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Philip Loring

@philiploring.com

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Human ecologist and storyteller. Regeneration and Social Justice. Global Director @nature_org. Author: FINDING OUR NICHE. Stubbornly optimistic that radical change is closer than we think. Opinions mine (but science-based). 🏳️‍🌈

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · Feb 25

“When we put into the world an alternative notion of how it could or should be, we take a little bit of power away from the people who tell us that this is all we can have.”

Why I want you to believe in unicorns:
conservechange.medium.com/i-believe-in...

I believe in unicorns

If you want to change the world, you should too.

conservechange.medium.com

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 3h

Jfc they all are literal predators

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

Why didn’t he just let the air out of her tires?

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 3h

Yah ok.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 10h

Tom: <s>sorry I’m writing the articles I want and not the ones you want. </s>

Queer folks: “um, yes cis het white man whose right to exist is not being actively threatened, that is exactly the point. “

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 10h

Tom Nichols: “I know! I’ll use my platform to write a piece about the language politicians are using.

Queer folk: “you mean all of the hateful and dehumanizing rhetoric from the right, right?”

Tom: “no I mean democrats dropping f bombs”

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1d

oh dear God

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest reason I can't take this opinion seriously is because I can guarantee that Mr. Nichols has not written about the dehumanizing language toward trans people all year by Republican politicians. To me, that is far more profane than VP Harris or Mr. Schumer uttering the word "fuck" publicly.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 11h

Kenvue should bookmark this video for their eventual defamation suit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 11h

Just made the cut

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 12h

Nobody tell this guy that Juliet wasn’t actually a scarlet letter.

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 12h

No “well actually” will ever be as much of a well actually as this well actually. Lol

Amanda Daria Stoltz, PhD @sciencebarbie.bsky.social · 12h

wait I'm dying

"That is, in fact, not what happened to Ophelia. Ophelia in Hamlet did not kill herself because she wasn't dating an NFL player."

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 12h

i dunno I think this column is actually romantic

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

god damn this is brutal defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 14h

Laptops with a co-pilot key are going to be the new keyboard with integrated trackball

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

And that means protestors and protest planners need a plan for how they will watch out for and diffuse any emergent violence. We should self identify as people willing to play peacekeeper and security roles at protests, for example.

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

I also think we need to watch out for hired instigators / false flag activities that try to make us look violent when we refuse to be.

There is no bottom to what they are willing to do. Nowhere they will not go to get their way.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

I remember when Very Smart People™️ were calling our behavior at the hands off and no kings rallies “too cringe”

Trump & Co. want us to get aggressive, violent even, because that’s what they’d do, and that’s the pretext they need for their own escalation

We fight that by instead showing up with joy

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

Most “evidence” the media offers of a “culture war” is like this. Fueled by outrage on one side and imagined on the other.

It is not a volley/escalation in a culture war to put Bad Bunny on the stage. Or to write “happy holidays” on a coffee cup.

It’s an enactment of diversity. They hate diversity

Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 1d

1. Trump Culture War quote.
2. Johnson CW quote.
3. *Imagined* Schumer CW quote.
4. “These culture wars get sillier by the day.”

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 2d

This is not law enforcement

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 2d

I’m in a bar in DC full of of people younger than me and they are playing Life of a Showgirl start to finish and everyone seems really happy about it.

Just saying.

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 2d

Definitely not just them 🏳️‍🌈

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I have some questions, like "Really?" and "Are you *sure* this isn't just you?"

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie

A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 4d

“Not all heroes wear capes.” Yeah but some dress like frogs wearing tiny capes.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 5d

wizard frog is insane

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Same judge. While Miller rails about judges.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 4d

My hypothesis is that it’s easier (or more palatable?) for Klein et al. to declare liberalism a failure than to recognize/admit capitalism’s active obstruction of the liberal project

Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 4d

What I’m saying is: were these three dudes and their ilk just Obama-era creatures who are now in a new landscape where their views are more closely interrogated?

Or like…does massive success somehow fuck with your politics?

Or…..I don’t know.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 4d

“Compassion fatigue” is a very weird way to spell callous privilege.

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 4d

“If we are going to escape from this horribly fraught time, we are going to defeat the current dominant cultural belief of supremacy with a vision of unified human solidarity, and that means we are going to have to be better than Ezra.”

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 4d

Be honest how much did you giggle when you wrote “be better than Ezra”?

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 4d

Every time Taylor Swift releases music there are invariably folks that say its terrible because she didn’t make the kind or vibe of music they thought she should.

Which kind of completely misses the point of Taylor’s music.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 6d

"Redwood tree" 👀

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 6d

How am I supposed to focus on work with Life of Showgirl looping in the background?

Taylor Swift GIF

ALT: Taylor Swift GIF

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