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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 1d

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 1d

The climate crisis is accelerating.

Meanwhile, politicians like @bradlander.bsky.social
@nyccomptroller.bsky.social put up an image of action, but break their promises.

Fascism is on the march. We need blue place pols like Lander to take action, not just act huffy. 🧵

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Authorities say the death toll from landslides and floods set off by incessant rainfall in central and southeastern Mexico has increased to 41 people.

Heavy rain in Mexico sets off floods and landslides, killing at least 41

Authorities say the death toll from landslides and floods set off by incessant rainfall in central and southeastern Mexico has increased to 41 people.

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 19h

🪧NO KINGS NYC!
📍 47th & 7th Ave
📍 The red steps
📆 October 18th
⏰ 11am
📣 More info at NoKingsNYC.com
📣 Sign up to volunteer bit.ly/4q3mgZU
📣 Sign up to marshal tinyurl.com/NokingsMarshals

This is a peaceful, nonviolent march.
Meet: 47th St & 7th Ave
March: South on 7th Ave, to 14th St.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 1d

A common criticism of global warming is: “It’s only a few degrees”.
It may not sound like much but consider this…
Compare Earth’s escalating warmth to your body’s fever.
Now all of a sudden a few degrees is the difference between life and death!
Follow along for more… 1/

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has turned the US government into a host body for a cordyceps-like parasite: the fossil fuel industry. It will backfire horribly

Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column:

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The White House’s Fossil Fuel ‘White-Glove Service’ Will Backfire

Fungus enthusiasts and fans of the video game/TV show The Last of Us will be familiar with cordyceps, a parasitic fungus that invades insects and forces them to do its bidding until they die. It’s a g...

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@350NYC @350nyc.bsky.social · 19h

Can't get much clearer than this. When will the US wake up?
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/c...

The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN

The widespread death of coral reefs is the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points the world may hit, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists ac...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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@350NYC @350nyc.bsky.social · 4d

350NYC & hundreds of our closest friends are marching in #NoKingsNYC as a climate contingent. Wanna join? Meet at 10:30 in the pedestrian plaza on Broadway btwn 47th & 48th. March step off at 11:00 from Father Duffy Square.

@thirdactnyc.bsky.social @350brooklyn.bsky.social @fffnyc.bsky.social

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company.

It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers.

While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 25d

Glad to see dozens of students at Vassar decarbonizing NYC this morning in @jeffsseidman.bsky.social's class.
We can do this for any city, and now we have 1000 sets to distribute for New York. Ideas welcome!
#PlayEnergetic

A roomful of college students playing a cooperative board game, Energetic, in which an activist, a politician, an entrepreneur, and an engineer team up to build a zero carbon energy supply for NYC by 2040.

In this updated version, you begin in 2026, and you can't build offshore wind till 2029, and then only if you win the 2028 election.

You do, however, start the game with 1 GW already complete, thanks to the Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission line. So you only have to build 15 more GW to power NYC's heat pumps in 2040.

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@350NYC @350nyc.bsky.social · 4d

Please share and help us spread the word. Thank you!
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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@350NYC @350nyc.bsky.social · 5d

Why did @nyscomptroller.bsky.social @TomDiNapoli.bsky.social spend the time and expense of creating a Climate Action Plan if he refuses to follow it? Burning the planet + losing public pension funds because he didn't #DivestNY. Good interview w @rgoyle.bsky.social, NYS comptroller candidate.

New York Communities for Change @nychange.bsky.social · 5d

Comptroller candidate @rgoyle.bsky.social roasts @nyscomptroller.bsky.social Tom DiNapoli for lighting both our pension money and our planet on fire by failing to #DivestNY from the likes of Exxon🔥🔥🔥

Check it out:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A plan to shake up the state comptroller's office

Podcast Episode · The Capitol Pressroom · 10/08/2025 · 10m

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 7d

It’s good that Lander is getting arrested and helping people fight ICE. But here, he has actual power.

He should fulfill his promises, which were to take major and specific actions on climate.

He has power. He made specific promises. He should deliver.

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 7d

These lines in the @gothamist.com @elizabethkim.bsky.social @brigidbergin.bsky.social story exposing @bradlander’s maneuvers & outing him as cozying up to NYC’s corporate world are important.

