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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 3h

much as cheap Chinese solar panels are an enabling technology for industrialization in Africa, cheap Chinese EVs could be an enabling technology for stabilizing American politics

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 8h

This was VERY satisfying. (Pluteus cervinus, deer shield mushroom)

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 10h

Trumpet lichen really do give the woods a miniscule “Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind” vibe

Trumpet lichens cover a dead log with moss and other little branching tentacle like lichens

An old stump encrusted with lichen and moss

An old stump with trumpet lichens twining up from its top and sides

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Some people suggested to me that this is all in the ISBN data. But it isn't! What I am looking for here is less being told that I should check out "Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation" and more that "The Colonization of the Amazon" includes a small two-page aside about a priest in chapter 4.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I find a lot of human wickedness somewhat comprehensible, but the tremendous vitriol and hatred that it seems most people have towards refugees is absolutely alien to me.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There is a mushroom foraging community here but it is much less popular than elsewhere in central Europe, I think -- really feels like one of those hobbies where there are elders who grew up doing it, it mostly skipped a generation or two, and now people in their 20s and 30s are learning it.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Went on a mushroom walk today and we found a huge % of Berlin’s highly toxic mushroom species. Relatively fewer edibles.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

All white people with British accents.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Christ. I’m on the S1 & overhearing a tour guide talking to a small group about Nazi history on their way to Sachsenhausen. “The Nazis believed that Jews controlled the global financial system - a conspiracy theory that still exists,” the guide said. “They do,” said one of the participants.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Exactly -- this is a genuinely useful feature, I love being able to search my photos for "receipt" lol

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

needless to say, this is not how AI companies are marketing their utility. (I do not want a *summary* of the content, I want an *index* of sources and works.)

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

honestly one use I can see for AI would be as a librarian agent for my personal book collection. It would be pretty useful to ask a computer "I am looking for stories about religious responses to state repression in my library" and get a list of relevant books and chapters to guide my reading.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 09/10/2026

I hope Mamdani clarifies whether NYPD support for this action was at his direction or if the NYPD acted on its own; if the latter, why do they have that latitude and what is being done to reign in a rogue agency?

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Holding the Trump admin accountable for its crimes can seem distant, but there are meaningful steps both US domestic opposition & the international community can take, including supporting the ICC, enabling international investigations into disappearances & civilian deaths, & refunding foreign aid

foreignpolicy.com

Here’s What to Do About Trump’s War Crimes

Despite the obstacles, foreign governments and U.S. lawmakers can begin the process of holding the president accountable.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In the wake of the ICE shooting in NYC, remember that Trump ordered an end to corruption investigations into Eric Adams in exchange for allowing ICE free rein in the city. I am very glad Zohran Mamdani is the mayor now.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You have to consider the broader civic infrastructure around a protest. It is about movement and strategy, not tactics.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is true — and also: a number of the highly photogenic big protests spread around on social media **were failures**. They did not achieve their aims. The size and intensity of a protest does not correlate well to social change efficacy.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am old enough to remember when Luigi Pantisano’s anti-CDU partisanship was seen as a liability because of fears that it would weaken the ability to be clearly against the AfD

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

German practice of bringing people bread + salt when they move homes vindicated

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Stephen Miller did this the first time around and found it so titillating, he can’t resist doing it again.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

With bolsonaro announcing he’ll bring in Trump goons for his transition team it is even more important that we punish these people in ways that remove their potential to do harm.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Crazy that this can happen on a secret ballot.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

hmmm I wonder if kathy hochul will campaign in NYC to get turnout this time or if she will completely skip it, then freak and move to the right because it was very close (which is what she did in 2022)

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Justin (seasonal) @justinskolnick.com · 06/10/2026

“The Suburban Captivity of the Churches” is a fairly well-researched if tedious account of why this no longer exists like it used to. The short answer to the question of what happened is white flight capped the mission field and left mainline Christianity without much to do

openlibrary.org

The suburban captivity of the churches by Gibson Winter | Open Library

The suburban captivity of the churches by Gibson Winter, 1962, Macmillan edition, in English

