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Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · 1d

The strategy does not develop linearly, it is adaptive and multifaceted. A summary of what we know about the fossil fuel industry and climate obstruction. Me, @kertdavies.bsky.social and @geoffdembicki.bsky.social in conversation with the great @amywestervelt.bsky.social

S14, Ep5 | How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Sam Amidon @samamidon.bsky.social · 1d

Read about my father, Peter Amidon, who has passed on: aosa.org/peter-amidon...

Peter Amidon, Beloved Folk Singer, Storyteller, Music Educator, AOSA Advocate – American Orff-Schulwerk Association

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 1d

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress | The Narwhal

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the EV mandate, Mark Carney’s government is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 1d

CfP for the 2026 Tensions of Europe Conference is out!

Theme: The meaning of the past in sustainable futures
When: 8-10 July 2026
Where: Eindhoven, NL

Deadline: 4 January 2026

#histstm #historyoftechnology #envhist

Entire call and information ⤵

www.tensionsofeurope.eu/2025/10/02/c...

Call for Papers: The 12th Tensions of Europe Conference, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 8-10 July, 2026

» Call for Papers: The 12th Tensions of Europe Conference, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 8-10 July, 2026 | Research network on history, technology and Europe

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Justin Chandler (he/him) @justinchandler.work · 2d

“It’s no wonder we’re seeing homelessness numbers explode like they never have before in this community.”
www.thespec.com/news/hamilto... #HamOnt

Hamiltonians need to work nearly two minimum wage jobs to afford rent: report

Residents need to earn $29.16 per hour to comfortably rent a one-bedroom unit in the city.

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Rob Majteles @robmajteles.bsky.social · 3d

I spend some time with investors who tell me they are ‘finance focused’ and ‘don’t do impact’. Then, we look at their portfolios and climate risks are everywhere, and ignored, in their supposedly rigorous financial analysis.

You might not ‘do impact’, but impact is doing you.

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 4d

Disappointed by The Life of a Showgirl? Doug Paisley would never let you down like that.

Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 6d

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No One But You

YouTube video by Doug Paisley - Topic

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 9d

"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing" - @elizkolbert.bsky.social

‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal

www.nytimes.com

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Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time @deindustrialpol.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 For folks in the Toronto area looking for something to do this Sunday 🚨
Hot Docs and DePOT partner UNIFOR are hosting a free 40th anniversary screening of "Final Offer" with a discussion on Canadian Sovereignty in the Time of Trade Wars - get your tickets in advance!

Ticket | Hot Docs

Watch the world’s best documentaries at the annual Hot Docs Festival each spring, and year-round at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.

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Trade and Investment Research Project @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social · 5d

People (like Gerald Butts in this story) flatter Carney and delude themselves by claiming some great compromise on oil-climate is possible. Taxing oil and gas exports (in part to support domestic value-add) is a smarter policy than expanding either. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Mark Carney’s Shift From Climate-Change Warrior to Fossil-Fuel Cheerleader

Canada’s prime minister has scrapped green policies and pledged to transform the country ”into an energy superpower.”

www.wsj.com

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 5d

...And in South Korea, new humanities enrolments are up strongly."

Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 5d

Respect the Humanities: "3. The humanities are on a roll. In Belarus, the humanities are so feared that the country has just declared the European Humanities University – which left the country and set up in neighbouring Lithuania about 20 years ago – an “extremist organization”...

Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 5d

The Fifteen is out! Trump's "compact" came out after deadline, but other than that, every big story in world higher education right now is in here: get the latest from Argentina, Australia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Peru, Belarus, Venezuela, South Korea and more!

The Fifteen: October 3, 2025 | HESA

Welcome to The Fifteen, a global round-up of the stories animating higher education institutions and systems around the globe. Let’s get … Continued

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely staggering how much energy data centers consume. To add another LA to the grid by 2030 is unreal, and all for bullshit machines. It's hard to think of worse investments humans could be making right now

Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 6d

NEW INVESTIGATION

California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030

A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants

Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 6d

I somehow missed the whole Anthropic buying and destroying millions of books to train their Claude AI thing. Major orc vibes... arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo calls for 'true ecological conversion' from words to action on environment www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...

Pope Leo calls for 'true ecological conversion' from words to action on environment

The pope spoke Oct. 1 at the start of a conference marking the 10-year anniversary of Laudato Si', Pope Francis' landmark document that encapsulated church teaching on the environment.

www.ncronline.org

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 6d

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No One But You

YouTube video by Doug Paisley - Topic

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 6d

More wonderful guitar: youtu.be/d7IRssHBozU?...

Drinking With A Friend

YouTube video by Doug Paisley - Topic

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 6d

Take a moment for yourself today with the great Doug Paisley, one of Canada's best working songwriters and, IMO, our greatest guitarist. Singing here w/ the wonderful Joan Shelley. dougpaisley.bandcamp.com/track/this-l... #NewMusic #MusicThursday #Canada

This Loneliness (duet), by Doug Paisley

from the album Streets of Heaven

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 6d

Appreciate the effort and intent. But our bike lanes are in terrible shape--very hard on bikes! And we need many more secure bike parking spaces at the West Harbor GO station--Metrolinx won't listen to me about this but maybe they'll listen to the city??

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 6d

I’m trying to understand why universities think students would be interested in paying $$$$ and going into debt for chatgpt edu, a thing they can use for free

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lyndalukasik.bsky.social @lyndalukasik.bsky.social · 27d

“We estimate that 5,400 (3,400–7,400) acute deaths in North America and 64,300 (37,800–90,900) chronic deaths in North America and Europe were attributable to PM2.5 exposure to the 2023 Canadian wildfires.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires - Nature

A modelling study based on satellite observations, machine learning and a chemical transport model quantifies the global and regional exposure to particulate-matter pollution and the human h...

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 7d

Brilliant

Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 7d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 7d

The silent majority of the world’s population care about the climate crisis and want to see real, bold climate action.

In this piece from the Guardian, readers share why:

‘I worry about the future of my daughter’: the ‘silent majority’ who care about the climate crisis

Readers who are part of the 80-89% of the population who want to see climate action tell us their ideas on how to make their voices heard

www.theguardian.com

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