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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026
I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings
The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scamThe cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 06/10/2026
What do looksmaxxers, celebrities and Amish farmers have in common? They’re all after colostrum.
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026
Every AI CEO sounds like this.
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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Plant-rich diets are the food system's electrification. Petrol cars only see 18-25% of their fuel energy get to the wheels; EVs 87-91%. Heat pumps are 2 or 3 times more efficient. Food has its own combustion engine: a chicken turns about 13% of its feed calories into food, worse than a petrol car.
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Alastair Harper @alastairharper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thomas Edison in 1910. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves on this net zero business, lads
Someday some fellow will invent a way of concentrating and storing sunshine to use instead of this old, absurd Prometheus scheme of fire.
I'll do the trick myself if someone doesn't get at it....
This scheme of combustion in order to get power makes me sick to think of—it is so wasteful.... We should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh no; we burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel.
We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property. There must surely come a time when heat and power will be stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces. Electricity ought to be as cheap as oxygen, for it cannot be destroyed.
Now, I am not sure but that my new storage battery is the thing. 167
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 22/09/2026
In Iowa, there are more concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) than grocery stores. Yet for most of the public, the location of nearby CAFOs and the amount of manure they may be producing is inaccessible. Until now.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 18/09/2026
Big news! 🚨 @ninaelkadi.com’s Sentient feature, “In the Arizona Desert, Where Your Neighbor Is an Alfalfa Farm,” is the recipient of the Food and Agriculture Multimedia Journalism Award from @coveringclimatenow.org.
A man stands in the Arizona desert. Text reads:
2026 CCNow Journalism Awards
In the Arizona Desert, Where Your Neighbor Is an Alfalfa Farm
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 15/09/2026
AI is coming to factory farms. Will the animals benefit, or just the industry?
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Average US household has spent $763 extra on fuel in six months, due to the US-Israel war on Iran - so, unearned war profits from your pocket to the big polluters like ExxonMobil and Chevron 1/2 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
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How US consumers spent an additional $100bn on fuel due to war on Iran
The average US household has spent $763 extra on fuel in six months, as the US-Israel war on Iran pushes up fuel costs.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 01/09/2026
Iron, zinc, healthy fats, no feed required. Oysters and mussels are quietly the most efficient protein in the ocean.
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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
it's pretty unnerving seeing in real-time everything you see in the geologic record from ancient episodes of rapid warming, from jökulhlaups and flood deposits to carbon cycle feedbacks from wildfires and permafrost, to polar amplification of warming, to ocean deoxygenation...
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 25/08/2026
A blood-sucking critter causing human hosts to become allergic to their favorite foods? This isn’t the plot to a sci-fi movie. It’s alpha-gal syndrome.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
HG Wells is alleged to have remarked "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”. You could see this shocking chart as an index of civilisation. A country which gets this issue so badly wrong is likely to fail in many other ways.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 18/08/2026
Is your local meat market genuinely local? If it’s anything like Wild Fork Foods, it could be owned by the largest meatpacker in the world.
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Bastard
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 06/08/2026
A Sentient analysis reveals that at least 40% of USDA food safety warnings over the past decade are linked to ready-to-eat meats, such as deli meats, hot dogs and pâté. buff.ly/BhZXFh3
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Ready to Recall: These Meats Are Behind 40% of USDA Food Warnings
A Sentient analysis reveals that at least 40% of USDA food safety warnings over the past decade are linked to ready-to-eat meats, such as deli meats, hot dogs and pâté.
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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
One third of global farmland is doing two-thirds of the damage, to the climate and wildlife. Regions causing both harm largely overlap. Cattle alone drive 29% of the farm carbon cost and 41% of the biodiversity cost. New paper today in @nature.com food-led by Baoxiao Liu doi.org/10.1038/s430...
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High-resolution carbon and biodiversity mapping shows correlated losses across space and agricultural products - Nature Food
Food systems substantially impact carbon storage and biodiversity, with food consumption driving four-fifths of losses on agricultural land, particularly through animal-sourced foods. Targeted interve...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@privateeyenews.bsky.social this week reveals the shocking ignorance of two BBC Countryfile presenters - one of whom, Adam Henson, is a livestock farmer - about the treatment of farm animals. I see such lapses as *professional ignorance*: there are things that are safer not to know.
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
reuters: 

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Almost the definitive example of overclaiming: sentientmedia.org/another-fail...
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Another Failed Attempt to Greenwash Beef
Follow along as climate researchers debunk another industry-backed study bragging about the perceived benefits of regenerative agriculture.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I have been saying for a while that we are going backwards Here is the latest grim evidence app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/c374dd...
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⚠️ The Fossil Lobby Is Winning: 45 Climate Policy Reversals in One Year
Last week I wrote on LinkedIn: I have been following climate politics for a long time. I do not think I have ever felt this upset. As the climate crisis accelerates, our leaders are not accelerating c...
