Kate Marvel
@drkatemarvel.bsky.social
Climate scientist and writer. Theoretical astrophysicist by training. Avowed Earth supremacist. My book HUMAN NATURE is out now https://shorturl.at/aJRYb
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Kate Marvel
@drkatemarvel.bsky.social
· Sep 11
I wrote a book! A whole, real, actual book! Ada Limón, genius poet, said nice things about it! As did other absolute heroes! And now it's in libraries and bookstores in several countries! Be careful what you wish for, it might turn out awesome bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
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Are you still using Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Are you still using Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
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How do you feel about climate change – and how can we best talk to one another about global warming? 🗣️ Scientist drkatemarvel.bsky.social studies the physics of the planet using computational models. But climate change is happening in the real world, to us.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
How do you feel about climate change – and how can we best talk to one another about global warming? 🗣️ Scientist drkatemarvel.bsky.social studies the physics of the planet using computational models. But climate change is happening in the real world, to us.
🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/4ofYCs3
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maybe they mean Americans are on track to lose $525 at current exchange rates
If he is saying billion, with a B, that's about 400 pounds per person, which seems like an unhealthy amount of weight to lose. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Oz: We thought it was 125 million pounds. Our estimate is Americans will lose 135 billion pounds by the midterms
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
maybe they mean Americans are on track to lose $525 at current exchange rates
And the US is going to miss out
We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
And the US is going to miss out
hoping the shutdown ends soon so i can get back to ruining the workplace
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
hoping the shutdown ends soon so i can get back to ruining the workplace
just tried to transfer from the G camel to the A caravan at Hoyt-Schermerhorn and it turns out the herd is running local on the F track to W4
November 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
just tried to transfer from the G camel to the A caravan at Hoyt-Schermerhorn and it turns out the herd is running local on the F track to W4
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Farewell sweet Prince
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Farewell sweet Prince
Fabulous place to work 👇
Job alert!! Project Drawdown is hiring for 3 roles:
🌐 Program Manager, Global Strategic Partnerships (deadline: Nov 7)
🔬 Research Fellow (deadline: Nov 2)
💹 Senior Analyst, Climate Philanthropy & Investing (deadline: Nov 19)
🔗 View the position descriptions here: drawdown.org/careers
#ClimateJobs
🌐 Program Manager, Global Strategic Partnerships (deadline: Nov 7)
🔬 Research Fellow (deadline: Nov 2)
💹 Senior Analyst, Climate Philanthropy & Investing (deadline: Nov 19)
🔗 View the position descriptions here: drawdown.org/careers
#ClimateJobs
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November 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Fabulous place to work 👇
NYC voting
MAYOR:
✅ seems nice
❌ 3 rats in a trenchcoat
❌ Hat Guy
COMPTROLLER
✅ Silent P
❌ Say P
PUBLIC ADVOCATE
✅ sure
JUDGES
❌ you
❌ have never
❌ heard
❌ of
❌ any of these people
PROPOSALS
Should we have crime?
✅ yes
❌ no
Turf war between city agencies
✅ niche
❌ they HATE each other
MAYOR:
✅ seems nice
❌ 3 rats in a trenchcoat
❌ Hat Guy
COMPTROLLER
✅ Silent P
❌ Say P
PUBLIC ADVOCATE
✅ sure
JUDGES
❌ you
❌ have never
❌ heard
❌ of
❌ any of these people
PROPOSALS
Should we have crime?
✅ yes
❌ no
Turf war between city agencies
✅ niche
❌ they HATE each other
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
NYC voting
MAYOR:
✅ seems nice
❌ 3 rats in a trenchcoat
❌ Hat Guy
COMPTROLLER
✅ Silent P
❌ Say P
PUBLIC ADVOCATE
✅ sure
JUDGES
❌ you
❌ have never
❌ heard
❌ of
❌ any of these people
PROPOSALS
Should we have crime?
