timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 03/10/2026They’re applying the “rock bottom” myth from 12-step programs to industrial collapse. That‘s like oncologists believing cancer patients would only do something about their cancer until they’re near death. “No point convincing them to get treatment right away.“ We call that medical malpractice. 040
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is what happened in 2013 to a student whom I previously taught in elementary school. One of the most promising students I ever taught. It was so heartbreaking. I’m glad more people are watching the Cornell case, and I hope justice prevails.thehoya.comI Stand With Willa, I Stand With SurvivorsIn the spring of 2013, Willa Murphy was violently raped by a fellow Georgetown student. It was such a traumatic experience that it took over a year after her rape before she was able to tell anyone… 1399
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 26/09/2026You mean I’ll be able to sleep outside at night and get a tan at the same time. That‘ll save me a trip to the tanning salon during my busy day. 230
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I prefer the garage door of opportunity.youtube.comIndiana BART. #thesimpsons #indianajones #simpsonscouchgag #bartsimpson #homersimpsonYouTube video by Christian Mecina 011
Reposted by @timlentini.bsky.socialDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comHow Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reportsGuardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ 10423224
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I have a hypothesis on Prof. Hayhoe’s “we just need to talk about it” narrative. Maybe she thinks climate action can spread by word of mouth like Christianity did. Ironic really. Some Christians are the loudest deniers. They want to avoid an inferno in the afterlife, but are okay with it down here. 140
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Things I don’t need to do now that I’m a Doomer: 1. Spending my time trying to save the world. I can’t, and never could. I will positively influence what I can. Or just do as little harm as I can. Both within reason. I’m not sacrificing my entire life while everyone I know lives in ignorant bliss. 120
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We now have official U.N. verification that we will pass 1.5°C. Instead of ignoring climate scientists, climate data junkies, and doomers, the internationally renowned U.N. will be ignored as well. Welcome to the end-of-civilization party. We have cookies for now. 031
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 06/09/2026We are already on a path to a brighter future. Global warming means fewer clouds. The future’s so bright. It gotta wear shades. 070
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Now the U.N. says we’re going to need to go to 1.8c. “But we can roll it back.” Mother Earth says, “I know you're not asking for an extension. I don’t like being taken advantage of. Do you know what I have to do if you don’t settle your current debts? I’m going to have to kneecap your species.” 130
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Concern does not mean action. But I see these polls that say most people are concerned about climate change. They are also concerned about poverty, racism, inequality… These same people have bigger concerns like the price of gasoline, the sports results… 120
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 24/08/2026That’s great artwork on that backpack! 111
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 24/08/2026There‘s these carbon offsets? FF corps can buy CO2 credits for things other people do: planting trees, manure management... They extract oil and say they‘re CO2 neutral. It is like a serial killer saying he’s murder neutral because he offset his murders by paying other men to impregnate women. 020
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Affordable healthcare is not health care for all. I still hear democrats use that deceptive phrase. 110
Reposted by @timlentini.bsky.socialLiam @spice1.bsky.social · 22/08/20262026… youtu.be/7xOURK7-UMs?...youtu.be'Darth Vader' makes the case for Flock cameras at city council meetingYouTube video by Guardian News 0112
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The only thing the climate movement is moving is the goalpost. We crossed 1.5c. That’s ok because we can still take action. We can’t stop climate disasters & suffering, but we can lessen their impacts. Climate action is now disaster management, crash landing prep. Everyone, take the crash position. 053
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 19/08/2026“Joe Biden was the best American president on climate change by maybe three orders of magnitude.” Here’s another person who wants to give a trophy for participation. Just ignore all the pro-fossil-fuel actions like record-high U.S. oil production, LNG expansion, the Willow Project…leftanchor.comA Biden Climate Retrospective - 397 | Left AnchorJoe Biden was the best American president on climate change by maybe three orders of magnitude. Yet it didn't cement a Kamala Harris victory in 2024, and Trump has since rolled back most of Biden's si... 030
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Anti-doomers are obviously closeted doomers who wish they could be as free and badass as us. “Oh, to be free to drink using a plastic straw. If only.” They’re obviously into doomer porn. How else could they know what evil lurks in the hearts of doomers? 031
Reposted by @timlentini.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 17/08/2026Crying Newborn Has No Idea How Much Worse It Gets theonion.com/crying-newborn-has-no-… 3860121089
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Climate optimists say we need to give the public hope. But they’re wrong. The public has plenty of hope. They hope they don’t have to be inconvenienced with all that annoying global warming stuff. They hope they can continue living their best carefree fossil-fuel-intense lives. 162
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I paid $20 US to charge my tiny EV yesterday right next to a gas station that was filled with these gigantic diesel pick-up trucks. For whatever reason, people need their cars to be macho in many parts of the U.S. This is definitely in part from FF propaganda, but boy are we easily duped. 010
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I still have friends who read People Magazine but don’t know a damn thing about ecological collapse. At first, this made no sense to me. Now that I have a better understanding of humans, it makes so much sense. 150
