Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Unconscionable decision by the Northern Ireland High Court and Parade Commission. I hope everyone who approved this is haunted by the screams of the Quinn children for the rest of their lives. 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Amazing long read of a small group of determined scientists and volunteers trying to maintain the bison population in Ukraine despite a desperate lack of funds and while also dodging Russian drones. #environment #ukrainebiographic.comSaving Bison as Bombs Fall | bioGraphicAmid the destruction of war, Ukrainian conservationists remain determined to help a European bison herd persevere. 010
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm not found of the proliferation of drones but corporations don't deserve a right to privacy. Furthermore the language agribusiness is using to attack monitoring is the same they used in the 1990s when they accused animal welfare groups of being terrorist organizations. #environmenttheintercept.comFAA Investigates Drone Pilot Who Films Animal AbusersThe cattle ranch at the center of the case asked the FAA for strict drone regulations, saying legal flyovers threatened “food security.” 020
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026That federal, state, and local agencies were happily installing police-linked video cameras to spy on people while simultaneously dismantling sensors meant to ensure the air we breathe is safe is a dark illustration of where power and profit lie in this nation. #environmentfloodlightnews.orgAmerica’s air monitors are disappearing. So is your power to expose polluters.Across several states, a quiet chemical industry campaign is making it harder to hold polluters accountable. 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Clean water has to be a human right and there's a long, grim history of nations and empires that ignored that collapsing. I'm sure that if Kurt Engelhardt was forced to drink lead or PFAS contaminated water, he would quickly change his tune and maybe someone should look into that idk. #environmentmotherjones.comYou don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rulesA Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis. 022
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"...a program called “PlastiVan” that travels from city to city teaching students about “the contribution plastics make to modern life." is something you expect in an Armando Iannucci movie, not something permitted in a functional nation suffering the poisonous effects of microplastics. #environmentgrist.orgWhen plastic companies write the lesson plansThe plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. 011
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026These regulations were one of the very few successes that got past the Republican controlled Senate which addressed the staggering mortality rate in Cancer Alley. Now even these modest protections are under threat of being undone at the behest of chemical companies. #environmente360.yale.eduA Hard-Won Rule to Cut Chemical Plant Pollution Is Being UnraveledIn 2024, the Biden administration enacted wide-ranging regulations to protect communities near petrochemical plants from air toxics. The Trump administration has since granted exemptions to scores of… 020
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If you ever want to feel angry, look for testimonies by Palestinians who tried to help a relative or loved one across the Israeli wall and how the IDF allowed them to bleed out, or fatally sicken, and die in the ambulance. There are thousands of these incidents stretching back decades. #israelnewlinesmag.comThe Patients Israel Won't Let Leave GazaFor many Palestinians in the territory, survival depends on a chain of administrative decisions over which they have no control 010
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You might think Israeli politicians wouldn't target dissidents for harassment, lawsuits, and threats of having their citizenship removed they echo the lead-up to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws but hey time is a flat circle. #israeltheguardian.comIsraeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZAMiki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’ 110
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Climate change doesn't only manifest in the bleaching of coral reefs, it is a fundamental, verging on catastrophic change to where ocean species can survive and reproduce. While a few species will thrive, many risk devastating population loss and possible extinction. #environmentgrist.orgGray whales are starving as the Arctic warms. Will the US protect them?The population on the West Coast has plunged by half, and environmental groups might sue the Trump administration for ignoring their plight. 020
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Possibly the most succinct example of Christian Fascism (and how fascism is the endpoint of capitalism) where the environment and public health are sacrificed for corporate interests while the rights of women are stripped away and their lives monitored. #environmentmotherjones.comThe EPA would rather monitor abortion pills in water than pollutionThe agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone. 110
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I see we've reached the holy relics stage of the failed war. #ukrainetheguardian.comOrthodox church sends medieval prince’s remains to Russian troops in UkrainePart of Dmitry Donskoy’s right hand sent to ‘spiritually strengthen’ soldiers 010
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'm bemused how Saudi Arabia's war of choice with Yemen of America's war of choice with Iran will both backfire spectacularly with their opposition consolidating political power and geographic control of Arabia's two vital water routes.foreignpolicy.comThe Bab el-Mandeb ProblemHouthi control of a Red Sea port brings Tehran closer to claiming another critical waterway. 011
