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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide

@aupip.bsky.social
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Our society is built on a foundation of selfishness, greed and ignorance. It is vile, cruel, and destructive. Our societies should support life not money. Witness to humanity's despoliation of the planet.

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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Humanity does it again! Tired of just unknowingly ingesting plastic? No worries! Now we can eat plastic without the ignorance. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
sciencedaily.com
NASA-backed scientists turn plastic waste into edible cookies
Scientists have engineered yeast to turn PET plastic and agricultural waste into ingredients for protein-rich, 3D-printed cookies called µBites. Developed partly for NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, ...
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Some say the world will end in fire Some say ice From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice is also great And would suffice - Robert Frost
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
While sanity, reason and sense are on vacation the joint chiefs of insanity, stupidity and ignorance issued the following statement: "Ya'll are fucked."
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Prof Antifa @postcarbonsteve.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
aaaaaaaaaaaand its over lasted 18 hours
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Decomplexify @anarcheco.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Because it will undoubtedly get lost in the quagmire, a big thanks should go out to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir who have provided Trump a nice way to save face while not plunging the world into absolute destructive chaos.
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Gentle reminder to US service members. You’re just as culpable for war crimes as the person directing you. Refuse orders that would have you commit war crimes.
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
On this "blessed" day we remember that time Jesus finally decided f*%k these guys, lied to his disciples that he died on the cross and pissed off to find peace and quiet in the dying embers that once was the Garden of Eden. Happy Friday all! #HistoryRepeats #WereStillDumb
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
There are many "dead" worlds in our solar system but this one is the only one filled with the dead. Welcome to the cemetery Earth. Weep for those who went not by their own actions and learn lessons from those who coveted the grave. This graveyard once was splendid but now joins its tenants.
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Take control of a massive reserve of oil that is economically not worth extracting but then start a war that massively increases the cost of oil and now the U.S. has a potentially significant income stream for the "low" cost of more death & destruction in the world. 🫠
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I guess it shouldn't surprise me that it was WW3 that roused me from my blissful slumber. #WASF #WayToNotLearnHumanity #PromptEndIsAppreciated
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“I’ve seen about 14 dead in less than a mile stretch. There’s a lot of does, big bucks and even fawns. You smell the dead everywhere,” he says. “And I haven’t really went deep into the woods.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Infectious diseases are killing deer and risking rural US economies: ‘You smell the dead everywhere’
Climate crisis contributing to spread of diseases as hunting industry takes a hit from growing number of dead deer
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Sarah Connor @collapse2050.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"Once they work out how to do this profitably, it will spread to others, too,”... if Amazon achieves its automation goal, “one of the biggest employers in the United States will become a net job destroyer, not a net job creator.” www.theverge.com/news/803257/...
theverge.com
Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents
They’re taking our jobs.
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Current emotional state: 3% gobsmacked 5% outraged 8% bemused 10% anxious 11% confused 25% angry 34% exhausted 5% WTF! ... brain rebooting, please stand by.... Time for the sweet bliss of slumber.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
It's the guns 💯%
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Suicidal There is no way whatsoever we can dodge catastrophic climate breakdown We are actually turning away from serious action on emissions and heading instead towards an Eocene hothouse www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
theguardian.com
Brazil greenlights oil drilling in Amazon as environmentalists raise alarm
Conservationists argue president’s oil expansion plans clash with his image as a global leader on climate change
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
ourworldindata.org/what-no-safe...
ourworldindata.org
Two billion people don’t have safe drinking water: what does this really mean for them?
For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease.
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Well who'd of thought it. More people = more material consumption. Less people = less material consumption. Still, it's a good article highlighting that measuring materials doesn't give a good indication of the impact of using said materials. ourworldindata.org/material-foo...
An infographic breaking down the material usage (Metal ores, Fossil fuels, Biomass, and non-metallic materials) by major activities: Housing (52%), Food (19%), Services (11%), Transport (8%), Household goods (8%), Clothing (1%).

