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Austin Schuberth @austinschuberth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Started a blog to talk about climate and urbanism here in New Mexico. My first post is about the public backlash against data centers and why I think it is justified. #climate nmclimateurbanism.com/on-the-backl...
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On the Backlash of Data Centers
[[3]] Why people are against data centers and why I am as well I have been seeing people online think that the backlash against AI and data centers is anti-progress, from Luddites, NIMBYist, etc. T...
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I love how this makes it seem like they stopped monitoring RFK Jr
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 05/07/2026
In this World Cup ad, football star Luka Modrić is being coached to bet on whether 2026 will be the hottest year ever. Meanwhile, games are being played in extreme heat, putting players and fans at risk. Is there any more perfect symbol of where we are right now? 🤯😵‍💫😱 and a 🧵 on why this matters
A screenshot of a goalie standing behind Luka Modrić holding a phone.A screenshot of the goalie holding the phone which reads "Will 2026 be the hottest year ever?"
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Erdapfel @erdapfel123.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Woo! Who's Alara? Getting irradiated to own the libs!!1!
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Erdapfel @erdapfel123.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
ChatGPT doesn't understand metric units...and also says uppercase L is used to avoid confusion...
DuckDuckGo ChatGPT 5.4 nano response to me adding clarity to my original prompt that I want 1 ML (megaliters) instead of 1 mL (milliliters).  It says ML and mL are the same thing.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
As I put it a few years ago in my blunt advice to Irish cities, “Your goal SHOULDN’T be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with a million electric vehicles. It should be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with 250,000 electric vehicles. The main answer MUST be FEWER cars driven LESS."
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
humans have known how to construct a shoulder seam for thousands of years, but with AI, we are unlocking untold new ways to fuck it up
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The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has won the Democratic nomination for New Mexico governor, giving her a path to become the first Native American woman in the U.S. elected to the office.
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Haaland claims early victory in New Mexico's Democratic primary for governor
The former interior secretary also is favored to win in November in a state where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch & share this news story. It’s pretty much perfect. Ford claims wrongly that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/1...
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Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
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Metro @wmata.com · 25/05/2026
How much are you spending at the pump? 🚗⛽️ We crunched the numbers to determine the monthly cost comparison between taking Metro or driving from West Falls Church to Washington, D.C. Here are the monthly expense totals we found: 🚗 $1,100 for car, 🚇🚌 $236 for Metro. More below. ⬇️
Chart showing math behind total costs mentioned in the post message.
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Cities *know* that drivers will park in unprotected bike lanes. Ergo, when they leave them unprotected they are tacitly saying it’s okay to park in them. Below = unprotected stretches on Peter St, in Toronto
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
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Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Turns out “Missing Middle” housing hasn’t been missing. We knew where it was the whole time. We made it illegal. Never forget, housing choice is a leadership challenge. #UrbanTruth #MissingMiddle
Missing middle housing isn’t missing. We made it illegal.

Housing choice is a leadership challenge.

Via the urban truth collective.
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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
People: it's outrageous that my local council can't fix all the potholes. Also people: I'm driving around in a very heavy SUV, parking on pavements and I want to pay less tax, not more.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/05/2026
ProPublica obtained 3,000 pages of emails sent last year by executives asking that their facilities be exempted from Clean Air Act requirements. The White House approved more than 180 requests and is considering more.
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Trump Exempted Some of the Nation's Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.
In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more.
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Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🇬🇷 Greece's largest coal plant, Agios Dimitrios, is shutting down today. One coal plant remains until Greece exits coal this year. Renewables have been beating coal on cost for a while. The country is expected to hit its 2030 solar target early this year! balkangreenenergynews.com/ag-dimitrios...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/04/2026
my patience with "can't we just appreciate this abstract technological accomplishment, unsullied by all of the universally horrible context that it can't actually be extricated from" takes has officially worn out
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/04/2026
🧪🔭🌔🏳️‍⚧️ www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...
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Forced Out: The Electrical Engineer
Anti-Trans Laws in Florida Forced a Woman to Quit Her Dream Job with NASA
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Chaco Canyon is sacred. As the Trump Admin rushes to push through oil and gas leasing in the greater Chaco Landscape—they announced yesterday that they will give only ONE WEEK for public comment on removing protections for this sacred place. Make your voice heard! NO to drilling in Chaco Canyon! ⬇️
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Project Home Page
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Jetsons lied to us
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/03/2026
A gun toting psycho screams "Elon Musk Says! Elon Musk Says! Elon Musk says!" while blue helmeted UN peacekeepers say "we got you surrounded, come out and do some actual journalism" in this meme image
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"The evidence shows that restoring lanes for cars will not result in less congestion, as it will induce more people to use cars…”— Court decision If your local government is lying about protected bike-lanes “causing traffic congestion,” you might find this court case in Canada interesting & useful.
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Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes | CBC News
An Ontario court has deemed the province's plan to remove three major Toronto bike lanes unconstitutional. In response, the premier told CBC News: "I believe, and the people of Ontario believe, that t...
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TODERIAN UrbanWORKS Inc. (TUW) @toderianuw.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"I'm not an anti-car guy. I'm an anti-car-dependency guy. We can't keep planning cities and regions where the car is the only choice, because that may seem like freedom to some but it's kind of the opposite. Dependency is never freedom.” — @brenttoderian.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth
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AnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her, to please Donald Trump, hater of Latinos. I've supported NASA my entire life. Not anymore. www.space.com/space-explor...
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NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her.
"It feels like everything that I worked for has been taken down little by little."
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Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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Missy Cummings @forrealflygirl.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
HW4 won't work either electrek.co/2025/04/14/t...
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Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4 million cars or compensate their owners
Tesla (TSLA) has to replace the ‘self-driving’ computer inside about 4 million vehicles or likely compensate the owners of those...
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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
If you love your library, listen up…
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Surprised Face Guy @surprisedface.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.
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