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aupip.bsky.social
An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide
@aupip.bsky.social
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Our society is built on a foundation of selfishness, greed and ignorance. It is vile, cruel, and destructive. Our societies should support life not money.

Witness to humanity's despoliation of the planet.
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Well who'd of thought it. More people = more material consumption. Less people = less material consumption.

Still, it's a good article highlighting that measuring materials doesn't give a good indication of the impact of using said materials.

ourworldindata.org/material-foo...
An infographic breaking down the material usage (Metal ores, Fossil fuels, Biomass, and non-metallic materials) by major activities: Housing (52%), Food (19%), Services (11%), Transport (8%), Household goods (8%), Clothing (1%). Graphic title: "Nearly three-quarters of the European Union's material footprint comes from housing and food production."
October 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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A little drugged up in this photo cause she just had surgery when it was taken 😁
August 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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phys.org/news/2025-07...
The study authors worry that the recent changes may be a harbinger of even more extreme events. They say, "The extraordinary marine heat waves of 2023 may represent a major shift in oceanic and atmospheric conditions, potentially indicating an early signal of a tipping point in Earth's climate system."
July 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Hmmm...nope, the math isn't looking good.
Let K represent the carrying capacity for a particular organism in a given environment, and let r be a real number that represents the growth rate. The function P ( t ) represents the population of this organism as a function of time t , and the constant P 0 represents the initial population (population of the organism at time t = 0 ). Then the logistic differential equation is d P d t = r P ( 1 − P K )
July 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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phys.org/news/2025-06...
"How does a hurricane or an earthquake impact the landscape and change the risk for future landslides or floods? How do landslides change river systems' flooding potential downstream because they suddenly have extra sediment? And how does Earth's biosphere, including the microbes converting rock to movable sediment and tree roots holding soil in place, impact these cascades?"
June 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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I participate in a peak hours energy saving program but since I already tend to set the high temp high, she’s gunna be a warm one for a few hours.
A screenshot of a thermostat showing an inside temperature of 26C with the high temperature set at 29C and an outdoor temperature of 33C.
June 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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As I drift off to sweet slumber I try to remember that while humans are off killing, murdering, destroying and generally being a horrible species there are these fella's out there, just being. They are neither panda nor ant but are beautiful nonetheless.

Euspinolia militaris.
A picture of a Euspinolia militaris, also known as the panda ant, although it is neither panda or ant and is in fact a type of wasp.
June 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky
A boy sitting in a chest gleefully looks up to read the floating words "The End."
June 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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It sure is and around the great lakes here, which normally help cool things off, it’s not typical for the overnight lows to not push down towards 20C during a heat wave but we now get to enjoy mid-20’s lows apparently. Happy Solstice!
A weather forecast showing daytime highs between 28C to 34C and nighttime lows of between 20C and 26C
June 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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one-ocean-science-2025.org
June 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Caption: “Did you know that bees sleep between five and eight hours a day, sometimes in flowers? Also, they like to sleep with other bees and hold each others feet” Image of two bees curled up together in a flower covered in pollen, blissfully sleeping.
June 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Does one just lean into the absurdity, really highlight the stupidity of it all? Do you be just & righteous and exclaim your self importance? Feign stoicism and try to play it all off with the mentality of "Nothing you can do about it"? Feel deeply about it all but know nothing will change? In a million years nothing of today will be left so does any of it matter (answer: yes)? I don't have any answers for you but for me the time is quickly approaching where I no longer care to play along with the insanity of it all. I will frolic with the birds and the bees. Should a natural predator such as a bear or wolf eat me, I am pleased to provide them sustenance. I live and die as does that which sustains me. I stand proudly with this existence and gladly join oblivion when that day comes. I have known untold beauty and weeped at its demise. Before too long I will curl up in Earth’s warm embrace and together we will pass through the ages as new becomes old, old becomes forgotten, and the future be forever full of wonder.
June 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I'll join in on sharing cat photos 😀

The older cat past away last year but he was so good at keeping an eye on the wee one who I rescued after she was abandoned by her mother.
An older 16 year old tabby lies on a bed watching over a wee 1 year calico kitten.
June 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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For my own curiosity I looked up their child policy and it seems even more odd that they supposedly will give a gentle heads up unless they (arbitrarily?) feel it's an imminent danger.

