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Cindy B.

@eclecta.bsky.social
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Nerd. Arsenal supporter. COVID-avoider. Writing about issues and books is a way I try to reinforce/challenge my learning. Too enthusiastic and curious to be cool. She/her. Toronto

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Cindy B. @eclecta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I messaged a guy I know today, saying, "Hey, I've been thinking of you the past few days. It can't be easy to have a name like [insert name of one of the Cornell 7 here] lately." He had to google his own name to understand what I was talking about. 1/2
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Cindy B. @eclecta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's a hard job, but Schmitt has what it takes!
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Cindy B. @eclecta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW BOOK REVIEW In times like these, it's vital to cultivate ***hope*** that's grounded in the experience of people working for change and actually succeeding at it. These stories are everywhere but the algorithms aren't going to serve them up, so I actively seek them out. 1/15
Book cover titled 'PARADISE WON' by Elizabeth May. An aerial photograph shows a winding river cutting through dense green coastal forest. In the river, there are logs whose light colour and relatively uniform dimensions suggest logging activity. The book's subtitle reads 'The Struggle to Create GWAII HAANAS National Park Reserve.' The text overlays the landscape image.
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Big ups to @katearonoff.bsky.social for covering this seemingly boring but actually really important story about the GHG Protocol. Standards are technical & opaque AND they’re where the politics happen. This is a classic case of “managing tons.” 🧵
newrepublic.com
Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?
Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think one of the most empowering and powerful parts of living thru this period of history is how people are seeing all of the connections that have always existed right under the surface. What has been hidden is being brought into the light. We see how far the web has been woven through society.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost. This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath
Detailed math as shared in the post. “How much does your commute cost (or save) society? Source is Discourse Media.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/09/2026
If there's one thing that is genuinely easy to accomplish in US politics, it is getting the pack of slavering morons that is the Republican base to hate someone or something new. You just gotta point and say "we hate this now." They *love* hating shit. Canadians? Sure!
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Say it with me: FORK. FOUND. IN. KITCHEN.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 30/08/2026
Not only has Google ruined their own products, but they are simply craven hacks.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Remember, there’s infrastructure, and then there’s Dutch infrastructure.
Image from the air of a Dutch water passageway between bodies of water with a sailboat sailing in between, and a 4-lane highway running underneath with separated/protected bike-lanes.
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tom 🇨🇦 @tcrist11.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is a must read 👇
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
THREAD
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump's attack on the International Criminal Court is their latest attempt to protect the war criminals Putin and Netanyahu. There is no trusting the United States. They are on the side of war criminals and gangsters.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Why the Backlash Against Data Centers Is So Potent talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-t...
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 30/07/2026
SCOOP: The Doug Ford government received 98.98% opposition to its plan to replace Ontario’s Endangered Species Act with weaker legislation, according to an internal analysis viewed by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social. The bill passed anyway. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...
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98.98% opposition to Doug Ford’s new endangered species law revealed | The Narwhal
Internal Ministry of Environment analysis shows ‘confusion’ and concerns about ‘negative impacts on Ontario’s biodiversity’ raised over the Species Conservation Act, under Bill 5
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/07/2026
Honestly I think the climate & clean energy world is too dominated by nerds preoccupied with Facts and Science. What they need to do is just hire a bunch of hot people to say nice things about clean energy online. Don't overthink it. Just hire hot people who know how to use selfie sticks.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/07/2026
While everything goes to shit, the Trump administration is working furiously to subsidize & support a filthy, dying industry that employs fewer people than f'ing Arby's & kills more Americans per unit of economic activity than any industry outside of guns.
canarymedia.com
The coal industry gave Trump a wish list. He’s checking items off it.
The Trump admin is propping up the aging coal fleet despite the financial and environmental costs — and also making far-fetched plans to build new coal…
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/07/2026
A reminder that people who know anything about politics -- what the parties are, what they stand for, their record, who they've elected, how government works -- are a freakish minority. Most people know *nothing at all* past the vague mythologies that sift down through pop culture.
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Cindy B. @eclecta.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It feels a little bit miraculous that I have this balcony haven again this year. It’s not perfect, and this year I needed help for a month or so to water it and train the pole beans. 1/8
A vibrant balcony garden featuring lush green plants in terracotta and plastic pots arranged on black shelving units. Large climbing vines grow along black wire trellises that span the balcony railing. Some plants are partially covered with white protective netting secured by clothespins. In the background, urban apartment buildings rise against a cloudy sky, creating a contrast between the cultivated greenery and the cityscape beyond.
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Cindy B. @eclecta.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Books I've read in the last few months (with a couple left out that I wouldn't recommend).
Photo of a stack of books. From top to bottom: "Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel; "Who Will Defend Europe?" by Keir Giles; "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" by Cory Doctorow; "Israel: What Went Wrong?" by Omer Bartov; "Dangerous Memory" by Charlie Angus;  "Existential Politics" by Jessica F. Green; "Moscow Rules" by Keir Giles; "Into the Wood Chipper" by Nicholas Enrich; and "Empire of AI" y Karen Hao.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/07/2026
Quit poisoning your family! Get an induction cooktop! (If for whatever reason -- you rent, you're tight on money -- you have a gas cooktop you can't replace, check your ventilation & make sure you're always using your fan.)
