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call it #climatebreakdown because that is what it is "fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely" ~ mike davis

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Christopher Brown's Tropic of Kansas was published in 2017, but its vision of American history is filled with disturbing parallels to our current political moment–what can we learn from the novel and its prequels, when it comes to our future?
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Christopher Brown's Tropic of Kansas Was Eerily Prescient — And Is More Important Than Ever - Reactor
A 2017 novel predicted so much about the present moment — what can we learn from it?
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🦉 Owl 🌲 @owlinamerica.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s the 200th issue of one of my favorite publications. I save each one up to read at just the right time, maybe a reward after a tough week, a salve for the environmental writer’s battered soul. Field Notes has got that magic.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
an essential long read
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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Best illustration (and quote!) so far in the vintage Lassie book my daughter and I picked up at the used bookstore the other day:
Children’s book illustration of man in Western hat telling older man also in Western hat and holding a young boy “That Wasn’t a Sasquatch!”
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocks—including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling
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Sam Alito has an oil money problem
30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
“The American dream turns into the American nightmare as we start to look at what we’re doing to biodiversity and systems that we depend on as humans."
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Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.
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Mike Westphal @mfwestphal.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
That first sentence!
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
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AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
great
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
www.wsj.com/tech/biotech... "For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby. Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong..."
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Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.
Silicon Valley startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve chances for a high IQ and other traits.
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
"When making decisions most people ask, 'Will it help me or my family now or the next shareholders meeting or my next election campaign?' The hallmark of wisdom is asking, 'What effects will the decision I make today have on future generations? On the health of the planet?'" ~Dr Jane Goodall .
Jane Goodall in Africa as a young woman.
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I couldn't agree more .
A photo of a young Jane Goodall with one of her dogs.  
"You cannot share your life with a dog and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings."
~Jane Goodall
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Reuters @reuters.com · 12/11/2025
LIVE: Jane Goodall funeral youtube.com/live/2ahbwvZ...
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LIVE: Jane Goodall funeral
YouTube video by Reuters
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
good stuff
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Here's the link jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Excess US Deaths Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
This cohort study examines trends in excess deaths in the US before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
10 emergency declarations ↓ 33 executive orders ↓ Hundreds of actions www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Trump Leans on Emergency Declarations to Bypass Congress and Skirt Regulations (Gift Article)
The president has declared 10 emergencies since returning to office, far outpacing what is typical. He has used them to justify hundreds of actions.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2025
a thought i have reading @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s wonderful piece is that one reason the administration wants to erase any mention of the worst of our past is because it is intent on recapitulating those atrocities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
If I hadn't already been impatient to get to Helm, this would have sealed it: "I had begun wondering if I should imagine ways up and out of doom scenarios instead of just describing the conflict within them. The answer was yes." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels
Environmental fiction is booming – but can it move beyond dystopia to a brighter vision of the future?
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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Stoked to see Cory Doctorow’s forthcoming ENSHITTIFICATION has made the longlist for the 2025 FT Business Book of the Year—go, Cory!: businessbook.live.ft.com/page/4834239...
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Business Book of the Year 2025
This annual Award, promoted by the Financial Times and Schroders, now in its 21st year, aims to identify the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, i...
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"The residents of Tecolutilla, Mexico, knew the heatwave was bad when they heard the thuds. One by one, the town’s howler monkeys, overcome with dehydration and exhaustion, were falling from the trees like apples." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Monkeys falling from trees and baking barnacles: how heat is driving animals to extinction
With the number of very hot days rising as well as average temperatures, more and more animals are vulnerable. But while some species can adapt, others are seeing huge population declines
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Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 20/08/2025
Just lovely...
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"Melting permafrost turns fields into lumpy mush." This is Kivalina. By @pollymosendz.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Alaska’s Kivalina, Endangered by Climate Change, Explores Retreat– Again
The small island community has long contemplated relocation, but how to pay for the move remains in question.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 20/08/2025
🚨 Breaking: Louisiana regulators rushed approval of Entergy & Meta’s massive gas-powered data center plan, without protections for ratepayers. “This decision follows a pattern of fast-tracking utility proposals with very little public notice and transparency...” Statement: act.ucsusa.org/4mqkQXe
Photo of a building with Entergy logo.
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costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Anything forced upon you...
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Good people, don't outsource anything you're not willing to lose....
For oncologists who incorporated AI into their practice, their ability to spot tumors fell by around 20% within just a few months of adopting it--Bloomberg
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/08/2025
Nothing the US does better than being unable to contain its hubris, resulting in China (and increasingly many other countries) realizing it’s better if they do their own thing than depend further on the US.
