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rOobydoobyoo

@crowtango.bsky.social
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Errant scribe. Lazy idiot. I like to cycle, drink coffee and eat small tasty cakes. Interested in intersectional approaches to decolonisation.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 14/10/2026
Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 14, 2026 ~ Winning? "This year, global sea level, global ocean heat content, worldwide glacier thickness, the mass of the Greenland ice sheet, and the atmospheric concentration of each of the three most common greenhouse gases are at record extremes."
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2026 State of the Climate Report Shows a Planet Reaching Its Limits - Eos
The seventh edition of an annual report analyzing Earth’s "planetary vital signs” indicates that Earth systems are rapidly destabilizing, some at an accelerating rate.  The report, published today in ...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
2°C by 2040. That's where the trend lands if warming keeps running at its post-2011 rate of 0.39°C a decade. The CMIP6 climate models in this chart land there too We're crossing 1.5°C as we speak: 2024 cleared it, 2026 will too, and next year's record #ElNino points at 1.7°C

https://dashboard.theclimatebrink.com/#models
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 96: If you write, you’re a writer. If you ask AI to write for you, no matter how many thousands of pages it slops out on your behalf, you’re not.
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
you cannot defeat fascism by ceding anyone’s bodily autonomy.
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rOobydoobyoo @crowtango.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Irish Values
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Response to fascist thugs in the streets: we're doing what they tell us as fast as we can
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Instead of doing something about climate change, Americans are just going to bet on it:
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Exclusive | Kalshi and the Weather Co. Join Forces on Climate Trades
The trading platform is now getting input from experts that operate a leading weather app to verify popular climate-prediction markets.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Not only was she loudly right about everything and reviled for it, in 2017 O'Connor donated 30 years worth of clothes and makeup to trans girls in Ireland.
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Ciarán Cuffe @ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ouch! 80% of Dublin’s electricity going to data centres? Tom Parlon, chair of the Irish Data Centres Supplier Alliance needs reminding that his members cannot ignore environmental and consumer concerns. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/chat-ar...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
First they came for the languages. In the hope that no one would have the words to say what was happening. 1/9🧵
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University of Aberdeen's plans to cut modern language degrees were 'rushed' - review
The University of Aberdeen says it accepts there were "missteps" in its process in 2023.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I especially love this diagram.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Keir Starmer is a bad person who used his power to make the United Kingdom a more unequal place and dismantle the possibility of opposing oppression and genocide, and to drive trans people from public life. If you think he is decent, I have news for you about your own moral judgement.
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mary worth is lit @wilburwurthless.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
HBD to the legendary joyful/angry feminist and superlative filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928-2019)!!! 🎊🎞️
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 28/04/2026
The Gender-Conservative movement managed to push policy proposals worldwide based on the pretense that youth transition is common and easy to access, obscuring the extant reality of obstruction and hostility towards trans patients. They're doing it again because they got away with it.
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Carol Hunt @carolhunt.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“Where she had written that “the policy of the Minister is to speed up and deport as many applicants as possible”, that was also hidden behind a black rectangle.”
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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 27/03/2026
Today is Octidi the 8th of Germinal in the year 234. Germinal is the month of sprouting. Today we celebrate daffodils. #JacobinDay More information on daffodils
An old time-y illustration of a Daffodils.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.
Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.
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rOobydoobyoo @crowtango.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
aurora over Meath
vibrant billowing lights of the aurora over dark leafless treesan arc of red light with hazy yellow and green against the starry night skya twist of red light rising from the branches of a winter rookeryred green and yellow clouds of light against the dark starry sky
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Congratulations everyone! We did it.
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I'm sorry to keep posting about this but this should be a government-destroying scandal at this point. How the fuck are you not coming down like a ton of bricks on this? There could hardly be a less ambiguous situation, and yet...!!!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/01/2026
“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/11/2025
Car Size xkcd.com/3167/
4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.
Heat map of travel efficiency, updated
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Just a box containing some numbers that should make every single one of us re-evaluate what we choose to do for the rest of our lives.
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 27/09/2025
People determine their values and factual beliefs in dialogue with their in-group consensus. Social media provides a convincing-looking metric of in-group support that is also easily manipulated (by people, not just bots). It's a recipe for disaster, and we're living with the consequences right now.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Are men maybe too emotional for positions of leadership?
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
It is a campaign of erasure: the systematic extermination of an occupied people, not for defense, but annihilation. Every man woman & child is marked for death or exile, every home, school, hospital reduced to ash. Now, even shedding a tear for this horror has become a crime in the land of the free.
Photo of a razed Gaza
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Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Thread: An Garda Siochana, or members thereof, in my living memory have 1. Carried out more breathalyser tests than they bought the kits for 2. Been seen blowing into the ones they did buy themselves in Garda stations apparently to make up target numbers. 3 planted explosives on a mast in Ardara...
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 13/03/2025
Complete coincidence I'm sure that the Guardian has a 'strategic partnership' with OpenAI, just as all these AI-positive stories are also a complete coincidence. Nobody tells them what to write. The Guardian is the enemy, people. Stop consuming it.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Three panel cartoon, greyscale. Panel 1, Wolf Tone saying "I'm willing to give my life for Ireland's freedom". Panel 2, Connolly saying the same thing. Panel three, well dressed man with greying hair in an armchair wearing slippers, holding a NATO flag while a small Ireland flag lies discarded underneath the chair, he is tapping on a laptop, and saying "I'm pretty comfy here but willing to give our young people's lives for whatever these guys tell me to." On the wall is a sign that reads "Role of modern Ireland: Anti-war, Anti-imperialism, Demilitarisation, Nuclear Disarmament" with a big X through them all, and a sticky note that reads "need more death"
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"This is how fascism begins. It never says its name; it crawls, it floats, and when it shows the tip of its nose, we say: Is it him? Do you think so? You mustn't exaggerate! And then one day, it gets in your face, and it's too late to get rid of it." Françoise Giroud
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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 03/12/2024
A thread with news from South Korea, where President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared emergency martial law
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Great news everyone! There's now a form of artificial meat that's extruded in a continuous, undead tube, and it grows by itself because scientists gave it cancer. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
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Perpetually growing meat!
This is mildly interesting: scientists have modified muscle cells in culture so that they produce their own growth factors. This is a major cost reduction, because now you won’t need to const…
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rOobydoobyoo @crowtango.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
The little homemade coffee roaster at oneskyfiveseas in Chiang Mai
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