Patrick Slavenburg
@2c-ornot2c.bsky.social
Radical center. Abundance agenda. Entrepreneur. Water Forecasting startup http://2cdegrees.com is among 2024 winners of European Space Agency Incubator. $250K early stage grants. Occasional Advisor in #AI to OECD, European Commission, European Digital SME.
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I wrote a book about the problems with bottled water ("Bottled and Sold") several years ago. Here's just another reason to avoid it.
www.wired.com/story/people...
www.wired.com/story/people...
People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who ...
www.wired.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I wrote a book about the problems with bottled water ("Bottled and Sold") several years ago. Here's just another reason to avoid it.
www.wired.com/story/people...
www.wired.com/story/people...
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The team behind Climate.us aims to provide the same kind of reliable, fresh content that used to be available via Climate.gov. We hope you’ll support us. #ClimateForUs
December 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The team behind Climate.us aims to provide the same kind of reliable, fresh content that used to be available via Climate.gov. We hope you’ll support us. #ClimateForUs
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#Discover #📰News #Archaeology #NativeAmericans #Indiana #AncientAmerica #Fossils #AncientHumans @paulinsc.bsky.social @hermes61.bsky.social
abcnews.go.com/US/4000-year...
abcnews.go.com/US/4000-year...
4,000-year-old skull found along Indiana riverbank: Coroner
A human skull that dates back to 2300 B.C has been discovered in Indiana, according to the Fayette County Coroner's Office.
abcnews.go.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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People should embrace an abundance, post-scarcity mindset. We are on the cusp of having the tech to make it possible.
So much sociopolitical strife comes from competition over limited resources.
We short-circuit this by making enough that everyone can live well.
So much sociopolitical strife comes from competition over limited resources.
We short-circuit this by making enough that everyone can live well.
December 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
People should embrace an abundance, post-scarcity mindset. We are on the cusp of having the tech to make it possible.
So much sociopolitical strife comes from competition over limited resources.
We short-circuit this by making enough that everyone can live well.
So much sociopolitical strife comes from competition over limited resources.
We short-circuit this by making enough that everyone can live well.
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There's a moment in every pitch where you can see someone mentally check out.
And it's not when the technology is confusing.
It's when it's clear... but they don't know why they should care.
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And it's not when the technology is confusing.
It's when it's clear... but they don't know why they should care.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There's a moment in every pitch where you can see someone mentally check out.
And it's not when the technology is confusing.
It's when it's clear... but they don't know why they should care.
Thread🧵
And it's not when the technology is confusing.
It's when it's clear... but they don't know why they should care.
Thread🧵
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So what, he’s not a purist. He knows his way around the block, hates trump.
Welcome aboard and good luck. @gtconway.bsky.social
Welcome aboard and good luck. @gtconway.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
So what, he’s not a purist. He knows his way around the block, hates trump.
Welcome aboard and good luck. @gtconway.bsky.social
Welcome aboard and good luck. @gtconway.bsky.social
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People will say it’s nice that things are simpler and less commercialized. But would it really kill you to roast some potatoes and watch tv from 3pm til midnight?
December 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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The US Department of Veterans Affairs has banned abortion for veterans, including in states that protect abortion. This was a Project 2025 recommendattion and it's now been fulfilled. So much for "leaving it to the states."
Trump administration bans abortion care for veterans
The policy will even apply in states that protect abortion rights.
www.motherjones.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The US Department of Veterans Affairs has banned abortion for veterans, including in states that protect abortion. This was a Project 2025 recommendattion and it's now been fulfilled. So much for "leaving it to the states."
I really don't think any of these radical left activists give two shits about anyone or anything, other than feeling superior, hiding their narcissism behind a cause and venting hate.
They're the left wing MAGA.
They're the left wing MAGA.
I really don’t think any of these guys really, truly comprehend what a breakdown of our climate will entail and how quaint and irrelevant it will make all the excuses they gave for not doing anything about it.
The article agitated against lng exports. But without them Europe would have been totally and royally fucked. You have no idea how close we came to a full collapse of our economy and a total win for Putin in Ukraine and after Eastern Europe.
