Philip Loring
@philiploring.com
Human ecologist and storyteller. Regeneration and Social Justice. Global Director @nature_org. Author: FINDING OUR NICHE. Stubbornly optimistic that radical change is closer than we think. Opinions mine (but science-based). 🏳️🌈
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Philip Loring
@philiploring.com
· Feb 25
I believe in unicorns
If you want to change the world, you should too.
conservechange.medium.com
“When we put into the world an alternative notion of how it could or should be, we take a little bit of power away from the people who tell us that this is all we can have.”
Why I want you to believe in unicorns:
conservechange.medium.com/i-believe-in...
Why I want you to believe in unicorns:
conservechange.medium.com/i-believe-in...
This is the most British looking cat I've ever seen.
Dominic Dyer: @number10cat.bsky.social Larry the Cat will have been in Downing Street 15 years next week, he is the most stable thing about British politics these days
February 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
This is the most British looking cat I've ever seen.
Happy helmetball day to all who celebrate!
February 8, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Happy helmetball day to all who celebrate!
Hank raises an interesting question that lots of people have studied. Here's a 🧵on my understanding drawn from study in a handful of fields. TL;DR, its complex, but understandable. And neither of the below are complex on their own. 1/
Media theory that assumes that beliefs are persuaded into existence rather than mostly evolutionarily selected for by the structures of human minds and social groups never sit right with me.
February 7, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Hank raises an interesting question that lots of people have studied. Here's a 🧵on my understanding drawn from study in a handful of fields. TL;DR, its complex, but understandable. And neither of the below are complex on their own. 1/
FWIW my friends and colleagues in Minneapolis report that there has been zero de-escalation by ICE in the city.
So the “softer” approach media seems to be predicting is apparently just not executing people.
So the “softer” approach media seems to be predicting is apparently just not executing people.
NEW Trump has burned through much of his immigration political capital before ICE could scale up its mass deportation tools. Now he wants a “softer” tune to stop the agency from becoming a pariah, and to shift attention from Minneapolis to his border record www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
ICE After Minneapolis
Trump’s team wants a reset on its mass-deportation goals, not a retreat.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:22 PM
FWIW my friends and colleagues in Minneapolis report that there has been zero de-escalation by ICE in the city.
So the “softer” approach media seems to be predicting is apparently just not executing people.
So the “softer” approach media seems to be predicting is apparently just not executing people.
Men like this really do think every other man is like them (or not really a man).
This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association.
Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
February 5, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Men like this really do think every other man is like them (or not really a man).
Heartbreaking
January 30, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Heartbreaking
Do yourself a favor and go listen to “Turn and Run” by Marianas Trench right now
January 30, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Do yourself a favor and go listen to “Turn and Run” by Marianas Trench right now
I think its wild that this guy's laast name is an anagram for "Hold'n on"
This is so a simulation.
This is so a simulation.
Alex Honnold successfully free solos Taipei 101 in live Netflix climb
Alex Honnold successfully free solos Taipei 101 in live Netflix climb
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Honnold climbs 508m Taipei 101 without ropes
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Netflix airs climb live after rain delay
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Feat sparks awe – and ethical unease
American rock climber Alex Honnold climbed the Taipei 101 skyscraper on Sunday without any ropes or protective equipment.
Cheers erupted from a gathered crowd as he started climbing the 508-meter (1,667ft) tower earlier Sunday, using the horizontal metal beams to pull himself up with his bare hands. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I think its wild that this guy's laast name is an anagram for "Hold'n on"
This is so a simulation.
This is so a simulation.
Reposted by Philip Loring
January 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Pivot to affordability, right @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
Don’t want to look weak, right?
Don’t want to look weak, right?
Jesus Christ.
Multiple goons had a man on the ground but that wasn't enough brutality for them. One had to pull his gun and shoot someone who was prone on the sidewalk.
They're going to tell us the agent feared for his life and was justified.
Multiple goons had a man on the ground but that wasn't enough brutality for them. One had to pull his gun and shoot someone who was prone on the sidewalk.
They're going to tell us the agent feared for his life and was justified.
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Pivot to affordability, right @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
Don’t want to look weak, right?
Don’t want to look weak, right?
Jesus Christ. Trigger warning there are videos of the murder in the replies.
Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Jesus Christ. Trigger warning there are videos of the murder in the replies.
I’m tired of democrats tweeting like they’re journalists, just stating the terrible things this regime is doing.
We need an actual opposition party yesterday, Senator
We need an actual opposition party yesterday, Senator
Kristi Noem is telling ICE agents they can forcibly enter your home without a judicial warrant.
That is unconstitutional.
History will judge us if we do not stand up to the lawlessness and cruelty of this administration.
That is unconstitutional.
History will judge us if we do not stand up to the lawlessness and cruelty of this administration.
January 23, 2026 at 3:19 AM
I’m tired of democrats tweeting like they’re journalists, just stating the terrible things this regime is doing.
We need an actual opposition party yesterday, Senator
We need an actual opposition party yesterday, Senator
More of this
ICE should be dismantled immediately.
