Annie Dwyer
@anniekdwyer.bsky.social
wayward academic, more-than-humanist, climate therapist, kitty whisperer
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Washington residents! Tell the Dept. of Ecology TODAY that there needs to be a public hearing for Sabey Data Centers' desired addition of new diesel generators in Quincy.
More pollution, more emissions...shouldn't the community have a say?
More pollution, more emissions...shouldn't the community have a say?
November 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Washington residents! Tell the Dept. of Ecology TODAY that there needs to be a public hearing for Sabey Data Centers' desired addition of new diesel generators in Quincy.
More pollution, more emissions...shouldn't the community have a say?
More pollution, more emissions...shouldn't the community have a say?
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Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
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I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but....
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but....
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
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1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes: linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea... ("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes: linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea... ("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")
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Has your ballot been challenged? A significant number of ballots are in danger of not being counted. Don’t let your ballot be the one that tips the election to Harrell!
Make sure it’s counted here 👉 info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
Make sure it’s counted here 👉 info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Has your ballot been challenged? A significant number of ballots are in danger of not being counted. Don’t let your ballot be the one that tips the election to Harrell!
Make sure it’s counted here 👉 info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
Make sure it’s counted here 👉 info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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Before her death, Jane Goodall left us all with a compelling message from her last interviews: While we’re the most 'intellectual animals' to ever walk the planet, "we’re not intelligent."
“Because intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”
From our friends at @vox.com:
“Because intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”
From our friends at @vox.com:
Jane Goodall’s final, urgent, message
"Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”
www.motherjones.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Before her death, Jane Goodall left us all with a compelling message from her last interviews: While we’re the most 'intellectual animals' to ever walk the planet, "we’re not intelligent."
“Because intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”
From our friends at @vox.com:
“Because intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”
From our friends at @vox.com:
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This is sooo important! Please read this whole thread, and the letter, and repost!
I've been working with these folks a little for a few months now, and they are FANTASTIC, and doing all they can to slow and shift the AI juggernaut. Make sure that Amazon employees (and other tech folks) see & sign!
I've been working with these folks a little for a few months now, and they are FANTASTIC, and doing all they can to slow and shift the AI juggernaut. Make sure that Amazon employees (and other tech folks) see & sign!
1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
Open Letter — AECJ
www.amazonclimatejustice.org
September 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is sooo important! Please read this whole thread, and the letter, and repost!
I've been working with these folks a little for a few months now, and they are FANTASTIC, and doing all they can to slow and shift the AI juggernaut. Make sure that Amazon employees (and other tech folks) see & sign!
I've been working with these folks a little for a few months now, and they are FANTASTIC, and doing all they can to slow and shift the AI juggernaut. Make sure that Amazon employees (and other tech folks) see & sign!
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Live in Washington State? Care about climate/affordability/ecologies/humans?
We have ONE WEEK to comment on the Data Center Workgroup draft recommendations to the governor. Please do!
The image links to pointers for commenting, and here is a big overview I wrote up: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We have ONE WEEK to comment on the Data Center Workgroup draft recommendations to the governor. Please do!
The image links to pointers for commenting, and here is a big overview I wrote up: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Pointers for Data Center comments
Again, here are the recommendations we’re responding to, and here (for the real wonks) is the existing law. Here is some deep background. HERE IS THE FORM FOR SENDING IN YOUR COMMENTS! POINTERS: I...
docs.google.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Live in Washington State? Care about climate/affordability/ecologies/humans?
We have ONE WEEK to comment on the Data Center Workgroup draft recommendations to the governor. Please do!
The image links to pointers for commenting, and here is a big overview I wrote up: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We have ONE WEEK to comment on the Data Center Workgroup draft recommendations to the governor. Please do!
The image links to pointers for commenting, and here is a big overview I wrote up: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Why are we calling for a #BoycottTMobile?
They’ve lobbied to pass Trump’s Big Bill, launched Trump Mobile on their network, partnered with far-right fascist Elon Musk’s Starlink, and their union busting is disgusting.
Sign the pledge + make the switch:
tmobileboycott.org
@teslatakedown.com
They’ve lobbied to pass Trump’s Big Bill, launched Trump Mobile on their network, partnered with far-right fascist Elon Musk’s Starlink, and their union busting is disgusting.
Sign the pledge + make the switch:
tmobileboycott.org
@teslatakedown.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Why are we calling for a #BoycottTMobile?