Climate left would have lost its biggest global ally.
Climate left would have lost its biggest global ally.
December 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I really don't think any of these radical left activists give two shits about anyone or anything, other than feeling superior, hiding their narcissism behind a cause and venting hate.
They're the left wing MAGA.
They're the left wing MAGA.
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Not a day too soon!
“When live, conscious animals are placed into boiling water, they endure several minutes of excruciating pain. This is torture and completely avoidable. Humane alternatives, like electrical stunning, are readily available.”
“When live, conscious animals are placed into boiling water, they endure several minutes of excruciating pain. This is torture and completely avoidable. Humane alternatives, like electrical stunning, are readily available.”
Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in UK animal cruelty crackdown
Move is part of a long-awaited Labour strategy including outlawing hen cages and ending puppy farming
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Not a day too soon!
“When live, conscious animals are placed into boiling water, they endure several minutes of excruciating pain. This is torture and completely avoidable. Humane alternatives, like electrical stunning, are readily available.”
“When live, conscious animals are placed into boiling water, they endure several minutes of excruciating pain. This is torture and completely avoidable. Humane alternatives, like electrical stunning, are readily available.”
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Delighted to hear that The Invisible Doctrine, the film by @peterhutchison.bsky.social and @lucas-sabean.bsky.social, is being offered free to view on YouTube for the holiday season. It's all yours! youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0
The secret history of Neoliberalism | The Invisible Doctrine | Full Film
YouTube video by Journeyman Pictures
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Delighted to hear that The Invisible Doctrine, the film by @peterhutchison.bsky.social and @lucas-sabean.bsky.social, is being offered free to view on YouTube for the holiday season. It's all yours! youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0
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We are making so much progress in many areas of restoring rivers. Yes, there’s a lot left to do. Yes, there are massively degraded rivers all over the world. But, we’ve shown that massive progress is possible. Biodiversity is returning to modified systems because we understand the levers to pull.
December 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
We are making so much progress in many areas of restoring rivers. Yes, there’s a lot left to do. Yes, there are massively degraded rivers all over the world. But, we’ve shown that massive progress is possible. Biodiversity is returning to modified systems because we understand the levers to pull.
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Agreed. We need to do parallel processing with emerging tech like fusion, to get the benefits of spillovers and to accelerate the development timelines. This was our approach: bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-up...
December 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Agreed. We need to do parallel processing with emerging tech like fusion, to get the benefits of spillovers and to accelerate the development timelines. This was our approach: bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-up...
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Do you have some kids that want to learn about climate change? Or perhaps you want to learn some more, but in a more accessible language?
Then check out this Special Collection...
kids.frontiersin.org/collections/...
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Then check out this Special Collection...
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December 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Do you have some kids that want to learn about climate change? Or perhaps you want to learn some more, but in a more accessible language?
Then check out this Special Collection...
kids.frontiersin.org/collections/...
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Then check out this Special Collection...
kids.frontiersin.org/collections/...
1/
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Do you have some kids that want to learn about climate change? Or perhaps you want to learn some more, but in a more accessible language?
Then check out this Special Collection...
kids.frontiersin.org/collections/...
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Then check out this Special Collection...
kids.frontiersin.org/collections/...
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yet again, carbon pricing (in the form of the EU CBAM) is proving to be a poison pill -- this time in the COP30 negotiations.
as I explain in Existential Politics, the politics of carbon pricing are generally terrible -- limited emissions reductions but a lot of pissed off people.
as I explain in Existential Politics, the politics of carbon pricing are generally terrible -- limited emissions reductions but a lot of pissed off people.
EU trade tensions threaten to hold UN climate talks hostage
China and India among exporters to challenge carbon border tax
www.ft.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
yet again, carbon pricing (in the form of the EU CBAM) is proving to be a poison pill -- this time in the COP30 negotiations.
as I explain in Existential Politics, the politics of carbon pricing are generally terrible -- limited emissions reductions but a lot of pissed off people.
as I explain in Existential Politics, the politics of carbon pricing are generally terrible -- limited emissions reductions but a lot of pissed off people.
