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climate and health justice 🌎. PTFC ⚽️. beats, hip-hop, and jazz 🎧🎷. cat dad 🐈‍⬛🐈. personal account, views my own. the wrong ice 🧊 is melting. 🌹 🍉 🐸
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cascadia.raj 🌲 @jairajsingh.bsky.social · 8d
cool sticker.
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doctorvive.bsky.social
“‘There is a world in which these nations [that support a fossil fuel phaseout] band together and create a global trading bloc that could essentially force the petrostates to start decarbonizing … it could be a way forward.”

www.motherjones.com/environment/...
Can the world address climate change without the US?
Even with Trump's America absent, COP30 ended in a weak deal—and a win for petrostates.
www.motherjones.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
One of the points Joshua Davis makes in *Police Against the Movement* is that COINTELPRO was started by the police and all the FBI did was federalize it.

And SNCC and CORE did a ton of organizing around police brutality specifically.
#BookSky
Police Against the Movement
A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century...
press.princeton.edu
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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doctorvive.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who is explicitly fighting for the phase out of fossil fuels. I am grateful to be in this fight with you all. 💚
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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wajali.bsky.social
This could give Trump his opening to go for the Insurrection Act and Martial Law.

He's desperate and his falling in the polls and can't escape the economy or the Epstein Scandal.

A cornered rat will chew through anything and anyone to stay alive.
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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gonzo.bsky.social
Latenite archival BabbyGonz time!
Orange and white kitten sleeping on his back on a fluffy pink bed, arms to his sides like little cherub wings
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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cchyale.bsky.social
2/2
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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cchyale.bsky.social
From turkey to cranberry sauce, climate change is reshaping the foods that define our Thanksgiving table. This season, let’s savor our plates while recognizing what it takes to protect them.

What are your favorite Thanksgiving foods?

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November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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bearysweet.bsky.social
We will overwhelm you with tons and tons of cuteness.

Resistance is futile.

🐑😾😹🥰

#cat #kid #adorable
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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cape-bc.bsky.social
Vancouver Council votes this week on a budget that could slash programs supporting public health & climate action. We're submitting this open letter tomorrow. We have >200 signatures so far, including almost 100 health professionals. Help us reach 300 by morning! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 24, 2025 Dear Mayor Sim and Vancouver City Council, We write to express deep concern about the proposed 2026 budget cuts that significantly reduce funding to departments responsible for public health, climate resilience, safety, and equity. The draft budget proposes a 14% cut to Planning, Urban Design, and Sustainability; a 12% cut to Arts, Culture, and Community Services; a 13% cut to Real Estate, Environment, and Facilities Management; and a cut to Engineering. These departments deliver core services that protect people during extreme heat, reduce pollution, improve road safety, and support communities facing the greatest health risks. Cuts of this scale deepen existing inequities and place lives at risk. The 2021 heat dome caused 619 deaths in British Columbia, overwhelmingly among seniors, people living alone and without indoor cooling, low-income renters, those with mental illness, and residents of neighbourhoods with limited tree cover. We know heat emergencies will become more frequent and more severe in the coming years. The departments facing cuts are home to programs – including building retrofits, tree canopy expansion, green infrastructure, cooling centres, and neighbourhood-level resilience planning – that are among the most effective public health tools we have. Reducing funding for these departments could delay life-saving interventions and increase climate-related health harms for those already most exposed. Traffic violence remains one of the most persistent and preventable threats to public health and safety in Vancouver. Pedestrian injuries and deaths disproportionately affect lower-income neighbourhoods, and children, seniors, and people walking, cycling or using mobility aids bear the greatest burden. Cuts to planning, urban design, and engineering could delay or cancel projects such as safer crosswalks, signal upgrades, traffic-calming measures, and safe routes to schools. These interventions reduce serious injuries, save lives, a… all contribute to mental health, social connection, and crisis resilience. ACCS also coordinates critical work to support the health and safety of sex workers. Reducing this department’s capacity will directly harm communities that rely most on stable, accessible social support. At the same time, the Park Board has been directed to absorb approximately $11 million in cuts, which threatens childcare facilities, recreational programming, and community centres that serve as lifelines during extreme heat and cold. Libraries, which require an additional $1.65 million to provide universal seven-day operations, are also essential cooling and warming centres, public washrooms, internet and communication hubs, and trusted spaces for seniors, youth, low-income families, and people without stable housing. Cuts to these frontline services would reduce Vancouver’s ability to protect residents during emergencies and deepen existing inequities in access to safe, healthy public spaces. We are also concerned by information from city staff indicating the possible elimination of baby-changing tables and menstrual product dispensers in civic facilities. These are basic health supports, relied on most by women, caregivers, and families without discretionary income. Removing them would further widen health inequities. If revenue shortfalls are offset through higher user fees, the burden will again fall disproportionately on those least able to pay: low-income families, newcomers, seniors, people with disabilities, and youth who rely on public programming and facilities the most. Equitable, climate-resilient cities cannot be built on regressive cost-shifting. Finally, decisions of this magnitude, with major implications for health, equity, and climate justice require full transparency about which programs, staff, and services are affected before the November 25 vote. We respectfully ask council to: Release a clear and complete breakdown of all proposed cuts before the final vote Prot…
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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bandcamp.com
In the latest Bandcamp Selects, Nightmares On Wax stops by to talk about his new Echo45 Soundsystem mixtape.
Bandcamp Radio | Bandcamp
Tune in weekly to hear new music and artist interviews.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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democracynow.org
“We came to this COP to get a very concrete decision on just transitioning away from fossil fuels,” says Harjeet Singh, strategic adviser to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
“Inviting the Arsonists”: Climate Activist Slams Fossil Fuel Lobbyists at U.N. Talks
Nations are struggling to reach a final text agreement at the COP30 U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil. Decisions are made by consensus at COPs, requiring consent among 192 countries, and the bigges...
www.democracynow.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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democracynow.org
The U.S. is the biggest emitter of carbon emissions from AI, making up 45% of the world’s emissions.
“Data Crunch”: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals
A new report titled “Data Crunch: How the AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals” from the Center for Biological Diversity warns the booming artificial intelligence in...
www.democracynow.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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handcranked.bsky.social
Small kitten, giant ears, can't lose

