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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 1d

Who funds AEI again? 🤔🤔🤔

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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 1d

This story was inspired by a conversation with a fossil fuel exec in Paris a few days after the big outage in Spain. He blamed too much renewable energy as the cause.

Was that really it? Turns out: No.

@npr.org takes you through a new report on what happened + impacts of renewable misinformation.

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

www.npr.org

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 1d

Also, majorities in UK+Spain believed holding social media companies accountable for this kind.of harmful content would be a solution!

CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 2d

💡 After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

A new report confirms the cause was a voltage surge, not renewables. Yet polling shows 70% of respondents in Spain believed at least one of the false narratives about the outage.

via @npr.org

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After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

www.npr.org

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 1d

"One asthma attack, please, with a side of sea level rise"

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 2d

"Gets created" by advertising. This is why we should ban fossil fuel ads like we did smoking!

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

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Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

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“Supply leads demand — you put the supply on the market and demand gets created.,” he said. “Over the long term we’re very bullish.”

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16d

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4d

This conversation on how media adds to obstruction on climate action by @amywestervelt.bsky.social with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social is really good

S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

drilled.media

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 10d

Lowest common denominator writing, just what ever editor wants! "Can you sound exactly like every other stale, overdone, cliche-ridden hack?"

PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 10d

"If we're the GOP, then surely MAGA will lose." Some overpaid consultant the DNC is paying to help them lose, apparently.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10d

democrats are turning to the phrase “all of the above” to signal openness to supporting more fossil fuel production and consumption

the return of this slogan — which dates back to oil and gas PR from the mid ‘00s — is happening as electricity prices get worse from data center demand

Dems toy with ‘all of the above’ on energy as GOP embraces fossil fuels

The parties seemed to have swapped stances as Democrats see an opening amid rising energy costs.

www.eenews.net

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 10d

love that we invented a calculator that lies so effectively real people have to waste their time trying to keep its constant bullshit out of real knowledge spaces

Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 12d

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 10d

Written version here, for the readers!
xtramagazine.com/video/fossil...

How fossil fuel billionaires are funding the anti-trans movement | Xtra Magazine

A report from “HEATED” and Atmos found sizable donations from fossil fuel companies and billionaires to anti-trans organizations

xtramagazine.com

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 10d

Anti-trans hate is the NEW, new climate denial.

Great @xtramagazine.com piece building on coverage from @yessfun.com and @emorwee.bsky.social about how the fossil fuel industry is funding the anti-trans movement.

How fossil fuel billionaires are funding the anti-trans movement | Xtra Magazine

YouTube video by Xtra Magazine

www.youtube.com

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 10d

Failed to act on anyway. People noticed Fox wasn't "news" from the jump, but for some reason we (besides media matters et al) decided not to do anything about it, let the internet make it worse, and then act confused about how things are worse than when we didn't give fascists internet megaphones

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 10d

I have too much to get done today so I gotta nope out of the news but I will say that someone once said we needed to keep a scoreboard of how often pundits/columnists are absolutely wrong and it should be published with all their future work to give proper context

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 11d

But there are already plenty of websites that lets kids talk to pdf files...

Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 11d

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 11d

ICYMI: Our team dug deeper into the Trump administration's misleading climate science report. It's more than a fact check. We show the sleights of hand they employ - fake debates, manipulated data, reliance on fossil fuel-funded experts - to reach a desired outcome. www.politico.com/interactives...

How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change

www.politico.com

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 11d

This is awesome (sucks that it has to exist)

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 12d

“Year after year, land and environmental defenders—those protecting our forests, rivers, and lands across the world—continue to be met with unspeakable violence.”

146 environmental and land defenders were murdered or disappeared in 2024

The political killings you don’t hear about

Across the globe, standing up for the planet can be a death sentence—and the perpetrators are almost never held accountable.

heated.world

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 12d

Fine then, we'll go back to calling it climate denial.

Not like they're going to object to the holocaust denier association at this point anyway

AFP Fact Check @factcheck.afp.com · 12d

"Disinformation" is fast becoming a dirty word in the United States -- a label so contentious in a hyperpolarized political climate that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether.

Read more: u.afp.com/Disinformati...

An illustration photo shows letters cut out of newspapers arranged to read "Fake news", set up in front of a screen displaying social media logos

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 13d

"Murdered" would even be active, instead of passive...

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 14d

Koch/fossil fuel backed daily caller, folks

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 14d

I think the only surprise here is how quickly this is happening this openly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Daily Caller Opinion Column ‘Explicitly’ Calls for Violence

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 14d

I think the only surprise here is how quickly this is happening this openly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Daily Caller Opinion Column ‘Explicitly’ Calls for Violence

www.nytimes.com

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 14d

Climate denial is unpopular, you cant build an audience with it. Bigotry appeals to young white men, fossil fuel industry knows they hold disproportionate power, this is how they roped in young men to radicalize

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 16d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 16d

Can confirm that millions of dollars have been spent solely on trying to get climate scientists on CNN, to basically zero success relative to racist propagandists directly paid by billionaires to mainstream bigotry and disinfo

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16d

it's almost impossible to get on CNN if you're, say, an academic or journalist that criticizes corporate power, radical wealth disparity, billionaire taxation reform, or failures on consumer protection

but you can spread racist propaganda for a decade and they're treat you like a very serious boy

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