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TinJar

@tinjar.bsky.social
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#Scientist, #advocate, and #educator in the field of #climatechange. #Author of uplifting #climatefiction novel "A New Faith." Read or download the novel for free at tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith #booksky #books #sciencefiction #solarpunk #hopepunk

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The bright side of El Niño? California will hopefully capture a lot of groundwater (and reservoir water) to sustain the state through dry times: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @ianjames.bsky.social
latimes.com
Will El Niño have an upside? California tries to capitalize on big storms
El Niño could unleash major storms and flooding. It also could bring precious water to drought-afflicted California.
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the... "America has lost more than 200k jobs in “creative” industries over the last four years, with roughly 50k lost within the last year alone. That makes for one of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history" #ai #llm #creative #art #jobs #employment
apricitas.io
AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-... Of course #China has nothing to do w/ #democracy or any such progressive notion. However, this is quite a curious achievement - keeping #billionaires down instead of growing into a #kakistocracy that is happening in many places democratic and authoritarian.
adamtooze.substack.com
Chartbook 476 Walled-in wealth #2: US-China oligarchic divergence.
(2) in an emerging miniseries
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
secondnature.org/get-involved... 1/ "The goal of the #Academics for #Climate Action working group is to help restructure higher #education to better address the climate crisis." #climate #academia #climatechange #highered #education #teaching
secondnature.org
Academics for Climate Action Working Group - Second Nature
On this page Apply for ACA Membership Climate Action Roadmap The goal of the Academics for Climate Action working group is to help restructure higher education to better address the climate crisis. We...
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/new-yorker... 1/ "Schneider-Mayerson suspects there may be an unspoken “cultural #climate consensus” at work, in which media gatekeepers have concluded that global warming deserves no more than a sliver of our collective attention spans." @sammyroth.bsky.social
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Even the New Yorker has lost the plot
The climate silence is coming from inside the house.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
Lol, Trump is reducing global greenhouse gas emissions despite himself.
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Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions set to fall in 2026 amid Hormuz crisis - Carbon Brief
Global fossil-fuel emissions are set to fall by in 2026 amid the fallout from the Hormuz crisis, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.
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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich
Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n
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Amazon Employees for Climate Justice @amzn4climate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This puts the lie to everything they say about AI being "the future". There is no future if they continue down this path.
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Climate Power @climatepower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump is doubling down on fossil fuels and rolling back climate protections—leaving us with consequences that will last long after his presidency ends. insideclimatenews.org/news/14092026…
insideclimatenews.org
Trump Doubles Down on Climate Denial With Plan to Repeal Power Plant Rules - Inside Climate News
The EPA revoked limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, rejecting decades of settled science to argue that they do not contribute to dangerous air pollution.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump’s EPA will no longer limit pollution from gas and coal-burning power plants. Reminder: Trump took millions of dollars in donations from Big Oil, and his EPA chief Lee Zeldin is cozy with the coal industry. Is there anything this regime won’t destroy to please its bankrollers?
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Trump's EPA repeals pollution limits on fossil fuel power plants
The Trump administration is eliminating limits on climate-warming pollution from the nation's fossil fuel power plants.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.peclimaterisks.org/wp-content/u... 1/ 20 private equity firms –which control a combined 7.3 trillion dollars in assets under management—backed at least 244 energy companies that owned and operated over 1,050 fossil fuel assets that together produced an estimated 1.5 GT GHG annually.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 14/09/2026
. World must reject climate culture wars or face economic ruin, says UN’s Stiell Find out more: www.theguardian.com/environ... #ClimateAction
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World must reject climate culture wars or face economic ruin, says UN’s Stiell
Warning by United Nations climate chief comes as EU data shows August 2026 was joint hottest month ever
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... "highest number of averted deaths was 29,509,934 (20 273 842–38 603 961) for a 3% wealth tax on ultra-high-net-worth individuals" #Tax the #billionaires - all of them! It is simple - really!
thelancet.com
Wealth redistribution policies to mitigate the impact of development assistance defunding: a retrospective evaluation and forecasting analysis up to 2030
The implementation of wealth redistribution policies proposed in recent high-level international agreements could mitigate the health consequences of the current ODA defunding crisis, avert millions o...
