Reposted by kat (she/they)Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 75256439611
Reposted by kat (she/they)Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author. 772184644
Reposted by kat (she/they)Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 12/09/2026#ShareGoodNews - a 300-year-old species of tree declared extinct in the wild in the 1990s is back. 05824
Reposted by kat (she/they)Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Forget planting trees for a second. Let's talk about BOGS. Did you know that peatlands cover a tiny 3% of Earth’s land, but store MORE CARBON than all the world's forests combined?They are an ultimate MVP of our climate system and it’s time we start hyping them. Join me! 🧵 1/ 11677254
Reposted by kat (she/they)Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Amazing news, thanks to decades of unrelenting advocacy by the Yurok, Karuk and Klamath Tribes. It’s heartening to see the collaborative nature of the salmon restoration effort reflected in this paper’s authorship, which includes all three Tribes, state & federal agencies, NGOs & private entities. 4792358
Reposted by kat (she/they)Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026In January 2025, DOGE cut funding for USAID's Project SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya, which identified and monitored landslide and climate disaster hotspots in Nepal. Now a Himalayan glacier landslide has killed over 1,200 in Nepal.cnn.comThe Trump administration cut funds for natural hazards monitoring in Nepal | CNNIn January 2025, the Trump administration cut off funding for a program to identify and monitor landslide hotspots in Ne 551282684
Reposted by kat (she/they)Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I got this finished up! :) It was done with watercolors, gouache, acrylic ink and walnut ink. 8959221582
Reposted by kat (she/they)Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I spoke about being queer in a religious upbringing to 200 Scottish teens at book event this afternoon. Had seven (yes, seven) queer students and two trans students come out to me quietly in the signing queue afterwards, one of them in tears. I will never forgive those who make their lives so hard. 291701291
Reposted by kat (she/they)The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026#ShareGoodNewsToolivescience.comNew sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for yearsChinese researchers say they have overcome one of the trickiest problems of battery chemistry by developing a special gel. 28430
Reposted by kat (she/they)Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons. 5696473244
Reposted by kat (she/they)William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026[Exit Queen.] 2063894511013
Reposted by kat (she/they)Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026like clearly she did so much incredible work in her life, but her commitment to getting books into the hands of kids - she was an actual angel 29419
Reposted by kat (she/they)Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026New Mexico flipped from fossil fuels to renewables in 5 years. In July 2021 its largest utility drew 83% of its power from coal & gas; this July, renewables supplied 62%. Solar carries the days, batteries release stored sun in the evening, & wind picks up after dark buff.ly/ejt1iFF #ShareGoodNewsTooyaleclimateconnections.orgNew Mexico’s clean energy success story » Yale Climate ConnectionsIn just five years, solar, wind, and batteries overtook fossil fuels, keeping air conditioners running while slashing pollution. 4344133
Reposted by kat (she/they)ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/202616 months ago: Never forget how it started. 7572723495
Reposted by kat (she/they)Micah @rincewind.run · 22/08/2026this attitude is, imo, one of the biggest keys to a happy life no matter who you are, there are going to be people in your life who are more successful than you at things you care deeply about, and sometimes that’s skill and sometimes it’s luck, but if you resent them for it you’ll be miserable 181638257
Reposted by kat (she/they)kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The Texas Lt. Governor Threatens Public School Librarians and Educators: “We’re Coming for the Books." He claims the state has a list of 2,200 books every public school needs to remove or face consequences. That list is one by conservative "activist" Bonnie Wallace. bookriot.com/dan-patrick-...bookriot.comTexas Lt. Governor Threatens Public School Librarians and Educators: "We're Coming for the Books"Texas's Lieutenant Governor threatens public school librarians and educators over books in their schools. 28577
Reposted by kat (she/they)Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026A massive crisis is developing in the west over dwindling water. You are going to hear a lot of bullshit. Just remember this: The solution is to stop growing animal feed & vegetables in the desert. That’s it. That’s all we have to do. Just grow stuff that needs water where it rains on the regular. 13695197
Reposted by kat (she/they)David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17/08/2026 “I realized I’m in the middle of a pedophile operation that has been run out of the N.I.H. by a Nobel laureate for thirty years.” Aviv has made a lot of choices in how she frames this story, and I'm not criticizing it (I am thinking about it), but burying this in the middle is one. 141051247
Reposted by kat (she/they)Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 18/08/2026*resignedly puts on hard hat* 18517
Reposted by kat (she/they)Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I work hard to incorporate Tribal policy into my general public policy classes because too often the field forgets that Tribal Nations exist. Using this and the Miccosukee this semester as useful cases. 2435145
Reposted by kat (she/they)Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026A site created by his former students 7736324
