Marion Davis
@marionsd.bsky.social
Writer, editor & comms strategist focused on climate, sustainable & inclusive development, livable cities. Costa Rican in New England. Hiker, nature lover, sci-fi fan, 🐈⬛ mom, gardener.
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Beat the Bay State Team Challenge
The Beat the Bay State Team Challenge is on Saturday November 1, 2025 to Monday December 1, 2025.
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I'm starting a bit late this year, but hey, it's time for Beat the Bay State again! This is when hundreds of people across Mass. track every mile we walk, jog or run in a quest to complete the perimeter of our state, to raise funds for @walkmass.bsky.social. Join me! runsignup.com/Race/MA/Bost...
God forbid you accidentally include a few trans women in your disaggregated data; let's make sure everyone who participates in climate activities must disclose intimate information! An absurd distraction that only hinders urgent progress for women and girls.
Even in conversations about saving the planet from catastrophic destruction, regressive anti-trans voices are trying to derail things by demanding climate agencies collect data about 'biological sex' rather than gender 📊🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women
Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
God forbid you accidentally include a few trans women in your disaggregated data; let's make sure everyone who participates in climate activities must disclose intimate information! An absurd distraction that only hinders urgent progress for women and girls.
Just staggering amounts of sea-level rise: 1.3 feet from 2008 to 2040, and 4.3 feet later this century. So glad I live a whole... 20 feet above sea level... and torrential rains are also increasing inland flood risks. Adaptation is urgently needed. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Massachusetts unveils plan to protect communities from sea level rise
The plan outlines steps to protect property and strengthen infrastructure, such as preserving natural buffers like salt marshes and elevating houses.
www.wgbh.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Just staggering amounts of sea-level rise: 1.3 feet from 2008 to 2040, and 4.3 feet later this century. So glad I live a whole... 20 feet above sea level... and torrential rains are also increasing inland flood risks. Adaptation is urgently needed. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
This cozy fantasy, set in 1926 Carmel by the Sea, is just a delight with great characters, most notably a very strange, sentient and fastidious old house on a cliff. Read author @bethcato.bsky.social's own pitch: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/01/t... #Booksky
The Big Idea: Beth Cato
You can’t judge a house by its paint job. Or by the nefarious things that have gone on inside said house in the past. Author Beth Cato takes us for a tour in the Big Idea for her newest novel…
whatever.scalzi.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This cozy fantasy, set in 1926 Carmel by the Sea, is just a delight with great characters, most notably a very strange, sentient and fastidious old house on a cliff. Read author @bethcato.bsky.social's own pitch: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/01/t... #Booksky
Tesla's a special kind of awful, but I'm increasingly conscious of how all these "advanced features" in cars could come back to bite us. So many more points where hardware and software can fail, costing lots of money and, sometimes, lives.
Five adults died in a fatal Tesla crash in Wisconsin. A caller to 911 said she could here people screaming. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tesla Sued Over Claim Faulty Doors Led to Deaths in Fiery Crash
Tesla Inc. was sued over a crash in Wisconsin last November that killed all five occupants of a Model S who allegedly became trapped in a fast-moving inferno when the doors wouldn’t open, adding to sc...
www.bloomberg.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Tesla's a special kind of awful, but I'm increasingly conscious of how all these "advanced features" in cars could come back to bite us. So many more points where hardware and software can fail, costing lots of money and, sometimes, lives.
I'm starting a bit late this year, but hey, it's time for Beat the Bay State again! This is when hundreds of people across Mass. track every mile we walk, jog or run in a quest to complete the perimeter of our state, to raise funds for @walkmass.bsky.social. Join me! runsignup.com/Race/MA/Bost...
Beat the Bay State Team Challenge
The Beat the Bay State Team Challenge is on Saturday November 1, 2025 to Monday December 1, 2025.
runsignup.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I'm starting a bit late this year, but hey, it's time for Beat the Bay State again! This is when hundreds of people across Mass. track every mile we walk, jog or run in a quest to complete the perimeter of our state, to raise funds for @walkmass.bsky.social. Join me! runsignup.com/Race/MA/Bost...
As of Dec. 2024, @unhcr.org says, there were an astonishing 123 million people forcibly displaced by persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. www.unhcr.org/refugee-stat.... Even at its best, the US takes a tiny fraction, but it's still a crucial refugee destination. This is vile.
“The Trump admin is restricting the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans, a dramatic drop announced Thursday that effectively suspends America’s traditional role as a haven for those fleeing war and persecution.”
