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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14d

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

This conversation on how media adds to obstruction on climate action by @amywestervelt.bsky.social with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social is really good

S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 7d

Lowest common denominator writing, just what ever editor wants! "Can you sound exactly like every other stale, overdone, cliche-ridden hack?"

PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 7d

"If we're the GOP, then surely MAGA will lose." Some overpaid consultant the DNC is paying to help them lose, apparently.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 8d

democrats are turning to the phrase “all of the above” to signal openness to supporting more fossil fuel production and consumption

the return of this slogan — which dates back to oil and gas PR from the mid ‘00s — is happening as electricity prices get worse from data center demand

Dems toy with ‘all of the above’ on energy as GOP embraces fossil fuels

The parties seemed to have swapped stances as Democrats see an opening amid rising energy costs.

www.eenews.net

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 8d

love that we invented a calculator that lies so effectively real people have to waste their time trying to keep its constant bullshit out of real knowledge spaces

Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 10d

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 8d

Written version here, for the readers!
xtramagazine.com/video/fossil...

How fossil fuel billionaires are funding the anti-trans movement | Xtra Magazine

A report from “HEATED” and Atmos found sizable donations from fossil fuel companies and billionaires to anti-trans organizations

xtramagazine.com

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 8d

Anti-trans hate is the NEW, new climate denial.

Great @xtramagazine.com piece building on coverage from @yessfun.com and @emorwee.bsky.social about how the fossil fuel industry is funding the anti-trans movement.

How fossil fuel billionaires are funding the anti-trans movement | Xtra Magazine

YouTube video by Xtra Magazine

www.youtube.com

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 8d

Failed to act on anyway. People noticed Fox wasn't "news" from the jump, but for some reason we (besides media matters et al) decided not to do anything about it, let the internet make it worse, and then act confused about how things are worse than when we didn't give fascists internet megaphones

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 8d

I have too much to get done today so I gotta nope out of the news but I will say that someone once said we needed to keep a scoreboard of how often pundits/columnists are absolutely wrong and it should be published with all their future work to give proper context

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 8d

But there are already plenty of websites that lets kids talk to pdf files...

Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 8d

Chat... with PDFs...?!?

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 8d

ICYMI: Our team dug deeper into the Trump administration's misleading climate science report. It's more than a fact check. We show the sleights of hand they employ - fake debates, manipulated data, reliance on fossil fuel-funded experts - to reach a desired outcome. www.politico.com/interactives...

How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change

www.politico.com

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 8d

This is awesome (sucks that it has to exist)

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 9d

“Year after year, land and environmental defenders—those protecting our forests, rivers, and lands across the world—continue to be met with unspeakable violence.”

146 environmental and land defenders were murdered or disappeared in 2024

The political killings you don’t hear about

Across the globe, standing up for the planet can be a death sentence—and the perpetrators are almost never held accountable.

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 10d

Fine then, we'll go back to calling it climate denial.

Not like they're going to object to the holocaust denier association at this point anyway

AFP Fact Check @factcheck.afp.com · 10d

"Disinformation" is fast becoming a dirty word in the United States -- a label so contentious in a hyperpolarized political climate that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether.

Read more: u.afp.com/Disinformati...

An illustration photo shows letters cut out of newspapers arranged to read "Fake news", set up in front of a screen displaying social media logos

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 10d

"Murdered" would even be active, instead of passive...

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 11d

Koch/fossil fuel backed daily caller, folks

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 11d

I think the only surprise here is how quickly this is happening this openly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Daily Caller Opinion Column ‘Explicitly’ Calls for Violence

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 11d

I think the only surprise here is how quickly this is happening this openly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Daily Caller Opinion Column ‘Explicitly’ Calls for Violence

www.nytimes.com

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 11d

Climate denial is unpopular, you cant build an audience with it. Bigotry appeals to young white men, fossil fuel industry knows they hold disproportionate power, this is how they roped in young men to radicalize

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 14d

Can confirm that millions of dollars have been spent solely on trying to get climate scientists on CNN, to basically zero success relative to racist propagandists directly paid by billionaires to mainstream bigotry and disinfo

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14d

it's almost impossible to get on CNN if you're, say, an academic or journalist that criticizes corporate power, radical wealth disparity, billionaire taxation reform, or failures on consumer protection

but you can spread racist propaganda for a decade and they're treat you like a very serious boy

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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 20d

NEW: Bloomberg obtained 100s of pages of agency emails & other docs via FOIA, shedding new light on how disaster-related misinfo affects the govt's emergency response, sucks up resources & puts staff at risk.

with @zhirji.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: Chaos Inside FEMA as Death Threats Distract from Hurricane Response

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 21d

Climate scientists haven't failed to communicate properly, and climate advocates haven't failed to do politics.

Climate policy has been sabotaged.

That's the bottom line of the new book on Global Obstruction that you can pre-order here, or just mark your calendar to d/l for free Oct 14th!

global.oup.com

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 21d

Welcome, to the World of Obstruction!

Join @amywestervelt.bsky.social as she talks with co-authors of a new book detailing the decades of efforts to obstruct climate action.

Welcome to the World of Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Sep 7

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org

110 top experts from around the world

13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change

A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this

Will be free online Oct 14 1/x

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Cover of new book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment from Oxford University Press. Shows cows, smokestacks, jets, oil refineries, cell phones and a man in a suit talking to an audience

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · Sep 6

Sadly, innards still half baked