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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hitchhiker
Zoomed crop of the head, neck, and forelegs of a praying mantis against an orange backgroundA praying mantis on an orange machine surface A praying mantis close-up in black & white
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Pierce @pwtulley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Winnie the Pooh and Piglet sitting on a log:
"DARMOK AND JALAD AT TANAGRA," SAID PIGLET.
"SHAKA, WHEN THE WALLS FELL," SAID POOH.
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*Super Intelligence just killed Grandma arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
arstechnica.com
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Peter Thiel has the wheel: “US Deputy Secty of Defense Stephen Feinberg has drafted a memo directing Defense Department subordinates to purchase up to $243.9 M in services from…[Thiel’s] Palantir…without a competitive bidding process…The memo’s subject line is called ‘Funding Palantir’.” 8/11/26…1/
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Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo
Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New sign to point at daily—> We do not need A.I. to tell us how to solve climate change. We already know how. Electrify everything and phase out fossil fuels to zero by 2050. It is suicide to justify even one new gas turbine sale in the year 2026 because “A.I. will help solve climate change.”
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Friends Everywhere: Fraticide, Martyrdom, and The Figuration of Radicalization”
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is it sex cults all the way down?
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Private flights, used by an estimated 256,000 people (just 0.003% of the world’s population), are the most polluting form of transport, producing direct carbon emissions 10 to 14 times greater per passenger than commercial aviation travel, the report said.”
theguardian.com
Private jets pollute up to 14 times as much as commercial planes and are undertaxed in US, report says
Number of private jets has surged in recent years, but they do not pay commensurate portion of fees to FAA operations
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Big ole green and yellow American bullfrog resting on some forest litter
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One of those days
The track and a broken hub from a compact skid steer on the ground next to the side of the machine
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Very good 🧵: embeds Luttig’s New Republic piece gaming out a midterms scenario and HCR’s commentary on it, and reiterates the facts to date.
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“The commercial partner involved in the project was not identified. Neither were details about the cost, funding, construction timeline or emergency response plans.”
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Pyramid Point, Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A trail side set of signs reads, from tip to bottom, “Breathe | All We Have Is Now | Relax | UR OK”A yellow and black trail side sign reads “Infinite Clearance” below a large infinity symbol bracketed by up and down arrows where one might usually expect to see a caution or warning of some kind
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sleeping Bear never disappoints
Overlapping sand dunes lightly covered in wild grasses and shrubs under a slightly grey and cloudy sky Lake Michigan as seen from a sandy bluff spotted with small shrubs and a treeLake Michigan below Sleeping Bear Dunes
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 04/09/2026
My latest for Technosphere Earth. I eagerly awaited @unep.org new Overshoot report. It delivers in many respects & should serve as an important reference. But it missed a major opportunity to frame the overshoot moment. www.technosphere.earth/overshoot-sh...
technosphere.earth
Overshoot should mark the end of the road for supposed 'policy relevance'
But UNEP's Limiting Overshoot report keeps plodding along the same timid route
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Re-posting because of recent headlines about 2028. The hoopleheads are already eating it up.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Spotted over I-5 in Seattle
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
They are pilfering funds for childcare to keep women at home…
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“All of this is why we believe that end times fascism - with its fortressed borders, decimated foreign aid and fixation on grabbing the resources beneath Greenland's melting ice - should be seen as a twisted and sadistic form of climate-change adaptation.”
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
First Friday gallery walk: Amusing detail from the Homo Terminus installation. Plus a screenshot of today’s temp.
An illustration of Devonian transitional  fossil species Tiktaalik, which links fish to tetrapods. Across the top of the illustration it says: “This is all his fault. Don’t forget it”Screenshot of today’s mid-afternoon temperature: 99 degrees F, feels like 110.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 03/09/2026
feeling unexpectedly emotional as we visit saerbeck, a town of just 7200 in central germany that formed a climate municipality. they produce 4.5x the electricity they need, and have developed a whole array of climate solutions. one of them? a climate action curriculum that starts in kindergarten.
lady presenting about saerbecks climate curriculum
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New aspiration unlocked: when I grow up I wanna be a Click Snatcher
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In the coming years, don't let companies who aided ICE w/ technology tell you they didn't know what was happening. They can say that what their customers do with the tech isn't their concern, but ultimately a lot of very big companies helped to funnel people into a system designed to cause suffering
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The UN says that climate goal is officially past the point of no return They're now hoping we can MAYBE start to reverse course by 2100 www.cbc.ca/news/science...
cbc.ca
For the first time, a key UN report says the 1.5 C global warming threshold is lost | CBC News
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Steve Rattner: The 100 wealthiest Americans own more than the bottom half of the country.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
if only there was a country making new electric vehicles in massive quantities at rock-bottom prices whose domestic market is direly oversaturated!
