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Diana McCaulay
@dmccaulay.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Environmentalist. Jamaican. Founder of the Jamaica Environment Trust. Now on my 6th novel, A HOUSE FOR MISS PAULINE, 25 Feb 2025.
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We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Its winds reached 295 kph and dumped over a metre of rain in parts of Jamaica as it left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean.A rapid analysis from London’s Imperial College shows human driven climate change may have made the storm more likely,and more intense www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
Could storms like Melissa become more common as the planet warms?
Experts estimate that Melissa was about 10 per cent stronger because of climate change.
www.euronews.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Which is why we have made “Rovina’s Choice.” We cannot let the people affected – the health workers like those at Clinic 7 and the families like Rovina Naboi’s — go unseen. And we cannot let the consequences go unaccounted for.

YouTube link: 🎥 6/
youtu.be/Oj0PsaP2ZqQ?...
"Rovina's Choice" Shows How The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
YouTube video by The New Yorker
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November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.

It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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#HurricaneMelissa was made about four times more likely by the #climatecrisis

It's real, it's us, and it's here

www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/res...
Hurricane Melissa
Published October 2025.
www.imperial.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Thank you Laetitia. Kingston was largely spared, but news from the western end of the island is devastating.. #hurricanemelissa
So sad to hear of the devastating effects of Storm Melissa. And so soon after Storm Beryl hitting Jamaica last year. Terrifying news.
October 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thinking about Jamaica, threatened by Tropical Storm Melissa. Hoping for everyone's safety and minimal damage.. I am far away just now..
October 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Dear airlines, please stop sending me surveys. We all know they are ignored in their entirety. Looking at you in particular, @aa.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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“It has certainly merited its place among contemporary Jamaican classics that will be remembered in the newly defined literary scene of the 21st century”, writes Keenan Falconer in his review of @dmccaulay.bsky.social's most recent novel, A House for Miss Pauline

Full review on our website
October 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Lovely to see this - one of the judges for the Wilbur Smith Prize for Adventure Writing on each of the shortlisted books, including #aHouseforMissPauline
October 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Jane Goodall - may her memory be a blessing and a guide...
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A shell I saw on Piha Beach in New Zealand. Sea and sky, I thought. I left it there. #elsewhere #travelling
September 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Likkl good news...
For roughly the price of an inner-city apartment, not-for-profit group Nooramunga Land and Sea (NL&S) has purchased multiple small islands off the coast of Gippsland, with the sole aim of protecting the environments from development forever. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Not-for-profit buys islands off Victoria to save them from development
For roughly the price of an inner-city apartment, conservationists have bought multiple small islands off the coast of Gippsland to protect their ecosystems and wildlife.
www.abc.net.au
September 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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@jamentrust1991.bsky.social issued a fantastic new report on work to #SaveCockpitCountry.

Check it out! jamentrust.org/download/bey...
September 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Gun violence is out of control. The victims of gun violence are Republicans, Democrats, independents, and kids, who have no political affiliation whatsoever.

We need to tone down the incendiary political rhetoric, for sure, but we also need to do something about guns.
The guns!
September 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Dear boot companies- I know I made the fundamental error of glancing at a nice pair of new boots on social media- but PLEASE stop with the boot ads! I now hate all boots on principle... possibly even all shoes...
September 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Go go go book on in! Leone Ross is a titan of the literary world.

If you're a fiction writer of 5,000 words I can't recommend Leone's guidance and sharp eye enough.
September 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
September 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Ma Kiwi tree. Puriri, or Vitex lucens..
September 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
August 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Well, @dmccaulay.bsky.social wrote a book about that!

My answer: why not maximise dawn and twilight instead? Long-nap in a cool, dark room between 10 am and 2pm, and have a shorter night sleep between midnight and 4 am.

www.peepaltreepress.com/books/daylig...
August 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that most people are unable to manage an email account.
August 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Dear rain, promises promises...
July 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM