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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 2h

This article is an amazing reconceptualization of rural water capacities! First-authored by an awesome colleague of mine! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Linking variation in water democracy to system performance on the human right to water

Nature Water - Access to safe, affordable and accessible drinking water is influenced by various socioeconomic factors. A survey of a large number of California water systems shows how different...

www.nature.com

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, maybe. I just wasn’t aware that the big two allow that sort of thing…

michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2h

Of course not! Just didnt know it was even possible to work for both publishers at the same time!

Regardless, I’m not complaining. More you in my eyeballs in always a good thing. Your work is so good.

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 4h

a little girl is dancing with the words i said what i said behind her

ALT: a little girl is dancing with the words i said what i said behind her

media.tenor.com

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 6h

Can someone explain to me how @gwillow.me gets to write for Marvel and DC at the same time? I mean, what?

Just because she’s brilliant and super talented doesn’t mean y’all need to just let her do whatever she wants.. or does it? 🤔

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 6h

“Rather than extending or amplifying what already exists, mutation introduces discontinuity—it imagines futures where the basic categories of the human, the natural, the technological, or the social have shifted and contaminated each other in fundamental ways.”

Speculations for Worlds to Come

In a time of deep planetary weirding and widespread cultural and personal disorientation speculative thought is no longer just a literary genre or theoretical exercise, but a vital tool for creativ…

entangledecologies.net

michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 6h

Trippy intellectual excursion through Deleuze and Laruelle:

“this paper explores a few aspects of Laruelle’s non-philosophy and his concept of the gnostic matrix as an inverse operation and sublimation of Deleuze’s difference-itself.”
— @yvettegranata.bsky.social

The Repetition of Generic Gnostic Matrices

By Yvette Granata [Edited version of paper presented at the Deleuze Studies Conference in Rome, July 2016.] 1.1 From ‘What is Philosophy’ to ‘Where is Non-Philosophy’? While Deleuze and Guattari’s&…

syntheticzero.net

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Melanie Andrej @midnightbluenotes.bsky.social · 2d

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. DH Lawrence

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Standing Mountain @standingmountain.bsky.social · 23h

Whose sky is this,
in silver hush and nameless sway?
I am the sigh the mountain keeps,
the pulse, the air that stirs when silence sleeps..

No border knows my open claim,
no hand can grasp or gift my name.
I am the endless, unspoken flow,
the space where all beginnings go.

Then I’ll breathe where your words fade—

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2d

Cosmolocalism is a practical philosophy based on ecological principles alined with deep adaptation and transitioning communities towards place-based sustainable living.

It’s about global knowledge, international solidarity and local struggles.

Roots Down, Rise Up.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 2d

Yale researchers didn't stop there. They also identified what people most need to know to catalyze action and support climate policy; and it's not about global temps, ice sheets, or ocean currents.

What people most need to know about climate change is that (1) others care, and (2) there is hope.

Understanding six “key truths” about climate change predicts policy support, discussion, and political advocacy

Social norms and collective efficacy are strong predictors

climatecommunication.yale.edu

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 2d

Small or big, new nuclear reactors are not climate solutions Given the urgent need to quickly address global heating, it would be far better to put money into renewable energy & infrastructure, including modern east-west renewable-powered electricity grid in Canada. davidsuzuki.org/story/small-...

Small or big, new nuclear reactors are not climate solutions

Given the urgent need to quickly address global heating, it would be far better to put money into renewable energy and infrastructure, including a modern east-west renewable-powered electricity grid i...

davidsuzuki.org

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 19h

She just wants nuclear so that it can power more extraction and more oil refinement. She’s trying to supercharge the Alberta petrostate.

michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2d

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
— Charles Darwin

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2d

Cosmolocalism is a practical philosophy based on ecological principles alined with deep adaptation and transitioning communities towards place-based sustainable living.

It’s about global knowledge, international solidarity and local struggles.

Roots Down, Rise Up.

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 3d

Andrew L. Fanning & Kate Raworth present a renewed Doughnut framework with a revised set of 35 indicators that monitor trends in social deprivation and ecological overshoot over the 2000–2022 period.

#sustainability
#sustainablefinance

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - Nature

A revised ‘Doughnut’ providing a visual assessment of trends in social deprivation and planetary degradation over the past two decades shows more than doubling of global GDP accompanied by accelerating ecological overshoot but only a modest reduction in human deprivation.

www.nature.com

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2d

We’ll said! Although I think it’s already winner takes all, with the transhumanist capitalists thinking they will make it through the bottleneck via tech and tech-military.

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 2d

🎧 youtu.be/f_R3c2TIV-E

P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)

YouTube video by Parliament - Topic

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2d

I know that Carney is playing politics and securing his government’s support by coming out big for jobs, projects, and energy security, but wow…

If he doesn’t start stepping it up on the ecological front he’ll lose the small amount of legitimacy with the real left he had. The Cons are smiling.

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2d

“ #Degrowth has inspired the ire of those who consciously align with capitalism because they recognize that it represents socialist ideas breaking through into the mainstream. So they single it out for attack.”

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2d

“The core of ecosocialism is that we should democratize control over production so that we can organize it around ensuring human well-being and ecological stability.” — @jasonhickel.bsky.social

INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"

Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth.

breakdownjournal.substack.com

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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 6d

"The future is not inscribed in the present even if it is circumscribed by the past" - Wallerstein

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Cascadia Bioregional Movement @cascadiabioregion.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌎 What is Bioregionalism? It’s more than a philosophy — it’s a way of life rooted in place. It asks us to align our politics, culture, and economy with the natural boundaries of watersheds, soil and terrain.

Swipe through to explore how bioregionalism calls us home to place.

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2d

Carney is proving to be even more of a banker than expected. Economic growth is his primary focus, with previous interests in advancing environmental policy taking a back seat.

Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 14d

‘Cuts would directly impact freshwater restoration’: Leaked texts hint that Carney’s cuts will target water protection agency | The Pointer thepointer.com/article/2025...

‘Cuts would directly impact freshwater restoration’: Leaked texts hint that Carney’s cuts will target water protection agency

‘Cuts would directly impact freshwater restoration’: Leaked texts hint that Carney’s cuts will target water protection agency.

thepointer.com

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 3d

58 years ago, Larry Roberts presented his idea for an "ARPANet" for connecting multiple computers together across the United States.

Full paper: shorturl.at/6uMNq

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