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Steve Wheat
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volts.wtf
Fantastic piece from @leahstokes.bsky.social, with several practical ideas about how to reduce electricity prices.
Electricity Should Be Free at Noon
And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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eliaseells.bsky.social
Timely and transcendent. I've had a marvelous time recently with ECO24, collecting some of the finest ecofiction of the last year. A chance to reflect on the anxieties of a changing world, and to consider possibilities for transformation and alternative paths. A critical collection for our time!!
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION ed. by Marissa van Uden held up before a viburnum lush with autumn foliage.
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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marissavu.bsky.social
NOW OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS
If you published speculative ecofiction this year, we'd love to consider it for ECO25 💚🌿🐾🐚🦋🌿💚
December 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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romiesays.bsky.social
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December 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
virtualpowerpoet.bsky.social
In the old days you could defend a publication that had a grossly inadequate, corporate enabled, fascist coddling opinion section because the real journalism was still of the highest quality. But today the New York Times is part of the algorithmic stew and their problems seem insurmountable.
thierryaaron.bsky.social Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 4d
"According to data from Media Radar, The New York Times took in more than $20 million in advertising revenue from fossil fuel companies from Oct 2020 to Oct 2023, twice what any other outlet earned from the industry" - @amywestervelt.bsky.social, Matthew Green & @joeygrostern.bsky.social

#NYT
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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jonolfert.bsky.social
Early-career professionals are increasingly unsettled — I see it daily — about their prospects for bear skull mentorship. About to enter my forties, I admit I'm insecure about my own magic sword planning and the frequency of my malevolent fog vanishings. My moss layer, however, is ahead of schedule.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
virtualpowerpoet.bsky.social
Another banger from Cory Doctorow: What ifs Trump’s boneheaded tariffs are an opportunity to fix enshittified tech products in Canada? pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/d...
Pluralistic: (Digital) Elbows Up (28 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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billmckibben.bsky.social
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social for books across the speculative genres;
@chmmagazine.bsky.social for the best Weird Horror/Sword & Sorcery magazines;
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social who force us all to be smarter & more literary;
I'll never remember everyone.

THE FUCKING POINT IS, SUPPORT INDIE PUBLISHING.
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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billmckibben.bsky.social
Where’s Dickens when you need him?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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jamesgdyke.info
I will write more about this later, for now just to say our paper has been published today. 10 years after Paris Agreement we can conclusively say we have failed to limit warming to well below 2°C. What next?

www.cell.com/one-earth/ab...
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems
Humanity has pushed Earth’s life-supporting systems to the brink, accelerated by our failures over the past decade. Our only way to limit the duration and magnitude of temperature overshoot is rapid, ...
www.cell.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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hanmarin.bsky.social
fun fact: @radonjournal.bsky.social only needs $80 more per month to be fully funded for their amazing authors and artists. help support anti-establishment art! cool perks including exclusive discord access.

www.radonjournal.com/support

#litmag #scifi #anarchist #writing #art #joinus #wedontbite
Support | Radon Journal
Ways to support Radon Journal. Patreon tiers, social media, and anon donations through Ko-fi. Support independent publishing!
www.radonjournal.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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melissagiragrant.com
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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radonjournal.bsky.social
How Much It Costs to Run a Literary Journal – 2025

Radon Journal is a not-for-profit science fiction publisher committed to transparency. This is our yearly public financial thread. We also want to show aspiring editors the true costs of running a semi-pro journal. #writingcommunity (1/10)
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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aijiang.bsky.social
for the paperback readers 👀‼️

*links for preorder in my bio*

A PALACE NEAR THE WIND paperback forthcoming April 2026 🌬️🍃🎐🏰

@titanbooks.bsky.social
A palace near the wind paperback preorder graphic with the cover of the book
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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volts.wtf
"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."
The Electrotech Revolution | Ember
The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.
ember-energy.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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electricsheepsf.bsky.social
Oliver K. Langmead's verse-novel, Calypso, was shortlisted for the poetry Hugo & a British Science Fiction Association Award, and named one of the best Science Fiction books of 2024 by the Guardian and Esquire magazine.

Wanna hear Oliver read? Register now!
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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globalecoguy.bsky.social
This is insane. 🤦‍♂️

Why do tech giants like Elon Musk and Bill Gates keep on saying such dumb things about climate change?

They have access to the best possible experts, who could actually teach them something, if they would only ask and listen…
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
virtualpowerpoet.bsky.social
I apologize for ruining your Saturday: www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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oculusimperia.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
There are no words for how evil this is
In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to not want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying "i'm letting a human take over from here - someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight." But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. "nah, man - i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy," it said.
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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blooming-burbs.bsky.social
"There's something wrong with me and I don't want to make it right." 😍
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28d
Andrew Otazo has plucked, bagged, heaved and hauled more than 17 tons of trash from the mangroves in Florida.

Every piece of garbage he removes reclaims space for what should be there: bird nesting grounds and fish nurseries. https://wapo.st/4oS36Vx
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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heinzawards.org
Congrats to #HeinzAward winner @globalecoguy.bsky.social on receiving @climateone.org's 2025 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication! 👏https://drawdown.org/news/climate-one-honors-jonathan-foley-phd-with-schneider-award-for-climate-communication\
Climate One honors Jonathan Foley, Ph.D., with Schneider Award for climate communication
Award recognizes scientists who go above and beyond in their efforts to communicate climate change
https://drawdown.org/news/climate-one-honors-jonathan-foley-phd-with-schneider-award-for-climate-communication\
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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billmckibben.bsky.social
If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM