Gray Augustine
@augustinegray.bsky.social
bread and roses | do not comply in advance
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Welcome everyone who's willing to reject what's happening. But we don't have to make space for cruelty, punishment, or exclusion.
November 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Welcome everyone who's willing to reject what's happening. But we don't have to make space for cruelty, punishment, or exclusion.
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🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨
They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us
Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏
This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us
Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏
This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
September 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨
They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us
Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏
This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us
Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏
This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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First, remember what works in moments like this one.
August 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
First, remember what works in moments like this one.
Firsthand account of a family swept into the recent flood — including the unimaginable loss of a child. You'll not read another thing like it. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
www.texasmonthly.com
July 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Firsthand account of a family swept into the recent flood — including the unimaginable loss of a child. You'll not read another thing like it. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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Comms pros for electeds: get your bosses on the record and on TV and on the Internet and on the House/Senate Floors tomorrow hammering home how devastating the existing and proposed cuts to NOAA and the workforce and resilience and climate are. Nobody knows about them except us nerds! Tell people.
The President’s budget proposes devastating cuts to NOAA, which helps everyone understand and prepare for extreme weather. NOAA was also in the middle of developing new flood maps for neighborhoods. bsky.app/profile/cost...
At least six people were killed and frantic searches were underway for the missing after heavy rain in Central Texas set off deadly flooding along the Guadalupe River on Friday, authorities said. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/u...
July 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Comms pros for electeds: get your bosses on the record and on TV and on the Internet and on the House/Senate Floors tomorrow hammering home how devastating the existing and proposed cuts to NOAA and the workforce and resilience and climate are. Nobody knows about them except us nerds! Tell people.
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This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions.
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Who should do the fact checks with millions and millions of fake news? The nature of social media itself is the problem. However it probably is impossible to get rid of every social network and revert debates to pre 2010-status.
June 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions.
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
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Just started reading The Fifth Risk, & immediately a sentence leapt out at me as underlining what Blum says in the above article (and much more about this moment): "People who had never experienced a collapsed state were slow to appreciate a state that had not yet collapsed."
So: here we are.
So: here we are.
May 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Just started reading The Fifth Risk, & immediately a sentence leapt out at me as underlining what Blum says in the above article (and much more about this moment): "People who had never experienced a collapsed state were slow to appreciate a state that had not yet collapsed."
So: here we are.
So: here we are.
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See: Climate.
Normality bias - ‘the tendency to underestimate the likelihood or impact of a potential hazard, based on the belief that things will continue as they have in the past’ - is a very hard habit to break.
March 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
See: Climate.
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We're here to help!
Our lawyers provide free, confidential legal help to researchers (including federal scientists 🔬) facing censorship, harassment, or other anti-science efforts.
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Our lawyers provide free, confidential legal help to researchers (including federal scientists 🔬) facing censorship, harassment, or other anti-science efforts.
csldf.org/contact
February 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
We're here to help!
Our lawyers provide free, confidential legal help to researchers (including federal scientists 🔬) facing censorship, harassment, or other anti-science efforts.
csldf.org/contact
Our lawyers provide free, confidential legal help to researchers (including federal scientists 🔬) facing censorship, harassment, or other anti-science efforts.
csldf.org/contact
Thread of important support resources...
(1/5) Updated Suicide Prevention Resources - please reach out if you're struggling!
National Crisis Line: 988
For Veterans: 988, press 1
National Text Line: text "HOME" to 741741
The above lines are the only ones tied into the National 988 network. All the rest in this thread are not.
National Crisis Line: 988
For Veterans: 988, press 1
National Text Line: text "HOME" to 741741
The above lines are the only ones tied into the National 988 network. All the rest in this thread are not.
February 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thread of important support resources...
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GOOD - MacArthur Foundation moving to emergency footing for nonprofit funding w/ increased giving, flexibility & trust www.macfound.org/press/perspe...
I especially value them highlighting “flexible, trust-based models” that cover indirect costs at 29% & less onerous administrative requirements.
I especially value them highlighting “flexible, trust-based models” that cover indirect costs at 29% & less onerous administrative requirements.
February 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
GOOD - MacArthur Foundation moving to emergency footing for nonprofit funding w/ increased giving, flexibility & trust www.macfound.org/press/perspe...
I especially value them highlighting “flexible, trust-based models” that cover indirect costs at 29% & less onerous administrative requirements.
I especially value them highlighting “flexible, trust-based models” that cover indirect costs at 29% & less onerous administrative requirements.
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1. Nearly a century ago, Nazis burned trans books to usher in fascism.
Now, Trump is doing the same, digitally burning all records of transgender people and striking the community from records.
This must be seen for what it is: a move towards atrocity.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Now, Trump is doing the same, digitally burning all records of transgender people and striking the community from records.
This must be seen for what it is: a move towards atrocity.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Nazis Burned Trans Books To Usher In Fascism: Now Trump Does The Same
Transgender people have often been a canary in the coalmines of Democracy.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
1. Nearly a century ago, Nazis burned trans books to usher in fascism.
Now, Trump is doing the same, digitally burning all records of transgender people and striking the community from records.
This must be seen for what it is: a move towards atrocity.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Now, Trump is doing the same, digitally burning all records of transgender people and striking the community from records.
This must be seen for what it is: a move towards atrocity.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Our nation depends on a strong, non-partisan civil service. www.civilservicestrong.org
Civil Service Strong: Resources for Civil Servants
Effective. Impartial. Resilient. The civil service comprises dedicated, nonpartisan federal employees who work tirelessly across the country and around the world to ensure the effective delivery of go...
www.civilservicestrong.org
February 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Our nation depends on a strong, non-partisan civil service. www.civilservicestrong.org
Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independent, trusted science the agency produces is protected. act.ucsusa.org/4kajJuk
Science at Risk: Protect NOAA
Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independ...
act.ucsusa.org
February 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independent, trusted science the agency produces is protected. act.ucsusa.org/4kajJuk
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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
February 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
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Abortion is safe and effective—banning it is not. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
February 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Abortion is safe and effective—banning it is not. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
