Lauren M
@elenem.bsky.social
Mum, cricket lover, cargo biker, gardener; always wanting more climate action, always wanting more climate justice. Re-skeets for interest, not always endorsement. Says 'fuck' a lot. Aotearoa/NZ.
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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Receipts on the 70,000 number. It’s so wasteful it’s offensive.
Coke's New AI-Generated Ad Required 100 Staff and 70,000 AI-Generated Clips, and It Still Looks Like Garbage
Coke has made yet another series of AI ads to herald the coming of the holidays — and they look just as bad as they did last year.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Receipts on the 70,000 number. It’s so wasteful it’s offensive.
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The thing about the "moderate to win" crowd is that they pose as Data Guys but very clearly have an animus toward the left that skews their analysis. When Trump won, they were all pathetically eager to say, "ah, the country is anti-immigrants xenophobes now, top to bottom, what can you do?"
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The thing about the "moderate to win" crowd is that they pose as Data Guys but very clearly have an animus toward the left that skews their analysis. When Trump won, they were all pathetically eager to say, "ah, the country is anti-immigrants xenophobes now, top to bottom, what can you do?"
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but I heard the bbc stitched together two of trump's speeches
NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
but I heard the bbc stitched together two of trump's speeches
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The Liberal-National Coalition's plan to abandon Australia’s net zero target is a plan to let climate change rip.
It’s deadly negligence that would leave Australians facing more fires, floods and heatwaves, while hiking up power bills for Aussie families.
It’s deadly negligence that would leave Australians facing more fires, floods and heatwaves, while hiking up power bills for Aussie families.
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The Liberal-National Coalition's plan to abandon Australia’s net zero target is a plan to let climate change rip.
It’s deadly negligence that would leave Australians facing more fires, floods and heatwaves, while hiking up power bills for Aussie families.
It’s deadly negligence that would leave Australians facing more fires, floods and heatwaves, while hiking up power bills for Aussie families.
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The rich do not believe they should be held accountable for anything. It's up to us to do something about it.
"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The rich do not believe they should be held accountable for anything. It's up to us to do something about it.
What's fucking pathetic is that the current New Zealand government have essentially done this but because they haven't made it official and our press are too captured or too climate-illiterate to make that clear to the electorate, very few people realise it #nzpol
The Liberal Party just committed suicide #auspol apple.news/AkvU3OXpnREW...
Liberals decide to formally dump net zero but won’t pull out of Paris Agreement — The Age
The Liberal Party has formally agreed to dump the 2050 net zero target but will remain open to a carbon-neutral future as a “welcome outcome”.
apple.news
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
What's fucking pathetic is that the current New Zealand government have essentially done this but because they haven't made it official and our press are too captured or too climate-illiterate to make that clear to the electorate, very few people realise it #nzpol
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This is so gross
Luxon wont even show his face
98.7% of submissions were against it
Where is our mature adult convo on this now Luxon?
#nzpol
Luxon wont even show his face
98.7% of submissions were against it
Where is our mature adult convo on this now Luxon?
#nzpol
Unless things change between now and ~midday, it looks like the Regulatory Standards Bill will have its third reading this afternoon, starting at around 3.00, and then be passed into law in the coming days. Because it's a Thursday, the Prime Minister almost certainly won't be there for it. #NPZOL
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is so gross
Luxon wont even show his face
98.7% of submissions were against it
Where is our mature adult convo on this now Luxon?
#nzpol
Luxon wont even show his face
98.7% of submissions were against it
Where is our mature adult convo on this now Luxon?
#nzpol
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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Read Dave's eye-opening analysis of the IEA's latest energy forecast. If I didn't know better, I'd say the IEA was indulging in outrageous assumptions as a direct result of political pressure.
🤡OIL DEMAND WILL KEEP RISING🤡
What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?
What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Read Dave's eye-opening analysis of the IEA's latest energy forecast. If I didn't know better, I'd say the IEA was indulging in outrageous assumptions as a direct result of political pressure.
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Serious political parties have to take real-world issues seriously. Otherwise, what is the actual point in them?
The future of our national flourishing, security and prosperity should not be a partisan political plaything, tossed around by ambitious politicians chasing power and advancement.
The future of our national flourishing, security and prosperity should not be a partisan political plaything, tossed around by ambitious politicians chasing power and advancement.
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Serious political parties have to take real-world issues seriously. Otherwise, what is the actual point in them?
The future of our national flourishing, security and prosperity should not be a partisan political plaything, tossed around by ambitious politicians chasing power and advancement.
The future of our national flourishing, security and prosperity should not be a partisan political plaything, tossed around by ambitious politicians chasing power and advancement.
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Honestly you're all experiencing what women and POC experience all the fucking time which is watching how no one will actually make a white man accountable for his actions when his actions involve harming someone who is not also a white man. Isn't it frustrating?
This Trump/Epstein stuff is so typical of a modern political "scandal," in that ... we know he did it. He knows he did it. Everyone knows he did it & everyone knows that everyone knows he did it. There is zero "did he do it?" involved here. The whole thing is about ... what, exactly?
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Honestly you're all experiencing what women and POC experience all the fucking time which is watching how no one will actually make a white man accountable for his actions when his actions involve harming someone who is not also a white man. Isn't it frustrating?
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bsky elder achievement unlocked: skeets quoted in parliament
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
bsky elder achievement unlocked: skeets quoted in parliament
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Maybe using the sky as a waste dump for our co2 pollution is not such a great idea.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/c...
