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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1h

💀🤣 (see alt text) Also watch @bcmerchant.bsky.social & @emilymbender.bsky.social's video, two of the small number of folks you should actually listen to when it comes to AI (and definitely not anyone at Trump's absurd "AI Summit")

Trump's signature at the AI summit where he is now the President of the UniteS States

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2h

Ezra Klein, NYT, and everyone who elevates this evil racist needs to STFU and also take a long look in the mirror but most STFU and stop platforming fascists

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 22h

Wow. I hadn't actually read the NYT story yet when I wrote this. But what actually happened to Jane Doe is the exact kind of thing that I'm talking about in this thread.

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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped

Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.

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Like Mucas @mwl.io · 2h

Look. We both know you're doing social media at work. That's what you do. You'll take the weekend off. Which means today is your last day to back #twistedPresents. Grab it now, or lament missing your chance when you come back Monday. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwl...

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Twisted Presents

Some folks love Christmas. These tales are for the rest of us. Ghosts and guns! Santa's coal mine! Final exams! Shopping! Plus an orc!

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not saying you can't successfully lobby the Pope, I'm just saying if you are going to successfully lobby the Pope you should probably try a different set of tactics than the ones that work on the ketamine-addicted fascist dipshits in Silicon Valley.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

we can have a better world we literally just have to TRY #climatechange #solar #rewilding

A solar farm in Minnesota planted native wildflowers between its panel rows.
Five years later, total insect populations tripled. Native bees increased 20-fold.
Not only did insect populations boom, soybean fields next to the solar arrays got twice as many bee visits as fields farther away.
Two of the things we usually think of as competing turned out to reinforce each other.
One study, published in Environmental Research Letters in late 2024, tracked two utility-scale solar sites built on retired farmland in southern Minnesota, where the developer seeded native prairie species between rows of panels in 2018.
By 2022, the sites looked less like industrial energy infrastructure and more like
remnant prairie.
Goldenrod soldier beetles colonized the goldenrod stands. Bumblebees nested in the soil.
Monarch butterflies passed through during migration. The wildflower diversity grew sevenfold; insect diversity grew eightfold.
This matters because, like it or not, utility-scale solar is going to take up real space.
The US is on track to cover roughly six million acres in panels by 2050.
The default approach is turfgrass, gravel, or herbicide-maintained bare ground,
which is ecologically dead.
The Argonne study shows the alternative isn't more expensive or harder to maintain.
It's just a different seed mix.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 3h

"Remake is therefore not an act of love but an act of control, and because of how technology now twists so many personal relationships, not enough people these days can tell the difference." Isn't that the truth.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, I really hate these "oohhh, Grok is outing Elon Musk for being a Nazi, HAHA BETRAYED BY YOUR OWN BOT" my dude, it just barfs out what it trains on and literally there is so much out there about Musk's Nazi-ness, come on...

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 6h

"The 2027 BMW 3 Series comes in both gas and electric versions, and the EV is $4,400 cheaper." But I have range anxiety....

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BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper. | TechCrunch

The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 16h

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21h

Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.

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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US

Finally, some good news

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The number of YT comments on this one: "But mutual aid!" My guy... slavery is de facto legal in this country. We ain't gonna fix that with food pantries & bail funds.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23h

I wrote about Cornell, and the grim discursive cycle in which everyone says that they hate rape, but nobody does anything to stop it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan

Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal

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seven possums in an AFI hoodie @volare.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oofdah, look at the trust between them. that beak, 2" from your eyes? hell of a bond, she's very, very good at this. (@birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) also, think he's big? like hawks, the females are larger. tho he's very, very pretty... and clearly knows it lol #BigHonkingHugeBirb #birds #gryphons

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 23h

#BREAKING U.S. District Judge April Perry is moving forward with further fact-finding regarding potential prosecutorial misconduct in the case of the "Broadview Six," with a special prosecutor still on the table.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AOC should run for President and convert this into the Office of Butlerian Jihad

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

By popular demand:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?

