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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2h

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 1d

Global Warning now on Al Jazeera.

Episode 1 broadcast this week. Or you can stream it here.
👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
#Climate #ClimateCrisis hasn’t gone away.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 8d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 8d

Well done to the Warming Stripes La Rochelle team!

Starting climate conversations in France! 👏

Warming Stripes painted in the harbour area of La Rochelle, France

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19d

I hate it when people compare the amount of heat the ocean has absorbed to the power of atomic bombs dropped on Japan. It’s gruesome and not relatable. As my Japanese PhD student said when he heard the comparison, “It’s not a good memory for us.”

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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · 20d

Irrationally annoyed by this essay, mainly because it does not follow a coherent line of argument and makes so many leaps of logic that the right panic about algorithms & screentimes devolves into an overly simplistic "reading books will save/solve everything" jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

jmarriott.substack.com

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 25d

Whenever I meet boomer/late genX Indian upper middle class elites, their utter disinterest in the costs of our connected lives of luxurious convenience is so pervasive. They simply do not care if the working class are suffering, & are never convinced the working class are working hard enough.

Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 25d

NEW 🇮🇳 Three-quarters of Amazon workers in New Delhi require medical attention due to heat, while others faint on the job and face retaliation for raising safety concerns, finds a groundbreaking new survey from UNI Global Union.

🔗 Read more online.

Inside Amazon India’s 55C pressure cooker warehouses

A year after Amazon faced criticism in India over reports of workers being pressured to work in sweltering warehouse conditions, a new survey indicates not much has changed. Shahana Yasmin reports

buff.ly

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Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler) @amalkc.bsky.social · 24d

India has a toxic combination of caste, class, entitlement which depends on the exploitation of the majority, and ignoring that oppression and worse.

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 25d

Whenever I meet boomer/late genX Indian upper middle class elites, their utter disinterest in the costs of our connected lives of luxurious convenience is so pervasive. They simply do not care if the working class are suffering, & are never convinced the working class are working hard enough.

Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 25d

NEW 🇮🇳 Three-quarters of Amazon workers in New Delhi require medical attention due to heat, while others faint on the job and face retaliation for raising safety concerns, finds a groundbreaking new survey from UNI Global Union.

🔗 Read more online.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24d

ON BARI WEISS’S PODCAST AHAHAHA

Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 25d

BREAKING:

HUGE ENDORSEMENT FOR ANDREW CUOMO

Woody Allen sitting on a chair. Caption reads

“Yes, I'm going to vote. I'm going to vote for Cuomo”

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 26d

"The realists, it transpires, have merely swapped wishful thinking about humanity’s ability to kick its fossil fuel habit for magical thinking about our ability to upend the laws of physics and chemistry."

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7105...

The case against the ‘climate realists’

In their new book, two prominent eco-Marxists examine just how reasonable it is to think we can ‘solve’ environmental breakdown without changing the w...

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 26d

It seems that Meta has removed on Threads posts that contained leaked information about its products

Big yikes

And a striking reminder of the importance of open platforms, i.e., platforms where us, the users, are in control – something Threads is absolutely not

www.threads.com/@heaney_555/...

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 26d

My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.

An excerpt from an interview with the director of The Graduate, Mike Nichols.

"I interviewed hundreds, maybe thousands of men", Nichols admitted of the casting process per Vanity Fair, before his conversation with Redford turned out to be a short one. "I said, 'You can't play it. You can never play a loser'. And Redford said, 'What do you mean? Of course I can play a loser'. And I said, 'OK, have you ever struck out with a girl'. And he said, 'What do you mean?' And he wasn't joking."

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26d

this is certainly true. and i think it follows logically that not doing so is a choice; and that such investors prefer the absence of strong public reporting to the prestige of owning such a thing

Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 27d

A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 27d

Well, this is fucked up and depressing.

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NPR @npr.org · 26d

A movie star to his core, Robert Redford has died after a visionary career in cinema, including founding the Sundance Institute that transformed the market for independent films.

Movie star and visionary Robert Redford has died at age 89

A movie star to his core, Robert Redford has died after a visionary career in cinema, including founding the Sundance Institute that transformed the market for independent films.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 28d

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Sep 13

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age.

They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · Sep 13

Tabs today was a genuine public service. (Many such cases, but especially on days like today.)

Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · Sep 12

God help me, I Kirkposted
www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-wa...

Groyper War 2 Turns Hot

Let's take a deep calming breath before we confront the following.

www.todayintabs.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 12

Once again, I'm struck by the fact that the one thing all these shooters have in common is, uh, the guns?

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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · Sep 12

Nepal to the other countries with corrupt leaders:

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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · Sep 12

What a week!

A leaderless revolution started on Monday and by Friday evening, toppled a stubborn government, a new Prime Minister appointed, current Parliament dissolved and stage set for new beginnings. Have to hand it to the Gen Z of Nepal.

nepalitimes.com/news/madam-p...

Madam Prime Minister of Nepal

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Sep 12

just blurting out random statements now

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Don't worry too much about planet-warming emissions, the US Energy Secretary has told the BBC, because within five years AI will have enabled the harnessing of nuclear fusion – the energy that powers the sun and stars.

Chris Wright told me in an interview that he expected the technology to deliver power to electricity grids around the world within eight to 15 years and that it would rapidly become a big driver of greenhouse gas reductions.

His claims will likely surprise even enthusiasts for the technology.

Harnessing the energy released when atoms fuse together could produce vast amounts of low carbon energy but most scientists believe commercial fusion power plants are still a long way off.

"With artificial intelligence and what's going on at the national labs and private companies in the United States, we will have that approach about how to harness fusion energy multiple ways within the next five years," said Mr Wright.

"The technology, it'll be on the electric grid, you know, in eight to 15 years."

Scientists believe nuclear fusion, which Mr Wright studied at university, could one day produce vast amounts of energy without heating up our atmosphere.

But it's a very complex process. Replicating it on Earth involves heating atoms to temperatures many times hotter than the sun.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Sep 12

Netanyahu praised Charlie Kirk, who was a raging antisemite, because Netanyahu does not actually view antisemitism as a problem if it is aimed at liberal and leftist Jews or if it serves his ultra-nationalism.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Sep 11

Liberals are doing the right’s job for it.

By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Sep 11

All this suggests is that the shooter wants people to believe they're a far-left ideologue. Maybe they are; without more evidence, we don't know. But a far-right "accelerationist" wanting civil war, more hatred, more violence would do the exact same thing.

Ammunition in Kirk Shooting Engraved with Transgender, Antifascist Ideology: Sources
By

Sadie Gurman

and

James Fanelli

Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, according to an internal law enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.

The older-model .30 caliber hunting rifle was discovered in the woods near the scene of Wednesday’s shooting at Utah Valley University, wrapped in a towel with a spent cartridge still in the chamber, the sources said. There were also three unspent rounds in the magazine, all with wording on them.

Kirk, 31, was onstage going back and forth with a student about mass shootings involving transgender people when he was targeted, according to videos of the attack. The student has not been publicly identified.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charlie-kirk-shot/card/ammunition-in-kirk-shooting-engraved-with-transgender-antifascist-ideology-sources-pdymd1sXXMSlVRhpvR4b

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