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
1/ Down /w the #billionaires #plutocrats #Tax them into oblivion www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... #booksky #books #book #novel #fiction #climatefiction #climate #climatechange #solarpunk #hopepunk #detective #thriller #mystery #uplifting #hopeful #protopia
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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
15/ Comparable novels - Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” Neal Stephenson’s “Termination Shock” Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future” Steven Markley’s “The Deluge” Jens Liljestrand’s “Even if Everything Ends” Amitav Ghosh’s “Gun Island” Emily St. John Mandel’s “Station Eleven”
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
14/ Or will they develop new ways of peaceful living? Will the rest of the world allow them to live in peace? #booksky #books #book #novel #fiction #solarpunk #hopepunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #clifi #scifi #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #adaptation #migration
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
13/ will the climate migrants be allowed to settle down in relatively safer places? How many will be allowed to do so? Who will be allowed? Under what conditions? How will the migrants cope with the massive transition? Will they take the good and bad aspects of their current lives to the new land?
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
12/ In this novel, set in the near future, I explore a world in which a large number of people move away from dangerous places to a safer one. In an era of draconian restrictions on migration, this story attempts to explore several challenging questions -
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
11/ How we adapt to those impacts will be a major preoccupation for the rest of our lives and beyond. Adaptation would require efforts to help people survive in their existing homes and/or help people relocate to more habitable environments.
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
10/ Motivation - A fair bit of global warming is already baked in even if we manage to quickly bring down future GHG emissions. The effects of climate change are being felt in catastrophic ways in many places around the world.
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
9/ Rachel is a part of the #US delegation stationed at the #UN headquarters. She conceives and brings about the financial mechanism to construct and operate Sequoia. She is from the rural parts of #Texas
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
8/ Camille is a Norwegian #climate #activist who used to organize mass protests against #fossilfuels but who later decides to take a more direct approach to ending the use of #oil #gas #coal She is called upon later in the story to save the city.
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
7/ Kaija is the symbolic mayor of Sequoia and the person who is partly responsible for the creating this city of #climate #refugees She is a Norwegian Sami who used to be a PhD candidate in the #anthropology department at #Oslo #university
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
6/ Sonia is Alia’s boss and the chief of police in Sequoia. Not only does she have to rally her staff to solve the seemingly insolvable murders but also find a way to maintain the increasingly fragile peace in the city. She is #climate #refugee from #Bangladesh
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
5/ Sara is responsible for the 2nd murder in Sequoia. She is training to be a nurse and wants to spend the rest of her life helping people in need. But circumstances force her to behave in ways that she had never imagined she was capable of. She is #climate #refugee from #Sudan
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
4/ Cast of characters - Alia is a police #detective in the fictional #city of Sequoia who is leading the first-ever #murder #investigation when the second happens and things start spiraling out in violent ways. She is #climate #refugee from #rural #Iran
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
3/ Will she solve the two murders in time? Will the city not just survive but thrive? #booksky #books #book #novel #fiction #solarpunk #hopepunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #clifi #scifi #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #adaptation #migration #extinction #survival
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
2/ Then, another happens. The only similarity between the two victims engulfs the city in violence. Sara, the killer, is willing to go to any lengths to avoid capture. As Alia chases Sara, she confronts the excruciating dilemma that pits her life against the future of Sequoia.  #booksky #books
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"A New Faith" tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith In the aftermath of a catastrophic heat wave, the city of Sequoia was created as a refuge for millions of survivors of the tragedy. Alia, a precocious police detective, is feverishly hunting for the killer responsible for the first-ever murder in Sequoia.
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A New Faith <genre: hopeful climate fiction>
Sequoia, a city of climate refugees, has to decide whether to thrive in a future built from scratch or to barely survive because it cannot let go of its past.
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
1/ www.noahpinion.blog/p/liberalism... The #migrants #immigrants #asylum seekers are not crazy people who hate their homes for the heck of it.
noahpinion.blog
Liberalism needs a new philosophy of immigration
We need to make a principled stand instead of a tactical retreat.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
See this chart? Workers’ share of the nation’s income is at the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947. Corporate profits’ share, on the other hand, is the highest it’s been since 1950. This is why we must build back worker power.