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The key problem is well known (sorry, paywall):
"The entire water crisis in the American West comes down to cows eating alfalfa in a landscape where neither belongs. The Colorado delta could be reborn with the water that today goes to produce a third of 1% of the nation’s cattle production".
"The entire water crisis in the American West comes down to cows eating alfalfa in a landscape where neither belongs. The Colorado delta could be reborn with the water that today goes to produce a third of 1% of the nation’s cattle production".
December 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The key problem is well known (sorry, paywall):
"The entire water crisis in the American West comes down to cows eating alfalfa in a landscape where neither belongs. The Colorado delta could be reborn with the water that today goes to produce a third of 1% of the nation’s cattle production".
"The entire water crisis in the American West comes down to cows eating alfalfa in a landscape where neither belongs. The Colorado delta could be reborn with the water that today goes to produce a third of 1% of the nation’s cattle production".
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The fossil record preserves bones, not biodiversity.
But extinction happens at the scale of bacteria, fungi, mosses, microfauna, parasites, soil invertebrates.
Entire kingdoms of life disappear without leaving a mark.
But extinction happens at the scale of bacteria, fungi, mosses, microfauna, parasites, soil invertebrates.
Entire kingdoms of life disappear without leaving a mark.
December 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The fossil record preserves bones, not biodiversity.
But extinction happens at the scale of bacteria, fungi, mosses, microfauna, parasites, soil invertebrates.
Entire kingdoms of life disappear without leaving a mark.
But extinction happens at the scale of bacteria, fungi, mosses, microfauna, parasites, soil invertebrates.
Entire kingdoms of life disappear without leaving a mark.
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Hey Pennsylvania, there's a lot of bullshit going on around here
In Pennsylvania, data center construction is threatening environmental degradation in the southeast, while oil and gas development extracts from and exploits the environment in the southwest 🌎🧪🌐🏡
www.briefecology.com/p/data-cente...
www.briefecology.com/p/data-cente...
Data Centers, Development, and Dispossession In Pennsylvania
The Eco-Update #23
www.briefecology.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hey Pennsylvania, there's a lot of bullshit going on around here
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Ksmala Harris will be vigorously protested by antiwar activists over Trump starting a war with Venezuela.
December 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Sure it's dated, and some things would be phrased differently today - fair points
But this hate-fest on that song that generated like 100M? is so disgustingly absurd
Even tho I am not into old music much, it's still a great X-mas song. Happy young Dutch DJs play it plenty on Dutch radio stations!
But this hate-fest on that song that generated like 100M? is so disgustingly absurd
Even tho I am not into old music much, it's still a great X-mas song. Happy young Dutch DJs play it plenty on Dutch radio stations!
December 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Sure it's dated, and some things would be phrased differently today - fair points
But this hate-fest on that song that generated like 100M? is so disgustingly absurd
Even tho I am not into old music much, it's still a great X-mas song. Happy young Dutch DJs play it plenty on Dutch radio stations!
But this hate-fest on that song that generated like 100M? is so disgustingly absurd
Even tho I am not into old music much, it's still a great X-mas song. Happy young Dutch DJs play it plenty on Dutch radio stations!
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“The growing number of violent incidents involving freshwater resources underscores the urgent need for international attention,” said Dr. Peter Gleick
#water
www.watermagazine.co.uk/2025/12/15/p...
#water
www.watermagazine.co.uk/2025/12/15/p...
Pacific Institute analysis finds surge in reported water-related violence - Water Magazine
Violence over water resources has reached record levels, continuing a trajectory of steep growth in such incidents over the past quarter century.
www.watermagazine.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“The growing number of violent incidents involving freshwater resources underscores the urgent need for international attention,” said Dr. Peter Gleick
#water
www.watermagazine.co.uk/2025/12/15/p...
#water
www.watermagazine.co.uk/2025/12/15/p...
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Tausende Nazis und Hamas-Unterstützer haben das Concertgebouw in Amsterdam umzingelt in dem ein Chanukka Konzert stattfindet
December 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Tausende Nazis und Hamas-Unterstützer haben das Concertgebouw in Amsterdam umzingelt in dem ein Chanukka Konzert stattfindet