Forest Service would repeal the 2001 “roadless rule,” enacted during the Clinton administration to preserve the wild nature of forest land.
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I am glad to see that this is getting some national attention! This is the higher education news that should on people's radar every day www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
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Texas Tech University Is Using A.I. to Cut Left-Leaning Content
Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is known as "climate silencing" and can be just as damaging as deliberate disinformation. Failing to report the "why" in all of this - the reason we are where we are (fossil fuels) - fails in the most basic public interest sense
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’m at the vigil for Jason Arday in London (Trafalgar). Very big turnout, easily thousands of us here
Thousands of people
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The guy who oversees the U.S. Forest Service called in a ton of extra federal firefighting support for a small fire near his mega-ranch in Idaho, even as many larger blazes burned elsewhere. Rage-inducing @washingtonpost.com investigation: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
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Top Trump official asked for more aircraft to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch
Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more resources to contain a seven-acre blaze last month, officials said.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?
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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A really good overview on the recent craziness down in Texas: www.sierraclub.org/sierra/big-b...
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The Big Bend Region Is Losing Irreplaceable Pieces of US History
Beyond its environmental harms, border wall construction in West Texas is destroying archaeological sites
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14/08/2026
"Historians and educators who reviewed excerpts of the text told The Associated Press it depicts points throughout history in misleading ways, representing Western civilization and Christianity as one and the same and casting Islam as a threat to both." apnews.com/article/defe...
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AP Exclusive: US military base schools put new emphasis on Western civilization and Christianity
The Department of Defense is introducing a course centered on Western civilization and Christianity this fall in the schools it operates for military families.
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