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There is absolutely no need to listen to claims from people who are working at the brain cooking factory. 020
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It's amazing how much CSAM has been essentially normalized as something the public must accept as part of being online rather than something that would have the company dismantled and the executives in prison for decades long stretches.arstechnica.com“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teensMeta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics. 130
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 06/09/2026These influencers need to be slapped in prison for a decade to stop this dangerous, exploitative behavior. This entire class needs to start experiencing harsh consequences for trying to turn our lives into content.theguardian.com‘This is colonialism for clicks’: the influencers attempting to meet and film the world’s most isolated tribesA new breed of adventurer is chasing internet fame by targeting uncontacted peoples. Critics say they are risking the wellbeing of these remote communities – and their own lives 011
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026When this administration is finally overthrown there needs to be not just a full reversal of every vile piece of discriminatory ruling, law, and regulation, but punishment meted out against every religious organization that sought to remove rights from queer people. #LGBTQtheintercept.comChristian Employers Can Now Discriminate Against Trans PeopleA settlement with the Christian Employers Alliance blocks the EEOC from ever investigating the group’s members for gender identity discrimination. 010
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Considering that Bluesky admins have a documented history of punishing transgender accounts for speaking out against bigotry on this site, this reeks of a new method deleting those accounts entirely. 1110
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It's refreshing to see a news outlet take a principled stand on this issue, especially when many of the larger organizations like the NYT, WaPo, and Atlantic are publishing virulent transphobia. 070
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 27/08/2026To their credit MapQuest also didn't change 'Gulf of Mexico' which has made it, along with Here Wego and OpenStreetMap, as an excellent alternative to the big three which have enabled Trump's Caligulian-phase. 020
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Ben-Gvir, the defense minister, out there making sure Israel isn't beating the Nazi comparisons. And no, don't come at me about it being out of context, when someone says, "They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people." that's the same things the Nazis said and wrote down. #israelapnews.comIsrael's Ben-Gvir advocates killing '30 to 40' people in Gaza nightly while speaking to ex-hostageAn extremist official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet has advocated for killing “30 to 40” people in Gaza each night. 020
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Israel has claimed that these incidents are either unintended or meant to deny cover for resistance fighters. The reality is that this is an arson campaign designed to make southern Lebanon unlivable, burning away forest and agriculture so the area can be made a free fire zone. #israeltheguardian.comIsrael deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters sayEmergency services, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Amazingly researched article that examines Israeli's missile strikes in Lebanon are done without any concern for civilian deaths and often seem to be done to effect maximum physical damage. Also telling is how Christian deaths get apologies from Israeli spokesmen while Arabs are ignored. #israelnewlinesmag.comIsrael Called Its Beirut Strikes Precise. We Reconstructed Five of ThemNew Lines investigates attacks in and around Lebanon’s capital, from a single destroyed room to flattened residential buildings, testing Israeli claims about distinguishing targets from civilians 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Lobbyists for Weyerhaeuser and IKEA bribed the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to submit new standards that claim that cutting down trees helps the climate, something in complete contradiction to every scientific paper published. #environmentsource-material.orgLobbyists push for declaration that felling trees helps the climateThe timber industry’s influence over forest carbon accounting rules risks derailing global carbon calculations, scientists warn. 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The industry lobbyists whispering in Trump's ear want to go back to devastating clear-cutting and destroy the already delicate eco-system at a time when global warming is making huge fires more common and deadly. #environmentreuters.comTrump administration moves to rescind rule that protects millions of forest acresThe Trump administration took a step toward rescinding a decades-old rule that protects undeveloped forests on Tuesday in a move it says will help manage wildfire risk, but which environmental groups... 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The USS Benfold was launched in 1993 and was retired from the Indo-Pacific, after a decade of service, last year but shoved back out because the corrupt procurement process has meant a Navy with decaying ships and systems that will fail the first time their is blue water combat.cnn.comUS Navy destroyer spent four days without power last month in South China Sea | CNNA US Navy guided-missile destroyer spent four days last month without working toilets, galley services and air conditioning in the blistering heat of the South China Sea after the warship lost power. 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 13/08/2026For some inexplicable reason I've found myself humming the theme to the old movie "Condorman" the last few days. 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 13/08/2026This idea that AI* can do research because it can handle data is a recycled from 2012-2013 when tech companies claimed their software solutions could crunch information to a degree that it negated the need for researchers in numerous scientific fields. 120