They’ve lobbied to pass Trump’s Big Bill, launched Trump Mobile on their network, partnered with far-right fascist Elon Musk’s Starlink, and their union busting is disgusting.
Sign the pledge + make the switch:
tmobileboycott.org
@teslatakedown.com
They’ve lobbied to pass Trump’s Big Bill, launched Trump Mobile on their network, partnered with far-right fascist Elon Musk’s Starlink, and their union busting is disgusting.
Sign the pledge + make the switch:
tmobileboycott.org
@teslatakedown.com
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This is Jade. She just met the biggest dogs she's ever seen. But quickly learned they have the biggest hearts too. 13/10 for all (TT: catimtins.pscal)
September 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This is Jade. She just met the biggest dogs she's ever seen. But quickly learned they have the biggest hearts too. 13/10 for all (TT: catimtins.pscal)
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I’ve said it before and will say it again— anyone who says climate change is not relevant to people’s day-to-day lives is either lying or simply not paying attention
Trump’s tariffs, deportations and climate change are making groceries more expensive | CNN Business
President Donald Trump pledged to bring down grocery costs. But his administration’s policies are contributing to an acceleration in prices, food economists and companies say.
www.cnn.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I’ve said it before and will say it again— anyone who says climate change is not relevant to people’s day-to-day lives is either lying or simply not paying attention
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seattle - CM rivera's amendment 102 is a poison pill that does not protect tree canopy, and will curtail housing in wealth neighborhoods
this will push more development into areas that don't have trees - increasing exposure to heat islands
please sign & boost
actionnetwork.org/letters/amen...
this will push more development into areas that don't have trees - increasing exposure to heat islands
please sign & boost
actionnetwork.org/letters/amen...
Amendment 102 will not protect the urban canopy – and in fact may do the opposite
Seattle needs more affordable housing AND trees. Help us convince the Seattle City Council to do both by opposing Amendment 102, which makes new housing much more expensive and worsens existing inequi...
actionnetwork.org
September 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
seattle - CM rivera's amendment 102 is a poison pill that does not protect tree canopy, and will curtail housing in wealth neighborhoods
this will push more development into areas that don't have trees - increasing exposure to heat islands
please sign & boost
actionnetwork.org/letters/amen...
this will push more development into areas that don't have trees - increasing exposure to heat islands
please sign & boost
actionnetwork.org/letters/amen...
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Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Rise of the Right-Wing Tattletale
In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.
www.theatlantic.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Watch how long it takes this clanker to do, well, anything 🤦♂️💀 #fail #teslatakedown
September 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Watch how long it takes this clanker to do, well, anything 🤦♂️💀 #fail #teslatakedown
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Holy shit:
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.
www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.
www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.
www.hcn.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Holy shit:
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.
www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.
www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
When I saw this headline, I first thought my cat, named Kazoo, had unbeknownst to me led a whole herd of fuzzy Kazoos in protest of Feucht's descent upon Seattle. Turns out the kazoos countering Christian hate were of the instrument variety. Still, nice story.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Christian rock concert in Seattle met with kazoo protest
Seattle leaders sought to avoid a repeat of clashes that erupted between counterprotesters and police at a May rally in Cal Anderson Park.
www.seattletimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
When I saw this headline, I first thought my cat, named Kazoo, had unbeknownst to me led a whole herd of fuzzy Kazoos in protest of Feucht's descent upon Seattle. Turns out the kazoos countering Christian hate were of the instrument variety. Still, nice story.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name
theonion.com/epa-to-...
theonion.com/epa-to-...
July 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name
theonion.com/epa-to-...
theonion.com/epa-to-...
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Will Alpine co-wrote Microsoft's manifesto on how AI will be a powerful force for good for climate change
In a new interview, Alpine disavows the manifesto, saying he believes Microsoft used his work to distract from the much larger climate harms the company enables through contracts with Big Oil
In a new interview, Alpine disavows the manifesto, saying he believes Microsoft used his work to distract from the much larger climate harms the company enables through contracts with Big Oil
He helped Microsoft build AI to help the climate. Then Microsoft sold it to Big Oil.
A former Microsoft project manager reveals how the tech giant is using AI to help Big Oil drill—and how he and his partner are now pushing for change.
heated.world
July 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Will Alpine co-wrote Microsoft's manifesto on how AI will be a powerful force for good for climate change
In a new interview, Alpine disavows the manifesto, saying he believes Microsoft used his work to distract from the much larger climate harms the company enables through contracts with Big Oil
In a new interview, Alpine disavows the manifesto, saying he believes Microsoft used his work to distract from the much larger climate harms the company enables through contracts with Big Oil
"Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life
on whose behalf we can act.
