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Dr Joanna Boehnert

@ecocene.bsky.social
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Author of Design, Ecology, Politics: Towards the Ecocene (Bloomsbury). Working in design & energy & ecological transitions. Canadian in the UK. Speak up against genocide and white supremacy while you can. ecolabsblog.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
The AI doom / extinction lie is coming from the exact people with an addiction to burning methane and a climate denialist worldview. I am pretty mad about it. New piece here: www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 26/09/2026
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since yesterday would have been the 90th birthday of the late Jim Henson, and since today marks one month since Dolly Parton died, here they are singing a duet (with Henson voicing Kermit the Frog) on Dolly's variety show in 1987. See you around.
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Dolly Parton & Kermit The Frog – “Everyday People” from 'Dolly' episode 5 (1987)
YouTube video by Jason Kottke
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Everyone should watch this from @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social.
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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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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“The current fight over AI is also a symptom of social speciation -- a growing bifurcation between those already inhabiting an emerging world and those still interpreting life through the old world's zombie media, institutions, and political categories..." — Stephanie Wakefield
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Dr Joanna Boehnert @ecocene.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is tragic. Also I dont know exactly what Joe was going through but I still blame the media for their horrific takes on neurodivergence.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you don't know what's killing you, you can't die, right?
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026
"By accentuating differences in status and social class — for example, through the type of car someone drives, their clothing or where they live — inequality increases feelings of superiority and of inferiority." We'd solve much more than climate with #Sufficiency www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Why the world cannot afford the rich
Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ...
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The invention of Jaywalking via Hannah Fry #WarOnWalking youtube.com/shorts/6W_s3...
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The invention of Jaywalking
YouTube video by Hannah Fry
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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New article examining the incestuous connections between the TESCREAL movement and the ASI race. I guarantee you'll find this interesting--I show how these people all know each other, have hung out and partied together, and share the same eschatological vision. Check it out!
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What If TESCREAL *Is* a Conspiracy?
(3,000 words.)
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Rest in Power, Dolly ✊🏼
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ted didn’t notice the name of the account who posted this Dolly clip he retweeted until it was much too late. He finally deleted it after he was made aware.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026
Wow. There are more names in support of Cofnas here! More than 300 academics defending the conduct of a gutter racist. johnarmstrongmaths.com/openletters/...
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As academics, we are concerned that Ghent University's disciplinary proceedings against Dr Cofnas appear to constitute retaliation, at least in part, for publicizing academic misconduct that occurred in British universities.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026
There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23/08/2026
A key element in the mainstreaming of reactionary politics was to get mainstream actors to engage with reactionary ideas as if they were legitimate debates Mainstream actors fell for it as they generally "won" the argument but by engaging at all they legitimised the reactionary position 1/
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Sunsong23 @sunsong23.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Erin Brockovich: "If Data Centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Dr Joanna Boehnert @ecocene.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Transition Templates www.instagram.com/reel/DcEgKw0...
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EcoLabs on Instagram
4 likes, 0 comments - ecolabs.ecocene on August 15, 2026
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels
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Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues
Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Data centers
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
UK Govt & Envt Agency water forecasts exclude datacentre usage About 125 datacentres are proposed/under construction in one region which is already subject to a hosepipe ban Current water deficits are being met by “accepting a greater risk of environmental harm" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says
Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’
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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“I don't get political” translates to “This isn't hurting me yet and I don't care that it's hurting you.”
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights | CBC News
A small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own, in what an environmental organization describes as a first in Quebec and Canada.
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Dr Joanna Boehnert @ecocene.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The Carbon Commons: Design Practice for a Post-Growth Society” is an exceptional new PhD dissertation by Dr. Riel Bessai. A joy and honour to serve as external examiner and participate in the defense at TUDelft with supervisors Ruud Balkenende and Roy Bendor repository.tudelft.nl/record/uuid:...
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Dr Joanna Boehnert @ecocene.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Best AI tool yet airesistlist.org
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The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
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Dr Joanna Boehnert @ecocene.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Transition Templates project is now online… Transition Templates offers a structured participatory mapping process for "pathways to net zero+". The method supports groups working towards collaborative responses to climate breakdown and wider socioecological transitions. eco-labs.co
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Transition Templates – Transition Templates
Pathways to Net Zero+. Transition Templates empower organisations and communities to map and enact energy transitions.
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Design and Economics @designandeconomics.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hello! We're just setting up the Design and Economics Bluesky account. In the meantime take a look at our upcoming conference, bridging ideas, conversations and methodologies around the intersection of #design and #economics. Please share. lu.ma/57r6fjso
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Design and Economics Conference 2025 · Luma
Our first conference, bringing together diverse perspectives on the intersections between design and economics. Thursday 20th February: online-only…
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 05/03/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Tragi-comic. Live feed reporting the parents' statement under the heading 'please get the truth out', the BBC edits out part of the statement, and repeats a government lie. This post even fails to clear the 'he said she said' bar, as it uses politics to edit out what is being said.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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Dr Joanna Boehnert @ecocene.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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NATO's over – Europe must grow up now
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Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The reason why many Democrats didn't want to endorse Mamdani A. They have a bigotry against a Muslim candidate like him and B. He gives straight-forward answers about topics like ICE or income inequality with moral clarity, which makes their cowardice even more glaring.
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Martin Farley 🔰 @martinfarley.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Extraordinary polling from @yougov.co.uk today, showing the @greenparty.org.uk in first place across all working age people 🟢Grn - 20.5% 🔴Lab - 20.3% ⚫Ref - 20.1% 🔵Con - 15.5% baffling why 60% of pensioners are supporting Con/Ref who will slash public spending that mainly goes to pensioners
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I came to Congress to do the job: to work for people and protect them. Now I’m facing 17 years in prison for standing up to this administration and to ICE. But if they think I’ll back down, they are wrong. Read more:
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The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees
LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...
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Teen Vogue's Closure and the Quiet Defunding of Worker Consciousness
Teen Vogue’s shutdown marks more than a media loss. This is a warning about how profit-driven consolidation quietly dismantles worker awareness and voice.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I’m going to basically spend all morning laughing like a maniac. I have BEEN saying! Rebuilding civic infrastructure is EVERYTHING.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Last week, we launched the world's ultimate guide to climate solutions -- the Drawdown Explorer. People thought we were nuts to give it (and all the underlying data) away for free. But we insisted. During a crisis, you don't put crucial data behind a paywall.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
✅ Worked against AI.
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