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Cwnidog @cwnidog.bsky.social · 7h

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Magpie Miller @magpiemiller.bsky.social · 7h

Perfect moment.

Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton by Jill Krementz, 1977
#Caturday

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 7h

One of the blissful things about being in Canada was the lack of pharmaceutical ads. It’s amazing how many other products exist in the world- chocolate! Laundry detergent! - that you can hear about if you’re not being told about medullary thyroid cancer

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 7h

Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism #books #nonfiction
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d

Climate Update: Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” scientists have found, raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated. www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 23h

Dr. Seuss: Considering the complex legacy of Theodore Geisel
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Is It Time to Move On From Dr. Seuss?

August 12th marks the 65th anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, a book whose orange cover fills me with delicious nostalgia. Svetlana Boym defines nostalgia as “a longing for a home that …

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d

Climate Update: Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” scientists have found, raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated. www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

www.cnn.com

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d

Karen becomes the Atlantic’s northernmost named storm on record
Storm formed at about the same latitude as Minneapolis...
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d

With Trump policies the US is falling behind the rest of the world on renewables #energy #climate
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Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world

As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d

Book Review: The Omnivore's Deception #books
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The Omnivore's Deception: Conscience makes cowards of us all : EcoLit Books

If the title of this book reminds you of the bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, that is intentional. For as author John Sanbonmatsu writes, Michael Pollan did a ... Read more

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d

The last time we stopped Fascism:
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Nazi Town, USA | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS

YouTube video by American Experience | PBS

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d

John Fugelsang on 'Separation of Church & Hate'
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John Fugelsang - “Separation of Church and Hate” | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for the shout-out!

James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 3d

“Science Under Siege,” by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, is an impassioned manifesto against attacks on science.
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Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science

"Science Under Siege," by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, is an impassioned manifesto against attacks on science.

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d

Hard Science and Human Drama in the year 2099: Extreme weather? You haven't seen it yet. Read a story of the future: 'The Hurricane Code' #climate #SciFi #CliFi #Environment #booksky #books
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d

The ‘Thursday Murder Club’ Author on Killers, Cats and Kindness #books
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The ‘Thursday Murder Club’ Author on Killers, Cats and Kindness

Richard Osman was at home discussing “The Impossible Fortune,” the latest book in his phenomenally successful “Thursday Murder Club” series,

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 2d

Climate Update: When will climate change turn life upside down? #climate
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 2d

On the AI Prompt That Could End the World #AI
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The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

How much do we have to fear from A.I., really? It’s a question I’ve been asking experts since the debut

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 2d

Moon Tree
Field notes on the tiny seeds that took a trip around the dark side of the moon
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Moon Tree - Orion Magazine

Field notes on the tree seeds that took a trip around the dark side of the moon

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 2d

Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story

Musical Pioneers

Like many of the American musicians who helped create rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s, The Everly Brothers were instantly influential, popular almost from the b…

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 2d

Book Review: 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny'
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'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny' is a terrific, tangled love story

This is an epic novel to be savored. At nearly 700 pages, this multi-character, multi-stranded story explores exile and displacement — not only from one's home, but also from one's own sense of self.

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 2d

'Not Your Average Demon' horror novels that go beyond scares
dnyuz.com/2025/10/01/n...

Not Your Average Demon: Unconventional Possession Novels

Say the word “possession” and everyone thinks demons, priests, Ouija boards, holy water and young girls having a really bad

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 3d

Climate Update: 2025 has been a crushing year for science in America
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 3d

my guess is, Wolfe died too recently

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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 3d

no it was a biography...

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WIRED @wired.com · 3d

NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

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