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Marina Melanidis, MSc

@marinamelanidis.bsky.social
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PhD student at University of Cambridge, studying conservation philanthropy, power, & justice 💰 youth4nature.org founder @globalwitness.org board 🌿 horror movies, roller derby, & climate justice 🛼 she/her | ace 💜

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The people of Iran pose no threat to the United States — this has always been an oil war at the behest of the 1%. Now, Trump is threatening genocide over it. Where is the leadership from Carney to denounce this illegal war? Where is the pressure from provincial leaders?
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A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍 A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.
Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region.  In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /
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StarBITE 🧛‍♂️🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart
a digital illustration in the style of a relief print depicting a black cat in a defensive pose holding a torn and tattered transgender pride flag in its mouth as it looks directly towards the viewer. the background is purple with some specks of blue and pink showing through, and behind the cat is a black midground resembling grass or flames. the top right corner features a box with a caption reading "T.D.O.V."
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Marina Melanidis, MSc @marinamelanidis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Is this feeling … hope ???
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/03/2026
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry
Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
There is a version of this world that could exist where, at any given time, the majority of humans beings are just chillin’ and eating fruit.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/02/2026
Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.
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Marina Melanidis, MSc @marinamelanidis.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I regret to inform you that, actually sitting down and finally doing the work does in fact reduce stress levels from weeks of procrastination. I'm as disappointed as you are.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Indeed he is, as I reported on last year for @desmog.com. www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
For The Ringer, I wrote about how amazing it was that the brilliant Catherine O'Hara finally became a superstar in her 60s, and how sad it is that she was taken from us just when we had all finally begun to appreciate her:
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Catherine O’Hara Could Do Anything
And she pretty much did everything. The only tragedy is that it feels like she was just beginning to get the recognition her decades-long career always deserved.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A Canadian-made armoured vehicle was spotted on Minneapolis streets the day ICE murdered Alex Pretti. The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel. What’s more: Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Marina Melanidis, MSc @marinamelanidis.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Greenland is one of the most incredible places I’ve had the privilege of visiting. Greenlanders and Greenlanders only have the right to determine its future. We are all obligated to resist colonial imperialism and fascism, however we can, from Greenland to Venezuela to Palestine to the world.
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
hey I like that we're all posting thru it but I also wanted to say, in case anybody else is feeling it, that I'm pretty scared and genuinely think that we've passed a real rubicon in the past week or so and that being at the mercy of a handful of dumbfuck lunatics really does a number on your soul.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/01/2026
i wish mark carney would speak like this when he’s challenged about the latest aggressive action from the US instead of just in big speeches in front of international audiences
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
mark carney gave a speech at davos about the end of "american hegemony" and disengaging from the "useful fiction" that "no longer works" at davos? .... davos???????????????????????
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 20/01/2026
I'm so tired of working through the apocalypse.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
What I love about the X-Files is that, while the main characters are FBI Agents, they are repeatedly shown to be very much against the US government - and in many cases actively vocal about how it is harmful. Scully, as I hit season 4, has a great arc of becoming more disillusioned with the system.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 03/01/2026
Abysmal statement from Canada on the illegal US action in Venezuela. It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.
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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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Marina Melanidis, MSc @marinamelanidis.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I've been slowly reading @naomiaklein.bsky.social's latest essay during coffee breaks. Finished it today, and almost burst into tears. I found it beautiful and hopeful, despite the horrors it touches on and questions. I recommend it. www.equator.org/articles/sur...
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Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
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Adrienne Tanner @adriennetanner.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
There are still people cutting Carney all kinds of slack on the climate front. But I now think I was naïve to believe Carney would support Trudeau-style, regulatory climate policy. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/o...
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Mark Carney is making a cynic out of me
What to do in a political ecosystem where, for anyone concerned about climate change or whose politics run even slightly left of centre, there is precious little choice?
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Neal Agarwal @neal.fun · 10/12/2025
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/
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кадмій @kadmii.at · 09/12/2025
The Onion headline: "Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI" with stock image of a guy.
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Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
PM Mark Carney and premier Danielle Smith may never get a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific, but they're working to link Canada's energy future to fossil fuel production I spoke with @sethdklein.bsky.social about the climate carnage breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...
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Mark Carney’s pact with Danielle Smith is climate carnage ⋆ The Breach
Author and analyst Seth Klein joins Desmond Cole to break down how Carney and Smith have fulfilled Big Oil’s entire wish list
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
For the hundreds of young activists and their allies who have pressed hard for the idea of a Youth Climate Corps, the YCC’s inclusion in this week’s fed budget should be seen as a win, but not overstated. Here’s our take in today’s @nationalobserver.com: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/o...
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Youth Climate Corps breaks into federal Budget 2025
For the hundreds of young activists and their allies (including many supportive members of Parliament) who have pressed hard for this idea, this news comes as a welcome relief and should be seen as a ...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...
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Climate Gates
Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything
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Marina Melanidis, MSc @marinamelanidis.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
One of the reasons I decided to do a PhD was to improve my ability to focus on complex topics for long periods of time. My brain was melting out of my ears from years of COVID and social media, and I desperately wanted to THINK again. So seeing AI everywhere is making me feel crazy.
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Marina Melanidis, MSc @marinamelanidis.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
📢 Hey hey youth climate leaders!! The Enlight Foundation, the Patchwork Collective, and Lever for Change have just launched the Emerging Climate Champions Award, a $25 million global open call for youth-led climate solutions 🌱 Check it out and APPLY 💸: climate.leverforchange.org
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Emerging Climate Champions Award Submission Manager
About the Award The Emerging Climate Champions Award is a $25 million global Open Call sponsored by the Enlight Foundation and The Patchwork Collective that will provide flexible, multiyear gifts of $...
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Trump bombing Iran without congressional approval was illegal and against international law, and this is what Carney has to say about it? Absolute pandering bullshit. Just embarrassing stuff.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.
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Canadian Climate Institute @climateinstitute.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Wildfires are having devastating impacts on communities across Canada. But there’s another layer to the story: emissions from the blazes are also major contributors to climate change.⬇️ 440megatonnes.ca/insight/how-...
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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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Climate Justice Alliance @cjaourpower.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Philanthropy can’t claim climate justice while investing in climate destruction. Too many funders are still backing extractive industries with their endowments — even as they claim #ClimateJustice values. Download Part One: bit.ly/4JustReturns #JustReturns #MoveTheMoney
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 11/06/2025
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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