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@wisconsam.bsky.social
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Born 2 blog. Covering climate. Professionally nosy. News & UX u can use. Friend-aunt. Knitter. Of the prairie.

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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Isaias is expected to make landfall as a hurricane Friday night or early Saturday, but the storm will likely be accelerating and expanding as it approaches. People well east of the landfall location may experience deteriorating weather Friday afternoon: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/stre...
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Strengthening Isaias expected to hit the U.S. Gulf coast Friday as a hurricane » Yale Climate Connections
Isaias is expected to quickly strengthen into the season’s first hurricane by early Thursday – the latest first-forming Atlantic hurricane in reliable records by a wide margin.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Both names ending in Y too really make the whose sign is it game hard on the highway if the left side of the sign is blocked by something
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Drinking an iced coffee on a 74F October day in Wisconsin while waiting for my electric car to charge and editing an article about a climate-change-supercharged future hurricane in the Gulf. Life is full of climate change.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*stares pointedly at everyone who ran a 'The Atlantic could go a whole season without a hurricane' article in the last couple weeks*
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
steinbeck east of eden this kazan east of eden that sorry I only care about Michelle Kwan 2001 U.S. Nationals East of Eden SP
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was driving around Oconto County this weekend, and we were playing the 'whose sign is that' game. One house had both right next to each other!
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do Crowley and Tiffany have the same marketing team why are the yard signs identical lol
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Black students are demanding accountability from University of North Carolina administrators after a man threatened and yelled racial slurs at students during a watch party. bit.ly/46P96HR
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Black UNC Students Say the University Failed Them After a Racist Attack
A recent incident during a TV watch party illustrates the racial tensions reported on some college campuses.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
👏 will be saying this all the time now
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i'm happy for everyone who likes email newsletters but my brain does not want to open a single email so i'm still just wandering the internet like 'i miss twitter how do i get information?'
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
wanna understand how fossil fuel companies are burning the world? Made you a thing <3 flipboard.com/@yaleclimate...
flipboard.com
Calling out polluters
Our stories that highlight the damage the fossil fuel industry is inflicting upon individuals, communities, and the world.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
been playing around with flipboard at work and it's making me be like.. maybe i should use flipboard to get my news instead of this site
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the receptionist at the vet calls my dog miss giardia. at the local pet store she's in the system as silly tilly. she hasn't even lived here for two months and she's already famous about town
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wow. Sounds like we should just shut down these companies and stop using it?
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
love when i'm in a meeting, and there are puppy snores coming from her crate 🥹
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"If we believe a world beyond the war on terror is possible, then we have to act as though it is by refusing its normalization, confronting the institutions & narratives that have allowed it to continue, and building towards collective liberation..." -Maha Hilal truthout.org/articles/25-...
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25 Years Later, We Still Live in the World the War on Terror Made
The war on terror was not inevitable, nor was the extraordinary violence carried out in its name necessary.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"if there are any people on earth who understand how new york is feeling right now, they are in the west bank and the gaza strip." www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDyL...
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Def Poetry: Suheir Hammad- ''First Writing Since'' (Official Video)
YouTube video by Poetical Tv
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Exactly lol
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I love when software dev friends come to me with their existential crises about the industry changing and I get to be like… bro, I’m in journalism.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
i'm an active hope fangirl
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
my knitting group is going public again, and we are so excited to make new friends. come thru!
Weekly Craft Night with Isthmus Yarns and friends

Where: Madison Public Market! We’ll likely be outside on the patio while it’s nice out, but check the mezzanine if we’re not there. When: Thursdays from 5-8 p.m. starting 9/17
 
What: Come make new friends and knit, crochet, or do any kind of craft you like! 
 
Accessibility: Please wear a mask. If you're planning on eating, please move to another table while you do and come back when you're done. Masks provided if needed.