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 05/08/2026An excellent snapshot of the different ways Trump's illegal war on Iran has negatively affected people across the globe, pushing many into the margins and those already in trouble into poverty without an exit.apnews.comAcross the world, the Iran war is reshaping everyday lifePeople share stories of spiking gas prices, goodbyes filled with fear, livelihoods pushed closer to the edge — and days that no longer looked the way they once did. 010
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Bolsonaro's four years brought devastation to the already precarious ecosystem of the rainforest that will take decades of determined fighting and enforcement to repair. The soldiers on the front lines deserve all the support they need as well as recognition for their bravery. #environmenttheguardian.com‘It’s total devastation’: inside the Amazonian war against illegal gold miningThe Guardian goes on the ground with Brazilian forces fighting to eradicate mining that has destroyed protected areas of Indigenous land 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Although this will be likely overturned after another expensive court battle with activists, the companies that push for the exploit the land need to be seized, dismantled, and destroyed. No nation can long survive when corporations are so easily able to corruptly purchase public land. #environmentinsideclimatenews.orgTrump Again Shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, This Time by Much More - Inside Climate NewsTwo executive orders signed Monday afternoon slashed the size of the Utah national monuments revered by tribes and public lands advocates. Grazing, mining and drilling interests wanted them opened to… 010
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 23/07/2026After spending decades becoming addicted the cheap Russian gas, Europeans are adopting wood pellets with disastrous consequences for the people in communities surrounding the processing plants, and for the land as clear-cutting is being brought back into widespread use. #environmentveritenews.orgEurope gets ‘green energy’. These Southern towns get dirty air.In Louisiana and Mississippi, people living near wood-pellet mills say they’re getting sick because of air pollution. 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Survivors will someday marvel at the willfully blind self-destruction of the United States; where an LNG terminal is being built in a state already suffering from the rising sea level, so it can emit, and export, even more greenhouse gases, accelerating its own demise. #environmentgrist.orgThe most polluting LNG project in the US is being built in LouisianaThe sprawling facility near Lake Charles is expected to produce more emissions than any other LNG export terminal in the country. 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Even the most right-wing communities are facing-up to the fact that wind and solar projects are less expensive and take less time to install than it does to stand-up a gas-powdered plant. Combine that with the squeeze from datacenters and its become a crisis that cannot be wished away. #environmentinsideclimatenews.orgTrump Administration Abandons Fight Against Wind Energy as Clean Energy Output Surges - Inside Climate NewsThe clean energy sector is showing resilience despite challenges thrown at it by a hostile White House, a recent report found. A string of legal victories has further dampened the Trump… 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Always glad to see Trump lose in court but it would be nice if these judges would, for once, order reinstatement of these programs and set a timeline since failing to do so allows the administration to drag its feet for months, if not years, until the program is effectively dead anyway. #environmentmotherjones.comJudge says EPA illegally canceled a $2.8 billion environmental justice programBut he didn't order the agency to reinstate it. 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 21/07/2026It's depressing that it took the immense loss of life of the 2004 Tsunami to make communities and governments understand the vital importance of mangrove forests to not only absorbing storm surge but also stabilizing coastal lines and making them resistant to erosion. #environmentbbc.comMangrove forests are healing after decades of human destructionSwampy mangrove forests are staging a surprise comeback - which is good news for coastal communities and the climate. 020
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Even as pork producers are shifting away from cruel crate raising, major meat producers want to roll back safety and health protections and ban other states from instituting them. Glenn William Thompson (PA) is trying to shove agribusiness rules on behalf of his donors. #environment 010
