Paula Read
@paularead.bsky.social
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Perpetual newbie. PhD Creative Writing / Honorary Research Associate, University of Bristol @bristol_writing @the-independent.com @undark.org @LitroMagazine @huffpost.com @panoramajournal.bsky.social paulareadwrites.com
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paularead.bsky.social
Now this is what I like in my flash fiction...
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chrisbataille.bsky.social
This is the quiet, but slowly getting louder horror story taking place across the northern hemisphere
sustainable2050.bsky.social
Netherlands Scientific Climate Council warns: under pressure from climate change, forests and soils are now taking up less CO2 from the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.
www.wkr.nl/adviezen/ove...
Graph showing diminishing uptake of CO2 by global forests, from around 9Gt/year in the beginning of this century to around 2 Gt/year now
paularead.bsky.social
Boy howdy are we in trouble if these folks suddenly decide to go live in their bunkers in New Zealand.
paularead.bsky.social
That branch has a lot of weight on it at this point, and a lot of saws.
paularead.bsky.social
Unless what they are itching for isn't genuine respect, but compliance after a brutal beatdown.
paularead.bsky.social
It's okay, we've only just passed one of the official global climate tipping points. Surely that won't make much difference, right?
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gregorynorminton.bsky.social
*sigh as deep as extinction*
steporciello.bsky.social
A proposal to roll back the EU corporate sustainability rules sailed through a European Parliament committee vote on Monday – a clear win for the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), and a setback for the EU’s Green Deal agenda.
euractiv.com
MEPs endorse rollback of corporate sustainability rules on EPP terms
paularead.bsky.social
To be fair, it's still fashionable in some circles...
paularead.bsky.social
Until we (wp) learn to understand whiteness, racism will always be that thing out there that we can decide not to think about unless we feel like it.
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pik-potsdam.bsky.social
160 scientists, 23 countries, 1 report: The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, together with @exeter.ac.uk, highlights mounting risks across Earth’s systems, from melting glaciers & ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure. Watch now👇
👉global-tipping-points.org
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jasondovemark.bsky.social
"“We’re no longer talking about future tipping points — there’s one happening right now. Although our governments are used to planning for incremental, slow change, things do seem to be speeding up.”
grist.org/oceans/coral...
Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’
A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.
grist.org
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
How Genocide Happened
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wihorne.bsky.social
All jokes aside, this is an incredible piece of analysis & the way it concludes by motioning to the growing phenomenon of RW billionaires buying & destroying anything that challenges their regime of unchecked profit & power should serve as a wake-up call to those of us still missing the thread.
paularead.bsky.social
When is a ceasefire not a ceasefire?
wearthepeace.bsky.social
The beloved Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered. We are absolutely devastated. For 2 years he reported on the genocide of his people, just for him to be murdered during the ‘ceasefire’
paularead.bsky.social
How much were the bribes, though, I didn't see that in the article? How cheap a date was he for selling out his country and the EU?
paularead.bsky.social
I went back to check on someone's address yesterday. The change was staggering.
When you're over there regularly, it's more like a gradual creep of the walls closing in but you don't quite notice just how claustrophobic its gotten until you leave & go back after a few months. It's gotten so dark.
a window in a building with a view of a field behind it
Alt: A door to the outside is gradually bricked up and closed.
media.tenor.com
paularead.bsky.social
What I wouldn't give for a decent taco truck. Well that and a packed Supreme Court and free abortion access. The usual.
paularead.bsky.social
What will they offer us next, free ice cream for everyone?!

Lordy, no!
atrupar.com
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
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highcountrynews.org
A decade of organizing secured Chuckwalla National Monument — but a federal review, DOJ memo, lawsuit, and bills in Congress now threaten not just Chuckwalla, but monuments across the West. These unprecedented threats make public voices and vigilance more crucial than ever.

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The case for national monuments - High Country News
National monuments across the West face unprecedented threats, making public voices and vigilance more crucial than ever.
www.hcn.org
paularead.bsky.social
So that's like, a Nobel prize made of Lego?