October 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
As of Dec. 2024, @unhcr.org says, there were an astonishing 123 million people forcibly displaced by persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. www.unhcr.org/refugee-stat.... Even at its best, the US takes a tiny fraction, but it's still a crucial refugee destination. This is vile.
Incredible deals on a lot of eye-opening, thought-provoking and inspiring books.
ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe t...
www.haymarketbooks.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Incredible deals on a lot of eye-opening, thought-provoking and inspiring books.
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An AI-driven mobile app which overrides hard documentary evidence to reach its own "definitive" conclusions of someone's citizenship sounds like an idea that didn't make it out of the Black Mirror writers room
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
An AI-driven mobile app which overrides hard documentary evidence to reach its own "definitive" conclusions of someone's citizenship sounds like an idea that didn't make it out of the Black Mirror writers room
This is how you lose elections: Force people to accept a betrayal of their rights and core values, or just not vote. Sending a clear message that you value conservatives who might (but probably won't) vote for you far more than LGBTQI people, communities of color, progressives and other loyal Dems.
October 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This is how you lose elections: Force people to accept a betrayal of their rights and core values, or just not vote. Sending a clear message that you value conservatives who might (but probably won't) vote for you far more than LGBTQI people, communities of color, progressives and other loyal Dems.
Reposted by Marion Davis
Drop off gently used clothing and shoes the next 2 Saturdays at Connexion to help us stock up for our free store! Drops offs on Nov 1st & 8th from 1-4PM. Our upcoming Free Store is Sat., Nov. 22nd, from 10AM-2PM, at East Somerville Community School. 🥰
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October 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Drop off gently used clothing and shoes the next 2 Saturdays at Connexion to help us stock up for our free store! Drops offs on Nov 1st & 8th from 1-4PM. Our upcoming Free Store is Sat., Nov. 22nd, from 10AM-2PM, at East Somerville Community School. 🥰
Español/Português/Kreyòl Ayisyen 🧵⬇️
Español/Português/Kreyòl Ayisyen 🧵⬇️
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The PTA at the Winter Hill Community School are holding an emergency fundraiser to provide free food and gift cards to families who are losing their SNAP benefit on Saturday.
If you have the capacity, please donate to help keep our neighbors from going hungry.
givebutter.com/qmnqus
If you have the capacity, please donate to help keep our neighbors from going hungry.
givebutter.com/qmnqus
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The PTA at the Winter Hill Community School are holding an emergency fundraiser to provide free food and gift cards to families who are losing their SNAP benefit on Saturday.
If you have the capacity, please donate to help keep our neighbors from going hungry.
givebutter.com/qmnqus
If you have the capacity, please donate to help keep our neighbors from going hungry.
givebutter.com/qmnqus
The great @tressiemcphd.bsky.social has some thoughts about @grahamformaine.bsky.social, whether we should just expect working-class white people to be racist and shrug it off, and what it takes to win back those voters without betraying our core values www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... (1 of 3)
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The great @tressiemcphd.bsky.social has some thoughts about @grahamformaine.bsky.social, whether we should just expect working-class white people to be racist and shrug it off, and what it takes to win back those voters without betraying our core values www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... (1 of 3)
Reckless, stupid, cruel. And in case you don't believe it, look at Jamaica right now. It's horrific.
"The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5C in the next few years. And that going above 1.5C has devastating consequences. Some of these devastating consequences are tipping points, be it in the Amazon, be it in Greenland, or western Antarctica or the coral reefs."
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reckless, stupid, cruel. And in case you don't believe it, look at Jamaica right now. It's horrific.
An unfortunate exchange with someone who relies heavily on AI to write inspired me to post this on LinkedIn, and I thought I'd share it here as well. AI is so tempting, but trust me: it turns your thoughts into pink slime, neat and smooth but awful up-close. www.linkedin.com/posts/marion...
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
An unfortunate exchange with someone who relies heavily on AI to write inspired me to post this on LinkedIn, and I thought I'd share it here as well. AI is so tempting, but trust me: it turns your thoughts into pink slime, neat and smooth but awful up-close. www.linkedin.com/posts/marion...
