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Les U Knight

@lesuknight.bsky.social
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Volunteer in the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Promoting global reproductive freedom and responsibility. SRHR May we live long and die out.

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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's possible the Great Wall of China was as much to keep peasants from running away as to keep invaders out. Parts of the wall have parapets facing both inward and outward.
Great Wall of China section with parapets on both sides.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We can reduce our impacts by not co-creating more of us than we already have.
Chart with proportional circles showing relative CO2e emissions avoided by different personal choices.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Maybe this will help.
Chart with four questions to help decide whether to procreate or not.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Reposting this since it fits so well.
Musk says empathy is a weakness, while Arendt says the lack of it is an early sign of barbarism.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Horrific development. #carsruincities
Empty intersection just seconds before a crash that injured nine people, two with life-threatening injuries. Horrific infrastructure development.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
circle chart of politically motivated murders in US 1975 to present. Deaths from nine eleven attacks excluded.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Our species went into overshoot of Earth's carrying capacity in 1971.
Bar chart of Earth overshoot day from 1971 to 2025.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The other side showed what I'm for.
Three arrows pointing up with Freedom, Equality, and Fun written on them.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Portland, Oregon's No Kings rally is estimated to have been 40,000. There were also neighborhood rallies all over town. My sign had two sides: one was an updated Iron Front showing what I'm against.
Iron Front three arrows pointed down, opposing fascism, racism, and patriarchy.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A study from 2017 shows relative CO2-e avoided by various choices.
Chart with various sized circles corresponding with amount of CO2equivalent emissions avoided by making different choices.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Other sources have preserved the data.
Bar chart showing violence in the US, which resulted in convictions, from left, right, Islamic, and other.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
From the article: "Given the increasing importance of densification to the field of urban planning, particularly in the face of climate change..." Population growth, not climate change. As our human family grows, we either squeeze together or spread out. Spreading out is bad for wildlife habitat.
Hong Kong apartment buildings.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
What's going on with these old white dudes? Any ideas?
photo of eight old white men in suits staring at the floor.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
It seems to me, evil requires intent to harm. A lack of empathy is the hallmark of an evil person. I don't think Homo sapiens is naturally evil, but we can participate in evil actions. We've been killing each other since before we evolved organized warfare and there's no indication we'll ever stop.
c. 5,000 BCE pictograph of two groups of humans in battle with bows and arrows and projectiles. Found at Sefar in Algeria.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
These nations have issued travel advisories for the USA:
List of nations that have issued travel advisories for the USA as of May 2025
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
From the article: “Oklahoma has historically ranked highly among states for its standards.”
OK compared with MA for education, health care, poverty.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Rodney, knight of the Wizard of Id comic strip, visits fortune teller who sees a time in the future when peace reigns. "I bet the people are happy." "I don't see any people."
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Oregon's seven electoral votes went to Harris, but there were plenty of people here supporting Felon47. Harris 56% to 41% him doesn't make us deep blue. Popular vote would make this process a little more fair. Sometimes a state really is all in.
Comparison of OK and MA in 2020 presidential election.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The Tulsa Massacre will no doubt be in their curriculum.
Comparison of Oklahoma and Massachusetts voting in 2024 and education, healthcare, poverty, quality of life.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We can't trust any data from the federal government any more, so I wondered about this chart from the US Census Bureau. Where can we go to check their figures? 1/2
United States population increase in a bar graph, showing net migration and natural increase.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Besides rewarding pay, factory work lets you meet new friends.
Hundreds of factory workers in China dressed in the same pink uniform.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
It's catching on, but not as fast as consumption. There were three billion of us in 1960. There are now 8.1 billion of us. Meat consumption has increased about seven fold as our population less than tripled.
Global meat consumption 1960-2022
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I'm so sorry: It was Karoline Leavitt not Pam Bondi. In my defense, it's hard to tell them apart.
Screen shot of Karoline Leavitt being told by a reporter how tariffs work.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
You might be right. I just adapted the chart from a Guardian chart they based on a 2017 study by Wynes and Nicholas. They didn't have a side bar and referred to procreation as having a baby.
Bar chart showing relative impact on climate crisis of personal choices.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Worth saving but not worth perpetuating. A plant-based diet avoids a lot of CO2e emissions, among other benefits. Not co-creating another of us avoids even greater amounts, but people resist talking about that even more. Population Balance @popnbalance.bsky.social promotes both methods.
Circle chart showing relative personal actions to avoid CO2e emissions.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is all true. Just a slight correction: that guardian image fails to include that it's biomass not numbers.
Bar graph showing relative biomass of mammals over time. Humans and our food animals represent 98%.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I was going to mention that. It looked the same, but it was supposed to be done in a more reverent and reserved motion. Hand on heart until the end of the pledge, and then to the flag and down to one's side. Yeah, no wonder it was discontinued.
Public school students ending the pledge of allegiance with an outstretched hand to the flag. Dated around early 1940s.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
More than half of the gulf in question belongs to Mexico. Felon47 can call the US half "Gulf of America" while the rest stays accurate. The real gulf of America is the gulf between the rich and the poor.
Marine boundary crossing Gulf of Mexico
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
There's a difference is states, so it's good to target the worst.
Oklahoma and Massachusetts compared by livability rankings
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Our overshoot chart proves your point. Humans dying in 2020 didn't reduce our impact as much as reduced economic activity did.
Bar graph shows day of year humans have used the year's worth of resources Earth produces.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
And now we have the Country Overshoot days 2025.
Country overshoot days 2025
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
You're right that capitalism causes distribution problems, but humans aren't the only species in the biosphere: more of us means less wildlife.
Proportions of mammalian biomass on Earth.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
No nation is within its carrying capacity. This chart shows what day each goes into overshoot.
Chart showing what day each nation goes into overshoot in 2024.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The Global Footprint Network estimates overshoot started in 1971.
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Les U Knight @lesuknight.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
We may not be able to slow, stop, and reverse population growth in time to prevent more disasters such as extinctions, but not co-creating another of us reduces our carbon footprint more than any other action we might choose to take.
Circles representing relative amounts of CO2e avoided by various personal actions.
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