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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 18h

Amazing! A huge congratulations to him. And to win his first case!

Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 1d

Short sweet letter by @smbrander.bsky.social and others (including myself) on why the US, with our astronomical health care costs, should be at the forefront of a global #plasticstreaty. But we're not. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Public and environmental health in the US would benefit greatly from global rules on plastic chemicals

There are more microplastics in the ocean than stars in the Milky Way; however, as we all know by this point, the latest round of global plastic treaty negotiations ended in a stalemate.

substack.com

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 1d

Vayas is out as chair of the #plasticstreaty negotiations. But he wasn't the primary problem. Many countries claim to want a treaty but allow a few naysayers to exercise effective veto power, protected by the UNEP Secretariat. We need more than a new chair. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UN plastics treaty chair to step down with process in turmoil

Exclusive: Luis Vayas Valdivieso says he is quitting for personal and professional reasons after reports of pressure behind the scenes

www.theguardian.com

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 1d

Kind of like how they refused to fill a Supreme Court seat. One set of rules for them, another for us.

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GAIA Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives @gaiazerowaste.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to our GAIA Africa team members!
We are incredibly proud to celebrate three of our own who have shown incredible leadership and have been selected for distinguished awards & fellowships. Your dedication, passion, and hard work inspire us all.

#BreakFreeFromPlastic #GoForZeroWaste

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 1d

I should have married a Malayali... www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

100 dishes in 40 days: India's epic wedding feast

For more than 700 years, an extraordinary tradition has been maintained in southern India, where grooms are presented with a parade of freshly prepared dishes by their mother-in-law.

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 2d

The anticipated early closure of the #solar thermal plant in California brings up an interesting point: with #RE tech moving so quickly, what is a realistic lifespan for energy infrastructure? And how does that change our calculations about when to replace tech? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

$2B California Solar Plant To Shut Down After A Decade For The Most Frustrating Reason

Not all solar power is created equal. The Ivanpah facility in the middle of the desert has generated power using mirrors for more than a decade.

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 2d

Are #carbonoffsets fixable? Joe Romm and co-authors have new, comprehensive review paper out. tl;dr The answer is no, they're not. The problems are fundamental. They also apply to #plasticcredits by the way. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 2d

Carbon capture and storage goes belly up. Relying on it to draw down atmospheric CO2 levels was always foolish. It's past time to acknowledge that we need real zero, not #netzero for all #greenhousegas emissions. oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

The Collapse of Confidence in Carbon Capture | OilPrice.com

Carbon Capture and Storage, once seen as a lifeline for the oil and gas industry, is facing mounting doubts as delays, high costs, and poor performance cast serious doubts on its future viability.

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 2d

The Korean #plastics industry is in trouble because it can't compete on cost with the Chinese industry. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean less production overall; it's just being centralized increasingly in China.

Ronald Steenblik @ronsteenblik.bsky.social · 8d

Korean petrochemical companies (including producers of #plastic resins) are struggling. The Government had said it could provide the companies with support only once they had produced a plan to reduce the annual capacity of their naphtha crackers by 2.7 – 3.7 million tonnes by the end of 2025. 💸💰

A full-fledged restructuring of the petrochemical industry, which has been in crisis due to oversupp.. - MK

A full-fledged restructuring of the petrochemical industry, which has been in crisis due to oversupply, has begun. The decision was made by creditor financial institutions (debt groups), which funded ...

www.mk.co.kr

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 2d

Well, this is the best news I've had today.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2d

Terrified Curtis Yarvin—the “philosopher behind JD Vance”—plans to flee the USA.

The Dork Enlightenment guru says the Trump administration is failing to go full authoritarian.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

From Yarvin's Substack: The second Trump revolution, like the first, is failing. It is failing because it deserves to fail. It is failing because it spends all its time patting itself on the back. It is failing because its true mission, which neither it nor (still less) its supporters understand, is still as far beyond its reach as algebra is beyond a cat. Because the vengeance meted out after its failure will dwarf the vengeance after 2020—because the successes of the second revolution are so much greater than the first—I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country. Everyone else in a similar position should have a 2029 plan as well. And it is not even clear that it will wait until 2029: losing the Congress will instantly put the administration on the defensive.

Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 2d

To be clear: shutdowns are engineered to ensure ordinary activities of the professional class are not disrupted. WIC benefits are being cut, which will sure impact lots of people -- but not people who matter to the political class.

Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 2d

Nice article by Ravleen Kaur on the health and environmental impacts of #plastic *production*. This again highlights why #plasticpollution cannot be treated as a waste or clean-up issue: it must be tackled at the source. india.mongabay.com/2025/09/comm...

Communities near petrochemical plants pay the price for plastic convenience

Plastics are cheap but their production harms refinery communities through pollution and toxic emissions. At the recent Geneva talks, disagreements between petrochemical-rich nations and others over p...

india.mongabay.com

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 3d

1/ Best origin story I've heard for him. 😂

But the actual origin story of his family is worth reading—in this blistering account from 2018 by his maternal uncle, a neuropsychologist who has volunteered for refugees & other immigrants.

Free link: archive.ph/mX7Cx

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 2d

Very surprising to see how much plastic breaks down into VICs — might force a rethink of plastic waste’s contribution to climate change and local air pollution even in the absence of combustion.

Dr. Melanie Bergmann @melaniebergma18.bsky.social · 3d

‼️New study shows that the amount of carbon released in volatile form after exposure of polypropylene #plastic to UV light is far from negligible: 17%!The molecular-sized gaseous products likely comprise alkane & alkene, peroxides, ketones, alcohols,acids, CO & #CO2.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Where does the carbon go? A new carbon balance method to assess what happens to plastics under solar exposure

Plastic pollution is a major and global threat to ecosystems and human health, resulting from the spreading and breakdown of plastic litter in the environment. In an aquatic environment, the first cau...

journals.plos.org

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 3d

We must be careful to sift between Trumpist fascism and the facts of emerging post-imperialism. The erosion of U.S. global power isn’t a bad thing. Its replacement by regional fascist spheres is.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 4d

Great thread on looking at LLMs in a very different light

JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 4d

In all the endless discussions of LLMs, there’s a point that is, on one level, obvious, but that I feel does not get sufficiently foregrounded: LLMs are transforming material that people have put up on the internet.

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brooklyn909.bsky.social @brooklyn909.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone who ever read Marx, actually...:

Capitalism concentrates wealth,

wealth consolidates monopoly power,

monopoly power becomes fascism.

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 5d

Trump it’s openly using the military and national guard to squash dissent, in blatant violation of the constitution. I wonder how well that will work when they stop receiving paychecks.

Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 5d

So much for freedom of speech. Sure was nice knowing you.

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 5d

The violence and malevolence are cartoonish. The trauma though is very very real. And that is the point — to inflict trauma.

Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 5d

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 6d

Worse than the gag orders on certain terms is shutting down data collection. Literally pretending that if we don’t measure the problem, it isn’t real. www.wired.com/story/the-ep...

The EPA Is Ending Greenhouse Gas Data Collection. Who Will Step Up to Fill the Gap?

With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools—and legal right—to fulfill this EPA function.

www.wired.com

Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 6d

This is always the answer to the hand wringing critiques of “what are we getting wrong?”

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

The main reason climate policy has failed is that it's opposed by an international coalition of fossil fuel incumbents, authoritarian governments, & oligarch-owned media.

That's it. It's the people who killed it who are responsible for killing it! Not the people who supported it! FFS.

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 6d

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