Madhusudan 🦉 Katti
@leafwarbler.bsky.social
Reconciliation ecologist working towards decoloniality at a Land Grab University on Saponi lands • Writer • Alien of extraordinary ability • 🏳️⚧️ parent • 🐦⬛ 🦚 🪶 📽️ 🏏
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A Reconciliation Ecologist's Testimony at a People's Hearing
Spoken in Greensboro, NC in June 2025
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A Reconciliation Ecologist's Testimony at a People's Hearing
Something I had the honor to speak last week, to an auditorium full of Indigenous, Black and Brown, really a rainbow of environmental justice activists in Greensboro, NC.
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Something I had the honor to speak last week, to an auditorium full of Indigenous, Black and Brown, really a rainbow of environmental justice activists in Greensboro, NC.
(and yes, this also launches my newsletter, so please subscribe!)
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anyway, it feels good to be vindicated but the problem is that white people are fucking stupid and are going to take the wrong lesson for this. they're going to invent new forms of anti indian racism instead of the correct takeaway (white south africans are never to be trusted)
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
anyway, it feels good to be vindicated but the problem is that white people are fucking stupid and are going to take the wrong lesson for this. they're going to invent new forms of anti indian racism instead of the correct takeaway (white south africans are never to be trusted)
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its funny how if you called at the time that the 2022 purchase of twitter by elon musk was brokered by the saudis to poison public discourse through the use of bot networks and shills you'd be referred for a risperidone prescription but you'd also have been completely correct
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
its funny how if you called at the time that the 2022 purchase of twitter by elon musk was brokered by the saudis to poison public discourse through the use of bot networks and shills you'd be referred for a risperidone prescription but you'd also have been completely correct
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When I say the ever-more-explicit offer being made is reconciliation over white supremacy, I’m not being hyperbolic.
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
When I say the ever-more-explicit offer being made is reconciliation over white supremacy, I’m not being hyperbolic.
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
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This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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"Other artifacts—including a dozen human teeth with holes drilled through them, likely worn as necklaces—and fragments of pottery dot the bottom of the ditch."
Eesh
Eesh
In addition to being a fascinating (if horrific) insight into a mostly-unknown period of European prehistory, this includes a BANGER of a quote: "I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Other artifacts—including a dozen human teeth with holes drilled through them, likely worn as necklaces—and fragments of pottery dot the bottom of the ditch."
Eesh
Eesh
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funny how the propaganda machine never talks about how wealth hoarding hurts the economy
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
funny how the propaganda machine never talks about how wealth hoarding hurts the economy
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Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
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Hey, don't do this! Don't uncritically hype plagiarism machines!
I went and checked this one out myself. The entire sales/pitch landing page for it is "help students cheat at their homework". It runs on Google's Gemini, aka on the mass theft of millions of people's life work. What the actual fuck.
I went and checked this one out myself. The entire sales/pitch landing page for it is "help students cheat at their homework". It runs on Google's Gemini, aka on the mass theft of millions of people's life work. What the actual fuck.
Just starting to play around with Notebook LM for my next project and...wow. Feels like a totally game-changing way to manage sources and research.
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Hey, don't do this! Don't uncritically hype plagiarism machines!
I went and checked this one out myself. The entire sales/pitch landing page for it is "help students cheat at their homework". It runs on Google's Gemini, aka on the mass theft of millions of people's life work. What the actual fuck.
I went and checked this one out myself. The entire sales/pitch landing page for it is "help students cheat at their homework". It runs on Google's Gemini, aka on the mass theft of millions of people's life work. What the actual fuck.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
I mean if it’s good enough for Charlie Chaplin and Werner Herzog to eat on camera…
"Technically Edible: Why You're Missing Out By Not Boiling Shoe Leather"
Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I mean if it’s good enough for Charlie Chaplin and Werner Herzog to eat on camera…
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The government reopened last week, ending the longest shutdown in the nation’s history. But funding for some Head Start programs, including those run by Southeastern Community Action Partnership, is still in limbo, Heidi Perez-Moreno reports. borderbelt.org/head-start-c...
Head Start Closures Leave Robeson County Families Scrambling for Child Care
Southeastern Community Action Partnership closed three Head Start sites in Robeson County because of the government shutdown.
borderbelt.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The government reopened last week, ending the longest shutdown in the nation’s history. But funding for some Head Start programs, including those run by Southeastern Community Action Partnership, is still in limbo, Heidi Perez-Moreno reports. borderbelt.org/head-start-c...
