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Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

Bayer a pharmaceutical company and Monsanto a pesticide company. Bayer bought Monsanto.

Bayer makes drugs to help with Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Monsanto makes a chemical we use in the USA called glyphosate to spray on FOOD crops.

Glyphosate causes Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

Per @aoc.bsky.social and co., I'm here to celebrate echo chambers and preaching to the choir. Which sings back, beautifully. "The primary assumption behind the idea that we shouldn’t preach to the choir is that one’s proper audience is one’s enemies, not one’s allies." harpers.org/archive/2017...

Narrator voice: “Little did he know…”

Ofsted inspectors telling EY teachers that their planning isn’t detailed enough because they don’t write down all the vocabulary that they’re going to teach is really not ok. I’ve now heard of several cases where when the teacher says they teach vocabulary the inspector has said “prove it”