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I'm the king of the world... Is that a second sun in the sky? Oh well, sunlight is plant food. But that second sunshine in our eyes. Is the reflected light of our demise. Gizzhead On Dharawal Country *Not a real Quetzalcoatlus

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QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute @8t3v3n.bsky.social · Mar 23

1st quote: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kiC...
2nd quote: Downfall: Portrait of Narcissism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwoC...
by: @grockallschmidt.bsky.social

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QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute @8t3v3n.bsky.social · 55m

omg.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1h

It's a little understated that Bari Weiss is really a flat-out 'just-asking-questions' style climate change denier.

Eg, here she is saying the science is up for public debate rather than settled, publishing the work of a big-name denier influencer (Koonin), and boosting a fake controversy

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
"Is Donald Trump a “dictator”? Did the events of January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., constitute an “insurgency”?

Is Joe Biden “sharp as a tack”?

Is the science of climate change “settled”?

Are Javier Milei of Argentina, Marine Le Pen of France, and the AfD party in Germany “far right”?

Is the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis a “conspiracy theory”? Was the persistence of the virus a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? Does Anthony Fauci “represent science”?

Does Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, “promote hatred”? Do “fact-checkers” check facts?

Let’s ask a question about these questions: Why on Earth were we placed in a position of having to answer them?

In an open society, perspectives on reality confront one another in forceful competition. Each may contain some particle of truth—or at least some useful information.

So even the flat-earthers are allowed their say. Even the Bigfoot-seekers appear on the Discovery Channel. Somewhere among the nonsense, there may be something worth hearing.

Because we don’t precisely know where or when, the conversation is never over.

A vast diversity of perspectives should be promoted within an open society. It’s the intellectual equivalent of hybrid vigor.

If we all think alike, a single fatal error, being shared by all, could destroy the world.

These precepts are not original. They have long been part of the American DNA. The default, for us, has always been debate.

When certain subjects, like slavery, were made taboo and removed from the possibility of discussion, towering figures arose and terrible conflicts were fought to restore the balance.

However, the past four years have seen a sustained effort to overturn the principles of the open society. The just-departed administration, of which Biden was the decrepit figurehead, tried to impose, by threat or mandate, a version of reality that brooked no discussion.

Supported by its allies in the media, the academy, and the bureaucracy, the administrati…

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
Climate change did not cause the LA fires says Steve Koonin in an essential conversation with our
@EmilyYoffe
:

https://thefp.com/p/climate-change-did-not-cause-the-la-fires-steve-koonin

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
·
Sep 6, 2023
Gratified at the outpouring of responses to this important and courageous piece by
@PatrickTBrown31
.

https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published
From thefp.com
Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
·
Sep 5, 2023
"Savvy researchers tailor their studies to maximize the likelihood that their work is accepted. I know this because I am one of them.

Here’s how it works."

@PatrickTBrown31
with a must-read piece:

https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Exodus 8:4.

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

John 18:38.

Comparative Calm or 'Hellscape'? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute @8t3v3n.bsky.social · 3h

Your mind is gonna be blown when you hear about all those leashed animals that people walk.

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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 4h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 4h

"i made a x" "new x or old thing?" meme from donnie darko

donnie darko: i made a new VEGETABLE

mother: new vegetable or brassica oleracea?

donnie: rassica oleracea again

(inset with a graphic showing cabbage, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, kale, broccoli and cauliflower are all brassica oleracea)

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QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute @8t3v3n.bsky.social · 3h

Chomsky's self importance linking it to his own lifespan.

QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute @8t3v3n.bsky.social · 3h

Good grief.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 6h

Didn't even have the bottle to stick with changes to super that affected only the wealthiest 0.5%.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 6h

As of now there is nothing Albanese's govt has done that has changed the country in any structural way.

No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 17h

The petrochemical industry is expanding production of PFAS in response to the data center boom, betting that the tech industry's toxic chemical releases face no serious prospect of regulation under the Trump regime. But campaigners know that the states have a powerful role.

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

www.theguardian.com

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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 12h

Hundreds of scientists and global leaders are converging on Christchurch for the world's largest and most influential climate adaptation gathering.

Global leaders, scientists gather for NZ's largest ever climate event

Hundreds of scientists and global leaders are converging on Christchurch for the world's largest and most influential climate adaptation gathering.

dlvr.it

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 18h

Temperatures were warmer than 5°C above the 1981-2010 average in September 2025 across northern Canada and into the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The southern route of the Northwest Passage was ice-free and open for transit this past melt season.

Data freely available from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Regional map of the Canadian Arctic showing September 2025 temperature anomalies. Most areas are warmer than average northeast of Hudson Bay. Anomalies are calculated to a 1981-2010 baseline with red being warmer than average, and blue being colder than average.

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QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute @8t3v3n.bsky.social · 4h

Any result?

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Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 11h

Nice story about the value of restoring degraded wetlands with @vprahalad.bsky.social @utas.bsky.social

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Abundance returns to wetland after man-made sheep pasture removed

A sheep farmer has welcomed the restoration of an internationally significant wetland on his property outside of Hobart. The collaboration of a non-profit organisation with landowners, scientists, the...

www.abc.net.au

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QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute @8t3v3n.bsky.social · 4h

#Abundance

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 19h

The Northern Hemisphere used to radiate more heat to space than it absorbed from the sun, but this changed over the past 20 years.

More later today on Climate Chat:
www.patreon.com/posts/northe...

Northern/Southern Hemisphere Warming Asymmetry | Leon Simons

Get more from Leon Simons on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 3d

Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle):

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

H/t @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 12h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute @8t3v3n.bsky.social · 4h

*bipartisanship in action.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10h

It is slightly funny that Türkiye and Australia are fighting over COP31 hosting rights while their biggest gas companies team up to see who be the worst climate criminals

naturalgasintel.com/news/woodsid...

Woodside’s 16.5 Mt/y Louisiana LNG Project Gains Turkish Support in HOA
Jacob Dick photo
By Jacob Dick on October 02, 2025 at 9:05 a.m.
Published in:
Daily Gas Price Index
Filed under:
Infrastructure
International
LNG
Woodside Energy Group Ltd. is looking to place a significant portion of the capacity of the first phase of its Louisiana LNG export project under contract as a part of a tentative supply deal with Türkiye’s state-owned pipeline company.

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QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute @8t3v3n.bsky.social · 4h

Severe floods caused by extreme rainfall in Godall, Montsià in Tarragona Province Spain

Severe floods caused by extreme rainfall in Godall, Montsià in Tarragona Province Spain 🇪🇸..

YouTube video by Disaster Monitor

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 10h

Well there”s an achievement to be ashamed of
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Platypus vanish from river where Charles Darwin pondered evolution

Almost 190 years on, in the place where Charles Darwin first spotted a platypus, the egg-laying mammal seems to have disappeared.

www.abc.net.au

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