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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 3d

My lukewarm take on this is I question why we continue to platform (mostly? Exclusively?) men who made a lot of money in one area for their views/advice in other totally unrelated areas.

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 7d

Bill Gates has a new memo out calling for a “strategic pivot” on climate change, downplaying “doomsday” talk to focus on filling enormous post-USAID budget gaps in global health and vaccine funding. I got an early glimpse of his thinking last week:

7 New Takes From Bill Gates on Climate ‘Doomsday’ Talk and Global Health

“I mean, God bless the Europeans for caring about climate.”

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 3d

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 3d

Stories like this around people rising to meet the SNAP crisis are easy to frame as inspirational and I appreciate the reporting here that stresses that this is a crisis of the government's making with long-term consequences that individuals alone cannot fix.

As SNAP benefits run dry, 'grocery buddies' are footing their neighbors' food bills

With federal food aid frozen during the government shutdown, there has been a wave of people rushing to help — sending gift cards or buying groceries for SNAP recipients in their community.

www.npr.org

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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 4d

This cat is dressed for Halloween 365 days a year:

Color photo of a orange, brown, black, and white calico cat sitting on a blue-gray blanket

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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 6d

The kids are alright

#GoodClimateNews

Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 6d

Thousands of California high school students staged walk outs this week to support the Make Polluters Pay bill, which would require oil and gas companies to cover the escalating costs of wildfires and other climate disasters.
Some coverage from around the state: 🧵

www.kalw.org/bay-area-new...

Oakland students walk out of class to support climate bill

Students at ALMOST 50 California high schools held walkouts on Friday in support of the “Make Polluters Pay Superfund Act.”

www.kalw.org

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Mike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social · 8d

Saying we need to focus more on economics and less on climate change is just saying you don't understand either.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 7d

biblically accurate cat

Photo of a black cat with yellow eyes, taken as the cat's head was moving. It appears to have 5+ sets of eyes

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 8d

There are many reasons fact checkers are vital. Here's one. The wonderful and persistent fellow working on my current manuscript just saved me from identifying a Scottish surgeon as English.

The utter horror and embarrassment if that had made it into print!!!

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 9d

Just a reminder that the sun shines, the wind blows, the water flows, and the Earth creates heat every day

206 days in 2025 so far with WindWaterSolar exceeding 100% of demand on CA's main grid for part of the day, averaging 3.9 among all 298 days in 2025

And fossil gas is down 37.4% in 2 y

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 8d

Care for us? True indeed! They ne’er car’d for us yet. Suffer us to famish, and their store-houses cramm’d with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act establish’d against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor.

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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 8d

Super excited about Sammy Roth's new chapter and also hopeful they switch from Substack to Ghost so I can support Sammy without also supporting Nazis
@sammyroth.bsky.social

Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 8d

Last week I left the L.A. Times and launched Climate-Colored Goggles, an independent newsletter about climate and culture. Here's my mission statement, please check it out and subscribe! www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/why-writin...

Why I'm writing about climate and culture

I never expected to leave the Los Angeles Times and start a Substack. Then a story about Disneyland caught me by surprise.

www.climatecoloredgoggles.com

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 8d

Misty Morning on the Seine, Mauve - 1897
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10703

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League of Women Voters of San Francisco @lwvsf.bsky.social · 8d

Want to raise your voice? We’ll show you ways to get past the gatekeeping.

Join our free training about government public meetings and how you can watch, understand, and get involved. Two more dates this year: Nov 4 or Dec 2 — all 12:00–12:30pm PT.

Register at lwvsf.org/observer-c...

A photo of the front door of San Francisco City Hall. The doors are closed and dark. At the top is text that says: "If government feels closed off, we'll show you how to open the door."

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 8d

COOLEST RUNNINGS,,, cuz it’s Cooler than Cool Runnings.

Your boy Flavor Flav is now an Official Sponsor and The Official Hype Man of the USA Olympic Bobsled + Skeleton team. YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!

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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 8d

Did you know that if you chant “add alt text” three times in the mirror, a social media manager appears behind you with a cat meme!

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 9d

Stop scrolling and go to bed! But first look at the comedy wildlife photo finalists from this year www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...

These images are for viewing only and must not be copied :: Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards - Conservation through Competition

www.comedywildlifephoto.com

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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 9d

if you were in the movie, any secondhand store

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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 10d

This is troubling. I'm hopeful the Internet Archive will soon be back to full capacity.

Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 10d

Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects

Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications.

www.niemanlab.org

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12d

Few things as satisfying as seeing people who are very good at and meticulous in their work given free rein to do said work.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 12d

Anybody need an adorable shorebird? I need an adorable shorebird

(Sanderling) #birds 🌿

A very round brown and white bird stands on the wet sand, head cocked at a very endearing angle.

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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 12d

Job alert!

Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 12d

We're hiring! Project Drawdown seeks a climate science professional with world-class project management skills to serve as Program Manager for a new initiative. FT and remote position. Learn more and apply today at: drawdown.org/careers/prog...

Program Manager, Global Strategic Partnerships

Our mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown" as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

drawdown.org

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 13d

Cutting SNAP is an economic time bomb.

End the shutdown & fund the services America needs.

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 13d

My 'customer service' face.

📸 nyannendo

Two brown cats sitting on blue stools in a Japanese stationery store. One of the cats is making a strange facial expression, possibly mid-sneeze.

Zoomed in picture of two brown cats sitting on blue stools in a Japanese stationery store. One of the cats is making a strange facial expression, possibly mid-sneeze.

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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 14d

My favorite part of the ocean storytelling session this morning was someone pointing out that a diversity of #SciComm strategies is a good thing

It’s easy to look down on an org that does things differently than you, but a diversity of goals and strategies will draw in a diversity of 🦑 ppl

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Nov 22

A mystery in space: Why do astronauts frequently report seeing light flashes (LF) while in orbit?

Let's get the easy answers out of the way:
Hypothesis 1: Aliens.
Hypothesis 2: SPACE MADNESS.

After that, it gets a little more complicated..

(🧑‍🎨: Sergio Sciutto)

A simulation of a cosmic ray shower formed when a proton with 1TeV (1e12 eV) of energy hits the atmosphere about 20km above the ground. The ground shown here is a 8km x 8km map of Chicago's lakefront. This visualization was made by Dinoj Surendran, Mark SubbaRao, and Randy Landsberg of the COSMUS group at the University of Chicago, with the help of physicists at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and the Pierre Auger Observatory. The simulation was done using the AIRES package by physicist Sergio Sciutto of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.

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