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Dr Sea Rotmann

@drsearotmann.bsky.social

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Austrian-Kiwi scientist (coral reef ecologist by training, social ecologist & energy justice researcher by trade). I live at the literal end of the world where I’m building an eco community & hoarding animals. Obsessed with the Kraken 🐙🦑 No DMs.

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · Nov 10

One of the glorious things of living in paradise at the literal end of the world (Onetahua/Farewell Spit, te Waipounamu/Sth Island of Aotearoa New Zealand) is that cetaceans come here a lot - including to strand, unfortunately. Last week, we had two orca teaching their young to hunt stingrays! 🐳

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10h

Solidarity is the only way

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 3h

The news are all ridiculous, mind-bendingly stupid or outright apocalyptic RN, but I got to report on three amazing #sustainableenergy conferences in the last week: Ara Ake’s Energy Affordability & Resilience conference, He Ahi Kā E Ao Hou Māori community hui & the Māori Future Energy Summit. Hope 🙌

Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 3h

Same. And my heart breaks just thinking about going back 10, 20, 30 years later and seeing the devastation of what was the most magic and thriving ecological marvel our beautiful planet has produced 😭

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 23h

#Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist.
Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 1d

Bleaching, Melting, Slowing: New Global Tipping Points report tracks growing risks of Earth system tipping points. It highlights mounting risks, from melting glaciers, ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 1d

Deeply embarrassing to be a New Zealander, farmer and lifelong climate activist today 🫣 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets

Farmers praised the move, but scientists and opposition parties criticised it as ‘weak’ and ‘unambitious’

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 1d

As a coral reef ecologist by training, this is the single-greatest heartbreak of my otherwise blessed life: the extinction of the greatest ecosystems on earth, in our lifetime, with full knowledge it would happen, because humans love fascism & tat more than life 💔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 2d

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas. Growing evidence of permanent shift Without adequate sea ice formation, their melting rates will accelerate, with the potential to cause extreme global sea level rise.
#climate
www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

www.newscientist.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 2d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

This Is Fascism

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 2d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 3d

World has reached a ‘critical turning point’ in switch to renewable energy www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

World has reached a ‘critical turning point’ in switch to renewable energy

Solar and wind power outpaced the growth in worldwide electricity demand

www.independent.co.uk

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 3d

You know the assignment 👍

It'd be a real shame if this photo of President Obama receiving his Nobel peace prize went viral today, for no particular reason

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 3d

caaaaaaan I interest you in Denmark’s groundbreaking national agriculture, nature, and climate policy, agreed to in 2024, with a Ministry of Green Transition established to implement it?

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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 3d

Argentina gets $20 billion. Qatar gets an air base on US soil. Dipshit gets nearly $1 billion to retrofit his flying bribe. ICE gets $11.25 billion added to their annual detention budget.

But our enlisted personnel are currently hitting up food banks to fucking eat because they aren't getting paid.

Ghoul Patrick @gpatrick.bsky.social · 3d

Soldiers lined up at the food bank.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 3d

I tried to read all of this deranged lunacy but my brain started leaking out of my ears so I stopped.

Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 3d

Peter Thiel is quite, quite mad.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4d

I can’t adequately express how mystified and nauseated I am by the conversation about Trump receiving a Nobel Peace Prize that corporate media is now leading. But as a journalist, attorney, historian and Trump presidential biographer I’m now obligated to make the case *against* in full.

Here it is:

Media and MAGA Calls for Trump to Catch a Nobel Peace Prize Rather Than An ICC War Crimes Indictment Are Obscene

The second-biggest threat to global peace after Putin has earned a cell for war crimes—not a humanitarian award. That his grotesque and scammy appeal for a Nobel Peace Prize is working is terrifying.

sethabramson.substack.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4d

i’ll never get over this

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