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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 2d

It's probably ridiculous to go on BlueSky to complain about LinkedIn, but truly,
🤖 if you're using AI to write simple social media posts,
✅ with silly little bullet point emojis,
👎 I am now thinking less of you professionally and I'm not liking your post.
📝 Do your own writing, at minimum.

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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · 3d

"When we reframe structural injustice as individual spiritual growth opportunities, we’ve stopped talking about collective responsibility and started talking about victim-blaming dressed up in Eastern religious language."

Reading list available here:
lizbucar.substack.com/p/earth-scho...

How Wellness Spirituality Erases Justice: A Reading List

You’ve probably heard the term “Earth School” floating around wellness spaces—the idea that our souls voluntarily incarnated here to learn specific lessons through life’s hardships.

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 5d

Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela's beloved "doctor of the poor" Sunday, Oct. 19, before tens of thousands of people, offering the South American nation one of its first saints and a reason to celebrate amid a yearslong economic crisis and new tensions with the United States.

Pope gives Venezuela reason to celebrate by canonizing beloved 'doctor of the poor'

Venezuela's first two saints were canonized Sunday: José Gregorio Hernández, revered by millions for his dedication to poor people, and Mother Carmen Rendiles Martínez, founder of a Venezuelan religio...

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The BTS Center @thebtscenter.bsky.social · 5d

This Wednesday, Oct. 22, is the first of this year's Lament with Earth cycle. Register to take part in this community holding grief and hope together.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23d

That sounds like a lot of power. I hope we’re doing useful things with ChatGPT. 🙃

OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · Sep 22

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Follow up tumblr post
every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · Sep 19

#bbnj
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle

www.nytimes.com

The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · Sep 19

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · Sep 18

Big Oil has no problem funding people who say the Civil Rights Act was "huge mistake” or that Ketanji Brown Jackson was "a diversity hire" or that trans people are responsible for inflation.

As long as “climate change is fake” is part of it, they don’t care about the rest.

Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled

Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · Sep 18

Tired: The biodiversity of the deep sea rivals the biodiversity of tropical rainforests.

Wired: The biodiversity of the deep sea rivals the combined biodiversity of the entire rest of the planet.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 16

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States:
(a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
(b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide;
(c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law;
(d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide;
(e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
(a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants;
(b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · Sep 16

Today is the National Day of Remembrance for boarding schools in the United States. Not sure what boarding schools are? You are not alone. Only 4 states include the history boarding schools in their curriculum.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 13

The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves.

The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 13

Hell, this man literally created a watch list of professors to harass and abuse resulting in death threats. This was not a civil man. Stop sanitizing his legacy.

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Cloud Color @cloudcolortm.bsky.social · Aug 13

Putting a fracked gas pipeline at Riis Beach ESPECIALLY is homophobic #stopnese

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Jay 🐿️ @jessa-leigh-nyc.bsky.social · Sep 5

#STOPNESE

actionnetwork.org/letters/b244...

Send Comment #6 Gov Hochul, NYS DEC and to the NYS DPS

Send Comment #6 to Governor Hochul NYS DEC and to the NYS DPS to reject Williams Transco's Permit and National Grid's Long Term Gas Plan Background: The New York State Department of Environmental C...

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Mx. Mandy Savage 🌈🖤 @amoonday.bsky.social · Sep 11

NJ DEP just disabled all attendee mics in the ONE public hearing that was scheduled bc folks were speaking up during the break. Why are they fast-tracking #NESE and silencing NJ citizens? We do not want this pipeline! #StopNESE

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Mx. Mandy Savage 🌈🖤 @amoonday.bsky.social · Sep 11

They are shutting down the hearing without letting everyone speak. NJ DEP disabled all our mics again to prevent us from complaining.

I waited 4 hours for nothing. This process has been a farce from Day 1. I hope the #NJDEP has a spine and protects NJ by denying all permits #StopNESE

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · Sep 1

“People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.”

Dorothy Day

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doktor ross sewage @sewage666.bsky.social · Aug 30

thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Aug 22

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.

La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center

Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.

www.kplctv.com

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · Aug 22

This is the shame-the-consumer ploy that the fossil industry has been running for years: 'You need to use stuff more efficiently...'

But it was the packaging industry that invented it, long before that: 'The problem is that you (personally) don't recycle...'

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 22

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)?

Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!

NEW POST -->>>

Big tech’s selective disclosure masks AI’s real climate impact

Google claims to have disclosed new information proving its own efficiency. But it has hidden the bigger picture. Guess what: I’ve got the bigger picture for you right here in this big old po…

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The Blair Witch @blairn.bsky.social · Aug 12

blog.ucs.org/edwin-lyman/...

Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors

A realistic understanding of their costs and risks is critical.

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