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Still wayfinding. Trying to understand paths during these times of planetary change. Open to feedback. Also on @vivekgani@mastodon.social Likes ≠ Endorsements

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Nathan Gilles @nathangilles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Possibly the nerdiest thing I've written for a general audience, my latest for @columbiainsight.bsky.social covers a new study that tests a simpler way to assign proportional blame for climate damages to individual fossil fuel companies. It mostly works. Mostly. columbiainsight.org/study-ties-o...
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Study ties oil companies to water crisis. Will it stick in court? - Columbia Insight
Litigants try to pin climate damages on fossil fuel corps with a novel method of attributing blame
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Always worth listening to Ellen Wohl, especially about rivers. blog.oup.com/2018/10/50th...
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Of gutters and ecosystems: the 50th anniversary of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
“Rivers are the gutters down which flow the ruins of continents.” – Luna B. Leopold Luna Leopold understood that rivers are far more than gutters. In a
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Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Texans, we NEED your help. Before the 2025 legislative session, a mob of book banners swarmed the Texas Senate Education committee, telling them HB900 wasn't resulting in enough books being banned, so we needed a new law. That laid the groundwork for SB13. They're going to try it again next week.
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Adam Calo @adamcalo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Has the theory land sparing seeped out of ecological journals and into the mainstream? New: The legend of land sparing in Agriculture and Human Values link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The legend of land sparing - Agriculture and Human Values
As institutions mobilize ambitious land-use transition agendas, dominant policy narratives risk constraining their transformative potential. The land sparing–land sharing (SpSh) framework, introduced ...
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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dove down this rabbit hole after reading a NY Times piece discussing the crisis facing forests in terms of "animism." It's an interesting, powerful frame: Ppl do think streams and trees have spiritual aspects, even if they're dismissed as kooks for saying so and the spirits don't have names anymore.
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Opinion | Our Forests Are Demanding a Sacrifice (Gift Article)
Wildfire converted me from a tree-hugger to a tree-worshiper.
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The grift is the point, every bit as much as the cruelty and the soft eugenics.
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Vikalp Sangam @vikalpsangam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We are excited to be launching a short online course with a field component on the theme of Urban Ecology and Alternatives through Kalpavriksh, Vikalp Sangam and a sub-group of The Alternatives Learning Collective (TALC). For any queries, please write to alt.edu@kalpavriksh.org
We are excited to be launching a short online course with a field component on the theme of Urban Ecology and Alternatives through Kalpavriksh, Vikalp Sangam and a sub-group of The Alternatives Learning Collective (TALC).

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Join Building Belonging & Resilience in Cities, a short online course with a field component.

Apply by 20th October and find more info here. 🍃🍃
Course Fees: Rs. 2500, scholarships available

