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Far as I can tell, Robert Redford was: * successful at everything he tried * genuinely intelligent & insightful * desired by women * envied by men * an absolute mensch to everyone he dealt with * a tireless, lifelong philanthropist ... and he died peacefully in his sleep. 10/10 life. No notes.

FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting. 13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments

He's alive, so I guess we're still legally permitted to point out that Ben Shapiro is a glib, nasty dipshit whose success is a testament to the abysmal intellectual standards on the right.

NYT: gone. WaPo: gone. LA Times: gone. CBS: gone. CNN: gone. MSNBC: going. Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations. Plus almost all of social media. The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.

These guys are all cowardly, terrified babies who have learned that if they cry & whine loud enough, RW media will come rescue them.

A proper UK welcome for the orange one.

We're watching them work themselves up to a nationwide pogrom and all we can do is comment sardonically.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that the reason we think mass street protest during the Civil Right movement "worked" is that the role of the media is forgotten. We took it for granted to the point that it was invisible. But in recent years, we've seen what it looks like ...

“This is the only planet we’ve got. What could be more important than protecting it?” – Robert Redford

This one hurts. RIP Robert Redford. Here's a fun story from yesterday.

I know my Bluesky friends will appreciate this. Carl died in the mid 90s at Cornell, my Alma Mater. Carl was a role model of mine. Not sure who controls his account but they made my day!

“It's easy to stand up and speak out when there's nothing at risk. The real test of values is when times are challenging and you have something to lose.”

A little bit of good news for you. And a reminder that we *can* solve big, global problems--when we want to. 🧪 (by @meghanbartels.bsky.social)

looking to talk to folks who are fighting data centers in different parts of the country for a story or two. gimme a holler at [email protected]

Truly, this is such a great piece. I guarantee you probably have no idea just how deeply and profoundly the "AI for good" narrative has become embedded into the superstructure of so many progressive movements - not least the climate movement. Go read @abeba.bsky.social's piece:

They are not against political violence, they are against political violence by their opponents.

This is too stupid not to share.

Welp, there goes another one. We still have American commentators out there using the terms "MSM" & "right-wing media," despite the fact that the latter has entirely eaten the former. Right-wing billionaires own it all now. There's almost nothing else left.

Looking back, I realize that this is basically the core of what I've been shouting on social media, and every other available venue, for more than 20 years now. "Look! Look at the right, what it really is!" And I have to acknowledge that it's been completely, utterly futile. I have wasted my time.

If it seems like every issue leads to right-wing pundits attacking colleges and universities lately, it’s not random. They’ve wanted to defund and delegitimize higher education for decades. They’re using any pretext to call for faculty firings, defunding public education, canceling grants, etc.

one of the answers to “what more can we do?” democrats

The problem with USB-C is that you don't experience the joy of getting it right on the first try like you do with USB-A.

Three quarters of the news stories studied were shared without clicking and reading the article - something I’m guilty of myself all too often. But it’s not good practice! “virality of political content on social media (including misinfo) is driven by superficial processing of headlines and blurbs”

one of my favorite mexican restaurants gives you free salchipulpos—hot dogs cut up to look like octopuses

Thank you, Ta-Nehisi Coates. archive.is/7uhwf

There are days I regret going into the lab side of biology and not the "scrub a happy alligator named Claude" side.

This should not be a sentence: “Parents whose teenagers killed themselves after interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots…”

100 years of mean January-August temperature departures over land areas (where we live) through this year... Data provided by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious projects humankind has ever undertaken has now reached a critical moment." via @quantamagazine.bsky.social

The fortitude — no the *courage* — of these kids in this political climate is very moving. apnews.com/article/yout...

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

I’m proud to say that @noaa.gov and NCEI has released a 1 year retrospective on #Helene using ESRI Story Maps. arcg.is/aqCD4 Here is a brief thread of how this came to be and how NOAA can still do good things (even while wearing pajamas).

I still think they made it.

The UN's inquiry commission has said that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza The EU and national governments must do everything they can to stop this slaughter Stop sending weapons to Israel, stop the killing, ensure that aid gets to the people who need it #StopTheGenocide

Incredibly important election this year in Georgia:

40 years ago, nations came together to take the first step in protecting the ozone layer – guided by science, united in action. Today, the ozone layer is healing. —António Guterres, UN Secretary General On #WorldOzoneDay, let's recommit to preserving the ozone layer for future generations. 🌎

"It’s a study in the perils of relying on the ultrarich to fund science: when the guy with the billions is ready to move on, the whole project is off." Remember Breakthrough Starshot, which was supposed to send a fleet of tiny probes to Proxima Centauri? By @sarahscoles.bsky.social in SciAm 🧪🛰️

You can't understand the modern alt-right without understanding their deep, deep fear & hatred toward women. Really worth watching this video.

