Rich Puchalsky
@richpuchalsky.bsky.social
freelance librarian
anarchist
anarchist
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If you’re struggling to understand the creep of fascism, just think about the fact that the “opposition party” is now telling people to hope the same police that brutally murdered a man five years ago and set off the largest protest ever will now save them from an even more murderous police.
January 10, 2026 at 6:21 PM
If you’re struggling to understand the creep of fascism, just think about the fact that the “opposition party” is now telling people to hope the same police that brutally murdered a man five years ago and set off the largest protest ever will now save them from an even more murderous police.
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I have never seen anything more impotent than the EU right now. The US just invaded a nation for its own financial benefit, murdered dozens, disappeared the de facto leader, claimed governance and the oil - and has openly said Greenland is next, and our leaders are here going "oh well yeah haha"
January 4, 2026 at 12:20 PM
I have never seen anything more impotent than the EU right now. The US just invaded a nation for its own financial benefit, murdered dozens, disappeared the de facto leader, claimed governance and the oil - and has openly said Greenland is next, and our leaders are here going "oh well yeah haha"
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Any nuclear fusion company, investor or advocate is essentially just the greenwashing marketing arm of the fossil gas industries who need a hollow promise that's constantly 'just around the corner' to justify a massive, polluting build-out of gas today and tomorrow
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company to power AI
The all-stock deal comes amid growing energy needs for the tech sector.
www.aljazeera.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Any nuclear fusion company, investor or advocate is essentially just the greenwashing marketing arm of the fossil gas industries who need a hollow promise that's constantly 'just around the corner' to justify a massive, polluting build-out of gas today and tomorrow
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
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I'm the king of kings
I'm not the king of kings
but I'm the wreckage of a king
but really I'm not actually a king
but I am...
Shattered visage in the desert by the stone legs
wrinkles its lip at you.
See my works, ye mighty, and despair!
I'm not the king of kings
but I'm the wreckage of a king
but really I'm not actually a king
but I am...
Shattered visage in the desert by the stone legs
wrinkles its lip at you.
See my works, ye mighty, and despair!
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I'm the king of kings
I'm not the king of kings
but I'm the wreckage of a king
but really I'm not actually a king
but I am...
Shattered visage in the desert by the stone legs
wrinkles its lip at you.
See my works, ye mighty, and despair!
I'm not the king of kings
but I'm the wreckage of a king
but really I'm not actually a king
but I am...
Shattered visage in the desert by the stone legs
wrinkles its lip at you.
See my works, ye mighty, and despair!
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"We win on the law. We win on the economics. But sometimes we lose on the politics." My war-on-coal update, a decade later.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Can the war on coal still be won?
Ten years ago, the U.S. was on track to phase out coal by 2030, thanks to the Sierra Club. Now Trump and AI are delaying the fuel’s decline.
www.canarymedia.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"We win on the law. We win on the economics. But sometimes we lose on the politics." My war-on-coal update, a decade later.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
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Overheard at the servo just now
Young cop hogging the night service window to whine about being assaulted . Without missing a beat the teenager behind the counter said, ' yes well, you are wearing provocative clothing'
It's going to be a good day. Earliest sunrise I've ever seen.
Young cop hogging the night service window to whine about being assaulted . Without missing a beat the teenager behind the counter said, ' yes well, you are wearing provocative clothing'
It's going to be a good day. Earliest sunrise I've ever seen.
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Overheard at the servo just now
Young cop hogging the night service window to whine about being assaulted . Without missing a beat the teenager behind the counter said, ' yes well, you are wearing provocative clothing'
It's going to be a good day. Earliest sunrise I've ever seen.
Young cop hogging the night service window to whine about being assaulted . Without missing a beat the teenager behind the counter said, ' yes well, you are wearing provocative clothing'
It's going to be a good day. Earliest sunrise I've ever seen.
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Look, I'm a natural history guy so I don't want to get out over my skis here, but given the ongoing reproducibility crisis and stuff like this, I have to ask: is Social Psychology... real
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Look, I'm a natural history guy so I don't want to get out over my skis here, but given the ongoing reproducibility crisis and stuff like this, I have to ask: is Social Psychology... real
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
In response to a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, the Israeli ambassador to the UN called her a witch:
"“You are a witch, and this report is another page in your spellbook," [...] accusing her of trying to "curse Israel with lies and hatred"."
www.middleeasteye.net/trending/isr...
"“You are a witch, and this report is another page in your spellbook," [...] accusing her of trying to "curse Israel with lies and hatred"."
www.middleeasteye.net/trending/isr...
'Grotesque and delusional': Francesca Albanese hits back at Israeli envoy after he called her a 'witch'
In his bizarre tirade, Danny Danon accused the UN special rapporteur of trying to 'curse Israel with lies and hatred'
www.middleeasteye.net
October 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
In response to a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, the Israeli ambassador to the UN called her a witch:
"“You are a witch, and this report is another page in your spellbook," [...] accusing her of trying to "curse Israel with lies and hatred"."
www.middleeasteye.net/trending/isr...
"“You are a witch, and this report is another page in your spellbook," [...] accusing her of trying to "curse Israel with lies and hatred"."
www.middleeasteye.net/trending/isr...
The US is about to lose its large-facility source GHG database (EPA's GHGRP) which the Trump administration is shutting down.
People tracking GHGs internationally think it's bad, but fundamentally they aren't that affected because the future action / change isn't happening in the US anyways.
People tracking GHGs internationally think it's bad, but fundamentally they aren't that affected because the future action / change isn't happening in the US anyways.
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The US is about to lose its large-facility source GHG database (EPA's GHGRP) which the Trump administration is shutting down.
People tracking GHGs internationally think it's bad, but fundamentally they aren't that affected because the future action / change isn't happening in the US anyways.
People tracking GHGs internationally think it's bad, but fundamentally they aren't that affected because the future action / change isn't happening in the US anyways.
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49 members of the Thousand Madleens freedom flotilla remain in Israeli custody for trying to deliver much-needed aid to starving people in Gaza. Whatever Trump says about a "ceasefire," the lives and liberation of Palestinians still depend on international solidarity.
crimethinc.com/SailingforGaza
crimethinc.com/SailingforGaza
October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
49 members of the Thousand Madleens freedom flotilla remain in Israeli custody for trying to deliver much-needed aid to starving people in Gaza. Whatever Trump says about a "ceasefire," the lives and liberation of Palestinians still depend on international solidarity.
crimethinc.com/SailingforGaza
crimethinc.com/SailingforGaza
There have been many attempts to save data that Trump's admin is taking down. But these don't help the core problem, which is that governmental databases are useful because they keep getting updated. If not, they become historical data.
See e.g. GHGRP #climate
www.epa.gov/ghgreporting...
See e.g. GHGRP #climate
www.epa.gov/ghgreporting...
Rulemaking Notices for GHG Reporting | US EPA
Listing of Federal Register notices and links to more information for each rulemaking action related to EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.
www.epa.gov
October 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
There have been many attempts to save data that Trump's admin is taking down. But these don't help the core problem, which is that governmental databases are useful because they keep getting updated. If not, they become historical data.
See e.g. GHGRP #climate
www.epa.gov/ghgreporting...
See e.g. GHGRP #climate
www.epa.gov/ghgreporting...
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I'm sure this isn't a novel insight but everything happening with tech platforms must, to some degree, be driven by their managers and developers actively hating their users and rueing that they have any autonomy as human beings other than being manipulable data points for behavioral experimentation
your imaginary friend who uses too much electricity is now also annoying
October 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I'm sure this isn't a novel insight but everything happening with tech platforms must, to some degree, be driven by their managers and developers actively hating their users and rueing that they have any autonomy as human beings other than being manipulable data points for behavioral experimentation
When I try to get 2023 ACS data (or really any other recent data) from the US Census web site I get:
" Due to the lapse of federal funding, portions of this website will not be updated. Any inquiries submitted will not be answered until appropriations are enacted."