Climate change + dense urbanization + deep inequality = severe and escalating extreme heat risks in Latin American and Caribbean cities. Read this NEW World Bank/GFDRR report and share widely! It could save lives. Super proud to be a co-author. www.worldbank.org/en/region/la... #extremeheat #climate
Unlivable Confronting Extreme Urban Heat in Latin America and the Caribbean
The report analyzes projected temperature increases and their impacts on health, infrastructure, and urban economies in Latin America and the Caribbean. It also proposes urgent actions to mitigate hea...
www.worldbank.org
October 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Climate change + dense urbanization + deep inequality = severe and escalating extreme heat risks in Latin American and Caribbean cities. Read this NEW World Bank/GFDRR report and share widely! It could save lives. Super proud to be a co-author. www.worldbank.org/en/region/la... #extremeheat #climate
This seems like a problem. I was just talking with someone last week in Costa Rica, where EVs (especially Chinese BYDs) have flooded the market, who expressed serious concerns about long-term servicing and repairs. The software part, I hadn't considered. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
My Car Is Becoming a Brick
EVs are poised to age like smartphones.
www.theatlantic.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This seems like a problem. I was just talking with someone last week in Costa Rica, where EVs (especially Chinese BYDs) have flooded the market, who expressed serious concerns about long-term servicing and repairs. The software part, I hadn't considered. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Surprise, surprise! Motorists find HAWK lights super confusing and often run them. Though also, folks, you know, the presence of a red light without pedestrians is no different than if you came to a red light with no cars. You stop anyway. It'll turn soon enough. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
Axios Boston
www.axios.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Surprise, surprise! Motorists find HAWK lights super confusing and often run them. Though also, folks, you know, the presence of a red light without pedestrians is no different than if you came to a red light with no cars. You stop anyway. It'll turn soon enough. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
Great showing for a lightly publicized immigrant solidarity vigil in East Somerville. A mom's key messages: 1) use your privilege as a white, English-speaking U.S. citizen to speak out, and 2) when you hear la migra (ICE) is around, go out, make noise, help protect immigrants from being snatched.
October 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Great showing for a lightly publicized immigrant solidarity vigil in East Somerville. A mom's key messages: 1) use your privilege as a white, English-speaking U.S. citizen to speak out, and 2) when you hear la migra (ICE) is around, go out, make noise, help protect immigrants from being snatched.
Reposted by Marion Davis
If you're taking to the streets to protest today, know your rights.
October 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If you're taking to the streets to protest today, know your rights.
This is an awesome story. The best part is the linked article, just a great example of Black entrepreneurship and civic engagement, and a cool insight into oyster houses. www.fishersislandoysters.com/blog/2021/2/...
October 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is an awesome story. The best part is the linked article, just a great example of Black entrepreneurship and civic engagement, and a cool insight into oyster houses. www.fishersislandoysters.com/blog/2021/2/...
Ignore the headline and just read this. AI dominance is such a huge economic prize that companies are racing to build ever more powerful models that may be vulnerable to terrifying misuse. Not to mention, you know, transforming society without consent. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Ignore the headline and just read this. AI dominance is such a huge economic prize that companies are racing to build ever more powerful models that may be vulnerable to terrifying misuse. Not to mention, you know, transforming society without consent. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Reposted by Marion Davis
It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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October 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.
Who's a real American, a full-fledged citizen, worthy of all the rights and benefits of belonging here? Laila Lailami's "Conditional Citizens" connects multiple forms of exclusion – and the corresponding fights for justice. #Booksky lailalalami.com/conditional-...
Conditional Citizens – Laila Lalami
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October 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Who's a real American, a full-fledged citizen, worthy of all the rights and benefits of belonging here? Laila Lailami's "Conditional Citizens" connects multiple forms of exclusion – and the corresponding fights for justice. #Booksky lailalalami.com/conditional-...
Yikes. License plate readers all across Mass. kindly sharing data with the feds and with other states.
New: Records obtained by the @aclum.bsky.social show police across the state are conducting dragnet surveillance of motorists and sharing their location information with cops in states that have banned abortion and gender affirming care, and those that work w/ICE data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
Flock Gives Law Enforcement All Over the Country Access to Your Location – The Data for Justice Project | ACLU of Massachusetts
data.aclum.org
October 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Yikes. License plate readers all across Mass. kindly sharing data with the feds and with other states.
Reposted by Marion Davis
“We don’t actually give a fuck.”
10 ways to enrich the Trumps and the MAGA movement
10 ways to enrich the Trumps and the MAGA movement
10 ways to enrich the Trumps and the MAGA movement
“We don’t actually give a fuck.”
www.motherjones.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“We don’t actually give a fuck.”
10 ways to enrich the Trumps and the MAGA movement
10 ways to enrich the Trumps and the MAGA movement