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Head for Another Record in 2025
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Maybe using the sky as a waste dump for our co2 pollution is not such a great idea.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/c...
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Just doing a presentation about future climate and land scenarios, emphasizing that our scenarios aren’t necessarily what we think SHOULD happen or WILL happen, but rather estimates of what WOULD happen under various assumptions and I think a lot of confused discourse mixes SHOULD, WILL, and WOULD
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Just doing a presentation about future climate and land scenarios, emphasizing that our scenarios aren’t necessarily what we think SHOULD happen or WILL happen, but rather estimates of what WOULD happen under various assumptions and I think a lot of confused discourse mixes SHOULD, WILL, and WOULD
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
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"For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education. [...] For the first time in centuries, the elite no longer feel they need educated workers and soldiers to uphold and reproduce the system."
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education. [...] For the first time in centuries, the elite no longer feel they need educated workers and soldiers to uphold and reproduce the system."
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
This post is about deportation but it also gets to the heart of why the right and the wealthy welcome climate change. Millions or even billions of people dying is a good thing for them, as long as it's the people they hate. These people just want them gone, however that happens.
man.
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This post is about deportation but it also gets to the heart of why the right and the wealthy welcome climate change. Millions or even billions of people dying is a good thing for them, as long as it's the people they hate. These people just want them gone, however that happens.
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Next time someone tells you renewables will beat gas on economics to justify deregulating everything, maybe consider that even wildly uneconomic coal plants continue to run and pollute, and coal pollution may well go up not down due to bonkers state intervention.
The Trump admin seems set to force two Colorado coal plants to stay open past their planned closure this year, even as the costs of keeping an aging, unnecessary Michigan coal plant running through the summer top $80M. Are more must-run orders coming?
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
#energysky
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
#energysky
Trump’s DOE may soon force more coal plants to stay open
Colorado coal plants are likely to face DOE orders to keep running past planned closure dates, even as the costs of keeping an old Michigan plant open…
www.canarymedia.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Next time someone tells you renewables will beat gas on economics to justify deregulating everything, maybe consider that even wildly uneconomic coal plants continue to run and pollute, and coal pollution may well go up not down due to bonkers state intervention.
Love living in the age where all our problems are getting demonstrably worse but instead of actually fixing anything we just go for bigger and more preposterous band-aids.
Hard choices are coming on so many things but we'll squeeze a little more wishful thinking out of the system for now.
Hard choices are coming on so many things but we'll squeeze a little more wishful thinking out of the system for now.
The 5% first home buyers scheme is a miserable policy failure – and the latest chapter in Australia’s housing disgrace | Greg Jericho
The 5% first home buyers scheme is a miserable policy failure – and the latest chapter in Australia’s housing disgrace | Greg Jericho
The government is juicing demand to make houses more expensive for Australians while providing good public housing for … Americans
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The story of Australia’s housing policy over the past 25 years is one of governments doing all they can to juice demand for housing while steadily reducing the supply of public housing.
This trend continues as the latest housing finance figures suggest house prices are set to rise off the back of investors rushing into the market to beat the introduction of the 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Love living in the age where all our problems are getting demonstrably worse but instead of actually fixing anything we just go for bigger and more preposterous band-aids.
Hard choices are coming on so many things but we'll squeeze a little more wishful thinking out of the system for now.
Hard choices are coming on so many things but we'll squeeze a little more wishful thinking out of the system for now.
Hey guys whenever you have the urge to blame ''woke'' for something please replace it with ''A group of people with more money than God who are hellbent on maintaining their profits and control and are using their mind-blowingly vast amounts of money and influence to do that.'' Thanks 😘
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Hey guys whenever you have the urge to blame ''woke'' for something please replace it with ''A group of people with more money than God who are hellbent on maintaining their profits and control and are using their mind-blowingly vast amounts of money and influence to do that.'' Thanks 😘
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This is fascinating -- Iceland formally labels the potential collapse of the AMOC a national security threat. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This is fascinating -- Iceland formally labels the potential collapse of the AMOC a national security threat. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Mark your calendar! I'm talking climate journalism and the future of democracy with @coveringclimatenow.org on Wednesday 12/3. Amazing panel features @billmckibben.bsky.social, @amywestervelt.bsky.social, @adamlmahoney.bsky.social & @kylepope01.bsky.social.
RSVP here: tinyurl.com/2p52b29h
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November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Mark your calendar! I'm talking climate journalism and the future of democracy with @coveringclimatenow.org on Wednesday 12/3. Amazing panel features @billmckibben.bsky.social, @amywestervelt.bsky.social, @adamlmahoney.bsky.social & @kylepope01.bsky.social.
RSVP here: tinyurl.com/2p52b29h
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It is EXHAUSTING to see so many people slamming Sarah Kendzior as being a doomer, a downer etc.
The fucking world is on fire, billions are suffering and the worst people in the world want most of us dead. Why, when a woman dares to acknowledge that, do we blame her for not being cheery enough?
The fucking world is on fire, billions are suffering and the worst people in the world want most of us dead. Why, when a woman dares to acknowledge that, do we blame her for not being cheery enough?
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It is EXHAUSTING to see so many people slamming Sarah Kendzior as being a doomer, a downer etc.
The fucking world is on fire, billions are suffering and the worst people in the world want most of us dead. Why, when a woman dares to acknowledge that, do we blame her for not being cheery enough?
The fucking world is on fire, billions are suffering and the worst people in the world want most of us dead. Why, when a woman dares to acknowledge that, do we blame her for not being cheery enough?