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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No, it describes its position relative to other socioeconomic pathways (SSP1 v SSP 3-4-5), not its likelihood of occurring

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It would have been helpful if Tommy Tuberville Alerted the Nation To Shocking Threat Of Furries at Auburn Football Games Where He Coached.

Picture of Aubie the Tiger mascot/furry costume of Auburn University where Tommy Tuberville coached football.

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Bonus points for highlighting von Uexküll’s concept of the Umwelt. His work is both accessible and thought-provoking.

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kate McFarland examines how human activity corrupts the unseen sensory landscapes of wild animals, exploring phenomena from disrupted magnetoreception to olfactory noise. A great read on breaking past our anthropocentric biases in conservation: rewilding.org/beyond-the-h...

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Beyond the Human Umwelt: Silent and Invisible Sensory Pollution

We must not be deaf and blind to the importance of animal senses outside of hearing and vision and, correspondingly, sensory pollution beyond noise and light.

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

18 U.S.C. §597 “...whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

More broadly, the findings show why protecting ecosystems, traditional ecological knowledge, and science is crucial as climate impacts grow. All three are under threat.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you're Catholic & believe in church-defined sin, there are a lot of new official sinners now, including fossil-fuel company execs, climate deniers, & billionaire eco-destroyers. "Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation & the Creator’ www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/09...

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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document

The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

To be fair, university administrators routinely plow money into initiatives that neither professors nor students want. I believe it must be written into the job description.

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Right up there with Fisher's 1929 quote: stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"I became the first person in Washington State ever sentenced for for picketing." - the unarmed victims of the Everett Massacre never made it to their rally to picket, as they were gunned down by police. Is every J6 protester a Manbaby?

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Both amazing, but that first one...wow

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yes, but if we let them have walking sticks, what's next? Pockets?

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Remember when Terry Gilliam's 1985 film Brazil was a dystopian sci-fi comedy? It's arrived, with two underscore fus_ _ro_dah starring as cobbler Archibald Buttle, and fus_ro_dah starring as terrorist Archibald Tuttle. www.wired.com/story/a-typo...

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A Typo Landed an Innocent Gamer in Prison for 18 Months

How much could a single underscore in a username really matter? Just ask Brandon Klayme, who served 18 months in prison before realizing how authorities arrested, charged, and convicted the wrong man.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Abraham Lincoln could turn a phrase.

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It is an irony of the U.S. legal system that the exact qualities that would make me an objective and fair jurist are the same qualities that make trial attorneys reject me during jury selection. 🤷 🤷

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We suggest key questions that institutions need to ask themselves

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When we say these people are just repeating the segregationist playbook, we mean it literally

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 26/06/2026

My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.

A post from @matzollerseitz.bsky.social reads:

“So what I'm getting from this is, incrementalism is bullshit and we should just do the stuff that we say would be good for society”

And the post is quoting a post from @owillis.bsky.social that reads:

“They call him WIN-dani

Mamdani delivers promised rent freeze on 1 million rent-stabilized apartments https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/25/mamdani-delivers-promised-rent-freeze-00977449”

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I mean-- removal of these neighbors is forecast to trigger an economic loss of over 400 million in a rust belt city, where every retained dollar matters.

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

June 25 marks the 150th anniversary of Custer's death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. No matter how you think about it, you're probably wrong. I received a Pulitzer for "Custer's Trials," yet no one's asking my opinion. That should tell me something. Still, here's how to understand it. 1/🧵

The 7th Cavalry Memorial and gravestones at the Little Bighorn National Monument, from the National Park Service's website.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

As well as being just, this is also clever, as North Korean troops will recognise the new route to defection, NK leadership and loyal officials will recognise the risk, and the fighting efficiency of those sent there will be reduced by the effort of trying to guard against defection.

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Improved conservation helps, but not emitting in the first place is 4x more effective than removals or avoided habitat conversions.