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The Nadir was never resolved. Reconstruction was an incomplete project and now the occupational segregation & segmentation of Black workers (esp Black women) has been weaponized against them (disproportionate impact in public sector workforce amid "DOGE" efforts to dismantle the public sector)
The Black Codes thus intended to trap black labor in place. The plantation elite’s top goal immediately upon emancipation was to corral black labor, whose core goal was to avoid the plantation labor system, preferably replacing it with small farms they owned.
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The Nadir was never resolved. Reconstruction was an incomplete project and now the occupational segregation & segmentation of Black workers (esp Black women) has been weaponized against them (disproportionate impact in public sector workforce amid "DOGE" efforts to dismantle the public sector)
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*gestures generally*
A lot of the current social and economic problems in the U.S. can be explained by the fact that there is an entire class of people who never stopped yearning for the plantation.
A lot of the current social and economic problems in the U.S. can be explained by the fact that there is an entire class of people who never stopped yearning for the plantation.
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
*gestures generally*
A lot of the current social and economic problems in the U.S. can be explained by the fact that there is an entire class of people who never stopped yearning for the plantation.
A lot of the current social and economic problems in the U.S. can be explained by the fact that there is an entire class of people who never stopped yearning for the plantation.
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Every elite authority in the UK appears to have lost their mind in precisely the same way
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Every elite authority in the UK appears to have lost their mind in precisely the same way
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Hilarious. Hillbillyarious.
Drugs sneaked into Ohio prison soaked into the pages of 'Hillbilly Elegy'
Vice President JD Vance’s memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” has a storied history as a New York Times bestseller, as his introduction to the nation as a “Trump whisperer,” and as a Ron Howard-directed movie.
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Hilarious. Hillbillyarious.
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“In South Carolina, a Colombian family of five went to a government office for a fingerprinting appointment, only to have the parents detained while the children — ages 5, 11 and 15 — were sent into the shelter system for four months.”
Meanwhile, 600 kids have been sent to ICE detention this year.
Meanwhile, 600 kids have been sent to ICE detention this year.
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
“In South Carolina, a Colombian family of five went to a government office for a fingerprinting appointment, only to have the parents detained while the children — ages 5, 11 and 15 — were sent into the shelter system for four months.”
Meanwhile, 600 kids have been sent to ICE detention this year.
Meanwhile, 600 kids have been sent to ICE detention this year.
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Fingerprinting appointments are part of the green card process, too, by the way.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Fingerprinting appointments are part of the green card process, too, by the way.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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Life can be extremely difficult to navigate. I'm lucky enough to have found my way. Maybe I can help you figure out how to find yours.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/what-works...
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/what-works...
What works for you?
A big key to getting my life together was trying different stuff until it fit me
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November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Life can be extremely difficult to navigate. I'm lucky enough to have found my way. Maybe I can help you figure out how to find yours.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/what-works...
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/what-works...
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I appreciate the timing of this after a particularly rough day in academia... especially since similar advice from Phil when I was a wee bebe grad student was so instrumental to the trajectory my career eventually took!
Life can be extremely difficult to navigate. I'm lucky enough to have found my way. Maybe I can help you figure out how to find yours.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/what-works...
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/what-works...
What works for you?
A big key to getting my life together was trying different stuff until it fit me
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I appreciate the timing of this after a particularly rough day in academia... especially since similar advice from Phil when I was a wee bebe grad student was so instrumental to the trajectory my career eventually took!
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The sampling gaps do tell an important story, though: we know catastrophically little about the infectious diseases of endangered and critically endangered wildlife. That's a blindspot for spillover risk, but it's also a blindspot for conservation - think canine distemper, chytrid, or white nose.
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The sampling gaps do tell an important story, though: we know catastrophically little about the infectious diseases of endangered and critically endangered wildlife. That's a blindspot for spillover risk, but it's also a blindspot for conservation - think canine distemper, chytrid, or white nose.
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Using just a little bit of statistics, we show that this is a story about sampling: It turns out we just know a lot less about the viruses of endangered species - zoonotic or otherwise! Once you account for those data gaps, there's really no story here about anthropogenic pressure and spillover.
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Using just a little bit of statistics, we show that this is a story about sampling: It turns out we just know a lot less about the viruses of endangered species - zoonotic or otherwise! Once you account for those data gaps, there's really no story here about anthropogenic pressure and spillover.
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NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....