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Anyone who argues that decarbonization is “too expensive” is full of shit.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/07/2026
Something I think about a lot is how the US created a system that produces safe, clean, virtually limitless drinking water for every citizen -- a political & engineering miracle for the ages! -- & then went ahead & created a huge, polluting, pointless bottled water industry anyway.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Here's a wild idea: How about if people running for office have some demonstrated commitment to and experience in some collective effort for social good? Maybe that's government service, maybe union leadership, maybe community organizing. But something.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/07/2026
We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.
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What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke
We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This 👇
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Timely reminder: Authoritarians lie to be repeated - to force us to have their conversation instead of our own. If you're debunking the claims, you're giving them airtime.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Remember, don’t waste any time arguing whether #ClimateChange “caused” the current #wildfires. Like EVERY consequence of the #ClimateCrisis, we KNOW that EACH WILDFIRE is made much more likely, and much worse, by the rapidly changing conditions from Climate Change. MORE LIKELY AND WORSE.
Wildfire images Smoke from wildfires covering the continent.
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Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Wildfire pollution is coming for our lungs AND our minds
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
For a moment I mistook the sickly grey orange of the sky for the color of defeat. But then I dug deep and recommitted. This is the color of motivation and sacred obligation.
A pasture underneath an odd looking grey sky.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/07/2026
I wonder, if you polled people, how much extra they would pay each year to have their city *not* be covered in thick, choking wildfire smoke for days at a time. I wonder if that might give you more insight into "willingness to pay" vis a vis climate change than asking in the abstract.
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Cindy B. @eclecta.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Glad your glaucoma was detected early - sharing your experience may help save someone else's vision too. If I may amplify your message, my dad's glaucoma was diagnosed but went untreated for maybe a couple of years (the ophthalmologist said he didn't require treatment at that time). (1/2)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026
An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/07/2026
"Building nuclear for the first time in Australia would take longer and cost more than building offshore wind for the first time in Australia, according to modelling by Australia’s premier science agency..."
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Starting from scratch on nuclear in Australia would take longer, cost more than first-time offshore wind
CSIRO says nuclear power is "most expensive in each case" of its modelling, with a "first-of-a-kind" premium on building in Australia likely to cost 100% more than international best practice.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/07/2026
To kickstart the market for plug-in solar, a nonprofit is selling kits at no markup -- around $300. Get yours while you can!
canarymedia.com
A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US
Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/07/2026
Also: the reaction of Dem senators to Graham's death helps illustrated a point I've made many times, which is that the people closest to the creeping rise of fascism understand it *least*. Being in "the room where it happens" does not give you insight, it blinds you.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/07/2026
Gosh I wonder what will happen next!
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
THIS RIGHT HERE. Always make the argument, always force your issue to the fore. Force MAGA to publicly discuss the indefensible.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/07/2026
I know nothing matters anymore, but it is truly insane that VSPs agree AI is the most important technology in history, it’s going to transform humanity, Change Everything, and we are leaving its design and development up to a handful of deranged, brain-poisoned tech bros in Silicon Valley.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Masterclass. Never accept their premise, never have their argument - force your own. Give people a clear origin story for their pain and concrete reason to believe you are the one to address it.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/06/2026
$765 million of your tax dollars being paid to *not* develop wind power.
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Trump Pays $765 Million to Kill 4 More Offshore Wind Leases
The deal with developer Invenergy includes a commitment to build geothermal generation in addition to natural gas.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026
Yup, that's the strategy: a) whine about the other side cheating, b) cheat in every way you can. Worst case scenario, you get busted & everyone concludes that "everyone does it."
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026
And like everything else in reactionary politics, it is a *feeling*, not a conclusion drawn from evidence. No amount of procedural reforms (however badly they are needed in many cases) will eliminate that feeling.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026
At the risk of stating the obvious: when reactionaries say elections are "rigged," what they mean -- in their hearts, in their guts -- is that their opponents are illegitimate and it only counts if they win. That's what they've always meant.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“Amsterdam is set to ban climate-damaging advertising [fossil fuel & meat adverts] in public spaces, following a trend spreading across Dutch cities. France has also enacted legislation outlawing adverts from non-renewable energy companies, & one Italian city has plans to do the same.” #UrbanTruth
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This EU city just banned all public ads for meat and fossil fuels
Initially proposed in 2020, Amsterdam has officially banned on public advertisements promoting meat and fossil fuel products.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If there was more space between the story of "corporate brilliance" and the story of "extracting from living systems and leaving degraded complexity in your wake" we wouldn't keep ending up in these situations.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If there was more space between "just how a leader looks and acts in the dominant meta-narrative" and "sadistic controller and abuser" we wouldn't keep ending up in these situations.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/05/2026
Just going to join with the many others saying: this is simple courage & humanity & whatever else you think about the race, Steyer deserves enormous credit for it.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
There's a saying about not wasting a good crisis, but what we are in, I think is even more than that. Don't waste a moment of multi-potentiality when so much falls apart that what was once unimaginable might be possible.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We must face the truth of what this regime is doing: holding civilians captive without due process. There has been done across places and centuries and it has a name: concentration camps.
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