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The Nature Conservancy Science @science.nature.org · 04/06/2026

Solar and farming do not have to compete 😎 🌱 . A new agrivoltaics pilot shows how combining them can boost productivity, support ecosystems, and diversify farm income, while pointing to what is needed to scale this approach for people and nature. nature.ly/4f60xOd

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Regenerative agrivoltaics: Challenges and opportunities in Southern California’s Inland Empire region

“Regenerative agrivoltaics” involves the co-location of regenerative agriculture (RA) and solar development. While RA focuses on promoting environment…

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Read this to my 3yo this morning and she’s now stomping around the apartment pumping her fist and chanting “Strike! Strike!”

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Okay, here me out. We replace administrators with AI.

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I mean, due to scientific international cooperation, the virus was sequenced and the vaccine was in production in the U.S. before the first case of Covid in the U.S.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If the 60 Minutes thing is proving anything it’s that a lot of people in positions of power think there is no crime greater, no injustice more profound, than being called out for being incompetent when you’re clearly fucking incompetent

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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Every time data centers are brought up, I'm reminded of a recent meeting I had with a person working in that sector who mentioned how important power demand modeling was, because they projected if the grid were to go down in Phoenix during peak summer, 30,000 people would die in the first 24 hours

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A one-off consulting opportunity. I haven't worked with Guidepoint (they usually pitch wide of my expertise) but I have worked with other similar companies (they are in the "expert network" industry).

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I'm a total sucker for math jokes.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 23/05/2026

They say the door to Hell is locked from the inside. And the same is true of reactionary politics. The solution to the Male Loneliness Epidemic <dismissive wanking gesture> is and has always been feminism. Simple as. Men, go clean your rooms and learn feminism.

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Never hurts to watch real estate deals...create an affiliated entity, buy property at an inflated price, sell it later at below market price back to the same owner, and the university takes the loss. It's the best kind of money laundering because it is the hardest to prove.

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The Ghost Of Titsmas Future @antinoe.prettyfem.me · 21/05/2026

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

When the writer of my favorite TV series meets my favorite Regional Sewer District.

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Apparently we were vibing yesterday with our posts on RCP 8.5. and now I'm following another smart person on Bluesky.

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Plausible doesn't mean likely. But the way I think about it, I'd rather characterize and communicate worst case scenario risks than blow past the likely outcome and find myself in uncharted territory. /end

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

But here's another on my mind. You've heard of the Anthropic Agentic Misalignment study? Combine this with Nick Bostrom's 2003 "Paperclip Maximizer" thought experiment and you have a plausible scenario for RCP 8.5 6/

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Those actors may be rational, but responding to different incentives (like maintaining power) rather than implementing climate solutions? We can see threads of this playing out in the U.S. 5/

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The IPCC members (and scenarios) are philosophically rooted in a philosophy of positivism. They implicitly assume that the ultimate RCP we end up with will be determined by rational actors. But this is an assumption. What if RCPs are ultimately determined by actors ignoring climate challenges? 4/

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

My experience with modeling -it is better to model the worst-case scenario to provide a boundary, even if reaching that boundary appears unlikely. By identifying possible but implausible limits, you can identify blind spots and anchor risk tolerance. Here are two salient points: 3/

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

While the climate system is well-characterized, the social-ecological system is not. Ignoring extreme tails in complex systems often leads to catastrophic "black swan" failures because these environments are non-linear and prone to cascading effects. social-ecological system is complex. 2/

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Here's a hill I will die on. RCP 8.5 is incredibly useful. RCP 8.5 (Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5) is a high-emissions climate scenario used by the IPCC to model the most extreme potential futures. It is currently considered unlikely, but that doesn't matter. A thread 1/

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"What went wrong"? This is many, many, many, many, many, many, many words to avoid saying "Brexit" Quite literally, a word that doesn't appear in the entire essay

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katya schwenk @katyaschwenk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

After an obscure defense vendor won a $12 million no-bid contract w/ ICE, I noticed something odd on its website: The firm was using a (still watermarked!) stock photo for the chief of its “development team.” Things only got more bizarre from there…

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

In the sixth round... Nashville warbler.

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