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Shaun Sellers

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Ecological Economics. Rural. Futures worth fighting for. LandBack. Forests. Dogs. Art.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/09/2026
"We didn’t so much lie to you as tell you stories that were untrue. We hoped the stories would add magic to your childhood and reassure you that capitalism is a fair system for everyone, instead of one in which some people can’t afford insulin while other people are Jeff Bezos." buff.ly/KM3opmg
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Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
The agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone.
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The EPA would rather monitor abortion pills in water than pollution
The agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.
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The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business
Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Deb Jeffrey @debjeffrey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The effect of his poetry & writing ranges from bringing a sense of finding comfort as in'The Peace of Wild Things to agonizing self-examination caused by his poem 'Questionnaire'.
Poem 'Questionnaire' by Wendell BerryPoem 'The Peace of Wild Things' by Wendell Berry
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026
Today's @xkcd.com
It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Please zoom in to see the details: These artworks are created with grains and seeds, and the artists mean it.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It's remarkable that you have not just incredibly stupid people like this. But whole movements based on this stupidity. Having your currency as a global reserve currency means that the whole global economy is structured to your advantage and most hard constraints that everyone faces you don't.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.
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Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.
Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"My daughter is five now. The extreme conditions into which she was born are no longer exceptional events. They are becoming part of the world in which her generation will grow up. Canadians deserve to understand why. Our public broadcaster has a responsibility to help us do that." #cdnpoli
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"At points during the study period, more than 100 million people were under heat alerts. But not one segment connected the nearly back-to-back extreme heat events to #climate change, including segments that described the conditions as historic, exceptional, or record-breaking" 🤯 #EndClimateSilence
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What we should grasp is that this is what Trump is *for*. It's why fossil fuel companies and the ultra-rich backed him. The kleptocracy, the cruelty, the culture wars, all these, while real & grim enough, distract us from seeing the true purpose of his presidency. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases
Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It's time we stopped calling them "moderates". They are extremists in service to capital. And many of them appear to hate and fear the left of their own party far more than they hate and fear the Republicans. Like Starmer's Labour "centrists" (extremists) in the UK. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
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Moderate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant Left
One moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism.
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God @thegodshow.com · 20/07/2026
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Jan6 traitors got light sentences & pardons.... for sacking the Capitol Building and beating cops! The Prairieland protestors got 30-50 years for protesting ICE, making zines, and being in a bookclub. If these sentences stand, we are done as a republic. We're a gulag police state.
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Prairieland Defendant Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Moving a Box of Antifascist Zines
Anti-ICE activists received lengthy prison terms — including a 100-year sentence — in the first major trial of the NSPM-7 era.
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Yes it’s climate change, stop asking
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/06/2026
"Oh you care about water use from data centres and not golf courses???" Don't worry, we're on that too
Climate activists block golf course holes with seedlings and cement to protest water use
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Laura Paddison
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Seedlings planted by Extinction Rebellion climate activists on a golf course in Gorraiz, near Pamplona in a photograph released on July 2, 2023.
Seedlings planted by Extinction Rebellion climate activists on a golf course in Gorraiz, near Pamplona in a photograph released on July 2, 2023. Extinction Rebellion/Handout/AFP/Getty Images
Climate activists have targeted 10 golf courses around Spain, plugging up holes to protest the amount of water used to maintain these courses as the country is gripped by a severe drought.
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
❤️🤣
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Canadian Peace Museum @canadianpeacemuseum.ca · 21/06/2026
Photos from today’s Walk for Peace, an event organized by Friends of the Canadian Peace Museum. News on the event: www.mybancroftnow.com/73552/news/c...
A sign reading “Justice, equality, peace. Now”Peace clowns partying A crowd on stage above a banner “walking together for peace” 7 people with peace posters
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
For generations Indigenous Peoples have shared stories and knowledge that continue to shape this land. Today on Indigenous Peoples Day, we honour the resilience of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples and celebrate the cultures that continue to thrive across Turtle Island.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 10/06/2026
The lifestyles of the super-rich maybe have the most conspicuous contribution to the climate crisis – but new research shows that their investments cause even more damage than that The 0.01% richest (the 1% of the 1%) cause nearly $1 trillion in climate damage per year through their investments
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Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says
Greenpeace calculates that wealthiest contribute nearly $1tn of damage a year with ownership-based emissions
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LouiseMorris @louisemorris.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Some days i feel much less than 43% human More bacterial ecosystem
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mexie @mexie.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
PLN drops tody! Incl: -Pe'Sla Protector Camp saves Black Hills -Bolivian general strike -Community denies water to nuclear weapons datacenter -Solar panels sent to Cuban hospitals -Dominican protesters shut down Cdn mine -Judge blocks investigations into orgs supporting G-A care youtu.be/EPnANunWQ3g
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Pe'Sla Protector Camp STOPS Mining in Black Hills! Positive Leftist News Roundup, May 2026
YouTube video by PLN
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/06/2026
My climate philosophy
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 04/06/2026
"One big reason that consumer spending hasn’t tanked is that the richest, we’re-doing-just-fine 10% of Americans account for nearly half of all consumer spending," writes @greenhousenyt.bsky.social.
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Trump has made our K-shaped economy even worse | Steven Greenhouse
While wealthy Americans hail a booming stock market, the rest of us worry about rising inflation and people struggling to make ends meet
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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Photograph of Satrapi next to quote:

“The world is not divided into countries.
The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.
And our governments are very much the same...”

“Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist”
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Friends don't let friends outsource sense-making in a time of great change and high stakes to machines that are controlled by a sub-group who is trying to influence the direction of all that change.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Today, I wish to honour all survivors and intergenerational survivors of residential schools. Your truth needs to be honoured. I stand by you, and uplift you, today and every day,” says Gazan. Read my full Statement on the Fifth Anniversary of the Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc Announcement:
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MP Gazan Statement on the Fifth Anniversary of the Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc Announcement
MP for Winnipeg Centre
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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 22/05/2026
huge day in the Netherlands
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 18/05/2026
🚨🚨BREAKING: Texas community leaders are in Tokyo to file a first-of-a-kind series of coordinated complaints against the Japanese financial institutions that backed Freeport LNG, a dangerous, polluting liquified natural gas (LNG) project near their homes 🚨🚨
A man in a black jacket hands a copy of the complaints to a man in a suit jacket. He is surrounded by people holding signs that read, "Sayonara fossil fuels."
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 20/05/2026
From Shell and Palantir to JBS, Amazon’s cloud helps power oil pollution, surveillance tech and Amazon rainforest destruction. The Amazon cloud is making our future worse, not better. It’s time to regulate Big Tech. #TimeToResist #BigTech #Amazon #AWS #AWSSummit
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Greenpeace exposes Amazon Cloud’s toxic partnerships and demands an end to Big Tech’s impunity  - Greenpeace International
A new Greenpeace Germany study, Amazon’s Toxic Web Services, reveals that the world’s largest cloud provider acts as a critical technological backbone for climate chaos, human rights violations, or at...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
a historical Brazil W
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Lana Goldberg @lanagoldberg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Mississauga City Council voted unanimously to endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty 🎉 As I say here, it's an important step in the context of higher levels of government dismantling climate policies and sends a strong message to them to do their parts. thepointer.com/article/2026...
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Mississauga joins global Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation movement as Ford pushes legislation gutting green development
Mississauga joins global Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation movement as Ford pushes legislation gutting green development
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Focus @drustvofocus.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🟢 Announcing new speakers for this year's Summer School of Political Ecology! Seven experts will come together under this year's title, 'The Political Ecology of Self-sufficiency', to explore whether self-sufficiency is it a useful tool for fighting the dominant paradigm of globalization...
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Hannibal Lecter 🦋 @hannibal.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Señales del fascismo. Vídeo del periodista Fernando Miñana (En Murcia).
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Amsterdam is the world's first capital city to ban public advertisements for both meat and fossil fuel products. "Since 1 May, adverts for burgers, petrol cars and airlines have been stripped from billboards, tram shelters, and metro stations." www.aol.com/amsterdam-ba...
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Amsterdam bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels - AOL
Local politicians say the move is in line with the Dutch capital's environmental targets.
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Jeremy Farr @jeremyfarr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My colleagues and I did a study on the relationship between working hours and obesity in the OECD. The paper is out for review but our recommendation for a 4 day week being part of a suite of interventions is getting some press 🙂
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Experts call for UK four-day week as study links long work hours to obesity
Countries such as US and Mexico that have longer hours also have higher obesity rates, research finds
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/05/2026
Always love a chance to reshare this one bsky.app/profile/keta...
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 04/05/2026
LNG Tankers are a huge problem for the environment. Solutions For Our Climate (SFOC) is leading the charge to bring them into environmental assessments and stop the money flowing into this harmful aspect of industry. #SayNoToLNG
Background photo of an LNG tanker on the horizon. Quote reads "LNG carriers are dramatically impacting the shrimp and sea life that Southwest Louisiana fishermen and their families depend on for their livelihoods…When fishing communities lose their income, the whole community suffers." Quote attributed to James Hiatt, Director of For a Better Bayou. Arrow icon in top right corner. Background photo of an LNG terminal. Quote reads "LNG carriers carry higher rates of asthma, lung disease, cardiovascular disease, and cancer into the U.S. Gulf South. Our communities suffer from the destruction of local ecosystems and erasure of history and culture…” Quote attributed to Gwen Jones of Climate Conversation Brazoria and Gulf South Fossil Fuel Finance Hub Member.  Arrow icon in top right corner. Background photo of an LNG tanker. Quote reads "Korea builds nearly 80% of the world's LNG carriers, and its public financial institutions have channelled tens of billions of dollars into this sector - yet without ever assessing the environmental and human rights costs these vessels generate." Quote attributed to Rachel Eunbi Shin, Learn Energy Supply Chain & Shipbuilding for Solutions for Our Climate (SFOC). Arrow icon in top right corner.
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 04/05/2026
Read more at this report:
forourclimate.org
An Assessment of Environmental and Social Impacts of LNG Carriers
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 04/05/2026
Link to press release here:
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[Press Release] OECD Complaint Filed Against Korean Public Banks Over LNG Carrier Financing
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Banning private jet flights during a jet fuel shortage feels fair enough to me.
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aftertherevolution.bsky.social @aftertherevolution.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This seems to have the pieces of future struggle. AI as arms manufacturer, resource extractor and community resistance. In this day and age I imagine something a little more forceful than state/legal wrangling will force it open.
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IISD Energy @energy.iisd.org · 30/04/2026
What came out of the First Conference on Transitioning away from Fossil Fuels—& what comes next? As discussions close in Santa Marta, meetings delivered a pathway for actionable national roadmaps & int'l cooperation. Here are a few takeaways: 🧵1/7 📗 iisd.org/articles/ins...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This one is for Dana Bash (and for the great Jamie Raskin in a different way), because in the middle of a berserker rampage by the right, those of us on the liberal-to-left spectrum are supposed to stop it through seraphic politeness, according to the lost souls in the middle of the road.
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
No girl farmers allowed
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