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Post something random in hopes of a brilliant September
A nitrile-gloved hand holds a long hydraulic hose in front of the mini-excavator from which it has been extracted
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 01/09/2026
"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do." Thank you, and RIP, Wendell Berry.
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
More Wendell Berry
A Warning To My Readers
Do not think me gentle 
because I speak in praise 
of gentleness, or elegant 
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world. I am 
a man crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant, 
stubborn, angry, full 
of fits and furies. That I 
may have spoken well 
at times, is not natural.
A wonder is what it is.
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
RIP Wendell Berry From “Economy and Pleasure” in _What Are People For_
The question that we finally come to is a practical one, though it is not one that is entirely answerable by empirical methods: Can a university, or a nation, afford this exclusive rule of competi-tion, this purely economic economy? The great fault of this approach to things is that it is so drastically reductive; it does not permit us to live and work as human beings, as the best of our inheritance defines us. Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is the fundamental economic virtue, and how very little they have to say about community, compassion, and mutual help.
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Post your getaway vehicle.
An illustration of an imaginary personal gyrocopter-jetpack
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“The real truth about it is / We’re all supposed to try”
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Magnolia & Johnson Electric Co at the Bluebird Secretly Canadian 30th anniversary show
A band on a nightclub stage: bassist and drummer to the left, lap steel guitar center left, guitarists/vocalists on the right, Bluebird club logo on the wall in the centerMagnolia & Johnson Electric Co jamming on a nightclub stage lit redBand in black t-shirts lit by blue and green stage lights
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Early Day Miners with surprise guest Durand Jones Secretly Canadian 30th anniversary show, Bluebird
Band on a stage at a nightclub, bassist and drummer on the left, guitarists center, vocalist on the rightA trio of guitarists and a singer on stage lit in red, the Bluebird nightclub logo visible on the wall to the left
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Love me some 45-year-old RPG illustrations
The frontispiece illustration for TSR’s 1981 Second Edition of Top Secret: a man (in sunglasses and a tight-fitting suit with flared leg bottoms) and a woman (in a low-cut dress) strike a sexy spy pose holding pistols, the woman leaning on the the man’s shoulder and turning her knee into his leg.A man in a button-down shirt open at the collar raises his eyebrow, forearm resting on a briefcase in the foreground. Another man in the background peers over his shoulder.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts lifted restrictions preventing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from implementing President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Judge lifts second block on Trump's mail voting order, clears way for legal fight on constitutionality
“Without any consideration of whether the Executive’s ‘goals’ are lawful, or even likely lawful or possibly lawful, the Supreme Court concluded that appellate review... ‘would come too late for the 20...
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I mean, who among us isn’t anxiously gaming this out…
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Not now with the inexorable and inevitable, dogwood
A snapshot of an American dogwood tree showing bright red berry clusters and leaves turning crimson
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I have electrolytes. It’s what Hackberry Emperors crave.
A small butterfly perches on my wrist. Blurry levers in the background.A small butterfly spreads its wings while perched between my thumb and index finger feeding on my sweat
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Is war the father of all things? Idk, I’m more of an I am Athens’ one free man kinda guy, but I think you can just say that it’s good to be vigilant about fascism without positing the eternal return of a struggle between permanent aspects of our human nature.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/08/2026
i do think a lot of mainstreamers have missed the ball on how musk has moved past "rich guy with funny opinions on race science" and into "literally just a nazi"
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Yes, but also good pushback in this thread on the evolutionary/archeological record. I’ll just say that this is why Guattari on the production of subjectivity remains a touchstone for me: “And in the long run tanks won’t be able to stop it! [C]ollective existential mutation will have the last word!”
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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing. Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla) @unmlawlibrary #globalmuseum #library #libraries #reading #history
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hadn’t checked Clearsky in months and wow, how does anyone look at my feed and decide I’m a Nazi or even fascist adjacent? LOL. As for the Vancouver urban planner, idk man, 2 days ago I posted some vegetarian dinners, a funny arborist vid, and some illustrations from an ‘80s rpg I used to play.
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger Earth, Wind, Water & Fire
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Meanwhile in Indiana… @robertlandrumjr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Climate change makes extreme weather normal. We’re locked in to heavier rain and hotter days for decades. But there’s still hope.
fpinews.org
Yes, the climate is changing. Here’s how.
We’re locked in to heavier rain and hotter days for decades. But there’s still hope.
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Hoosiers Rise @hoosiersrise.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#Indiana #HoosierSky ##HoosierActivism
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switchbackasaurus.bsky.social @switchbackasaurus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009)
The cover of “Magnolia Electric Co” by Songs:Ohia: a white, bearded owl with a pair of tiny hands palms forward between its wings against a background of black and blue; lightning from a small cloud in the upper left corner and a magnolia blossom and leaves in the lower right complete the composition
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