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I do not care how “realistic” this is, but as with the U.S., there is a mismatch between the domestic politics and the millions of lives worldwide that depend upon them.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fate of the Amazon under a potential Bolsonaro II is an argument for a global governance system that is capable of exercising care for our common home.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I talked with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about how our communities can defend the voting process this November. Some folks reached out and asked me if I could make an episode about this subject because they were tired of simply being told to vote harder and wanted to know what more we could do. ❤️

truthout.org

Activists Are Preparing to Defend Elections This November

“It’s about relational organizing,” says organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Following the frankly disgusting GPEW convention outcome I rescind this advice. Hide the Election Day from the Green-curious public.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Perhaps my most small-c conservative belief is that Michael Harrington was right about how consumer identity replacing religious identity is a catastrophe for democracy in the West

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

affordability / consumer politics, at least in the U.S., is heavily intertwined with nostalgia in a way that is fundamentally reactionary (you can also see this in the AfD’s invocation of ostalgie as a consumer/lifestyle politics!)

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the Right wants to immiserate you and steal the future from your children and they want you to shut up about it

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

“Becca Good addressed the media for the first time, saying, ‘I’m Renee Good’s partner, and she was the love of my life.’”

startribune.com

Live: Renee Good’s partner calls for ‘accountability’ in emotional statement

Renee Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in south Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

maybe the Trump administration should stop trying to bankrupt Ørsted if it wants some European help with its energy problems

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This combined with the current policy on trans people just adds an additional level of insult. So glad I can get a passport that opens me up to harassment and abuse - and misrepresents my actual life - in a fancy fucking envelope.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean with Trump in power any of the protections for conventional renewables are probably meaningless anyways.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My evergreen U.S. “permitting reform” take is that it should be easier to build clean energy and harder to build fossil fuel projects. Unfortunately it is very clear that laws *cannot do this* under the current regime, with the arrogation of legislative branch power by the courts & president.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 30/09/2026

One thing to bear in mind about a federal permitting bill is that its mistakes would be essentially permanent - Dems could only reverse mistakes with a filibuster-proof 60-vote supermajority in the Senate. Repubs, on the other hand, could use captured courts to shave off bits their donors dislike.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“It takes too long to build transmission lines” is a problem you can solve with permitting reform (although, a lot of this could be addressed with state capacity…). “Donald Trump is the president and wants to kill wind power by any means possible” is not really a permitting reform problem

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I would much rather negotiate with Mary Peltola on this shit than with Mike Lee.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

why the fuck are Dems rushing through a “permitting reform” bill that will almost certainly be less favorable than what they could get in six months? When they can also, say, impeach Trump and exercise their legislative power to stop him from fucking with wind projects?

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Got home to learn that my kid wants to be her first grade class representative and we need to make an election poster. As class representative she wants to “be nice to everyone.” Man what a bold move for a kid who only immigrated last year 🥲

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh peep the Holocaust denial there too.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This was, of course, an offshore wind development.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In August last year, the Trump administration canceled federal funding (that was going to be matched by a private company) to revive an old Bethlehem Steel facility in Maryland, with 500 unionized steelworker jobs.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah we’d like to get a friend for our solo cat in Berlin. Have heard many stories of people being denied by Berlin rescues who refused to adopt out just one cat, somehow not understanding that 1 + 1 =2. Waiting for a Ukrainian rescue to have a suitable option instead…

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 25/09/2026

At a certain point you just have to call it election interference from the US.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I see even my big hearted beautiful left-wing friends picking up bad cognitive habits from Instagram.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am really scrupulous about my social media hygiene and I think it has prevented it from being (too) harmful to me or my politics. but I think I am in at least the 1% of conscientious users, and a tech that requires this is bad.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 28/09/2026

i'd take it even a step further than you do: it's not that social media produces fascists, but that it produces antisocial behaviour broadly, where even good acts of protest can quickly devolve online into just another method for expressing antisocial impulses in a way that feels "safe" to do

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