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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 13h
I don't think people appreciate how much the coming year is going to suck
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 13h
You can’t electrify a cow 👇
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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Did everyone see the climate voting records of the City Councilors who are up for re-election? Morillo - 96.6% Green - 95.8% Koyama Lane = 92.0% Clark - 55.0% Zimmerman - 50.0% Novick - 43.5% Thank you to @350pdx.bsky.social for quantifying this. 350pdx.org/wp-content/u...
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lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social @lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social · 11h
Gerontocratic oligarchy.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 13h
‘At roughly 49%, AI’s share of the S&P 500's combined market capitalization exceeds the peak concentration of every episode shown except the nineteenth-century railroad boom.’ biancoresearch.substack.com/p/the-s-and-...
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Ben Glasner @benglasner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It remains shocking to me that we have seen a full scale reversal of the post-COVID trend in wage growth. Since March 2025, real wages are down across the distribution. Only the 25th is up (+1%). let’s look at how odd this is in the context of the last 40+ years. @innovateeconomy.bsky.social
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What is the impact of the Ukraine war on US gasoline and diesel prices? None.
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lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social @lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Anti-intellectualism is not the absence of interest in ideas. It is the active hostility toward ideas and toward the people who carry them...'Do your own research' is not a research methodology. It is a declaration of independence from the people who make them feel small."
lucasbean.substack.com
Why Conservative Men Can’t Spell
In 1963, historian Richard Hofstadter sat in his office at Columbia University and wrote a sentence that described MAGA sixty years before MAGA existed.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six months ago:
theonion.com
DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The money pit restaurant I would open as a billionaire would be the opposite of farm to table. What are the most unnatural flavors possible? Hiring top food scientists, giving a blank check and telling them to really explore the dark corners of the flavor latent space. I want to taste eternity.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Quoted in the Guardian today on the technical hopium that, in my experience, has become widespread among many, usually senior, climate experts. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action
‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RBADVISERS: “.. Equity markets haven’t yet caught on but the debt markets are sniffing problems with AI debt expansion. Technology CDS spreads are significantly widening vs defensive sectors.”
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Gang rape, which I do not support, and snorting ketamine off the bodies of naked incapacitated teenagers, which I also do not support, is very mild compared to what the M$DNC shitlibs did to Donald Trump, who I also do not support. by Glen Greenwald
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lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social @lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No one does Andreas Malm-style decarbonization better than Ukraine.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site
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lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social @lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“.. The only major economy that has seen its 10-year bond yield rise more than the U.S. this year is France, where Ed Yardeni says the government there ‘may be on the verge of a full-blown debt crisis.’” 🇫🇷 @kopack.bsky.social
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump will always be remember as the green president, no one has done more to promote the transition to clean energy
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 05/10/2026
Nice post by @zekehausfather.com on The Climate Brink. He analyzes the claim that renewables are all energy additions but are not actually eating into fossil fuels. The world without solar and wind? www.theclimatebrink.com/p/what-if-th...
theclimatebrink.com
What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?
Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.
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lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social @lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rent-control is always *BAD* if you create a strawperson that relies on a type of rent control that absolutely no one proposes. The (all) economists oppose rent control argument is kissing cousin of this strawperson.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social @lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I suspect climate deaths will be treated like traffic violence: stuff that just happens ("accidents" that could not possibly be prevented) in our wondrous and free capitalist societies.
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thoughtsnprayers.bsky.social @thoughtsnprayers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The US is about to find out what it's like to refinance a 3% mortgage…
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lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social @lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Government regulators: if we ignore climate risks they won't happen. Utter madness.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When climate scientists say things are going to be horrendous, people find out many years later that we’re right. With this El Niño, the “find out” part will come in months.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That’s why protecting access to mifepristone and medication abortion matters. These medications are an essential part of medical care, including during miscarriage. No woman should have to navigate an experience like this without the care and choices she needs.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well.
theguardian.com
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Temperatures in the Central Pacific El Niño region are the hottest ever measured (top panel), and far above any other El Niño at this time of year. But, if you adjust for the warming of the global ocean, the current trajectory is not so different from other very strong events.
Two panel plot showing daily time series of temperature anomalies in the Central Pacific Nino3.4 region during the last four strongest El Niño events without and with correction for changes in global ocean mean temperature.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RBADVISERS: “.. For those who don’t think the world is changing, LT Treasury returns are now negative for the 1st time in 40+ years.”
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lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social @lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The USA has always been a complete disgrace of a nation. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Man released on bail after 41 years on death row in Utah
New DNA analysis did not match Douglas Stewart Carter, now 71, who was convicted of killing a woman but always maintained his innocence.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 27/07/2026
🔥🔥🔥Newspaper frontpages🔥🔥🔥
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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In an attempt to cover up AI’s outsized environmental impact and justify the ongoing use of fossil fuels, Big Tech and Big Oil are making the case for Carbon Capture and Storage. CCS is an expensive failure. We must see through this self-serving greenwash… www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/09/25/d...
foodandwaterwatch.org
Data Centers and Carbon Capture: A Dangerous Alliance
Carbon capture and storage is an expensive failure. So why is Big Tech teaming up with Big Oil to add it to data center projects?
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“There is a certain threshold when there is no more stopping the total breakdown of the AMOC.” PIK’s @rahmstorf.bsky.social explains how global warming could weaken the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation AMOC by adding more freshwater to the North Atlantic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNOS...
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Contrarian induced cognitive impairment
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
it also weakens you. look at all the rightwingers who danced too close to the flame bc they believed the cultural revolution sold to them on x was real pretending to be stupid becomes genuine stupid very fast ime
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lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social @lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No one does decarbonization better than Ukraine.
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lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social @lurkinglurkerpdx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Chinese century (weak endorse).
ft.com
The next generation of American scientists is fading away
While the Trump administration racks up ‘wins’ in its anti-woke crusade, the US is eroding its talent pipeline
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
lemonde.fr
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 23/09/2026
I've updated my map of El Niño impacts this year to incorporate 13 dynamical models (NMME and C3S, Sept runs); the initial version was simply based on an assessment of the impacts literature for past very strong events. This also let me refine the impacted areas using the model fields:
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New oil and gas projects are incompatible with the Paris Agreement. End of story. "governments plan to produce about more than double (120%) the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, and 77% more than would be consistent with 2°C"
productiongap.org
2025 Press - Production Gap
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🆕7 of 9 Planetary Boundaries are now transgressed; all 7 at their highest recorded levels: Planetary Health Check 2026 finds Earth’s interconnected life-support systems under increasing strain. Report👉️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late... Video👉️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnpE...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"The central problem is not the pace at which renewables are being added, but the social & economic system that determines trajectories of global energy use. A real transition can only happen through the rapid & permanent reduction in the absolute consumption of coal, oil & gas..." #ClimateCrisis
versobooks.com
Renewables, ‘Electrostates’, and other Myths of the Green Transition
The start of this month marked the publication of the 75th edition of the Energy Institute’s 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, the flagship publicly available dataset on global energy productio...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"The Integrated Assessment Models informing policy-makers assume the large-scale use of negative-emission technologies. If we rely on these and they are not deployed or are unsuccessful at removing CO2 from the atmosphere at the levels assumed, society will be locked into a high-temperature pathway"
science.org
The trouble with negative emissions
Reliance on negative-emission concepts locks in humankind's carbon addiction
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A nightmare indeed. History shows that when transmit agencies slash service, riders leave—often for good. So many other US cities face similar catastrophes: Cleveland, Portland, Providence, Milwaukee…
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.
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