For any queries, please write to alt.edu@kalpavriksh.org
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 25/09/2026
Did the #BorderWall Just Break on Tiny #SanYgnacio 's Two-Acre #Birding Sanctuary? 'F*ck It. Arrest me.' A conversation with Elsa Hull, a dedicated borderlands water protector arrested twice in Zapata County for resisting border wall construction. Full: deceleration.news/podcasts/bor...
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"we're going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity": Knowing your address, finding your way to and from home, ability to read a map or work from a mental map, see details in the patterns of tree bark or the shape of leaves or the shapes of the landscape that let you identify trees and landforms,
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Landscape Stewardship Collective @landscollective.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hello, Bluesky! 🌱 We’re Landscape Stewardship Collective, a new nonprofit connecting science with practical conservation & restoration. We translate genetic, ecological & climate information into practical decisions for land managers, seed growers & partners. landscollective.org
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Landscape Stewardship Collective | Restoration & Conservation
Landscape Stewardship Collective provides research and practical guidance for native plant restoration, seed sourcing, species conservation, and land stewardship.
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Dr. Michael Phillips @drmphillipsut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I just wrote about how "respectable" political hacks in Texas like U.S. Sen. John Cornyn made the ascent of explicit white nationalists like GOP Railroad Commission nominee Bo French possible. drmphillips2001.substack.com/p/texas-sena...
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Texas Senator John Cornyn and “Respectable” Racism
A Departing Political Hack Finds A White Supremacist He Doesn’t Like
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Paul Flahive @paulflahive.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Last weekend's ICE shooting of a DoorDash driver has highlighted how Texas is the epicenter of Trump's deportation machine. See the data here www.statesman.com/projects/202...
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Texas leads the US in ICE arrests, with more than 55,000 recorded this year
The shooting of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez happened after a surge in ICE arrests in Austin this summer.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature
Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...
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LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The number of billionaires in Texas went from 48 in 2015 to 83 in 2025. Learn more about the big tech billionaires taking over Texas and find out what this has meant for everyday Texans in our latest No Billionaires in our Backyard post. littlesis.org/news/the-big...
A heading reads, "the big tech billionaires taking over Austin, Texas." The text is green and blue over a dark blue background and silhouette of Texas state. Green icons surround the heading. The Vocal Texas and LittleSis logos are shown on the lower left corner of the graphic.
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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Farris questions why Garces Perez wasn’t immediately arrested, suggesting ICE agents didn’t view him as a threat after he was shot. “If you’re going to use deadly force, you’ve got to make sure that you are justified in what you’re doing before you do it,” he said. www.kxan.com/investigatio...
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New videos show moments before, after ICE shooting
Two new witness videos captured the moments immediately before and after Sunday’s shooting in Austin involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He still has the bullet in his neck. It was too close to the spine to remove quickly, and the staff at Dell Seton Medical Center, which is affiliated with @universityoftexas.bsky.social 's medical school, refused to treat him and instead turned him over to ICE.
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vivekgani.bsky.social @vivekgani.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is there a way to articulate the AI-generated flyer trend as a taboo? What if some consider it a means to an authentic end? bsky.app/profile/ntns... (Spent the past 2 weeks in various moments designing a non-AI event flyer, and sometimes feel disenchanted knowing it'll be posted next to slop)
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
Garces Perez has been released from the hospital into ICE custody—exactly the scenario the crowd here has been protesting against. He was making a DoorDash delivery when he was shot. Quick correction: he’s 28, not 29. www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Saul Elbein @saulelbein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you're at all interested in climate or energy not paying attention to the Texas Railroad Commission — our state's confoundingly-named oil and gas regulator — I don't even know what to tell you. Except that things are getting *crazy* there in a way that are a serious risk for Texas Republicans.
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Pablo De La Rosa @pablodelarosa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In the Rio Grande Valley: After a court halted border wall construction at a national refuge, an advocate says he looked into the open trench to find the panel ends, normally buried, showing 2020 dates. The only problem is funds were barred at the refuge that year.
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Environmental advocate says Santa Ana border wall steel dates to years when money was barred from the refuge
Rep. Henry Cuellar is seeking answers after an environmental advocate found that border wall panels installed at Santa Ana refuge carry 2020 fabrication dates, pointing to old funds Congress originall...
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Saudi Aramco told at least two oil refining customers in Europe that they will be allocated no crude next month under long-term agreements after the kingdom’s key pipeline to the Red Sea was attacked, people informed of the decision said."
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Saudis Tell European Refiners They’ll Get No Crude Next Month
Saudi Aramco told at least two oil refining customers in Europe that they will be allocated no crude next month under long-term agreements after the kingdom’s key pipeline to the Red Sea was attacked,...
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KXAN News @kxan.com · 16/09/2026
Hays County monitors mosquito populations and mosquito-borne diseases from May through November.
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Another mosquito trap in Buda tests positive for West Nile Virus
A mosquito trap sample collected in Buda on Sept. 10 tested positive for West Nile Virus, according to Hays County.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chicago Public Health announced today that we have a confirmed case of West Nile Virus. Please take it seriously! Might be oversharing but my grandfather died from complications from the 2013 Dallas WNV outbreak. Wear insect repellent and if you’re old / immunocompromised, stay in at dawn and dusk!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!! NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate. We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
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vivekgani.bsky.social @vivekgani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Despite all my LLM criticism, one of the areas Ive been passively watching is its use in opening up hardware. Some examples Ive seen include: - Aging & enshittifying 'home hub' computers - Linux support for ARM surface tablet PCs - Rooting locked down e-readers bsky.app/profile/anti...
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Dana Hull @danahull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Elon Musk’s America PAC is turning on the money spigot in Texas Senate race: docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...
