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TCarlson @tcw123.bsky.social · 17h
#NOKINGS #Resisters #Wisconsin Appleton Wisconsin Living Wage Town Hall Wednesday, October 21 6 – 7:30pm CDT Appleton Beer Factory 603 W College Ave Appleton, WI 54914 www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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Appleton Living Wage Town Hall · Mobilize
Join Wisconsin's Living Wage Coalition for a Living Wage Town Hall in Appleton at the Appleton Beer Factory Wednesday, October 21st from 6:00pm - 7:30pm We are honored and excited to have special gu...
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@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h
Sen. Patty Murray: "This is the #SocialSecurity Election. Senators who get elected this fall will decide the future of Social Security. REMINDER: Top Republicans are calling Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme' and a 'scam'.” Those Republicans are lying. #PersonalFinance copy: @renewedresistance […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h
I did a shitload of writing today. I'm quite happy about how much I got done! But it wasn't enough. Which overdue thing should I work on for the evening that's supposed to be a holiday actually? 😭
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16h
4/ I’ve had my eye on Samuel Samson for a while. He’s an alum of American Moment. Thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
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People Power United @peoplepowerunited.bsky.social · 21h
🌳 Make a plan. Bring a friend. Cast your ballot. bit.ly/NoKingsMovem... #PowertothePeople #NoKings #NoKingsVoteEarly
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21h
LOVELY NEWS: a planned data centre running exclusively on fossil fuels at the site of gas field has been cancelled. Plan B for the fossil fuel industry is starting to show cracks. What's Plan C? www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/orca...
News article screenshot reporting Orcadian Energy has canceled plans to power an offshore data center with North Sea gas, showing the headline, a highlighted lead sentence, and a sunset-lit offshore oil platform photograph.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21h
7/ bsky.app/profile/jenn...
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 20h
#NoKings
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 20h
📌 ICYMI — Reform UK’s James Orr’s Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister — @nafeez.bsky.social The latest National Conservatism conference, held in Jerusalem, was co-sponsored by an Israeli NGO sanctioned by the EU and Canada
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Reform UK’s James Orr’s Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister
The latest National Conservatism conference, held in Jerusalem, was co-sponsored by an Israeli NGO sanctioned by the EU and Canada
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
NEW: 1) A pulse check on Christian nationalism's (ugly) thriving 2) Receipts on the US' founding as secular/pluralistic 2) A lesser-discussed backstory on how the Right ascended (hint: they deliberately jacked progressive tactics) 3) What this & other wisdom teaches about how we can win today.
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What We're Doing in this Handbasket (& How We Get Out)
The lesser-known origin of Christian Nationalism's organizing game
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20h
Just posting here for posterity: I found a company ripping original analyses, findings and calculations I've done (clearly using an LLM) to sell subscriptions to their software product. lnkd.in/p/enhuFrdE www.greenseal.dev/blog/2026-10... archive.ph/wip/pdjqD
How AI quietly rewrote Big Tech's climate promises
October 12, 2026 · Luís Cruz

In 2020, Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030 and Google called 24/7 carbon-free energy “our biggest sustainability moonshot yet”. Six years and one AI boom later, the companies’ own data puts all four of the biggest cloud and AI providers roughly 60 to 80% above where they stood around the time they made those promises. The pledges were quietly reworked to fit. Goals became moonshots, baselines became year-over-year, “100% renewable” came to mean a yearly total rather than the power actually running the servers, and carbon-neutral claims were discontinued. Here is the scorecard, how the goalposts moved, and what to ask your AI vendors.“AI will help solve it”
Alongside the rising numbers runs a second narrative. Google and BCG wrote in 2023 that AI “has the potential to help mitigate 5-10% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030”, a projection from a consultancy report, not a measurement.20 Microsoft called AI “an essential tool to accelerate progress toward sustainability”.21 Google’s 2026 report announcement estimates that nine of its products helped others reduce about 41 million tonnes, “roughly three times Google’s own emissions”.6

Maybe. But enabled or avoided emissions are counterfactual estimates with no agreed standard, and they cannot be subtracted from an emissions inventory. However large the estimate:

