Mike Biros
@mikebiros.bsky.social
Landscape architect working at a coastal restoration nonprofit in New Orleans recycling oysters shells & planting cypress trees
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2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥
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#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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The Republican Party changed not on account of Bush, but on account of Fox: the creation of an ever-expanding media bubble that conservatives could opt to live inside, where their every fantasy was indulged as true. This bubble was created as an instrument of movement conservatism, but consumed it.
Like virtually everyone else , Will forgets that Trump in fact ran for president prior to 2016, and barely registered. In fact what happened in between that the Republican Party fundamentally changed and most of that is on account of Bush.
December 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Republican Party changed not on account of Bush, but on account of Fox: the creation of an ever-expanding media bubble that conservatives could opt to live inside, where their every fantasy was indulged as true. This bubble was created as an instrument of movement conservatism, but consumed it.
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The closest thing the left had to an answer to the question of what the future should look like (including aesthetically though with mixed results) was the green new deal. the petering out of that movement’s popular momentum in the Biden years has left a void that has yet to be filled
December 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The closest thing the left had to an answer to the question of what the future should look like (including aesthetically though with mixed results) was the green new deal. the petering out of that movement’s popular momentum in the Biden years has left a void that has yet to be filled
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This looks to be an insightful pulling together of climate research and memory studies, much of which is open access. On grief, witnessing, and responsibility to our planet.
📢 I’m delighted to share the publication of Climate Witnessing, a special issue of Memory Studies Review that I’ve guest-edited together with Rick Crownshaw and Rebecca Dolgoy.
🔗 TOC: brill.com/view/journal...
🔗 Introduction (Open Access): brill.com/view/journal... (1/5)
🔗 TOC: brill.com/view/journal...
🔗 Introduction (Open Access): brill.com/view/journal... (1/5)
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This looks to be an insightful pulling together of climate research and memory studies, much of which is open access. On grief, witnessing, and responsibility to our planet.
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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🚨The video recording of the AI and the Politics of Extraction panel is now live! Watch this fascinating 1.5 hour discussion with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @profwhw.bsky.social, @mysdick.bsky.social, and @profhvdv.bsky.social as they explore the risks of unfettered AI implementation.
AI and the Politics of Extraction | Centre for Climate Justice
YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice
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December 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
🚨The video recording of the AI and the Politics of Extraction panel is now live! Watch this fascinating 1.5 hour discussion with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @profwhw.bsky.social, @mysdick.bsky.social, and @profhvdv.bsky.social as they explore the risks of unfettered AI implementation.
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ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
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The City of Vancouver’s new budget proposed major cuts to its Climate & Sustainability department. The CCJ co-directors, @carolmliao.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social, wrote an op-ed in Canada's National Observer expressing their criticism of the budget proposal.
Read more: shorturl.at/9uSLl
Read more: shorturl.at/9uSLl
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The City of Vancouver’s new budget proposed major cuts to its Climate & Sustainability department. The CCJ co-directors, @carolmliao.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social, wrote an op-ed in Canada's National Observer expressing their criticism of the budget proposal.
Read more: shorturl.at/9uSLl
Read more: shorturl.at/9uSLl
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other industries seeking to greenwash their operations or attain a new social license for growing or maintaining their carbon emissions. The late, great Karen Bakker wrote about it in the context of Canada's energy transition through the frame of "recarbonization" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Landscapes of Recarbonization: Carbon Neutrality, Settler Colonialism, and Cumulative Environmental Effects in the Peace River Region, Canada
Contemporary discourses of net-zero decarbonization (also referred to as carbon neutrality) routinely overlook the landscape transformations required to offset carbon emissions. Conventional analys...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
other industries seeking to greenwash their operations or attain a new social license for growing or maintaining their carbon emissions. The late, great Karen Bakker wrote about it in the context of Canada's energy transition through the frame of "recarbonization" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
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I'm glad everyone is having a good time. But my city is broke because it is run by corrupt arsonists turning power over to bloodless careerists who, tomorrow, will make a deal with reactionary fascists to force at least four years of harsh austerity. To me, that's the only real thing happening.
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I'm glad everyone is having a good time. But my city is broke because it is run by corrupt arsonists turning power over to bloodless careerists who, tomorrow, will make a deal with reactionary fascists to force at least four years of harsh austerity. To me, that's the only real thing happening.
