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global weirding is real!
for: climate/ecological justice
seeking: to connect with others who share an interest in art, music, philosophy, history, organizing... r/t poly crisis, global weirding and effective response
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rodschoonover.bsky.social
To understand modern risk, we have to grapple with emergent and novel aspects of hazard, vulnerability, exposure, and response that comprise risk.

Find out more in a new article with @danielaldrich.bsky.social and Daniel Hoyer, just out in @issuesinst.bsky.social.

issues.org/mental-model...
Updating Mental Models of Risk
Disasters are no longer isolated events. This demands a fundamental change in how we think about and respond to complex risk.
issues.org
September 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
The age of enshittenment.
September 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Alfred McCoy reads the tea leaves

tomdispatch.com/americas-new...
America’s New Industrial Revolution
He lived over 1,000 years ago, but King Canute’s life still has some important lessons for our own time. After conquering England, Denmark, Norway, and part of Sweden, he forged a vast North Sea empir...
tomdispatch.com
June 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Kim Stanley Robinson: "We're all in a science fiction novel that we're co-writing together."
June 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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mikedigirolamo.bsky.social
Five years ago, award-winning science fiction writer, Kim Stanley Robinson published his cli-fi masterpiece 'The Ministry for the Future.' On this week's episode of the podcast, I ask him if there's anything he'd change about it today. He emphasizes we are all fighting a "war of ideas'
Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Ministry for the Future’ may hold lessons for the present
Roughly five years since Kim Stanley Robinson’s groundbreaking climate fiction novel, The Ministry for the Future, hit shelves and The New York Times bestseller list, there’s little he says he’d chang...
news.mongabay.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
As I understand it 3 ferrets died for this science. Poor ferrets! All the more reason to be grateful for this research and take heed. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Isolated from Dairy Farm Worker, Michigan, USA
Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Isolated from Dairy Farm Worker, Michigan
wwwnc.cdc.gov
June 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
insideclimatenews.org/news/2106202...
The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want - Inside Climate News
More women are connecting environmental degradation with attacks on women's rights, seeing both as rooted in similar values. They’re drawing on personal experiences and reams of research to make their...
insideclimatenews.org
June 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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duckswabber.bsky.social
H5N1 isolate from a dairy farm worker in Michigan in ferrets: airborne transmission, moderate pathogenicity, including limited extrapulmonary spread, without lethality
👉 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
June 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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gilduran.com
“Billionaires building bunkers to survive an AI apocalypse, attempting to disrupt death through cryopreservation, scouting the planet for pop-up cities and network states — are not reliable stewards of the collective good.”

— @ruha9.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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extremetemps.bsky.social
ABSOLUTE INSANITY GOING ON
MOST EXTREME DAY IN WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY
Dozens of thousands of records are being smashed with the hugest margins ever seen in climatic history (locally >10C) allover Oceania,Asia and Africa
Tempweratures >52C
We are seeing something beyond imagination
Updates next hours
May 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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What is happening in Gaza will be a permanent stain on the world's collective conscience.

History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster.

We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.
May 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
r/t prior post, see interesting journal article: Berger, K. (2024). Reflections on decolonizing truth-telling in the writing of Behrouz Boochani. Journal of Sociology, 60(4), 704-722. doi.org/10.1177/1440... (Original work published 2024)
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
doi.org
April 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Read article about historical precedent for POTUS showing contempt of federal court order. One of three examples was Andrew Jackson's show of contempt for a federal court order when displacing the Cherokees, resulting in "the trail of tears".
April 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Happened across this 2019 book review by J.M. Coetzee of asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani's memoir of off-shore imprisonment by Australia. Naomi Klein mentioned in recent interview that this was not new or unique to the U.S. www.nybooks.com/articles/201...
Australia’s Shame | J.M. Coetzee
Let us suppose that I am the heir of an enormous estate. Stories about my generosity abound. And let us suppose that you are a young man, ambitious but in trouble with the authorities in your native l...
www.nybooks.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Eight of the top 10 online shows are spreading climate misinformation  yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/eigh...
Eight of the top 10 online shows are spreading climate misinformation  » Yale Climate Connections
Often backed by large advertising budgets, a new breed of climate denial is gaining popularity.
yaleclimateconnections.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“Today the world is a little lonelier and more unjust"
April 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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lizagross.bsky.social
“Pope Francis made it crystal clear…to care about #climatechange, you don’t have to be an environmentalist, you don’t have to be a scientist,”
@katharinehayhoe.com. “You don’t have to be Catholic or Protestant or Christian, you just have to be a human being.” insideclimatenews.org/news/2104202...
‘The Earth Loses a Defender’: Pope Francis Fought for the Poor and the Planet - Inside Climate News
A leader on climate action, Francis will be remembered as an ally to Indigenous, poor and working people.
insideclimatenews.org
April 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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jamesmartinsj.bsky.social
Two ways: Pope Francis visits a prison in Rome and, after spending time with inmates, blows them kisses. He said, "I ask myself: Why them and not me?" Rep. Moore visits a jail in El Salvador and gave a thumbs up to their suffering. Which way would Jesus, imprisoned during the Passion, prefer?
April 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Attended local hearing for permit renewal of a garbage incinerator. Turnout and energy gave me hope. This is in NYS, where we still have state laws prioritizing environmental justice. Were it not for these laws the hearing would not have taken place. The laws in place matter and are worth defending.
April 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"The governing ideology of the far right in our age of escalating disasters has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
It is terrifying in its wickedness, yes. But it also opens up powerful possibilities for resistance."
-Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
April 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
The anti-intellectual prejudices and destructive attacks on science by the Trump administration, especially on medical and climate research, will cause massive and needless suffering and loss of lives.
angierasmussen.bsky.social Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Apr 9
“The attack on some of us is an attack on all of us, and we must stand together.”