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China turns against Nvidia’s AI chip after ‘insulting’ Howard Lutnick remarks
Comments by US commerce secretary trigger Chinese regulatory effort to stop tech groups buying H20 processors
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Former invertebrate neuroscientist who now covers AI more or less full time, here: No. Computational capacity of ANs are not even in the same galaxy as conventional neurons; differing network characteristics further make it not an apples to apples comparison.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Trump admin plans to rehire 450 employees of National Weather Service fired by DOGE because they’re now recognized as critical to public safety — but NOAA source says this will take months In other words, hurricane season could be over before this damage is undone www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
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NWS to rehire workers after deep DOGE cuts
NOAA and the NWS weren't immune to the DOGE cuts of the second Trump administration's early months, which included the firing, rehiring and refiring of some workers.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
$50,000 signing bonuses; $60,000 in student loan forgiveness ICE has launched an all-out recruiting blitz across social media to staff up as quickly as possible Agency website declares: “America has been invaded by criminals and predators. We need YOU to get them out.” www.wsj.com/us-news/ice-...
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$50,000 Signing Bonus, No Age Caps: The Blitz to Hire ICE Officers
Uncle Sam is using social media and financial incentives to entice new recruits.
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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Rep. Jeffries wanted to throw stones but forgot he lived in a glass house.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Jeffries is working to elect Andrew Cuomo, a sexual abuser who plans to rule on behalf of that other sexual abuser, donald trump. 1
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 17/08/2025
Schumer and Jeffries: "this is a distraction from Epstein" Schumer and Jeffries after Trump's next but different authoritarian act: "this is a distraction from sending troops into DC"
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Angel of the Ozarks @angeloftheozarks.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The election was 9 months ago and Democrat leadership has done more to get off the mat to fight against Mamdani than Trump. Schumer capitulated with the continuing resolution. Jeffries won't endorse Zohran. Ken Martin is crying about David Hogg. The way to fascism was paved with corporate donors
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 17/08/2025
I'm kinda sick of Bill Kristol having a better, clearer framing on events than the "opposition" party. Say what you will about the Bulwark crowd, but they're committed to stopping Trump and his agenda. Schumer, Jeffries, etc. just seem to want back in power.
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Cherra @wildyoungcharm.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
They never sold it. Nothing changed. That group is just trying to get people to turn against Costco.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Really smug conversation on “Morning Joe” from some smug Newsweek editor at large about the necessity of Cuomo or Adams to beat “far left” Mamdani. These people are living in the past. They don’t grasp the rising anger with their corrupt, do-nothing corporate, centrist Democrats.
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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
American Lung Association: Replacing 33,500 combustion-based boilers with heat pumps nationwide could: avoid 77,200 premature deaths avoid 33 million asthma attacks & 200,000 new asthma cases save $1.1 trillion in health costs prevent $351 billion in climate damages grist.org/energy/insta...
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Installing heat pumps in factories could save $1.5 trillion and 77,000 lives
Replacing conventional boilers with heat pumps could also avoid 33 million asthma attacks by 2050, thanks to improved air quality.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14/08/2025
We were within inches of a vaccine for several cancers, flu, the cold. Inches.
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
preparing to log into all my sites on a new device
Famous meme of Ben Affleck standing outside, smoking away the pain of existence
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 15/08/2025
I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

Article on BBC news. 
Title: AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs
Description: Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.
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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
ICJ ⚖️ is clear: States have binding obligations to tackle the #ClimateCrisis, protect the planet & #HumanRights of present & future generations. But, Trump’s US plunges deeper into #ClimateChange denial, deregulation, greed -shielding big GHG polluters & sacrificing rights, lives & livelihoods. 👇
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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
“This is exactly what Joseph Stalin did.” — @michaelemann.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’
Ex-fossil fuel executive Chris Wright said administration is reviewing national assessments made by past governments
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Trump's bottomlessly idiotic sabotage of the energy transition in the US could not be more succinctly summarized:
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
"Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world’s biggest insurers, recently outlined how the world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for financial services, such as mortgages and investments." seems problematic.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"“Why aren’t the fires being put out” is a question only if you’ve never been north of the border. Canada is home to 30% of the world’s forests, over 300 billion trees, most of them in very remote areas that are not managed like US forests"-@katharinehayhoe.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The Climate Crisis Was Always Real. Now It's in Your Lungs
The longstanding West Coast air quality crisis reached the East Coast this week. That’s because climate collapse is everywhere — and inescapable
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