A tonne someone else might not have emitted is not a tonne you did not emit.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h
Oracle, 29th largest company in the world, led by Larry Ellison, books looking bad, bet huge on AI, tens of billions in negative cash flow, and if the company goes down, there’s a good chance it takes the AI bubble and Skydance down with it.
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 23h
This is NOT an ad for @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social’s new documentary “MUSK” (in theaters now). We are promoting it for free. Join us right here on October 20, 2026 at 9am Pacific/noon Eastern for a livestream hosted by @niedermeyer.online.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20h
The key to writing these articles is to catastrophically fail to distinguish between different subtypes of AI, and in doing so, present a weirdly absurd coupling that ends up justifying the excesses of the tech industry theconversation.com/will-ai-be-g...
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Will AI be good or bad for the climate? Here’s what the latest evidence on energy use suggests
AI data centres are using vast amounts of energy, but that is expected to grow fast.
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@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
John Fugelsang: "Three nations hold public executions: Iran, Taliban-led Afghanistan, and now the United States. Saudi Arabia did it but discontinued #PublicExecutions in 2019. Pete Hegseth is going to roll out a guy in a wheelchair, to be murdered by the state, while people watch […]
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/10/2026
Tech companies have realised every time this spectre comes up all they have to do is say "Yes, but do it this way" and 'this way' = dodgy loopholes, certificates, offsets and cheats that create the perfect illusion of regulation, particularly in a way that staves off criticism from climate ppl
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How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to freely pollute
Data centre greenwashing is getting worse, alongside the tech industry’s hunger for fossil fuels. Why help them?
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𝔹𝕣𝕦𝕤𝕙𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 🔜 Furpoc DD E37 @brushfeather.art · 11/10/2026
New cards deserve a new card holder! (actually because my other one smashed 🙃) Got a blank and made it personal. ✨ #art
A wooden business card holder in the shape of a bird painted like a Carolina Wren. The cards sit in a slot along its back and tail.
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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Keep going after the Russian data centers!
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weit_im_westen @weit-im-westen.nrw.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
#scotland #hebrides #landscapephotography #photography #seascape #silentsunday
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@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
#GoodNews. According to Jaroslaw Wolski: after Ukraine's drones attacked the Yandex bot farm in Russia, "support for AfD in social media has dropped by 56%. Fewer Russian accounts pretending to be Polish accounts incited against Ukrainians, fewer Russian […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Lora @educated-guesser.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Rally on Wheels Redding, CA mobility support for #NoKings day.
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amalia @amalia22.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
'Just canceled your order': Elon Musk trolled as he 'doxxes himself' with his full address - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-26780711…
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Newsom rejecting the billionaire wealth tax is one thing. Supporting the billionaires' poison pill alternative which would ban taxes on assets permanently, end any chance to fix stepped-up basis, & could be used by an enterprising lawyer to invalidate vehicle fee or other tax changes is another.
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Newsom Backs Measure That Could Invalidate Billionaire Tax
The California governor opposes the proposed levy on ultrawealthy that goes before voters on Nov. 3.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The US president is incredibly weak on the world stage. Demands concessions from Iran. Gets less than nothing. Tells Ukraine to lay off Russian oil infrastructure. They hit more targets within less than a day. Threatens other countries to join anti-Iran sanctions. China and others laugh it off.
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Attorney General Phil Weiser sues U.S. Department of Labor for ending unemployment insurance system improvements grants coag.gov/press-releases/attorney-ge…
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
625 New Cosy Crime Novels for Autumn! (My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com)
Title: 625 new cosy crime novels for autumn! (pick one option from each column) 

Column 1: (one option) The.

Column 2: (five options) Chipping-Sodbury, Bishop's Stortford, Kirkby Stephen, Saffron Walden, Melton Mowbray. 

Column 3: (five options) Retired Librarians', Parish Council,Lawn Bowlers', Pub Regulars', Women's Institute.

Column 4: (five options) Murder, Burglary, Littering, Bigamy, Poisoning. 