I will not support funding for the Department of Homeland Security when ICE and Border Patrol agents are assaulting protestors, detaining and arresting people with impunity, inciting violence, and shooting and killing American citizens.
Read my statement:
I will not support funding for the Department of Homeland Security when ICE and Border Patrol agents are assaulting protestors, detaining and arresting people with impunity, inciting violence, and shooting and killing American citizens.
Read my statement:
January 21, 2026 at 11:13 PM
More of this
If you, like me, are stunned at how many people still support the Trump regime, have a look at this doozy of an email that somehow landed in my inbox, FALSELY CLAIMING that the left is "hunting down and executing border enforcement agents"
January 21, 2026 at 10:18 PM
If you, like me, are stunned at how many people still support the Trump regime, have a look at this doozy of an email that somehow landed in my inbox, FALSELY CLAIMING that the left is "hunting down and executing border enforcement agents"
My fish died yesterday. Then, last night, in the novel I was reading, the main character's fish died.
Whoever is running this simulation is absolutely f!cking with us at this point.
Whoever is running this simulation is absolutely f!cking with us at this point.
January 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
My fish died yesterday. Then, last night, in the novel I was reading, the main character's fish died.
Whoever is running this simulation is absolutely f!cking with us at this point.
Whoever is running this simulation is absolutely f!cking with us at this point.
“Stop auto-wrecking my presentation!” shouts my 11 year old at the spell checker while working on a class assignment
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 AM
“Stop auto-wrecking my presentation!” shouts my 11 year old at the spell checker while working on a class assignment
I’m genuinely trying to find the point in recent history that tech leaders lost the thread (or became so entitled) such that they started thinking this way. I’m thinking it was how willingly people started consuming the mid content they flooded platforms like Netflix with.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I’m genuinely trying to find the point in recent history that tech leaders lost the thread (or became so entitled) such that they started thinking this way. I’m thinking it was how willingly people started consuming the mid content they flooded platforms like Netflix with.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
The Minnesota Star Tribune has their live blog outside of their paywall so everyone can access their reporting about the federal attack on their city
A group of nearly 30 U.S. House Democrats will gather this morning in St. Paul for a hearing on the Trump administration's immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota.
The latest: Two arrests made after anti-ICE unrest, Trump threatens to send troops to Minnesota
The war of words between state and federal officials escalated as the president threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell anti-ICE protests.
bit.ly
January 16, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The Minnesota Star Tribune has their live blog outside of their paywall so everyone can access their reporting about the federal attack on their city
Really excited about this!
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Philip Loring as co-Editor-in-Chief of FACETS! 🎉Dr. Loring brings expertise in the social and cultural dimensions of environmental science, with a focus on food systems, sustainability, and equity ▶️ https://ow.ly/lm9b50XWJAz
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy
January 14, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Really excited about this!
Accurate
and I feel like we were steadily heading in that direction for a half century (as i type on a shard of glass) and then this dude showed up, and a few other dudes like him, and now we’re in the mirror universe where people are trying to bring back slaves.
"We want to make Star Trek real," said Elon Musk.
"We want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact."
"We want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact."
January 14, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Accurate
We used to assume "turning into a Nazi bar" would result in everyone leaving. Turns out not only can you turn the bar into a Nazi bar but you can turn it into a Nazi CSAM bar and huge swaths of supposedly reasonable people will still keep showing up.
elon musk has succeeded in transforming twitter from a place where you used to get ratioed for being racist to a place where the racists do the ratioing
January 13, 2026 at 11:35 PM
We used to assume "turning into a Nazi bar" would result in everyone leaving. Turns out not only can you turn the bar into a Nazi bar but you can turn it into a Nazi CSAM bar and huge swaths of supposedly reasonable people will still keep showing up.
Can someone check the Tom Nichols-o-meter™️ to see if we’re allowed to call it fascism yet?
January 12, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Can someone check the Tom Nichols-o-meter™️ to see if we’re allowed to call it fascism yet?
This from @juliusgoat.bsky.social is really good. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Absolute Immunity
Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.
www.the-reframe.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:38 PM
This from @juliusgoat.bsky.social is really good. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Reposted by Philip Loring
Use your judgement about whether to watch videos of state violence. Don't shame people who find it traumatic. Don't demand that others don't share them.
I've covered enough of these to know how important video (and its dissemination) is in the possibility of accountability.
I've covered enough of these to know how important video (and its dissemination) is in the possibility of accountability.
January 7, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Use your judgement about whether to watch videos of state violence. Don't shame people who find it traumatic. Don't demand that others don't share them.
I've covered enough of these to know how important video (and its dissemination) is in the possibility of accountability.
I've covered enough of these to know how important video (and its dissemination) is in the possibility of accountability.
Yungblud’s “Zombie” with Smashing Pumpkins is hitting just the right spot for me rn
youtu.be/pf3KyEnacJ8
youtu.be/pf3KyEnacJ8
YUNGBLUD, The Smashing Pumpkins - Zombie (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by YUNGBLUDVEVO
youtu.be
January 7, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Yungblud’s “Zombie” with Smashing Pumpkins is hitting just the right spot for me rn
youtu.be/pf3KyEnacJ8
youtu.be/pf3KyEnacJ8