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Sad Old Man Crying

ALT: Sad Old Man Crying

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm never gonna understand how the presence of microplastics in every fucking thing including us wasn't the end of the oil/gas/plastics industry overnight. Like, we're eating a credit card of plastic a week,"yeah, this is fine" (sorry just shouting into the void) www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

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Microplastic pollution found in 100% of Delaware River tributaries tested

The pollution was detected in 22 stream and river segments tested in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and New York.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"I didn't know how many cowards there were in this country" I feel this so much

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

100% policing women's bodies is authoritarian bullshit, policing *anyone's* body is bullshit, full stop, just stop don't be the body police for patriarchy

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inquirer.com

Microplastic pollution found in 100% of Delaware River tributaries tested

The pollution was detected in 22 stream and river segments tested in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and New York.

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 30/09/2026

Taking a break from the normal cybers to say this: Men, if you aren't **actively** holding your peers accountable for SA, misogyny, or any other form of discrimination/abuse of women, you are the problem too.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SUCCESS! I gave away my first item in the new place. Instead of Buy Nothing they have "Freebox". I was wondering how the gifting economy culture might be different in a different community -- different demographics, different socio-economic class -- and it's really very much the same.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just sent out a recap of the September #solarpunk bookclub newsletter.susankayequinn.com/j2d3v2z4z6 Plus info about upcoming bookclubs for the rest of the year. Subscribe to get recaps, reminders & links: www.subscribepage.com/solarpunk_bo...

Pleasure Activism by andrienne maree brown

Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI as *Those Who Walk Away From Omelas* but the "utopia" is just AI slop

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Come the upside down swings, there will be a whole lot of people who've very literally forgotten how to do their fucking jobs because they chose being complicit without a second thought. It'll be extremely obvious to everyone around them, that they did so, the deskilling will be a huge red flag.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oh boy do they love the folks who believe them when they say "this is inevitable"

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

All "yeah this is now indispensable to my workflow, can't do my job without it, it costs one mother shot in the face per week to use but really I've never been more productive. Also it says I am transforming into the immortal quantum Spark Bearer and need to annihilate my family to transcend."

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Generative AI is not just the instrument and aesthetics of fascism, but it has permanently sewn itself to fascism in a fucked up human centipede of scammers and grifters and guys who've long ago forgotten how to think.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As I'm reading how Black people needed the famous Green Book to navigate more-and-less dangerous parts of the country, how porters on trains were an invisible network of info/security, this map of rapidly (and unevenly) retreating rights of trans people drops in my inbox. mapresearch.org

Since 2020, political attacks on LGBTQ people have dramatically escalated, rapidly reshaping the political landscape in the United States—especially for transgender people. This new, in-depth report from the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) is the first to take a careful and comprehensive look at how state LGBTQ policies across the country have changed from January 2020 to July 2026.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm discovering great stuff to read/watch in this book, incl being reminded of things I knew about. Highly recommend the book for that reason alone, but also @sjjphd.bsky.social weaves so much together in a way that's super helpful for understanding the past/present/future of freedom in America.

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Stephen Quinn @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone has...(sort of)

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone needs to make a movie about the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids during the Great Migration.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Someone needs to make a movie about the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids during the Great Migration.

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's unbelievably easy. Just base it on a true story. Two of the Dallas Wings are already dating -- since college -- and one's having to cheer on her girlfriend in the finals due to an injury that took her out of the season. And that's not even considering the ex-couples playing on different teams.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

This is funny but also truly I think there's a huge number of people who've developed such a serious dependency and driven off such a serious cognitive cliff that I don't think they could get through a normal workday

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Erica Peck | Editor, Writer, Reader @shydogs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

See also: Barbie Movie wildly popular, Mattel thinks “ah, more movies about toys”

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Hollywood perpetually missing the point because they don't want to see the point

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

better hurry up and get that divorce before they make it illegal

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