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The framing of this is hilarious: Democrats deeply worried about the repercussions of a victory
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...
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As Mamdani nears victory, Democrats worry about national fallout
The progressive candidate is on the cusp of a historic mayoral win. And that's adding to unease among Democrats looking for a way back to national power.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The framing of this is hilarious: Democrats deeply worried about the repercussions of a victory
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...
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Our 8th recycled oyster reef is in progress!
Last week, volunteers started building our 8th recycled oyster reef with The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and LUMCON in Cocodrie, LA. We’re excited to keep the momentum going!
Last week, volunteers started building our 8th recycled oyster reef with The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and LUMCON in Cocodrie, LA. We’re excited to keep the momentum going!
October 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Our 8th recycled oyster reef is in progress!
Last week, volunteers started building our 8th recycled oyster reef with The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and LUMCON in Cocodrie, LA. We’re excited to keep the momentum going!
Last week, volunteers started building our 8th recycled oyster reef with The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and LUMCON in Cocodrie, LA. We’re excited to keep the momentum going!
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Comparison between this morning & evening NOAA tail Doppler radar data shows Hurricane Melissa rapidly intensifying. Will be a major hurricane soon and a generational storm for Jamaica.
October 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Comparison between this morning & evening NOAA tail Doppler radar data shows Hurricane Melissa rapidly intensifying. Will be a major hurricane soon and a generational storm for Jamaica.
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We are in the throws of a battle over who is going to survive the future.
A future marked by scarcity and disaster.
A future these people are accelerating.
That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality.
Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.
A future marked by scarcity and disaster.
A future these people are accelerating.
That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality.
Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.
October 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We are in the throws of a battle over who is going to survive the future.
A future marked by scarcity and disaster.
A future these people are accelerating.
That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality.
Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.
A future marked by scarcity and disaster.
A future these people are accelerating.
That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality.
Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.
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Chicken bones from lunch used as ballast, butterflies glimpsed at 5,000 feet — Travels in the Air (1871 edition) gathers remarkable tales from the early days of ballooning, accompanied by more than 100 beautiful illustrations: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
October 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Chicken bones from lunch used as ballast, butterflies glimpsed at 5,000 feet — Travels in the Air (1871 edition) gathers remarkable tales from the early days of ballooning, accompanied by more than 100 beautiful illustrations: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Source: Charitie Ropati, Intersectional Environmentalist, and Feminist reporting on Typhoon Halong ravaging western Alaska
October 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Source: Charitie Ropati, Intersectional Environmentalist, and Feminist reporting on Typhoon Halong ravaging western Alaska
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With Southlands Issue No. 01 getting set to ship next week -- it's time to start thinking about the next issue! See pitch guidelines here:
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Southlands - Issue No. 2 - Contributor Guidelines.docx
Issue No. 2 Pitch Guide Theme: PUBLIC / PRIVATE Updated: October 10, 2025 What is Southlands? Southlands is a new print journal that explores the diverse ways Southerners connect with the natural wo...
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October 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
With Southlands Issue No. 01 getting set to ship next week -- it's time to start thinking about the next issue! See pitch guidelines here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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MY LATEST: One of Darrah Fox Bach’s many skills is turning used oyster shells—buttery discards from Louisiana restaurants —into living shorelines that protect cultural sites and reduce erosion. Her superpower is building deep relationships that aid her conservation efforts. @crcl1988.bsky.social
Darrah Fox Bach
Restoration programs senior manager, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana Darrah Fox Bach cultivated her love for the outdoors in her native San Francisco, where environmentalism flourishes and S…
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September 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
MY LATEST: One of Darrah Fox Bach’s many skills is turning used oyster shells—buttery discards from Louisiana restaurants —into living shorelines that protect cultural sites and reduce erosion. Her superpower is building deep relationships that aid her conservation efforts. @crcl1988.bsky.social
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Extremely sad news—I think Yu was pretty inarguably the most influential landscape architect of the 21st century.
Renowned ‘sponge city’ architect Kongjian Yu dies in Brazil plane crash
The 62-year-old Chinese landscape architect was killed with three others while filming in the Pantanal wetlands
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September 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Extremely sad news—I think Yu was pretty inarguably the most influential landscape architect of the 21st century.