We belong to this world.
The web of life is calling us forth at this time."
Joanna Macy (1929-2025)
on whose behalf we can act.
We belong to this world.
The web of life is calling us forth at this time."
Joanna Macy (1929-2025)
July 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life
on whose behalf we can act.
We belong to this world.
The web of life is calling us forth at this time."
Joanna Macy (1929-2025)
on whose behalf we can act.
We belong to this world.
The web of life is calling us forth at this time."
Joanna Macy (1929-2025)
I'm wrapping up teaching a summer term class I first developed a few years ago, called "Popular Culture and the Post-Apocalyptic Imagination." It's ... a different course, in the current moment ... 🧵
July 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I'm wrapping up teaching a summer term class I first developed a few years ago, called "Popular Culture and the Post-Apocalyptic Imagination." It's ... a different course, in the current moment ... 🧵
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Today Amazon released its “Sustainability” report. Predictably, what it leaves out is vastly more important than what it says.
Amazon is building a dirty energy empire, spending literally hundreds of billions on data centers that will rely primarily on new fossil fuel infrastructure.
Amazon is building a dirty energy empire, spending literally hundreds of billions on data centers that will rely primarily on new fossil fuel infrastructure.
PRESS RELEASE: Amazon Sustainability Report Hides Gas & Coal Empire Powering Company’s AI Ambitions
PRESS RELEASE July 16, 2025 Contact: hello@amazonclimatejustice.org Amazon Sustainability Report Hides Gas & Coal Empire Powering Company’s AI Ambitions Nearly three-quarters of Amazon’s data cente...
docs.google.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Today Amazon released its “Sustainability” report. Predictably, what it leaves out is vastly more important than what it says.
Amazon is building a dirty energy empire, spending literally hundreds of billions on data centers that will rely primarily on new fossil fuel infrastructure.
Amazon is building a dirty energy empire, spending literally hundreds of billions on data centers that will rely primarily on new fossil fuel infrastructure.
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Supreme Court says the president can’t abolish student debt, but he CAN abolish the Department of Education.
This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s end times fascism—a fatalistic politics willing torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.
This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s end times fascism—a fatalistic politics willing torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.
July 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Supreme Court says the president can’t abolish student debt, but he CAN abolish the Department of Education.
This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s end times fascism—a fatalistic politics willing torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.
This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s end times fascism—a fatalistic politics willing torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social in this incredible interview, offers clarity, direction, and most importantly, hope, in the fight against the climate crisis.
Pin this, and listen to it, even if it is in the background. It shows the path forward for renewable energy 👇💚
Pin this, and listen to it, even if it is in the background. It shows the path forward for renewable energy 👇💚
one.npr.org?sharedMediaI...
Marketplace at NPR is one of the few media spots where substantive discussion continues, in this case about my new book. Very grateful to all who produced this!
Marketplace at NPR is one of the few media spots where substantive discussion continues, in this case about my new book. Very grateful to all who produced this!
🔊 Listen Now: "Burning Questions:" A conversation with Bill McKibben about his new book on solar power
How We Survive from Marketplace on NPR One | 25:04
one.npr.org
July 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social in this incredible interview, offers clarity, direction, and most importantly, hope, in the fight against the climate crisis.
Pin this, and listen to it, even if it is in the background. It shows the path forward for renewable energy 👇💚
Pin this, and listen to it, even if it is in the background. It shows the path forward for renewable energy 👇💚
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Texas politicians have been loudly denying the link between climate change and extreme floods
But behind closed doors, the oil companies that fund those politicians have been acknowledging that storms and floods are getting worse—so they can prepare their own infrastructure for what's to come
But behind closed doors, the oil companies that fund those politicians have been acknowledging that storms and floods are getting worse—so they can prepare their own infrastructure for what's to come
Abbott says megafloods are “just part of nature.” The fossil fuel industry disagrees.
In leaked audio from a meeting last month, gas industry representatives acknowledged that extreme weather is getting wackier and more dangerous.
heated.world
July 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Texas politicians have been loudly denying the link between climate change and extreme floods
But behind closed doors, the oil companies that fund those politicians have been acknowledging that storms and floods are getting worse—so they can prepare their own infrastructure for what's to come
But behind closed doors, the oil companies that fund those politicians have been acknowledging that storms and floods are getting worse—so they can prepare their own infrastructure for what's to come