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David Moorfield Frank

@dmf84.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary environmental philosopher 🌳🌹🌎🌞🦝 Values in/and Environmental Science/Research Ethics, Environmental Utopias, posting nuance, jokes 🫠 for/as myself only

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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Frege watched the advent of modern math delivering objections like “Cantor doesn’t know what sets are.” “Hilbert’s definitions fail to determine if my pocket watch is a line.” “Weierstrass thinks a pile of ginger biscuits is a number.” and analytic philosophers were like this man is a genius
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Claim: this book is actually very good.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
They get washed, fed, a sixteen slide PowerPoint presentation on how to raid people’s garbage
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft flew for the first time on the 12th of August, a 27-minute test flight over upstate New York that cost about five dollars in electricity. Heart Aerospace’s 30-seat prototype is a big step toward a commercial version. buff.ly/i3f0PhR #ShareGoodNewsToo
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The largest all-electric plane ever flew for 27 minutes, on $5 of electricity
Heart's X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes from a regional airport in upstate New York, running on battery power the entire time. The aircraft reached 1,100 feet...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
We’re:
— Redesigning our most dangerous streets. 
— Regulating delivery apps. 
— Lowering speed limits where children play.
— Upgrading 1,000 intersections every year. 
— Cracking down on dangerous drivers and super speeders. 
— Improving our street lights.
— Building safe, beautiful public spaces.
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Grazing cattle is the single largest land-use humans have undertaken. Most degrade land, & where it may reduce SOC loss, gains are temporary & outweighed by the methane year after year. Offsetting global ruminant GHGs through SOC would require nearly 2x the carbon stock in all managed grasslands
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Got to work with some incredibly talented filmmakers to turn End Times Fascism into a ten minute video essay. Check it out below. There’s nothing like hearing the derangement directly from the doom profiteers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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Madison Condon @madisoncondon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
only one of these things is actively killing us right now
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Did you know that a dolphin's skin is twenty times more sensitive than our own? Just like us mammals above water, dolphins need touch. Brenda Peterson peers into their high-contact lives. orionmagazine.org/article/touc...
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not sure people understand how bad El Niño already is. In Southern California today, we had an offshore pacific hurricane (not normal) take out homes and beaches. We had temperatures topping 111°F with high humidity. There's a fire in LA. And we are just getting started with El Niño.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A good piece of advice for science communication… If you want to connect with professions and experts, focus on writing. If you want to connect with novices, videos are probably best. Here’s some data supporting this: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Experts prefer text but videos help novices: an analysis of the utility of multi-media content | Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 09/09/2026
Today, Seattle's kindergartners took their very first steps into Seattle Public Schools, joining their fellow scholars for a brand new year! This year, every single one of them - from kindergarten through 12th grade - starts the year with something new: free breakfast and lunch for each student.
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David Moorfield Frank @dmf84.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Let’s go!
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Nicolas Cage Woo! Reaction
ALT: Nicolas Cage Woo! Reaction
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🧵CO₂ removal (CDR) is back in the news, but just because the UNEP report says we need CDR, it doesn't mean we'll have CDR. Many challenges will take decades of research and negotiation to solve. Here are some examples: Technological: We currently don't have any durable CDR method that scales.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s WHAT we eat (beef especially) that matters for climate. Not so much WHERE it is grown.
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David Moorfield Frank @dmf84.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
prompted Claude Opus 5 for suggestions about how to teach my students this: “put students in situations where the model is checkably wrong about something they can verify without expertise”
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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is now a classic example of an invasion resulting from a small number of introduced large mammals. scienceblog.com/d-four-hippo...
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Four hippos brought to Colombia in 1981 have multiplied into nearly 200 animals roaming the Magdalena River basin — the world’s largest invasive animal, spreading through warm rivers with abundant foo...
An African megafauna mistake now threatens entire ecosystems across South America, decades after a drug lord's exotic pets escaped into the wild.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
Read the full story:
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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Despite this, many new IPCC scenarios assume a ridiculous amount of CDR — like 5-30 Gt-CO2 / year — will magically happen. But don't hold your breath. Remember, these scenarios aren't based on science at all, but on the untested assumptions of theoretical economic models...
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 03/09/2026
I am to wait, though waiting so be hell
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps MOREOVER, using "emergency" conditions to degrade the conditions in concentration camps was partly how death rates went from a few percent to catastrophic (via www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...)
ICE has not paid any of its providers for detainees’ care since Oct. 3, 2025, according to agency regulatory filings and the ICE website. In an internal directive issued shortly after, obtained by the Chronicle and not previously reported, ICE declared “emergency operations,” sharply limiting offsite medical care and access to medication.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 02/09/2026
Part 2. datacolada.org/139
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[139] Artificial Deadlines (Part 2): Retrograding Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002)
As described in our previous post (.htm), back in 2006 ariely@mit.edu sent three Excel spreadsheets, each “last saved” by user “Dan Ariely”, to then-PhD-student-but-now-full…
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Knowing that the plastic dinosaurs we played with as kids consisted, to whatever actual extent, of real dinosaurs.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months. 