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Schedule E for Report FEC-2012126
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I strongly recommend this doc! I learned a lot, especially about the history of eugenics and race science behind AI, from the 1800s to present day. The doc also features many great contributing experts.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 15/09/2026
The way the press is just treating OpenAI/Anthropic x-risk goons as somehow being the experts on things that are risks to humanity despite a half-century plus of climate scientists being ignored on climate risks and over-industrialization leading to runaway emissions is just fucking bleak man
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John Fleck @jfleck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We’ve got a podcast! We’ve got (well, at least briefly we had) a river! We recorded a podcast about the river! www.buzzsprout.com/2465964/epis...
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Water Update (09/09/26) - Water Matters!
A River (Ever So Briefly) ReturnsThis week’s water update is a special edition as Rin Tara and John Fleck take you out to the Rio Grand in Central Albuquerque to experience the brief return of the Rio...
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Marcel Harmon @mjharmon67.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What a recent report reveals about AI’s carbon footprint and why increasing data center efficiency isn’t enough, especially in light of a recent UN press release. marcelharmon67.substack.com/p/the-ai-foo...
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The AI Footprint Nobody Sees
What a recent report reveals about AI’s carbon footprint and why increasing data center efficiency isn’t enough, especially in light of a recent UN press release.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Back in 2002, the military launched a free-to-play computer game called “America’s Army” in order to glamorize war and recruit teenagers. Now we have this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The White House made an arcade game out of deporting people
It’s part of a long American history of gaming as propaganda.
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John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Check out my trip to the Dutch Pinball Museum where I discover a new FPS, possibly the first FPS. dutchpinballmuseum.com
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Does someone have a list of the 23 Forest Service research facilities that ended up being slated for closure? (Not the original longer list) apnews.com/article/fore...
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US Forest Service closing 23 research facilities as part of reorganization under Trump
The U.S. Forest Service is closing 23 research stations in more than a dozen states as part of an organizational overhaul under President Donald Trump.
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The Wind @thewind.org · 04/09/2026
an episode about this moment in making things and then putting them on the internet // featuring Alex Sujong Laughlin (defector), Janus Rose (404 and others), Dennis Funk (written in air), Amber Devereux (Tim Can Audio)
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The Format — The Wind
A hazy cloud of questions about our shared digital space sends me up the mountain to ask the radio towers.
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Robert Hirschfeld @rfhirschfeld.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Data center water issues aren't "fake." They are situational. And perhaps just as important, if the data-center-water discourse shines a spotlight on other, even more water-intensive industries and Illinois' lack of tools to manage water use generally, that's a good thing.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am having so much fun all of a sudden
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How To Fight Climate Disinformation In The Middle Of A Maybe Hurricane!
Spite. Works sixty percent of the time every time!
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In this Weather West post, I offer an update on my most recent thoughts re: tropical storm/soon-to-be-hurricane Marie and potential impacts (or not!) in California this weekend. Also: I assess record-breaking coastal SoCal humidity in summer 2026.
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Early-season trough will bring cooler weather and beneficial early-season rain to wildfire-stricken PacNW, and may also bring soon-to-be Hurricane Marie’s remnants toward SoCal over Labor Day - Weather West
September 2, 2026 - Daniel Swain - A brutally hot and humid Southern California August and a record-breaking wildfire season across interior PacNW & beyond August ended up being an exceptionally hot month across nearly the entire Southwestern U.S., including across nearly all of SoCal (even coastal areas). In fact, August was (yet again) a record warm month in many locations; in #
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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
[Norman Rockwell town meeting guy]: I still think 1.5°C of warming is bad
Screenshot of paper showing 1.5C is catastrophic for coral reefs
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 02/09/2026
Now: I’m at an opening keynote of a data center industry conference in Austin. Local enviro orgs are protesting outside. Grassroots resistance is a major theme of Morgan Lewis partner Andy Lipman’s remarks. “Something that started on the progressive left but is now, amazingly, bipartisan,” he says 🧵
Photo of protest outsideSlide of major conference themes
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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I really hope I got this wrong. But I believe the stage is set for a global food crisis, the likes we haven’t seen since the 1970s. Will it materialize in the coming year? In this article, I break it down. #ElNino #GlobalWarming #Iran #Ukraine sciencepolitics.org/2026/09/02/t...
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The Coming Global Food Crisis? - Science Politics
A Warning...
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Adam Calo @adamcalo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In a new publication I explore how right-wing social movements invoke the sanctity of property to build agrarian coalitions and why this is problematic for the good food movement.
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Frontiers | Farmers and the defense of property
This article explores how the invocation of property serves as a key legitimizing practice for contemporary right-wing social movements within agri-food syst...
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adam mahoney (he/him) @adamlmahoney.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Trump admin has announced a massive oil deal w/ Venezuela. 65 billion barrels of oil will be shipped to Texas and Louisiana, and refined along the Gulf Coast. Already, one of the refineries receiving this oil this year has seen a major accident: capitalbnews.org/port-arthur-...
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An Oil Explosion in a Black Texas Town Traces Back to Trump's Iran and Venezuela Crises
“The chickens have come home to roost,” one resident said. “Our exact fears have come true.”
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Pablo De La Rosa @pablodelarosa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Brownsville Commissioner Tino Villarreal says there will be a town hall on SpaceX land deal, according to a FB exchange with civic organizer Denisse Carreon. Villarreal replied that details are coming and confirmed it would be open mic. No date or location yet as of Sunday night.
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vivekgani.bsky.social @vivekgani.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thinking aloud, on a recent ecohana.org call all the issues around making a commons work (and reflecting on many issues & failures) came up. While I haven't read it deeply there's an interesting interview by @adamcalo.bsky.social w/ @davidbollier.bsky.social touching on Ostrom commons limitations:
Highlighted excerpt from 'Property vs. the Commons' (Adam Calo interviewing David Bollier, July 2026, https://adamcalo.substack.com/p/property-vs-the-commons ): 