Questions? Email Sam at samharrin@gmail.com
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
She thinks my job is play with her she doesn’t understand when I say I must labor for wages to pay for her giardia meds
A puppy chewing a boneA puppy biting a rope toy
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Neither the U.S. nor Canada have shown any kind of respectful care for the Great Lakes tbh. mend the broken treaties, give the land back
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This pipeline, Line 5, sprang a methane gas leak yesterday in Wisconsin.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Environmentalists, despite what I know some folks want to say about how dangerous I am... What they’re scared of is Enbridge... We have an oil giant, a Goliath, who absolutely has more power than a sitting governor of a free state" yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/the-...
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‘The Earth itself was screaming out:’ Bay Mills Indian Community fights pipeline permitting while enveloped in wildfire smoke » Yale Climate Connections
A Canadian oil and gas company wants to continue operating its Michigan pipeline for 99 more years. Tribes and climate groups are pushing back.
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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In Texas prisons, uncooled housing areas can reach more than 110 degrees. Now, a federal court is considering whether those conditions violate the Constitution – a ruling that could have implications far beyond Texas. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/a-fe...
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A federal case in Texas could change how we treat prisoners during hot weather » Yale Climate Connections
As heat waves intensify, advocates are pushing for protections for incarcerated people, who have little ability to escape dangerous temperatures.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
So bossy!!
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
we adopted a four-month-old cattle dog mix who thinks SHE is in charge and we are disobedient cows, which only adds to the extreme eldest daughter energy of my household
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Bay Mills, Bad River, and so many other Anishinaabe tribes in the Upper Midwest are taking on Big Oil while also fighting to adapt to a fast-warming boreal landscape.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Unbeatable evening
A book on a beach blanket in the foreground. In the background: Lake Superior A photo of a Lake Superior beach
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Scenes from Mooningwaanikaaning where I was so excited to learn about The Flicker House and the Great Lakes Lifeways Institute. So important to see Ojibwe presence on Main Street of their stolen home island
A sign that reads stop line 5 not needed not safeThree Ojibwe canoes. A recently built birch bark canoe, an old and weathered dug out canoe, and a modern dug out canoe  
Bathroom graffiti that reads Free Palestine and Land Back among other things A sign that reads: Aaniin, visitors. Welcome to Mooningwaanikaaning. the homeland of the Ojibwe people. The Ojibwe name for Madeline Island means "home of the yellow-breasted flicker bird." This island was the last-foretold stopping point on the Ojibwe migration from the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and the Atlantic Ocean. Hundreds of years ago, a prophet instructed the Anishinaabeg to move west until they found the food that grows on water and a sacred island. There, they could live mino-bimaadiziwin, which means to live in a good way with intention and to be in balance and at peace with yourself, others, and the environment. They brought with them the Water Drum, Sacred Scrolls, and the Sacred Fire transported from location to location for over 500 years. Hundreds of miles
were traveled via jiimaanan (canoes)
following the Great Lakes.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New hot take just dropped: Open concept homes are an extension of the surveillance state
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The fact that almost the entirety of mainstream punditry and political consulting is lying to you about these policies not being popular and needing to invest more money in surveillance, cops, cages, and family separation is one of the great propaganda scandals of our time.
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Rob Chappell @robchappell365.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Dems need Hong voters. “Whew good thing you guys didn’t fuck it up for us” is not the way to get them
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Would love to see some of them run for mayor 👀
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
that’s my new assembly rep ❤️
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I’m in the most beautiful place in the state (world) and I kayaked into sea caves today and I’m so sleepy I’m gonna go to bed before the polls even close ✌🏻
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Meanwhile saw a handful of Fran signs on red cliff tribal land
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Saw a house with a tom tiffany sign and a confederate flag in ashland county today 🫠
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
popping in from vacation to say read this story, please. I worked hard on it yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/the-...
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‘The Earth itself was screaming out:’ Bay Mills Indian Community fights pipeline permitting while enveloped in wildfire smoke » Yale Climate Connections
A Canadian oil and gas company wants to continue operating its Michigan pipeline for 99 more years. Tribes and climate groups are pushing back.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If arts & crafts was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, is “whimsy” the reaction to the smart tech one
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It's a good question. We have a few stories about that: yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/09/how-... yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/07/how-...
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A huge increase in climate change-induced flood risk from sea level rise, heavier rainfall, and stronger/slower-moving hurricanes is nearly certain to force abandonment of portions of the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic coasts by late this century, even under a moderate global warming scenario. 1/7
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The floods of the future won't come one at a time » Yale Climate Connections
A dangerous collision of storm surge, torrential rain, and sea level rise threatens to overwhelm communities from Texas to Maine.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
..that is not their real fear. Their fear is that the left will go on to win the general election, and, like Mamdani in NYC, prove that the left can govern. They are willing to throw the general election to Republicans by smearing the left and demoralizing the Dem base to avoid that outcome.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
used my newsletter power this week to write about the real threat to youth sports: climate change yaleclimateconnections.org/newsletter/t...
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The real threat to youth sports: Climate change » Yale Climate Connections
On the field, kids are dealing with dangerous heat-related illnesses and rained-out or wildfire-smoked-out games.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
goldfish 🫠 goldfinch.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
some things I saw in my lunch walk: a goldfish on a zinnia, surprise lilies, a dead cicada getting chomped by ants, a small group of people with a tent in a park being watched by a cop in a car
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