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joelwwood.bsky.social
Study the Economics of Climate Change, but don't want to travel to Trump's America? University of Toronto has you covered! #EconSky

Toronto Meeting on the Economics of Climate Change: June 24-26
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TMEC
The 2026 Toronto Meeting on the Economics of Climate Change (TMEC) will take place from June 24-26, 2026 at the University of Toronto. The meeting provides a forum for researchers across fields whose ...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
You get what you voted for.
MAGA Voter Calls Out Trump For Ruining Their Retirement—And Gets Little Sympathy Online
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December 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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thewalrus.ca
“I, the creature who once loved mornings the most, can no longer tolerate them.”

From a tent in Deir al-Balah, writer and poet Batool Abu Akleen chronicles the fear, anxiety, and grief that greeted her at the start of each new day in Gaza: thewalrus.ca/i-was-displaced-...
On the left: Photo of the tops of rows of white tents at night. On the right: text that reads “I was displaced to a tent in Gaza. I don’t want to remember any of it. I never expected to outlive this genocide.”
December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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heardislandgov.bsky.social
We are announcing that a prominent Gentoo Penguin named Fentaflooper, will hereby be declared a WMS or, Weapon of Mass Seduction. We will use any and all means to stop his further seduction of our citizens.
December 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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338canada.bsky.social
The Numbers Behind Poilievre’s Leadership Dilemma

My latest for @thewalrus.ca → thewalrus.ca/the-numbers-...
The Numbers Behind Poilievre’s Leadership Dilemma | The Walrus
Polls show half the country wants him gone, even as Conservative voters overwhelmingly want him to stay
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December 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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mtsw.bsky.social
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NYTimes headline "woody allen is not sorry about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein"
December 16, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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mitchyd.bsky.social
John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”
akaharriet.bsky.social Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 11d
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
December 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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volts.wtf
Lotta good points here.
George W. Bush Was A Bad President And Guy - SOME MORE NEWS
YouTube video by Some More News
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December 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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mongabay.com
During the Amazon’s 2023 heat wave, half of monitored lakes topped 37°C, a study finds.

In Tefé Lake, record 41°C waters killed more than 200 river dolphins and thousands of fish — a stark warning as Amazon lakes warm by 0.6°C per decade.
The Amazon’s lakes are heating up at ‘alarming’ rate, research finds
Five out of 10 lakes in the central Amazon had daytime temperatures over 37° Celsius, (98.6° Fahrenheit) during the region’s 2023 extreme heat wave, a recent study found. One of the most well-known…
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December 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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mikeshanahan.bsky.social
“When a president owns nearly 100,000 hectares of pulpwood plantation in a region devastated by floods + landslides that killed hundreds of his own citizens, he cannot plausibly claim to be leading the country out of environmental crisis. He is part of the crisis.” omong-omong.com/editorial-de... 🌏
Editorial: Development by Destruction, Elite Environmental Capture, and Indonesia’s Disaster
When a president owns nearly 100,000 hectares of pulpwood plantation in the centre of a region devastated by floods and landslides that have killed hundreds of his own citizens, he cannot plausibly cl...
omong-omong.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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chriscjackson.bsky.social
This entire weekend
in the pit
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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scalzi.com
All my recent books went from hardcover to trade paperback and almost all of my backlist in mass market has now migrated to trade. The role of mass market paperbacks is now handled almost entirely by ebooks. I'm okay with this but it is the end of an era.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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stjepansejic.bsky.social
the art of sunstone artbook crowdfunder ends soon.

all stretch goals met. book maxed out, and we're wrapping up in 4 days!

feels good.

here's the link for those still interested
www.kickstarter.com/projects/top...
The Art of Sunstone
Some art books belong on the coffee table - this one belongs under it, because it's been a bad book and it needs to be punished!
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December 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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esqueer.net
In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.
Three uniformed state troopers stand inside a government building near a sign directing visitors to women’s restrooms and elevators, with wood-paneled walls and columns in the background.
December 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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thebeaverton.com
Progressive Conservative joins Progressive Conservative party
Progressive Conservative joins Progressive Conservative party
OTTAWA - In a stunning move, progressive conservative MP Michael Ma crossed the floor Thursday to the progressive conservative Liberal Party, just a few weeks after similar minded progressive conserva...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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shaenon.bsky.social
Just saying, I'll do a book cover illustration for $200.
www.shaenon.com
A figure silhouetted against the sun, writing, with a glowing monster rising around him. I did this as a cover design for Samuel Delaney's DHALGREN, just for fun. An elf and an orc who are warriors and in love, in a style inspired by Harry Clarke. A maenad chasing a satyr. A contemporary guy meeting a Viking warrior woman over coffee.
December 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Nice to see that Globe and Mail columnist Robyn Urback is allowed to once again just totally twist my words and falsely smear me as antisemitic with zero professional consequences.

This is the second time she’s done this to me personally, and she’s done this to others too.

Such an awful person.
Robyn Urback responds to me condemning Michelle Rempel Garner’s post that co-opts the antisemitic attack to direct outrage at pro-Palestine protesters by saying “Imagine quoting someone calling for the de-normalization of antisemitism, calling it divisive and disgusting, and then acting as if you're standing up for the Jewish community” Robyn responds to me framing her critique as bad faith by saying “I suggest if you actually want to inform yourself about antisemitism, talk to Jews beyond the very online. You'll find most very open to chatting”
December 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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innes.bsky.social
"Nature's Labubu"
Picture of two cupped hands holding a partially opened conker, with the Guardian headline below it: "Nature's Labubu: why are gen z 'unboxing' conkers?"
October 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Kneecap was never actually banned from Canada and the Liberal MP who announced it has GONE ROGUE??????

What the fuck!!!!

This is unhinged!!!!
BREAKING Kneecap Not Banned from Canada. Sources Inside Prime Minister Carney's Office Confirm MP Vince Gasparro Went Rogue; Liberals Trying to Hush Story OTTAWA, ON - In a dramatic turn of events on a day already marked by major announcements - Canada's recognition of Palestinian statehood and the tabling of a new federal hate crimes bill - sources inside the Prime Minister's Office have confirmed that Irish rap group Kneecap was never officially banned from Canada, despite Liberal MP Vince Gasparro's public statements. According to a senior PMO insider, Gasparro went rogue in making the announcement, lied about receiving authorization from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), and may have committed a serious breach of the federal Privacy Act, an unprecedented scandal in Canadian history. "The PMO explicitly asked MP Gasparro whether he had IRCC's authorization to make his announcement - he said yes. That was false," the source confirmed. "No decision had been made by IRCC or the PMO. His statement was completely unauthorized."
September 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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trct-cdtt.ca
We're counterprotesting a hate rally attempting to target trans kids' healthcare.

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Counterprotest against hate rally directed at trans kids Queen's Park Saturday, September 27, 2025 10:30 till 15:00 What this is about An organization known for anti-abortion activism has organized a hate rally calling for healthcare to be forcibly withheld from trans kids. High-profile extremists are supporting this rally. We’ll be there to show trans kids we’re willing to fight for them. We’ll also make it clear to politicians that we won’t tolerate interference by organized hate in our healthcare. Trans Rights Commission Toronto web: trctoronto.ca bsky: @trctoronto.ca email: info@trctoronto.ca
September 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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srothbell.com
💔Renato's family is facing a tough time after his recent detention. They need support for legal fees to keep him with them. Please consider donating or sharing to help. Every bit counts. gofund.me/d7e8eb5a
June 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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thebeaverton.com
Trudeau unveils new campaign slogan: “I Got Jordan Peterson to Leave”
Trudeau unveils new campaign slogan: "I Got Jordan Peterson to Leave"
OTTAWA — After disgraced professor and beef enthusiast Jordan Peterson announced yesterday that he had moved to Florida due to the Canadian government’s allegedly woke fascist policies, Justin Trudeau...
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December 14, 2024 at 5:15 PM