Reposted by kat (she/they)The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around. 7350462753
Reposted by kat (she/they)Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Just got back from a trip to Alaska, where I purchased possibly my favorite souvenir of all time: the Bottercelli 311238198
Reposted by kat (she/they)Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 06/08/2026When trans people told you what the likes of Stock were doing wouldn't just stop at them, this is what they meant. 11387149
Reposted by kat (she/they)Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 11/08/2026People: Eat all natural, all this artificial crap is what's killing you. Also people: What the fuck, every week it's a new foodborne illness!! Friends, comrades? Those foodborne illnesses? Are the most natural state food comes in. Half the artificial shit we do to food was initially to avoid them. 30792156
Reposted by kat (she/they)Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Massachusettes "Millionaires Tax", which was targeted to fund transportation and education, has been a resounding success. It has funded FREE school lunch for ALL students, FREE buses in lowest income communities (people can get to work, etc.), and FREE community college. And "exodus" was minimal.boston.comMillionaires tax surges past expectations, once againThe voter-approved surtax has sailed past its $2 billion estimate for another year in a row. 192421808
Reposted by kat (she/they)Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Oh, you’re led by Ragnar the Blood King who has conquered half of Temecula? Cool: we have warm showers and flush toilets. 1476919
Reposted by kat (she/they)Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 04/08/2026"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks! 98145503384
Reposted by kat (she/they)Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting. 325415891
Reposted by kat (she/they)Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 29/07/2026keep thinking about the evil of this. It's not just destroying the physical books, bad as that is. They are trying to remove the underpinnings of knowledge, destroy all the accumulated wisdom - and silliness, and creativity, and whatever else humans have thought worthy of writing down. 18819389
Reposted by kat (she/they)Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I’m wheezing smittenkitchen.com/2026/07/spag... 112924458
Reposted by kat (she/they)Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 28/07/2026Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/... 181399352
Reposted by kat (she/they)Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 28/07/2026The thing you can do to counter this is to play a Disney or Taylor Swift song very loudly so that when the “evangelist” posts the video they be hit with a takedown order 42830206
Reposted by kat (she/they)Tom Bloom @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025inventign more evil women 191310318
Reposted by kat (she/they)gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 28/07/2026hell yeah willie www.chron.com/culture/musi...chron.comTexas data center boom gets a new foe: Willie Nelson"The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center near our town." 111417366
Reposted by kat (she/they)Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 24/07/2026The death penalty remains an unbelievable moral stain on America. But that’s not my main takeaway from this piece. My main takeaway from virtually every piece about someone who’s terribly harmed others is that society should be throwing every possible resource at children.theguardian.comThe children who loved a killerThe Carr family took in Steven Judy, hoping to ‘save’ a troubled teen. They didn’t know he would become one of the most hated men in America 14801147
Reposted by kat (she/they)Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...climatecoloredgoggles.comResearchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health. 16175182809
Reposted by kat (she/they)John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/07/2026Happy to report the milkweed we planted is doing its job 1648733652
Reposted by kat (she/they)spooky lilli @toomanymouths.bsky.social · 25/07/2026it’s either warp or get wefted on this bitch of an earth 18518
Reposted by kat (she/they)Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/07/2026At first I thought, “oh, come on, lots of people read some trash novel as a kid and remember it fondly.” But holy moly! turns out How Green Was My Valley—as in the Maureen O’Hara movie is nearly Turner Diaries level fascist. 414234
Reposted by kat (she/they)Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...cnbc.comFinland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand batteryA small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency. 9161932234
Reposted by kat (she/they)SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 24/07/2026YOU WILL BELIEVE A DOG CAN READ YOUR MIND 853676888
Reposted by kat (she/they)Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions 50105782736
Reposted by kat (she/they)Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Graphic novels turn kids into lifelong readers. They challenge readers, transform reluctant readers into readers, they bring joy. They boost vocabulary, increase reading comprehension for brains that take in information differently. They tell a story. Graphic novels are real reading, real books ✨📚😊 521612344
Reposted by kat (she/they)Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/07/2026My room temp and correct take on tipping is that if you make a comfortable living you tip servers always and you tip them well because who the fuck do you think you are 176151225
Reposted by kat (she/they)sverige tiff :) 🇸🇪 @integrandma.bsky.social · 20/07/2026dentist said no he can't "use the little scrapers to clean the rest of my bones too" :\ 213927
