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DuckDuckGo image search results for Geosesarma dennerle, which brings up a host of stunning pictures of very purple crabs

Oh my word I nearly passed out at the search results, they're amazing!

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER. 🦑

Blur tools for Signal Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something ...

PSA: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data.

You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly.

More on this feature here:

https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/

A truly huge moment in the climate fight: the LA Times, most important newspaper on the West Coast, comes out strongly for CA divesting its vast pension funds
Fossil fuels are "risky and immoral."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-06-16/california-pension-funds-fossil-fuel-divestment

open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

EVs catch on fire...a twentieth as often as gas cars. Which makes sense, because gas is highly flammable, we're just used to the idea that we drive around with ten gallons of it between our legs

The pictures from Acapulco--first city of its size ever to get hit by the eyewall of a Cat 5 hurricane--are almost beyond belief. Buildings are just shredded
yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/10/acap...

It's possible that, among his other accomplishments, Sam Bankman-Fried may have figured out the single biggest way for one person to produce carbon dioxide: charter private planes to fly Amazon packages to the Bahamas
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

A photo of a screen with a palm read attached to it at a Whole Foods self-checkout. The screen is blue and says “Pay with your palm0 and has a cartoon illustration of a hand and arm reaching out to the reader. Other text at the bottom reads: “Tap to get started Amazon will securely collect and store your palm data to recognize you = Help Terms & Privacy”

Dear Whole Foods aka Amazon: Absolutely fucking not who do you think you are who do you think I am and also how fucking dare you.

(If you give Amazon your handprint you’re a fucking sucker.)

The world has made real progress in bending down the curve of future emissions.

While we remain far from on track to meet our climate goals, the positive steps we’ve made should reinforce that progress is possible and despair is counterproductive.
carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...

This TikTok Chef Wants You to Ditch Your Gas Stove Jon Kung uses his popular cooking videos to draw links between cooking and the climate crisis.

I interviewed @jonkung.bsky.social on what keeps him up at night. Gift link

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm having one of those days when I'm really struggling with the enormity of climate change.

It's like most days I can stuff it into a sack that's very human scaled and every so often it bursts out and I'm just cowed by it all.

Israeli bombing turns Gaza into ‘ball of fire’ as blackout adds to distress Israeli ground troops battle Hamas fighters in Gaza as Israel carries out heaviest air raids and cuts communications.

Communications are still spotty at best, but from Al Jazeera:

Almost 400 Palestinians were murdered in the “safe zone” yesterday as Gaza was turned in a “ball of fire”

It took journalist Fares Akram 12 hours to find out 18 of his extended family was murdered.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Sneak peek FINDING THE MONEY documentary about modern monetary theory. (The ending mentions voting for the doc, but that contest was in 2021.  Available for screenings: FindingMoneyFilm.com
www.facebook.com/FindingMoney...

“There is no resolution anytime in our lifetimes to this crisis that we nonetheless have to build the capacities to face & to endure & to hopefully engage. How do you think about resilience apart from resolution?”

Such a central question. @climatena.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/m...

If you talk to them about climate change they do that a lot IME

New paper finds that bus rapid transit can significantly increase home values:

- 5-7% price premium for homes within a 20 minute walk of a BRT station
- Rise in property values is 6x the cost of BRT construction

doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

"So honored to announce that FINDING THE MONEY has won the Audience Award at the Green Film Festival of San Francisco!!! This is an incredible endorsement from one of the nation’s most respected environmental film festivals!! Thank you SFIndieFest! #MMT" - Mark Smolowitz FindingMoneyFilm.com

FINDING THE MONEY has won the Audience Award at the Green Film Festival of San Francisco!!! This is an incredible endorsement from one of the nation’s most respected environmental film festivals!! FindingMoneyFilm.com #LearnMMT

After @theprospect.bsky.social covered the NIH offering an exclusive license for a cancer treatment to a company with no website or SEC filings staffed by a former NIH employee (prospect.org/health/2023-...), Bernie Sanders has asked the HHS Inspector General to investigate.

🎸 the answer to “where’s my dressing room?” is hard to miss when you find it. ☺️ we sang up a storm in Montreal yesterday. today brings more fun, at the NAC in Ottawa! #singablesongs #belugagrads 🐳

The gas industry knew 50 years ago that their stoves were filling homes with harmful pollution. So what did they do?

🎶 They lied about it 🎶
🎵 and they’re still lying todaaaay🎵
www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1...

Opinion | Exxon Mobil’s Pioneer Acquisition Is a Direct Threat to Democracy By doubling down on fossil fuels, Exxon Mobil is choosing to profit through the most harmful way to the rest of us.

Exxon's plan to double down on carbon pollution with the $60 Billion purchase of the biggest well operator in Texas's Permian basin is bad for American democracy, bad for American energy prices, and catastrophic for all humans on Earth.
"This deal endangers the world, and it should be stopped."

Scientists:
"Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global."
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Leaders:

Jason Voorhees gives tips on how not to get murdered at summer camp:

Tip 1: Try going to summer camp on Friday the 13th.

The next front in the climate fight: U.S. exports of natural gas Approval of new gas export terminals will lock in greenhouse gas emissions for decades, say activists, who are pressing Biden to halt these projects.

So that everybody can read it, here's a gift link. This has been on the radar of the big environmental groups for over a year I think.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The urgent need for methane literacy The climate threat of methane gas expansion is growing, and the public remains largely unaware — in part because of misinformation and misleading terminology.

A critical point from @emorwee.bsky.social:

"If you use “natural gas,” you are helping the fossil fuel industry; if you use “methane gas” or any other term, you’re helping environmentalists."

Hurricanes Are Strengthening Much Faster Than They Did in the 1980s They are now “more than twice as likely” to jump from Category 1 to Category 3 or more in a single day.

“I think these findings should really serve as an urgent warning for us."

Hurricanes are intensifying. Here's everything you need to know:

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The Climate Ad Project is now Undeniable: The Climate Emergency Network, and we made this trailer to let the world know, very loudly. Undeniable Launch Trailer

Climate Ad Project is relaunching as Undeniable: The Climate Emergency Network. Behold our trailer! Support our work by liking, commenting, sharing, and (if you can) donating on our website undeniablenetwork.com #ClimateAction #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #emergencymode