Sufyan Abbasi
@sufy.me
Just trying to survive climate change and late stage capitalism. Posts, likes, and thoughts are my own.
AWU-gler working on Earth Engine
he/him | http://sufy.me | sufsters@ on that one site we don’t talk about anymore
AWU-gler working on Earth Engine
he/him | http://sufy.me | sufsters@ on that one site we don’t talk about anymore
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Sufyan Abbasi
@sufy.me
· Nov 9
"The idea of a hierarchy of human value is a very well-marketed idea in our media and our politics, and things will really start to change when we place our blame more on those who are selling it for their own gain than those who are desperate enough to buy it."
~ Heather McGhee
~ Heather McGhee
Men would rather invade Venezuela than to decarbonize. What the hell.
If we eliminated the fossil fuel industry, we would also dismantle the war industrial complex, so of course we have both industries propping each other up.
We can live in a better world but we have this shit instead.
If we eliminated the fossil fuel industry, we would also dismantle the war industrial complex, so of course we have both industries propping each other up.
We can live in a better world but we have this shit instead.
January 4, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Men would rather invade Venezuela than to decarbonize. What the hell.
If we eliminated the fossil fuel industry, we would also dismantle the war industrial complex, so of course we have both industries propping each other up.
We can live in a better world but we have this shit instead.
If we eliminated the fossil fuel industry, we would also dismantle the war industrial complex, so of course we have both industries propping each other up.
We can live in a better world but we have this shit instead.
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Do people know that there are almost 1 million Muslims in NYC? Where are the stories about how Muslims are feeling about the first Muslim Mayor in NYC?
January 3, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Do people know that there are almost 1 million Muslims in NYC? Where are the stories about how Muslims are feeling about the first Muslim Mayor in NYC?
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hey psst, pssssssst!
We got you this year end internet themed quiz show
with our 6 favorite people @jamieloftus.bsky.social, @akilahhughes.com, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, @bumas.bsky.social, @tomlumperson.bsky.social and @lily-is.online
We got you this year end internet themed quiz show
with our 6 favorite people @jamieloftus.bsky.social, @akilahhughes.com, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, @bumas.bsky.social, @tomlumperson.bsky.social and @lily-is.online
🆕 Post-Mortem: 2025!
We celebrate our guests for what they’ve seen and mock them for what they missed; we celebrate the year for what it brought us, and damn it for what it did to us.
www.neverpo.st
December 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
hey psst, pssssssst!
We got you this year end internet themed quiz show
with our 6 favorite people @jamieloftus.bsky.social, @akilahhughes.com, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, @bumas.bsky.social, @tomlumperson.bsky.social and @lily-is.online
We got you this year end internet themed quiz show
with our 6 favorite people @jamieloftus.bsky.social, @akilahhughes.com, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, @bumas.bsky.social, @tomlumperson.bsky.social and @lily-is.online
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I've waited 3 years to make this post
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I've waited 3 years to make this post
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Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing
The tl;dr before you get into this post is this: the SFWA came out, said that some AI usage was okay enough in books for the authors of those books to not to be disqualified from winning a Nebula a…
terribleminds.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
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We’re Googlers for Job Security, and we’re headed into the holiday break feeling more united than ever. Hundreds and hundreds of Google workers have taken action for job security this year. Have you?
Sign the petition and join our movement: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter
Sign the petition and join our movement: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter
December 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We’re Googlers for Job Security, and we’re headed into the holiday break feeling more united than ever. Hundreds and hundreds of Google workers have taken action for job security this year. Have you?
Sign the petition and join our movement: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter
Sign the petition and join our movement: go.awu.fyi/job-security-letter
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"So you see, consumer? It's mostly your fault for wanting things conveniently! It's not the fault of the company CEOs that supported the election of a president that blocks progress on climate change, or the fact that there's no reasonable rail network, or that delivery bikes aren't a thing here."🤡
When customers choose faster shipping and earlier delivery dates, the system shifts from optimized routing to whatever gets the package out fastest, and that means higher emissions, said Sreedevi Rajagopalan, a research scientist at MIT.
https://to.pbs.org/48R6NFY
https://to.pbs.org/48R6NFY
Fast shipping has environmental impact as delivery becomes more polluting
Fast shipping has become a staple of online shopping, promising delivery within a day or even hours.
www.pbs.org
December 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"So you see, consumer? It's mostly your fault for wanting things conveniently! It's not the fault of the company CEOs that supported the election of a president that blocks progress on climate change, or the fact that there's no reasonable rail network, or that delivery bikes aren't a thing here."🤡
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Here’s a statement from Tomboyx in response to the FDA issuing warnings considering binders to be medical devices.
December 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Here’s a statement from Tomboyx in response to the FDA issuing warnings considering binders to be medical devices.
