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Rich Pancost, Earth Scientist at the University of Bristol. Interested in past climates and earth system processes, from peatlands to the deep sea. First gen/ working class. Privileged white cis male. Anti-racist, pro LGBTQ+, unapologetically woke. He/Him

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · Nov 16

Intro time! I am an organic geochemist who explores all aspects of organic carbon in the environment to study past, current, and future changes in the Earth system. I am an advocate of interdisciplinary approaches, especially when applied to achieving social and environmental justice.

Cleddon Shoots waterfall in the Wye Valley, surrounded by orange fallen leaves and moss-covered rocks.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 6h

The new head of NOAA, in addition to having violated the agency's code of ethics by criticizing NWS forecasters as part of Sharpiegate, said in his confirmation hearing that "he stood by the Trump administration’s proposals to dismantle much of NOAA’s climate science enterprise."

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Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 8h

Moonrise in the valley. A moment of peace in difficult times.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 9h

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 14h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 8h

No reason to believe we will have free and fair elections moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 8h

Moonrise in the valley. A moment of peace in difficult times.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 9h

GLORY!!!!!!!!!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 20h

We've got some fantastic nature news to brighten your day 🎉

Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.

A close-up of a glow-worm with a black plated body and a bright green glowing tail clinging to a stem of grass in the dark

A dark grey moth with bright beige splodges on its wings. It sits of a bright green leaf against a black background

A small brown bird with a cream chest and darker brown tail feathers perches on a reed against a background of blurred brown and green reeds

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 22h

One of the nuttier cultural fights: EU parliament will soon decide whether veggie burgers are allowed to be called "burgers" because...meat lobby.

Austrian daily Der Standard: "EU-Countdown for Veggie-Burger"

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?"

Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"

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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 1d

A remarkable transformation in @rsc.org prizes.
30% of prizes recognise teams rather than individuals (up from 5%).
36% of prize-winners are early-career (up from 4%)
38% of prize winners are women (up from 25%)
Twice as many prizes for work outside universities.
www.rsc.org/policy-and-c...

Reshaping recognition: evolving how we celebrate excellence

A multi-year journey to transform our prizes

www.rsc.org

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

I say again: Rod Serling was real as hell

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jan 22

Since i was a kid, I've loved Rod Serling's work as a creator. Once i began to learn about his strong commitment to civil rights work, I also deeply admired him just as a person. The man did not flinch from this.

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Photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: a Black man with close-cut hair & a tidy mustache wears a suit & sits at a table with his hands loosely clasped near his face; he is looking off to his right with a thoughtful expression on his face, the whole image evoking both prayer and contemplation of the future.

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X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

Good night, Bluesky

Tweet from @GooseyMane on Twitter reads:

Can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take out jobs but it's good if AI does?

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 1d

Life expectancy of ~35 was the average, which was mainly caused by children dying very young.

My great, great grandmother survived 14 of her children.

We vaccinate children because we want them to outlive us.

Anti-vaxers are killing children through gross negligence/ignorance

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

as always, the most accurate summation of modern politics ever created

comic from webcomicname.com, "different"

panel 1: pink blob creature: "I want things to be different"

panel 2: creature smashes everything

panel 3: creature stands in wreckage: "oh no"

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2d

But this, I'm sure, doesn't violate any rules against inciting or glorifying violence.

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since Charlie Kirk’s murder is a panel of abortion “abolitionists” — extremists who want women executed for ending their pregnancies.

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Turning Point USA Hosts Campus Event Pushing Death Penalty for Abortion Patients

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

The GOP has done nothing on healthcare in the 21st century other than stop Dems from improving it. Literally nothing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d

As part of Epigram’s (University of Bristol's student newspaper) 2018 campaign to raise awareness about microaggressions, I submitted the following poem. Everything I have included is informed by talking with students & colleagues and from personal experience. Sadly.
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Acceptable Traumas or How We Measure (A) Violence

A poetic contribution to Epigram’s Anti-MicroAgressions campaign

folukeafrica.com

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 2d

Also even if there is Top Secret material justifying a ban, it’s very difficult I think to argue that retired GPs and Quaker students holding up a cardboard sign are party to that information or responsible for it

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

When Yvette Cooper was Home Sec she hinted the govt had further material justifying a ban that they couldn’t reveal because of the legal process. If so, better to get that out in daylight ASAP. Because as things stand they have clearly not made the case for proscription to the public’s satisfaction.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

I was just thinking about this

Trying to send in outside troops against a state's wishes is ofc a significant escalation and meaningful line crossed, but civil war isn't two armies meeting up on a grassy battlefield anymore--what does civil war look like in 2025? Is this already what it looks like?

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Kind of feels like feds occupying our city for a month, killing one person and shooting another while attacking neighborhoods with chemical weapons and kidnapping hundreds of people already counts as a civil war whether the Guard arrives or not, but what do we know?

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