christine e. norrie
@christinenorrie.bsky.social
nyc artist lady / upstate chicken butler
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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Binc Board Offers Year-End Matching Gift to Help Book and Comic People #charity
Binc Board Offers Year-End Matching Gift to Help Book and Comic People
Thanks to the Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation board of directors every donation up to a total of $6,000 will be doubled.
graphicpolicy.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Binc Board Offers Year-End Matching Gift to Help Book and Comic People #charity
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Urge your reps to vote NO on HR 845 ➡️ bit.ly/3MBG3kd
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Urge your reps to vote NO on HR 845 ➡️ bit.ly/3MBG3kd
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What might become possible with increased and most importantly STABLE funding for public libraries?
What happens if rent is frozen for 2 million people for 4 years?
What happens if rent is frozen for 2 million people for 4 years?
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
What might become possible with increased and most importantly STABLE funding for public libraries?
What happens if rent is frozen for 2 million people for 4 years?
What happens if rent is frozen for 2 million people for 4 years?
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I mean NYC is about the embark on a project of trying to implement some major policies intended to support regular people. Folks could focus on that to see what might be possible to achieve in similar positioned cities. Can NYC deliver universal childcare?
December 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I mean NYC is about the embark on a project of trying to implement some major policies intended to support regular people. Folks could focus on that to see what might be possible to achieve in similar positioned cities. Can NYC deliver universal childcare?
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Lawn darts only killed one kid before they were banned. Meta has killed 36. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
December 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Lawn darts only killed one kid before they were banned. Meta has killed 36. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Exxon has a new plan to sell more fossil fuels: stick carbon capture on massive gas-fired power plants for AI and brand them as climate friendly.
Critics say that's a dangerous fiction.
Thrilled to have @emorwee.bsky.social as my editor on this one!
www.exxonknews.org/p/exxon-prom...
Critics say that's a dangerous fiction.
Thrilled to have @emorwee.bsky.social as my editor on this one!
www.exxonknews.org/p/exxon-prom...
Exxon’s new greenwashing ploy
The oil giant claims it can eliminate more than 90 percent of emissions from gas-powered AI facilities. Critics say that’s nonsense.
www.exxonknews.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Exxon has a new plan to sell more fossil fuels: stick carbon capture on massive gas-fired power plants for AI and brand them as climate friendly.
Critics say that's a dangerous fiction.
Thrilled to have @emorwee.bsky.social as my editor on this one!
www.exxonknews.org/p/exxon-prom...
Critics say that's a dangerous fiction.
Thrilled to have @emorwee.bsky.social as my editor on this one!
www.exxonknews.org/p/exxon-prom...
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If we think too deeply about all of this, few of us would be able to sleep. ever.
December 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
If we think too deeply about all of this, few of us would be able to sleep. ever.
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At the risk of sounding old. The music was better and I could get blindingly drunk in bars for less than $30. 2025 could never.
Why must we live through the early 2000s a second time
December 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
At the risk of sounding old. The music was better and I could get blindingly drunk in bars for less than $30. 2025 could never.
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I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.
Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center
Russell Vought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “clima...
wapo.st
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.
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"Let’s face it — artists are always working, though they may not seem as if they are. They are like plants growing in winter. You can’t see the fruit, but it is taking root below the earth."
An extraordinary refutation of the myth of work/life balance
An extraordinary refutation of the myth of work/life balance
Against the Cartesian Myth of Work/Life Balance: André Gregory’s Extraordinary Letter to Richard Avedon about the Nature of Creativity
Half a millennium into our recovery from the civilizational wound Descartes inflicted by severing the body and the mind, we are bleeding with a Cartesian cleft of our own making — the damagin…
www.themarginalian.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"Let’s face it — artists are always working, though they may not seem as if they are. They are like plants growing in winter. You can’t see the fruit, but it is taking root below the earth."
An extraordinary refutation of the myth of work/life balance
An extraordinary refutation of the myth of work/life balance
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I am truly and genuinely so glad you asked!
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I am truly and genuinely so glad you asked!
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
cc: @gregpak.net
Funders don’t want to hear it but they need to support and influence progressive-leaning creators who only do politics in a fraction of their content. It’s basic marketing: the people who want 100% political content are already sorted.
www.wired.com/story/the-mo...
www.wired.com/story/the-mo...
The Most Powerful Politics Influencers Barely Post About Politics
New research shows that social media creators have enormous influence over their audiences' politics—especially those who don't normally share political content.
www.wired.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
cc: @gregpak.net
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Going to see family or friends for the holidays? Print out some “How to Report ICE” zines for their area!
(I have handed out zines at family events, art openings, parties, on the street, etc. They are very well received.)
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
(I have handed out zines at family events, art openings, parties, on the street, etc. They are very well received.)
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
SALUTE zines **BE SURE TO PRINT AT 100%!** - Google Drive
drive.google.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Going to see family or friends for the holidays? Print out some “How to Report ICE” zines for their area!
(I have handed out zines at family events, art openings, parties, on the street, etc. They are very well received.)
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
(I have handed out zines at family events, art openings, parties, on the street, etc. They are very well received.)
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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FFS: “The key part of Meta’s strategy, in my view, is that they’re going to get as much of this built out with what the industry calls OPM: Other people’s money,”
It's a hedge: when the bust comes, these new companies go under, Big Tech buys up the assets for pennies. They KNOW the bust is coming.
It's a hedge: when the bust comes, these new companies go under, Big Tech buys up the assets for pennies. They KNOW the bust is coming.
How Tech’s Biggest Companies Are Offloading the Risks of the A.I. Boom
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
FFS: “The key part of Meta’s strategy, in my view, is that they’re going to get as much of this built out with what the industry calls OPM: Other people’s money,”
It's a hedge: when the bust comes, these new companies go under, Big Tech buys up the assets for pennies. They KNOW the bust is coming.
It's a hedge: when the bust comes, these new companies go under, Big Tech buys up the assets for pennies. They KNOW the bust is coming.
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They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.
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A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
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This is one of those times when all of the bad news just sucks the air out of your lungs.
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
This is one of those times when all of the bad news just sucks the air out of your lungs.
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If you could use a lighthouse in these dark times, this is for you: www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/06/t...
A Lighthouse for Dark Times
This is the elemental speaking: It is during phase transition — when the temperature and pressure of a system go beyond what the system can withstand and matter changes from one state to anot…
www.themarginalian.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If you could use a lighthouse in these dark times, this is for you: www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/06/t...
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We're doing fun, practical things with @comixaction.com to make a difference. Please do sign up for the newsletter to see what's up, NYC! buttondown.com/comixaction
December 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We're doing fun, practical things with @comixaction.com to make a difference. Please do sign up for the newsletter to see what's up, NYC! buttondown.com/comixaction
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There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
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The disturbingly high amount of microplastics found in the remote Adirondack lake that's the source of the Hudson River is raising some uncomfortable questions about the impact of outdoor recreation on the backcountry, and what outdoor gear manufacturers can do to help.
Special Report: Microproblems
Plastic pollution is turning up in surprising places, for surprising reasons
buff.ly
December 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The disturbingly high amount of microplastics found in the remote Adirondack lake that's the source of the Hudson River is raising some uncomfortable questions about the impact of outdoor recreation on the backcountry, and what outdoor gear manufacturers can do to help.
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"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection – the fascinating science of rupture, repair, and reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2024/05/31/p...
Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection – the fascinating science of rupture, repair, and reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2024/05/31/p...
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection – the fascinating science of rupture, repair, and reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2024/05/31/p...
Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection – the fascinating science of rupture, repair, and reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2024/05/31/p...