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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Brazilian prosecutors are suing Shell over the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods. It’s the first time globally that a national public prosecutor has sued an oil major for climate damages. www.afp.com/en/brazil-pr...

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Brazil prosecutors sue Shell for $108 mn over deadly 2024 floods

Brazilian prosecutors on Friday filed an unprecedented lawsuit against oil giant Shell's subsidiary in the country, demanding $108 million in...

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is the recent paper it's based on: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 09/10/2026

Milton Keynes, a government-planned New Town once derided as bland, is getting recognition for its culture. But its economic success has long made it a humble model for city-building. Read more: bloom.bg/3VZvOdX 📷: Chunip Wong/iStockphoto

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is correct. In more years covering this topic than I am inclined to share, I have never answered a woman's question about what I do and had her say the topic doesn't exist, or worse. Men on the other hand... 🎁🔗 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Real men don’t do climate change

Research on the gender differences in how people think about global warming suggests campaigns and communications may need a rethink

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Southeast will not be televised

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Oct. 9, 1940-Dec. 8, 1980

John Lennon, ~1980, eyes closed smiling broadly. Black and white.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

El Niñissimo! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Current El Niño Is Already Stronger Than Past Events
Sea surface temperature in the eastern tropical Pacific region monitored for El Nino activity

Chart shows Jan-Dec lines for the 1991-2020 average, 1997, 2015, 2023 and 2026, which flies way high above all the others in a kind of supernatural way. Y-axis is temperature in C, ranging from 30 down to 25.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Open Google Doc tabs are the new open browser window tabs.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gen X: We didn't have Jib Jab. We cut images out of magazines and pasted them onto construction paper.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Joe Romm gave one of the most memorable talks I’ve ever heard at Columbia many years ago. Among other things, he said, “Sustainable development is like teenage sex. Everybody says they're doing it, very few people actually are, and those who are doing it are doing it badly.” RIP legend.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Shocking and sad news. Joe Romm single-handedly powered US climate debates through the aughts and into the teens.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One interesting thing nobody talks about is, to a dog, you're the service animal.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

idk I've personally been trying to reach recursive self-improvement for a long time.

Newspaper front page story blurb:

The Liftoff Scenario That Terrifies A.I. Doomsayers
"Recursive self-improvement" is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress - and risk.
7 MIN READ

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I meant it more like, if somebody told me to get in my lane, it would mean me only talking about film adaptations of noir novels released from like 1941 to 1958.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If somebody asked you to "stay in your lane," what would that mean for you? Please provide the truest, most granular possible answer.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What's an example of perfect casting?

Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins and Orson Welles as Harry Lime, in The Third Man

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If there's one thing about Washington consistent throughout time and party, it's the Friday news dump. Nothing gets past @zhirji.bsky.social tho ⤵️

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🏆 for real-life metaphor of the week

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

how cool, they can now make clouds that look like real pollution.

Gray Manhattan skyline, with a thick dark blanket of high clouds and small low lying cottony clouds wisps just above the building tops

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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New: With summer come monsoonal rains in Arizona, but climate-driven drought and wildfires are worsening the destruction from downpours like the deadly deluge that struck the Grand Canyon last weekend, according to experts. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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How a Convergence of Climate Disasters Ushered the Grand Canyon Flood Tragedy

It’s an example of a compound event, when environmental-related catastrophes overlap or occur in quick succession.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. “Nepal must hold its head high internationally and turn this into a matter of justice,” said Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Nepal Seeks Climate Compensation From China, US and India

Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing.

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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

BREAKING: The House Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a stopgap funding bill to fund the government through Dec. 11. Notably, the bill delays any action on the controversial WH proposal to overhaul federal science funding to allow political oversight of grants www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Congress Sends Funding Bill to Avert US Shutdown to Trump

Congress cleared funding legislation to avert an Oct. 1 government shutdown, sidestepping, at least temporarily, the partisan warfare that led to repeated disruptions over the last year.

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What is that sound? It's the noise that of a million "what about" brains exploding. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New one today for @defector.com: in the wake of the most recent declaration of reading's demise, I was curious what booksellers, almost always ignored by the post-literate prognosticators, made of such claims. Here's what they told me:

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What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector

If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

No nothing? Not anything? Everything is permitted?

A standing sign inside an old church, barely visible behind. The sign has a red circle with a red line through it, and that's it.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There must not have been any carbon back then.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One astonishing thing about modern life is that 1 in 4 people worldwide still don't have access to safely managed drinking water, while 1 in 3 of us flush our toilets with drinking water.

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Drinking-water

WHO fact sheet on water: key facts, access to water, water and health

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

oh man biogeometry is lowkey one of my favorite things ever.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Infinite Jest," the entertainment at the heart of 𝐼𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑡, hurt more people than most movies.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Experts urge schools to keep teaching writing in the age of AI, not even because of its importance per se but because it’s essential to developing habits of mind: “Writing is a technology for thinking” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It makes sense that there are two it turns out!

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yeah I think they just open and close it, without shifting anything.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I found the Overton Window. It's in Norwalk. I've always heard about it but didn't know about the free ice cream with a lobster roll dinner.

Overton's burger and seafood takeaway food shack menu. Two walk-up windows for ordering/pick-up, under a big sign with restaurant name and menu Irans. Norwalk, CT.

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