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Earthen body, water spirit.

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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The fact that I know what this is means I need to get offline, right?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026
V v good new @earthjustice.org report on the genuinely nutty numbers behind the data centre fossil fuel boom in the US This new update shows emissions from off-grid gas plants for data centres are WAY worse than previously estimated earthjustice.org/feature/data...
Climate & Public Health
▪ Massive scale and impact: The scale of both total
and individual BYOP proposals is massive. As of
August 2026, there are nine proposed gas BYOP
projects that are 4.5 GW or larger. If all are built,
nine of the top 10 largest power plants in the U.S.
would be data center gas BYOP.
Altogether, the current 177 GW of gas proposals
would emit over 400 million metric tons of carbon
dioxide equivalent ( MTCO 2e) annually, increasing
the U.S. power sector’s total emissions by 23% .
Ozone and particulate matter pollution from
these projects could cause an estimated $5 –10B
in monetized health damages each year. 1
▪ Majority gas: Building on prior reports, we
estimate that for current BYOP proposals,
approximately 80% of energy generation will
come from gas.
▪ Inefficient gas technologies with more air
pollution: More than half of disclosed gas BYOP
capacity uses technologies that are less efficient
and more polluting than typical gas power plants.  Majority gas:  Building on prior reports, we estimate that for current BYOP proposals, approximately 80% of energy generation will come from gas.

 Massive scale and impact: The scale of both total and individual BYOP proposals is massive. As of August 2026, there are nine proposed gas BYOP projects that are 4.5 GW or larger. If all are built, nine of the top 10 largest power plants in the U.S. would be data center gas BYOP.

Altogether, the current 177 GW of gas proposals would emit over 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (mtCO2e) annually, increasing the U.S. power sector’s total emissions by 23%. Ozone and particulate matter pollution from these projects could cause an estimated $5–10B in monetized health damages each year.
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Colleen @loveandbe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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What I Desperately Wanted Francis Weller To Say After He Got Caught Abusing His Power (& What He Said Instead)
We Keep Hoping Some Man Who Abuses Power Will Actually Get This Right. We Keep Getting Let Down.
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#MinCup26 FINALS!!! We have a pair of geometric beauties as deep red #Cuprite is against versatile #Quartz. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Split image of fine red needles of cuprite on one side and chunky clear quartz crystals on the other.
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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rounding to the nearest day or hour?
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Andy Whitmore @more-whit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thanks for this TL:DR on the new UNEP report "Limiting Overshoot: Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways toward return" (I've only read the key message summaries!) ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/i-read-the...
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I read the new UN climate report so you don't have to.
TL;DR they are calling for radical transformation of our society.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026
The data centre boom is the exact opposite of everything the energy transition should stand for. It is the opposite of clean, of climate justice, of community benefits, of electrification and technological efficiency. www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/09/11/b...
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“Bring Your Own Power” Schemes Won’t Fix Data Centers
"Bring Your Own Power" fails to address the rising costs or pollution driven by data centers' exploding energy demands.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026
I know this'll ruffle feathers but I agree with this Food/Water watch analysis. Diverting renewable energy away from fossil phase-out and climate adaptation and towards melting graphics card to power chatbots is the formal end of moral purpose for clean technology.
Data Centers With Renewables Aren’t the Answer
So all these power plants and “temporary” turbines are raising power prices and polluting our communities. Why don’t we just power data centers with renewables?

Many data center companies are pledging to (eventually) do just that. But even if these pledges weren’t just empty greenwashing promises, powering data centers with clean energy is utterly unrealistic. It also threatens the progress of our already dangerously slow energy transition.

Continuously powering a 1 GW data center would require nearly 20,000 acres of solar panels or 185,000 acres of onshore wind power. We cannot afford to waste the time, space, or money to build renewables for Big Tech’s profit machines. 