[David Bollier:] "We came to realize that the [Elinor] Ostrom approach [Ostrom was the renowned, Nobel laureate scholar of the commons] is grounded in the economistic framework of commons-as-resources. I don’t want to say this approach is “wrong,” but it is limited. Because we realized that the commons is a social system of relationality."
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Cora Neas, ghost reporter @corabora.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Trying out something new! Here's a rundown of the stories I covered this week, starting with an air conditioning outage at the Austin Animal Center on Monday: www.kxan.com/news/local/a...
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Air conditioning units in Austin Animal Center dog kennels restored, now broken in cat area
Austin Animal Service said in a Monday social media post that two of the facility’s six dog runs lost AC. After that was fixed, an area that houses cats started having issues.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 28/08/2026
Really dislike the performative yawl, coming over all small-mizzened easy-cruising elegance when really it’s nothing more than some slab-sided Dutch-built bugger
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hindi/Urdu speakers on the modern internet have an unfair social media character efficiency advantage because if wewant a short gender neutral collective we say"y'all"but if we want a short gender neutral singular, we also say "yaar"
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vivekgani.bsky.social @vivekgani.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
ICYMI last day to RSVP for a sunday morning Austin Dog's Head paddle, details below.
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vivekgani.bsky.social @vivekgani.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Feels like a good time to remember the flows of water, and #transboundary watersheds of Turtle Island... ( image references in alt, #transboundariness )
Images of transboundary watersheds and aquifers:

Upper image: transboundary waters between USA and Canada from https://ijc.org/en/transboundary-waters ( via https://sfba.social/@KeithDJohnson/111938732680067900 )

Lower image: Transboundary aquifers between USA and Mexico, from " Transboundary Aquifers between Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico, and California, Arizona and New Mexico, United States: Identification and Categorization
by Rosario Sanchez and Laura Rodriguez" ( https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/20/2878 )
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vivekgani.bsky.social @vivekgani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Interesting to come across this thread again when looking at Gates' latest essay saying "Breakthrough Energy, a company I founded, will use AI to help companies develop cheap clean energy and help solve the climate problem" (from www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-...)
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