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June 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Yup, seems perfectly sustainable. Not destructive at all. Everything is fine.
A graph showing global population over time starting in 200AD through a projected timeline of 2100AD. From the years 200 through 1600 the line is fairly flat with very small increase. Starting around 1700 the population begins to grow larger, faster with the population skyrocketing in size starting around 1900. Estimated population in 200: 190,000,000. Estimated population in 1804: 1,000,000,000. Population in 2025: 8,231,613,070
June 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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C'est très terrible.

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May 31, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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The Irishman: A man lives a so-called normal life or a so-called good life can be just as destructive as a man who lives a so-called bad life. Paige: How so? The Irishman: Perhaps a man works a job at a company, perhaps a man has a wife and children, they say this is a good man, ya? But this man never sees the destruction his life causes. He consumes heavily 'cause this is a so-called good life. Food and products he doesn't need, this requires the subjugation of people he doesn't know, requires the poisoning of the Earth, he pays taxes from his good job to the government. Many of those taxes go the military, to buy weapons and bombs that fall throughout the world constantly. I mean you can see here, often the man, never sees the destruction his actions cause. Paige: By your reasoning, it's not possible to live a good life. The Irishman: Ya, but you can know you're not good which is better than believing you are. - Mike Vukadinovich, Greedy People
May 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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People, I tells ya.
There's no shortage of stories of floods and destructive weather. The news of it always focuses on the impact to drivers and to any loss of electricity. There's almost never any mention of the damage caused to the local ecosystems. No reflection on our actions that led to the extreme weather. Just, "Oh damn, people will have trouble driving places!" and "I can't watch my TV!" I'm glad we have our priorities straight. #WASF #NothingYouCanDoAboutIt
May 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Every year in the middle courtyard at my work a lovely couple of geese nest and hatch their children. Since the hatchlings can't fly out we have to walk the family through the building and outside so the poor things don't starve but this is this year's happy family shortly before they were let out.
A image of two adult Canadian Geese closely guarding their five or six new born chicks.
May 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Interesting read: www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
But first I want to share some really basic information that should have nipped this discussion in the bud long ago. If the hypothesis is that big-city people are less resource-demanding than country people, then a graph showing per capita energy use by nation on the X-axis with population percentage urbanized on the Y-axis should provide rock-solid evidence. For the hypothesis to be supported, more urbanized nations should use less energy. I made that graph, so take a look (Fig 2). A graph then shows developed countries such as Germany, the US, and Australia (among others) using more energy with far fewer rural population in comparison to places like Burundi, Cambodia, and Vietnam (among others) that have higher rural populations that consume far less energy.
April 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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I would help more if I could but in the absence of that here are some pretty tulips. The small remaining beauty in our lives will hopefully help ease some of the torment you’re facing.

❤️✌🏻
April 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I mean...😂. Evenings, Ian.

Maskinomics Afroism Canvas Art Print by DionJa'y: i.icanvas.com/DJY25?d=3&sh...
An abstract like painting of a man with an afro style haircut.
February 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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As a small gesture of appreciation here’s my youngest cat who has claimed the paper towel bag as her new home.
A calico cat inside a paper towel bag
January 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Great piece by Jeff McFadden.

mcfaddenj.substack.com/p/climate-ac...
A screenshot of the linked article which reads: "I seriously don’t care what the temperature is. I want to know why everybody just shrugs their shoulders and waits for the government to agree to spend two trillion dollars to make something that we’ve been making for forty years, which has resulted so far in an unending increase of atmospheric carbon and fossil fuel burned. The only year it didn’t was when a pandemic made us stop making all this stuff."
January 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Red-winged black bird. I get a lot of these fun fellas in the spring before the hoards of mourning doves drive them off.
A red-winged blackbird viewed from the side, perched on a bird feeder.
December 18, 2024 at 5:17 PM