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Kyle Copas
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Head of comms @GBIF.org, writer, poet, communicator, producer, husband, father. 💩posting about literature, music, biodiversity, sustainability, design, #biodiversity. Decolonization begins at home (and abroad), restoring Indigenous roots.
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TIL team trump drafted the death announcement before Epstein died

www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Epstein Files Reveal Prosecutors’ Announcement Dated Before His Death
Newly released Epstein files include a draft statement attributed to federal prosecutors that is dated the day before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead. The draft appears among at least 23 documents in t...
www.yahoo.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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As Le Point and Le Monde have both reported, Epstein was running a major project out of his luxurious apartment in Paris' 16th arrondissement to advance the interests of Marine Le Pen and her Pétainiste party, which appears to have been coordinated on several levels with the Kremlin. Here's Bannon.
February 10, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable
February 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
February 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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Iconic moment as he says "God Bless América" and then names every country in South, Central, and North america in order

For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S.

It means evveeerrybody
February 9, 2026 at 4:27 AM
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"Generally, you can’t read other people’s emails. Powerful people have private servers, I.T. staffs, lawyers. When you get a rare glimpse into how they actually think and view the world, what they actually are after, heed Maya Angelou: Believe them."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Delegates @ipbes.net completed their read-through of the #BizBiodiversity Assessment's background messages

There are still some outstanding issues for them to address in the evening before turning to the Summary for Policymaker’s tables, figures, and preface #IPBES12
February 7, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Out-of-the-box thinking to increase use of public transportation…
February 7, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
During a brief pause in the action at #IPBES12 @phylojoe.bsky.social & I had the chance to welcome Ethiopia as @gbif.org's the newest participant! 🇪🇹 🎉

Tesfu Fekensa & his colleagues at #EBI are eager to get the national GBIF delegation and node that they host up and running #ForNature !
February 6, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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This email dates back to 2016, by which time Epstein was already a convicted pedophile.

Seemed to be no concern for the Trump boys.

What type of fun did they have?
February 5, 2026 at 8:20 AM
This image…two close associates of Jeffrey Epstein—convicted sex criminal Donald J Trump and disgraced pedophile and former British ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson—enjoy a laugh together in the Oval Office in May 2025.

How can only one government will face consequences?
📸 Jim Watson/AFP/Getty
February 5, 2026 at 8:33 AM
So much for anyone striving to be fully human to savor and return to in this beautiful essay by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in my local paper for the week (thanks @theguardian.com !)
February 5, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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So weird how this keeps happening.

www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...
February 5, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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The chair of the first law firm that bent the knee to Trump’s extortion and agreed to do pro bono work for him is featured in the Epstein Files, you say? Huh.
February 5, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist.

Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.
February 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.

It's a tour de force:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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Postdoc and PhD positions at Ghent University: Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600

niche-canada.org/2026/01/31/p...

#envhist #medieval #envhum
PostDoc & PhD Opportunities - Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600
The European Research Council (ERC)-funded project ‘Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600’ (ECOLENT), led by Sander Govaerts, offers several PhD and pos...
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February 2, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Think about these very matters yesterday after landing in Manchester (aka Cottonopolis) and taking the train up through Leeds to York.

The North’s crumbling brick buildings are abandoned assets capitalized with stolen Indigenous lands and and extracted from African labor.
February 2, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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jesus christ
February 2, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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You want to go fast: go alone. You want to go far: go with others. You want neither: go with ecologists 😜⁠

📸 @eatgrowlearn.withsophie ⁠on IG

#ecology #naturelovers #earthygirl #hiking #ecologists
February 2, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
February 2, 2026 at 4:31 AM