@willow-branches.bsky.social
Entrepreneur 🌱
Extreme lover of nature and defense of it
Former bunny wrangler 🐇
Extreme lover of nature and defense of it
Former bunny wrangler 🐇
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It's getting really hard to go online without ending up starving because all of our favorite vegan recipe creators are posting their favorite Thanksgiving recipe collections! 🧵 Here's Thee Burger Dude: theeburgerdude.com/vegan-holida...
40 Vegan Holiday Recipes
Whether you need a main or side dish, appetizers or desserts, I got you covered for a delicious Holiday Dinner that happens to be Vegan!
theeburgerdude.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
It's getting really hard to go online without ending up starving because all of our favorite vegan recipe creators are posting their favorite Thanksgiving recipe collections! 🧵 Here's Thee Burger Dude: theeburgerdude.com/vegan-holida...
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The 5 biggest tech companies have borrowed $90 billion in debt over the last 3 months.
That's more than they borrowed in the last 3 years.
Meta: $30 Billion
Google: $25 Billion
Oracle: $18 Billion
Amazon: $15 Billion
That's a 400% acceleration in debt.
That's more than they borrowed in the last 3 years.
Meta: $30 Billion
Google: $25 Billion
Oracle: $18 Billion
Amazon: $15 Billion
That's a 400% acceleration in debt.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The 5 biggest tech companies have borrowed $90 billion in debt over the last 3 months.
That's more than they borrowed in the last 3 years.
Meta: $30 Billion
Google: $25 Billion
Oracle: $18 Billion
Amazon: $15 Billion
That's a 400% acceleration in debt.
That's more than they borrowed in the last 3 years.
Meta: $30 Billion
Google: $25 Billion
Oracle: $18 Billion
Amazon: $15 Billion
That's a 400% acceleration in debt.
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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Giving away a record amount of money from my checking account to my savings account
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Giving away a record amount of money from my checking account to my savings account
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Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The only US lawmaker at COP30 tells nations to stand up to Trump.
Only US Lawmaker at COP30 Tells Nations to Stand Up to Trump
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, the only representative of the US federal government showing up at this year’s United Nations climate summit, has a simple message for the almost 200 countries gathered in Brazil: When you’re facing President Donald Trump’s ire, don’t back down.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The only US lawmaker at COP30 tells nations to stand up to Trump.
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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China is helping governments not only combat crime, but also control their citizens and stay in power—and that is proving stunningly popular econ.st/4nW9lXz
Illustration: Javier Palma
Illustration: Javier Palma
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
China is helping governments not only combat crime, but also control their citizens and stay in power—and that is proving stunningly popular econ.st/4nW9lXz
Illustration: Javier Palma
Illustration: Javier Palma
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We are so honored and grateful to be one of five recipients of Oxbow’s 2025 Rescue Support Grant! oxbowanimalhealth.com/for-rescues/
November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We are so honored and grateful to be one of five recipients of Oxbow’s 2025 Rescue Support Grant! oxbowanimalhealth.com/for-rescues/
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"I whisper the only apology that matters: You were beautiful, and we should have slowed down for you." https://therevelator.org/ghost-reefs/
Ghost Reefs of 2083: The Paleontology of Color (A Speculative ‘Fiction’) • The Revelator
What will the loss of coral reefs cost the planet — and humanity?
therevelator.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"I whisper the only apology that matters: You were beautiful, and we should have slowed down for you." https://therevelator.org/ghost-reefs/
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“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
www.fastcompany.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
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Twenty red-browed amazons were released in January 2025 in a forest reserve in Alagoas, Brazil, where only four wild individuals remained after the species was driven to near-extinction by illegal trade and deforestation.
Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence
Twenty brilliantly colored red-browed amazons took flight over a reserve holding one of the few remaining intact swaths of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The green-and-red parrots had been missing from…
news.mongabay.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Twenty red-browed amazons were released in January 2025 in a forest reserve in Alagoas, Brazil, where only four wild individuals remained after the species was driven to near-extinction by illegal trade and deforestation.
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We cannot air condition our way out of the heat crisis.
Many cooling methods add planet warming emissions, in-turn increasing cooling demand.
But solutions exist to make cooling more sustainable & affordable: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
#COP30
Many cooling methods add planet warming emissions, in-turn increasing cooling demand.
But solutions exist to make cooling more sustainable & affordable: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
#COP30
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
We cannot air condition our way out of the heat crisis.
Many cooling methods add planet warming emissions, in-turn increasing cooling demand.
But solutions exist to make cooling more sustainable & affordable: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
#COP30
Many cooling methods add planet warming emissions, in-turn increasing cooling demand.
But solutions exist to make cooling more sustainable & affordable: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
#COP30
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The Congo Basin is the world's biggest tropical carbon sink. There may only be a decade to save it.
The World Has a Decade to Save the Biggest Tropical Carbon Sink
The Congo Basin, a region of tropical forest larger than India, is at a point where further damage may rob the world of a crucial bulwark against climate change.
bloom.bg
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The Congo Basin is the world's biggest tropical carbon sink. There may only be a decade to save it.
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“On some Weekend at Bernie's type shit” 😂
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“On some Weekend at Bernie's type shit” 😂
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Oil regulators claim Oklahoma's wastewater incidents are under control.
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Oil regulators claim Oklahoma's wastewater incidents are under control.
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
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It’s an illness to have as much as he has
@andertoon.bsky.social
@andertoon.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It’s an illness to have as much as he has
@andertoon.bsky.social
@andertoon.bsky.social
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Fire, Not Deforestation, Is Now the Amazon’s Biggest Carbon Emitter
Forest degradation in the Amazon increased by 400% in 2024
They have destroyed so much of Amazon that its now self combusting
3.3 million hectares of forest— were affected by fires last year.
eos.org/articles/fir...
Forest degradation in the Amazon increased by 400% in 2024
They have destroyed so much of Amazon that its now self combusting
3.3 million hectares of forest— were affected by fires last year.
eos.org/articles/fir...
Fire, Not Deforestation, Is Now the Amazon’s Biggest Carbon Emitter - Eos
Forest degradation in the Amazon increased by 400% in 2024. It was largely driven by wildfires during the forest’s worst fire season in more than 20 years.
eos.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Fire, Not Deforestation, Is Now the Amazon’s Biggest Carbon Emitter
Forest degradation in the Amazon increased by 400% in 2024
They have destroyed so much of Amazon that its now self combusting
3.3 million hectares of forest— were affected by fires last year.
eos.org/articles/fir...
Forest degradation in the Amazon increased by 400% in 2024
They have destroyed so much of Amazon that its now self combusting
3.3 million hectares of forest— were affected by fires last year.
eos.org/articles/fir...
Kennedy hightailed it out of there-I guess he knew he’d be useless in a “health crisis”
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Kennedy hightailed it out of there-I guess he knew he’d be useless in a “health crisis”