WTAF??? no words

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

not sure I have words for this

Go Vancouver! These tower look awesome. I love that we’re indigenous-led.

Jerome Alexander Horne@jahorne.bsky.social · 3d ago

The first three towers of the Sen̓áḵw in Vancouver. A major Indigenous-led, multi-tower residential and commercial development project by the Squamish Nation located on ancestral reserve land. Meaning "the place inside the head of False Creek."

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown says nearly half of the city's neighborhoods have either been evacuated or are at risk as the fires remain uncontained. n.pr/4fJ5f32

Washington wildfires destroy homes, force thousands to evacuate

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown says nearly half of the city's neighborhoods have either been evacuated or are at risk as the fires remain uncontained.

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Wow… please be safe Spokane. I have friends there… including a firefighter. I hope they and everyone else stay out of harms way.

Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 4d ago

Zooming in a bit so it’s clearer to people that these evacuation zones are now in pretty urban neighborhoods.

This. It is a terrifying, though not surprising, outcome. What did we think was going to happen? There are amazing stories in some locations; however, the global economy still props up climate change causing emissions. The USA is a primary contributor.

David Rowe@davidrowewtl.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I don't recall any next few years predictions. All the tipping points postulated I'm aware of take decades to many centuries to play out. Our window to respond to avoid triggeribg is slim, hence carbon budgets by 2030 and guardrails of 1.5°C. www.stockholmresilience.org/publications...

Think infrastructure & road design matter???

Kevin Wilson@kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 4d ago

Shocking.

How did Denmark get from basically 0 to 80% new sale of EVs in 5 years? Here’s my slides from a recent presentation on what I think has been instrumental in achieving this.

Gerrymandering lets politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around. Until we end that, it will remain difficult to achieve the things most Americans already agree on.

This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

WARNING ‼️ The newly proposed oil pipeline by the Alberta government would be a death sentence for endangered whales swimming off the B.C. coast and push them closer to extinction! #GreenSky

75 of these whales remain. A new West Coast pipeline would be 'devastating' for them, experts say | CBC News

Multiple environmental groups are concerned the Alberta government's proposed oil pipeline route poses a risk to southern resident killer whales. They are protected under the Species At Risk Act, but ...

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I feel as though it is just the start of the west coast fire season. I'm worried.

Zeb Palmer@zebpalmer.com · last wk.

Earlier today the Big Grass fire was updated to 300,000-acres. Round numbers are an estimate 99.99% of the time. I suspect it's close-ish, but there's a mapping mission over the fire as I type this so we'll have an updated perimeter and more accurate size later today-ish. #IdahoFire

Good grief, this hits home.

When people tell you who they are, believe them. *** Meta quits clean energy pledge amid data center expansion ground.news/article/meta...

The whole thread is deeply troubling. I’m not sure I needed another thing to worry about.

Max Blau@maxblau.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’ve reported at length about abuses of foreign farmworkers who come to the U.S. on H-2A visas: stolen wages, guns pointed in their faces. One woman I met was kidnapped, raped and nearly killed. I wanted to know: How do I tell if the produce I buy is part of the problem? 👇

13th was chilling, but such important viewing. Having 14th come out in the lead up the Nov. elections is a wonderful/needed reminder.

Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 2w ago

More great news! The 14th Amendment will take center stage this year. variety.com/2026/film/bo...

Today I asked if any Congressmember on @energycommerce.bsky.social would want to live next to a data center. The silence in the hearing room reflected the realities of working people across the country. We must address the real, dangerous health impacts of data centers on our communities.

I worked as a hydrologist on the Colorado for a bit. This is a river that has been used & abused for much of its recent history.

Ian James@ianjames.bsky.social · 2w ago

ICYMI ‘This is terrifying’: The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source www.latimes.com/environment/...

I explained today that I could not be part of an assessment of climate plans that relied entirely AI. How can you??? AI runs absolutely counter to what the plans being assessed are aiming to do. I'd love to be wrong. Anyone have another view?

A former student of mine is out doing amazing things in upstate NY (his home). This is one example of what type of things he’s been working on. hcr.ny.gov/news/governo...

Governor Hochul Announces Completion of $20 Million Affordable Housing Development in Ulster County

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He seemed weirdly reluctant to get off the stage! They’re NOT celebrating you!

Yep... super bleak. It's also why I appreciate stadiums contexted to transit in an urban context (e.g. Fenway, Seattle NFL and MLB, etc.).

Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️@arif.bsky.social · 2w ago

this shot is so bleak lmao

This is the inherent issue with AI & data centers. Many of my students love to argue that data centers could be done in an environmentally safe manner, I don't truly buy it. However, they aren't (at all) due to the need for speed of construction & energy/water demand.

Reuters@reuters.com · 3w ago

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

And this building so clearly speaks Swiss architectural vernacular, even as it’s updated for this century. A clean world can be beautiful!!

Philip Oldfield@sustainabletall.bsky.social · 3w ago

Want to keep people cool AND generate energy? Solar panel shading systems! This is a new timber-framed office and laboratory in Basel, by Herzog de Meuron

This whole thread is the random beauty of social media. Thank you!

Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 3w ago

one thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south

The Times has lots of issues and they still produce stories like this. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...

Too Many Books? (Gift Article)

Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.

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As if I needed another reason to love Helsinki. It just makes so much sense.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4w ago

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

@drtcombs.bsky.social @drtaragoddard.com I’ve thought of you both as we enjoy Copenhagen on foot, by bike, with transit, & by boat. It really is nice to be one of the many rather than the alien who rides her bike more often than not.

Watching the World Cup with Swedish commentators is fun.

The whole thread, but yeesh this has been an ongoing conversation all of my 20 years in the academy.

Kate Clancy@kateclancy.bsky.social · last mo.

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Very cool story of recovery amidst all the bad news. www.hcn.org/articles/the...

The Klamath Tribes couldn’t get federal dollars for salmon. Then the Yurok stepped in - High Country News

For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from funding sources to fix that.

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