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EcoTraveler, Science, Archaeologist, Atheist, Photography, Child Free by Choice 🔭 🌍✌️💚 #ClimateCrisis #CollapseAware
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Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!

Global sea-ice area is now over 5 standard deviations below the 1981-2010 average, reaching yet another all-time record daily low.

Graphics: @kevpluck.bsky.social
Data: NSIDC
February 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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this isn’t doom (and i think it might even head off some of the worst they can do), but cranking all of these stoves that will cause almost immediate pain means we are probably in for a *rough* february. hangover is gonna set in damned near immediately this time.
January 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Yes scientists and doctors can get it right !
I was skeptical at first, but Bluesky really is a fantastic platform for scientists who want to engage in broader public conversations.

Thank you @bsky.app and @jay.bsky.team for this amazing resource!
January 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Fastest growing group among the homeless in Australia is women over 55. They are driven to it by a lifetime of putting other people’s needs ahead of their own right to earn an income. Something they were told to do from birth & as women are still told to do.
In my upcoming book, I show that, beginning in the 1980s, framing homelessness as a problem of mental illness and addiction was politically engineered to obscure the socioeconomic roots of the crisis and to justify the removal of homeless people from public space.

bsky.app/profile/bria...
World’s richest man believes homelessness is a “propaganda”
December 15, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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Food insecurity rising in UK because of climate breakdown, Defra report finds

UK reliant on imports for 40% of food consumption, while households with disabled people and lower incomes are already notably more food insecure
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis
Food insecurity rising in UK because of climate breakdown, Defra report finds
Access to balanced diet also affected by inflation and Brexit, hitting most vulnerable households hardest
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Little or no engagemet here.
December 5, 2024 at 4:05 AM
I don't like how this app loads tweets from people I'm following. Doesn't load then skips to 20 or 30 at a time why? @bsky.app
December 4, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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“No one cares,” I say from the account I specifically made to follow liberals here so I could tell them over and over how little I care.
December 1, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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November 28, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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Jet stream weirdness (and other factors) at work: “extreme heat in several regions globally is increasing significantly and faster in magnitude than what state-of-the-art climate models have predicted.” Climate change is bringing punishing surprises that climate models cannot predict.
'Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model simulations'

our new paper in @pnas.org with S. Bartusek, R. Seager. J. Schellnhuber and M. Ting investigating the tail behaviour of extreme heatwave trends.

@iiasa.ac.at @columbiaclimate.bsky.social @lamontearth.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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~Hummingbird Clearwing Moth~

One of my favorites to photograph. The wings beat 30 to 40 times per second and rarely land which makes it difficult to photograph the wing detail. They are rather hairy beasts and are great pollinators. #photo #moth #hummingbirdmoth #pentax #canon #nature
November 26, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Also, I am going to fucking keep shouting it from the rooftops: posting is not praxis, reposting is not organizing, getting off Bluesky and calling your elected officials before going to feed a hungry kid in your neighborhood is approximately 100,000 times more effective a form of "resistance"
November 22, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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I don't know how much more clearly I can say to people that "having a lot of followers" is a miserable experience, people do not become public property when they pass a certain audience threshold, and raw numbers mean nothing: it's quality of conversation that matters
November 22, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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Ways to get a lot of low quality followers including spammers, scammers, and grifters:

1. Demand everyone follow you, use follow-farming hashtags, follow anyone you see on the site and never read your Following tab except to find the same six posts to repost, and whine about your follower count.
November 22, 2024 at 2:30 AM
And the Jew blaming begins. Aipac blah, blah.
15 Dems joined MAGA Republicans to vote YES on HR 9495.

Here's a breakdown of this bill & how devastating it is for non-profits, free speech, & basic civil rights: www.qasimrashid.com/p/alert-hr-9...

Fascism is taking hold and these 15 Democrats are happily helping. Just indefensible.
November 21, 2024 at 9:22 PM
A whole lot of you make me want to vomit. Vetting and unfollowing every idiot here posting photoshopped shit and big BLUE grifter accounts.
November 21, 2024 at 8:56 PM
This is stupid. I hate him but both photoshopped. I left Twitter to get away from this shit. #bluemaga
November 21, 2024 at 8:54 PM
The only reason I'm here to be honest. Hope this place holds together #science
“The majority has spoken, and researchers are moving en masse” to Bluesky, says @shaine.bsky.social.

Couldn't help myself and had to write about science twitter, X, bluesky and "the migration"...
www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede
www.science.org
November 20, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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I've created a starter pack of Greenwashing Nemeses

Those people fighting the good fight to raise awarness of the prevalence of greenwashing, to educate the public, and to call for legislative change

You can sign up here:
go.bsky.app/VMtNHuK
#Greenwashing #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis
November 20, 2024 at 12:16 AM
Allison Russell: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
November 20, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Beds Are Burning
open.spotify.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:10 AM