Sam Orndorff, PhD 🌹🥀🍂
@samogeo.bsky.social
Human Geographer. I investigate Indigenous land rights in the Great Basin, mining, mobility, renewables, land back. Protesting works. 🏴
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From our archives, something to consider this #BlackFriday, #CyberMonday, etc. ⬇️
The annual Black Friday ode to commercialism and overconsumption sits at the core of our ongoing destruction of Earth’s ecosystems. We can flip the script. https://therevelator.org/extinction-friday/
Let’s Rename the Day After Thanksgiving ‘Extinction Friday’ • The Revelator
The annual Black Friday ode to overconsumption sits at the core of our destruction of Earth’s ecosystems. We can flip the script.
therevelator.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
From our archives, something to consider this #BlackFriday, #CyberMonday, etc. ⬇️
even “emissions” is obscure, pro-industry language to muddy the issue. I wonder if the average person even knows what it refers to: greenhouse gases and air pollution that cause climatic breakdown, biosphere collapse, and mass deaths
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
even “emissions” is obscure, pro-industry language to muddy the issue. I wonder if the average person even knows what it refers to: greenhouse gases and air pollution that cause climatic breakdown, biosphere collapse, and mass deaths
Leaders of Saudi Arabia and the European Commission were saying at COP and G20 that emissions—not fossil fuels—are the problem.
How do these fucking bozos have jobs?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How do these fucking bozos have jobs?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way | Genevieve Guenther
The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope, says End Climate Silence founding director ...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Leaders of Saudi Arabia and the European Commission were saying at COP and G20 that emissions—not fossil fuels—are the problem.
How do these fucking bozos have jobs?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How do these fucking bozos have jobs?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Less affluent countries need direct payments to fund climate change mitigation & adaptation — NOT loans that must be paid back with interest.
But the loan and debt trap is how COP and the international system works, basically siphoning wealth from the former colonies to the colonizers
But the loan and debt trap is how COP and the international system works, basically siphoning wealth from the former colonies to the colonizers
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Less affluent countries need direct payments to fund climate change mitigation & adaptation — NOT loans that must be paid back with interest.
But the loan and debt trap is how COP and the international system works, basically siphoning wealth from the former colonies to the colonizers
But the loan and debt trap is how COP and the international system works, basically siphoning wealth from the former colonies to the colonizers
We have to stop burning coal, petroleum, and gas. By “we” I mean everybody, every country, and every institution. It’s that fucking simple.
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
We have to stop burning coal, petroleum, and gas. By “we” I mean everybody, every country, and every institution. It’s that fucking simple.
Future generations will study #Cop30 as a moment when the consensus to stop burning fossil fuels was more solidified than ever. The masses are revolting to protect nature—interrupting the halls of power in Belém. Yet extractive imperialism continues to oppress and marginalize the already vulnerable.
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Future generations will study #Cop30 as a moment when the consensus to stop burning fossil fuels was more solidified than ever. The masses are revolting to protect nature—interrupting the halls of power in Belém. Yet extractive imperialism continues to oppress and marginalize the already vulnerable.
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"The lungs of the world are in your hands!" That was our message for #COP30 negotiators this week. Standing in front of a giant pair of lungs, health professionals from around the world joined our call to phase out #fossilfuels to protect health and save lives.
youtube.com/shorts/pIavx...
youtube.com/shorts/pIavx...
CAPE physicians unveil giant lungs to demand fossil fuel phaseout at COP30
YouTube video by CAPE | ACME
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November 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"The lungs of the world are in your hands!" That was our message for #COP30 negotiators this week. Standing in front of a giant pair of lungs, health professionals from around the world joined our call to phase out #fossilfuels to protect health and save lives.
youtube.com/shorts/pIavx...
youtube.com/shorts/pIavx...
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“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.
The only meaningful technological innovation of free market capitalism is in medical science. Maybe a handful of crops, trains, and telecommunication, but that’s it.
The rest is all junk making people stupid, lazy, and unhealthy.
The rest is all junk making people stupid, lazy, and unhealthy.
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The only meaningful technological innovation of free market capitalism is in medical science. Maybe a handful of crops, trains, and telecommunication, but that’s it.
The rest is all junk making people stupid, lazy, and unhealthy.
The rest is all junk making people stupid, lazy, and unhealthy.
We let the right wing dominate discourse with their bad takes and rage bait. The left needs to rage bait and set the tone with hot takes. I’ll start:
Economic development is bad.
