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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 1h

The next iteration of Brexit (under the waterline) courtesy of those same people who made possible the previous

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Climate breakdown is all-pervasive and will affect every single one of us

Yet the government expands airports, plans more roads, and considers the opening of new oil and gas fields

Pure, unadulterated, insanity

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 1d

Really tired of asking how this reckless destruction keeps being allowed to progressively happen

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 3d

Unsustainable ecologically and nonsensical economically: “I don’t see how there can ever be any return on investment given the current math..."

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 4d

Humor is a powerful political tool. Humor implies satire, and satire is about sending up the politically powerful to deflate their authority by showing people how absurd they are being. Funny art is political art.

Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 4d

These inflatable frog suits are taking me out but they are also...healing to watch? I'm upset about what's happening in Portland but laughing is letting the stress out.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Oct 10

Thelonious Monk's Underground, 1968

Photography by Steve Horn & Norm Griner
Art direction by John Berg & Richard Mantel

"After the photo session Monk got up & left with The Baroness. The only word he had spoken in all that time was to the cow."
- Michael Cuscuna

Album cover:
Monk at an upright piano. He has an automatic weapon, & on a table nearby are more guns & grenades. On the piano is a bottle of red wine. Behind him are a live cow, a mannequin in a German officer’s uniform, roped to a chair. A Nazi flag hangs over an end table.

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 6d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 5d

Okay, my best attempt: CROSS-naw-hor-kaw-ee
But the first four vowels are all the same. So keep the “o” sound from “cross” and repeat it three more times. (Somewhere between “aw” and “ah”)
“Hor” gets the second most emphasis.

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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 5d

Finally!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 6d

I don't know how else to tell you this: generative AI, the dismantling of Dept of Ed, defunding science, MAHA, banned books. They're of a piece. They're trying to disenfranchise you of your brain. Keep thinking.

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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 7d

“Without mitigation, the data centers sucking up all the load is going to make things really expensive for the rest of Americans...”

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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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7d

around portland loll love this city

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 7d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 7d

“Solar and wind are now growing fast enough to meet the world’s growing appetite for electricity. This marks the beginning of a shift where clean power is keeping pace with demand growth.”

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 7d

"You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.”

Robin Williams’ Daughter Tells Fans to ‘Stop Sending Me AI Videos of Dad’: It’s ‘Gross’ and ‘Not What He’d Want’

Zelda Williams tells fans not to send her AI recreations of father Robin Williams, calling them "gross."

variety.com

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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 8d

Meanwhile, in other civilized countries where government funding does not largely go to war and overpriced healthcare...

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 8d

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.

www.rte.ie

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10d

A Chicago citizen confronts the hypocrisy of a fellow Hispanic man working for ICE, shaming him and making a powerful point by asking how his family ended up in the United States.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 10d

Want my anti-ICE posters? I'm selling them at cost in my shop www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/icepr...

25-pack of Risographed Fuck ICE posters — Molly Crabapple

Express your feelings towards our American Gestapo with these striking posters, risographed by Molly Crabapple at her beloved Robert Blackburn Studios. These posters are NOT archival. They are printe...

www.mollycrabapple.com

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 9d

Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.

Sobe it. We cannot awaken this sleper,
and God knows we have tried. We must do what we can do, and fortify and save each other—we are not drowning in an apathetic self-contempt, we do feel ourselves sufficiently worthwhile to contend even with inexorable forces in order to change our fate and the fate of our children and the condition of the world! We know that a man is not a thing and is not to be placed at the mercy of things. We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists. We know that a baby does not come into the world merely to be the instrument of someone else's profit. We know that democracy does not mean the coercion of all into a deadly-and, finally, wicked—mediocrity but the liberty for all to aspire to the best that is in him, or that has ever been.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 11d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 10d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

bit.ly

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English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social · 13d

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Find out more, apply & share ⤵️
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12d

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information:

gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...

Reuters @reuters.com · 12d

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration

Apple said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock, the most popular ICE-tracking app, and other similar apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump's administration.

reut.rs

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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