David Moorfield Frank
@dmf84.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary environmental philosopher 🌳🌹🌎🌞🦝 Values in/and Environmental Science/Research Ethics, Environmental Utopias, posting nuance, jokes 🫠 for/as myself only
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David Moorfield Frank
@dmf84.bsky.social
· Dec 29
Slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) last seen in 1995, declared extinct by IUCN in 2025
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Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.
February 18, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.
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I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
February 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
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solar. birth control. MRI machines. the telephone.
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 17, 2026 at 9:50 PM
solar. birth control. MRI machines. the telephone.
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Public or Private?
Markets or Command & control?
National or Global?
If you find yourself stuck in just axis of debate, here is a different view.... phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
(great figure from Dustin Mulvaney's lectures on Energy transition dustinmulvaney.com/set)
Markets or Command & control?
National or Global?
If you find yourself stuck in just axis of debate, here is a different view.... phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
(great figure from Dustin Mulvaney's lectures on Energy transition dustinmulvaney.com/set)
February 17, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Public or Private?
Markets or Command & control?
National or Global?
If you find yourself stuck in just axis of debate, here is a different view.... phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
(great figure from Dustin Mulvaney's lectures on Energy transition dustinmulvaney.com/set)
Markets or Command & control?
National or Global?
If you find yourself stuck in just axis of debate, here is a different view.... phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
(great figure from Dustin Mulvaney's lectures on Energy transition dustinmulvaney.com/set)
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They raided the jailed children to steal their letters.
The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.
The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:01 PM
They raided the jailed children to steal their letters.
The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.
The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.
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The blockade on Cuba is unconscionable.
February 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM
The blockade on Cuba is unconscionable.
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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Public intervention: When does it make sense for government to buy out (or nationalize, municipalize, or state-ize) a legacy industry and wind it down gracefully? What legal authority/precedent exists for that? How progressive do taxes need to be to keep the costs from crushing working people?
February 16, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Public intervention: When does it make sense for government to buy out (or nationalize, municipalize, or state-ize) a legacy industry and wind it down gracefully? What legal authority/precedent exists for that? How progressive do taxes need to be to keep the costs from crushing working people?
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are you getting enough protein???
February 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
are you getting enough protein???
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I think we're almost there to having the right opinions about LLMs on this Website. If we just post between 500,000 and 1,000,000 more times about whether they are bad or good actually I think we'll solve it
February 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I think we're almost there to having the right opinions about LLMs on this Website. If we just post between 500,000 and 1,000,000 more times about whether they are bad or good actually I think we'll solve it
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Very funny Bill McKibben reply to a critical letter in NYRB:
"I’m grateful to Mark Roller for producing an almost pitch-perfect summary of the anti-renewable talking points that have been in circulation for decades. These would have been wrong in, say, 2016, but in 2026 they are just silly."
"I’m grateful to Mark Roller for producing an almost pitch-perfect summary of the anti-renewable talking points that have been in circulation for decades. These would have been wrong in, say, 2016, but in 2026 they are just silly."
Is It Easy Being Green? | Mark Roller, Bill McKibben
To the Editors: Regarding Bill McKibben’s review of The Story of CO 2 Is the Story of Everything , and with all due respect to McKibben, I believe that
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February 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Very funny Bill McKibben reply to a critical letter in NYRB:
"I’m grateful to Mark Roller for producing an almost pitch-perfect summary of the anti-renewable talking points that have been in circulation for decades. These would have been wrong in, say, 2016, but in 2026 they are just silly."
"I’m grateful to Mark Roller for producing an almost pitch-perfect summary of the anti-renewable talking points that have been in circulation for decades. These would have been wrong in, say, 2016, but in 2026 they are just silly."
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This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.
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Welcome The Stranger
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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February 15, 2026 at 5:15 PM
This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.
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Happy valentine's day ❤️
February 15, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Happy valentine's day ❤️
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The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:14 AM
The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.
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Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
www.pbs.org
February 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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“What does it mean to not allow a single drop of fuel to reach a country? It affects the transportation of food, food production, public transportation, the functioning of hospitals, institutions of all kinds, schools, economic production, tourism. How do our vital systems function without fuel?”
As U.S. moves to block oil supply, Cubans wonder how they’ll survive deepening energy crisis
Anxieties simmered in Havana on Friday, a day after Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel warned that U.S. efforts to block oil supplies would take a heavy toll on the Caribbean nation and asked Cubans to...
www.ctvnews.ca
February 8, 2026 at 1:12 AM
“What does it mean to not allow a single drop of fuel to reach a country? It affects the transportation of food, food production, public transportation, the functioning of hospitals, institutions of all kinds, schools, economic production, tourism. How do our vital systems function without fuel?”
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The new album in the NYT today. Up for preorder on bandcamp now
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February 7, 2026 at 5:14 PM
The new album in the NYT today. Up for preorder on bandcamp now
billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
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@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad
No, I don't know what they did. But I have a lot of experience with the senator
www.forever-wars.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:10 PM
@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
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fraggle rock implies the existence of fraggle jazz and fraggle rap
February 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
fraggle rock implies the existence of fraggle jazz and fraggle rap
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When you build an unprecedented amount of renewable energy but it gets used to meet new data centre demand instead of replacing fossil fuels
February 3, 2026 at 1:10 PM
When you build an unprecedented amount of renewable energy but it gets used to meet new data centre demand instead of replacing fossil fuels
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"In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world," photojournalist @cengizyar.com writes. "The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home."
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February 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world," photojournalist @cengizyar.com writes. "The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home."
More: https://propub.li/4acxEeY
More: https://propub.li/4acxEeY