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· Nov 17
Good morning. I aim to regularly share a photo either recently made or from cutting room floor.
From my recent trip researching #bogs in Ireland (I #AmWriting about bogs, #IronAge Bog People, death, photography and preservation for my current MFA):
Here are some magnificent, 200+ year old beeches.
From my recent trip researching #bogs in Ireland (I #AmWriting about bogs, #IronAge Bog People, death, photography and preservation for my current MFA):
Here are some magnificent, 200+ year old beeches.
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I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
bookshop.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
Bad migraine day (always this time of year when weather is chaotic.) Hoping everyone takes good care of themselves.
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Bad migraine day (always this time of year when weather is chaotic.) Hoping everyone takes good care of themselves.
Hell yes.
I understand that it is what it is, but hear me out…what if it could be what it isn’t?
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Hell yes.
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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There's one simple trick for breaking the spiral of climate silence
Talk about it
Talk about it
"65% of Americans say they “rarely” or “never” discuss global warming with family and friends'
#EndClimateSilence
Have a #climate conversation with the people around you.
climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...
#EndClimateSilence
Have a #climate conversation with the people around you.
climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...
November 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
There's one simple trick for breaking the spiral of climate silence
Talk about it
Talk about it
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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“To this list I would add one more thing.
Elders are more often listeners than speakers. And when they speak, they can talk for a long while without using the word I.”
~ Barry Lopez, Horizon
Elders are more often listeners than speakers. And when they speak, they can talk for a long while without using the word I.”
~ Barry Lopez, Horizon
March 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“To this list I would add one more thing.
Elders are more often listeners than speakers. And when they speak, they can talk for a long while without using the word I.”
~ Barry Lopez, Horizon
Elders are more often listeners than speakers. And when they speak, they can talk for a long while without using the word I.”
~ Barry Lopez, Horizon
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Who's gonna stop her, I ask you?
Photo of the Day | Natalia, one of the eighty felines from the Lujan Zoo in Argentina, roams the zoo director's house freely. This image by Sofía López Mañán, a 2019 JSM participant, is featured in the print sale #70Printsfor70Years.
See the full selection: worldpressphotoshop.org/
See the full selection: worldpressphotoshop.org/
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Who's gonna stop her, I ask you?
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A friend came up with a nice metaphor for a message you would have replied to but somehow missed: "It disappeared over the event horizon of my inbox."
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A friend came up with a nice metaphor for a message you would have replied to but somehow missed: "It disappeared over the event horizon of my inbox."
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Mary Shelley: I subtitled my book The Modern Prometheus as a cautionary tale
Tech company: At long last,
Tech company: At long last,
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Mary Shelley: I subtitled my book The Modern Prometheus as a cautionary tale
Tech company: At long last,
Tech company: At long last,
What an absolute beauty.
Black-shouldered Kite was just hanging out near the car park and no noticed. 🦅🅿️ Everyone just walked past.
🚶♀️🚶♂️
#birds #birdphotography #birding #birdwatching #birdwatchers #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #Canon #R5 #BirdOfTheDay
🚶♀️🚶♂️
#birds #birdphotography #birding #birdwatching #birdwatchers #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #Canon #R5 #BirdOfTheDay
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
What an absolute beauty.
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At COP30 in Belém do Pará, more than 50,000 people made history with a clear, unified message:
“It is time to bury fossil fuels and build a clean, just future.”
Today, we symbolically laid fossil fuels to rest. ✊
“It is time to bury fossil fuels and build a clean, just future.”
Today, we symbolically laid fossil fuels to rest. ✊
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
At COP30 in Belém do Pará, more than 50,000 people made history with a clear, unified message:
“It is time to bury fossil fuels and build a clean, just future.”
Today, we symbolically laid fossil fuels to rest. ✊
“It is time to bury fossil fuels and build a clean, just future.”
Today, we symbolically laid fossil fuels to rest. ✊
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
Always sharing any wee bit of good news...
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Always sharing any wee bit of good news...
