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Climate, writing, running, beasts. Valve turner. Host: https://sites.libsyn.com/459540/awabw poetry: https://www.hummingbirdpoetry.org/books/her-animals-by-emily-johnston-2nd-ed Making good trouble: troublemakerscommunity.org

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · Aug 4

What if one of the problems with democracy is that we pretend the world is made of only humans?

Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · Jul 31

"Fundamentally, life on Earth is rich with subjects....
a thriving whole is the most baseline need that we have; it cannot be 'balanced' against other needs, because it lies at the root of every one of them."

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Sea Change - Salazar Center for North American Conservation

Emily Johnston Emily Johnston is a writer and organizer in Seattle. Her book of poetry, Her Animals, was a finalist for the 2016 WA State Book Award. Emily Johnston Writer and organizerJuly […]

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 5m

Half of these miserable cretins are genuinely evil ideologues with a plan; the other half care only for money/power, but it ends up being the exact same thing.

I don't know how any of them look their kids in the eye. Actually, I don't believe that they do—except to see their own reflections.

Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 15m

“Something that was thought to be rare is now seemingly becoming widespread."

But sure, let's distract people by RIFing & disappearing them, making healthcare costs skyrocket, & making up whoppers about Dem cities so our friends in oil & gas can put the screws to us & the planet a few more years.

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 2h

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

www.cnn.com

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 5h

The question for governors like @governorferguson.bsky.social is: when the AI boom deflates or goes utterly bust, what will that leave us with: new renewables and transmission we can use to modernize our economy, or fossil fuel extensions/expansions, soaring electricity prices, & zero jobs?

Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 7h

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 19h

To the Hague with them.

Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 8d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Little Sis

A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate profiteers enabling ICE's deportation apparatus

littlesis.org

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 19h

yes, the billionaire conspiracy continues to be the most underrated part of all this. Trump does not win, and certainly does not get away with all this, without the sudden turn in all the formerly liberal/moderate/apolitical billionaires buying up the media, buying votes, going all-in for trump

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 19h

"Just so we’re clear about this: A recent college graduate whose only work experience was a stint at an infamously fraudulent crypto exchange & a job...from which he was fired for leaking confidential information for personal gain, has maneuvered his way into managing $1.5b."

Definitely #NotABubble

AI profiteering is now indistinguishable from trolling

And what that says about the state of the AI bubble

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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CNN @cnn.com · 22h

Africa gets more sunshine hours than any other continent. It has some of the highest levels of solar irradiance — the power of the sun per square meter — in the world, with "almost unlimited" potential for solar energy according to the African Development Bank. https://cnn.it/3KKAPl1

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 1d

In his ONLY term, you mean. Harrell is a bully and a terrible administrator whose interests are defined by those of his big-money donors.

Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 1d

He's missing most things! But if he can help persuade Trump to back off his homicidal tendencies towards solar, that would be a fine thing.

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Mhgreen3000 @mhgreen3000.bsky.social · 2d

Who do we mean when we say “Black Seattle”?

This mayoral race isn’t about personalities—it’s about whether symbolism becomes substance. What do “seats at the table” mean if the rest of us go hungry?

My latest column for the @soseaemerald.bsky.social

COLUMN | What This Mayoral Election Owes 'Black Seattle'

From City Hall to the Central District, Seattle's mayoral race raises deeper questions: Who speaks for "Black Seattle," and what does real representation look like beyond the ballot? Marcus Harrison G...

southseattleemerald.org

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly what we need in American politics: less complexity. FFS.

Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 2d

Traveling far afield, without phone or internet! It was so beautiful.

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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 3d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 2d

Additionally, it has a nice "fuck them" ring to it.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 2d

But if Repubs can make clean energy permitting terrible, what choice do Dems have but to sign on to "permitting reform" and hope Repubs will, contrary to the last 20 years of evidence, uphold their word? They can focus on distributed energy, which requires fewer permits and is broadly popular.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 2d

"Permitting reform" bill text will certainly mention provisions that seem to make permitting clean energy less terrible (in addition to protecting/expanding fossil fuels). Dems would be fools to believe Repubs will follow the spirit or letter of those law provisions.

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 3d

Be still my heart.

If they also add in a cafe with good hot chocolate...

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 3d

Cities are developing a new approach to developing housing: Integrating it into mixed-use library projects. These investments improve neighborhood vitality, add housing & improve services.

In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I create a database of such projects & point to success stories ⏬

Aging Libraries Could Offer Cities a Unique Opportunity to Build New Housing While Improving Public Services

Since 2000, more than 1,800 apartment units have been built in combined library-housing developments. These projects not only address local housing needs but…

www.urban.org

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 3d

Fair wages and protections (inadequate in both cases) for us, not for them....

Laws are not laws if they don't apply equally—unless of course "we" want to go back to the days of the 3/5 compromise.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

I read somewhere recently that what the rich really want is slavery and it's hard not to read this article through that lens

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 3d

"To bend would also dishonor the legacy of those who did not bend."

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 3d

We need Is Seattle a Hellhole? With pics over the Market and Sound, over the city towards the mountain, the ferris wheel and a ferry maybe, and definitely in VP or the Arboretum....

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 4d

What an absolute dolt (as well as a transactional bastard, a bully, and a tool for big business).

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Weston Renoud @theducky.com · 6d

“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 4d

Also cars. Congestion pricing makes asthma rates plummet....

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 4d

Could we maybe address all the fucking coal first?

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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