One reason Musk, Vance and Trumpworld are working overtime to manufacture a mass conspiracy that socialists and leftists are the root of all evil when those groups hold little actual institutional power is that this is the reality on the ground www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It really is something that the US abducting hundreds of citizens from a key military ally who were helping construct a major manufacturing facility and putting them in a concentration camp for a week is getting buried by this news cycle

On #WorldOzoneDay, I want to remind you that this website exists.

i feel so bad for people who were close with Speaker Hortman, to have to watch her name get used like a political football this week our legislators are traumatized, I honestly can't imagine what this session will be like but I hope the state is offering some sort of assistance

The UN Human Rights Council just found that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. The International Association of Genocide Scholars reached the same conclusion. Two Israeli human rights groups, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel, have as well. www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/m...

New @iea.org report: both oil and gas are seeing *RISING* decline rates - ie, you need to burn more cash every year just to get the same volume. If we don't exit this 19th century absurdity ASAP we're going to be paying for it, very literally in this case iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/0edbe...

"A mass “doxing” effort to track down, intimidate and harass people perceived not to have sufficiently mourned the killing of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk was endorsed on Monday by JD Vance"

when i was in treatment for my eating disorder my dietian told me that an egg mcmuffin was nearly a perfect breakfast, nutritionally in ten years i have used this as a reason to eat so many egg mcmuffins

I would just like to point out that this is a spectacular choice of cover image for this story.

if you are interested in organizing, we made this short video with Win The Midwest about how and what we’ve been winning in Minnesota it wasn’t just our governor, or a magical organization, we’ve been building a majoritarian movement— and we think you can do it too.

Honored to be on this year's #Grist50 list!

imagine a world where a democratic governor pardoned a leftist who murdered someone a conservative at a protest you’ll really, really have to imagine it because it would never ever happen

🚨NEW: Scientists from nearly every state, DC, and Puerto Rico are calling out Trump's Environmental Protection Agency for failing to fulfill their core duties: protect the environment and public health.

Sunday is officially Sun Day in Wisconsin! Thanks Governor Evers! @sundayofaction.bsky.social

Ordering a chalupa at taco bell like:

Sea surface temperatures are warming across the entire periphery of the #Arctic Ocean in September. This is especially observed in areas with long-term declines in sea ice concentration, such around the Chukchi and Kara Seas. Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1. For more info arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...

Fossil fuels are harmful in a million different ways, but the immediate impacts they have has been broadly understated If climate change were a hoax their severe, deadly health impacts would alone be enough justification to still get rid of them climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/u...

Down the memory hole!

"In Denmark, well-established heat planning mandates that gas and district heating networks do not overlap. The country has a decommissioning fund to cover the costs of removing gas supplies from homes and offers a scheme for free disconnections for private residences." medium.com/@jan.rosenow...

No one gets this moment any better than the ever-eloquent @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, so much fun to be working with her on Sun Day www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-future-i...

Fossil-fueled warming once again killed tens of thousands in Europe this summer. Scientists the rising heat and death tolls show the limits of adaptation.

"Sorry, we've removed the brightness slider for your own convenience. You can change your phone's brightness by asking Galaxy AI" "Okay, Galaxy AI change brightness" "Sure thing! That requires 10 Magic Credits. Your current balance is 0 Magic Credits. To buy more Magic Credits, go to your Sam...."

An absolutely brilliant evening yesterday talking about rewilding in Ireland with Mary @wearetheark.bsky.social and Pádraic @whittledaway.bsky.social in @tcddublin.bsky.social Kudos to the @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social and @jamierohu.bsky.social for organising the event.

Imagine getting someone like @billhare.bsky.social on your radio show and then spending the entire time asking him to respond to the babbling of someone who denies the basic science. The ABC has gotten so much worse with platforming science deniers in the name of 'showing both sides'

At the stage in manuscript editing where one coauthor adds a word and another coauthor removes the same word, and repeat. 🧪

It is wild that oil and gas are still framed as "affordable and reliable"

You do realize that they're executing a full takeover of both legacy and social media, right?

The #WhatAboutChina excuse for Climate inaction is officially dead www.noahpinion.blog/p/china-is-q... #ClimateChange #cdnpoli

There are few things in life I am more certain about than the fact this man does, in fact, have a dinosaur. The context of this photo, taken by Steve Fitch & published in "Diesels & Dinosaurs": this is the 'Snakepit' in Sayre, OK along Route 66 in 1973. The man in the photo may be Mike Allred.

