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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

More political gameplay over tragic deaths by RFKJr as the CDC abruptly change how death information is counted and continue to avoid fully acknowledging the 3 recent fatalities of people infected with measles as being due to having the infection. Measles is preventable - please do get a vaccine

theguardian.com

Trump administration changes how it counts measles deaths amid Pennsylvania outbreak

CDC announces changes to how it reports measles deaths as Pennsylvania continues to confirm more cases

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴

Flyer for the BIODIFUL Soundscapes survey. Text reads: 'Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica? Please answer our online questionnaire: Voices of the Tropical Forest.' Photo of a lush tropical forest interior, overlaid with a translucent ear icon surrounded by sound waves. Text continues: 'This anonymous survey will take only 10 min. https://www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en.' Logos at the bottom: BIODIFUL, ETH Zürich, CNRS, and Station d'Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale

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Sparrow Zennik (They/Them) @sparrowzennik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As someone with moderate-severe me/cfs, I find it’s not hope that defines my outlook but rather what brings me joy. And, at the moment it seems that thing is making music when I can from bed or padded chair. And, maybe right now that is more important than hope

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Macklemore "every child deserves to live" Ed Sheeran "this is hurtful to a lot of people"

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG

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Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words
"Free Palestine" and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, "I don't take sides."

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I recently took my car to the dealership for a recall fix, but setting up the appointment was enraging b/c they switched to an AI phone answering system with an AI agent named "Donna." When I arrived, the staff was in complete disarray b/c they were backed up and multiple people were cussing Donna.

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I get that people like to clown on Macklemore, but he's quietly done so much good for Seattle. Besides the stuff on his website, he's donated to the music program at my kid's school and sponsors the free summer parks concerts.

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

Palestinians and trans people are human beings. Also, and these are only slightly less controversial, women, disabled people, poor people, Black and other people of color are human beings. If we can't agree on that, we don't have enough common ground to communicate.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the background

black and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Providing for people’s basic needs works and it’s really not that hard. Almost like we’ve seen this exact result a thousand times before.

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Sparrow Zennik (They/Them) @sparrowzennik.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We have economic metrics for corporations. We need economic metrics for the people.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

just a reminder the "LGBTQ rights" organizations endorsing anti-trans candidates are the same ones that "went neutral" on deadly anti-trans legislation like the Kids Online Safety Act and refused to stand up to hospitals that pre-emptively ended gender affirming care. Pay attention. Don't forget.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m loving the fictional villain at city council meetings thing. So far, we’ve had Vader and Doom. Who’s next?

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SNAP is linked to better math & reading scores, fewer school days missed due to illness & other positive outcomes for children. But well over 1.5 million kids nationwide have lost access to SNAP after unprecedented cuts were enacted last year.

cbpp.org

With School Year Starting, Children’s Participation in SNAP Continues Rapid Decline

While cutting SNAP eligibility for children was not a stated target of the Republican reconciliation law’s proponents, the cost shift and resulting access barriers are causing serious food assistance ...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/09/2026

BREAKING: We're urging a federal court to refuse to dismiss our lawsuit challenging the violent detention of hundreds of people at a horse race in Wilder, ID. Law enforcement descended on an event popular with Latine families wielding flashbang grenades, guns, and zipties. We demand accountability.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/09/2026

Right now, a middle-class nurse pays a higher payroll tax rate than a highly-paid CEO. That's wrong. It's time to protect Social Security by scrapping the cap so higher-income earners and wealthy investors pay their fair share—preventing benefits cuts for everyone.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026

For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs

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September 11 Docs

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Interview with a Nepali climate negotiator about how the government is handling rescue & relief in the aftermath of the disastrous flooding & the kinds of international support it seeks, incl from the climate loss & damage fund + clarification about a recent controversy drilled.media/news/nepal-f...

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Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test

An interview with Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

WATCH: How do you actually achieve a successful pedestrian street or people-place pilot? My podcast episode with @activetowns.bsky.social is now LIVE, using Vancouver’s Granville Street pedestrianization led by @downtownvan.bsky.social as a case study. Please watch/share! youtu.be/k4n1lErO_2k?...

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A World Cup People-Oriented Street Holdover - Should it be Permanent?

