Rebecca Dugas (she, her)
@rebeccamusing.bsky.social
Fiction author. Copywriter. Copyeditor. Gardener. Environmentalist. Climate change activist. Feminist. AI enthusiast. Drummer. And so much more...
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OH, HOLY HELL
This administration may cut funding for an updated Avian Flu vaccine.
finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-t...
This administration may cut funding for an updated Avian Flu vaccine.
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Trump Team Weighs Pulling Funds for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine
(Bloomberg) -- US health officials are reevaluating a $590 million contract for bird flu shots that the Biden administration awarded to Moderna Inc., people familiar with the matter said.Most Read fro...
finance.yahoo.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
OH, HOLY HELL
This administration may cut funding for an updated Avian Flu vaccine.
finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-t...
This administration may cut funding for an updated Avian Flu vaccine.
finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-t...
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I hope it was worth it for Sen. Cassidy.
Meeting to choose next year's flu shots is canceled.
We will not have enough shots for next flu season.
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We will not have enough shots for next flu season.
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FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US vaccine policy
FDA panel meeting to select flu vaccine strains canceled; Paul Offit confirms
endpts.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I hope it was worth it for Sen. Cassidy.
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"Our planet is losing its appetite for mopping up carbon dioxide. (...) Earth’s plants and soils reached peak CO2 sequestration in 2008 and absorption has been declining ever since. Passing this tipping point increases the chances of runaway climate breakdown."
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate
Earth’s plants and soils reached peak carbon dioxide sequestration in 2008 but proportion absorbed has been declining since, study finds
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"Our planet is losing its appetite for mopping up carbon dioxide. (...) Earth’s plants and soils reached peak CO2 sequestration in 2008 and absorption has been declining ever since. Passing this tipping point increases the chances of runaway climate breakdown."
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Oh, I love this!
"The Appalachian Rekindling Project... wants to rewild the site with bison and native flora and fauna, open it to intertribal gatherings, and, it hopes, stop the prison. The environmental justice organization worked with a coalition of local nonprofits" to purchase the land.
"The Appalachian Rekindling Project... wants to rewild the site with bison and native flora and fauna, open it to intertribal gatherings, and, it hopes, stop the prison. The environmental justice organization worked with a coalition of local nonprofits" to purchase the land.
Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land #Climate
Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land
A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.
grist.org
February 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Oh, I love this!
"The Appalachian Rekindling Project... wants to rewild the site with bison and native flora and fauna, open it to intertribal gatherings, and, it hopes, stop the prison. The environmental justice organization worked with a coalition of local nonprofits" to purchase the land.
"The Appalachian Rekindling Project... wants to rewild the site with bison and native flora and fauna, open it to intertribal gatherings, and, it hopes, stop the prison. The environmental justice organization worked with a coalition of local nonprofits" to purchase the land.
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Sure, Trump can delete any mention of climate change across all government websites, but the thing is that climate change doesn't really care if you believe in it or not
Trump Admin Orders Deletion of Information About Climate Change From Government Websites
Recent moves within the federal government have scrubbed all mention of climate change on critical agency websites.
futurism.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Sure, Trump can delete any mention of climate change across all government websites, but the thing is that climate change doesn't really care if you believe in it or not
Brace Yourself Collapse Is Coming. Here's how to survive - create and maintain a community of local, like-minded souls you can rely on. weathered.pub/brace-yourse...
Brace Yourself Collapse Is Coming
What you do in the next 4 years will save you
weathered.pub
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Brace Yourself Collapse Is Coming. Here's how to survive - create and maintain a community of local, like-minded souls you can rely on. weathered.pub/brace-yourse...
Have you seen this? Trans friends and married women who have taken their husband's name, pay special attention to this.
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens
The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.
www.americanprogress.org
February 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Have you seen this? Trans friends and married women who have taken their husband's name, pay special attention to this.
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
It's greenhouse erection day! We're preparing for seed starting on Imbolc. It's so warm in here! 🥰
January 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
It's greenhouse erection day! We're preparing for seed starting on Imbolc. It's so warm in here! 🥰
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Trump signed a withdraw from the Paris agreement
January 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Trump signed a withdraw from the Paris agreement
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- Reports suggest that all government agency websites may soon be stripped of content related to climate change.
