Claudia Putnam
@claudiaputnam.bsky.social
Lit writer: poetry collection @mooncitypress, CNF @splitlippress, novella from neutral zones press. My work is landscape-immersed and character-driven. Interests are broad. NH->CO->WA https://claudiaputnam.com
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
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@kurlytlapoyawa.bsky.social @tlakatekatl.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @alondra.bsky.social @nicke.bsky.social there’s an actual Indigenous pogrom happening in the USA with ICE and we are only hearing anti blackness and antisemitism from the press. Curious? m.youtube.com/watch?v=rwKI...
Trump's move to scrub Indigenous Peoples from U.S. history
YouTube video by APTN News
m.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
@kurlytlapoyawa.bsky.social @tlakatekatl.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @alondra.bsky.social @nicke.bsky.social there’s an actual Indigenous pogrom happening in the USA with ICE and we are only hearing anti blackness and antisemitism from the press. Curious? m.youtube.com/watch?v=rwKI...
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The witch may walk the wood intending to brood, but she will often learn that the wood has other ideas for her. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Dawn
December 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The witch may walk the wood intending to brood, but she will often learn that the wood has other ideas for her. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Dawn
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🧪If you like science, philosophy, and existential exploration into the meaning of life, you may like these articles of mine, something for everyone!
Join me (a real human, not an AI!) on Substack, it's all free (audio narration too): drchrisearl.substack.com
#science #philsky #philosophy #biology
Join me (a real human, not an AI!) on Substack, it's all free (audio narration too): drchrisearl.substack.com
#science #philsky #philosophy #biology
December 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
🧪If you like science, philosophy, and existential exploration into the meaning of life, you may like these articles of mine, something for everyone!
Join me (a real human, not an AI!) on Substack, it's all free (audio narration too): drchrisearl.substack.com
#science #philsky #philosophy #biology
Join me (a real human, not an AI!) on Substack, it's all free (audio narration too): drchrisearl.substack.com
#science #philsky #philosophy #biology
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Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, here's a short thread which seeks to lay it out simply.
It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
🧵1/13
It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
🧵1/13
December 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, here's a short thread which seeks to lay it out simply.
It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
🧵1/13
It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
🧵1/13
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Of course, if economic and social life collapsed, the process might go into reverse, and birth rates could be expected to rise again. But is that really what you want?
For my part, I’m heartily sick of people who think collapse is the answer to anything.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
7/13
For my part, I’m heartily sick of people who think collapse is the answer to anything.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
7/13
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
www.monbiot.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Of course, if economic and social life collapsed, the process might go into reverse, and birth rates could be expected to rise again. But is that really what you want?
For my part, I’m heartily sick of people who think collapse is the answer to anything.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
7/13
For my part, I’m heartily sick of people who think collapse is the answer to anything.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
7/13
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Every second breath you take comes from the ocean.🫧
The ocean regulates our climate, sustains biodiversity, and sequesters carbon, but it’s underfunded and unseen. We make impact reportable - see how we do this on our website. 💙
#YourDevocean #OceanRegeneration #OceanBreath #DeepSeaConnection
The ocean regulates our climate, sustains biodiversity, and sequesters carbon, but it’s underfunded and unseen. We make impact reportable - see how we do this on our website. 💙
#YourDevocean #OceanRegeneration #OceanBreath #DeepSeaConnection
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Every second breath you take comes from the ocean.🫧
The ocean regulates our climate, sustains biodiversity, and sequesters carbon, but it’s underfunded and unseen. We make impact reportable - see how we do this on our website. 💙
#YourDevocean #OceanRegeneration #OceanBreath #DeepSeaConnection
The ocean regulates our climate, sustains biodiversity, and sequesters carbon, but it’s underfunded and unseen. We make impact reportable - see how we do this on our website. 💙
#YourDevocean #OceanRegeneration #OceanBreath #DeepSeaConnection
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Please do not miss the flipping bow window, that was not easy to do in this building material.
December 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Please do not miss the flipping bow window, that was not easy to do in this building material.
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Chile of all places electing a fascist. The thing about the bad guys is they never go away, the fight is maybe never going to be over
December 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Chile of all places electing a fascist. The thing about the bad guys is they never go away, the fight is maybe never going to be over
I haven’t seen The Sure Thing mentioned in my feed. I loved that one way back in the 80s? 90s? Thanks for all the laughter and wisdom, Rob Reiner.
December 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I haven’t seen The Sure Thing mentioned in my feed. I loved that one way back in the 80s? 90s? Thanks for all the laughter and wisdom, Rob Reiner.
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
Kingdom of Olive and Ash is an excellent collection from a wide array of writers on this topic.
