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“In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.” -Bertolt Brecht

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“An El Niño is not a storm. It does not arrive with wind and fury and then recede. It is a reorganization of where rain falls on Earth... The warm water is only the mechanism; the failed harvests are what people will actually live through.“
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Scorched Harvest: The Strongest El Niño Ever Forecast, the Crops in Its Path, and the Hunger It Will Leave Behind
How 3.6 degrees of warm water in the tropical Pacific is about to redraw the map of global hunger and why, this time, no one in power can claim they were not warned.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint
The described cocktail in a coupe glass.  It's very algae lookin
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
An open note to the astronauts from the Artemis II: I know you had hoped (well, probably hoped) that the world you came back to would be better than it was when you left it, but I regret to inform you that it is sadly not the case.
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darmidge @darmidge.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!
YouTube video by Billy Harper - Topic
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I confess, at this point, I have lost track of how many times the world as I knew it has ended.
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darmidge @darmidge.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Banx @banxtoons.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
From today's @financialtimes.com #TomLehrer
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OuterBoroPrincess @outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.
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darmidge @darmidge.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
1849 archives.cdn.sos.ca.gov/collections/...
California Constitution in Spanish from 1849
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darmidge @darmidge.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Lambrini Girls - Big Dick Energy (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Lambrini Girls
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darmidge @darmidge.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
www.enotes.com/topics/leni-...
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Leni Riefenstahl Criticism: Fascinating Fascism - Susan Sontag - eNotes.comPage Citationicon-questionDownload PDFPage CitationShare LinkFacebookTwitterPinterestMedium
In the following essay, originally published in the February 6, 1975, edition of New York Review of Books, Sontag argues that Riefenstahl's The Last of the Nuba
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darmidge @darmidge.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’
The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
My friend, the gardener, tells me that now is a time for planting, a time for sowing seeds in the hopes that someday beautiful nourishing things will grow again and when I reply that I don’t have a yard, the gardener, calmly explains that she wasn’t talking about plants.
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darmidge @darmidge.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
RIP Marianne Faithfull youtube.com/watch?v=gHrs...
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darmidge @darmidge.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Can everyone eat for the planet? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Can everyone eat for the planet? I shopped at Dollar Store for a week to find out
In 2019, scientists published a climate-friendly food plan. I’ve long wondered: could it work for most Americans?
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
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6 hours under martial law in Seoul
On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
SS Bluesky choose your flag
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Rolf Oldejans @rolfoldejans.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
C’è del genio in chi ha fatto questo disegno.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
“Despite the dire impact of long COVID on individuals and society, I fear that many are still unaware of the danger. There is an urgent need to provide proper diagnosis and treatment for people living with long COVID.” fortune.com/well/article...
fortune.com
Long COVID is still a problem, racking up a global cost of $1 trillion
Experts want government agencies to act.
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darmidge @darmidge.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
Arctic temperatures rise 10C above average in near record heatwave www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Antarctic temperatures rise 10C above average in near record heatwave
Reported temperatures on continent in midwinter reach 28C above expectations on some days in July
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darmidge @darmidge.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
Tech utopian land grab defeated: www.solanotogether.org/post/stateme...
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Statement: The People of Solano County Defeat the Billionaires’ Development Plan
Faced with the anticipation of overwhelming rejection by Solano County voters on the ballot, California Forever has pulled the plug on the East Solano Plan Initiative. The people have spoken and Calif...
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 13/06/2024
REMEMBER IF YOU HONK ALL YOU AT ME I WILL HONK HONK if you get any closer U HAVE TO HONK IF IF YOU WILL IF MYSELF WANT HONK IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN PERSONALLY VICTIMIZED BY HONK
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
When you hear them say (and you will hear them say) that avian influenza only poses a risk to farm workers do not reply by telling them “for now” no, instead remind them (and remind yourself) that farm workers are people too.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
Spotlighting the people with #LongCovid who became patient activists and citizen scientists, shaping the research initiatives to find effective treatments nature.com/articles/d41...
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
what a beautiful article about Voyager 1, engineering and human problem solving - the furthest man made object, exploring interstellar space. It's also a story of hope and optimism. scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
scientificamerican.com
NASA Restores Communications with Ailing Voyager 1 Spacecraft
NASA is reaching across more than 15 billion miles to rescue its malfunctioning Voyager 1 probe—but this hallowed interstellar mission can’t live forever
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 13/03/2024
also this is neat - the medieval world awash in colors medievalsky 🗃️ english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
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Historian Michel Pastoureau: ‘If a Roman arrived in 2024, he would be surprised to see so much navy blue’
The French medieval scholar has dedicated the last few years to tracing a history of colors. He says that this year’s tone, ‘somber, disturbing and not too cheerful,’ is gray
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darmidge @darmidge.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
“Money is green.” www.thenation.com/article/envi...
thenation.com
I Saw the Future of Climate Technology—and Its Big-Oil Investors
At the Cleantech North America conference, the fates of climate-tech start-ups are tangled into the balance sheets of companies who caused the crisis in the first place.
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darmidge @darmidge.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’
The Guardian and Mission Local unravel ‘grey money’ network flooding the progressive city with conservative cash
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
A cartoon about libraries for the Guardian.
Title: Methods of defending your local library from government cuts.

1. Comminity Support: families stand round the licrary with placards
2. Fortifications: The library now has crenellations, a high wall and guards with spears.
3. Camouflage: the library has been painted with a camouflage pattern.
4. Black magic: the library has been painted with a huge pentagram , a sorceror casts a spell from an altar.
5. Time Travel: weird machinery is attached to the library, it is in a prehistoric jungle, a dinosaur walks past.
6. Disguise: the library has been dressed to look like a vape shop 
7. Attack!: the library has tank tracks and large mechanical arms, it speeds forth, a librarian urges it on from a hatch at the top.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Abandoned to death and pestilence to famine and war we keep saying that the cavalry isn’t coming but we are wrong we are woefully wrong for what are the four horsemen if not cavalry?
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
No, we should not allow billionaires to secretly buy northern California farmland to build an instant city for 50,000 people without revealing detailed plans about where they will get resources like water, energy, labor, and transit access. Here's why. www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
If the border were open, they would be coming legally. Since it's not, here's what "coming legally" looks like. www.cato.org/blog/why-leg...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/10/2023
“I don’t for a moment deny that mysteries and passions are important to us, or that we need meaning and purpose to lead fulfilling lives, but their pursuit can be somewhat hampered if you are starving to death.” www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
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The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 4th October 2023 Tourism sells to you the stor...
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