Column 5: (five options) Investigation Society, Revenge Guild, Detection League, Punishment Club, Inspection Unit.
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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This ⬇️ And if you live overseas and have already mailed in your vote, or have done the same as absentee voter living in the U.S., check online to be sure your vote gets counted.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thousands of Brazilian students took to the streets a few days ago to protest right wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro after he won 2 million more votes than the incumbent, President Lula, in the first round of the election. Claims of US election interference abound. 1/
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/10/2026
They have been dealing secretly with Putin for weeks over this. Impeach. Impeach. Impeach.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 10/10/2026
"Tax our wealth and provide basic income and we'll all leave and everyone will stop working," says the person with way too much wealth who never stops wanting more more more more more.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No “I’ll hurt immigrants too” or “I’ll repress trans people too” with a “that’s just what voters believe” rationalization. No treating “working class” and “white working class” as interchangeable synonyms. No effort to court tech oligarchs. No “Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way.”
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Carl Sullivan @csullivan.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Very cool midterms project from Graze Social.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
After seeing so many elites—in business, media, politics, more—eagerly jump on board with Trumpism fascism, or weakly acquiesce to it, the public is craving leaders who act like this awfulness is serious and bad. Yes, the public. The real public. A majority of the people, not only right-wing volk.
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❌👑🐸 Deb Verla 💙 Register Democrats 🌎 Save the world ❌👑🐸 @villaverla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
On October 17, join the No Kings movement for a day of nonviolent action In America, power doesn’t belong to billionaires or would‑be kings—it belongs to the people. Join together to defend the freedom to vote Make your plan to vote early. #Voterizer #NoKings social.fieldteam6.org/s/QfGkedJU
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Find a No Kings protest near you
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they’re operating from a position of despair, not strength check, double-check and triple-check your voter registration and make a plan to vote encourage everyone you know to do the same
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The announcement that the Pentagon is going to live stream the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan needs to be understood in the context of the state-sponsored bloodlust for their chief enemies: Muslims and alleged socialists.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 08/10/2026
The last public execution in America was in 1936. A young black man in Kentucky was hanged by a drunk executioner; a news story said "They Ate Hotdogs While a Man Died." Was such an embarrassment that the governor outlawed it 18 months later www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Any fool can see the absurdity of culling an animal that lives for 400 years and only reaches sexual maturity at 150.
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To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark
As trawlers compete with Greenland sharks for halibut and cod, conservationists and fishers clash over what to do about misunderstood species
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Taking a shelter dog out for a skip day is (1) enormous fun (2) absolutely free (3) a great way to get your steps (4) a wonderful gift to a blameless sentient creature that is spending its life in a prison cell for the crime of existing.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million/yr on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” Investing in bike infrastructure saves money.
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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Last weekend 🙌 GO SOLAR SOLAR SAVES 👏👏👏 #auspol #ClimateAction #solar
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don’t think the mayor of New York can control events in Israel-Palestine, and it’s weird to treat him like he has. Thinking that the murder of innocent civilians is bad, and valuing the safety of all types of people in his city, are very reasonable positions.
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Brian Harrod @brianharrod.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
#LOL... Surely more data centers will help with this issue... THE GUARDIAN: US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds For-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are "supercharging water rate hikes".... […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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TCarlson @tcw123.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#WETHEPEOPLE #NOKINGS #OHIO No Kings: Vote Early - Jefferson County, Ohio Saturday, October 17 11am – 1:30pm EDT Sign up for more details. www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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No Kings: Vote Early -- Jefferson County, Ohio · Mobilize
From the Midwest Center for Constitutional Rights: Jefferson County Patriots (yes, that's us!) Get ready for a very special NO KINGS! Sign up now for a GET OUT THE VOTE event like no other. On 10/17...
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Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 07/10/2026
Tomorrow! The Basics of Basic Income, 5:30 to 7pm at Mountlake Terrace Library. Know someone in the Seattle area who's curious about UBI? Tag them below and bring a friend! #BasicIncome #UBI
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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The case for impeachment, by Philly @inquirer.com Editorial Board. Gift link. share.inquirer.com/DjHZUj @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social @sulliview.bsky.social
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The Case for Impeachment: What would the Founders do?| Editorial
The list of the president's high crimes and misdemeanors is breathtaking.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i want him to live long enough to see everything of his destroyed
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Flipboard News Desk @newsdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
"Elon Musk, the world's richest human, is a white supremacist." Joel Swanson writes for Religion Dispatches about all the evidence for this, and how the press and other influential voices "continue to launder Musk's unambiguous views." flip.it/5zBROS #ElonMusk #Racism #Media
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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Yes. I've used LibreOffice for years now and I'll keep using it going forward. LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature Zack Whittaker 8:25 AM PDT · October 6, 2026 techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/libreoffi…
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 06/10/2026
"Justice Department officials said Rush siphoned off $194 million in government funds, using his position at the CIA to create an elaborate scheme designed to facilitate his “maximum self-enrichment at the expense of the United States.”
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