January 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
- Reports suggest that all government agency websites may soon be stripped of content related to climate change.
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Update 2:
Here is a list of the revoked orders and actions:
1. Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis.
2. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Here is a list of the revoked orders and actions:
1. Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis.
2. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
January 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Update 2:
Here is a list of the revoked orders and actions:
1. Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis.
2. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Here is a list of the revoked orders and actions:
1. Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis.
2. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Please read my latest article on my new Substack publication called, Hotter Planet Gardening! This one dives into all the good things snow does for our gardens.
Happy snow day!
Happy snow day!
The Blessing of Snow
How snow prepares us for spring, even as climate change challenges our gardens
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January 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Please read my latest article on my new Substack publication called, Hotter Planet Gardening! This one dives into all the good things snow does for our gardens.
Happy snow day!
Happy snow day!
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"The more specific clean energy supporters can be in connecting the benefits to local issues that people care about — preserving families’ farms, protecting water quality, investing in local infrastructure — the better."
Great insight from the Rural Climate Partnership.
Great insight from the Rural Climate Partnership.
How to engage rural Americans in the clean energy transition | Trellis
Developers and officials need to counter the abundance of misinformation about wind and solar farms on social media, in national media outlets and from local leaders.
trellis.net
January 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"The more specific clean energy supporters can be in connecting the benefits to local issues that people care about — preserving families’ farms, protecting water quality, investing in local infrastructure — the better."
Great insight from the Rural Climate Partnership.
Great insight from the Rural Climate Partnership.
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It is critically important to bring rural folks *into* the energy transition conversation by understanding their concerns. As essay notes, 83% of clean energy projects are on agricultural lands. That creates opportunity to build trust w/rural communities and counter misinformation + disinformation.
January 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It is critically important to bring rural folks *into* the energy transition conversation by understanding their concerns. As essay notes, 83% of clean energy projects are on agricultural lands. That creates opportunity to build trust w/rural communities and counter misinformation + disinformation.
There are so many animal victims of the California wildfires. 😰 Here's a list of resources to help the survivors and the humans caring for them.
open.substack.com/pub/barkacad...
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California Wildfire Relief for Pets & Wildlife: A Resource Guide
Watching wildfires devastate Southern California, many of us are at home wondering how we can help.
open.substack.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
There are so many animal victims of the California wildfires. 😰 Here's a list of resources to help the survivors and the humans caring for them.
open.substack.com/pub/barkacad...
open.substack.com/pub/barkacad...
As a climate fiction author myself, I'm excited to read this book. My series (unpublished) is called The Great Collapse. While Nick's book is called The Great Transition. I just listened to the Kindle sample and now I'm going to use one of my credits to get the whole book.
Includes examples of how to build community, or to connect to larger change.
hechingerreport.org/teaching-abo...
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Teaching about the climate crisis: Jubilant protests, restorative justice and role play - The Hechinger Report
Novelist and teacher Nick Fuller Googins talks about his climate novel, "The Great Transition," and incorporating climate instruction into his fourth grade classroom.
hechingerreport.org
January 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
As a climate fiction author myself, I'm excited to read this book. My series (unpublished) is called The Great Collapse. While Nick's book is called The Great Transition. I just listened to the Kindle sample and now I'm going to use one of my credits to get the whole book.
This is awful. These (Meta decision makers) are awful people.
Meta has quietly removed major sections of its hate speech policy protecting LGBTQ people, people of color, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. Today’s alarming policy changes will allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and cease to protect LGBTQ users from being targeted with such attacks
BREAKING NEWS: META AND MARK ZUCKERBERG REMOVE LONG-STANDING ANTI-LGBTQ HATE SPEECH POLICIES AFTER ANNOUNCING END OF FACT-CHECKING PROGRAM | GLAAD
Meta Quietly Removes Major Sections of Hateful Conduct Policies Protecting LGBTQ People and Other Marginalized People GLAAD: “Zuckerberg’s removal of fact-checking programs and industry-standard hate ...
glaad.org
January 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This is awful. These (Meta decision makers) are awful people.