✅ yes
❌ no
Turf war between city agencies
✅ niche
❌ they HATE each other
MAYOR:
✅ seems nice
❌ 3 rats in a trenchcoat
❌ Hat Guy
COMPTROLLER
✅ Silent P
❌ Say P
PUBLIC ADVOCATE
✅ sure
JUDGES
❌ you
❌ have never
❌ heard
❌ of
❌ any of these people
PROPOSALS
Should we have crime?
✅ yes
❌ no
Turf war between city agencies
✅ niche
❌ they HATE each other
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
roses are red
the french are easy to outmaneuver
the french are easy to outmaneuver
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
roses are red
the french are easy to outmaneuver
the french are easy to outmaneuver
sometimes I worry that Zohran is nowhere near weird enough to be mayor of this place
Can we get a 6-part prestige drama about Curtis Sliwa's career as a professional eater. Dude came in 3rd in Nathan's Famous Hotdog Eating, holds a record for most pickles, was DQed from a matzah ball eating contest for illegal ball handling, and the mob kicked him from a meatball contest.
November 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
sometimes I worry that Zohran is nowhere near weird enough to be mayor of this place
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
let's celebrate Halloween by scaring the oligarchs
🚨🎃 for my fellow NYC halloween voters and sticker obsessives: there are a total of FOUR items available to you today — ask your poll worker!
1. halloween voting sticker
2. halloween **temporary tattoo**
3. borough-specific early voting sticker
4. regular early voting sticker
gotta catch ‘em all 🗳️
1. halloween voting sticker
2. halloween **temporary tattoo**
3. borough-specific early voting sticker
4. regular early voting sticker
gotta catch ‘em all 🗳️
October 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
let's celebrate Halloween by scaring the oligarchs
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!
I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have
October 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have
I think we should aim for something better than "not extinct"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
Bill Gates Says Climate Change ‘Will Not Lead to Humanity’s Demise’
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I think we should aim for something better than "not extinct"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
these assholes managed to piss off an entire programming language
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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🧵
The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
these assholes managed to piss off an entire programming language
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I wish I could like this quoted post 👇 numerous times! Expect plenty of disinformation on social media. Be careful what you share. #Melissa
Echoing colleagues: Think before you (re)post. #Melissa is about to impact a relatively poor part of Jamaica. I doubt we will know the true extent of the devastation for days or weeks.
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
October 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I wish I could like this quoted post 👇 numerous times! Expect plenty of disinformation on social media. Be careful what you share. #Melissa
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A non-exhaustive list of some people on here to follow re: Hurricane Melissa:
@btangywx.bsky.social @bmcnoldy.bsky.social @drkimwood.bsky.social @pppapin.bsky.social @jeremydehartwx.bsky.social
@btangywx.bsky.social @bmcnoldy.bsky.social @drkimwood.bsky.social @pppapin.bsky.social @jeremydehartwx.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A non-exhaustive list of some people on here to follow re: Hurricane Melissa:
@btangywx.bsky.social @bmcnoldy.bsky.social @drkimwood.bsky.social @pppapin.bsky.social @jeremydehartwx.bsky.social
@btangywx.bsky.social @bmcnoldy.bsky.social @drkimwood.bsky.social @pppapin.bsky.social @jeremydehartwx.bsky.social
Every time there's a fire/hurricane/flood someone will claim that damage depends on societal choices and therefore climate change doesn't matter. But this is the whole reason why climate change matters: it happens in the world we make for it.
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Every time there's a fire/hurricane/flood someone will claim that damage depends on societal choices and therefore climate change doesn't matter. But this is the whole reason why climate change matters: it happens in the world we make for it.
Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
I hate everything about New York City except the people
@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC.
“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”
So good!! 🔥
“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”
So good!! 🔥
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I hate everything about New York City except the people
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The idea that we somehow understand, or are likely to do so in the near future, even remotely how to dial in a particular magnitude of surface temperature change -- let alone rainfall -- is just not realistic (that's me being nice). 2/2
October 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The idea that we somehow understand, or are likely to do so in the near future, even remotely how to dial in a particular magnitude of surface temperature change -- let alone rainfall -- is just not realistic (that's me being nice). 2/2