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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 3d

Joining all the terrorists at the Hate America rally #NoKings

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

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Toni Aittoniemi @gimulnautti.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 3d

First frost
#nordictoots #frost #suomi

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars 🫠

Campaigning for cleaner transport in Europe

Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport & energy

www.transportenvironment.org

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 4d

Trumpist Speaker of the US House of Representatives keeps elected Democrat
Adelita Grijalva out of office, using the government shutdown as an excuse

She can force a vote on the Epstein files, but she's still not sworn in.
www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g...

Adelita Grijalva can force a vote on the Epstein files, but she's still not sworn in

The Arizona Democrat would be the decisive signature on a petition to force a vote on releasing the records. But Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not swear her in until after the shutdown is over.

www.npr.org

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Graham H @grahamh.bsky.social · 7d

#NowPlaying #jazz #jazzsky #vinyl #vinylsky #vinylcommunity #musicsky

Horace Silver, Song For My Father (1964)

One of the very finest.

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AngelSil @angelsil.bsky.social · 5d

Hunter S. Thompson spent most of his RS years writing from Woody Creek or the road. You can't DO the kind of journalism they made their name on sitting in an NYC/LA/SF office.

Insanity.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 5d

Wonderful resistance by Pentagon reporters walking off the job en masse rather than agree to Hegseth censorship.

The WH press corps should be taking note

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.

apnews.com

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Stuart Jones @owenthesignal.bsky.social · 7d

‘Which fonts do you want for the sale poster?’

‘Yes’

#fonts #typography #museum #allthefonts
@fontsinuse.com @themerl.bsky.social

All the fonts, including a surprisingly modern 1960s style italic font, advertising the sale of Ashton Farm by auction at the Crown Hotel Bishops Waltham in 1908.
Photo from Bishops Waltham Museum, from the Austin & Wyatt archive

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 6d

World breaks renewable records - adding 582 GW of capacity in 2024 - but must nove faster to hit the agreed 2030 tripling goal.
From @irena-official.bsky.social:
www.irena.org/News/pressre...

TRIPLING RENEWABLE POWER BY 2030
infographic showing that speed of deployment needs to double to 1122 GW/year in 2025-2030, requiring an even higher growth rate than last year.

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Wif Stenger @wifsten.bsky.social · 7d

Lula seems to be making the right moves on protecting the #Amazon and #indigenous livelihoods

#Brazil set to host #COP30 with climate wins on deforestation

f24.my/BUsf.BS

Brazil set to host COP30 with climate wins on deforestation, indigenous reserves

As Brazil prepares to host the UN COP30 climate summit in the Amazon next month, the country's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has clocked impressive climate wins on curbing deforestation, legalis...

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Wif Stenger @wifsten.bsky.social · 7d

New York Times, AP, Newsmax, Washington Post, The Atlantic and Reuters refuse to sign new #Pentagon rules

#censorship #pressfreedom
apnews.com/article/pent...

New York Times, AP, Newsmax among news outlets who say they won't sign new Pentagon rules

The New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative television network Newsmax are among five outlets on Monday who say they won't sign a new Defense Department document about its new press ...

apnews.com

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 8d

"Hamburg voters have backed a citizen-led referendum that obliges Germany’s second largest city to step up climate action and reach climate neutrality by 2040, five years earlier than previously planned."

#ClimateAction

www.cleanenergywire.org/news/hamburg...

Hamburg referendum backs more ambitious climate action, 2040 net-zero target

www.cleanenergywire.org

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Pentti @penttik.bsky.social · 10d

The UK government gave contracts for health and defense systems to this guy’s company 🙃
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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Wif Stenger @wifsten.bsky.social · 11d

This looks quite cozy: A village that lives on sand in #EastJava #Indonesia

#interiordesign #architecture
apnews.com/photo-essay/...

PHOTO ESSAY: Indonesia’s village keeps tradition of life on sand

LEGUNG TIMUR, Indonesia (AP) — In the northeastern tip of Indonesia’s Madura Island, sand blankets front yards and even spills into the interior of homes.

apnews.com

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Kara-Lis Coverdale @k-lc.bsky.social · 12d

Curve Traces of Held Space ♡ ༄
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Curve Traces of Held Space

Provided to YouTube by TuneCoreCurve Traces of Held Space · Kara-Lis CoverdaleCurve Traces of Held Space℗ 2025 GateReleased on: 2025-10-08Auto-generated by Y...

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Wif Stenger @wifsten.bsky.social · 12d

#Renewables surpass #coal in global #electricity production, woo-hoo!
☀️🍃
#Solar and #wind outpacing demand growth, electricity emissions edging down

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember

Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.

ember-energy.org

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Wif Stenger @wifsten.bsky.social · 15d

Apparently some people are outraged that designer Haider Ackermann used this 1995 piece by Finnish #electronic duo Pan Sonic as the soundtrack for his new #TomFord collection

#fashion #turntotheleft #TFSS26 @phinnweb.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/NAPu4ol...

TOM FORD Spring | Summer 2026

YouTube video by TOM FORD

www.youtube.com

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Wif Stenger @wifsten.bsky.social · 15d

There's gonna be a European highway stretching from #Derry #NorthernIreland to #Kotka #Finland -- but you'll have to use your imagination (and/or some cargo ships) to do the whole 1,580 km route

yle.fi/a/74-20186722

Kotka to Derry: Stubb approves Finnish leg of European route E16

The European motorway will stretch more than 1500km across five countries – but you won't be able to drive it by private car.

yle.fi

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸🐝🦄 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 15d

This goes deep into the bartender soul: we're trained to pick up on the layers below the surface of who people pretend to be (often exposed while drunk).

AOC says: "Laugh at them! The risks are real but one of the best ways that you can dismantle a movement of insecure men is to laugh at them."

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 16d

Many people have to draft an apology form. Not me though, never doubted the power of idealistic girls hated by weird old men

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Fazia Rizvi @faziarizvi.bsky.social · 16d

A really good news thread.

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 16d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 16d

so is this the fight against "left-wing terrorism"?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 16d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 16d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 17d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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