#census
#ACS
" Due to the lapse of federal funding, portions of this website will not be updated. Any inquiries submitted will not be answered until appropriations are enacted."
#census
#ACS
October 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Universities are not educational institutions. They're neoliberal entities that operate like corporations. Their goal isn't to enlighten or protect free speech, but to indoctrinate and produce competent systems managers. This has been a global phenomenon spearheaded by the US and Wall Street.
"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression
I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...
cfe.torontomu.ca
September 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Universities are not educational institutions. They're neoliberal entities that operate like corporations. Their goal isn't to enlighten or protect free speech, but to indoctrinate and produce competent systems managers. This has been a global phenomenon spearheaded by the US and Wall Street.
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Rather ominous snipe from SecDef in response to a concerned observation by the former Commander General of the US Army Europe about the upcoming meeting of all the US military commanders ordered by SecDef:
September 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Rather ominous snipe from SecDef in response to a concerned observation by the former Commander General of the US Army Europe about the upcoming meeting of all the US military commanders ordered by SecDef:
In November 2022 I wrote an extended #climate #poem, also about art, aesthetics, and activism, called "The Case For Letting the Getty Center Burn", which in 2024 I posted on Mastodon with the poem as alt text. A link to it is here:
mastodon.social/@richpuchals...
mastodon.social/@richpuchals...
Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (@[email protected])
Have you ever thought "I wish someone would write a poem about the tactic that climate change activists currently use of throwing food at art?" Or that someone would write a long poem about oil wealt...
mastodon.social
September 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In November 2022 I wrote an extended #climate #poem, also about art, aesthetics, and activism, called "The Case For Letting the Getty Center Burn", which in 2024 I posted on Mastodon with the poem as alt text. A link to it is here:
mastodon.social/@richpuchals...
mastodon.social/@richpuchals...
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
I finally got it together to put a message on my site with pictures of a thousand #losangeles #mural s that I'd donated the permanent records of the collection to Cal State Fullerton. Feels like the end stage for this project.
www.grconnect.com/murals/html/
www.grconnect.com/murals/html/
Pictures of murals in Los Angeles
www.grconnect.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I finally got it together to put a message on my site with pictures of a thousand #losangeles #mural s that I'd donated the permanent records of the collection to Cal State Fullerton. Feels like the end stage for this project.
www.grconnect.com/murals/html/
www.grconnect.com/murals/html/
Bill McKibben's latest #climate newsletter, since it has to be somewhat reality based, is now just all about China. Unfortunately it still has some kind of dreamscape embedded it about philanthropy and well-meaning Westerners buying people free solar panels.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Bill McKibben's latest #climate newsletter, since it has to be somewhat reality based, is now just all about China. Unfortunately it still has some kind of dreamscape embedded it about philanthropy and well-meaning Westerners buying people free solar panels.
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A general phenomenon to watch out for is that #renewable power is going to decrease overall volume of trade everywhere -- very approximately half of shipping is carrying fossil fuels around. Look for economists to write many think pieces about how #climate measures destroy trade.
Solar panel imports will reduce OVERALL imports - because the value of diesel imports eclipses the value of solar panel impors.
A solar panel in Nigeria now costs just $60, and can repay the cost of diesel for a generator within 6 months - and even less in other countries.
A solar panel in Nigeria now costs just $60, and can repay the cost of diesel for a generator within 6 months - and even less in other countries.
August 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A general phenomenon to watch out for is that #renewable power is going to decrease overall volume of trade everywhere -- very approximately half of shipping is carrying fossil fuels around. Look for economists to write many think pieces about how #climate measures destroy trade.