Human-made global warming ‘caused 16,500 deaths in Europe this summer’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"A refreshingly pragmatic and undoomy book." The Guardian just published a great review of @hannahritchie.bsky.social's new book 'Clearing the Air'. The book will be out in 2 days. If you are unsure whether you want to read it, the review gives a good overview: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

okay this is getting silly now. An 11 gigawatt (!!!!!!!!!!) data centred, powered by fossil fuels but an obviously shallow, bad-faith empty promise to eventually build some nukes (only there to justify the new fossil fuelled power station they're building) www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ferm...

Hey y'all, come see me at Climate Week! (And by "me" I mean me interviewing Carlos Araque, the CEO of super-deep geothermal startup Quaise Energy, and Doreen Harris, the CEO of NYSERDA.)

Want to vicariously float down the Blackstone River? Check out the new 360 degree Google-style streetview imagery the Friends of the Blackstone River collected this weekend using my camera and Mapillary! All new opensource imagery of the river for everyone! www.mapillary.com/app/user/the...

The Tropical wave - soon to become #Gabrielle - is HUGE. 1000 miles across, equal to the distance between Tampa and New York City. Waves with big envelopes often take longer to organization and strenghten. So even if this develops today, it will "lumber" for days.

JUST DROPPED: Ember’s new slide deck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team lays out how manufactured, modular technologies are rewriting the physics, economics, and geopolitics of energy. A treasure trove of visuals and storytelling. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Everything really is gender.

green day has been saying this forever

One global pact quietly changed the course of our planet’s future. Not only did it help heal the ozone layer, but it’s also reversing the impacts of climate change. Wondering how? Our article explains: www.unep.org/news-and-sto... #WorldOzoneDay

biggest takeaway from tour so far tbh

Oof. I couldn't think of a more concise criticism of @mark-carney.bsky.social's economic strategy. If Danielle Smith thinks you're doing a good job, time for a rethink.

Holy flip. This entire announcement is wild but check out how they're going to deal with the rise in emissions from offering brute-force text generation software to students ->

Tomorrow at 12.30pm, I'll join Paul, Prof. Barry McMullin & Prof. John Sweeney to give evidence to the Joint Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy as they hold hearings on Ireland's second carbon budget programme. The session is live-streamed at the link below👇 @autofac.bsky.social

This Pennsylvania settlement could set the standard for preventing tiny plastic pellet pollution | Grist grist.org/solutions/pl...

🧪 I had something to say about NIH, CDC, EPA, vaccines, climate science, lead paint research, tobacco industry studies, and the fact that American Sign Language was advanced in part with funding from the National Science Foundation so yeah DEI in science is a good thing. kpfa.org/episode/gree...

Ridiculous (ly cute).

up with the solar panel lads

Pretty grim paper laying out the unstoppable popularity of ChatGPT, and specifically how people are using it for information retrieval / fact-checking style tasks. The economists who wrote it see this all as a very, very good thing..... www.nber.org/system/files...

If you enjoy reading ChatGPT generated text, you’ll like being a teacher.

this being confirmed is news, yes, but we’ve known this was going to happen for months now and that they were handling the data back-end for a while

I'm probably alone in this, but I don't get mad when I see reports, articles, analyses etc that still use 1.5C as a framework, particularly not around rich countries or rich companies. I just see it as a stand-in for "the most urgent action possible", which is what those entities should be enacting

Tesla's share price, like any share price, is rich-people-feelings. Look at this headline compared to all the other headlines about Tesla's *actual* results

Waves of rain through tonight. This latest one dropped a quick half inch on DC, lowering visibility to 1 mile. Take it slow with the evening commute. Forecast and nowcast updates at cwg.live.

Climate breakdown led to around 16,500 deaths in cities across Europe this summer These deaths are on the hands of the companies profiting most from fueling the climate crisis The EU and governments must turn this around, and one step is a serious #EU2040 climate target that respects the science

how it started / how it's going

enjoy this one

“I know that there are forces in our society today who actually do want America to go back,” he says, “to a time when things were less complicated, and people like me knew my place.” A great profile of a great American. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

In case you find yourself thinking that somehow all sustainability regulation was being rolled back. It isn't. And the US is the outlier. Enormous dynamism and regulatory innovation across Asia. This is from The Brunswick Group's quarterly sustainability radar. For the full report, contact me.

Sitting in the waiting area of a cancer treatment center, 10 of 12 people are masked. 👍 Not sure what the other two are thinking. 😡

last night’s wall of coming togetherness. boston goes so hard

Just noting that climate activists — and, indeed, researchers into climate communication, science, and politics — have been saying this about our opponents for years.