Already, data center growth is outstripping available renewable energy supply and redirecting renewables from other industries. It’s drawing urgently needed renewables from existing technologies and resources. We need to focus our renewable energy resources toward thos
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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's just that now you're romanticizing some pain that's in your head
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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Makes me think of this short film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LAf...
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SHORT stories - Dahlia - Michael Langan | SHOWTIME
YouTube video by SHOWTIME
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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · 27/08/2026
NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:
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One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law’
Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators
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Leg Spinner🏏 @judeet44.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the Dolly Parton hybrid tea rose.
Photo of Dolly Parton hybrid tea rose.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026
This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"White lines indicate the area to be excavated. Pink ones are made by surveyors and rod men. Red paint designates electricity; blue, drinking water; yellow, gas; orange, communication cables...and green, sewers, while dashes, arrows and brackets track pipes." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/a...
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Behind the Mysterious Symbols Spray-Painted on Our Streets (Gift Article)
All over New York’s sidewalks and sewers, colored markings hide in plain sight, telling construction crews where to dig and creating accidental art.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
diarrhea Taylor Farms, salmonella chicken parm, bags of frozen blueberries that straight-up kill your ass heavy metal sourdough, listeria soup bowl refreshing summer popsicle that's filled with shards of glass we didn't start the fire...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/08/2026
"You're criticising data centres but you use them!" This is a PR tactic copied from the fossil industry that climate folks will recognise . Most data centre growth is being driven by unstoppable AI slop expansion, along with more nefarious applications www.greenpeace.org.au/greenpeace-r...
Iceberg diagram titled "The data centre PR iceberg" comparing visible internet uses (streaming, gaming, social media) with hidden, higher-impact roles (critical societal functions; business/cloud services and video calls) and harmful content like disinformation, abusive material, and war-related
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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/06/2026
Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.
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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Dune fanfic?
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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Inside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways
The detection of another circulatory system in the human body could have enormous scientific implications.
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The New York Times: The World Met to Talk Climate Change. The U.S. Wasn’t Invited. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/c...
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The World Met to Talk Climate Change. The U.S. Wasn’t Invited.
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Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"Five Poems" by Blair Nelsen “Long, cloud-like ropes of branching white, / holly-dotted with persistent, / scarring, indelible red./ Two caws, and silence again.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/nelse...
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five poems — Blood+Honey
by Blair Nelsen “Long, cloud-like ropes of branching white, / holly-dotted with persistent, / scarring, indelible red./ Two caws, and silence again.”
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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Ah geez. So sorry to see this about Catherine O'Hara. What a comedic genius. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...
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Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Seeing so many pastors and bishops who once told me that it was wrong to preach on faith and politics now speaking boldly against ICE fills me with gratitude. ...and makes me wonder if their denominations would be declining had they been so clear and forceful all along... Glad for the shift now.
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 21/01/2026
New pride flag dropped.
Weather map for the upcoming winter storm. It ain't good, folks.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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NPR @npr.org · 16/12/2025
The university is still considering plans for how to memorialize the students during the spring semester. In the meantime, most classes, exams, and final papers have been canceled.
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In a letter of mourning, Brown president confirms identities of students killed in mass shooting
Ella Cook, a sophomore, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman, were killed during a final exam-review session by a shooter who has not been found yet. Nine other students were injured, and the university’s president said most are in stable condition.
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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
My son, overhearing me listening to a press conference about this: "What?! This doesn't end at college?" 💔 My heart is with the Brown U community.
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This person took this when they called the race
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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
#stopNESE #saynotoNESE
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Lest we forget that Brazil, the host of #COP30, is also an oil-producing nation... Shame on them for approving drilling at the Foz do Amazonas! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/w...
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Save the Amazon or Drill for Oil? Brazil Says It Can Do Both.
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Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Delighted that Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown is now available free online under a Creative Commons licence. Thank you and congrats to Judith Anderson for making this climate psychology book widely available @climatepsychol.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...
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Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown
This book introduces readers to the known psychological aspects of climate change as a pressing global concern and explores how they are relevant to current and future clinical practice. Arguing that ...
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Toni Snowflake ❄️💙🌊🧙‍♀️ @tonisnowflake.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Blessed Samhain / Happy Halloween, everyone!! The Wheel of the Year turns, and brings us to the dark, contemplative half of the year. May the blessings of this season be abundantly with you and your loved ones. 🖤🎃 (Art by Terri Foss) #WitchSky #PaganSky #Samhain #Halloween
Picture shows a witch and her black cat standing in a pumpkin patch. In the background is a haunted looking house. An owl flies across the face of the full moon. Nearby trees are dropping leaves.
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Steve Mentz @stevementz.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Come to the Institute for Sacred Music next Th-Fri in New Haven for Water Cosmology! I'll be talking about (what else?) ocean swimming as ecological meditation in the Anthropocene - ism.yale.edu/events/2025-...
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
GDrive > top right gear: Manage Apps > uncheck Gemini ALSO Privacy > Manage Workspace smart feature settings > two Gemini settings, toggle off (Gemini AI is on by default and it explicity scans and "shares" or "uses" your info and activity across Google products)
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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
It's probably ridiculous to go on BlueSky to complain about LinkedIn, but truly, 🤖 if you're using AI to write simple social media posts, ✅ with silly little bullet point emojis, 👎 I am now thinking less of you professionally and I'm not liking your post. 📝 Do your own writing, at minimum.
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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
"When we reframe structural injustice as individual spiritual growth opportunities, we’ve stopped talking about collective responsibility and started talking about victim-blaming dressed up in Eastern religious language." Reading list available here: lizbucar.substack.com/p/earth-scho...
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How Wellness Spirituality Erases Justice: A Reading List
You’ve probably heard the term “Earth School” floating around wellness spaces—the idea that our souls voluntarily incarnated here to learn specific lessons through life’s hardships.
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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela's beloved "doctor of the poor" Sunday, Oct. 19, before tens of thousands of people, offering the South American nation one of its first saints and a reason to celebrate amid a yearslong economic crisis and new tensions with the United States.
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Pope gives Venezuela reason to celebrate by canonizing beloved 'doctor of the poor'
Venezuela's first two saints were canonized Sunday: José Gregorio Hernández, revered by millions for his dedication to poor people, and Mother Carmen Rendiles Martínez, founder of a Venezuelan religio...
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The BTS Center @thebtscenter.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This Wednesday, Oct. 22, is the first of this year's Lament with Earth cycle. Register to take part in this community holding grief and hope together.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
That sounds like a lot of power. I hope we’re doing useful things with ChatGPT. 🙃
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OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says
OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 22/09/2025
dudes rock
Tumblr post from every-lemon 
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."
Follow up tumblr post 
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Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.
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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
#bbnj www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...
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Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle
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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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pink and white cartoon characters standing in front of a blackboard that says the theory of everything simple
ALT: pink and white cartoon characters standing in front of a blackboard that says the theory of everything simple
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