YouTube video by Active Towns

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

The famous Copenhagen shopping street where it opens up into a triangular public place and gathering place, filled with people.

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Fiona Watson @monsterfromid66.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#ADHD #TheGreatADHDMyth? #Channel4 #DrMaxPemberton @drdeanburnett.bsky.social Thank you so much for doing this. It was hilarious and terrifying at the same time. I particularly enjoyed your Welsh swearing. I'm now going to make a prediction, so gird your loins. When Mason becomes an independent

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John Russell @johnrussell40.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

By definition, privatisation siphons off funds to pay dividends. There are some vital services for society that should be owned collectively—not seen as generators of income for private owners.

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Tony @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Another great article, another story the newspapers are ignoring.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Meanwhile the party claiming to support free speech and protect women and girls.

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Bring back pollution levels to where they were 10 years ago" may not be the election winner he thinks it is.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 04/09/2026

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 11th lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 110,000 km² above the 2010s mean • about 1,000,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 2,000,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,720,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2025. 2026 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between August and October by looking at the decadal average line positions.

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Sparrow Zennik (They/Them) @sparrowzennik.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

After so much adverse weather, I did not expect how much joy a single day of good weather would bring me

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🧊🛩️ SALT LAKE CITY: An ICE contractor pushes a man on crutches (yet still in chains) up the stairs to board an Air Wisconsin jet (tail: N457AW) for transport to a concentration camp 👀

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As I just mentioned on ABC NewsRadio, I have never seen 10 degC anomalies on an El Nino subsurface chart before. That is cray cray. (But then again, with >90% of excess energy trapped by Greenhouse Gases going into the Ocean, is it really?) www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here

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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document

The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”

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Too Long Covid 💚 @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's time to knuckle down, wear a mask in public places, and implement clean air standards. It's not that scary, honest.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The EPA proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that states notify the public and seek comment before issuing air pollution permits for data centers and other industrial facilities.

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EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on data center plans

A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked a backlash in communities across the country ...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The cruelty is the point. This isn’t law enforcement, btw. These people were actively looking forward to following the law.

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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 03/09/2026

It’s pretty damn clear the current form of government doesn’t work. It’s time for revision by revolutionary thinking, we deserve to live with dignity, to be educated, to have access to healthcare. The government is a contract made null & void by tyranny and the abdication of those responsibilities.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/09/2026

Cambridge university was ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to a former PhD student who was found to have been bullied by Professor James Orr, who is also Reform UK's head of policy as.ft.com/r/c0b319f3-2...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 02/09/2026

Wednesday El Niño update - it continues to develop as expected, and its imprint on the large-scale atmospheric circulation is showing up more clearly. For this week, I also want to reiterate the importance of avoiding the El Niño hype (& 'scary' AI-graphics) and finding trustworthy sources of info.

Line graph time series of daily sea surface temperature anomalies in the Nino3.4 region. Years are shown from 1982 to 2025 in shades of blue to light yellow, and 2026 is shown in red. Climatologically, the largest anomalies are during the boreal winter in terms of magnitude. Data is from OISSTv2.1.

Map of September 1, 2026 average sea surface temperature anomalies in the ENSO monitoring regions. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1 with anomalies relative to a 1991-2020 baseline.

Graphic showing the 1-week change in sea surface temperature anomalies across the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean from August 25, 2026 to September 1, 2026. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1

Graphic showing the 4-week change in sea surface temperature anomalies across the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean from August 2, 2026 to September 1, 2026. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 03/09/2026

Sea surface temperatures are warming across the entire periphery of the #Arctic Ocean in September. This is especially observed in areas with long-term declines in sea ice concentration, such around the Chukchi and Kara Seas. Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1. For more info: doi.org/10.25923/pz7...

Polar stereographic map of sea surface temperature trends for Septembers from 1979 to 2025. Red shading is shown for warming trends, and blue shading is shown for cooling trends. All areas of the ocean are observing warming.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 03/09/2026

Last month was the 3rd lowest #Antarctic sea ice extent on record for the month of August. This was 1,260,000 km² below the 1981-2010 August average. Data from the @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

'The El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into an atmosphere where temperatures are already rising rapidly due to global heating. 2027 is set to “blow apart” the record and be the hottest year ever recorded.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching

Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.

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