In Gaza, "surveillance is constant," says Palestinian writer Mohammed Mhawish. This omnipresent sense of being watched and tracked — through checkpoints, social media, drones, AI and more — creates an "enormous psychological burden" on the civilian population.
Gaza Writer Mohammed Mhawish on Life Under Israeli Surveillance
Award-winning Palestinian reporter Mohammed Mhawish, who left Gaza last year, joins us to discuss his new piece for New York magazine about Israel’s surveillance practices. It describes how Palestinia...
www.democracynow.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Kingdom of Olive and Ash is an excellent collection from a wide array of writers on this topic.
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Before flowers evolved with attractive colors and scents, what did plants use to attract insect pollinators? Heat may be one ancient strategy.
Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment.
🧪🌍🌱🐝
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#pollinators
Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment.
🧪🌍🌱🐝
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#pollinators
Infrared radiation may be one of the most ancient plant signals to pollinating insects
Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators and the insects possess infrared sensor...
phys.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Before flowers evolved with attractive colors and scents, what did plants use to attract insect pollinators? Heat may be one ancient strategy.
Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment.
🧪🌍🌱🐝
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#pollinators
Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment.
🧪🌍🌱🐝
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#pollinators
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ICE is thug scum
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
ICE is thug scum
First post in my feed makes me wanna check out for the day. Another inane list by a literary magazine about what they’re looking for.
December 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
First post in my feed makes me wanna check out for the day. Another inane list by a literary magazine about what they’re looking for.
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Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
OFFICIAL Statement from AAUP-TNS on Cuts to Faculty and Staff 12-9-25
The New School - Austerity Cuts to the Bone A Statement from the Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS On December 3, 2025, New School President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler issued voluntary sep...
tr.ee
December 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
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In some places, winter is a blessing. Living near a deep pool or pond, you greet mornings of savage cold with a smile. It means things will be quiet. It means the Stay Belows are hibernating in the mud. Nobody is going in and nothing is coming out of it today. – William Weston #VOH
December 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
In some places, winter is a blessing. Living near a deep pool or pond, you greet mornings of savage cold with a smile. It means things will be quiet. It means the Stay Belows are hibernating in the mud. Nobody is going in and nothing is coming out of it today. – William Weston #VOH
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“We were too scared to scream.” Survivors fleeing Mali describe rapes and killings they blame on Russia’s Africa Corps fighters.
Girls and women fleeing Mali describe sexual violence by Russian forces
Women and girls from Mali are alleging rape and sexual assault by Russian fighters with Africa Corps, a new military unit under Moscow's control.
bit.ly
December 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
“We were too scared to scream.” Survivors fleeing Mali describe rapes and killings they blame on Russia’s Africa Corps fighters.
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
Tried watching Star Trek beyond. Just TFR—too fucking ridiculous
December 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Tried watching Star Trek beyond. Just TFR—too fucking ridiculous
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Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
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“Retrofitting something as seemingly mundane as a culvert can have vast ecological & cultural ramifications.”
@seattlebryn.bsky.social speaking my language!
Also note improved fish passage preventing wildlife collisions. Better culverts work for all. #roadecology
magiccanoe.org/salmon-rebou...
@seattlebryn.bsky.social speaking my language!
Also note improved fish passage preventing wildlife collisions. Better culverts work for all. #roadecology
magiccanoe.org/salmon-rebou...
Salmon Rebound After Tribes Fight for Culvert Upgrades - Magic Canoe
An unprecedented project to reconnect fish migration routes in western Washington State is showing exciting signs of ecological and cultural benefits.
magiccanoe.org
December 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“Retrofitting something as seemingly mundane as a culvert can have vast ecological & cultural ramifications.”
@seattlebryn.bsky.social speaking my language!
Also note improved fish passage preventing wildlife collisions. Better culverts work for all. #roadecology
magiccanoe.org/salmon-rebou...
@seattlebryn.bsky.social speaking my language!
Also note improved fish passage preventing wildlife collisions. Better culverts work for all. #roadecology
magiccanoe.org/salmon-rebou...
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This is an excellent & balanced overview of recently increased pace of planetary warming. There's much we still don't know, & there are almost certainly multiple causes, but possibility (not confirmed, but real) that these trends portend higher climate sensitivity is disquieting.
In a new article over at Carbon Brief, I explore why the past three years – 2023, 2024, and 2025 – have been exceptionally warm. The main culprits turn out to be a combination of El Nino and internal variability, declining aerosols, and a strong solar cycle: www.carbonbrief.org/...
December 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This is an excellent & balanced overview of recently increased pace of planetary warming. There's much we still don't know, & there are almost certainly multiple causes, but possibility (not confirmed, but real) that these trends portend higher climate sensitivity is disquieting.