Graphic title: "Nearly three-quarters of the European Union's material footprint comes from housing and food production."
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
“Life on this planet is sustained by water. It is not sustained by data. We don't need data the way we need water,” Barnwell said. www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
cbc.ca
Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News
Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.
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Donald McCarthy @void-d00m.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We can’t make it on a planet that gives us air, food and water so let’s go somewhere with none of this and live happily ever after? Don’t you just love the best minds of our wealthiest people!
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 15/10/2025
Your 'doom quote' for today: "We are again living through a holocaust but this time a holocaust of the world we have known all our lives. It is a holocaust that is killing by the billions the kindred lives that surround us." www.chelseagreen.com/product/eart...
chelseagreen.com
Earth Grief by Stephen Harrod Buhner
The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aHG...
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Why Spiritually Awake People Are Quietly Disappearing from Society - Alan Watts
YouTube video by Alan Watts Daily Wisdom
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 14/10/2025
This changes everything! The Northern Hemisphere used to radiate more heat to space than it absorbed from the sun, but this changed over the past 20 years. More: www.patreon.com/posts/141034...
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
😱 Shocking! We haven't done anything meaningful about any of our issues. 😜 "Deforestation has not meaningfully declined since the beginning of the decade, and we're already halfway through," phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org
Global goal to end deforestation nowhere near being met: Experts
Deforestation "has not meaningfully declined" despite a global pledge to halt forest destruction, but next month's UN climate summit in the Amazon could mark a turning point, experts said Tuesday.
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
...if space is given, nature will always find ways to return, often faster and more creatively than we expect. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?
The volcanic island of Surtsey emerged in the 1960s, and scientists say studying its development offers hope for damaged ecosystems worldwide
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Sarah Connor @collapse2050.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“Forests are non-negotiable infrastructure for a livable planet. Continued failure to protect them puts our collective prosperity at risk." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns
Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus
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Niki Baker @nrbakerwriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
If you think biodiversity loss is irrelevant to you... If you think it's not that big an issue... If you think it doesn't really affect you personally... If you think it's someone else's problem... ... Boy oh boy, you and your kids have a hell of a shock coming. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report
Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
If you were Earth, would you trust the species that is destroying you, to fix you? open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
fortune.com/2025/10/09/a...
fortune.com
Roughly half of U.S. states are effectively in a recession and ‘hanging on by their fingertips,’ Moody’s chief economist says | Fortune
Moody’s chief economist, Mark Zandi, tells Fortune parts of America are already in recession, with 22 state economies contracting despite strong national GDP growth.
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
While having a press conference with Canadian PM Mark Carney, Trump stated that he was a great man, a great negotiator. When the press asked Trump if he's such a great man why isn't the US making a deal with Canada he responded with "Because I also want to be a great man". ... (1/2)
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Rainforest @pitbullmtkerr.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
They will quit in 6 months due to being overworked.
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Their research, published in Global Change Biology, found that across Switzerland, the average number of plant species on agricultural grassland has fallen by 26% over the last century. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life
Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
resilience.org
Were You Happy?
“Were you happy?” Yes, we were until you came along. We had it worked out and were living comfortably. Now the question comes a bit too late. What we had before is gone, and we can’t simply return to ...
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
While past reports have highlighted the dangers of deforestation, this study spotlights a more insidious threat: fire-driven degradation that erodes forest integrity without necessarily clearing it. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
sciencedaily.com
Record Amazon fires release more carbon than an entire country
The Amazon has suffered its most destructive fire season in more than two decades, releasing a staggering 791 million tons of carbon dioxide—on par with Germany’s annual emissions. Scientists found th...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 08/10/2025
Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 8, 2025 ~ The other overshoot. "This is a bigger concern that I have – that we are pushing the habitability in our societies on this planet above that limit and towards maybe existential limits." www.carbonbrief.org/experts-the-...
carbonbrief.org
Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit - Carbon Brief
On the sidelines of a conference, Carbon Brief asked a range of experts what they consider to be the key “unknowns” around overshoot.
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The study found that marine heatwaves did impact the base of the ocean food web, and those impacts were connected to changes in the ways that carbon was cycled in the water column. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
sciencedaily.com
Ocean heatwaves are breaking Earth’s hidden climate engine
Marine heatwaves can jam the ocean’s natural carbon conveyor belt, preventing carbon from reaching the deep sea. Researchers studying two major heatwaves in the Gulf of Alaska found that plankton shif...
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
And a growing body of research in the US and western Europe indicates both regions are suffering a pollination crisis that could threaten agricultural productivity. www.abc.net.au/news/science...
abc.net.au
Scientists studied 10,000 flowers to see what's happening to pollinators
Researchers behind a new study examining thousands of flower specimens collected over the past century say temperature increases could be behind a pollination decline in native orchids.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Why haven't we heard more about
South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein's house being set on fire, after ruling against Trump.
Arson is suspected. Her husband and family is hospitalized.
MEDIA: Do your f**king job.
@BraddrofliT
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Simple questions are the hardest to answer. 🤪
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Now expand that out to the entire population and imagine how everyone's lives could be improved.
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
True. If 8.2 billion people didn’t eat, drink, build houses, drive, or wear clothes, there’d be no problem. The issue isn’t existence; it’s scale.
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“This is certainly a very bad sign for the health of our planet and our ocean, and one likely to worsen unless we make significant strides to cut emissions.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Marine heatwaves to become more frequent off UK and Irish coasts, experts say
Scientists find 10% chance that similar events to the ‘unheard of’ temperatures in 2023 could occur each year
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Open communication, characterized by open-ended discussion rather than debate or seeking consensus, is shown to be the most effective approach for engaging highly polarized audiences. doi.org/g95x48
phys.org
Open communication may be the only way of reaching highly polarized audiences
In highly polarized situations, open communication is the only way to get through to people, including those who believe in conspiracy theories, revealed a new study in the British Journal of Political Science.
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An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide @aupip.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Every time I see an article about creating jobs or how this thing won't impact jobs my brain melts a little more. Humans need to learn there's a lot more to life than jobs. Further, if jobs were so critically important to our existence than there would be no such thing as unemployment.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government.... On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames time.com/7323442/sout...
time.com
House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze
Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.
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