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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social for books across the speculative genres;
@chmmagazine.bsky.social for the best Weird Horror/Sword & Sorcery magazines;
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social who force us all to be smarter & more literary;
I'll never remember everyone.

THE FUCKING POINT IS, SUPPORT INDIE PUBLISHING.
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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billmckibben.bsky.social
Where’s Dickens when you need him?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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jamesgdyke.info
I will write more about this later, for now just to say our paper has been published today. 10 years after Paris Agreement we can conclusively say we have failed to limit warming to well below 2°C. What next?

www.cell.com/one-earth/ab...
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems
Humanity has pushed Earth’s life-supporting systems to the brink, accelerated by our failures over the past decade. Our only way to limit the duration and magnitude of temperature overshoot is rapid, ...
www.cell.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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hanmarin.bsky.social
fun fact: @radonjournal.bsky.social only needs $80 more per month to be fully funded for their amazing authors and artists. help support anti-establishment art! cool perks including exclusive discord access.

www.radonjournal.com/support

#litmag #scifi #anarchist #writing #art #joinus #wedontbite
Support | Radon Journal
Ways to support Radon Journal. Patreon tiers, social media, and anon donations through Ko-fi. Support independent publishing!
www.radonjournal.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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melissagiragrant.com
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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radonjournal.bsky.social
How Much It Costs to Run a Literary Journal – 2025

Radon Journal is a not-for-profit science fiction publisher committed to transparency. This is our yearly public financial thread. We also want to show aspiring editors the true costs of running a semi-pro journal. #writingcommunity (1/10)
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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aijiang.bsky.social
for the paperback readers 👀‼️

*links for preorder in my bio*

A PALACE NEAR THE WIND paperback forthcoming April 2026 🌬️🍃🎐🏰

@titanbooks.bsky.social
A palace near the wind paperback preorder graphic with the cover of the book
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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volts.wtf
"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."
The Electrotech Revolution | Ember
The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.
ember-energy.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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electricsheepsf.bsky.social
Oliver K. Langmead's verse-novel, Calypso, was shortlisted for the poetry Hugo & a British Science Fiction Association Award, and named one of the best Science Fiction books of 2024 by the Guardian and Esquire magazine.

Wanna hear Oliver read? Register now!
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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globalecoguy.bsky.social
This is insane. 🤦‍♂️

Why do tech giants like Elon Musk and Bill Gates keep on saying such dumb things about climate change?

They have access to the best possible experts, who could actually teach them something, if they would only ask and listen…
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
virtualpowerpoet.bsky.social
I apologize for ruining your Saturday: www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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oculusimperia.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
There are no words for how evil this is
In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to not want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying "i'm letting a human take over from here - someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight." But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. "nah, man - i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy," it said.
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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blooming-burbs.bsky.social
"There's something wrong with me and I don't want to make it right." 😍
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17d
Andrew Otazo has plucked, bagged, heaved and hauled more than 17 tons of trash from the mangroves in Florida.

Every piece of garbage he removes reclaims space for what should be there: bird nesting grounds and fish nurseries. https://wapo.st/4oS36Vx
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Congrats to #HeinzAward winner @globalecoguy.bsky.social on receiving @climateone.org's 2025 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication! 👏https://drawdown.org/news/climate-one-honors-jonathan-foley-phd-with-schneider-award-for-climate-communication\
Climate One honors Jonathan Foley, Ph.D., with Schneider Award for climate communication
Award recognizes scientists who go above and beyond in their efforts to communicate climate change
https://drawdown.org/news/climate-one-honors-jonathan-foley-phd-with-schneider-award-for-climate-communication\
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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billmckibben.bsky.social
If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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editrixemma.bsky.social
Orion's Belt is a great team, please apply if you're interested!
gessicasakamoto.bsky.social Gessica Sakamoto Martini @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social · 20d
I’m now accepting applications for Fiction Editor and Poetry Editor positions for 2026 at Orion’s Belt. If you desire to join our team (especially if you have experience at a spec-fic magazine), please send a cover letter/CV to orionsbelt.submissions@gmail.com. Details: www.orions-belt.net/volunteer
Volunteer — Orion's Belt
www.orions-belt.net
November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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I’ve been studying and practicing economic modeling for climate solutions for more than 3 decades and Genevieve is 100% right on this.
doctorvive.bsky.social Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 18d
Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100.

Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.

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The word "growth" is a core term in the language of climate politics. As we just saw, climate economists estimate the costs of climate damages relative to the amount of economic growth they project into the twenty-first century, and by and large they assume that such growth will continue no matter how hot and chaotic the planet gets. Their belief in a future of continued economic growth enables another idea sometimes used to justify sustaining the fossil- fuel economy: the idea that economic growth is itself a climate-change solution, a form of environmental protection that will shield the prosperous from climate devastation. This belief is so bipartisan, so ubiquitous, that it's not quite accurate to call it propaganda. It's best understood as a *myth*. This myth is often taken for reality by both fossil-fuel partisans on the right and climate-conscious progressives on the center-left.
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Repair Video

xkcd.com/3163/
Comic. [Person sitting at desk with laptop with machine labeled E-21 making “click click” noises on the floor behind] VOICE FROM LAPTOP: Hey all! Does your E-21 humidifier make an annoying clicking noise? Mine did, but I finally figured out that there’s an easy fix, so I made this video in case anyone else… PERSON AT DESK: Oh my god. Yes. *Yes.* [caption] I know there’s more important work in the world, but I feel like these people deserve, at minimum a statue.
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 19d
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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thenation.com
The media has been one of the channels through which climate disinformation has flowed as part of coordinated and well-funded campaigns from the fossil-fuel industry, writes @amywestervelt.bsky.social.
The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
www.thenation.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.
He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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@allenanalysis.bsky.social ♨️
HOLY HELL; 🔥
JB #Pritzker just went nuclear on #Trump:

“Donald Trump & his bootlickers have torn down the Department of Education from the inside. Books are being banned. History is being erased. And Donald Trump and his cronies can f*** all the way off.”

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November 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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ecogeog.bsky.social
As if we needed reminding - www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s climate plans fall drastically short of action needed, analysis shows
Recent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM