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Environmental educator, science communicator, and air quality nerd. Artist. Skull collector. I bake and know how to find directions by the stars.
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· Mar 21
My sister just finished quilting my #climatestripes #sciart piece! Each color represents the annual U.S. temperature anomaly, from 1897-2024. Things are heating up. @katharinehayhoe.com @edhawkins.org @nicolekelner.bsky.social @kimmoldofsky.bsky.social @lecagle.bsky.social
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Trump calls Somali immigrants “garbage.” His VP cheers him on. Meanwhile, families are being torn apart, asylum is being shut down, aid is being gutted, and the military is firing on survivors in the water.
Cruelty is becoming national policy—silence is complicity.
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Cruelty is becoming national policy—silence is complicity.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Trump’s Dehumanization Campaign Is Becoming Normalized
A president who calls immigrants “garbage” is dangerous enough. A country that grows desensitized to it is even more frightening.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Trump calls Somali immigrants “garbage.” His VP cheers him on. Meanwhile, families are being torn apart, asylum is being shut down, aid is being gutted, and the military is firing on survivors in the water.
Cruelty is becoming national policy—silence is complicity.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Cruelty is becoming national policy—silence is complicity.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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Hey y’all, it’s Bandcamp Friday again. So if you by the Anxious Bench EP today, 100% of the proceeds will help us get back into the studio
@eviedc.bsky.social says that we play "winter music"—good for quiet evenings at home when it’s too cold outside to do much—so maybe today is perfect
@eviedc.bsky.social says that we play "winter music"—good for quiet evenings at home when it’s too cold outside to do much—so maybe today is perfect
Exhalation EP, by The Anxious Bench
3 track album
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December 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Hey y’all, it’s Bandcamp Friday again. So if you by the Anxious Bench EP today, 100% of the proceeds will help us get back into the studio
@eviedc.bsky.social says that we play "winter music"—good for quiet evenings at home when it’s too cold outside to do much—so maybe today is perfect
@eviedc.bsky.social says that we play "winter music"—good for quiet evenings at home when it’s too cold outside to do much—so maybe today is perfect
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The internet is nothing but AI slop. Just searched for "how does air pollution affect plants and got a number of sites filled with junk statements like "the more plants are damaged, the less CO2 they take in. Consequently, the CO2 goes into the atmosphere and destroys the ozone layer."
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The internet is nothing but AI slop. Just searched for "how does air pollution affect plants and got a number of sites filled with junk statements like "the more plants are damaged, the less CO2 they take in. Consequently, the CO2 goes into the atmosphere and destroys the ozone layer."
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December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Last week in our student reading group we read the portion of Wealth of Nations in which Smith comments on the way generally unedifying ways that young men spend their gap year/ study abroad/ grand tour time.
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
American Student Ends Up Trapped in Giant Vagina Sculpture
Firefighters embarked on an "extraordinary rescue mission" when an American exchange student got his leg trapped inside a giant vagina sculpture.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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@cnn DO BETTER
It would be nice if @cnn.com acknowledged this story was broken last week by The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-emplo...
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
@cnn DO BETTER
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Marissa is running circles around establishment outlets with a fraction of a fraction of the resources--the least they could do is put some respect on her name!
It would be nice if @cnn.com acknowledged this story was broken last week by The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-emplo...
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Marissa is running circles around establishment outlets with a fraction of a fraction of the resources--the least they could do is put some respect on her name!
Hey can anyone remind me how you can tell if someone following you is a bot?
November 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Hey can anyone remind me how you can tell if someone following you is a bot?
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November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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This whole thread explains something that I've been mulling over for some time -- specifically, why so many people would choose to elect a criminal for their leader. Thanks to @resistrebelrevolt.net for laying it out so eloquently.
Earlier I distinguished the difference between socialism & social democracies (nordic capitalism). Someone asked me why socialism is bad.
In good faith I answered with this thread: 🧵👇
Then they blocked me. 🥸
I wonder if this was a block-worthy assessment of socialism. 🤷♀️
In good faith I answered with this thread: 🧵👇
Then they blocked me. 🥸
I wonder if this was a block-worthy assessment of socialism. 🤷♀️
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This whole thread explains something that I've been mulling over for some time -- specifically, why so many people would choose to elect a criminal for their leader. Thanks to @resistrebelrevolt.net for laying it out so eloquently.
This is fascinating and makes me, an immunocompromised person, very glad I do not have tattoos.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This is fascinating and makes me, an immunocompromised person, very glad I do not have tattoos.
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Immunocompromised people have long known tattoos f w/yr immune system. Now science is catching up:
Study on “immune responses to tattoo ink accumulating in the lymph nodes… tattoo ink commonly reaches & persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Study on “immune responses to tattoo ink accumulating in the lymph nodes… tattoo ink commonly reaches & persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination | PNAS
Despite safety concerns regarding the toxicity of tattoo ink, no studies have reported
the consequences of tattooing on the immune response. In thi...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Immunocompromised people have long known tattoos f w/yr immune system. Now science is catching up:
Study on “immune responses to tattoo ink accumulating in the lymph nodes… tattoo ink commonly reaches & persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Study on “immune responses to tattoo ink accumulating in the lymph nodes… tattoo ink commonly reaches & persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history.
Pay your respects ⤵️
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#Wayback1T
Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...
#Wayback1T
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history.
Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...
#Wayback1T
Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...
#Wayback1T
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contrarian.substack.com/p/a-call-to-... “Success looks like a dent in sales of Home Depot, Target, and Amazon, and folks understanding there is a dent because of [these companies’] enabling of the administration.” In short, every dollar not spent sends a message.
A call to action
‘We Ain’t Buying It’
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November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
contrarian.substack.com/p/a-call-to-... “Success looks like a dent in sales of Home Depot, Target, and Amazon, and folks understanding there is a dent because of [these companies’] enabling of the administration.” In short, every dollar not spent sends a message.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Have you checked out your local www.freecycle.org group?
A few years back my daughter was a big fan of baking and we were making new recipes every weekend. Someone was downsizing and gave us a huge box of baking sheets, pans, & molds that were barely used. You can make requests too.
A few years back my daughter was a big fan of baking and we were making new recipes every weekend. Someone was downsizing and gave us a huge box of baking sheets, pans, & molds that were barely used. You can make requests too.
Freecycle: Front Door
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November 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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3/ Public empowerment is important, folks. Reducing the amount of respiratory aerosol particles you inhale in shared spaces will dramatically reduce your risk of infection. Increase ventilation when possible, wear an N95, KN95 or better mask/respirator in shared public spaces, improve filtration.
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
3/ Public empowerment is important, folks. Reducing the amount of respiratory aerosol particles you inhale in shared spaces will dramatically reduce your risk of infection. Increase ventilation when possible, wear an N95, KN95 or better mask/respirator in shared public spaces, improve filtration.
Read it! The Times is a piece of sh*t.
This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Read it! The Times is a piece of sh*t.