Absolutely. The changes have been occurring for quite a while now. Finally, they're getting bad enough more people are waking to the fact we're already in a climate polycrisis. A bunch of consequences are already baked into the system, but it's not too late to stem the worst of what's still to come.
as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
January 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Absolutely. The changes have been occurring for quite a while now. Finally, they're getting bad enough more people are waking to the fact we're already in a climate polycrisis. A bunch of consequences are already baked into the system, but it's not too late to stem the worst of what's still to come.
Yes, mitigation and adaptation would be far more effective than thoughts and prayers.
These days, my thoughts are with all the people in California who are in grave danger because of massive wildfires!
But much more than "Thoughts & Prayers" they (and we all) need "Mitigation & Adaption" to address climate change and its most disastrous effects.
But much more than "Thoughts & Prayers" they (and we all) need "Mitigation & Adaption" to address climate change and its most disastrous effects.
Scientists have found that fires across California and other parts of the American West have become faster-moving in recent decades.
January 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Yes, mitigation and adaptation would be far more effective than thoughts and prayers.
Alright, I need to break my FB addiction and start coming here. Enough is enough!
So how are you? What's been happening in your day?
So how are you? What's been happening in your day?
January 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Alright, I need to break my FB addiction and start coming here. Enough is enough!
So how are you? What's been happening in your day?
So how are you? What's been happening in your day?
🖋️ Writing for clarity is a superpower. If you're using AI to generate content, don't forget to edit for readability!
Learn how to revise your words to reach and resonate with your ideal audience in my latest article: https://youraicopyeditor.substack.com/p/editing-for-readability-how-to-make
Learn how to revise your words to reach and resonate with your ideal audience in my latest article: https://youraicopyeditor.substack.com/p/editing-for-readability-how-to-make
Editing for Readability: How to Make Your AI Content Accessible
Learn how readability metrics and tools like Hemingway can make your AI-generated content more effective and audience-friendly.
youraicopyeditor.substack.com
December 21, 2024 at 1:35 PM
🖋️ Writing for clarity is a superpower. If you're using AI to generate content, don't forget to edit for readability!
Learn how to revise your words to reach and resonate with your ideal audience in my latest article: https://youraicopyeditor.substack.com/p/editing-for-readability-how-to-make
Learn how to revise your words to reach and resonate with your ideal audience in my latest article: https://youraicopyeditor.substack.com/p/editing-for-readability-how-to-make
I've just launched my first Substack newsletter on how to edit & humanize AI content: Your AI Copyeditor. I blend my enthusiasm for genAI with my passion for emotional intelligence, storytelling, and relationships, plus my expertise as an editor. Please check out my first post!
The Art of Humanizing AI Content
Master the skill of editing AI drafts into authentic, human-optimized content that connects
youraicopyeditor.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:35 PM
I've just launched my first Substack newsletter on how to edit & humanize AI content: Your AI Copyeditor. I blend my enthusiasm for genAI with my passion for emotional intelligence, storytelling, and relationships, plus my expertise as an editor. Please check out my first post!
This is why I'm expanding my garden for 2025. I usually only grow strawberries, blueberries, and figs, but that's usually enough for me and the other diabetic in this house. But the tariffs are going to hit vegetable produce hard, too, and THAT is the bulk of what I grow.
In my zone I only think I can effectively do Raspberries, Blackberries and Strawberries. I'm in 6/6B. 🌱
November 27, 2024 at 8:56 PM
This is why I'm expanding my garden for 2025. I usually only grow strawberries, blueberries, and figs, but that's usually enough for me and the other diabetic in this house. But the tariffs are going to hit vegetable produce hard, too, and THAT is the bulk of what I grow.
Expanding our garden in anticipation of higher grocery store prices due to coming deportations of farm workers. To avoid paying more for imported materials after the new administration imposes higher tariffs, we bought 4 new garden beds sooner than we'd planned.
Here's the first one, an 8x2.
Here's the first one, an 8x2.
November 23, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Expanding our garden in anticipation of higher grocery store prices due to coming deportations of farm workers. To avoid paying more for imported materials after the new administration imposes higher tariffs, we bought 4 new garden beds sooner than we'd planned.
Here's the first one, an 8x2.
Here's the first one, an 8x2.
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