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#AlGore points finger at #SaudiArabia blocking tactics at #COP30 -"It appears to be determined to veto the effort to solve the climate crisis, only to protect their lavish income from selling the #fossilfuels that are the principal cause of the climate crisis” on.ft.com/4oIYKQT via @FT #ActOnClimate
Gore points finger at Saudi blocking tactics at UN COP30 climate summit
Ministers land in Brazil for final week of discussions on national plans and climate finance
on.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
#AlGore points finger at #SaudiArabia blocking tactics at #COP30 -"It appears to be determined to veto the effort to solve the climate crisis, only to protect their lavish income from selling the #fossilfuels that are the principal cause of the climate crisis” on.ft.com/4oIYKQT via @FT #ActOnClimate
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70 EU projects to help #decarbonise transport by installing the infrastructure needed for recharging or refueling the different transport modes. €600 mio to stimulate #sustainableinvestments in urban areas, ports and airports, as well as along road sections of the #TEN-T ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Daily News 17 \/ 11 \/ 2025
Commission allocates over €600 million for 70 projects deploying alternative fuels infrastructure across Europe \nThe European Commission has selected 70 projects to help decarbonise transport and str...
ec.europa.eu
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
70 EU projects to help #decarbonise transport by installing the infrastructure needed for recharging or refueling the different transport modes. €600 mio to stimulate #sustainableinvestments in urban areas, ports and airports, as well as along road sections of the #TEN-T ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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"says senior Allianz figure"
“Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time, which translates to loss of value, business interruption, & market devaluation on a systemic level"- Günther Thallinger
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"says senior Allianz figure"
Sharing in solidarity and support. #wetlands
Interested in #wetlands and #peatlands? Want to be part of a growing network to help promote these ecosystems?
We are looking for new ECR committee members
Email for more information (in link below):
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/peat...
@britishecologicalsociety.org
We are looking for new ECR committee members
Email for more information (in link below):
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/peat...
@britishecologicalsociety.org
Peatlands and Wetlands Group - British Ecological Society
Providing a forum to unite researchers working across all aspects of peatland and wetland science.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Sharing in solidarity and support. #wetlands
"says senior Allianz figure"
“Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time, which translates to loss of value, business interruption, & market devaluation on a systemic level"- Günther Thallinger
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"says senior Allianz figure"
RIP, you hero and champion.
Alice Wong, a visionary disability justice advocate whose writing helped people understand what it was like to live with a disability, died Friday at a San Francisco hospital. She was 51.
Alice Wong, San Francisco disability justice activist and writer, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a visionary disability justice advocate whose writing helped people understand what it was like to live with a disability, died Friday at a San Francisco hospital. She was 51.
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
RIP, you hero and champion.
I love the dance of sea foam. Truly. Maybe not at the window, like.
Weather Monitor: A large amount of sea foam was spotted in Loughshinny this evening, just outside Dublin, Ireland. (©️CarlowWeather )
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I love the dance of sea foam. Truly. Maybe not at the window, like.
Good morning to this news.
As someone with ADD, I'm distracted by sounds that don't appear to bother non-spectrum folks to the same extent and one of the sounds I cannot stand while trying my best to listen/focus on a uni lecture or workshop is the clackity-clack clack of others typing on keys.
As someone with ADD, I'm distracted by sounds that don't appear to bother non-spectrum folks to the same extent and one of the sounds I cannot stand while trying my best to listen/focus on a uni lecture or workshop is the clackity-clack clack of others typing on keys.
“College students who took handwritten notes were 58% more likely to get A’s in their courses than those who typed notes on laptops. In contrast, students who typed notes were 75% more likely to fail the course than those who wrote them by hand.”
Opinion | The Screen That Ate Your Child’s Education
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Good morning to this news.
As someone with ADD, I'm distracted by sounds that don't appear to bother non-spectrum folks to the same extent and one of the sounds I cannot stand while trying my best to listen/focus on a uni lecture or workshop is the clackity-clack clack of others typing on keys.
As someone with ADD, I'm distracted by sounds that don't appear to bother non-spectrum folks to the same extent and one of the sounds I cannot stand while trying my best to listen/focus on a uni lecture or workshop is the clackity-clack clack of others typing on keys.
It's not too late to stem, even reverse, our current path. Upholding and prioritizing our precious planet sustains our species and all other forms of life. We cannot give up.
If we put our faith in carbon removal technologies, then yeah, even 1C is possible. At the moment though, we have absolutely no idea if we will have these technologies working at scale.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Still a chance to return to 1.5C climate goal, researchers say
Report calls for scaling-up of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors to limit peak of global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It's not too late to stem, even reverse, our current path. Upholding and prioritizing our precious planet sustains our species and all other forms of life. We cannot give up.
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🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1