-@daltmann.bsky.social & me in Nature Reviews Immunology on why everyone in the world needs to care about the destruction of American scientific and public health capacity

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How to respond when biomedical science and global health is under existential threat Daniel M. Altmann & Angela L. Rasmussen US spending in biomedicine has driven pre- eminence in academia, Nobel prizes, scientific training discovery, translation and healthcare. The associated USAID spend on global health programmes has worldwide impacts, including on the ongoing HIV eradication timeline. Current policy changes place this continued trajectory into doubt, with ramifications for international research collaborations, global health and pandemic preparedness. Scientists outside the USA have long been in awe of the size of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget that has underpinned US biomedical research. With annual spending of US$47 billion1, of which $6.6 billion are allocated to the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and $7.2 billion to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), it has facilitated the development of count- less drugs and vaccines, led to 174 Nobel prizes, and allowed millions of lives to be saved around the world. In comparison, the entire annual budget of the Gates Foundation is $8.7 billion, for the EU Horizon pro- grammes it is €7.3 billion, and for the Wellcome Trust it is £1.3 billion. NIH funding has provided a core foundation for the US biopharma and biotechnology industries, which generate about $1.55 trillion annually in economic activity and employ around 1.3 million people. This funding produces exceptional returns on federal investments. For example, the state of Pennsylvania received around $2.2 billion in NIH funding, which translated directly to $5.2 billion of economic activity and supported 22,000 jobs. Most new US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs originate from NIH-funded academic research2. As scientists, we strive to improve human health, provide education and enhance human knowledge. In addition, we offer an outstanding return on taxpayer’s investment in terms of GDP of the biopharm… a message stating that “This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department rejects it”. In response to the demand to restrict or censor topics, language or the inclusion of data including DEI-related content, some publishers, such as the Public Library of Science (PLOS), have been steadfast in their adherence to the highest international, ethical standards, whereas some other US-based organizations have found the pressure harder to withstand. A broad communications ban across the HHS and an execu- tive order to withdraw the USA from the World Health Organization (WHO) have further limited global access to critical US data, includ- ing on vaccination and influenza and HIV surveillance. For the first time in six decades, the CDC blocked the publication of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), withholding studies on H5N1 infection13. CDC investigators have been forbidden from publishing scientific work with co-authors from the WHO14. The ramifications for global health programmes are devastating. What will be the impact of US withdrawal from the WHO, including on the forecasting of seasonal flu vaccines? Antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes in sub-Saharan Africa have been the lynchpin of global efforts to contain the HIV epidemic and offer a realistic timeline for erad- ication. Around 39 million people currently live with HIV, over 1 million of these in the USA, with viral burden and the risk of transmission signif- icantly reduced by successful ART programmes. Any halt to these pro- grammes risks a large set-back, likely leading to millions of new infections and preventable HIV-related fatalities. It had been hoped that waivers to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) block would mean that ART supplies would still reach their destinations, but across Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa and elsewhere, Ministries of Health are struggling to keep HIV clinics open15. Among the USAID pro- grammes now …
April 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
2025 tax season knowing your fed tax $$ will subsidize technofascist potus actively dismantling your democracy
April 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Per previous post, the principle of charity need not apply to those clearly acting perniciously and in bad faith. How to sustain trust and charity with our allies in these deeply distrustful times? I truly believe LLM aided nudges are trying to divide us and succeeding. How do we fight back?
April 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
After awkward FB exchange w/person would consider allied against fascism (after they reposted critique of Corey Booker's lapel pins), considered opinion today: let's ally with other antifascists, show "charity" for our allies, use more energy critiquing the fascists. Can we do this?
April 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM