Jon Gorey
@jongorey.bsky.social
Writer, musician, dad, giver of shits, fan of preindustrial climate
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Jon Gorey
@jongorey.bsky.social
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Grassroots Conservation (Minus the Grass) - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
A growing movement is inviting nature back into the cities and towns from which it was once expelled, planting native pollinator gardens and Miyawaki microforests in front yards, schoolyards, parks, a...
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I made a StoryMap about native plants, Miyawaki forests, and how a homegrown conservation effort is creating crucial wildlife habitat for our threatened birds and insects.
TL;DR: Birds and butterflies need native flowers, shrubs, and trees to survive — BUT…
TL;DR: Birds and butterflies need native flowers, shrubs, and trees to survive — BUT…
The way things are going right now, I’ll be sending this zine from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social as our family holiday card and everyone’s gonna be getting “Separation of Church and Hate” by @johnfugelsang.bsky.social for Christmas.
October 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The way things are going right now, I’ll be sending this zine from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social as our family holiday card and everyone’s gonna be getting “Separation of Church and Hate” by @johnfugelsang.bsky.social for Christmas.
Beyond the fact that most AI is trained on the stolen intellectual property of millions of writers, journalists, photographers, and artists, the data centers that power AI are devouring our finite landscapes, water, and electricity at an unthinkable, unsustainable scale.
Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Communities across the US are wooing data centers with tax breaks and other incentives. But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities a...
www.lincolninst.edu
October 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Beyond the fact that most AI is trained on the stolen intellectual property of millions of writers, journalists, photographers, and artists, the data centers that power AI are devouring our finite landscapes, water, and electricity at an unthinkable, unsustainable scale.
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But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities are not fully accounting for or prepared to meet. @jongorey.bsky.social explores their challenges and possible solutions: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Communities across the US are wooing data centers with tax breaks and other incentives. But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities a...
www.lincolninst.edu
October 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities are not fully accounting for or prepared to meet. @jongorey.bsky.social explores their challenges and possible solutions: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
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The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
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Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
October 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.
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"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning
“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social
A victory for FAST leadership.
A victory for FAST leadership.
Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists
The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently
momentummag.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning
Wonder why there’s microplastic in our brains?
On the beautiful banks of the Neponset, I counted 212 bottle caps in our @neprwa.bsky.social cleanup this morning—not even counting fragments and water bottles.
Mass. needs to pass a 21st century bottle bill and/or a producer responsibility law.
On the beautiful banks of the Neponset, I counted 212 bottle caps in our @neprwa.bsky.social cleanup this morning—not even counting fragments and water bottles.
Mass. needs to pass a 21st century bottle bill and/or a producer responsibility law.
September 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Wonder why there’s microplastic in our brains?
On the beautiful banks of the Neponset, I counted 212 bottle caps in our @neprwa.bsky.social cleanup this morning—not even counting fragments and water bottles.
Mass. needs to pass a 21st century bottle bill and/or a producer responsibility law.
On the beautiful banks of the Neponset, I counted 212 bottle caps in our @neprwa.bsky.social cleanup this morning—not even counting fragments and water bottles.
Mass. needs to pass a 21st century bottle bill and/or a producer responsibility law.
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Happy #FellowsFriday! Today we're profiling Fernando E. Lloveras San Miguel, executive director of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico and the 2020 recipient of the Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award and Fellowship (now known as the Kingsbury Browne Distinguished Practitioner program).
September 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Happy #FellowsFriday! Today we're profiling Fernando E. Lloveras San Miguel, executive director of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico and the 2020 recipient of the Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award and Fellowship (now known as the Kingsbury Browne Distinguished Practitioner program).
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This essay I wrote for @bostonglobe.com (in print next Sunday, Sept. 7) is adapted from my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, out Oct. 14 via @broadleafbooks.bsky.social.
Not gonna lie: This whole guns-in-the-church thing has been a gut punch.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Not gonna lie: This whole guns-in-the-church thing has been a gut punch.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Guns made me leave the evangelical church. When will the church leave guns? - The Boston Globe
A bewildering marriage of faith and firearms is fueling our uniquely American gun scourge.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This essay I wrote for @bostonglobe.com (in print next Sunday, Sept. 7) is adapted from my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, out Oct. 14 via @broadleafbooks.bsky.social.
Not gonna lie: This whole guns-in-the-church thing has been a gut punch.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Not gonna lie: This whole guns-in-the-church thing has been a gut punch.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
A quote from the article, and a quote from Socrates via Shakespeare:
"The portrait that emerges... is of a young man who is ... unapologetically confident in his intellectual prowess."
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
Anyway, what a f*cking a*hole
"The portrait that emerges... is of a young man who is ... unapologetically confident in his intellectual prowess."
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
Anyway, what a f*cking a*hole
A Department of Justice lawyer accused Harvard University of "indifference to antisemitism." Yet that lawyer, when he was a senior at Harvard, submitted a paper written from the perspective of Adolf Hitler.
A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. - The Boston Globe
Michael Velchik once also told a peer that "Mein Kampf" was among his favorite recent reads.
trib.al
September 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A quote from the article, and a quote from Socrates via Shakespeare:
"The portrait that emerges... is of a young man who is ... unapologetically confident in his intellectual prowess."
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
Anyway, what a f*cking a*hole
"The portrait that emerges... is of a young man who is ... unapologetically confident in his intellectual prowess."
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
Anyway, what a f*cking a*hole
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Urban green space filters and cools the air, absorbs stormwater, and improves health. But it also increases property values, which can pose a risk to longtime residents without thoughtful anti-displacement approaches. @jongorey.bsky.social investigates: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
August 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Urban green space filters and cools the air, absorbs stormwater, and improves health. But it also increases property values, which can pose a risk to longtime residents without thoughtful anti-displacement approaches. @jongorey.bsky.social investigates: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
Alt-weeklies “gave voice to and helped shape a way of thinking about cities: messy, thrilling, sad, funny, queer, glorious, pompous, comically crooked and endlessly fascinating.”
This is a lovely paean to the alt-weekly by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social
The Longform of Lingering in a Place Just to See How It Is...
What was the alt-weekly?
slowcivilwar.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Alt-weeklies “gave voice to and helped shape a way of thinking about cities: messy, thrilling, sad, funny, queer, glorious, pompous, comically crooked and endlessly fascinating.”
"Short of burning a cross in front of the Lincoln Monument, there is little that the White House could do to more clearly signal its unapologetic racist nature... The more goading and horrific the racism of our government becomes, the more urgent the need to speak and act against it."
I used to find "DEI" to be a weak corporate counterpoint to "racial justice" but now I unironically want every business in America doing DEI as loudly as possible because the relevant counterpoint today is "overt racism."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-dei-l...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-dei-l...
More DEI! Louder!
Racism has turned a corporate buzzword into a moral imperative.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"Short of burning a cross in front of the Lincoln Monument, there is little that the White House could do to more clearly signal its unapologetic racist nature... The more goading and horrific the racism of our government becomes, the more urgent the need to speak and act against it."
Today's @hcrichardson.bsky.social is a bookmark-it, all-time great chronology & overview of movement conservatism and our path from deregulation and racism to Trump fascism. It will make you want to go flip a car, but still, it's an excellent read: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-23-...
August 23, 2025
“It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wr...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Today's @hcrichardson.bsky.social is a bookmark-it, all-time great chronology & overview of movement conservatism and our path from deregulation and racism to Trump fascism. It will make you want to go flip a car, but still, it's an excellent read: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-23-...
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Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center
Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.
www.kplctv.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
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Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥YES🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Trying to re-liquify the honey with hot water and this honey bear hot tub situation has me dying 😂
August 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Trying to re-liquify the honey with hot water and this honey bear hot tub situation has me dying 😂
Made this cool record player stand over the weekend, and it was mercifully simple to do!
DIY record player stand and using relative measurements | House and Hammer
This mid-century modern record player stand is a super simple DIY project. Read on for the tutorial and one of my favorite woodworking tips.
www.houseandhammer.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Made this cool record player stand over the weekend, and it was mercifully simple to do!