Very old phone photo of Lily

#BlueSkyArtShow #small #caturday #ClassicMono #cats #cute #TimelineCleanse #EastCoastKin
A dramatic black and white photo of a small, beautiful tabby kitten with giant ears sitting on the arm of a chair with her paw dangling off the side. She's looking down and there's a shadow of her face on the chair.
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
jairajsingh.bsky.social
finished another book from the library: what climate justice means and why we should care by elizabeth cripps.
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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anson343.bsky.social
I wonder what would happen if everyone just turned off their cell phones for a day what financial impact it would have on META, Google, Apple and all the rest profiting off our attention?
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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niedermeyer.online
"There is only basically one way to make everyone wealthy, and that is AI and robotics," Musk says, conveniently replacing the word "me" with the better-testing "everyone."
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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jonburkeuk.bsky.social
No, *I* have the cutest cat.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
jairajsingh.bsky.social
cool sticker.
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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gonzo.bsky.social
Goodemorning Gonzobongos! I am up i am i am awake okey!
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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astra.bsky.social
We need more honest language:

Theft Tech (AI)

Grift Tech (crypto)

Death Tech (automated weapons and military surveillance)
naomiaklein.bsky.social Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 11d
"theft tech" is a term my pal @astra.bsky.social thought of just today when we were working on our book about these End Times Fascists.

We were thinking about what should happen when this this bubble busts, as we all know it will.

Remember: they have bunkers. We don't. 2/3
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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skippyandfriends.bsky.social
#DailyAnipalPhotoNov2025
Day 17: Monday moment
After zooming through the whole night and waking everyone up, Mikey has finally gifted us with a rare quiet Monday moment. 😴

#CatsOfBluesky #KittyLoafMonday
A cream colored lynx point kitten with light grey stripes and light brown nose lays sleeping, wrapped in a soft green brown and white blanket, with only his head peeking out from under the covers.
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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bodegacats.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
jairajsingh.bsky.social
Finished reading 107 Days. Now I’m looking forward to outliving this collectively traumatic timeline. #Booksky
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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justkeepskeeting.pro
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my orange cat simon roaring like a lion
November 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
jairajsingh.bsky.social
caturday
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM