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yeah this one is very bad rn. it's not funny or cute or "wow, these guys are wild" that there's a concentration camp in Florida. it's a horror. It's "the concentration camp at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport," but all major news outlets are going with "Alligator Alcatraz" in quotes.

Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.

Telomere Angel A *bad poem* with a terrible title ("first thought, best thought” not but yet still…) + a nod to fuckin’ sarcophagi

Telomere Angel

suppose I’ll use *this* to point to *that*

Ethiopia Could Open EV Floodgates Across Africa, Asia, And Beyond - CleanTechnica Last year, when Ethiopia decided to ban the import of fossil fuel vehicles, it was a huge and unprecedented move — not just for Africa, but for any country in the world. One immediately had to wonder,...

"If Ethiopia’s fossil-fueled vehicle import ban works and helps the country, why wouldn’t other countries learn the lesson and come up with a similar/the same import ban?"

Remember when the CEO of Exxon said he "didn't get" EVs?

He's probably starting to understand now.

After Iraq There's No Excuse For Buying The War Lies About Iran Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

After Iraq There's No Excuse For Buying The War Lies About Iran

“OMG nuclear weapons!” Shut up, idiot. If you’re a grown adult with internet access still swallowing this load of bull spunk in the year 2025 you’re either stupid or evil.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/after-iraq...

Hundreds of Israeli medics demand prosecution over IDF strike that killed 15 aid workers ***

"Blatant violation of law and human morality": Hundreds of Israeli medics demand prosecution over IDF strike that killed 15 aid workers in Gaza

🚨Palestinian Journalists Syndicate & Freedom Flotilla Coalition Joint Press Conference 🚨

LIVE FROM THE MADLEEN

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, in collaboration with the #freedomflotillacoalition, invites journalists and media outlets to a joint press conference ...2/

House budget bill effectively kills US clean energy boom The House budget bill that narrowly passed in an early morning vote on Thursday would effectively put the brakes on a clean energy production boom in the United States spurred by tax credits enacted in 2022.

The modern GOP is ideologically committed to smashing the clean energy revolution. Climate people need to digest this.

We won't win climate stability w bipartisan deals. Lasting climate wins will require green economic populism: beating the right until it concedes.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Methane leaks from dormant oil and gas wells in Canada are seven times worse than thought, study suggests Methane emissions from Canada's non-producing oil and gas wells appear to be seven times higher than government estimates, according to a new study led by researchers at McGill University. The finding...

Methane leaks from dormant oil and gas wells in Canada are seven times worse than thought
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. Over a 20-year period, it traps about 80 times more heat in the atmosphere than the same amount of carbon dioxide.
phys.org/news/2025-06...

And a bad, broken pun

I’m not referring to you; have the soi-disant curator in mind

rude!

Mendice, cura te ipsum

You wouldn't turn photos of yourself and others into Ghiblified AI slop; your blissful state is well deserved

I didn’t know that so many people truly hate Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli

A Tufts University student has been kidnapped for ICE because a year ago, she co-authored this op-ed which criticizes Israel, calls for the adoption of non-binding faculty senate resolutions, and celebrates the end of apartheid in South Africa

www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

Turkish student nabbed by thugs and disappeared. No one knows where she is. I rarely saw such thuggish behavior to foreigners in 20 years of living in China. It's taken the Musk-Trump junta 2 months to get this behavior.

Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.

A small subset of users “engaged in more ‘problematic use,’ defined in the paper as ‘indicators of addiction... including preoccupation, withdrawal symptoms, loss of control, and mood modification.’”

If previous tech company behavior provides any insight, this will be considered an “opportunity.”

The Thickness of Being | Los Angeles Review of Books Jorie Graham and Forrest Gander discuss each other’s recent work.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

For the majority of Western citizens (for example, urban dwellers largely identified with the modern world system), climate change challenges the everyday practices that define our 'ecological habitus'. Defined as 'the embodiment of a durable yet changeable system of ecologically relevant dispositions, practices, perceptions, and material conditions' (Kasper 2009, p. 318), the ecological habitus consists of each individual's ecologically relevant, taken-for-granted practices. At the individual level, knowledge of climate change leads to a perceived failure of the everyday habitus because the many daily carbon-producing activities in which individuals living in modern Western societies engage clash with new expectations for a low carbon lifestyle, leading to feelings of anxiety and threats to ontological security (Adams 2013, p. 13, Lertzman 2015). The perceived inadequacy of the habitus can lead to a number of possible individual responses (Sztompka 2004, p. 184-188). One is to will- fully ignore the information on climate change by avoiding reading or watching news stories related to the topic (Shepherd and Kay 2012). Second, individuals can engage in ritualism and implicatory denial. This is perhaps the most common form of reaction to climate change. The science of climate change is well known and understood, yet individuals continue their daily practices unchanged such as flying frequently, buying a large house, maintaining high consumption levels. To accomplish this, indivi- duals engage in two-track thinking: There is one track in which the critical nature of environmental problems is acknowledged, within which people see the future as apocalyptic, and another in which people envisage their own personal future and make decisions about political action, 'business as usual' reigns and there is no acknowledgement of the environmental crisis. (Leahy et al. 2010, p. 857) By engaging in this type of cognitive dissonance, individuals are able to maintain their everyda…

The answer to your question is on page 15 of this paper:

pages.uoregon.edu/norgaard/pdf...

Ah, yes, “Big Karen"

This is a very basic and absolutely essential point that virtually nobody, even within the university, ever raises. We’re on the brink of a massive loss of disciplinary skills and knowledge — a loss that we are, by and large, choosing, without even discussing it as anything more than a market shift.

Catastrophe.

A video still of the NYT reporter Karen Weiss, with the caption: Why A.I. Companies Are Turning Into Energy Companies Tech companies have been building data centers around the country, Karen Weise, Laura Bult, James Surdam and Ramon Dompor

An entire @nytimes.com video on the need for power at AI data centers (& on tech companies now procuring energy) which never even mentions the words #ClimateChange, let alone notes that we need to phase out fossil fuels now to halt heating at a relatively safe level.

I'm so tired.

Sorry everyone, turns out it's too hard to go to Mars. Instead we're bringing Mars to you. It's gonna be desolate and shitty here now

Aertelis by Andrew Best Sword and Sorcery. Inspired by the New Wave fantasy of Moorcock, McCaffrey and le Guin. Existential journey in unfamiliar lands. Action, quest and adventurers. A standalone story. “Everything decays, but the glass’steel decayed at a rate so slow as to be invisible on the scale of a single lifetime. In the sword she saw visions of her home. Her home so far away, deep down in the reflection of her elven eyes, sunk deep in her memory, transferred to the blade, as far away as a million years is long.” Zana Hala’Kaalni is a warrior princess in exile, untethered from her home, and from her sense of self. Allowing chaos to lead her, she enters a nation on the verge of civil war, a quest for a failed utopia, and the ruins of a long dead era, the lost history of her world. Aertelis combines the action of classic Sword & Sorcery, the literary themes of the Sci-fi Fantasy New Wave, and the character-driven storytelling of the modern era. Aertelis is a standalone story in the Kalni Chronicles anthology.

I should be clear that Aertelis is available as an ebook for $4.99, as well as print. And available to libraries through all the services.

And again, if you are region locked, or financially limited, contact me discretely via links in bio for a copy.

UBL: books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
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