Yes, this. Unless you’re planning to sell the place, you don’t generally do major renovations on a house you will be leaving in just a couple of years… which makes me very worried that he has no intention of leaving
“Experts on historic preservation are raising concerns over the feasibility of President Trump’s plans to complete large-scale renovations to the White House by the end of his term…”
Um… that’s because he has no intention on leaving, I fear. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/03/n...
Um… that’s because he has no intention on leaving, I fear. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/03/n...
Experts raise concerns over Trump’s White House ballroom renovation plans - The Boston Globe
Experts on historic preservation are raising concerns over the feasibility of President Trump’s plans to complete large-scale renovations to the White House by the end of his term.
www.bostonglobe.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Yes, this. Unless you’re planning to sell the place, you don’t generally do major renovations on a house you will be leaving in just a couple of years… which makes me very worried that he has no intention of leaving
Love this. I’ve been using @ecosiasearch.bsky.social for a while *specifically for its environmental impact* and yet recently they introduced an idiotic beta AI search summary. Thankfully you can disable it, but this is the kind of thing I want to see more of.
I am now pretty much only using Duck Duck Go because I absolutely hate AI
DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.
August 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Love this. I’ve been using @ecosiasearch.bsky.social for a while *specifically for its environmental impact* and yet recently they introduced an idiotic beta AI search summary. Thankfully you can disable it, but this is the kind of thing I want to see more of.
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A recent convening explored the land policy solutions that can help address tangled titles and other heirs property challenges. @jongorey.bsky.social investigates for the latest issue of Land Lines: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
Understanding Heirs Property - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Hundreds of thousands of people in the US own inherited property that lacks the legal protections of homeownership. Land policy can help address the challenges of such heirs property situations.
www.lincolninst.edu
July 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A recent convening explored the land policy solutions that can help address tangled titles and other heirs property challenges. @jongorey.bsky.social investigates for the latest issue of Land Lines: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
I enjoy cooking on the grill but not the macho charade associated with it. Like why are all grill spatulas 4 feet long? I’m not roasting dinosaur legs over a bonfire, I’m literally just flipping turkey burgers 9 inches away. This thing is UNWIELDY
July 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I enjoy cooking on the grill but not the macho charade associated with it. Like why are all grill spatulas 4 feet long? I’m not roasting dinosaur legs over a bonfire, I’m literally just flipping turkey burgers 9 inches away. This thing is UNWIELDY
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This is very bad. Millions of Americans will be impacted by Congress defunding public media, and especially by the decision to claw back already appropriated funding. But despite the challenges we face, we are still here, and are committed as ever to our mission and to you.
July 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This is very bad. Millions of Americans will be impacted by Congress defunding public media, and especially by the decision to claw back already appropriated funding. But despite the challenges we face, we are still here, and are committed as ever to our mission and to you.
In 5 mos. Trump and his GOP toadies have:
- burned food meant for starving children
- declared war on science & research
- reversed what little climate action we’ve taken
- killed funding for PBS and NPR 😿
…all to pay for
- mass kidnappings by a secret masked police force
- more 💰 for billionaires
- burned food meant for starving children
- declared war on science & research
- reversed what little climate action we’ve taken
- killed funding for PBS and NPR 😿
…all to pay for
- mass kidnappings by a secret masked police force
- more 💰 for billionaires
July 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In 5 mos. Trump and his GOP toadies have:
- burned food meant for starving children
- declared war on science & research
- reversed what little climate action we’ve taken
- killed funding for PBS and NPR 😿
…all to pay for
- mass kidnappings by a secret masked police force
- more 💰 for billionaires
- burned food meant for starving children
- declared war on science & research
- reversed what little climate action we’ve taken
- killed funding for PBS and NPR 😿
…all to pay for
- mass kidnappings by a secret masked police force
- more 💰 for billionaires
Roughly one in every three Facebook users is now a man aged 18-34 ...which would explain so much about Facebook, or young men, or both.
Global Facebook user age & gender distribution 2025| Statista
As of April 2024, men between the ages of 25 and 34 years made up Facebook largest audience.
www.statista.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Roughly one in every three Facebook users is now a man aged 18-34 ...which would explain so much about Facebook, or young men, or both.