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The determination of the Florida Republican party to halt building renewable energy systems or resilient infrastructure, even as the state faces rising seas and increasingly violent hurricanes due to climate change, is civilization suicide for the benefit of the one-percent. #environmentinsideclimatenews.orgNew Florida Law Bans Local Net-Zero Emissions Policies - Inside Climate NewsGov. Ron DeSantis characterized the clean energy goals the law bans as “radical climate policies,” although experts say the law will not necessarily upend the plans. 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The Mexican federal government has effectively abandoned people living outside the major cities, allowing cartels to capture businesses and territory. This reaches into everything, including the destruction of sensitive forests to grow more avocados to feed the American market. #environmentnewlinesmag.comThe Butterfly Effect of Mexico’s Cartel ViolenceMonarch butterflies are adored by locals in Michoacan, but pressure from drug gangs is putting the delicate insects in the crosshairs of illegal logging and avocado farming 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The Bureau of Land Management already sells out public land to ranchers for pennies, allowing them to degrade the environment out taxpayer expense. Facing push back, the Trump administration wants to completely close off public input so it can accelerate selling leases. #environmentpropublica.orgThe First Major Overhaul of Public Lands Grazing Regulations in a Generation Looks to Cut Out Public InvolvementFor the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations. The new rule, which governs ranching across 155 million acres of public lands in the West, would… 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Climate activists have been fighting in ExxonMobil in court to force them to reveal how much they knew about climate change and when. In response the company hired a public relations firm, DCI Group, which hired hackers to attack the activists and gather information for blackmail. #environmentgrist.orgThey wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked.A decade after climate activists' emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking. 001
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Microsoft does one good thing for the year in making the comic chat application open source which was special for Jim Woodring's artwork. If you're old enough to remember this, and Jerkcity, make sure take your calcium tonight.opensource.microsoft.comMicrosoft Comic Chat is now open source | Microsoft Open Source BlogMicrosoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world. 010
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"...publishers did not retreat from print. Instead they leaned into what the digital world couldn’t replicate: the tactile pleasure of a beautiful object, a cohesive world of recipes and stories, and the trust that comes from careful testing and editing."tastecooking.comWhy the Cookbook EnduresNot too long ago, the physical cookbook seemed to be heading toward the same fate as the compact disc. What happened was just the opposite. 001
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Really love niche books like these, and kudos to the cover designer who fought to get a translucent paper cover for the book so the hardcover image looks like a mirage. 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The Supreme Court made its ruling against the defendants today based on the EPA's finding while deliberately ignoring how the agency was fully compromised by Monsanto; insane corruption at all levels. #environmentmotherjones.comThe EPA relied on an influential glyphosate study even after learning Monsanto was a “ghost writer”A newly revealed government memo identifies yet another compromised paper used to justify Roundup’s safety. 111
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Well, I still have a terrible time sleeping but at least I'm now culturally educated on my insomnia! 000
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Yes, I know that Jacobin publishes at least one phenomenally stupid article each month in its magazine but its still worth a subscription. And the "Class War" game it put out a year ago, besides being a treat to play, has the good sense to poke fun at itself. 120
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Similar to Paolo Fanciulli's project of sinking statues off the Italian coast, the Marine Conservation Cambodia and the Cambodian government have started a project of depositing thousands of concrete pillars on the seafloor to stop trawling and which have already shown results. #environmentoceanographicmagazine.comConcrete towers on the seabed scupper Cambodia's illegal trawling - OceanographicMarine Conservation Cambodia has deployed 1,250 structures across southern Cambodia's coastal waters, deterring illegal bottom trawling. 010
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Although False Killer Whales are common, the distinct group around Hawaii has been suffering a population collapse that might be a warning for the entire species. Coral bleaching due to climate warming is reducing fish populations while commercial fishing is decimating what's left. #environmentnautil.usHawaii’s False Killer Whales Are Wasting AwayHawaii’s False Killer Whales Are Wasting Away: Nutritional stress depresses an already threatened population 012
Vaska Raeca @vaskaraeca.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The oil industry has left tens of thousands of unplugged or poorly plugged wells across the south which continue to pollute groundwater while also contributing to global warming. Legislatures in these states have often allowed companies to declare bankruptcy to avoid responsibility. #environmentinsideclimatenews.orgLow-Producing Oil Wells in Texas Cause Headaches for Landowners - Inside Climate NewsJackie Chesnutt, who lives outside San Angelo, is tired of pollution from wells she says should have been plugged years ago. Experts say Texas rules allow companies to defer plugging wells for far… 010