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"This story doesn't need a sandworm"
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"This story doesn't need a sandworm"
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
The government doesn’t need us to say stuff for them. They are adults, they can say their own things.
Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
December 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The government doesn’t need us to say stuff for them. They are adults, they can say their own things.
I found this “find the real image out of three” post on Reddit and the real images pop out when you analyze the content of the image. Would a kayaker place his bag on top of the kayak or inside?
www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...
Reality is more beautiful, weirder, and logical than what AI produces.
www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...
Reality is more beautiful, weirder, and logical than what AI produces.
From the ChatGPT community on Reddit: Real image vs Nano Banana Pro vs GPT, can you easily guess which one is real?
Explore this post and more from the ChatGPT community
www.reddit.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I found this “find the real image out of three” post on Reddit and the real images pop out when you analyze the content of the image. Would a kayaker place his bag on top of the kayak or inside?
www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...
Reality is more beautiful, weirder, and logical than what AI produces.
www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...
Reality is more beautiful, weirder, and logical than what AI produces.
I’m so glad we’re finally getting the Communist America that everyone was so scared about
/s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s
/s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s
“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air
’60 Minutes’ Pulls Segment on Trump Deportees Sent to El Salvador Megaprison 2 Hours Before Airtime
"60 Minutes" abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air.
ca.news.yahoo.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I’m so glad we’re finally getting the Communist America that everyone was so scared about
/s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s
/s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s
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Now would be a great time for a 10 episode, 20 hour prestige series about the ten years between 1916 and 1926, covering the establishment of the 8-hr work day & 5-day work week, in the US. Each episode would be one year & the middle episode should be entirely devoted to the Battle of Blair Mountain.
December 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Now would be a great time for a 10 episode, 20 hour prestige series about the ten years between 1916 and 1926, covering the establishment of the 8-hr work day & 5-day work week, in the US. Each episode would be one year & the middle episode should be entirely devoted to the Battle of Blair Mountain.
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Some of Austin's finest work and even though I was incredibly incorrect at least I wasn't the MOST incorrect
youtu.be/35yfu2wXmto?...
youtu.be/35yfu2wXmto?...
How Many Trees Are There in Skyrim?
YouTube video by Any Austin
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Some of Austin's finest work and even though I was incredibly incorrect at least I wasn't the MOST incorrect
youtu.be/35yfu2wXmto?...
youtu.be/35yfu2wXmto?...
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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this packet is not a packet of honor
nothing valued is inside
what is inside is dangerous and repulsive to us
this danger is unleashed only if you open the packet and eat the delicious gel inside
this packet is best shunned and left around so you keep finding them everywhere
nothing valued is inside
what is inside is dangerous and repulsive to us
this danger is unleashed only if you open the packet and eat the delicious gel inside
this packet is best shunned and left around so you keep finding them everywhere
December 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
this packet is not a packet of honor
nothing valued is inside
what is inside is dangerous and repulsive to us
this danger is unleashed only if you open the packet and eat the delicious gel inside
this packet is best shunned and left around so you keep finding them everywhere
nothing valued is inside
what is inside is dangerous and repulsive to us
this danger is unleashed only if you open the packet and eat the delicious gel inside
this packet is best shunned and left around so you keep finding them everywhere
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This is one of my favorite videos I’ve gotten to do for SciAm lately, they really just let me have a blast telling this a absolutely Wild story
For humans, static electricity is a curiosity. For insects, it can be life or death: spiders use it to catch prey, bumblebees to collect pollen, and nematodes to leap onto passing flies.
bit.ly/3L1Rhhk
@tomlumperson.bsky.social
bit.ly/3L1Rhhk
@tomlumperson.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is one of my favorite videos I’ve gotten to do for SciAm lately, they really just let me have a blast telling this a absolutely Wild story
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AWU STATEMENT✍️
In response to last week’s announcement that Google has entered into a partnership with the U.S. Department of War, the elected Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/awu-st...
In response to last week’s announcement that Google has entered into a partnership with the U.S. Department of War, the elected Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/awu-st...
December 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
AWU STATEMENT✍️
In response to last week’s announcement that Google has entered into a partnership with the U.S. Department of War, the elected Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/awu-st...
In response to last week’s announcement that Google has entered into a partnership with the U.S. Department of War, the elected Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/awu-st...
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NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
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Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica!
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
December 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica!
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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The actual execution of it is so cringy. Like, whatever the technique, they couldn't bother to make it look even a TINY BIT like they're interacting or share the same location-appropriate lighting? This had to be made in 5 mins, like a comedy news show graphic for a gag, except it's an annual cover.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The actual execution of it is so cringy. Like, whatever the technique, they couldn't bother to make it look even a TINY BIT like they're interacting or share the same location-appropriate lighting? This had to be made in 5 mins, like a comedy news show graphic for a gag, except it's an annual cover.
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The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.