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
BREAN: Q2 corporate profit data “was stunning.” However, “the gap between prices and wages is something that will draw increasing political attention .. pointing to the share of labor in output and showing that for the first time in the postwar era it has fallen below 50%.”
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 26/08/2026
Nature honors Dolly Parton's scientific legacy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science
The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I had to say thank you.
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In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of Kindness
We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but phil...
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In honor of the death of eternal legend Dolly Parton, here’s her 2023 #ClimateChange anthem “World on Fire.” “Liar, liar, the world’s on fire / What’cha gonna do when it all burns down … Still got time to turn it all around.” 😭💚🙏 m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QJX...
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Dolly Parton - World On Fire (From The 58th ACM Awards)
YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO
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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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David Moorfield Frank @dmf84.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 (uncertainty interval 8 475 990–19 662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (3 124 796–5 910 791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030.” 😳
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/08/2026
Today, we remember an important turning point in history: the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Think about this guy a lot www.youtube.com/shorts/HD6kw...
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Surprise, AZ City Council meeting hearing on the proposed ICE facility.
YouTube video by ToTheOthermoon
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
this guy seems like a super genius language understander. let's set up a whole research program where we try to discern the meaning of his cryptic remarks about how language works
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Cartoonishly evil www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/c...
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Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests
The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
RE: The Atlantic, a few months after this issue a guy in El Paso went on a rampage targeting people he thought looked "Mexican"; he shot 45 and killed 23. when I read some journalists lines from his manifesto and Frum's essay and asked them who wrote which, they couldn't tell, I couldn't blame them
its a cover image of an april 2019 atlantic mag. a neon light bulb american flag signals no vacancy like a roadside motel. under the flag is a headline for david frum's cover story "How much immigration is too much?"
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
good to see a campaign appealing to anti-corruption in this way: as self-defense rather than pearl clutching
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Like if it turned out the strongest form of Platonic realism about moral Goodness was true and there was an objective Form of the Good from which flowed precise instructions about the good life... I would not care, I would not consider that any sort of reason for me to change my behaviour at all.
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Minutemen Bot @minutemenbot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I live sweat But I dream light years
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A simple point that surprisingly few people understand: "The longer we wait to reach net zero, the higher the eventual peak temperature will be, and the worse the associated damage. Warming is now nearly 1.4C above pre-industrial levels. Imagine summers when it gets closer to 2C."
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How to stop global warming
The answer is obvious to all except the real climate change zealots: the anti-net zero movement
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Madison Condon @madisoncondon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
at this very moment responding to peer scholars who argue that rich countries will be fine in the face of climate change
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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A common (and misleading) question: "If most species invasions do not cause extinctions - and therefore increase species richness in invaded areas, shouldn't we conclude that most invasions are good for biodiversity?" Here is a straightforward answer from invasion science... 🧵
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
many professors are calling it 'the least surprising result of all time'
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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Gus Speth - "Warming Warning" (1981)
YouTube video by Jim Speth
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trump is like "Oh, by the way, we control every country and pick their leaders" and the US media has just been like "Oh, okay!" and proceeded to do breathless horse-race coverage of the selection process. Literal imperial metropole nonsense. Might as well be UK press writing about Africa in 1900.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 06/08/2026
This is a great thread & local climate officials should read it. Led by a former doctoral student, @destenie.bsky.social & I published this paper finding solar, batteries, weatherization, efficiency standards, & green infrastructure helping mitigation & adaptation: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Fig 7 from: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2753-3751/adfc77/meta showing a chart with solar pv, batteries, weatherization, air conditioning efficiency standards and green infrastructure reducing energy burden under climate change & reducing GHGsFigure 7. Co-benefits of interventions. (A) compares the cumulative seasonal reductions of the energy burden to the cumulative abatement for each intervention. The width of each stacked bar represents the cumulative CO2-equivalent abatement per household, while the height reflects cumulative seasonal energy burden reduction (in percentage points). Each color illustrates the benefits of stacking interventions, with each addition enhancing the total reductions. The dashed lines represent goals for reductions that decision-makers can make. (B) illustrates the variability in the census tract’s representative household reductions and abatements for the positive values. Each dot is a representative household in a census tract, while larger symbols are the median values of each scenario across the seasons. We further explain negative outliers within the text, and the visual is shown in appendix D.
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