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ASLE EcoCast

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An episode is now live with Kaja Franck on the werewolf in literature! Click the link below.

asleecocast.podbean.com

#EnvironmentalHumanities

December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM

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ONLY POEMS

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nth reason to love Albert Camus

October 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM

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Liz

@stayathomecommie.bsky.social

The ghost of Woody Guthrie told me one of you has $800 to give. Let’s make this happen.

Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Sep 26

This activist's guitar was destroyed by ICE today. ICE fired multiple rounds of rubber bullets at us, and the guitar was struck. I am trying to raise $800 to help replace their instrument, which they rely on for gigs. I bet someone out here can straight up cover the cost. DM me.

A person in a gas mask plays guitar at a chaotic protest scene.

September 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social

Lots of people on my feed are concerned about the destruction of NOAA by the Trump administration and Elon Musk, but much of what I’ve seen people post about is the national weather service. That’s vital, but NOAA does so much more than that!

My latest, for @ucsusa.bsky.social

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Ten Vital Services Provided by NOAA (Beyond the National Weather Service)

Far too much of the media coverage supporting NOAA only mentions one of many things they do: here are 10 more.

blog.ucs.org

April 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM

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Matt Bell

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This is today, if you'd like to join us!

Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · Apr 7

This Wednesday, the ASU Worldbuilding Initiative presents "Speculative Histories: Lost Archives and Alternative Realities," with Elizabeth Grumbach and Emad Jabini! I'm really excited for this workshop, and I hope some of you will join us! Free in-person in Tempe or online via Zoom. Register below!

Speculative Histories: Lost Archives and Alternative Realities | ASU Events

Speculative Histories: Lost Archives and Alternative Realities"History is written by the victors," the cliché goes, and so often this feels true: it's the "winners," whoever they might be, who most of...

asuevents.asu.edu

April 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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Andrea Pitzer

@andreapitzer.bsky.social

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings

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February 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM

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Clara Jeffery

@clarajeffery.bsky.social

Elon Musk helped get head of FAA fired. On top of all the other chaos released on that agency in last 10 days www.theverge.com/news/603113/...

The FAA is facing a major crisis without a leader because Elon Musk pushed him out

FAA chief Michael Whitaker resigned earlier this month after facing criticism from Musk.

www.theverge.com

January 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM

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Norm Charlatan

@normcharlatan.bsky.social

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

January 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM

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Rebecca Solnit

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Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

January 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM

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Imani Gandy

@angryblacklady.blacksky.app

I think a lot of people are confused about what Substack really is and how it operates. You should read these articles:

www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-a...

And

thehypothesis.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

Substack is at it again

“Why on earth would you brag to your users that you've partnered with a bunch of protofascists?"

www.thehandbasket.co

January 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM

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Pattye Ludwig 🇺🇸

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Happy New Year from Frog and Toad. Animation by India Rose Crawford ❤️

December 31, 2024 at 5:34 PM

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Daniel Martin

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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/