Amy Cooke
@cookeagain.bsky.social
Crafter, environmental prof, Tar Heel, RPCV 🇰🇪. Wants to do most things the hard way.
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I see people sharing this, maybe as an act of shared mourning, an attempt to stir action, or confirmation that the world sucks. The death of reef ecosystems pushed me into a panic about climate change in 2013 & led to me starting the Climate Anxiety Counseling booth in 2014. So, a few things (1/5)
… today, a group of 160 scientists from 23 countries is announcing that the planet has already reached its first major tipping point: the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs.
Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’
A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.
grist.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I see people sharing this, maybe as an act of shared mourning, an attempt to stir action, or confirmation that the world sucks. The death of reef ecosystems pushed me into a panic about climate change in 2013 & led to me starting the Climate Anxiety Counseling booth in 2014. So, a few things (1/5)
I want to walk my dog.
the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production
we need a slur for people who want this future
September 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I want to walk my dog.
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the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production
September 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production
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Vaccines do not cause autism.
August 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Vaccines do not cause autism.
Saving. Just in case.
For university courses about #FoodEconomics, a full set of class slides, weekly exercises, & exams is now available for use with the free online textbook from @afinaret.bsky.social and me. Audience is advanced undergrads and first-year grad students using graphical diagrams, examples and global data
Teaching resources – Food Economics
sites.tufts.edu
August 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Saving. Just in case.
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Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
August 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
And it’s good to have something to look forward to.
July 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
And it’s good to have something to look forward to.
But I’m getting there day by day!
July 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
But I’m getting there day by day!
I can’t wait to be an old person.
July 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I can’t wait to be an old person.
My eldest graduated in 2023 and we were starting to see problems but for my youngest, class of 2026, I rearranged my schedule to drive him bc I couldn’t guarantee there would be a bus in the AM and they didn’t even give him a bus option in the PM.
July 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
My eldest graduated in 2023 and we were starting to see problems but for my youngest, class of 2026, I rearranged my schedule to drive him bc I couldn’t guarantee there would be a bus in the AM and they didn’t even give him a bus option in the PM.
Road to Nowhere and (no mentioned yet) Don’t Worry About the Government. It’s so perky and absurd that it usually makes me laugh. But it might be chilling a bit rn, the more that I think about it. Hmph
July 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Road to Nowhere and (no mentioned yet) Don’t Worry About the Government. It’s so perky and absurd that it usually makes me laugh. But it might be chilling a bit rn, the more that I think about it. Hmph
No words
Well tonight’s Friday government news dump is horribly depressing- EPA to eliminate their entire research branch (ORD). I’ve been on ORD’s science advisory board the last few years and they do amazing work across climate, air, water and other issue. This sucks www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
No words
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Here Vox's explainer for just what is going on at the Department of Education which includes me saying I don't have faith in financial aid disbursement next year and, oh yea, I think we're in a constitutional crisis
www.vox.com/policy/40233...
www.vox.com/policy/40233...
March 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Here Vox's explainer for just what is going on at the Department of Education which includes me saying I don't have faith in financial aid disbursement next year and, oh yea, I think we're in a constitutional crisis
www.vox.com/policy/40233...
www.vox.com/policy/40233...
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Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United.
Repost if you agree.
Repost if you agree.
July 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United.
Repost if you agree.
Repost if you agree.
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Workers from Jamaica and Mexico are human beings...they need what has been proven to save lives: shade, water and paid rest breaks, to be safe, while performing strenuous work during dangerously high temperatures. Any suggestion otherwise is racist.
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
Advocates Say Leaked Farm Bureau Memo Promotes Racist Science - Documented
In opposition to the Temp Act, farm industry memo claims that Caribbean and Latino immigrants would “Feel Very Comfortable Working in New York in the Summertime.”
documentedny.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Workers from Jamaica and Mexico are human beings...they need what has been proven to save lives: shade, water and paid rest breaks, to be safe, while performing strenuous work during dangerously high temperatures. Any suggestion otherwise is racist.
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
Where they used insect / pest imagery — specifically cockroaches, I believe
July 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Where they used insect / pest imagery — specifically cockroaches, I believe
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@michaelhapp.bsky.social : “There’s not been a lot of clarity. Some of the money has been released, but a lot of it still hasn’t. And there’s a lot of mixed messages coming from USDA, and farmers are getting frustrated and confused, understandably.” @iatp.bsky.social
The study showed that even a relatively brief pause in funding provided by Biden-era IRA legislation could push many farmers out of these conservation efforts entirely.
Report: A Pause to Land Conservation Programs Funding from USDA Could Kill Their Momentum
Enrollment rates for two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation programs spiked after the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) allocated billions of dollars to them, but agriculture experts warn that a pause on conservation funding could stall the momentum that was building for more sustainable farming practices. A recent study from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy found that in Fiscal Year 2024, about 44% of applicants to the USDA’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and 55% of applicants to the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) were awarded grants.
dailyyonder.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
@michaelhapp.bsky.social : “There’s not been a lot of clarity. Some of the money has been released, but a lot of it still hasn’t. And there’s a lot of mixed messages coming from USDA, and farmers are getting frustrated and confused, understandably.” @iatp.bsky.social
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Meanwhile, I have relatives who are gloating about how awesome this is to watch. They’d vote for a third season if they could.
June 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Meanwhile, I have relatives who are gloating about how awesome this is to watch. They’d vote for a third season if they could.
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Who wants this
E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Who wants this
And I never picked it up when I had electricity again. The convinces me that seeing it might be as good as the soundtrack (which I have listened to)
June 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
And I never picked it up when I had electricity again. The convinces me that seeing it might be as good as the soundtrack (which I have listened to)
If, like me you haven’t read/seen Les Mis this thread is an amazing recap of a bonkers plot
true story: I got it in paperback from a street vendor in Tanzania, the print was waaaaaay to small to read by camp light.
true story: I got it in paperback from a street vendor in Tanzania, the print was waaaaaay to small to read by camp light.
Wait wait wait wait hold up. Trump went to LES MISERABLES??? Like I know he can’t even pronounce it, much less understand the plot, but that’s even MORE on-the-nose than Pence seeing Hamilton.
Holy shit that’s hilarious
Holy shit that’s hilarious
June 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If, like me you haven’t read/seen Les Mis this thread is an amazing recap of a bonkers plot
true story: I got it in paperback from a street vendor in Tanzania, the print was waaaaaay to small to read by camp light.
true story: I got it in paperback from a street vendor in Tanzania, the print was waaaaaay to small to read by camp light.
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FYI: The “budget” bill now contains an amendment to sell off 2 million to 3.2 million acres of OUR public lands to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
June 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
FYI: The “budget” bill now contains an amendment to sell off 2 million to 3.2 million acres of OUR public lands to pay for tax cuts for the rich.