Economic development is bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
We let the right wing dominate discourse with their bad takes and rage bait. The left needs to rage bait and set the tone with hot takes. I’ll start:
Economic development is bad.
Economic development is bad.
I want to start fear-mongering about cars, specifically idling cars outside elementary schools. It’s absolutely nuts how many parents line up, leave the car IDLING FOR NO REASON, and don’t bat an eye about all the toxins they’re making their own kids inhale. This is normal behavior somehow.
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I want to start fear-mongering about cars, specifically idling cars outside elementary schools. It’s absolutely nuts how many parents line up, leave the car IDLING FOR NO REASON, and don’t bat an eye about all the toxins they’re making their own kids inhale. This is normal behavior somehow.
The US is historically the worst polluter of greenhouse gases. Most of the US’s air pollution is from transportation. Most of that transportation pollution is from private cars. Americans driving cars is the main cause of climate change. Any good climate plan must work to get cars off the road.
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The US is historically the worst polluter of greenhouse gases. Most of the US’s air pollution is from transportation. Most of that transportation pollution is from private cars. Americans driving cars is the main cause of climate change. Any good climate plan must work to get cars off the road.
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
People in an audience used to clap when a band finished playing a song at a concert.
Football teams used to run the ball on 3rd and 1.
Nothing makes sense to me anymore.
Football teams used to run the ball on 3rd and 1.
Nothing makes sense to me anymore.
October 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
People in an audience used to clap when a band finished playing a song at a concert.
Football teams used to run the ball on 3rd and 1.
Nothing makes sense to me anymore.
Football teams used to run the ball on 3rd and 1.
Nothing makes sense to me anymore.
Rest in Peace to the greatest musician to ever live, D’Angelo
October 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Rest in Peace to the greatest musician to ever live, D’Angelo
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Sex is cool, but have you ever heckled Andrew Cuomo for 10 minutes straight?
October 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Sex is cool, but have you ever heckled Andrew Cuomo for 10 minutes straight?
Social media was sounding an alarm about Miller’s recent comment on “plenary power.” The mainstream left’s reaction took it as a slip up, as though “plenary” = absolute authority, as if he accidentally said something he shouldn’t have, or that it was ominous.
This is remarkable to me.
This is remarkable to me.
October 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Social media was sounding an alarm about Miller’s recent comment on “plenary power.” The mainstream left’s reaction took it as a slip up, as though “plenary” = absolute authority, as if he accidentally said something he shouldn’t have, or that it was ominous.
This is remarkable to me.
This is remarkable to me.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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JUST IN: We just disrupted this vile, vulture capitalist lovefest. David Rubenstein, Governor Youngkin, and Governor Moore all on stage together, plotting how to profit from our extinction. They were having such a nice time. We ruined it.
September 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
JUST IN: We just disrupted this vile, vulture capitalist lovefest. David Rubenstein, Governor Youngkin, and Governor Moore all on stage together, plotting how to profit from our extinction. They were having such a nice time. We ruined it.
Rest in peace Mánchan Magan
October 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Rest in peace Mánchan Magan
The Mining Regulatory Clarity Act is a bill in congress that would privatize and destroy ever more land for mega-corporate mines. It doesn’t clarify anything, instead it is another bipartisan giveaway of vital rural public lands #mining #environmentaljustice
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Don’t Let Congress Provide Another Handout to the Mining Industry - Earthjustice Action
The Mining Regulatory Clarity Act would sacrifice public lands to make it easier for mining companies to control and plunder them.
earthjusticeaction.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The Mining Regulatory Clarity Act is a bill in congress that would privatize and destroy ever more land for mega-corporate mines. It doesn’t clarify anything, instead it is another bipartisan giveaway of vital rural public lands #mining #environmentaljustice
earthjusticeaction.org/news/dont-le...
earthjusticeaction.org/news/dont-le...
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"By centering the experiences of LA’s transit-riding populations amid unprecedented wildfire smoke & mobility disruptions, the findings offer urgent evidence to inform equitable, health‑conscious emergency & evacuation planning for cities across the US..."
Evacuation Patterns, Health Risks, and Mobility Strategies Among Transit Riders in the 2025 L.A. Fires - UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
www.its.ucla.edu
September 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"By centering the experiences of LA’s transit-riding populations amid unprecedented wildfire smoke & mobility disruptions, the findings offer urgent evidence to inform equitable, health‑conscious emergency & evacuation planning for cities across the US..."
I love chihuahuas!!!!
September 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I love chihuahuas!!!!