They confirm our suspicions why he’s been so resistant to major climate action as @NYCComptroller
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Excerpt from Gothamist story that says lander was communicating with Kathy Wylde pre-primary.

Excerpt from Gothamist story that lander “sought to assure Wylde that he would be in a Mamdani administration to address concerns from the business community”

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@350NYC @350nyc.bsky.social · 9d

This is key to rebuilding trust in our elected officials!

Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 10d

There’s still October, November and December for him to deliver. He should! For our part, we’re not going to quietly pretend all is fine and dandy when it’s not. We’re in a low trust society now and politicians like Lander breaking their promises is part of it. WE keep OUR word.

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 10d

There’s still October, November and December for him to deliver. He should! For our part, we’re not going to quietly pretend all is fine and dandy when it’s not. We’re in a low trust society now and politicians like Lander breaking their promises is part of it. WE keep OUR word.

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 10d

Truth is precious and important. It’s not image-making and misleading people to grease a path.

@bradlander.bsky.social must deliver on his promise of major action on climate.

@nyccomptroller.bsky.social wields power. Use it.

Cc: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Protesters raise signs directed at Lander during his image-building but empty climate week event. This event and week would have been the obvious moment for him to deliver on his promise, but he has refused to do so. That blew a private promise of a deadline of summer or at the latest September. There’s still October, November and December for him to deliver. He should! For our part, we’re not going to quietly pretend all is fine and dandy when it’s not. We’re in a low trust society now and politicians like Lander breaking their promises is part of it. WE keep OUR word.

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@350NYC @350nyc.bsky.social · 9d

350 Chicago Webinar: Wednesday, Oct 15 @7pm ET

Climate Action Planning - Looking Beyond Carbon Neutrality and Resilience with Dr. Adrienne Greve - Author of "Climate
Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities" Register: bit.ly.whatisacap

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 11d

New study shows people seriously underestimate the degree to which people understand humans are driving climate change. In reality, 71-88% of people get this. But people “feel” it’s much lower. Good News: We are more willing to pitch in when they understand the consensus:
spsp.org/news/charact...

What Most People Get Wrong About Climate Change | SPSP

It’s not the science people doubt—it’s each other.

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Our Children’s Trust @youthvgov.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 Breaking: 15 young Americans have filed a historic human rights petition against the U.S. for fueling the climate crisis. They’re calling on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to take urgent action and protect their rights and futures. PR: bit.ly/petitionfiling

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@350NYC @350nyc.bsky.social · 16d

On October 23, don’t miss One Night for the Amazon—a one-night-only livestream premiere of We Are Guardians!

Tickets directly support Indigenous forest guardians protecting and regenerating the Amazon. Available live Oct 23 or on-demand through Oct 30.

Reserve your spot: bit.ly/weareguardianslive

We Are Guardians | An Exclusive Virtual Screening Premiere - Oct. 23, 7PM ET/4PM PT | We Are Guardians

As the Indigenous forest guardians fend off the incessant encroachment of illegal loggers and invaders, a global story erupts entwining science, politics and ultimately the fate of the Amazon rainfore...

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JSelden @jselden.bsky.social · 18d

www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
@speakercarlheastie.bsky.social @nyassemblymajority.bsky.social

Opinion: New York is ready for single-use plastic waste reduction

Cutting down on the production of single-use plastics will save taxpayer dollars, reduce pollution and protect our environment all at once.

www.cityandstateny.com

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Drew Hudson @wealsoherdcats.com · 19d

Just a quick little recap of some actions so far at New York City's #ClimateWeek 2025: www.198methods.org/2025/09/24/t...

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Zorka Milin @zorkamilin.bsky.social · 20d

Since we're ending tax credits for clean energy projects involving Chinese & other prohibited foreign entities, why are we giving tax credits to Exxon for its joint projects with such entities?
@whitehouse.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release...

Whitehouse, Van Hollen, Merkley Probe ExxonMobil’s Guyana Offshore Oil Contract and the Company’s U.S. Tax Liability - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

ExxonMobil may have used American taxpayer funds to subsidize its foreign oil production, which it does in partnership with a Chinese state-owned company Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Sheldon Whiteho...

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Zorka Milin @zorkamilin.bsky.social · 20d

Read the full letter here: www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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