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 14/07/2026
California is the only state with robust regulations for zoonotic diseases, like bird flu. Yet farmworker advocates say many of the state’s dairy employers fail to provide the required safeguards to protect workers.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 07/07/2026
A coalition of organic farmers is suing the federal government, alleging that the milk-pricing system in place since the 1930s unfairly advantages industrial dairy producers.
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
In 1961, 2 chickens were killed per person globally/yr Now, 9 are killed per person/yr. More than 4x Yeah it's more efficient than beef but still wastes ~90% of feed calories, drives dead zones, pandemic risks & ethical issues It's wild to see some say it's a GHG win & don't mention huge tradeoff
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Young Red-tailed Hawks just out of the nest - like this one - have light blue eyes. They will turn yellow during his/her first year, and then to dark brown the following year.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 30/06/2026
Plenty of people care about reducing their climate impact, but how much of a difference are they really making?
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 23/06/2026
We could grow enough crops to feed the world, but instead many people go hungry. What are we doing wrong?
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Zach Boren @zdboren.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A first exclusive for my new venture GRILLED the EU is looking to change how it measures livestock emissions the meat industry has been pushing for metrics that say livestock farms cause 'no additional warming' even as they continue to emit methane grilledmedia.substack.com/p/leak-eu-lo...
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Leak: EU looks to change how livestock climate emissions are measured
The draft Sustainable Livestock Strategy also calls for 'flexibilities' on water pollution rules
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I was asked several times to review Jeffrey Epstein-friend-and-defender Lawrence Krauss' compendium of reality-divorced personal grievance essays, but declined. Fortunately @sarahjones.bsky.social nailed it. nymag.com/intelligence...
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How the New Atheists Joined the MAHA War on Science
A new anthology showcases the intellectual failures of a diminishing brand.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 16/06/2026
At the JBS Swift & Co slaughterhouse in Louisville, Kentucky, 10,000 pigs are slaughtered and processed every day. Now, a former employee has taken to social media to expose the working conditions at the pork plant.
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 09/06/2026
Bird populations have been on the decline for decades. Are factory farms part of the problem?
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 27/05/2026
What happens at Embryos on Snow and other genetics sales is a stark contrast to how meat and dairy are marketed today. @jesslsr.bsky.social reports: buff.ly/g5dcuGw
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Inside the High-Tech World of Cattle Embryos on Snow
The genetics sales event, where embryos are sold for $200K, is a stark contrast to the ‘natural’ image the meat and dairy industry wants consumers to believe.
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Niall Stanage @niallstanage.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
me: changes the light fixtures in my house to energy efficient LED lightbulbs Jeff Bezos:
The Blue Origin rocket explosion this week
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 28/05/2026
Billionaires pay about half as much in taxes as everyone else. Why? Better lobbyists. But history shows we can win this fight. Same arguments were made against income tax, democracy still prevailed. It can again. Excited to team up with @gabrielzucman.bsky.social to make sure it does.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 26/05/2026
Have you heard of the gelatin trick? Like collagen and tallow, it’s the latest “natural” wellness craze, but the ingredient’s origins are from wholesome.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 21/05/2026
A former employee at a JBS Swift pork plant describes the conditions as “basically navigating in guts.” Sentient's Jessica Scott-Reid discusses the grim reality of slaughterhouse labor with Louisville Public Media.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 19/05/2026
When a former employee went public on Instagram, it pulled back the curtain on one of Louisville's largest pork plants. In this segment of "Digging In," Sentient's @jesslsr.bsky.social joins @lpm.org to break down the allegations against the JBS Swift facility.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026
this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Half of tropical forests have been lost, mostly for beef, driving biodiversity loss. If allowed to naturally regenerate, >90% of abundance & diversity returns & ~75% similarity to old-growth forest within 30yrs. Invasive pasture grasses prevented faster recovery. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Figure 2 roughly shows how long different groups of animals, plants, and soil communities took to recover toward old-growth forest conditions after abandonment of cacao or cattle pasture, measured using species composition, diversity, and abundance. Recovery was generally faster after cacao than pasture, while some groups like soil bacteria and leaf-litter arthropods recovered extremely slowly.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 12/05/2026
California is missing 10 million tons of manure. Where did it all go?
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 05/05/2026
Wegovy and Ozempic users aren’t just losing weight. They’re also losing their appetite for meat.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A Blue Jay showing those beautiful blues while flying across the nature trail.
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Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This was one of the hardest stories to write. When people fail to spay/neuter, or buy a dog instead of adopting, the animals pay the price — and so do shelter workers and animal control officers. Performing euthanasia, responding to cruelty cases, & more, is a huge burden.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 28/04/2026
We know cows can give humans tuberculosis, but what if the reverse happens? Researchers warn this could become a public health concern if the disease cycles back to humans.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 23/04/2026
Animal blood flows across the floor of a JBS Swift slaughterhouse due to malfunctioning equipment. The discharge of animal waste and wastewater from meat processing facilities is typically regulated under federal and local laws, including limits on discharge into public sewer systems.
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