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
heated.world/p/oil-execut... #US #oil #gas companies - lets put fracking crap on crops and drinking #water supplies www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi... #China - lets stop using oil
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Oil executives just accidentally exposed the industry’s greatest weakness
To keep drilling, Big Oil needs permission to dump treated fracking wastewater into rivers and onto cropland. We don’t have to give it to them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Meta paid its lowest effective federal tax rate in company history last year while raking in record profits. Earlier this year, Meta began laying off 8,000 workers as it ramps up AI investment. Zuckerberg is now worth $190 billion. The irony of a Big Tech King buying a castle is not lost on me.
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Meta’s Zuckerberg buys 19th-century castle in southeast of Ireland
Strancally Castle was built around 1830 on land overlooking the River Blackwater and underwent extensive renovation in 2
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"A New Faith" tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith In the aftermath of a catastrophic heat wave, the city of Sequoia was created as a refuge for millions of survivors of the tragedy. Alia, a precocious police detective, is feverishly hunting for the killer responsible for the first-ever murder in Sequoia.
tinjar.ghost.io
A New Faith <genre: hopeful climate fiction>
Sequoia, a city of climate refugees, has to decide whether to thrive in a future built from scratch or to barely survive because it cannot let go of its past.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.
Susan Collins standing with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Renewables are overtaking coal as the world's largest source of electricity generation, after near parity in 2025. New @iea.org mid-year update: their share goes from 33% to 37% by 2027, solar and wind from 17% to 21%. EU well ahead of global average. iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/3c66a...
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
One potential pathway for mass migration as a way to adapt to #climatechange - 1/ Canada, Russia, Norway, and China have a bit of a problem. But there is a potential solution, too! Canada, Russia, and Norway depend a LOT on exporting #oil
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
jacobin.com/2026/07/eu-m... These folks are trying to escape the deadly impacts of #climatechange - rather than helping them #EU #UK #Europe #US are putting up violent barriers which end up killing these desperate folks. #climate #migration #adaptation #immigration #migrants #immigrants
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Migrant Rescue Operations Navigate a Mediterranean Bloodbath
The Seabird is a plane that monitors violence along the world’s deadliest migration route. Piloted by a German NGO, it is showing how European authorities collaborate with militias to harass people cr...
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
www.somo.nl/manufactured... #Europe #car manufactures are thriving, with record profits and ample reserves. Yet, they invest less than competitors and have long used their political influence to defend the combustion-engine model and delay the transition. #EV #China #batteries #energy #climate
somo.nl
Europe's Car Industry: Manufactured crisis - SOMO
Despite claims of crisis, Europe’s car industry remains profitable, powerful, and politically influential. Read more.
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
www.propublica.org/article/h-2a... How far and how quickly does this move in bringing back slavery? #labor #farm #agriculture #US #migrants #workers
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How the Government’s Obligation to Keep Foreign Workers Safe Collided With Its Efforts to Keep Farms Afloat
Farmers want the Trump administration to overhaul the H-2A visa program to make it more favorable to their businesses. But cutting red tape could cut labor protections, too.
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
www.dbresearch.com/PROD/IE-PROD... Rapidly accelerating #climatechange and now a turbo-charged #ElNino is likely to lead to a major shock to the #Agricultural system across the world. Some early estimates from Deutschbank.
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El Nino: The next supply shock? - Deutsche Bank Research Institute
With forecasts pointing to one of the strongest El Nino events on record, we explore the potential consequences.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Two-thirds of global energy is wasted, mostly as combustion heat. Electrification gets rid of most of that waste rather than replacing it. From my keynote at the Eurelectric PowerSummit.
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#writingq #writer #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...
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7 Tips for Designing Your Book Cover
• Design your book cover to attract attentionYou can’t judge a book by a cover goes the old cliché, but the reality is that people literally do so all of the time. That’s why you’ll want to spend s…
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-bo... " #Canada 's #boreal #wildfires aren't just bad #forest management - area burned rises roughly 80% for each 1C increase in fire-season #temperature ." #climate #climatechange #wildfire #heatwave #trees #tree
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Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management
Higher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
1/ tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith About the book - As the climate worsens, a growing share of the world’s poorest people will be forced to migrate in search of relatively more habitable places just to survive. #booksky #books #book #novel #fiction #crime #climate #climatechange #mystery #thriller
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A New Faith <genre: hopeful climate fiction>
Sequoia, a city of climate refugees, has to decide whether to thrive in a future built from scratch or to barely survive because it cannot let go of its past.
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