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This is why we should not have SROs at schools. We have full-time police stationed in schools! 001
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Climate optimists want a participation trophy for just trying even though they’re failing miserably. Sorry losers, “A” for effort ain’t cutting it. 121
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Anti-doomers say it’s wrong to be a doomer because we’re not going to collapse tomorrow. They want you to see that we still have decades of failure ahead! 75% of the podcast says how screwed we are. The counter argument is “if only” and we need to demand more. She spent the hour justifying doomism.kpfa.orgAgainst Climate Doomism | KPFAAs mega-fires rage around the world, why have so many people given up on the climate fight? Environmental sociologist Diana Stuart examines how fatalism about the climate emergency has been shaped by ... 373
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 14/08/2026James Carville! So true. Mann punches left or down just like Carville, and loves being in the public eye. 190
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 13/08/2026If you ever worked or lived in a high rise building, you know people ignore the smoke alarms until they are forced to leave the building. We have plenty to be alarmed about globally, but I believe people won’t do anything until they’re forced to. 000
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Great article! Thank you. I expressed to the doctor of renaissance literature, Dr. Guntner, that the meeting in Santa Marta didn’t give me hope since the goal was just another roadmap. She told me that I’m just cowering in the corner with my despair instead of doing something. Then she blocked me. 090
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 11/08/2026You’re not the A. I did not appreciate the language of that person’s response to you. 000
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 11/08/2026You better cool it with those amazing online burns. I think you just increased the global surface temperature another third of a degree with your amazing wit.🔥🔥🔥🔥 000
Reposted by @timlentini.bsky.socialMatthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Scientists are trying to tell us that climate change is happening faster than predicted, and that the public don’t understand the imminent danger, but the media refuses to put them on air. Why? @ProfBillMcGuire is Emeritus Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London. 7174114
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Thank you for saving us all with your positivity. Good vibes for all. 000
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 11/08/2026What the hell! I did all the climate change reducing “thingys,” and I all got was this smug sense of moral superiority. For some reason, the globe was not impressed and is still warming. 051
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Please tell me how you explain this 99% thing to all the people and animals currently suffering from the effects of climate change. There’s some terrible and permanent things happening all over the world and we’re still having philosophical debates. 010
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Isn’t “irrational“ what men have dismissively labeled women for centuries? I agree, it’s so out of touch. 050
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This is not how you uplift. This is punching down. “Despair is not just wrong. It's irrational.” I know many rational people who are rightfully feeling despair. This is putting blame on people feeling despair. It‘s not kind, and it is very divisive. Focus on those in power causing the despair. 010
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Please stop punching down on people already feeling bad enough as it is. Feeling despair is not irrational. It’s human. Our troubles are at a scale that we’ve never seen. 4340
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 08/08/2026From the woman who says we can decouple GDP from emissions, and we can grow the economy and still lower emissions. Who’s being delusional here? 040
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Great article about a terrible topic. I’m tired of being told that I’m just as delusional a climate denier because I think it’s too late. You laid this out very clearly. Thinking there is still time is a form of denialism. Did you know all we have to do is have a conversation about climate change? 032
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The onion chopping thing is brilliant. My wife hates chopping onions, but also doesn’t want to hear me drone on about how doomed we are. I think I could have some bargaining power with the onion chopping. 110
Reposted by @timlentini.bsky.socialMatthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’. 4743382353
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 24/07/2026You do know I’m saying that we should be reducing overall energy use? Pushing the electricity transition alone encourages business as usual without needed changes in lifestyles. Renewable energy alone isn’t going to save us. Any miracle cure way of thinking is going to do us all in. 130
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Electricity is only about 20-25% of global energy consumption. We’re still very far away from where we need to be. How’s total energy consumption doing? Don’t hear much encouragement about reducing our overall consumption. Is it because there’s no money to be made from getting people to buy less? 120
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This is my favorite comedy show ever! Carlin is part of the reason that I’m a doomer. He had humanity figured out and managed turn it into a very funny routine. I wonder what he’d have to say about our predicament if he were alive today. 250
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 14/07/2026They blame our “purity tests” for Donald Trump. These people don’t realize how incredible ignorant they are. They have elitist brain rot where the humility parts of their brain just withered away to nothing. 040
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 09/07/2026If he’s running as a Democrat, it makes perfect sense. 110
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 09/07/2026 I really appreciate your podcast. We all need to keep up with what’s happening, and you cover really important topics. 000
timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Higher density housing, walkable communities, remote work, robust bicycle infrastructure… 110