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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 4d

More cultural influencers who happily « brand » themselves as car-less #bike riders for local transportation in their #cities *and* journalists like @emilynussbaum.bsky.social @newyorker.com who include that point = #ClimateInfluence | See yourself riding more for short trips!

Screenshot of a few sentences from the « Third Act » feature story on actress Keri Russell that mentions how she bikes everywhere in Brooklyn /NYC and doesn’t have a car.

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 1d

War torn Portland.
I am

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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 10h

In today's episode we look at the role the coal, transportation (rail & automotive), and utilities industries play in climate obstruction.
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Reminder that you can now download the book this season is based on FOR FREE! cssn.org/wp-content/u...

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 13h

Also!!! - the power of the local and knowing your neighbors.

Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 13h

and!!! - he talks about finding ways to unify around « belonging » in an inclusive way (not the EXclusive way this administration has emphasized)

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 13h

« …and it means that the Democratic Party needs to get more interested in what we can do next than in preserving the status quo that is being smashed to pieces » @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Yes. It’s past time to COUNTER our culture. #democracy #ClimateInfluence

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America’s Next Story: Pete Buttigieg

Podcast Episode · The Opinions · 10/14/2025 · 38m

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TrainsBikesBus 🚂 🚲 🚌 @trainsbikesbus.bsky.social · 18h

Think about this - Average size of a golf course is 200 acres. Can't be used late fall, winter, or early spring. TRUTH.

Ppl complain that bikes can't be used every season so why have bike lanes. FALSE. Bike lanes can be used EVERY season.

Why do we waste so much space on golf courses?

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 15h

I occasionally golf on a nearby public golf course and I would happily see it go the way of affordable housing. It's our ridiculous culture that we need to COUNTER more loudly. We get used to the landspace for golf and the road space for cars - but we can change. Show the joy in the alternatives

Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 15h

Fantastic piece that so resonates with me/my music tastes. I see massive potential for #ClimateInfluence in the idea of #JoyAsAnActOfResistance (an Idles Band album title that I took to heart and got a tattoo of). Collectively countering our consumerist culture is a super power x infinity

Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 15h

Fantastic @therevelator.org piece by Grace Dougan about #punk and IMPACT. #MusicMatters #JoyAsAnActOfResistance

"It’s about showing up, using what you have, and trusting that a better world begins at the street level. ...

Punk doesn’t promise perfection. But it offers something else: persistence."

The Revelator @therevelator.org · 17h

Punk Builds a Greener Future

A worldwide but borderless DIY culture rejects consumerism and embraces reuse — and focuses on mutual aid. https://therevelator.org/punk-builds-greener-future/

Punk Builds a Greener Future • The Revelator

A worldwide but borderless DIY culture rejects consumerism and embraces reuse — and focuses on mutual aid.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

The attack on Portland was supposed to make the place look like a lawless hellhole. Instead, the authorities have succeeded in making it look like the most fun city in the world.

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

Playing with this: the term "leaders" is fraught (can we say we are one? how is it defined? etc).

What if we instead see ourselves as being "initiators" ?... I feel like it would be more compelling to be one, and that you could say it out loud without cringing.

I *initiate* #ClimateInfluence

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 1d

Bike sharing — specifically the particular system of bike sharing infrastructure found in Toronto, Montreal, New York, London, and dozens of others, is a real Canadian success story.

A thread 🧵

How Bike Share went from death’s door to one of Toronto’s fastest-growing ways to travel

How self-cleaning toilets, the pandemic and bike lanes made Toronto Bike Share a staple of the city, and how Doug Ford’s battle against bike lanes will shape its future.

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

Mine is choc chip cookies :-) | Just re-read it. Really great writing. Kudos.

Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

THIS!

« Maron is so spectacularly good at commanding an audience on a mic, and so completely fearless in baring his every insecurity, and it is especially because that openness makes whoever is opposite of him so comfortable baring their own in turn. »

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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t listened to the final WTF yet but I’m gonna reshare this today! With a gift link for all you WTFers, WTFnicks, WTFedelics…

There Will Never Be Another 'WTF With Marc Maron' | Defector

I heard Marc Maron announce he was ending his podcast the way that I imagine he’d’ve wanted me to—while walking through my neighborhood in Los Angeles, through wired headphones, just a little too hopp...

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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t listened to the final WTF yet but I’m gonna reshare this today! With a gift link for all you WTFers, WTFnicks, WTFedelics…

There Will Never Be Another 'WTF With Marc Maron' | Defector

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

thank you! I am in a bit of mourning over this ending. Your piece nailed my feelings too.

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

Something about the #Portland approach is really triggering joy for me. This is #democracy #HopePunk

I look forward to more frog and critter costumes in cities across the country on the 18th. #JoyAsAnActOfResistance

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

@naubinhorth.bsky.social Thank YOU for being visible pedaling your talk! How can we inspire more U.S. leaders to do the same…? Keep modeling it for us! #bikes4all #cities #ClimateInfluence

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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 1d

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for this! I lived in PDX for 10 years in the 1990s and so resonated (still do) with that city’s tone /approach. Hard to describe - but you did it!

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

This is EXACTLY what I mean by #ClimateInfluence. We’ve all got the potential to see our own and use it better.

Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

Go #carfree (#1) or #lesscar and go #vegan are in top 10.

Why we need to see more leaders being visible about their own behavior shifts. If you ride a bike for local transportation, make sure your peers see you with your helmet etc. Signal that they too could do it. Thx @wriclimate.bsky.social

WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · 1d

🚲🥗🚗 Small choices matter, but big change happens when systems support them.

WRI Climate ranked 19 climate-friendly behaviors to show which ones cut the most emissions and why policies & businesses must make them accessible.

See the list 👉 bit.ly/4q0pWvC

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

You can arrest us or pepper spray us or whatever, but we will make you look stupid and feel silly doing it because wanting to assert control is stupid. You want to assert control? Do it to an inflatable frog!
So, it’s not just a meme thing, it’s a Portland cultural thing.

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

I, for one, will really miss Marc’s show. It’s worth diving into the archives for some great, human-to-human conversations.

Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

Final @marcmaron.bsky.social
WTF podcast episode: @barackobama.bsky.social on the need for leadership that walks the talk.

« …what people long for…is some core integrity that seems absent… »

Yes. For the sake of our #democracy and for #ClimateInfluence

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Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

Podcast Episode · WTF with Marc Maron Podcast · 10/13/2025 · 1h 7m

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