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SHouston_GIS
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Starting my GIS career. Map maker, data analyst, multimedia artist.
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I’d say this banned-books story horrifies me because I’m queer, but honestly I don’t think I’d be less horrified if I were straight. It’s the kind of insanity that should worry anyone who cares about a) living in a free society or b) other people. popular.info/p/florida-sc...
Florida school district orders librarians to purge all books with LGBTQ characters
Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries...
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September 27, 2023 at 1:41 PM
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Climate denier: 2000 years is not enough to see a trend!

Also climate denier: There's been no warming for 5 years!
September 26, 2023 at 5:53 PM
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Time spent in nature boosts health & happiness. Many societies embrace this principle and I hope others, including my own, will embrace it more & more moving forward www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
November 19, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Today is a good day to remind you that new fossil fuel developments are "incompatible" with 1.5C, according to a comprehensive analysis of scientific research

www.carbonbrief.org/new-fossil-f...
September 27, 2023 at 11:48 AM
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New Paper about climate change impacts on electricity consumption and energy burden. Improving AC efficiency reduces cooling needs by up to 70%. Even so racial minorities have energy burdens >6%. W/@costasamaras.bsky.social and others. #energy #energyPoverty
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 19, 2023 at 1:47 AM
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One of the best parts of the WGA deal: AI has now hit a brick wall in Hollywood, *and that includes adaptations.*

Based on the deal, AI can't be source material. So if you're a publisher, AI novels or graphic novels or whatever just became that much less appealing because *they can't be optioned.*
September 27, 2023 at 5:40 AM
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What are carbon offsets? How are they supposed to work? How can things go wrong? Team Carbon Brief have answers in this brilliant in-depth Q&A, inc this handy diagram:

interactive.carbonbrief.org/carbon-offse...
September 25, 2023 at 9:47 AM
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It's not just that we're breaking records in the climate this year, it's that the margins by which those records are being broken are themselves records (and not by a small margin either).
September 25, 2023 at 4:50 PM
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Almost all carbon offset projects are junk.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
September 23, 2023 at 5:48 PM