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Ben Lockwood, PhD

@benlockwood.bsky.social

Ecologist & Geographer @ ecosystems.psu.edu | Writer | Editor of @briefecology.bsky.social & @rottingleafmag.bsky.social | DSA Organizer https://www.briefecology.com/

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Need an auto-block function applied to anyone whose post includes the string "I've started using AI"

03.03.2026 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Academia in its current form is cooked

03.03.2026 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This war is really going to drive home the point that it’s not a great idea for society to depend on fossil fuels that are completely vulnerable to petrostate warmongering

03.03.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Graphic describing actions that can be taken against the war in Iran.

Graphic describing actions that can be taken against the war in Iran.

‼️TAKE ACTION: NO WAR WITH IRAN‼️ Organize/attend a rally with @answercoalition.bsky.social , lobby Congress to pass the War Powers Resolution, and organize your union to pass an antiwar resolution! 🌹

28.02.2026 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 234    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 7
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Email your representatives: No War with Venezuela! I just wrote a letter to my congressional representatives to urge them to oppose Trump's illegal war with Venezuela. Can you join me? https://admin.actionnetwork.org/letters/email-your-representative-...

The War Powers Resolution could come up for a vote in the House as soon as next week. Tell your representative: No war with Venezuela, No war with Iran πŸ‘‡

actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...

28.02.2026 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Andrew Kozma β€” RogueAgent

"What do we owe? Death asks
while removing my teeth. The process takes years."

My poem "Two Quarters Less a Penny" is live on Rogue Agent. It's a birthday poem, so about getting older. Whee! www.rogueagentjournal.com/akozma-2

02.03.2026 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a β€œvictim” in the warrant.

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Check out Matt’s piece and much more in our latest issue of the Eco Update πŸŒŽπŸ‘‡

02.03.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shorter version of Rubio: Bibi is fully in charge.

02.03.2026 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 359    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 4

No war but the class war

02.03.2026 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

02.03.2026 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 23760    πŸ” 5918    πŸ’¬ 1719    πŸ“Œ 632

Look at this chart

02.03.2026 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 464    πŸ” 190    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 10
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My new article on 'proletarian ecology' was featured in 'Brief Ecology' for their February issue of 'Eco-Update'. t.co/eJy84rTh8S

02.03.2026 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

We’re getting a lot of positive feedback on expanding The Eco Update into something more than just a newsletter. The goal has always been to spread ideas and knowledge that we feel can contribute to a more ecological society, and our latest issue delivers

01.03.2026 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NO WAR WITH IRAN!

NO TO IMPERIALIST WAR, YES TO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IRANIAN PEOPLE! 🌹

Read DSA's statement on the US-Israeli attacks on Iran (1/5)

28.02.2026 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 291    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Emily Schrader - ΧΧžΧ™ΧœΧ™ Χ©Χ¨Χ™Χ™Χ“Χ¨ Ψ§Ω…ΫŒΩ„ΫŒ شریدر
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The Islamic regime is claiming more than 50+ β€œmartyrs” were killed at a girls school in Minab …except they forgot to mention that the school is literally part of the Asif corps of the IRGC on base, which was targeted. Not only that, it’s also being used as an IRGC admin, command and medical facility at this time.

Meanwhile, Anti-regime media has said no students were killed nor was the school itself the target.

Post See new posts Conversation Emily Schrader - ΧΧžΧ™ΧœΧ™ Χ©Χ¨Χ™Χ™Χ“Χ¨ Ψ§Ω…ΫŒΩ„ΫŒ شریدر @emilykschrader The Islamic regime is claiming more than 50+ β€œmartyrs” were killed at a girls school in Minab …except they forgot to mention that the school is literally part of the Asif corps of the IRGC on base, which was targeted. Not only that, it’s also being used as an IRGC admin, command and medical facility at this time. Meanwhile, Anti-regime media has said no students were killed nor was the school itself the target.

Those school girls were soldiers and therefore deserved to be obliterated by a US/Israeli bomb, but also they're not dead but also it'd be good if they were dead

28.02.2026 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2251    πŸ” 474    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 45

The peace will continue until morale improves

01.03.2026 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need to Reckon With the American War Machine We cannot afford to slip into despair. We must push back against militarism everywhere, at every turn.

Essential reading. "We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity, and technology goes toward burying children in rubble."

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Take a break from The Horrors by sending us some different horrors to read

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Email your representatives: No War with Venezuela! I just wrote a letter to my congressional representatives to urge them to oppose Trump's illegal war with Venezuela. Can you join me? https://admin.actionnetwork.org/letters/email-your-representative-...

The War Powers Resolution could come up for a vote in the House as soon as next week. Tell your representative: No war with Venezuela, No war with Iran πŸ‘‡

actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...

28.02.2026 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

once again reminding everyone to funnel your emotions into organizing and building solidarity in your community and not pointless doomscrolling

28.02.2026 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3026    πŸ” 1592    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 17

Bloody backpacks. Your tax money at work.

28.02.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 622    πŸ” 234    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 11

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe?

AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

10.01.2024 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 9663    πŸ” 1979    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 61

Can we do a regime change here at home?

28.02.2026 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Cover of the latest issue of The Eco Update

Cover of the latest issue of The Eco Update

Table of contents

Table of contents

Letter from the editor

Letter from the editor

Screen shot of first article

Screen shot of first article

Oh and did you know The Eco Update is also available as a sleek, digital magazine? Get a copy here πŸ‘‡

www.briefecology.com/shop/p/theor...

28.02.2026 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

28.02.2026 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5160    πŸ” 1314    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1

So the β€œanti-war” president has now threatened or engaged in military action in Venezuela, Greenland, Cuba, and Iran. Have I got that right?

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