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Greg Spooner

@spoonsky.bsky.social
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Physicist Californian Climate activist Wine maker Human Born at 318 ppmCO2 he/him/any Just in case BlueSky gets nuked or neutered… find me on Mastodon here: @gregspooner@ohai.social

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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 15h
“Satanists” acting as a Peter Thiel fan club outside one of his San Francisco Anti-Christ lecture events.
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 22h
Jane Doe, who was allegedly sexually assaulted in 2024 at Cornell University, is facing death threats and swatting - resulting in police pointing guns at her family.
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Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21h
Protests Rage Across India as Government Purges 130 Million Names from Voter Rolls www.democracynow.org/2026/10/7/he...
democracynow.org
Protests Rage Across India as Government Purges 130 Million Names from Voter Rolls
In India, police have detained several opposition leaders, breaking up a protest by Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress Party, and other MPs who are demonstrating against a controversial move tha...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not the odds, but the stakes. That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in election coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes. Sep. 11, 2023
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
International solidarity against fossil fuel expansion is being built energized right now in Ottawa, at the halls of so-called power. Indigenous leaders and parliamentarians from South America and Canada are uniting. #energysky #cdnpolitics
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mile-high club, singles division.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/10/2026
Democracy Forward have found that HSI, the investigative arm of ICE, has “obtained 26,235 US Citizenship and Immigration Services-derived records, and 50.6 million voter roll records from the US Department of Justice, for investigating so-called voter fraud.”
truthout.org
ICE Has Obtained Over 50 Million Voter Roll Records From DOJ Ahead of Midterms
The agency’s investigative branch mulled sending undercover agents into nonprofits involved in voter registration.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh my GOD
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The main lesson for those of us in the Global North is that we MUST redouble our efforts to phase out fossil fuel use as rapidly as humanly possible.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Maybe so. But some of us in the climate movement are still being loud about it! (Screenshot from our local, weekly Extinction Rebellion anti-climate-hushing street action last week) (Photo courtesy Leon Kinstenaar)
Screenshot of a emailed newsletter from Extinction Rebellion SF Bay showing a street protest action about climate action. Line of sign holders and spectral climate  “Lamentors”
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As my mother says on such occasions, “may your tribe increase”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ignore this fascist collaborator.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wrong. DOGE wrecked the parts of government that arent about killing and surveillance. We don’t need “efficiency”. We need a government that provides the services we demand and deserve, follows the law, and is not a tool of fascist billionaires.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It wasn’t ICE murders, ethnic cleansing, destruction of science, dismantling of climate policy, the DOGE-driven deaths of millions…
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They don’t actually believe it. What they believe is that they are themselves “in on” the con. They consider themselves insiders, having privileged and special knowledge, believing not that they’re getting $500, but rather that they’re getting a special seat at the corruption & supremacy table.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Even most climate activists think of frequent jet travel as an inalienable human right for global northerners. We need a large mental shift in how we conceive of society and how we live if we want to have a habitable world. @flightfreeusa.bsky.social
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Once again, I ask why the New York Times & every other media outlet immediately & instinctively reports on the 🇩🇪 AfD as a “far right” or “extremist” party but does not regularly cover the 🇺🇸 Republican Party as such: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Elon Musk is back in Washington BECAUSE of how DOGE ended.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ACAB
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Karl Drinkwater 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 ☮️ 🥗 @karldrinkwater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Weapon of distraction: How Israel uses greenwashing to mask its climate crimes Israel's illegal occupation and destruction of Palestinian land are incompatible with environment justice. Consumers must wake up to this fact www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/weap...
middleeasteye.net
Weapon of distraction: How Israel uses greenwashing to mask its climate crimes
Israel's illegal occupation and destruction of Palestinian land are incompatible with environment justice. Consumers must wake up to this fact
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An Uber driver almost hit me as a pedestrian walking on the sidewalk by turning into a driveway. I smacked his car and yelled as he came within inches. He stopped the car and got out and pursued me for blocks, calling me racist epithets and threatening to kill me. Uber did nothing about it.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jesus loves you! (threat)
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ridiculous.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
IntereSting
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The heat dome in 2021 killed over 600 BCers. There were over 38,000 fatalities during the heat waves in Europe this summer. Selling BCers organs would also provide billions in economic benefits, but for some reason that's unthinkable, while selling out humanity's future is worthy of celebration.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I occasionally look up the video of the time Spock jams on an electric lute with a space hippy who jams on a bicycle wheel (“The Way To Eden”)
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That’s as much climate damage as the average American creates in an entire year of living.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are certainly trying to! One thing I’ve been focused on lately is a new study on gen AI use (and therefore data center use) that could lead to “enabled emissions” of new fossil fuel projects. The potential size of this is ~2 additional gigatons CO2eq/year, which is almost 5% of global emissions!
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
science.org
NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Being around fraternities or their members always felt to me like violence could explode at any moment…
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I remember those Take Back The Night events at UC Davis in those years… And I remember those rare occasions when I interacted socially with frats there and how disturbing and ugly the social scene appeared in my brief views…
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@mostrain.bsky.social
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I mean, there are other places to die on, besides hills.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like to bring up the recent Nature modeling paper on “enabled emissions” from projected AI use (indirectly data center use) that suggests a possible ~2 additional gigatons CO2eq/yr could result in something like a decade from now (almost 5% above global emissions). www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@flightfreeusa.bsky.social Also: We all need to fly less frequently if we want a liveable planet.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 27/09/2026
The fact that the big Ds aren't demanding impeachment and removal every day is a scathing indictment of their political instincts. Their opponent is extremely vulnerable right now and they absolutely refuse to exploit his weaknesses. It's like they're trying to lose.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ACAB
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He can just resign now then if that’s his concern.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
High fuel prices aren’t yet stopping Americans driving their big ass cars and trucks recklessly and too fast. I don’t drive a lot but to me it looks like “business as usual” on the California roads and highways, even though slowly down would save drivers some $.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
is that invoking cloture
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Agree with you. Disorderly supply destruction and volatility doesn’t mean investors and producers and consumers will move away from fossil fuels in the long term. Where we can press actors to move permanently away from FFs in this compounding energy emergency we should (without glee).
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Activists occupying a San Francisco Tesla dealership holding a banner in front of a cybertruck. Banner says FIRE ELON MUSK.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ryssdal. The beginning of the end for me with public radio.
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Greg Spooner @spoonsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Occupation of a Tesla dealership in San Francisco. Activists holding a banner saying FIRE ELON MUSK inside and chanting with a bullhorn.
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